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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZET Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle ? OsHAWA WHITBY VOL. 7--NO.. 298 OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1948 Price 4 Cents TWENTY PAGES UTCH SLASH REPUBLICAN LINES Christmas M ail Establish es Record Here 123,787 Letters Handled By Post Office Yesterday How many letters are 123,000? According. to Post Office authorities they make nearly two tons of mail, enough to bow the legs of any mailman. , And that's also the number of letters which were handled by the Oshawa Post Office yesterday. Coming as the climax to the® Christmas mass of mail, the exact figure 123,787 sets a new record for the number of letters mailed in on day. This is the second time the record has been broken in three days, with 120,121 letters being sent through the cancelling machine on Saturday last. The previous record of 119,800 had been set during the 1947 Christmas rush. This year there were three days in the last four over the 100,000 mark, with Friday seeing 101,562 letters go through the stamp can- velling machine. Records show that the number of letters registered has increased each' day over the com- parable day last year. Over The Hump In jew this morning.by The Times-Gazette, Oshawa, Postmaster N. J. Moran had a mixture of sighs of relief and groans for what might yet be coming. He explained that after Saturday's record-breaking mail, he had thought that most people had mailed their cards by Saturday, as requested by the Post Office Department. "Obviously, this was not quite right," he sighed. However, the men of the Oshawa office worked so hard that it is likely that all the mail posted yes- terday would be delivered on time. Since the date for assured Christ mas delivery was December 18, Mr. Moran would not promise that let- ters mailed yesterday would be de- livered on time, but he thought it "probable." A second record set yesterday, dc- cording to Mr. Moran, was a total of 2,017 parcels which were registered through the parcel register. This is in ad to the tremendous num- MAIL (Continued on Page 2) West Forms Three-Power Government Berlin, Dec. 21 -- (CP) -- The three Western commandants in Berlin today formally set up a three-power government in the British, French and United States sectors of the city. Since the Russians set up a pup- pet government in Eastern Berlin and refused to co-operate in the four-power government, it long has been expected the west would set up its own military government structure. The German administration elect- ed Dec. 5 in the west urged the west to set up a government and do away with sector borders in Western Berlin, At present Britain, the United States and France each govern their own sector, issuing in- dependent orders to the German administration, tt THE WEATHER Overcast with rain until mid- afternoon, variable cloudiness tonight and Wednesday. A few snowflurries Wednesday. Mild today and tonight becoming colder Wednesday. Winds south- west 15 increasing to 25 today, west 15 tonight, west 25 Wed- nesday. Early ' morning and mid-afternoon temperature 30, 23. Summary for Wednesday: "Colder. Col. McLaughlin Gives Historical Documents To Queen's University Kingston, Dec. 21--(CP) -- The Queen's University Library has been given a collection of historical papers, valued at between $9,000 and $10,000, by Col. R. 8. Mc- Laughlin of Oshawa. Included in the 85 items in the collection is a memorandum by Lord Howick, la- ter Earl Gray, proposing confeder- ation of the Canadian provinces in 1837. The gift also includes letters signed by Canadian statesmen and leaders including Sir Georges Eti- enn: Cartier, Louis Riel, Sir John A. MacDonald Laurier. The collection also includes a let- ter proposing the elevation of Lord Elgin to the peerage and his ap- pointment as governor-general of Canada. It also contains old maps ranging from 1597 to 1850 as well as a large number of original prints among which is one of the origindl government house in To- ronto. There are also a number of German, French and English pos- ters of World War I. and Sir Wilfrid Soviet Prime Minister Celebrates. Birthday Moscow, Dec. 21--Prime Minister Joseph Stalin, apparently healthy and vigorous, reached his 69th birth- day today. As has been ofistomary for some years now, the Russian press took no note of the Generalissimo's birthday. Stalin came back to the Kremlin some time ago from a vacatign in the south of Russia and from all available evidence is in good health. Stalin's influence continues to increase. He is secretary-general of the central committee of the Commun- ist party and as such is the re- cognizéd leader of this militant or- NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette Average Per Issue November 1948 9,138 ganization of 6,000,000 disciplined party members. He is a member of the powerful politburo of the central committee of the Communist party of the So- viet Union. He is chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics--in other words Prime Minister of the Soviet Union and thus the recognized leader of the Soviet government. He is Generalissimo of the Soviet Union and thus commander-in- chief of all the Soviet armed forces. He is the best published author in all the Soviets. His various writings have been issued in tens of millions of copies. They are found cn the desks of millions of Soviet officials, of party workers, of stu- dents and of ordinary citizens. His portrait hangs in nearly every Soviet home, in the remotest village of the Soviet far east and half-way around the world to the Baltic wa- ters and the Soviet Ukraine. His birthday comes amid numer- ous reports of economic victories in the Soviet Union. Agricultural pro- duction has reattained its pre-war level. With industry's output soar- ing well up towards high levels plan. ned for 1950, the Soviet Union looks toward completion of its post-war development of the productive for ces of the country. & Lg ERE BECOMES INDEPENDENT Dublin, Dec, 21-- 21 (AP) Eire officially became an independent republic today. Southern Ireland's centuries-old and often bloody struggle for in- dependence came to a peaceful end as President Sean T. O'Kelly sign- ed Eire out of the British Com- monwealth, O'Kelly approved a bill of the Dail repealing the External Re- lations Act which had empowered the Crown to accredit Irish diplo- mats. The act was the last slender con- stitutional tie between Eire and the Crown and Commonwealth. The repeal actually becomes effective on an "Independence Day' which Prime Minister Jehn A. Costello's government is expected to proclaim early in 'the spring. Th> delay will give time to work out a new alignment of economic and political relationships. The English conquest of Ireland began with an invasion in 1169 and was helped by a rift among Irish chieftains, But it ran into stiff re- sistance. The Irish fought for freedom in 1598, 1641, 1649 and 1690. Then the rebels went underground for more than 100 years. They rose again in 1803, 1848 and 1867. But it was the bloody rebellion of 1906 and the guerrilla war of of 1916 and the guerrilla war of tish authority in the south of Ire- land. The Sinn Feiners won the 1916 election, and, meeting in Dublin as the Dail (National Assembly), passed a declaration of independ- ence. British public opinion forced Prime Minister David Lloyd George to enter into negotiations with the then president of the Dail, Eamon De Valera. In December, 1921, a treaty was signed giving Eire poli- tical status equal to the Dominion of Canada. For 20 years Eire pondered the desirability of walking alone, out- side the empire. But the final step --the repeal act--was not introduc- ed in the Eire Parliament until last Nov. 17. Still in doubt is what will hap- pen to trade relations. British gov- ernment leaders say they propose to grant Eire special trade privil- eges just as though she had re- mained in the Commonwealth. But countries with "most-favor- ed-nation" clauses in. their trade tréaties with Britain might claim the same privileges on the ground that their legal connection with Britain - was just as strong as Eire's. British Exports Set New Mark London, Dec. 21 -- (Reuters) -- Britain's exports reached a record monthly value in 'November at £147,100,000 ($588,400,000) the Board of Trade.announced today. This was £7,000,000 more than in October and £1,500,000 more than the previous highest value last July. The volume of exports in Novem- ber is provisionally estimated at 148 per cent of 1938, only slightly less than the estimated volume in July, and very close to the end-of-the- year target of 150 per cent. Woolen and worsted exports at £9,400,000 were the highest in value since 1920. The value of imports in Novem- ber was £181,000,000, a figure which has been exceeded only twice since the war ended. As the rise in the value of exports was little more than the increase in imports the adverse visibly bal- ance fell by only £300,000 to £28,- 700,000, but this was the lowest figure since January, 1947. Arrest Three For Car Theft Port Credit, Dec. 21 -- (CP)-- Following footprints in the snow for two miles" over fields, Provincial Police early today arrested three Hamilton youths charged with car. theft. M. H. Cole of Woodstock told police he was driving along the highway when forced off the road by a speeding car. He said the car then swerved into the ditch. He went up to it, saw three men lying in the car, apparently uncon- scious and went for help. He hailed a Provincial Police cruiser. Returning to the car they found no one there. Police followed footprints in the snow. They led to a shack used as a tool shed by. a construction company. The tha was surrounded and the three sur- rendered, Tcronto police said the three are charged with the theft of a car: Pity The Poor Postie! Letters, letters, and more letters! - Bill Ramstead of the which mailbag at through the: office Post Office sorts' some: of yesterday, ga Abe 2 ding gebe Bo right contains some of the letters from the -- Pigeonhgles at the top of the case. the 123,000 letters in four days. The --Times-Gazette Staff Photo. Diplomas And Prizes Presented At O.C.V.I. Commencement Today Following is the list of prizes and' awards presented at the an- nual Commencement Exercises held in the auditorium of the Osh- awa Collegiate and Vocational In- stitute this afternoon. .The frolic, one of the highlights of the commencement will be held this evening. A full report of the commence- ment exercises, together with the announcement of the outstanding boy and outstanding girl awards, which were made after The Times- Gazette went to press, will appear in tomorrow's issue. STUDENTS WHO HAVE COM- PLETED THE PRESCRIBED COURSES OF STUDY IN GRADES IX AND X UNDER THE NEW RE- GULATIONS AND HAVE BEEN GRANTED INTERMEDIATE CER- TIFICATES: Acker, Robert; Adams, Phyllis; Alexander, Barbara; Alexander, Betty Joan; Andely, Helen; Andrew, Robert; Andrey, Natalie; Andrino- vich, George; Anthony, Thomas; Antil, Shirley; Argo, Alison; Arm- stead, Douglas; Armstrong, Anne; Ashley, James; Atkinson, Joan. Bak, John; Baker, Alan; Barclay, Barbara; Barnes, Charles; Bart- man, Eileen; Barwell, Donna; Beamish, Lillian; Beaton, Alex; Bilsky, Ronald; Bingham, John; Birchard, Barbara; Bisch, Nancy; Blakely, Barbara; Blatch, Joyce; Blewett, June; Bolahood, Lloyd; Bone, Betty; Booth, Robert; Bor- row, Norma; Bouckléey, William; Boudreau, Donald; Bradley, Elva; Bright, Betty; Brodie, Eleanor; Brown, Claire; Brown, Margaret; Burnside, Robert; Burrows, Marilyn; Butler, David. Campney, John; Carrie, Steve; Cayley, Jocelyn; Clark, Donald 11B; Clarke, Donald 11E; Clayton, Rob- ert; ' Cockerill, Merrilyn; Conlin, Frances; Connell, John; Cooper, Dennie; Corse, Murray; Coulson, Robert; Cox, Patricia; Crouch, Bet- ty; Culley, Gerald; Curran, Joyce. Dalby, John; Daniel, Joseph; Da- vis, Isobel; Day, Nancy; Deyo, Di- ane; Dickson, Alan; Dickson, Rog- er; Dilling, Wallace; Dodwell, Shir- ley: Douglas, Ronald; Drew, Wdy- land; 'Drozwik, Olgd; Drummond, Margaret; Duffell, Sylvia; Dyer, Eleanor; Dyl, Helen. Elliott, Keith; ans, Joan; Farewell, William; Farndale, Douglas; Fialka, John; Fice, Joan; Finney, - Phillip; Fleming, Joan; Floyd, Geraldine; Ford, John; Forde, Ronald; Forestall, Glenn; Forester, Roy; Frolick, Andy; Fry, Norman; Fry, Violet; Furey, Spra- gue, ~ Gahan, Joan; Gallinger, Arnold; Galloway, Cyril; Garrard, Barbara; Gay, Robert; ' Geisberger, Heidi; Gibbard, Murray; Gibbens, Vincent; Gilbert, Carlyn; Gimblett, Fred; Glover, John; Graham, Joan; Grant, Barbara; Greene, Russell; Greer, Shirley. Hansel, Shirley; Harrell, Irvine; Harvey, Edwin; Heath Annie; Hen- derson, Betfly Anne; Hickey, Joan; Hinds, Eleanor; Hogle, Hopps, Viola; Horky, Julia; Hut- cheon, Allan; Hutchins, Helen; Hut- chison, Joan. Isaac, Doreen. Jacklin, Isabel; Jackson, Patricia; Jackson, William; Jeffs, John; Johnson, Ronald. Katocs; Helen; Katuzki, Olga; Keith, Clayton; King, Alan; Knipe, Shirley; Kolodzie, Jean; Korchyn- ski, Stephanie; Rrgwetz, Marianne. Lack, Rosemary; Lander, Joy; Leaming, Betty; Leask, Eunice; Lees, Lillian; Lindberg, Leo; Lind- berg, Lillian; Lockwood, Lois; Loge- man, Marie; Lawry, Frank. MacDonald, Helen; MacMillan, Gordon; McClennen, Marylyn; Mec- Climond, Mildred; McFadyen, Jean; McGhee, Henry; McGuire, Lorraine; McKay, Joan; McLean, Dorothy. Mackness, John; MaGee, Douglas; Majoros, Louis; Mandryk, Elsie; Marks, Doreen; Marshall, Masarovich, Helen; Masarovich, Jo- seph; Mason, Sandra; Meredith, Gerald; Minacs, Alfred; Mitchell, Shirley; Mitchell, William; Molnar, Julie; Montgomery, Jean; Morrison, June; Morrison, Maxine; Mountioy, Lawrence. Nesdoly, Grace. O'Connor, Marion; Olesen, Jack; Olin, Helen. ~ Patrick, 'Helen; Patterson, Doris; Patterson, Shirley; Peacock, Duaine; Peeling, Erlene; Penfound, Jack; Pierson, Elinore; Plowright, Barba- ra; Porayko, Irene; Power, Jean; Price, Donna; Prout, Gwen; Puhky, Irene; Purdie, Jessie. Rahme, Roy; Reader, Ruth; Reading, Edythe; Renkiewiez, Di- ane; Robinson, Donna; Roy, Mar- jorie; Rusnell, Janet; Russell, Bur- ton. Sadler, John; Salter, Eleanor; Sanders, Grace; Sarnovsky, Henry; Saunders, Marjorie; Scarrow, Mary; Schwartz, Elsie; Seeley, Lorne; Sel- by, Betty; Selby, Bruce;. Seles, De- seder; Seles, Louis. ' Shaw, Lorene; Shemilt, Isabelle; Shortt, Dorothy; Shortt, Glenn; Shortt, Margaret; Skelton, Betty; Skinner, Norman; S#itch, Margaret; Smith, Hugh; Smith, Ronald; Snowden, Doreen; Soo, Jessie; Spence, Diane; Sproul, Jean; Sta- cey, Donna; Stainton, Ray; Stark, William; Starr, Allan; Stephenson, Grant; Stillman, Betty; Storie, Beverly; Stradomski, : Chesterina; Stroz, John; Sturch, Lloyd; Swin- son, Howard. . Taylor, Joy; Temperton, William; COMMENCEMENT (Continued en Page 2) | son, Vivian; | John; Over $5,000 Received By T.B. Fund The Oshawa Ki Kiwanis Club Christmas Seal campaign is boom- ing right' along with: more than $5,000 already collected, A. E. John- chairman of the local T.B. Prevention Association, said today. The money will be used in T.B. prevention work. "We are ahead of last year at this date and the money is still coming in," Mr. Johnson said. "We feel very gratified at the public's re- sponse to this worthy cause and wish to express our appreciation." The T.B. Prevention Association here is sponsored by the Oshawa Kiwanis Club. An X-ray machine has already been installed by the association at the Oshawa General Hospital and a permanent clinic which operates each Wednesday is maintained. In addition, all pat- ients entering the hospital are tested. Mr. Johnson announced that with the - money raised by the sale of Christmas Seals it is hoped to con- duct another T.B. survey of Ontario and Durham Counties next spring when 20,000 persons will be X-rayed. Oshawa Backs Windsor Plan Windsor, Ont., Dec. 21.--(CP) -- Five Ontario cities have endorsed a resolution of Windsor City Coun- cil asking the Ontario government to provide uniform legislation which will prevent municipalities to form standard smoke control bylaws. At the present time municipali- ties must .have' individual legisla- tion approved in order to legalize smoke bylaws for their own use. The Windsor resolution seeks to have a government standard based on present smoke bylaws in effect in Toronto and Ottawa. Cities which have endorsed the Windsor resolution 'include, London, North Bay, St." Thomas, Chatham and Oshawa. Teen-Agers Held After Attack Toronto, Dec. 21 -- (CP) -- Two teen-age boys were charged with attempted robbery and assault early today after police chased them sev- eral downtown blocks, Donald Turner told police he was followed into a restaurant wash- room by four youths who beat him about the face and head and tried to rob him. His cries for help scar ed the youths away and brought police. Arrested are William Blanchard and William Hutton, both 17. Policé expect to locate the other two youths sometime today. Land New Forces At Bagan Siapiapi On Sumatra Coast Batavia, Java, Dec. 21 (AP)--New Netherlands forces landed on Sumatra today and the Dutch pressed their ad< vantage in Java. Thé Indonesian Republic broadcast an the utmost." | appeal to its people to carry out scorched-earth tactics "td The Dutch landed forces at Ba-# gan Siapiapi on the northern coast of Sumatra, directly opposite Bukit- tinggi (Fort De Kock), the repub- lic's most important city in Suma- tra. Bukittinggi is on'the south coast. Bagan Siapiapi is 200 miles east of Medan. The Dutch appeared to be slash- ing methodically across Republican transport lines in Java and Suma- tra. (Dr. Soebandria, official represen- tative of the Republic in Britain, said in London Republican righters would resort to guerrilla warfare. He told a press conference he ex- pects the Dutch to occupy the large towns of the republic but he doubt~ ed that they could maintain order throughout all the republic. (Condemnation of the new Neth- erlands "police action" in the Re- public came from many capitals.) A communique announced Neth- erlands Marines have seized Toe- ban, a Republican port on the north shore of the island, and moved to the outskirts of Bodjonegoro, a highway centre 25 miles to the southwest. Netherlands troops, it said, cap- tured Pati, on the coastal railway 75 miles west of Toeban, and Bojo- l1ali, inland gateway to Soerakarta, the Republic's second city. The Republic's first city and capital, Jogjakarta, was seized by airborne forces Sunday in the cam- paign which the Netherlands calls a "police action" against "terror- ists." President Soekarno, his major ministers and his military comman- der-in-chief, Gen. Soederiman, are in custody of Netherlands forces, which struck across Republican de- marcation lines in both Java and Sumatra after announcing Satur- day that they would set up a fed- eral interim regime for Indonesia (the Netherlands East Indies) without the Republic. United Nations officials here awaited word of the status of 18 U.N. workers in Republican terri- tory. They were last heard from Saturday, when they were at Kalie- orang. A spokesman for the U.N. Good Offices Committee said the Security Council has asked the committee to report on the military situation. He said the chairman, Merle Cochran of the United States, was expected to take up the matter today. Coch- ran cabled the Security Council Monday that the Netherlands vio- DUTCH TROOPS (Continued on Page 2) To Establish NewSeminary Toronto, Dec. 21 -- (CP) -- A new Baptist Seminary will be estabe lished during the Christmas holie days at Forward Baptist Church here, Rev. W. Gordon Brown, fore mer Dean of Toronto Baptist Seme inary, announced today. Dean Brown was dismissed by Dr. T. T. Shields, seminary presi= dent, and its trustees. The dismis- sal is effective Dec. 31. The new school, to be called the Canadian Baptist Semiunry, already has received cash offers of £2,500 from private individuals, Mr. Brown said. He also said that "at least half" of the faculty of Toronto Baptist Seminary has indicated it would accompany him to the new school. "I am dismissed for demanding the Union of Regular Baptist Churches, the largest group-cone tributor to the Toronto Baptist Seminary, be represented on its governing body," Mr. Brown said. Reasons for the dismissal given by Dr. Shields were that Dean Brown's students were "unruly" and refused to do janitor work in his Jarvis Street Church without being paid. Students decided to hear an ade dress by Dr. Shields later today on the matter. Previously they had re= fused to listen to him and proteste ed the dismissdl of Dean Brown, They demanded that he stay. Asked whether the students were prepared to transfer to the new seminary, C. Corbett, president of the Student Council, said: "Ill be able to tell alter the meeting today. It's a very tricky thing just now." Oakwood Student Struck By Car Lindsay, Dec. 2]--(CP)--Eighte | year-old Murray Bacon of R.R. No, 2 Oakwood suffered a fractured leg and shock this morning when he was struck by a car west of Lindsay while riding his bicycle to school. Young Bacon was attempting to pas his brother, Theodore, when his bike slipped on the snowy sur=- face and he was struck by a passe ing car driven by William Ritchie, of Orillia. The injured lad was taken to Ross Memorial Hospital, by Dr. T. R. McLennan of Sunder= land. 4 Drew Wins in Carleton; Liberals Take Two Seats Ottawa, Dec. ' 21--(CP)--A gain of a vote apiece in balloting strength in the Commons was re- corded today for the Liberal and the Progressive Conservative parties as a result of victories in three federal by-elections. For the Liberals, Justice Minister Garson captured the Manitoba seat of Marquette Monday while Leo- pold. Demers, youthful seed dealer, won the Quebec riding of Laval- Two Mountains. For the Progressive Conserva- tives, their new leader--George Drew--produced an impressive vic- tory in the Ottawa district riding | of Carleton, traditionally a Conser- | vative stronghold. The Liberal victory in Marquette made no change in the Commons standing since it formerly was Lib= eral, but the win in Laval-Two Mountains, which had been held by an Independent, represented a gain for the government party. Coupled with last week's triumph in the Nova Scotia riding, the remaining vacancy in the Commons is in the Que~ bec - constituency of Nicolet- Yamaska, where the sitting Liberal member recently died. Writs for a by-election there have not yet been issued. All opposing candidates in Mone day's three by-elections lost their LIBERALS WIN (Continued on Page 3) * LATE NEWS BRIEFS x C.N.A.C. PLANE CRASHES Hong Kong, Dec. 21 (AP)--A Shanghai-Hong Kong C-54 Skymaster of the Chinese National Airlines Cor- poration crashed and burned today off Hong Kong and the 31 persons aboard were feared dead, the corporation announced here. The plane left Shanghai this morning and became lost in a fog. It was reported to have crash- ed at Bafalt Island, after losing contact with the airport here. ' SHELVE UNIFICATION ISSUE Baghdad, Dec. 21 (AP)--Iraq sources reported to-« day that Nuri Al Said, president of the Iraqi Senate, had been successful in his attempt to persuade King Abdul« lah of Trans-Jordan to shelve the question of Palestine Trans-Jordan unification. Al Said went to Amman re- cently to discuss with Abdullah the unification urged by an Arab Congress at Jericho,