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I RK i croabne eit 2D ND ERR 1 AD hath ht HE DAIL OSHAWA Combining The IMES-GAZETTE Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITBY VOL. 7--NO. 304 OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1948 Price 4 Cents FOURTEEN PAGES FORECAST BOOST IN MILK PRICE Jealous Father --e Durham Girl Felled By Shotgun Blast On Return Home Durham, Ont., Dec. 30 (CP)--A man who police believe was jealous of attentions paid his 17-year-old daughter shot and killed her as she returned home with a boy friend to- day, and then killed himself. ® Kills Daughter, 17, Shoots Self > Willia inetmaker, shot and killed his daughter Isobelle when she return- ed to her home here, 25 miles south of Owen Sound, at 7.30 a.m. She was shot through the Heart. Her father then went down to the cel- lar and shot himself through the heart with a shotgun. Stewart Newell, 21-year-old glove- factory worker who was engaged to Isobelle, caught the girl as she fell. Isobelle had stayed at the home of Newell's paresis on the advice of an older sister ing at nearby Var- ney, following a heated argument between the father and the girl 'Wednesday night. Isobelle's mother, bedridden since the birth of her youngest daughter, eight-year-old Ethel, was in the house at the time but was removed to hospital. Ethel and two other children, nine-year-old Marion, and Norman, 12, will be cared for 'by the Children's Aid Society. Newell carried the girl to his car which was stuck in frozen mud and slush in a lane behind the house. A passerby helped him push out the vehicle but it was 15 minutes after the shooting before he reached the hospital, where the girl died 10 minutes later. Police Chief S. W. Illingsworth, constable of this'town of 2,129 per- sons, and Dr. Royden Burnett, went to the Brown -home and found the father rolling around in the base- ment. He was dead on arrival at hospital. Isobelle worked at a candy fac- tory here until last June, when an older sister, Dorothy, married Wal- ter James Ferguson of Varney. Since that time Isobelle had looked after her parents' home. Dr. Brad Jamieson, coroner, said there would not be an inquest into either death. Young Newell, taken to hospital suffering from shock, said Isobelle was "a real nice girl and looked af- ter her family wonderfully well." "I went home with her to see that everything would be all right," he said. "Her father fired the gun just inside, near the door. I took Isobelle out to my car and on the way out lifted the telephone receiv- er." GOERING KIN SENTENCED Vienna, Dec. 30--(AP)--Hermann Goering's brother-in-law, Dr. Franz Hueber, today was sentenced to 18 years at hard labor by a Viennese People's Court. Hueber, 54, Minister of Justice before the Anschluss, was found guilty of high treason and illegal membership in the Nazi Party. The court also ordered con- fiscation of all Hueber's property. IRAQ TO FIGHT Cairo, Dec. 30.--(AP)--The Iraqi Charge d'Affaires here said today Iraq's Council of Ministers had decided Wednesday night to resume fighting in Palestine. He made the statement as he left a meeting with officials of the se -n-power Arab League. He said he had informed the League oficially of the Iraqi minister's decicion. Brown, 48-year-old cab-® DUTCH SEIZE BIG OIL FIELD IN SUMATRA Batavia, Java, Dec. 30--(AP) -- Dutch authorities announced today | they have seized the last economi- | cay important area controlled by the Indonesian Republic, the Djambi oil fields in Southern Su- matra. "On the whole the installations were undamaged," a communique said, referring obliquely to Repub- lican scorched-earth tactics. "Ef- forts to set fire to them resulted in a few unimportant fires only. Resistance was negligible." The seizure Wednesday marked part of the Dutch army's race to complete its campaign before the imposition of cease-fire orders by the United Nations. The Nether- lands told the Security Council Wednesday these would be effect- Eve and in Sumatra two or three days later. The communique also reported the capture of Daanjaja, Chief of Staff of the Republican Siliwangi division. It said Daanjaja was re- sponsible for the infiltration of Re- publican guerrillas into Dutch ar- eas of West Java. The Dutch position ever since the "police action" of 1947 has been that they occupy not only the areas where their troops are in actual physical position, but al- so the areas between their columns penetrating into the interior. This view was sustained in effect by the Renville truce agreement. Russia Is Blasted By British Official London, Dec. 30--(AP) -- C. P. Mayhew, Parliamentary Undersecre- tary for Foreign Affairs, said today the major cause for disappointment in the work of the United Nations "has been the non-co-operative at- titude of the Soviet Government." Cries of "shame" arose from a student audience, attending a rally of "tomorrow's Citizens" in res- ponse to Mayhew"s argument that Russia had used its veto power 29 times to block "effective" work by Re United Nations Security Coun- cil. He sald "it is clear from their ac- tions that the Soviet Government thinks it stands to gain more to- day from weakening and subverting the non-Communist regimes than by co-operating with "them." Truman Seeks To Curb Cost Of Armaments Next Year Washirkgton, Dec. 30 -- (AP) -- President Truman apparently is de- termined to hold American military costs next year to the lowest figure he considers safe in the present uneasy state of the world. He is said to be eager t straining United States prdduction to a point where rationing and price controls would have to be clamped back on. : His advisers believe he will ask Congress once again next week for stand-by controls. But barring some great new world emergency, Ameri- cans probably. can count on getting NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette Average Per issue November 1948 9,138 avoid through the next year of huge foreign aid and rearmament pro- grams without any new curbs actually in force. The question of controls arises because everything the United States dees abroad has its effects at home. It works the other way around, too. And as chief of both domestic and foreign policy, Truman has to worry simultaneously about the cookstove for the American kit- chen and the combat tank for France. The government set to work on final plans for a great new exten- sion of the American "stop-Russia" policy--including a multi-billion- dollar program of military aid to Western Europe. Officials hope to complete the | planning project promptly. Their | recommendations are expected to provide the basis for Truman's foreign-policy address to Congress, | probably next month. | An announcement late Wednes- | day disclosed that Truman has or- dered the State Department to co- | ordinate all planning of foreign | military assistance programs. The | department then must mesh these | with American economic assistanze like that' going ' to- Europe's - Mar= | shall Plan counries BOER WAR VET FOUND DEAD ON KING WEST Veteran of the Boer War and World War I, Arthur C. Wood, 73, of 184 King Street West, was found lying on his face on King Street West at 5.10 a.m. today by a police officer, He was dead. The post-mortem examination, completed early this afternoon, showed that Mr. Wood died from pneumonia and exposure. It was learned that the deceased man consulted Dr. Angus Maedon- ald last night with regard to his condition. Dr. Macdonald thought that he should be admitted to hos- pital and contacted the Oshawa General Hospital. He was there told that no beds were available. What happened after that is not known but it is assumed that the man wandered outside and the win- ter weather did the rest. Questioned as to the claim the man had been refused admission, Miss Mary Courtice, assistant superintendent of the hospital, declined to make any statement. "He was down for admission but not as an emergency case," com- mented William A. Holland, busi- ness manager of the Oshawa Gen- eral Hospital, this afternoon. "I don't think he was refused admis- sion as we had beds available, The doctor usually makes application for accommodation and we are checking to see who the nurse was who was contacted." Constable Harry King, who found the body, said in his report today that Mr. Wood was fully clothed when found although he was not | wearing socks. He was lying face ive in Java at midnight New Year's Lyon on the sidewalk on the north side of King Street directly across from the Brewers' Warehouse. Cor- oner Dr. R. W, Graham was called and after examination pronounced the man dead and ordered removal of the body to the morgue at Osh- awa General Hospital. Mrs. Edith Wood, wife of the de- ceased, lives on Oshawa Boulevard. One son, Reginald, is in the United States Army. Born in Plymouth, England, the deceased participated in the Re- lief of Mafeking in the Boer War. He always claimed that during that engagement he saved the life of the late Lord Baden Powell, and to sub- stantiate his contention showed a letter from the late founder of tise Boy Scouts greeting him in friendly ' BOER WAR VET (Continued on Page 2) Seek To Confirm Egypt Invasion London, Dec. 30--(Reuters)--Bri- tain is seeking confirmation of a report from the British Embassy in Cairo that a "Jewish patrol had penetrated 12 miles into Egyptian territory, a Foreign Office spokes- man said today. It is assumed quarters here that an aerial connaisance would be made. Asked to comment on the state- ment in the Times that news of the incident, reported to the United Nations Security Council by the British delegation Wednesday, came from Egyptian sources and was not confirmed, the spokesman said a report that Israeli forces had entered Egyphlan territory had been received and was believed to be correct. i He added steps were being taken to secure independent confirmation. Dutch Deny Split Over Indonesia The Hague, Dec. 30--(Reuters)-- Reports that differences within the Netherlands Cabinet concerning In- donesia have been so serious that a definite split was imminent were officially denied here today. 'While it was admitted that there have been certain differences of viewpoint and opinion on some questions, it was authoritatively stated that every final decision had been taken unanimously. In political circles it was pointed out that Prime Minister Willem Drees would not have agreed to go to Indonesia within the next few days if there had been any danger of a serious split in the cabinet dur- ing his absence. * in diplomatic re- THE WEATHER Overcast clearing this after- noon. Clear tonight and Friday. Intermittent snow this morning. . Cold today, a little milder Fri- day, Winds north 20 becoming light this evening and increas- ing to southwest 15 Friday. Low tonight and high Friday 8 and 28, Summary for Friday: Mostly clear. ! rr-- During the past season, ponies from the stable of M. Leggette and Local Boys Win 105 Ribbons A Sons, R.R. 1, Oshawa, captured 105 ig Increase Awarded Farmers By Board; 42 Areas Affected Toronto, Dec. 30 (CP)---Many Ontario consumers may, : | pay a cent a quart more for milk after Jan. 5, the result of [the decision Wednesday of an arbitration board called fo | settle the price of milk to be paid to producers in 42° Ontario marketing areas. --& 'The board awarded farmer & Quakes Still Shake Reno Reno, Nev. Dec. 30--(AP)--Con- tinuing earth tremors added today and nearby towns, shaken vigor- 20 to 25-cents-per-hundredweight increase in the 42 regions. The pres sent price in these areas is 17 cents a quart. P. Bruce Scott, secretary-manag« | er of the Ontario Milk Distributors, | said dairies would have no alternae | tive but to raise the price to cone | to the anxiety of residents of Reno |Sumers. He did not say what the | increase would be. Other distrie ously by a strong earthquake early | butors said it would be at least a Wednesday. There was widespread damage, but no injuries in Wednesday's cent a quart. | The arbitration Board, headed | by Judge J. D. Cowan of Brant= | tremors felt throughout North Cen- | ford, set prices ranging from $3.76 tral California. The University of Nevada seis- mologist, Vincent P. Gianella, {to $4.15 per hundredweight. Offic- | ials of the Ontario Milk Control | Board said the prices would go into | warned that all indications pointed | effect Jan. 5. to further quakes -- 'possibly an- other heavy one." It was lucky, he said, that Wed- | A price of $4 per hundredweight { was set by the board in 37 of the 42 | market areas. They are: Acton, | nesday's quake did not occur in an |Aylmer, Barrie, Bracebridge, Bramp= | | in Ontario shows. The stable includes Sonny Joe, Victorious Darling, Brookdale Nellie, Brookdale Queenie, Silver King and Babe Girl. They were shown at 16 shows, Brooklin: Spring Fair, Brampton Horse Show, St. | Catharines, Aurora, Peterborough, Galt, Dresden, Ottawa and Toronto Exhibitions, Oshawa, Bobcaygeon, hampered by snow on the ground. Port Hope, Grand Valley, Brampton and Erin fall fairs and Teronto Junior Horse Show. Above are shown First reports here said it was from (left to right) Bobby, 11, Billy 8, and David 10, with the ribbons won during the past season. . | --Times~Gazette Staff Photo. | Transportation Probe Plans To Seek Solution Of Problems In Canada By JOHN LEBLANC, Canadian Press Staff Writer Ottawa, Dec. 30--(CP)--A Royal | Commission. armed with tar-rang- ing investigatory powers was launched today on a search for the solution to Canadps" transportation problems. Task of the commission, perhaps the biggest ever assigned to a transportation inquiry in Canada's history, was to draw up the blue- print of a national transportation policy designed to 'best serve the general economic well-being of all Canada." To accomplish this job, its terms of reference as disclosed Wednes- day gave it. authority to examine every angle of economic policy on transportation under parliamentary jurisdiction with but a single reser- vation. It was empowered to inquire into freight rates, regional transporta- tion disabilities suffered by any areas, railway financing and ac- counting and railway legislation. In addition, it could deal with "various" other transportation serv- ices, «though it was ~unlikely this would extend greatly to highway transport, since this is largely un- der provincial jurisdiction. Three-Man Body A three-man body will conduct the investigation under Hon. W. F. A. Turgeon, High Commissioner to Eire and former Chief Justice of Saskatchewan. He will act on leave of absence from his overseas job. Mr. Turgeon, 71, has headed two Royal Commissions on grain and dhe on textiles for the Federal Government. The other members will be Henry F. Angus, 57, head of the Economics Department at the University of British Columbia, and Harold A. Innis, 54, Professor of Political Economy at the University of To- ronto, Prof. Angus was a member of the Royal Commission on Dominion- Provincial relations of 1937. Prof. Innis has been on Royal Commis- sions for the Nova Scotia and Man- itoba governments. Head of the Department of Poli- tical Economy of the University of Toronto, Prof. Innis is a noted author and traveller. He was born in Otterville, Ont., in 1894. Dean Innis was a delegate to the Inter- nacional Geographic Congress in Cambridge in 1928, the sixth Inter- national Studies Conference in London in 11933 and the Russian Academy of Science in Moscow in 1945, : Their job is expected to take the better part of a year, with public hearings across the country start- 4 | | TRANSPORTATION (Continued on Page 2) Jap Black Market Peddles Warships Tokyo, Dec. 30 -- (Reuters) -- Two missing Japanese warships have been dismantled and sold on the black market, police re- porte d. They said about 200 tons ef steel sheet had disappeared. Hungary Arrest Catholics Ousted On Vatican Order Vatican City, Dec. 30--(AP)--A Vatican source said today all Ro- man Catholics who had anything to do with the arrest of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, Primate of Hungary, have been excommunicat- ed. The Communist-led government of Hungary announced the arrest of Cardinal Mindszenty last Mon- day and accused him of plotting against the government, spying, treason and black-market money dealings. It said Mindszenty was a "sponsor of Hungarian fasism." Ten other church figures also are held. Excommunication cuts members of the church off from all sacra- ments. Plan Program Of Democracy For Germany Berlin, Dec. 30 -- (AP) -- The United States Military Government said today many Germans still are potential prey for a new dictator. The Military Government an- nounced a program to transplant western democratic techniques to Western Germany. The program in- volves an exchange of governmental experts between the United States and Europe on the one hand and Germany. It will cost $840,962 dur- ing the fiscal year ending June 30, 1949. The Military Government's Civil Administration Division said the alm Is. to. "Stimulate Democratic conscious- ness and understanding of civil liberties inside - Germany 'as a strong psychological bulwark against either material adversity from within the country or fear campaigns originating from out- | side." | preventing a leak of the news on CHIANG MAY SEEK PEACE: PARLEY HELD Nanking, Dec. 30--(AP)--All Chi- | na today awaited a decision by | President Chiang Kai-Shek and his | top military commanders as to whe- ther the new year will be ushered in by continuing war or peace. The decision, Nanking sources | said, may be made at a conference of Chiang and his top military men | here. The militarists gathered from | all parts of China to decide, it is| reported, whether to keep trying to | stop the victorious Communists or bid for peace. | 'On the war front itself there was comparative quiet--a strange quiet | for China which has known count- | less wars through the centuries and [of 12 fliers, including rescuers and | has been involved in almost con-|those rescued from a Greenland ice | tinuous strife since the 1911 revolu- | tion when Sun Yat Sen overthrew | the Manchu' dynasty. | The Communists themselves] seemed to be watching the Nanking conference with great interest. Their forces, now besieging Peiping, Tien- tsin, Taiyan and the approaches to Nanking itself, were reported re- grouping. If the Chiang decision is to con- | tinue the war, an all-out attack by the Communists might burst with great fury in early January. They hold almost all of North China above the Yangtze and are not like- ly to let the advantage slip while the hard-pressed Chiang tries to mass new armies and defences be- low the broad river at Nanking) doorstep. | Chiang's decision, which will af- | fect directly the lives of 450,000,000 Chinese, may be werld=-shaking. Al- ready one of the largest battles in| Chinese history--at least on paper | --has been fought amvng 1,000,000 combatants around Suchow. That | battle, still simmering with rem- nants of 100,000 Nationalists sur- rounded by the Communists, was last by Chiang. { Spencer Moosa, Associated Press| correspondent in Peiping, said there were indications there that a poli- tical settlement of the war was near. | He cited these facts: i 1. The new supervisory corps has stopped the demolition of buildings | previously ordered destroyed in pre- | paration of Peiping's defences. | Other defence work has been sus-| pended. | 2. Strict censorship of Chinese | newspapers is believed aimed at peace moves rather than military information. . 3. There has been little fighting there for the last several days. 4. Many National Assembly dele- gates in Peiping have been openly discussing means of obtaining peace in China. Meanwhile, pecafe rumors Shanghat steadied the money mar- et, in |, area of heavy population and tall buildings, because "if it had, it cer- tainly wouldn't have been a nice thing to see." Gianella reported that a crack in the earth's surface had been found on a ranch a mile northwest of Verdi. Verdi, a community of 200, about 10 miles west of Reno, received the brunt of the shock. Investigation of the fissure was 100 to 150 feet long and one or two inches wide. Gianella Wednesday night re- ported that slight tremors were registering on the seismograph at the rate of four or five an hour. They generally were too light to be felt, although one at 6:30 p.m. PST | (9:30 p.m. EST) was noticeable. The series of shocks began Mon- | day night. The seismologist said all appeared centred in the Verdi fault, blamed for yesterday's earthquake, with its accompanying "ten-pin" disturb- ances in other faults. Weather Delays Greenland Party New York, Dec. 30 --(AP)--The arrival here of a party of fliers in- cluding some of those rescued in Greenland has been dz2layed until tomorrow, a United States Air Force spokesman said today. He added that even the scheduled arrival to- morrow should be qualified by "weather permitting." Earlier, it had been announced at Westover Field, Mass., that a group cap, would reach New York some time today. Noisy Safecrackers Defeat Own Plans Toronto, Dec. 30--(CP) -- Two safecrackers who carried a safe from the home of Maurice Shugar were interrupted by a neighbor when they tried to open the safe on the Shugar front lawn. Within an hour police arrested Gerald J. Routley and Edward Bengert on suspicion of attempted robbery. Police say the two entered the Shugar home Wednesday night and carried out the safe without waking anyone in the house, but when they tried to open it on the front lawn they wakened a neighbor. still | ton, Brantford, Brockville, Camp | bellford, Cobourg, Collingwood, | Cornwall, Delhi,, Dunnville, George= town, Gravenhurst, Goderich, Kingston, Lindsay, Meaford-Thorne bury, Midland - Penetanguishene, Newmarket, North Muskoka, Oril= lia, Owen Sound, Paris, Peterbore ough, Port Elgin, Port Hope, St. Marys, St. Thomas, Simcoe-Water« ford, Smiths Falls, Southampton, Stratford, Sutton, Tillsonburg and Wiarton. 3' Farmers on the Oakville market will receive $4.15 per hundredweizht in Pembroke, $4.10; in Hawkesbury and Picton, $3.85, and in Napanee | $3.75. | ~The board's decision abolished the | present system whereby farmers ree | ceive two prices on quota milk, one for whole milk used in bottling and another for secondary milk used in | processing. One price will prevail {for all milk delivered by farmers | under quota to the dairies. A second arbitration board is exe | pected to give a decision soon on the price of milk to producers in the Toronto area, where the price paid by consumers is 18 cents a quart. It is expected that the dee cision will be copied in the Hamile ton area. The price increase comes at & | time of decreasing milk' consump | tion in the province. The Agricul= | ture Department reported that sales [of fluid milk in October, the last | month of record, were 36,085,800 | quarts, compared with 36,944,500 quarts in October, 1947. Collingwood Tot Still In Danger Toronto, Dec. 30--(CP) -- Hospi« | tal authorities today gave threes | months-old Sharon Harmer a "60e | 40 chance" to live following an ope eration here Wednesday for a braim { hemorrhage, Condition of the Cole | lingwood baby was described a® | "poor." | Provincial and Toronto police | provided an escort as the child, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Milford Harmer of Collingwood, was brought, 75 miles in a taxi to the | Hospital for Sick Children here. | The infant fell from a kitchen ta= | ble two weeks ago and on Christe mas Day suffered a hemorrhage. | The delicate operation to drain | the fluid was performed Wednes= | day night and authorities said only | that Sharon was doing "as' well as | anybody could expect" but she was jmot out of danger. * LATE NEWS BRIEFS % GANDHI MURDER TRIAL ENDS New Delhi, Dec. 30 (Reuters)--The trial of Na- thuram Vinayak Godse and of Mohan eight others for the murder das K. Gandhi last Jan. 30 concluded after a six months' hearing. Judgment was expected in about a month, NINETEEN CARS DERAILED } Schenectady, N.Y., Dec. 30 (AP)--Nineteen cars of a New York Central railroad fast freight were derail. ed today at an overhead bridge crossing at Alplaus, five miles northeast of Schenectady. No one was injured, The cause was not determined, CRYING BABY 1 SAVES FAMILY 3 "St. Catharines; Dec. 30 (CP)--A crying 19-month= old baby roused her mother early this morning in time to prevent a family of five from being overcome by coal gas. Mr. and Mrs. Morley. Dowswell both collapsed when they tried to get up to answer Sheila's criés. They were helped by a tenant upstairs. The baby, parents and two other children recovered before the fire des= partment arrived with an inhalator,