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ES bt hn Aas er : House of Commons Endorses THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE | 4 Party Leaders 4"Comment on Pact ] . i 5 Ottawa, March :29--(CP)--The draft of the historic Atlantic Pact, binding the North Atlantic community of free states into a defensive alliance against aggressive Communism, received virtually unqualified approval from the Commons Monday. Endorsed by a vote of 149 to 2,¢ the treaty drew these comments from party leaders: Prime Minister St. Laurent--The pact provides the "best possible guarantee" against war by telling the totalitarian rulers of Soviet Russia in the only language they understand "the language of strength" -- that "we do mean busi- ness." George Drew, Progressive Con- servative leader -- it is "really im- portant . . . That we indicate very clearly that we want this pact to work and that it is not just being signed as a matter of form." M. J. Coldwell, C.C.F. leader -- under the present circumstances, peace can "best be secured by join- ing with other peace-loving nations -in expressing a determination to resist threats of aggression|" Solon Low, Social Credit leader-- Social Crediters are prepared "to work with all our might for the ostensible motives" of the pact, but we are not prepared to work "for any hidden designs of international plotters who may be concealed be- hind a smoke screen." External Affairs Minister Pearson, «expected to sign the pact for Can- ada next Monday in Washington, told the chamber it was aimed at demonstrating beyond doubt that '%g step against one will mean that the aggressor faces the total and unremitting resistance of all." He hoped to see similar peace-preserv- ing pacts "elsewhere" in the world. Other speakers included Joseph Bradette (L., Cochrane), Frederic Dorion (Ind., Charlevoix-Saguenay), Georges Heon (PC, Argenteuil) and Jean Francois Pouliot (Ind L., Tem- iscouata). The recorded division was called by both Mr. St. Laurent and Mr. Drew as the 5%-hour debate closed. The two dissenting votes were cast by Maxime Raymond of Beauhar- nois-Laprairie and J. I. Hamel of St. Maurice-Lafleche, members of the two-man nationalistic Bloc Populaire party from Quebec. In the early stages, Mr. St. Lau- rent announced that a Newfound- land representative will be sworn into the federal cabinet April 1 and outlined plans for ceremonies that day to mark Newfoundland's entry into confederation. Revenue Minister McCann an- nounced the government plans to loan $4,000,000 to the CBC to help it develop television stations in Canada, beginning with Montreal and Toronto. The Senate gave second reading to an oil and pipe line construction program involving expenditure of as much as $250,000,000 and opened study of twb government control bills--dealing with rural mail car- riers and the export of farm pro- ducts--which must be adopted before March 31. Mr. St. Laurent piloted the treaty draft through the Commons and gaid it will "bring together in al- liance against war the free nations of the North Atlantic community which share a common heritage, a _ common civilization, a common be-~'| lief in the purposes and the prin- ciples of the charter of the United Nations, a common desire to live in peace with all peoples and all gov- ernmenss." He added: ®This is to be far more than an old-fashioned military alliance. "14 is based upon our common determination to strengthen our free institutions and to promote conditions of stability and well- being. kit in French, he said Canada undertook through the pact to regard as an attack on her an J er against any other signatory nation, but reserved the right "to decide ourselves, in this Canadian parliament, to what extent we will participate in the hostilities, and at what moment we will participate." It was a pact of "mutual" secur- ity. Through it Canadians would obtain security for themselves, for their families and for their fam- ilies' families, Mr. Drew said words alone were not enough. The pact's effective- ness would depend on whether "the intent, the spirit and the practical cperation are given living reality or the member nations forget all the tragic lessons of the last half-cen- tury and once again treat the de- claration as nothing but a pious ex- pression of good intentions." ; He said the world was faced "by the organized forces of the anti- Christ who directs the aggressive plans of the Soviet empire from the Kremlin." © ~« Patlure to make the pact a work- mp reality "will mean war," said Mr. Drew, warning that the Soviet grmies already were only a short march from the English channel and the Atlantic seaboard. Mr. Coldwell, supporting the pact fully, said: "We must insist that universal peace and security will deperid in the final analysis on the extent to which poverty, misery and want are banished from the world." The C.C.F. supported the treaty as a necessary "defensive instru- ment," but felt that plans for mili- tary aid and security were of little value "unless based upon a deter- mination to build by mutual agree- ment the positive social and econ- "omic conditions of peace* which in- volve wide measures of internation- al planning for the common good." The treaty was not designed by the United States as a means of Bringing the Western European states into an allisnce to destroy Russia; but rather came from the efforts of those countries to enlist U.S. support in their efforts to fend off Communism. Mr. Low said the Social Credit party was prepared to support the pact, provided it was not an alli- ance for "economic or military ag- gression." The party was prepared to "vote for the woodpile, but not for the nigger who might be hidden under it." The group, which in the past has opposed the Bretton Woods and other international agreements or- iginating in the U.S. urged that Canada's delegates at the treaty- signing ceremony make sure there were "no dirty fingers in the pot" and that Canada would not be re- committed to the Bretton Woods fi- nancial proposals. The Social Credit party was in full agreement with effective co- operation with other nations as a means of preserving the peace. The pact's success would depend on how each of the member countries curb- ed instincts towards aggression. Mr, Pearson said the treaty would be effective because the countries involved had "faith and confidence" in each other. It would promote progress as well as peace and should lead to the growth of freedom and order everywhere in the world. Many economic and social bene- fits would grow out of it, to the ad- vantage of the member states. But the treaty did not mean there was a change in the Canadian at- titude towards the United Nations. The government still hoped the problems of division in that assem- bly would be solved and that the U.N. itself would help in their solu- tion. Canada was ready to support every effort to sove the east-west problems which had divided it. Mr. Heon said there was no one in Quebec Province, whether French or English speaking, who was not willing to surrender that portion of national sovereignty which was necessary to the preservation of in- ternational peace. Russia had been guilty of a threat which could not go "unchallenged." Mr. Dorion said Spain, one of the "real" ramparts against Commu- nism, should have been invited to join the pact and asked assurance that the government would not car- ry its order-in-council authority to the point of declaring war without consulting Parliament. Mr. Bradette, terming the treaty a "great' step towards peace, said none of the Atlantic states wanted war, but they all had learned that war came through division and un- certainty among those who loved peace, Mr. Pouliot wondered who was to determine manpower matters under the pact and said he hoped it would not be the "brass hats" who had made those decisions during the re- cent war. Sault Scene Of Tragedy Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., March 29-- (CP)--Mrs. Hilda Liikala, 51, was shot to death and her son Henri Nurmi, 27, committed suicide at her home in the west end about mid- morning. Chief of Police 1. L. Rob- ertson declared that he believed that mental derangement was the cause of the shooting. Police found the body of Mrs. Liikala seated on a chesterfield and the body of her son on the floor close by. Both had been shot through the head. A .32 calibre re- volver was found near the body of the man. Mrs. Frank Sleep, a dau- ghter of the dead woman and her husband heard the shooting from the kitchen. Police Chie! Robertson in a state- ment a short time afterwards de- clared. "It looks like a case of murder and suicide." He was of the opinion that the shooting could -be attributed to a case of mental illness of Henri Nyrmi. istrict coroner, Dr. J. E. Gimby and Crown Attorney Ian Munro both were called to the scene of the shooting. , None of the relatives were able to say immediately the cause of the shooting. Mr. and Mrs. Sleep who were in the kitchen at time were not: able to tell of any argument or quarrel between the mother and son, The living room showed no signs of a struggle. Nurmi was married and had one son, aged five years. NO VIOLATION London, March 29 (AP)--Britain is informing the United Nations she does not consider she violated the Palestine truce by sending troops to the Trans-Jordan port of Aqaba. Christopher Mayhew, Un- dersecretary for Foreign Affairs, disclosed this Monday night in a written answer to a questioner in the House of Commons. 740 KILLED Toronto, March 20--(CP)-- Some 740 persons were killed in Ontario traffic accidents last year, 14,970 others suffered injuries and proper- ty damage exceeded $7,000,000. On- tario Highways minister Doucett an- nounced the figures in a broadcast speech Monday night. He said that only if a sense of personal respon- sibility and good citizenship is aroused among Ontario drivers can the problem of how to achieve high- way safety be solved. " y Atlantic Pact By 149 to 2 OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITBY VOL. 8--No. 74 ' OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1949 PAGE NINE the Ontario Hydro Commission, who In this group which includes Jo Aldwinckle, Women's Editor of The Times-Gazette may be seen, centre back, Robert Saunders, chairman of conducted the party over the dam | BH and camp at Des Joachims. This school house in which children of their lessons in English, Party of Newspaper Women Who Visited Des Joachims Last Week photograph was taken outside the seven different nationalities "pursue --Hydro News Staff Photo. Ivory-Hued Margarine Favored Toronto, Marcn 29, -- (CP) -- Ivory-hued margarine for Ontar- | fo is favored by an overwhelming | lature. The House Monday voted 79 to 2 to give second reading to a gov- ernment bill limiting yellow or yellow-and-red coloring in butter substitutes to 1.6 degrees, the same amount as proposed in British Co- lumbia, Only the two Labor-Pro- gressive party members were op- posed. C.C.F. and Liberal mem- bers said they plan to introduce changes when the bill is taken up in committee later this week. Hopes for prorogation by Friday faded after Provincial Treasurer Leslie Frost appealed to members | to complete study of estimates by | March 31, the end of the fiscal year. The government indicated earlier that it expected all sessional busi- ness would be finished by Thurs- day or Friday. The session start- ed Feb. 10, The House sat 3% hours Mon- day night, spending most of that time on consideration of Mines Department estimates. It also gave second reading to a government bill to increase workmen's compensa- tion. The debate on bills and study of partmental estimates. There be a night sitting, Introduction of a C.CF. bill to limit creation of King's Counsel to 20 a year sparked a lively ex- change between E. B. Jolliffe, lead- er of the C.CF. opposition, and Attorney-General Leslie Black- well. The House voted down the measure, In the last five years, 443 On- tario lawyers were appointed K.C.s. Mr. Jolliffe said some deserved the appointment, others didn't. But there was always "a great deal of pressure for their appointment." Mr. Blackwell said the lawyers ap- pointed were chosen "by rough and ready rules" based mainly on their experience and ability. Most had at least 15 years' experience. Opposition members withdrew three bills proposing amendments to the election act after Mr. Black- well gave assurance that a standing committee on the election act will be appointed. Second reading was given to two bills aimed at stamping out ques- tionable practices in the tourist business and at giving the travel department increased control over places catering to tourists. One proposes that only places authorized by the minister will be able to display 'tourist information sign." Each tourist establishment will also be compelled to put out a sign saying whether it is closed, op- en, has vacancies or no vacancies. The other gives the department au- thority to license and inspect every type of establishment offering ac- commodation to the travelling pub- lic, authority which previously ap- plied only to tourist camps.' A bill introduced by Lands Min- ister Scott bans hunting from air- planes. In future, planes may be used only to take hunters to their camp sites and not for spotting legislature today continues de- will majority of members of the Legis- {2 C itted For Trial Broc , March --&~ P).--Leo Parent, 17, of Cornwall, Monday night was committed for trial at the fall assizes of the Ontario Supreme Court on a murder charge in connection with the death of T2- year-old Michael Skelton last Feb. Two other men, Thomas Dixon of Cornwall and Nicholas Terriah of nearby Elizabethtown Township, taken into police custody as material witnesses, were released on bond of $100 each, to appear 8s witnesses at the fall sittings. Decision to commit Parent was made aftér an all-day preliminary hearing before Magistrate George A. Wright. Skelton's death occurred five hours after he had dragged himself from. his shack in a dazed and bleeding condition and appeared at the home of his neighbors, Mr. and | Mrs. William Dean. Want Larger Coal Sales To Canada Montreal, Marcn 29--(CP)--Hon. David Rhys Grenfell, Mines Min- ister in Britain's wartime govern- ment, Monday exprsesed hope that Canadians will buy more coal from Britain and enable her to pay for Canadian food. Mr, Grenfell told the Canadian Club of Montreal that Britain has a program of rehabilitating mining operations that will take four or five years, cost £150,000,000 ($600, 000,000). and require 30,000 addi- tional skilled men. Mr. Grenfell, who is chairman of the Welsh tourist board, once work- ed in Nova Scotia coal mines. For Parliament for Gower, a riding which includes the city of Swansea. 27 years he had been Member of Two Appeals Allowed Toronto, March 29 ¢CP).--The Ontario Court of Appeals, in a judgment handed down Monday, allowed the appeals of Michael Jackson of Toronto and Louis Schmaltz of Thorold, from convic- tion of a charge of boarding the freighter Clenelg at Thorold while carrying offensive weapons in 1948. The appeal of Basil Dawson, 32, of Owen Sound, was dismissed. All three were sentented to two years following conviction of the charge arising from an incident during the Canadian Seamen's Union strike. Chief Justice R. S. Robertson said there was no evidence to sup- port the charge against Jackson and Schmaltz, reversing a decision made by Judge Fuller of the Welland County Court who dis- missed all three appeals. Many Danish women have '"cur- iosity mirrors" which enable them to look up and down the street game from the air. from their windows. Highland Cre Nearly $6.500,000 was spent on completing the four-lane highway from Highland Creek to Oshawa, it'is shown in a return tabled in the legislature yesterday. This amount went for grading, paving, structural steel for bridges and underpasses and the installation of culverts and storm sewers. All the work was let by tender and it went to 20 different com- ek-Oshawa Highway Bill $6.5 Million panies. Some of the larger con- tracts were awarded to the follow- ing: Bergman Construction Com- pany, $633,649; Don Construction Co., $453,732; Northland Contract- ing Co,> Ltd. $458.320; Brennan Brennan Paving Co. Ltd. $606,734 for grading and $1,308,117 for pav- ing; McHaffie-Birge Co, Lid. $1,- 003,847, and Curran and Briggs Ltd. $731,846. Education Estimates Increased London, March 29--(CP) -- Bri- tain's education program, designed to give every schoolchild an unlim- ited opportunity, has moved into the 'billion-dollar class. Ministry of Education estimates for 1949-50 total £273.000,000 ($1,102,- 000,000), which is £28,000,000 more than last year and almost three times what was spent before the war. Expenditures would be higher if more steel and timber were avail- able for building' new schools, badly reeded to relieve congestion caused by extension of the school-leaving age from 14 to 15, and an increased enrolment in the junior grades due to a high wartime birthrate. About 60 per cent of the cost is borne by government grants. The balance is provided by local auth- orities out of municipal taxation. Behind the program, which has the support of all parties and stems from legislation introduced in 1944 by the wartime coalition govern- ment, there lurks the ghost of little red-headed Ellen Wilkinson, who died two years ago while Minister of Education. "Because of the financial arrange- ments now made, no child need be denied by reason of its parents' in- come the type of school best suited to its ability," she wrote just before her death. "Red Ellen's" words are still quot- ed at the Ministry of Education, where officials cite some of the fol- iowing signs of progress since the war: 1. School-leaving age raised from 14 to 15 years. 2. Twenty thousand new teachers given "compressed" courses to take care of the increased school popula~ tion (now 5,250,000 compared with less than 5,000,000 pre-war) and the more numerous, smaller classes. 3. Sixty-one new schools have been built and 268 are building, often with unusual substitute ma- terials to overcome supply short- ages. 4, State scholarships now 'are available to any student needing a university education. 5. "Modern schools" with a bias toward technical education have freed the burden on grammar schools, which now may revert to their original role of providing an academic education for the profes- sional classes. 6. Hot' mid-day meals at cost (about 10 cents a meal) for 2,750,000 children. Free milk for all. 7. Co-operation with local indus- try to ensure that school courses provide a proper flow of manpower. VERSATILE HORN A new automobile horn was re- cently demonstrated in England that whispers at close range but is audible at a distance. PLASTERING & REPAIRS Plain & Ornamental Anderson Plastering CONTRACTORS 369 Drew St. Phone 54TW PRESCRIPTIONS Quickly and Accurately Filled --- at --- MITCHELL'S DRUG STORE 9 Simcoe N. Phone 48 Fir Plywood REI NGET:13 53 Albert St. Phone 127 18 Diesels Turned ] Down Ottawa, March 29 (CP)--Eighteen locomotives which would have com- pletely "Diesel-ized" Prince Edward Island have been turned down by by the Canadian National Railways, R. C. Vaughan, C.N.R. president Monday told the Commons Railway Committee, Mr, Vaughan said the company had given the Diesels several trials, but they had proved unsatisfactory and had been returned to the Cana- dian Locomotive Company at Kingston. He described the locomotives as light engines, developed by the Kingston company in co-operation with a United States firm. Despite several trials, they were finally re- turned because they could not give the required performance. He estimated the contract price at "between $1,250,000 and $1,500,000 --a comparatively small order, from a company whose production of steam locomotives for us has been very satisfactory." He intimated the Diesels, sought for the Island to save operating costs, including cost of transporting coal from the mainland might have to be purchased in the United States. VICTORY AGAINST ORDERS Lord Nelson, England's mnaval hero, won the battle of Copenhag- en while acting against orders to stop fighting. After travelling all night Jo. Ald- winckle starts her tour of the On- tario Hydro's mew power develop- ment up the Ottawa River. Her story will be continued. The day dawned high clear. The coach had bee. run into a siding at Moore Lake, 120 miles from Ottawa, upstream on the Ottawa River. Station wagons and cars were wait- ing 10 take us the few miles into Des Joachims. At this point in the story I must explain that Des Joachims is officially known as "Da Swisha" and none but the unitiat- ed attempt the usual French pro- nunciation. It is the home of some 2,700 people living in modern frame houses, bunk houses or the staff house according to status and oc- cupation. We went straight to the cafeter- ia and forfified ourselves with bac- on and eggs and mugs of coffee. The immense cafeteria which serves an average of 1,800 meals a day from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. is under the control of 33-year-old Edwin Krupp formerly of the R.C.AF. He does all the buying, catering and costing, spending between $35,000 and $40,000 a month on food--$20,- 000 of which is spent on meat alone. Some of the astonishing quanti- ties Mr. Krupp quoted were: 300 gallons of milk a day, brought by truck from Pembroke; 160 bags (75 1k~. each) of potatoes a week; 300 pies and 200 lbs. of butter a day. Margarine and butter are both put on the counter, but the proportion eaten is 20 lbs. of margarine to 100 1bs. of butter. "Morale Booster Day" Th:rsday is called "Morale Booster Day" because steak is al- ways on the menu for dinner, In the butchery we saw the thousand sidloin and T-bone steaks ready for the evening meal. Christie Boland of Ottawa is the butcher who cuts the sides of beef and pork hanging in the cooling room into steaks and roasts, .,Chicken is served twice a month and pork, or Virginia ham 6n Sundays. "We never sacrifice quality to cost," Ed Krupp said, "that could only make an increase in waste.' We nosed into the chef's priv- ate pantry and saw a trolly stacked with pies. The chef, Rocky Savard of Dolbeau, Quebec, told us that ap- ple and raisin were the favorites. He showed us the cauldrons of soup, larger than the largest drum in a symphony orchestra, and the giant chopper used for cold slaw, made with 80 to 100 cabbages. Po- tatoes are all peeled by machine, but the eyes are all taken out by har. Leaving the tantalizing smell of onions and vegetables we made our way into the bakery and the sweet aroma. of fresh bread. The baker, Ed. 'Gagnon of Pembroke, flour to his elbows, was kneading handfuls of dough from a freshly mixed batch, while rows of ready shaped loaves lined a long table. "Prov- ing," he said. Nine hundred loaves a day was the average, he said, and George Smith of Toronto, the pastry cook, made a routine 80 cakes. It was a long time before we could tear ourselves away from the fascination of the cafeteria with its modern equipment and facilities for the dispensation of such vast quantities of food. The men are allowed as many helpings as they Construction Workers Eat Amazing Quantity Food At Des Joachims can eat and their room and board costs them $1.30 a day. Comfortable Staff House We were escorted to the nearby Staff House, home of the 65 girls employed at Des Joachims( remem- ber, Da Swisha). Two sunny lounges with easy chairs and chin- tzy counceh are the centre of this residence. Here we met Miss Anne Boylan, supervisor . of female person- nel: Miss Boylan, who was born in Nova Scotia, came from Ottawa to her present position in August, 1947. She told us that her job is made easier by the careful selection that takes place before a girl is employed. Some work in the com=- missariat (the general store) oth- ers on the switchboard and in of- fices, and the remainder are wait- resses. The girls' ages range from 18 to 30 and although many apply for jobs only those with a good back- ground stand a chance. The cafe- teria girls whose work entails pre- paring desserts, cereals, tea and coffee, and serving at the steam table, work .from 530 am. to 9 am. from 11 am. to 2 pm, and from 5.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. They start at $85 a month, plus room and board valued at $1.30 a day. They make their own Staff House rules, one of which is to be in by 10.30 at night. Early for city folk, but not if you start work at 5.30 a.m. "The girls enjoy the life thor- oughly," Miss Boylan said. "They have parties here and there and there is bowling and badminton and when they get their two days off every second week they take trips to Pembroke or Ottawa. And be- sides," she added knowingly," the diamonds are flying like snowe- flakes." Convicts Given 'A New Deal' Edmonton, March 28--(CP)--J. A. Edmison of Toronto, president of the Canadian Penal Association, said Monday that federal peniten- tiary prisoners have been given "a new deal" but that the cards are stacked against those in provincial- ly-operated jails. Provincial jails still are little more than "crime school," Mr. Edmison said in an interview. Reforms have greatly improved conditions in fed- cral institutions. "I am not condemning Alberta jails; I haven't had the opportun- ity to observe conditions in this province. But I do know that while Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia jails have been improved recently, no similar reports have been made about Alberta." Mr. Edmison, on a dominion-wide speaking tour, said that in many provincially-operated jails particu- larly in the Maritimes, there is no attempt to segregate young prison- ers from older offenders. There is nc educational work, no recreation al facilities and most prisoners spend their time in idleness. WAXED PAPER APLENTY Americans use enough wax paper every year to encircle the globe 500 times with a strip one foot wide. below: LOTS: POWER OFF THE OSHAWA RURAL POWER DISTRICT In order that the Commission may re- move trees which are a hazard to distribution lines, tHere will be an interruption to our Rural Power Service in the Oshawa Rural District on Wednesday, March 30th, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the areas as detailed = Darlington Township " CONCESSIONS: North half Con. 4, South half Con. 5 LOTS: 27 to 35. East Whitby Township CONCESSIONS: North half Con. 4, South half Con. 5 1 to 4. G. F. SHREVE Rural Superintendent March 29, 1949 Jt