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3 / 'CANADIAN OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITBY VOL. 9--No. 23 OSHAWA-WHITBY, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1950 Price 4 Cents TWENTY PAGES Bad W * Scores Of U.S., Canadian Join In S Edmonton, Jan. 28--(C eather Hampers Hunt For Lost Plane Aircraft earch P)--Planes from across the continent were converging on the small town of White- horse, Y.T., today in a search for a missing United States Air Force transport with 42 aboard. While seven planes of passengers and crew members the US.AAF. and R.C.AF. prepared to take off from Whitehorse today, more than a score of others were en route to join the search." 4 The missing transport, a four- Storm Centre DONALD R. HEATH State edepartmient sources say all diviematic relations with Commu- «dominated Bulgaria will be aa, rather than recall the U.S. minister, Donald R. Heath, from Sofia, as demanded by the Bulgar government.. The Balkan country declared Heath as "persona non grata," provoking one of the worst crises in U.S. relations with an European nation since the end of World War IL ==Celirol Press Canadian. Two Injured In Toronto Accident Toronto, Jan. 28--(CP)--Wilfred: Aitcheson, 45, one of two persons in- Jured in a car-truck crash Friday night, is not expected to live, hos- pital authorities said today. Franklin R. Leslie, 19, was charg- ed with theft of the truck, failing to remain at the scene of an accident and careless driving. Aitcheson and Robert Stewart, 45, in hospital with head injuries, were passengers in a car which was hit by a light parel delivery truck at an east end intersection. The car was spun around and smashed the ) verandas of two houses, doing an estimated $2,000 damage. The truck driver fled. Police later arrested Leslie at his home, charg- 0s bum with being driver of the MUNICIPAL ORPHANS Brantford, Jan. 28--(CP)--An un- official census had turned up 800 "municipal orphans." They live in buildings at Brant- ford airport, outside the city limits, and are not included in the city's population figure. Neither are they included in the population of Brantford Township since they live in premises leased to. the city. While they appear to be deprived of any official population status, they boost the combined city and Brant county figure to 65,927. Also included from the count is the 6,000 population of nearby Six Na- tions Indian Reserve, NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette Average Per Issue December, 1949 10,100 .| proclaimed engine, C-54¢ was last reported Fri- day over Skag, Y.T. 1,300 miles northwest of here. It failed to re- port on its trip south at Whitehorse, about 300 miles east of Skag. It was carrying a mother and child, 32 military personnel, and a crew of eight from Anchorage, Alaska to Great Falls, Montana, Because bad weather washed off searches in the area east of Skag, and around Whitehorse, planes Fri- day concentrated on the next pro- bable area. They . covered 2,700 square miles around Watson Lake, 220 miles east of Whitehorse. A report early today said the search was hampered by bad wea- ther. Heavy blizzards rage over most of the area and it is a rugged, sparse- ly-settled country. Hopes were raised Friday when signal lights were seen on Watson Lake, but the report later was dis- counted by officers at the USAF. base in Anchorage, Alaska, They said they likely were signals from trucks in answer to those from searching planes. The missing plane carried stand- ard equipment for survival in the Artic, including cold-weather cloth- ing and emergency food supplies. It was en route for its home base at Briggs Field, El Paso, Tex. In Winnipeg, Vancouver, Great Falls, Montana, and Spokane, Wash., personnel was alerted to be ready to join in the search. Fourteen United States Air Force planes bound for the joint Cana- dian-American military : scheme Sweet Briar, along the Alaska high- way, were ordered to be on the look- out for signs of the missing plane. Six R.C.AF. Dakotas were sche- duled to take off early today from Ottawa bound for Edmonton where they will be "briefed" on their part in the search. Two rescue planes, one carrying a helicopter aboard, left Denver, Col., Friday night to join the search. Indian Parliament Has First Session New Delhi, India, Jan. 28 (AP) -- The Indian Republic's first Parlia- ment held its opening session today amid shouts of "victory to Mahatma Gandhi" and "we salute the motherland." The parliamentary session, first since the Republic of India was Wednesday, took the oath of office. Members not want- ing to take the oath in the name of God, because of religious be- liefs, took an alternate reaffirma- tion of allegiance to the constitu- tion. India's first president, Rajendra Prasad, will make his address Tuesday observing the opening' of Parliament. The Parliament will not meet Monday, the anniversary of F assassination of Gandhi in Second Attempt To Sink Pelee Kingsville, Ont., Jan. 28--(CP)-- A second attempt within a week to sink the veteran and colourful lake- steamer, the S.S. Pelee, was made 'during the night. Details of this latest attempt are scarce. Owner Vince * Barrie, St. Thomas, said in a telephone inter< view the persons responsible were '"crackpots." Early last Sunday morning, two sea cocks aboard the vessel were opened and the hull started taking water. She settled a foot before the Fire Department arrived to pump her dry and prevent the sinking. But as the Fire Department worked on the Pelee a fish tug nearby, the Sandi-Pat, settled and went down in nine feet of water. The latest incidents to the Pelee add moré to its colorful history. The boat, which plies between Kingsville and Pelee Island, and American ports, has been the ob- | Ject of police raids and the victim | of storms. | In May of last year, $400 in pen- |alties were levied against her own- | ers, the Pelee Island Shipping | Company, for customs infringe- ments, 5 & A 4 Months of planning and hard work will be climaxed tomorrow when the new auditorium of the Oshawa Pentecostal Church, Simcoe Street South, is dedicated. Members of the building committee, above, played To See Culmination Of Careful Planning Tomorrow an important role in the realization of the congregation's dreams. Left to right are Donald McDonald, M. F. Gordon, Leverene Clarke, treasurer; Rev. R. A. Bombay, pastor and chairman; C. O. Lagerquist, A. C. Shank. ~--Times-Gazette Staff Photo. May Conclude Coal Strike Next Week Washington, Jan, 28--(AP)--The sudden revival of contract talks by John L. Lewis and soft-coal op- erators raised tentative hopes to- day that some of the 88,000 striking miners in the United States might return to work next week, Lewis and mine owners from the north and west states agreed Friday to reopen negotiations Wednesday. Southern operators weren't included. There has been some talk that the United Mine Workers' chief in- tends to issue a direct order to the miners beforehand to restore peace in the troubled areas of Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, Lewis' meeting with officers of the Union's district 4 of Union- town, Pa, last Wednesday was tak- en as an indication he was crack- ing down on leaders of 'the strike in that region. However, at least three presi- dents of local units at Uniontown said they expect the walkout to continue Monday. Next Wednesday is also the day set by Federal Judge Richmond B. Keech to hear a National Labor Relations Board petition for an in- junction to end the Lewis-ordered three-day week. The injunction was asked by operators from all parts of the country, General counsel Robert N. Den- ham of the NL.R.B. said he is op- posed to postponing the court ac- tion to see what happens at the meetings. The judge himself might decide to put the hearing off for a couple of weeks, because part of the com- plaint made by the coal operators is that Lewis has not bargained in good faith since negotiations be- gan last spring. Prisoner Escapes From Burwash Farm Sudbury, Jan. 28--(CP)--Guards from Burwash Industrial Farm and Provincial Police today sought 27- year-old John W. Butts, of Enter- prise, Ont.,, who escaped from a work gang from the farm while out in the bush Friday. He had served two months of an 18-month sentence imposed last fall at Lind- say. Butts has also been known under the names of Albert Garcier and Rockland Stevens. 2 CANADIAN SPIES? Ottawa, Jan. 28--(CP)--Two Can- adians expelled from Czechoslovakia are scheduled to fly here next Tues- day or Wednesday from London, the R.C.AF. said today. The government has been await- ing their return to get personal re- ports on the expulsions before de- ciding what to do about them. The Czech government officially charged today that Sgt. Reginald Danko of Toronto and Lauder, Man. and Cpl. J. G. Vanier of Rochebaucourt, Que. engaged in espionage while they were on the staff of the air attache at the Ca- nadian legation in Prague. Official of the External Affairs Department reiterated their belief that the charges are baseless and unsubstantiated. ~¢ C.N.R. Express Agent Edward G. Coulthurst Is Removed ved By Death Canadian National Express Agent here since 1931, and an active member of the Oshawa Kiwanis Club, Edward G. (Ted) Coulthurst died early today after suffering an unexpected heart attack, He was in his 61st year. Mr. Coulthurst suffered a brok- en leg some time ago and had completely recovered. For that rea- son his sudden passing came as a great shock to his associates and friends. Engaged in railway express work since 1916, the deceased entered the employ of the former Cana- dian Exprss Company as a clerk at North Bay .in May, 1916. He was later appointed acting agent -at North Bay and subsequently held the position of agent at Parkdale and Galt prior to coming to Osh- awa in 1931, An extremely active and enthus- iastic member of the Oshawa Ki- wanis Club, Mr, Coulthurst served as secretary of the club for 16 years and for the past three years was the club's bulletin editor, In these fields of activity he was widely, known for the conscientious manner in which he carried out his duties and the excellence of his work. He had often been com- mended by Kiwanis International as one of the best secretaries in the service club. A member of the Masonic Order, he was one of the early members of Nipissing Lodge,""A.F . & A.M, North Bay. He was also an adher- ent of St, George's Anglican Church, Oshawa, He leaves to mourn his passing his wife and three daughters, Mrs. Marguerite Carlton of Geraldton, Mrs. Harry Coleman (Sybil) of Washington, D. C., and Miss Jes- sie Coulthurst of Vancouver, B.C. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Find Farm Youth 'Dead of Exposure Waterloo, Que, Jan. 28--(CP)-- Andrew Larsen, 18-year-old farm youth who has been mute since childhood, was discovered dead of exposure near here Friday after hundreds of friends and neighbors had scoured this Eeastern Town- ships area for days in an effort to rescue him. The frozen body was discovered only 1% miles from his parents' farmhouse. He apparently had died last Saturday after wandering from his home. Almost from the first, searchers had feared their search might end in tragedy. Chrysler Strike May Involve 185, 000 FORD got STEEL goris CHINES it os WE WANT A 10°Pg % CHRYSLER'S | PROFIT LIONS Mi iB SKK THING All signs pointed to a strike . . . it came! Stanley Sawicki, Jack Throop and Stanley Palka are shown preparing picket signs ordered by the United Auto Workers for the strike, against the Chrysler Corporation in Detroit in the dispute over a pension plan. as 85,000 workers walked out of the plant. ployees. of firms supplying Chrysler due to the Chrysler strike, The strike got underway An additional 100,000 em- May find themselves out of work ~, =Central Press Canadian, Government Must Keep Prices Up Lindsay, Jan. 28--(CP)--W. E. Tummon, secretary-manager of the Ontario Hog Producers' Association, sald yesterday '"we cannot permit the government to forsake us on a few months notice." He was re- ferring to the expected collapse of the United Kingdom bacon market. Mr, Tummon was a speaker at a protest meeting of more than 600 Victoria County farmers. The meet- ing adopted a resolution urging the federal government to give con- tinued support where necessary to all farm produéts until price sta- bility put farmers on an equal econ- omic footing with other business- men, Mr, Tummon urged the govern- ment to put into effect a prices support act clause to maintain floor prices until better times. On reports he had heard from other protest meetings of farmers going on strike, Mr. Tumon said: "The word strike has never been used. It is impossible for a farmer to go on strike." The meeting, called by local hog producers and the County Federa- tion of Agriculture, passed resolu- tions thanking the government for its adoption of floor prices for farm products; urged encouragement Of greater imports from the U.K, and asked continuance of the floor price on butter and bacon, and new price for cheese. Plantagenet, Ont., Jan. 28-- (CP) --More than 700 farmers Friday night threatened to begin a produc- tion strike unless the government bolsters the prices of agricultural products. The meeting was attended by members of the Ontario Hog Asso- ciation and the Federation of Ag- riculture. The farmers unanimously approv- ed a resolution expressing confidence in the leadership. of Charles Mc- Innes, president of the Ontario Hog Producers Association. They said they would follow him, even to the point of going, on a production strike. Plantagenet is about 40 miles east of Ottawa. Two Automobiles Suffer $300 Damage Total damage of about $300 was caused two automobiles involved in a motor accident on Simcoe Street North at McLaughlin Boulevard yesterday afternoon. No one was injured James R. Heaslip, Sommerville Avenue, was driving south on Sim- coe Street North. He was allegedly struck by a car driven by James. O. Welsh, 632 Christie Street, Oshawa. Police report stated that Mr. Welsh failed to stop his car at the stop sign on McLaughlin Boulevard, Damage to the Heaslip car amount- Ne about $125; to the Welsh car, THE WEATHER Cloudy with a few sunny in- tervals today.. Overcast tonight and Sunday. Showers Sunday evening. Much milder Sunday. Winds light, becoming south 15 this afternoon, southwest 30 Sunday. Low tonight and high Sunday 35, 50; Increased E growing shortage of dollars in compared with $8,075,000,000 600,000 in 1938. EXPORTS DECREASED DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Exports To U.S. Offset By Foreign Slump Ottawa, Jan. 28--(CP)--Canada's bid for a larger share of the rich United States market sent.domestic ex- ports to that country soaring to an all-time high last year. But Canada's over-all export drive, hampered by the foreign markets, fell slight- ly in 1949. Total exports for the year were $2,993,000,000 the year before and $837,- Total value of domestic exporté to the U.S. in 1049 was $1,503,450,- 000, the Dominion Bureau of Sta- tistics reported Friday. This marked an increase of more than $3,000,000 over the 1948 fig- ure of $1,500,000,000. Reviewing exports to the US. last year, the bureau reported that shipments across - the border in December were valued at $159,766,- 000 compared with $147,832,000 in the same month of 1948. The gain --greatest of any month in the year--followed "a similar rise of $8,000,000 in November. Gains over 1948 were also recorded in each month from January to June and in August, But the cumulative in- crease of some $32,000,000 at the end of August was heavily out- weighed by a drop of $50,000,000 in September, This loss was off- set by the buoyant movement of goods in the last two months of the year. In December, fotal exports to all countries declined in value to $285,- 500,800 from $316,40000 a year earlier, accounting for more than a third of the year's decrease. Shipments were lower in the month to most geographical groups and principal countries, except the United States and United King- dom, Domestic exports to the United Kingdom in 1949 totalled $704,956,- 000, up from $686,914,000 in 1948 but below the 1947 total of $751, 200,000. In December the value of shipments, was $49,884,000 as com- pared with $48,515,000 in Decem- ber, 1948. Aggregate domestic exports to other commonwealth countries for the 12 months were moderately higher in value at $300,815,000 as against. $290,431,000 in 1948, but were down in December to $26,816,- 000 as against $40,906,000 a year earlier. Temperature Now Normal By The Canadian Press While Westarn Cwmnadiaps un- ravelled themselves from recent blizzard blankets, the East today had colder weather that dispelled recent thoughts of shedding win- ter garments. Today's weather forecast was for lower temperatures generally in the East and mostly unchanged in the West. For the first time in days the weatherman noted that the temperature now is normal for this time of the year. It dropped to 13 degrees from a high of 53 at Montreal Friday, and sunny, cold weather was promised for today, turning milder on Sun- day with snow in the Eastern On- tario and Quebec regions, Milder weather, with rain, was the pros- pect for Ontario. Conditions were rapidly return- ing to normal in British Columbia, with coal for empty bins pouring through the Fraser Canyon where great snow drifts blocked rail traf- fic for days. The Pacific coast, however, faced a new storm mov- ing from the Pacific, expected to bring snow to the Kootenays, with clear, cold weather promised for the lower mainland. Although temperatures hit a minimum of 40 below zero at some prairie points Friday a slight mod- eration is expected today. A dstur- bance approaching the prairies from the northwest will be ac- companied by light snowflurries, easing the bitter cold. But general minimums of 20 or 25 below zero still ruled in prairie cold' spots. Skies 'will be clear in Southern Ontario today with the mercury expected to rse above freezing at most points. The moderating tem- perature is expected to bring rain on Sunday. Northern Ontario however re- mains cold, with minimum temper- atures consistently below sero and the average for the month now showing 10 degrees below normal. Russians Speed Up Berlin Traffic Helmstedt, Germany, Jan. 28 (AP) --The Russians allowed west- bound motor traffic from Berlin to speed up slightly here today, on the sixth day of the Soviet slow- down on trucks linking the Ger- man metropolis with the west. | Persons coming from the Russian side of the Soviet zone border here said there was almost no traffic pile-up there. German customs officials said westbound traffic had been moving at a slightly faster rate this morning. But on the superhighway to Berlin, about 200 Berlin-bound trucks from Western Germany were lined up behind the western check point, waiting for Soviet clearance. The Russians were let- ting about four vehicles pass their barrier each hour. Allied and German trains con- tinued. normal operations to and from Berlin. Railway officials re-, Summary for Sunday: Much _ milder, Showers by evening, i --., here on schedule, ported all trains passed through sm TTT. Dies Suddenly EDWARD G. COULTHURST Canadian National Express agent here since 1931, who died suddenly early today from a heart attack, He was an active member of the Oshawa Kiwanis Club, having serve ed as club secretary for 16 years and as bulletin editor for the past three years. Q.P.P. Raid Jewish Order Montreal, Jan. 28--(CP) -- In 8 new drive against what they "¢alled "Communist activity," Provinciaj Police Friday padlocked a Jewish "cultural organization" building and seized a large quantity of write ten matter. The Quebec padlock law was ine voked against the United Jewish People's Order centre on Esplanade Ave. in north-central Montreal Other raids were made against the Morris Winchevsky School and at the home of Benny Silverberg. Mr, Silverbérg is secretary of the order. Friday night Mr. Silverberg, on behalf of the order, issued a statee ment maintaining that the pads locking order "is entirely -unware ranted and the most undemocratic act ever perpetuated in this orove ince." Deputy-Director Hilaire Beauree gard of the Provincial Police said the raids climaxed a month-long investigation into Communistic ace tivities in the Montreal district. "Our investigation revealed that for at least one year the centre has been operated as the locale and general headquarters of lectures, soirees and secret meetings of Jewe ish Communists," Beauregard said. "We locked the doors when we left 'the building and our orders are to leave them locked for at least a year," Paul Benoit, head of the Provincial + Police anti-subversive squad, said. (The padlock law provided for the locking up for a year of prem= ises suspected of being 'centres for subversive propaganda). : Beauregard said the new offen- sive had been ordered by Premier Duplessis himself in his capacity as Attorney-General of Quebec. The Winchevsky School was not padlocked but a quantity of pamphe lets were seized, Benoit announced, Churchill Will Enter Election Lists Tonight London, Jan. 28--( 28--(CP)--Winston Churchill enters Britain's election lists officially tonight, only 24 hours after Prime Minister Attlee. Churchill, wartime prime minis- ter and leader of the Conservative cpposition, will be formally adopte ed as Conservative candidate for .I North London's Woodford consti tuency. He will make a policy speech (at 2:30 p.m. EST) when he accepts the nomination. Attlee; whose former constituen= cy of Limehouse, East London, had been eliminated due to a reshuf- fling of representation which re~ duces the seats in the House of Commons from 640 to 625, was adopted Friday night as Labor candidate for West Walthamstow, a London suburb, The Summary | Business and Markets Whitby News .. Editorials .... Women's News . Young Peoples' Page Sports Radio Programs . Theatre Programs Classified Churches Comics