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OTT EASES IMPORT CONTROLS THE DAILY TIMES-GAZE OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle 'WHITBY VOL. 9--No. 32 OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1950 Price 4 Cents EIGHTEEN PAGES Government A pproves City Master Plan ------------------ *City Planners Give Green Light For Area Subdivisions First instalment of an official plan for the City of Osh- awa, approved by the Department of Planning and Develop- ment and signed by the Minister, W. Griesinger, was receiv- ed last night by members of the Planning Board which met for the first time this year. At the same meeting plans for several proposed sub-divisions were given the Board's ap- proval. The question of an official plan ®-- for the city was first mooted about two years ago. The first instalment which incorporates a large part of the street plan of the city, was pre- pared and submitted to City Coun- cil. After its approval it was for- warded to the department. Prepar- ation of this first instalment of the several which will make up the completed official plan took longer as members and officials of the board were learning the routine. Another instalment, which is now ready to be forwarded to the department, will be the plan of the Oshawa Creek Valley drive. The route of the valley drive, as indicated on the master plan, has been defined in the area between Ritson Road South and Thomas Street which will permit the Public Utilities Commission to lay a wat- er main on the west side of Oshawa Crezk in an area now planned as a public street. In this project the Planning Board is working in close collabor- 'ation with not only the P.U.C. but also the City Engineer's Depart- ment. In this respect a letter from the City Council telling of that body's confirmation of the Creek Valley Plan was received last night by the Planning Board. A sub-division plan providing for the opening of the former Charl- ton property between Colborne and Richmond St-eet eastward between Central Park Boulevard and Cadil- lac Avenue was approved by the Board. This area comprises about 24 building lots and includes a shipping centre on the south side of Richmond Street. There will be roomgfor about four stores. Afther sub-division plan, sub- mitted by George Ansley, receivea approval of the Board. The area t be divided is north of Rossland Road West, in the area bounded on the west by the Oshawa Creek. Is ,Re-Elected NORMAN C, MILLMAN Who was re-elected chairman of the Oshawa Planning Board at its first meeting of the year in the Loardroom of the P.U.C. Building last night. Licence Fees Not Deductable Ottawa, Feb. 8--(CP)--The in- come tax appeal board has ruled that barristers' licence fees are not deductable for income tax purposes. The ruling was made in a judg- ment today dismissing the appeal of Gordon Kenneth Daley of Toronto from a Revenue Department deci- sion disallowing a_ $500 deduction from his 1946 income tax return. Attlee, Churchill Speak To Voters Watford, Eng., Feb. 8--(AP) Minister Clement Attlee said to- day that Britain, under his Labor party, has made greater strides to- ward recovery than any other Eu- ropean country. Opening his campaign for vote in the Feb. 23 general election, the #7-year-old Attlee told a Labor "Without controls we could not possibly have gotten through this difficult time, "Another thing we could not have gotten through without is the magnificent spirit of the British people. ",.. I think one of the reasons for the great spirit shown. . Is that they believe that we have been carrying out the principle of fair shares." His speech was a defence of gov-! ernment planning and a promise that it would continue if Labor is re-elected. He said Labor's planning was * "Ciassless planning," In his youth, he said, the Socialists though in terms of planning for the welfare ct the underdog. Now the planning is broadened to help people of all classes. NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette Average Per Issue January, 1950 10,146 * Cardill, Wales, Feb. 8--(AP)-- Winston Churchill today charged the Labor party with deliberate ly- ing to win votes in the Feb. 23 elec- tion. Churchill charged in a political speech that Prime Minister Cle- ment Attlee's followers have adopt- ed a Nazi-Communist principle "that if an untruth is told often enough and widely enough it be- comes as good as the truth." In a slashing, gloves-off speech prepared for a mass meeting at the Cardiff football field, the 75-year- old Concervative leader offered a point by point rebuttal of large claims which he said did not jibe with the facts. Churchill said Labor and coal- field Communists "continually spread the story" he sent troops to shoot down the Rhondda Valley mine strikers in Wales when he was home secretary in 1910. He called this a "cruel lie." Churchill said the fact was that although the Chief Constable of Glamorgan--tthe Welsh County mainly involved--asked for troops to put down strike disorders the soldiers were never sent. "I made an unprecedented inter- vention," Churchill said. "I stopped the movement of the troops and I sent instead 850 Me- tropolitan Police from London with the sole object of preventing blood- shed." He said the unarmed police charg- ed rioters using their mackintoshes as weapons, thus averting any bloodshed "except per- haps some from the nose." THE WEATHER Clear today, Cloudy. Thurs- day, Occasional snow mixed with freezing "drizzle beginning early Thursday morning, and ending in the evening. Milder. Winds east 15 today, southeast 20 Thursday, shifting to north- west 15° Thursday evening, Low tonight and high Thursday 20 and 32, Summary for Thurs- day--Snow and freezing drizzle. rolled up' > MINES AGREE T0 DISCUSS SETTLEMENT Washington, Feb, 8--(AP)--Presi- dent Truman's coal fact-finding board today won agreement from John L. Lewis and the coal oper- ators to try again for agreement on a coal contract through nego- tiations. The new bargaining sessions were set for 2 p.m. EST, with the board members sitting in as observers. The board members were opti- mistic that the whole coal dispute might be settled. before nightfall. Lewis said it was "possible." The operators indicated they were less optimistic. The board was working under a deadline in their investigation of the 10-month-old soft-coal crisis. Due to report to President Tru- man Monday, they worked to clear the way for a Federal Court in- junction intended to force striking miners back to the pits for 80 days. Such emergency procedure is pos- sible under the federal Taft-Hartley labor law. John L. Lewis, president of the striking United Mine Workers union, and the soft-coal operators have been invited to appear at formal hearings this morning, The three-man fact-finding board met with the principals in the tangled dispute Tuesday and mounting reports of critical coal shortages across the U.S. No one who attended the pre- MINERS (Continued on Page 2) Czechs Obey Order To Leave Canada Montreal, Feb. 8 (CP).--Two Ozech mission staff members, ord- ered out of Canada by the govern- ment, took off for Europe by air today, an official of Royal Dutch (K.LM.) Air Lines, told The Canadian Press. "They took off at 10:15 a.m., EST in a plane for Amsterdam," the K.L.M. source said. The two--Richard Bergmann and Hugo Bohounek--had held reserva- tions on this aircraft for the last couple of days but as recently as Tuesday there were indications they planned to cancel their flight plans and remain in Canada in defiance of the Canadian government order. Bergmann and Bohounek were ordered to leave the counyry by tonight in retaliation for what the government has termed the "un- justified" expulsion of two minor members of the Canadian Legation in Prague. Bergmann was a member of the Czech mission staff in Ottawa. Bohounek was a clerk to the com- mercial attache of Czechoslovakia in Montreal. Bergmann was veported from Ottawa Tuesday as having can- celled his air reservation for his trip to Europe and saying he would be staying in Canada. He was also said to have cancelled the K.L.M. reservation. which had been made for Bohounek. However, at that time, in Mont- real, K.L.M. officials said there had been no official cancellation, though the airline had received indications that the Czechs 'were having a hard time" making up their minds just when they would fly. Steelworkers Aid Striking Miners Pittsburgh, Feb. 8 (CP) -- The United Steelworkers (C.I.0.) today sent a $500,000 cheque to th. United Mine workers "to assist the needy miners and their families in their struggle against the coal operators." President Philip Murray of both the C.I.O. and the steelworkers said the donation was authorized by the steelworkers executive board. Murray also sent an appeal to the 2,200 US.W. locals asking them to make additional contributions to the miners in their "no contract, no work" strike. Claim 70 Families Living In Cellars Toronto, Feb. 8--(CP)--A report by the medical officer of suburban Etobicoke Township today showed that 70 familie; are living in cellars, garages, and condemned houses. be- cause of the acute housing short- age. Dr. W. K. Fenton in his annual report said-people are living in 29 cellars, 16 garages, 14 condemned houses, one chicken coop and an urfinished house. "all are contrary to existing hy- laws and are more or less fire traps," the report said. President Invokes as he announced to newsmen in signed the executive order which i coal strike. President Truman set of the law in motion a few hours Lewis' 400,000 soft coal miners wer the basis of the three-day week. February 13. JOHN L. LEWIS Truman has used a law which he speeches. UM.W. Leader John L. miners back to work or face ano in which his union was fined more Taft-Hartley Law Charles G. Ross, right, press sccretary of President Truman, is shown Washington that the president had nvoked the Taft-Hartley law in the the emergency anti-strike machinery after it became clear that John L.| e not reporting to the pits even on ; A three-man fact-finding board was named to investigate the coal situation and report to the president by ~--Central Press Canadian. ' PRESIDENT TRUMAN In enforcing the Taft-Hartley law to settle the U.S. coal strike, President had publicly denounced in election Lewis has been ordered to have his ther court case similar to the one than a million dollars. John L. has refused to comment on the president's action which calis for an 80-day truce in which the miners go back to work and the government mediates. --Central Press Canadian. Board of E Norman C. Millman was re-elect- ed Chairman of the Oshawa Plan- ning Board at the first 1950 meet- ing held last night in the P.U.C. Building. At ther same meeting confirmation of Mr. Millman's ap- pointment to the Board for the next three years by City Council was contained in a letter. The resignation of Gordon Wan- less, who recently left Oshawa, was received and accepted and Charles C. McGibbon, K.C., was chosen to serve the unexpired term, 1950. Letters appointing Alderman Sam Jackson and Mayor Michael Stair to the Board as council representa- tives were received. A deputation from the Board of Education consisting of Inspector T. R. McEwan and W. G. Bunker, was present at the meeting. At the present time the Board has ecar- marked some city-owned lots on the west side of Wilson Road South between Cadillac and Vimy Avenues as the site for a new school. Mem- bers of the Planning Board were of the opinion that these lots would have a high sale value when ths district is developed as: a residea- tial area -- as it almost inevitably will be. Land to the east or weit of the Board of Education site woud be just as good for a school site, they arg ed. Members of the deputation point- ed out that if the site was moved two or more blocks west it would be too close to the site of the R.t- son Road School and its effective- ness would be, to a large extent, lost. Accordingly they were asked to suggest to the Board of Educa- tion that the school be moved far- ther east. Moving of the school to the east side of Wilson Road would, Of ¢ arse, be contingent upon annexa- | tion as this area now is cutside the boundaries of the city. The City Engineer was asked by {"e Board to make recommenda- tions regarding the opening of Olive Avenue eastward. Extension of the road would enable a sewer to oe laid which would pick up from all of 'the zrea north. : The Board. requested that Lhe zoning by-law be amended to pei- mit erection of a hall at the corner of James and Eldon Street by .ae Polish National Union of Canada. ducation To Consider Location East of Wi son Road & 4 Died Tuesday T. L. CHURCH T. L. Church, former Mayor of To- ronto and veteran member of the House of Commons, died yesterday in a Toronto hospital.. Mr. Church had not been feeling well for somé time, and entered hospital for a checkup several days ago. .... . This request was passed on to the Board by council. The Poard recommended that a portion of the George McLaughl estate be acquired to permit the eventual junction of Alice and Lou- isa Streets. This street wouid run at an angle and would cut "cross the tops of Kendal and Dearborn Avenues. This, it was pointed out, is the only place' where an east west artery across the city umigh be affected at a minimum cost. The Summary Business and Markets .......... Whitby News .......... Editorials ee wens Women's News .. Sports | Sin Radio, Theatre Classified ...... Tens i COMICS +00 vivensinnanniinnee Programs . GE WORKERS VOTE 3-1 FOR STRIKE Toronto, Feb. 8--(CP)--Workers in five Canadian General Electric Company plants here haye voted in favor of strike action following collapse of contract negotiations, the United Electrical Workers 'Un- ion announced today. The vote was better than among the 1,892 ballots cast. The vote was.taken among em- ployees at the company's Daven- port Works, Royce Works, Ward Street works, Carboloy works and Premier Vacuum Cleaner. C. 8. Jackson, Canadian director of the U.E,, said the vote puts full power of strike action in the hands of the negotiating committee, He declined comment on whether a strike call will be issued but add- ed: "The workers are demanding action." Negotiations between the U.E.-- suspended last fall by the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the Canadian Congress of Labor-- and the company have been in progress since May 4, 1949. The U. E. announcement said the company offered a "watered down" version of a conciliation-board: ma- jority report as a basis of settle- ment, "providing the union would forget its 1949 rights." The union claimed this would have meant collapsing two years' regotiations into one and accepting for the two-year period recommen- dations made for the period June 30, 1949 to June 30, 1950. Union demands include hour---week---with---an---increase in take-home pay; full protection on seniority rights; protection against speed-up and wage-cutting and an improved health and welfare plan. The vote announcement said 1,- 458 workers cast ballots in favor of strike action; 434 were opposed. Flying Club Enjoys Very Good Year "Financially speaking, 1949 was a progressive year and there is no doubt that 1950 with continued pru- dent and careful management will be even better," stated E. N. Lewis, treasurer of the Ontario County Flying Club at the annual meet- ing of the sustaining members on Monday evening. Retiring President Cyril A. Scho- field said that during the year the club had been able to consolidate the gains made by previous boards of directors, The new pilot train- ing plan of the government has been of considerable material help, 3-1 a 40- ,| he continued. The new pilot training plan was explained to the meeting in the report of George Slocombe, secre- tary-manager of the club. During the year 30 students signed up un- der this plan, in which, after com- pleting, they receive a $100 grant from the government. At the end of the year, nine had completed their courses and received their grants while several others are al- most completed, Seven pilots of the club have qualified for their commercial licenses and one re- ceived his instructor's endorsement. Elected president of the club for this year is W. O. Hart, while H. M. "Monty" Cranfield was named as vice-president. Other officials are: E, N. Lewis, treasurer, and George Slocombe, ' secretary-man- ager, Other directors for this year are: E. G. Storie, T. K. Creighton, K.O., Hayden Macdonald, Frank Grindley, Cam Warne and C. A. Schofield. Amalgamation Seen As Only Solution Toronto, Feb. 8 (CP)--Mayor Hiram McCallum said today he per- sonally would like Toronto to steer clear of amalgamation with 12 suburban municipalities but that he sees no other solution. to common problems. Housing is the prime factor. in the need for a common metropoli- tan administration, he said in a. by- lined article on the front page of The Toronto Daily Star. "In the search for housing sites, water and sewage problems have also begun to achieve prominence," he said. "Personally I would like to find some other answer than amalga- mation, becanse I am not one who enjoys enforcing my qpinion others. But at the present time I can see no other answer unless we have' a government by commission under a metropolitan scheme." Transportation, education and school construction also called for a unified effort. | on countries. others on July 1. Funds. As originally drafted, ® * Most Prohibitions To Be Eliminated By July 1, 1950 Ottawa, Feb. 8-- (CP)--Finance Minister Abbott today announced a sharp relaxation of import controls, eliminating most of the outright prohibitions on. imports from some Some of the changes will become effective April 1 and The controls were imposed in November, 1947, as part of the government's program to conserve United States the prohibited list applied to about $150,000,000 of annual imports. The principal items that will still Long Service Recognized By School Board Tribute to the long faithful ser- vice given by Joseph I. Riordan was paid at the annual dinner of the JOSEPH L. RIORDAN Oshawa Separate School Board at Brooklin last night. John Meagher, chairman of the board, presided. Mr. Riordan, who retired at the end of 1949 following 16 years as a member of the board, was presented with a mantel radio by Albert C. Love, board secretary for many years. Mr. Love reviewed Mr. Rior- dan's service as a member of the board and paid tribute to his lead- ership and self sacrifice. Mrs. Rior- dan was also. presented with a cor- sage of flowers. Little Hope For Inclusion Of Insulin an Oshawg, and Council resolution asking the Dominion Government to exemnt prescribed drugs tin- sulin, etc.) from income taxation on the same basis as donations to charity, Finance Minister Douglas Abbott, in his reply said he had reviewed the prodlem "but I am not too hopeful that a satisfactory solu- tion can be found." "I have noted with interest the suggestion that these expenditures be allowed on the same basis as donations to charity," Mr. Abbott wrote. "As you no doubt are aware, all charitable donations are deduct- ible up to 10 per cent. of the individual's income whereas medi- cal expenses can only be deducted if they exceed four per cent. of the taxpayer's income. Adoption of the council's proposal, therefore, would mean that the deduction in respect of prescribed drug expenditures Referring to District Labor LITTLE HOPE (Continued on Page 2) Funeral of I Lats G.M. Goodfellow 2 p.m. Saturday The funeral for the late Graydon M. Goodfellow, Vice-President and Managing Director of Goodfellow Printing Company, Limited, and director of Oshawa Times, Limited, will be held on Saturday afternoon at two o'clock in the chapel of the Ontario Ladies' College, Whitby. The remains of Mr. Goodfellow are now on the way to Whithy from Mobile, Alabama, where he passed away suddenly in the early hours of yesterday morning. They will arrge in Whitby tcmorrow af- terncon, and will rest at the fun- eral parlors of W. C. Town and Son after 5 p.m. on that day until 10 o'clock on Saturday forenoon. The funeral service at the Ontar- io Ladies' College will be conducted by Rev. Dr. S. L. Osborne, principal of the College. " A Masonic service for the late Mr. Goodfellow, who was a Past District Deputy Grand Master of that order, will be held at the W. C. Town funeral parlors on Fri- day evening... The Brethren of Com- posite Lodge, No. 3Qu Weitby, of which he was a member, and breth- ren of sister Masonic lodges throughout the Ontario district, will assemble at the Masonic Tem- ple, Whitby, at 7.30 p.m; and pro- céed to the funeral parlors for the service. ve on the prohibited list after July 1 will be pork and pork products, cut flowers, soft plastic sheeting, electric lighting fixtures and ap- pliances, various kinds of orna- ments coin-operated amusement devices and vending machines and so-called comic and pulp magazines. The total value of imports affecte ed by the prohibited list then will be less than $25,000,000 on the basis of 1946-47 figures. These changes will become effec tive April 1:-- 1. All imports restrictions will be withdrawn on printed labels of all kinds; on plumbing and bathroom fixtures; on cocoa products and on coffee products. Glass ovenware, other heate resistant glassware and electrie light bulbs will be transferred from the prohibited list to the list of pro=- ducts that can be imported under a quota system. 3. Textile import quotas will be increased from the present 40 per cent rate to a 44 per cent rate. 4. Switzerland, the only European country on the list of scheduled countries, is being transferred to the non-scheduled list. This means that all imports of quota goods from Switzerland will be admitted under open general permit as from April 1. 5. Paper products, genuine or imitation pearls and mineral wool, now on the prohibited list, may af= ter April 1, be imported from none scheduled or soft currency couns tries, under open general permit. Such imports from dollar or schede uled countries will be permitted on a quota basis. Three major effect July 1. Imports on a quota basis will be permitted for--refrigerators, washe ing machines, radio receiving sets, gramaphones, outboard motors, small boats--not designed for use with inboard motors--show cases, pianos and organs. The products have been on tie prohibited list. The import quota permitted will represent 50 per cent of the 1946-47 imports of the products. Also to be transferred from the changes will take IMPORT CONTROLS (Continued on Page 2) BAD CHIMNEY BLAMED FOR STORE FIRE Quick action on the part of O:zhawa Firemen prevented a serie ous blaze at the Bradley Furniture Ccempany, 38 King Street 'West, when fire broke out at the rear of a storage shed at the rear of the premises at 11:45 a.m. today. Richmond Street firemen fought the stubborn blaze for almost half an hour before bringing it under con=- trol. Although damage to the walls and floor was' extensive, furniture in the store was untouched. Total damage is unestimated. Fire Chief Wesley R. Elliott attributed the fire to a "crack" in the chimney. "We were all 'standing around the back of the store just before closing time," said "Clint" Moore, the furniture store's auditor, "when we 'smelled smoke." Moore said they hurried outside and saw black smoke billowing from the wear window of the building. "'Dick' Bradley, owner of the store, quickly called firemen," said Moore. "When they arrived flamd® were shooting up through the flooY and out the rear window." : "It was lucky we arrived when we did," said Fire Chief Elliott, as he directed his men during the blaze. "If it had gained any more headway it would have been too bad." "The store closes at and I hate to think have happened if it had started after we'd left," cominented Moore. "But it's covered by insurance," he said. Scores of homeward bound office and factory workers, as well as school children, thronged around the scene. Police were kept buss keeping * back the over-curious watchers. At first it was thouzht the fire had started from a déféctive wire but later Chief Elliott said it must have been a cracked chimney. When firemen arrived on the scene with a pumper truck a length of hose was laid through the front door of the store on King Street West, but due to furniture and the awkward . location of the fire 'in the back of the store, it had to be taken out and the truck driven around to the rear of the building. One employee of the store tried to combat the flames with a por- table fire extinguisher only to have it overflow on his clothes and shoes. noon today what might \7hen last seen he was trying vig= orously to brush off the fluid, and was muttering to himself,