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.TWO BOMBERS CRASH; 11 . Two Firemen Hurt; Damage Estimated At $200 Thousand Ottawa, March 15--(CP)--A five-hour, two-alarm fire THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette und Chronicle OSHAWA WHITBY VOL. 9--No. 62 OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1950 Price 4 Cents EIGHTEEN PAGES Ottawa Fire Leaves 21 Persons Homeless -------------- partially gutted a combined mid-town Ottawa early today, sending two firemen to hospi- tal and leaving 21 persons homeless. Damage was unofficially estimated at approximately $200,000 in the blaze which began in a restaurant basement and ate its way through apartments on two upper storeys, finally collapsing part of the roof. lp business-apartment block in Taken to hospital were fire- 2 4 TLE. ASKS CHANGES IN LABOR BILL Toronto, March 15 -- (CP) -- The Trades and Labor Congress today asked the Ontario government to delete from the new lfbor bill the clause providing for decertification of unions. A TLC. delegation met today with Premier Frost and his cabinet and presented a brief outlining requests for revision of the proposed labor code and other legislation. The brief also asked that the Ontario Labor Relations Board should have the right to grant a conciliation board and handle men Clint Avery and George | Aldrich. Both were struck by a | shower of falling bricks at the | rear of Locanada Grill where | two cleaners discovered the blaze at 4 a.m. and gave the & <> Fatally Injured alarm. Neither fireman was seriously hurt, | Early morning traffic along Bank Street was disrupted by the blaze | at the corner of Laurier Avenue as | police cars and fire apparatus went | to the scene. Police routed sleeping | apartment-dwellers from their beds | and all left the building without trouble but with little time to throw more than a coat over their night | attire, | The Locanada Grill was gutted | along with its cocktail lounge. Cafe | officials said the week's . receipts, | due to be banked today, were lost | in the fire, FIRE SWEEPS RCAE. BASE When Hit By Car Kitchener, March 15--(CP)-- Robert Frederick Lane, 7, of R. R. 1, Preston, was fatally in- jured today when struck by an automobile on the highway near here. The boy was walking along the shoulder of the two-lane highway en route to school when hit. The auto involved, driven by Percy Knowles of Galt, was proceeding towards Kitchener with the boy walking facing traffic, Waterloo Township Po- lice said. MAN. BEATEN, PAINTED RED, AND ROASTED Montreal, March 15--(CP)--A 43- year-old father of seven children charged today he was beaten up painted red and then roasted in th | nude by five men who stuffed him into a bake oven. Charles Edouard Roy swore out | warrants Tuesday for the arrest of five persons who allegedly beat and tortured him Monday. Det.-Capt. Bill Fitzpatrick, chief of Montreal's | homicide squad, said four persons | had been arrested and a fifth is sought. Displaying a black eye and walking with a limp, Roy said he had been beaten, covered with red metallic paint after his clothes had been removed, and then tossed into a 180-de- grees 10-by-six-foot bake oven. He said he was kept captive there for eight minutes. | | I | front row (left to right) Miss Pat Quinn, Instructor, Ruth Inwood, Guna Eidemanis, Irene Gramkaus, Marion | | ell Story Vondette, Aina Grinberd and Miss A. Busch, Superintendent of Nurses; back row, Margaret Davidson, June | | Gibbons, Marilyn Hamilton, Elizabeth Ball, Gladys Miller and Eunice Kemp. | | In a ceremony at the Ontario Hospital, Whitby, 12 student nurses received their caps. Whitby Ontario Hospital Nurses Capped shown above are: --Times-Gazette Staff Photo 'Masonic O For Great Moral and cial Asks | | Spiritual Awakening | 2 J | Department Is Working on Plans | For New Post Office E. P. Murphy, Deputy Minis- | ter of Department of Works, in |. a communication to the Oshawa | and District Labor ' Council | support and "Only those institutions can justify themselves which directly or | indirectly are making some con | tribution to the good of individuals | or of society. For these alone may | loyalty be propertly sought," said Charles S. Hamilton, a past Grand Master of the Grand | Lodge of Canada in the Province of | Ontario, in an address before a packed auditorium at a regular | Some Details of Annexation Remain To Be Ironed Out T. D. Thomas, M.L.A,, told a meeting of the Oshawa and District Labor Council last night that the chairman of the Ontario Municipal Board had informed him that the annexa- tion applications from Oshawa and East Whitby Township would be dealt with when "some details" between the two municipalities are worked out. Mr. Thomas said the board chairman told him he had re- ceived correspondence from T. K. Creighton, K.C., Oshawa's city solicitor, stating that some details had to be worked out Wrecked One Man 11 men. The planes were Lincoln bombing ships. of the wartime Lancasters and now NILLED R.A.F. Lincolns In U.K.; Survives London, March 15--(AP)--Two R.A.F. four-engined bombers crashed within almost an hour early today, killing bombers, modernized version the standard R.A.F. 1:30 A.M. local time The first crash occurred about {when a plane returning from a training flight overshot the | runway at Hemswell R.A F. station. Five crew members were | killed and the sixth was injured. EE EEE pO ERNMENT | Of Crash | most an hour later as another Lincoln bomber struck a Welsh mountainside in the darkness. The plane crashed about 2,000 | feet up on the slopes of Car- | nedd Llewelyn, 3,484-foot peak near Snowdon, Wales. | All six men in the bomber's crew | were killed, Their bodics were re- covered by R.AF. rescue squads. | The Welsh plane crash was the! | second in Wales in three days. Last | Sunday 80 persons were Killed in| -- | the worst air disaster in history| Washington, March 15--(AP)--e [when a Tudor V charter plane | Federal mediator Cyrus S. Ching ine | crashed near Cardiff. | vited labor leader Walter Reuther ! | today to discuss the automobile hd workers' strike at the Chrysler Core | 3 Survivors | poration. The bid indicated mount= | : | ing government concern over the long deadlock. The strike began Jan. 25 over the union's demand for a 10- cent hourly allocation a work« er to cover $100 monthly pen- sions or a wage increase. The St. Atan, Wales, March 15--(AP) | company refused to earmark --The tense dramatic story of his-| any pension amount for each [tory's worst air disaster was told! employee, and the 90,000 produc- [in "simple words today by two of | tion workers walked out. | the three survivors. | Reuther, here for congressional | The two, able to walk away from | testimony on social security as [the crasia of the Tudor V airliner | president of the United Automobile {which killed 80 persons Sunday,! Workers Union (C.I.O.), was exe said the accident came so suddenly | pected to meet with Ching some- | they still were bracing themselves | time during the day. | for the shock after it was all over. There have been indications since | The other passengers 'never the Chrysler strike began, those knew what happened," one said. | close to the negotiations report, that They were interviewed today | Reuther may boost his demands as at the R.A.F. station hospital [time for the opening of his con= here, where the third survivors |tract with General Motors nears, still is on the danger list. | That agreement expires May 29. The two who were able to talk | Reuther already has stated that were Gwyn Anthony, 26-vear-old |the U.AW. wants a nine-cent hour= school teacher, and his brother-in-|1y wage boost and pensions of $128 llaw, Handel Rogers, 33. Both are a month for the more than 200,000 {former R.AF. men. | members of G.M. plants. | "We were coming in for a nor-| The Chrysler strike may drift on prosecution cases rather than the labor minister. Other de- mands were for a clear defini- tion of company unions and Roy said he was Jured to a St.| James Street building and tortured by five employees of the concern | which operates in the building. The between Oshawa and East Whitby and when these were agreed * upon the Municipal Board would go ahead with the meeting of Lebanon Lodge, AF. and A.M. last night in the Masonic | Temple. i Masonic brethren were present | |mal landing and the air hostess | for weeks, the government fears, if [told us to prepare to land," Anthony | that is Reuther's strategy. Strike |said. "We were sitting in the tail | assessments of $1 a week fof 13 of the machine and we had gOne | weeks from U.A.W. members in oth- wrote: "This Department is looking after the preparation of plans for the construction of a public building in Oshawa and London, Ont., March 15--(CP)-- Damage unofficially estimated at $1,000,000 was caused by a specta- inclusion within the bill's pro- vision of municipal employees. Unions should have the right to apply for certification and' obtain a vote when 25 per cent of the employees authorize the union to apply, the brief said. The bill now provides that a vote must be taken if a union has a signed-up mem- bership of between 45 and 55 per cent of employees. Fifty-oné per cent of those taking part in a certification vote should constitute a majority instead of 51 | per cent of the employees in the plant at the time of the vote, the congress said. A simple majority should be enough to decide the issue of a union shop and com- pulsory dues check-off. Unfair labor practices should in- clude threats of various kinds to shut down, move plants and de- clare lockouts. Automatic grievances procedure should go into effect on certification to cover the period of early negotiation the board should be provided with an adequate staff to speed up its work. Special provisions should be made in the act to cover the peculiar problems of the building trade and other groups in seasonal employ- ment. May Not Permit News Coverage Ottawa, March 15--(CP)--Naval and Defence Department spokes- men said Tuesday night that a Canadian-United States agreement covering joint military exercises may prevent daily news coverage of the largest post-war naval ma- noeuvres which started Monday in the Caribbean, . (In. Washington it was disclosed that commanders of U.S. units and the press officers covering the joint Canadian-British-American exercises were reminded of the agreement in instructions labelled "restricted." The agreement, signed in 1047, provides that no press releases will be issued by either country on joint exercises without prior clear- ance by both participants. Spokesmen here said they did not believe special arrangements had been made to expedite news cover- age of the Caribbean manoeuvres such as were used successfully dur- ing the recent joint exercise "Sweet- briar" in Alaska and the Yukon. NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette Average Per Issue February, 1950 10,209 cular fire which raged through an | attack, he added, was carried out RC.AF, hangar at nearby Crum-| by the five on orders of their boss lin airport Tuesday night. | Destroyed were a mobile radar | station, other radar equipment and | 15 motor vehicles. No aircraft were | ued: hough one airman was over | Local Woman's 'Brother Helping Build New Ferry Built of steel and wood, the An item in yesterday's issue of wartime hangar was occupied | The Times-Gazette, only an inch | MAN BEATEN (Continued on Page 2) by No. 9420 Squadron of the R.CAF. permanent force. A nearby hangar housing several planes of No. 420 city of Lon- don Fighter Squadron (Reserve) was saved by a strong south- west wind which whipped the flames away from it toward the open runways, | Mrs. Air Force fire crews, assisted by | Street. Joe Wiltshire, 235 Celina The item stated that the one hangar but officials said it was | year, is the sixth vessel of that [long and datelined Newhaven, Eng- | | land, was of particular interest to crews from the London Fire De- |S.S. Brighton, due to operate on the | partment, confined the blaze to the Newhaven-Dieppe boat service this | | impossible to save any equipment when the first alarm was given. | The radar equipment was con-]| tained in eight trucks, Also des-| troyed were a passenger bus, two | other trucks, two automobiles and smaller vehicles, and an $11,000] road grinder owned by the Depart- ment of Transport. Fred Reid, a civilian employ- ed by the government, drove a large bulldozer out of the flaming hangar before the roof collapsed. It was the only thing | saved. i The alarm was turned in by Cpl. | Norman Haight, A civilian living | in the emergency shelter at the | airport, John Evans, 43, collapsed | while helping to fight the fire and | was taken to hospital. His condi- | tion was not serious, authorities | said. St. Catharines P.U.C. Protests Increase St. Catharines, March 15--(CP)-- The St. Catharines Public Utilities Commission plans to protest a re- troactive boost in rates charged by Hydro Electric Power Commission for power supplied during 1949. The local commission was noti- fled in December of the increase which applied to power supplied throughout the year. The increase left the Public Utilities with a $22,463 deficit in its 1949 accounts with the H.EP.C. At its meeting Tuesday night, the local commission decided to visit H.EP.C. officials in Toronto to find out creases are to become an annual practice, \ Commissioner Pred Cavers said the deficit will be paid from re- serve set up for the renewal of plant and equipment. The Summary Business and Markets .......... Bditorials .................. Women's News ............ Sports Radio Programs ... Theatre Programs | Classified seven 'Comies «envious GI pe 8 pp. 7,8, 9 . pp. 10, 11 ver Pul4 Lops if such retroactive rate in-, name. It replaces a predecessor lost | at Dieppe in 1940 while serving as a hospital ship. Mrs. Wiltshire was particularly interested because her brother, Wal- ter Fenner, was aboard the former Brighton when it was sunk in the harbor at Dieppe in 1940. She had just received a letter from him say- ing that he was working on a new "Brighton," supervising the installa- tion of the engines. At Dieppe in 1940, Mr. Fenner and his small daughter were preparing to return to England on the Brigh- ton when she was damaged by bombs. Mr. Fenner was serving as Chief Engineer at the time, and he went aboard to see if the vessel could be taken across the channel. While aboard, a wave of German bombers came over and the Brigh- ton was damaged so heavily that it sank in the harbor. For his ef- forts to get the ship across the channel before she was sunk, Mr. Fenner was awarded the M.B.E. by His Majesty at Buckingham Palace. Mr. Fenner and his daughter were prisoners of the Germans. The new "Brighton" is being built by Denny Brothers Shipyard, Dun- barton, Scotland. It is expected to be ready to begin cross-channel work in May, Mr. Fenner said in his letter to his sister. The last time Mrs, Wiltshire saw her brother was in 1928 when she went to England for a visit. Five Hockey Players Hurt In Accident Langstaff, Ont.,, March 15--(CP-- Five members of the Toronto Marl- boro Hockey Club were injured Tuesday night when their automo- bile was pinned under a box car of crossing here. The players were returning from Unionville to Toronto, a few miles south, when the accident. occurred. Driver of the car, James Forrester, 15, suffered severe concussion and abrasions. Gordon Oates, 15, Don- ald Grant, 16, and Ted Sullivan, 15, suffered severe concussion, cuts and bruises. Roger Bell, 15, suffered cuts to the body and face. a slow moving Canadian National | Railways freight train at a level | these are receiving the attention | of our architectural branch". | He explained that with the large number of projects on hand it may be some time be- fore the plans for this particu- lar project are completed but "you can rest assured that there will be no unnecessary delay". | Fight $16,000 Bequest To Nurse Toronto, March 15 -- (CP) -- A | Hamilton salesman's widow and her | four daughters today contested in| Surrogate Court the validity of the | bequest of a secret $16,000 Toronto | estate to a blonde nurse who lived | part time with the salesman for | 18 years. | The judge ruled the will was valid. | Mrs. Anne Jane Reynolds, 62, told Judge Shea she had "no suspicion" | her late husband maintained a sep- | arate Toronto home from 1931 to | 1949. | She said she was unaware her | husband had lived another life with former Edmonton nurse Irene Mac- | Donald. It was not until after | Reynolds' death his family found | out about Miss MacDonald. | Miss MacDonald, 43, is asking Surrogate Court to declare valid the separate will Reynolds left her when he died last year. In it, Rey- nolds left Miss MacDonald bonds, bank accounts and mink furs that | accumulated here during the 18 | years, from Port Hope, Newcastle, Bow- manville, Whitby, Toronto and! many other points. Seated at the head table were six thirty-third | degree masons, which is somewhat unusual for an individual Masonic Lodge. The speaker was introduced by Rt. Wor. Bro. George Hart who | traced the "past Grand Master's | Masonic history through the years to and including his exalted posi- tion as Grand Master, stating that the guest speaker was indeed a dis- tinguished mason. | "The warmth of your reception makes a mere expression of appre- | ciation seem wholly inadequate, but | I do acknowledge the sense of! honor and pride I experienced in being invited to speak to you to- | night, which I do with consider- | able humility," he said. The speaker said that masonry | and masons bad a real part to play! throughout all that may lie ahead. He referred to the world as a stage and as Shakespeare once sid, "all GREAT MORAL (Contiued on Page 3) Former Whitby Man Gets New Position ! Brantford, March 15--(CP)--J. R. | Spittal, manager of the Brantford branch of The Dominion Bank, was named board of education trustee for ward four by the board Tues- day night, to succeed the late E. E. C. Kilmer, Mr. Spittal had served | previously on the education board at Whitby. Will Remove Controls On Steel March 31 Minister Howe today announced that federal steel controls will come to an end March 31. Mr. Howe said in a statement that steel controller D. A. Jones will resign his post and return to private industry. Termination of steel controls re- sults from the trade department estimate that the world shortage in steel which became critical in 1946 now is at an end. "The steel situation now is sub- stantially improved," Mr. Howe said, "and while work stoppages in the United States are having a STILL CONTROLS (Continued on Page 2) THE WEATHER Clear today. Cloudy Thurs- day. Intermittent smow begin- ning Thursday morning ending Thursday evening, Continuing cool. Winds west 15 today, light tonight and Thursday. Low to- night and high Thursday 20, 30. Summary for Thursday --- Intermittent snow. Continuing cool, Ottawa, March 15--(CP)--Trade | Move To Amend Farm Prices Act Ottawa, March 15--(CP)--The government gave notice today that the legislation providing floor price for farm products will be put on a permanent basis 'at this session of Parliament, Agriculture Minister Gardiner placed on the order paper notice of a bill that would take the time limit, currently March 31, out of the Agricultural Prices Support Act of 1944. Since the war the act-- basis for current floor prices for butter and eggs--had been extended for a year at a time. The government now proposes simply it shall continue in force indefinitely after March 31. The act provides the legislative foundation for floor prices for any agricultural products the govern- ment sees fit to sustain at certain levels in the interests of the na- tional economy. In addition to butter and egg prices, some cheese prices are also currently covered by the act. matter, | T0P SECRET CONFERENCE ON DEFENCE Ottawa, March 15--(CP)--The most hush-hush defence conference Ottawa has known since the war opened today, underlining the fact that Canada has quietly and large- ly in secret stepped into the front rank of allied studies of bacterio- logical or germ warfare, The second scientific confer- ence sponsored by the defence department's rescarch board, was launched under such string- ent secrecy precautions that no one would ever say where it was being held. The chairman, Dr. 0. M. Solandt, is director-gen- eral of defence research and one of Canada's four chiefs of staff. Canadian, American and British scientists, experts in radar, in germ, gas, arctic, psychological and other forms of warfare, were in attend- ance. The subjects under discussion for the next three' days are of a high level secrecy classification, even more so than at the first confer- ence last year. Public relations officers of the Defence Department were told not another line about the conference will be made public beyond an an- nouncement of the meeting made two days ago. There were plans for a press con- ference to explain why such secrecy must prevail, but these were aban- doned. Re-Number Homes| In East Whitby Here's good news -- especially for postmen who deliver mail in East Whitby Township. Homes on Rosehill Blvd., Wilson Road South and Gibbs Avenue have been re-numbered and other streets | will be re-numbered in due course. | In the past there has been little] sequence in the numbering of homes. | Don Venton, Township Engineer, | said a number is being given for | every 20 feet of land, bringing the numbering into line with Oshawa. The numbering starts from King Street, North and South, and from Simcoe Street, East and West. This is the way the system works ac- cording to Mr. Venton: "A person walking north on Sim- coe Street North, let's say for ex- ample he is opposite house Number 88. If he walked directly west he | would strike the corresponding! number on Rosehill Blvd," there because we thought we would pet a better view. All the passengers were quiet, strapped to their seats and there had been no singing or anything of that sort because they were tired after their trip. "Some of them were picking landmarks and were very happy to think they were arriving home safely. "Everything was going along very smoothly when suddenly the plane took a steep upward climb. As a former membér of the R.AF. I instinctively felt SURVIVORS' (Continued on Page 2) Believe Former Oshawa Couple 'Lost In Crash Residents of Masson Street be- lieve that Mr. and Mrs. John Ma- son, who used to llve on that | street, and who returned to Eng- | land with their son, John Trevor | Mason, a few years ago, are among | the victims of the British airplane | disaster in which eighty people lost their lives on Saturday. Newspaper lists of the names of the victims include Mr. and Mrs. | John Mason, who, it is stated, were | identified by their son, John Tre- | vor Mason. The identical character of the names given in press des- | petohes have given rise to the be- | lief among their former neighbors | that this is the same family_ as | formerly lived in this city, where Mr. Mason was employed in the | General Motors plant. | ------ New Developments In Merger Scheme Toronto, March 15--Three fur- ther developments on amalgama- tion of the greater Toronto "area occurred Tuesday. Reeve O, E. Crockford of Eastern Scarboro Township told a Lions Club meeting that amalgamation will drive big industry from great- er Toronto. "Toronto assessments are so high these were applied against suburb- that if amalgamation came and an-located industries the result would be to drive them out alto- gether," he said. In northeastern Leaside, signa- tures of more than three-quarters of slightly more than 5,000 proper- ty owners had been obtained on anti-amalgamation petitions, PLANT NEARING COMPLETION The R. D, rner Company Lim- ited plant imcoe Street South will be completed within three weeks according to the Managing Director, Gerald 'Whipman. Some metal processing will be done with- in a week. A formal opening for the general public is planned for around May 1. when the plant is | expected to be in full production. jer auto plants are yielding $700,000 1a week for a huge strike kitty, if | was reported in Detroit. POLAND QUITS WORLD BANK Washington, March 15--(AP)--= Russian dominated Poland has withdrawn fromm the World Bank, The 48-country financial in- stitution announced the with- drawal today. It was the first resignation from the bank since it was organized in 1945. It was understood Poland alse had quit the World Monetary Fund, sister Institution to the bank, but there was no immedie ate statement from the fund. The bank was set up after the war to finance reconstruction of war-damaged countries and to aid in development of backward areas, Czechoslovakia is the only other member of the bank and fund from the Russian bloc. There was no word as to whether the Cischs would follow the lead of the Poles. Seretse May Return Home Until June (AP).--Prime cognizance March 15 Minister Attlee took today of the stork and modified the hotly-controversial order of making Seretse Khama and his white bride exiles from their Ale rican tribal kingdom. ? Attlee said the tribal king might live in his British-protected home=- land until the London-born wife bears, the child she expects late in June. But both Attlee and Patrick Gordon-Walker, his Minister for Commonwealth Relations, stressed the government's five- year banishment order would be invoked after Seretse's wife had her baby. Then all three of them will be called on to leave. The government, with its halr= breadth parliamentary majority of six seats, found itself in 'a tough spot. A. storm of political, press and public criticism of the action burst loose. One or two non-white commonwealth countries expressed concern at a decision which they thought amounted to British ace ceptance of the color bar. Finally Seretse's own people the Bamangwato tribe, turned thefy back on Britain by boycotting meetings called by Sir Evelyn Bare ing, Biili'h High Commissioner iy South Africa, London,