> 'CUSTOMS RECEIPTS SET RECORD THE DAILY TIMES-GAZET TE Aine High For Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITBY VOL. 9--No. 77 mer mes Office In 1949-50 4 Customs collections for the Port of Oshawa, for the | 1949-50 fiscal year, which ended yesterday, were $25,315,- [609.09. This is the highest collection figure in the history - Building Activity Increased Here In March isis ° cod - | until then was the highest, by nearly $3,000,000. Issue Permits For [IMPERIAL QIL Amateur Craftsmen Prepare for Fair HOSPITAL Re 16 New Dwellings; B00STS PRICE SITUATION OSHAWA-WHITBY, SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1950 Price 4 Cents ® Lg PRESS SEARCH Figures for March of this vear show total collections of $2,953,062.61. A break-down of that figure shows customs im- | ports brought in $296,025.44; | Excise tax, $2,656.116.27; Excise duty $503.50 and Sundry collec- | 1947-1948. by $2,882,725.65 than the figure for the fiscal year of Some New Stores _ The value of building permits taken out during the | Oil | advance in prices of gasoline and | month of March almost doubled that of the previous month. Building in Oshawa, which has been more or less dormant ay during the winter months, i '® Permits were taken out for seven in February. OF GASOLINE Toronto, April 1 (CP)--Imperial | Limited today announced an | other petroleum products in areas of Eastern Canada where rail hauls are where recent s on the upswing apparently. 16 dwellings as compared to e Total value of permits in March Many Happy Returns JAMES GREGORY Who today is receiving the con- gratulations of his host of friends on. the celebration of his 98th birth- day. Still enjoying good health, Mr. Gregory retains a keen inter- est in current affairs and attends quite 'a number of events in the | city: ! FOREIGN AID BILL FACING NEW TESTS Washington, April 1 (AP) -- A $3,102,450,000 administration foreign aid bill, passed by the House of | Representatives after a week of rough handling, faced fresh attacks today 'from both sides of Capitol Hill, As the measure headed for the Senate, House opponents laid plans | to launch a new onslaught when 'debate starts on a bill providing money for the various world recov- ery programs involved. The measure sailed through the Houes Friday night on a 287 to 86 vote, after a week of battering by Republicans and Southern Democrats. While its total was $270,000.000 less than the State Department wanted, the bill was stripped at the last moment of two administra- tion-opposed amendments. One would have tied up $1,000,000,000 of the total for the purchase of farm commodities in the United States; the other would have halted aid to Britain while Ireland remained partitioned. In addition, the measure con- tained the controversial 'point four program intended to help back- ward countries get on their feet through technical assistance from the United States. However, the program was cut almost by half. The over-all purpose of the bill, which continues the Marshzll plan, is to provide economic aid. to coun- tries resisting communism and to hike their standards of living so their citizens won't succumb. to Communist propaganda. : Actual cash to breathe life into the programs is to be provided in an omnibus appropriation bill on which the House will start debate next week. NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette Average Per Issue March, 1950 10,483 a | amounted to $132,510 as compared to | $57,510 in February. The estimated value of homes for which permits were issued was $107,100 as compared t- ~2,500 for the previous month. A number of new stores will be erected according to the permit ap- plications and a number of others will be remodeled. One of the new businesses to be established is a 'shop for electrical repairs which | will be located on the north side} of Bond Street between Simcoe and Prince Streets. Proprietor will be J. Romhanyi, 196 Ritson Road South. Biggest house building program is that being begun by J. Johansen and Sons. Mr. Johansen applied | for permits for six dwellings. They | will be located in the vicinity of | Richmond and Colborne Streets East | off Cadillac Avenue North. Four | of them were 'estimated tq cost! $6,600 and two, $7,600. They will be bungalow or storey and a half buildings. | In addition there has been a great deal of re-roofing during the spring. National Employment Service offi- cials said today that the upswing | in the building trades has not yet| been reflected in more employment | but they felt that this usual accom- paniment of spring would soon take | place. The list of permits issued during | March is as follows: | Dwelling, $6,000, Thomas Krout, | 249 Mitchell Ave.; Roofing, $175, | Thomas Gill, 612 Summerville Ave.; | Dwelling, $9,000, William Fulton, 118 | Summer St.; Work Shop, $2,000, Carl | J. Hannan, 209 Bond St. E.; Alter- | ation, $250, A. Bobok, 16 Bond St. E.; Alteration, $1,500, Rotary Club, | Oshawa, Ont.; Dwelling, $6,500, Romanuk Bros. 346 Gliddon Ave.; Dwelling, $9,000, A. Metcalfe, 636 Christie St.; Alterations, $4,000, Don Kinloch, 18 King St. E.; Alterations, | $100, Mrs. E. Brown, 189 Hibbert | St.; Garage, $300, C. A. Pym, 247 Gliddon St.;- Alterations, $350, A. S. Solmes, 36 Colborne St. E.; Al- teration, $300, Frank Brown, 75 Gibb | St.; Dwelling, $6,600, A. Johansen, | 202 Rosedale Ave.; Dwelling, $6,600, N. Johansen & Son, 202 Rosedale Ave.; Dwelling, $6,600, N. Johansen | & Son, 202 Rosedale Ave.; Dwell- ing, $6,600, N. Johansen & Son, 202 | Rosedale Ave.; Dwelling, $7,600, N | Johansen & Son, 202 Rosedale Ave.; | Dwelling, $7,600, N. Johansen & Son, | 202 Rosedale Ave.; Alteration, $169, E. Sharpell, 330 Olive St.; Repairs, | $2,000, S. A. Gates, 776 Simcoe St. N.; Repairs, $500, H. E. Mosier, 454 | Louisa St.; Store, $7,000, J. Rom- | hanyi, 196 Ritson Rd. S.; Dwelling, | $5,000, J. S. Romanchuk, 237 Beatty Ave.; Dwelling, $5,000, Mike Stas- inski, 517 Drew St.; Alteration, $140, Mrs. M. Holder, 198 Albert St.; Dwelling, $5000, Mike Porhincak, 359 Ritson Rd. S.; Alteration, $100, MUCH BUILDING (Continued on Page 2) | Tear-Gas Grenades Disperse Strikers Brest, France, April 1--(Reuters) --Tear-gas grenades were used here today to disperse strikers who stoned police after demonstrating against unloading of the freighter Capitaine Lecoley by dockers be- longing to a private firm. Earlier the demonstrato:. had thrown some casks full of wine and 200 empty barrel into the sea. Hindu Mahasabha Ordered From City New Delhi, India, April 1--(AP) --The president of India's strong- | est anti-Pakistan organization the Hindu Mahasabha -- was ex- { pelled from New Delhi today. Gov- {ernment officials said they had ar- involved and freight rate increases apply. The company said that in Ontario the increases in its prices apply in the Ottawa area, where gasoline, kerosene, fuel oils and stove oil advance one- tenth of a cent, and in some riorthern sections, where gaso- line and kerosene advance two- fifths of a cent a gallon and fuel oil and stove oil from one- fifth to two-fifths of a cent a gallon, In Quebec, the increases apply to the northern sections of the prov- ince, where the prices of gasoline, kerosene, fuel oil and stove oil ad- vance two-fifths of a cent a gallon, and in the eastern areas where the price of these products goes up one- tenth of a cent a gallon. In the Maritimes the increases range from one-fifth to three-fifths of a cent a gallon on gasoline and kerosene. WILL CHARGE JOHN HOOPER WITH MURDER Hull, Que., April 1--(CP)--Police said a charge of murder will be laid today against John Ralph Hooper, | named by a coroner's jury Friday | night -as "criminally responsible" | for the hand-towel slaying of Ger- trude Marion Davis. Hooper, 25-year-old son of a well. to-do Ottawa family, was identified by witnesses at the inquest as the | last person seen with the comely Ottawa girl whose nude body was found Wednesday in a Bridge Street rooming house in downtown Hull, a hand towel tightly knotted about her throat. The brown - haired, six - footer showed no sign of emotion during the 90-minute hearing but followed the proceedings attentively. The coroner's jury required only 23 minutes to bring in a verdict. The jury found that she died of asphyxiation induced by strangulation caused by pressure of a towel wound about her throat. The verdict was returned after three witnesses testified to seeing Hooper with the 25-year-old bru- nette a few hours before her body was found lying on the bed of a third-floor room at the hotel-style rooming house, her body carefully | covered with a sheet. Alfred Gachet, chief Crown wit- ness and operator of the tidy, brick rooming house, identified Hooper as the man who registered with Miss Davis about 1 A.M. Wednesday. He said Hooper signed the registration | card under the name of J. L. Hol- | son. | Gachet said the couple went to their room and that about an hour later Hooper came down to the) office and asked where he could get a meal. He said he left and "that is the last I saw of him." Harold Sharp, he spent Tuesday afternoon with | Miss Davis. He said he met and that Hooper was with her. Sharp said he accompanied the pair to Hull and that they had dif- ficulty finding a room. He said Hooper and the girl finally left him in a restaurant while they went to try another place. and saw Hooper come out of the rooming house. | night. Couple Attempting To Set New Mark | rested and. expelled = Mahasabha | president N.B. Khdare and other leaders of the organization to try | to insure quiet in the city during | forthcoming talks Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of In- dia and Liaquat Ali Khan of Pak- istan, THE WEATHER Rain ending this afternoon. Cloudy tonight, clearing Sun- day morning. Not much change in temperature. Winds south 25, shifting to west 25 by this evening and becoming north- west 15 on Sunday. Low tonight and high Sunday 35, 45. Svm- mary for Sunday: Becoming sunny, San Francisco, April 1--(AP)-- | The Bixbys -- 27-year-old Dianna and 36-year-old Bob--took off to- ; |day at 6:03 am. (9:03 am. EST) | between Prime |, Newark, N.J., on an attempt to | round-the-world flight | smash the | record. | The husband and wife team flew a - twin-engine bomber, Huntress II, Miami in 1949 for $4,500. ' The Bixbys age aiming at the record of 73 hours, five minutes and 11 seconds set in August, 1947, bought 21,076 mile course. The plan calls way Island with San Francisco as the termini, The Second Annual C.R.A., Hobby Fair slated for April 19, 20 and 21, is going to produce a wonderful array of woodworking exhibits of every | type--cabinet making, carving, whittling, wood turning, "inlay, fretwork, etc, made by Oshawa citizens of very diverse, ages and talents. at C.R.A. Herb Wilson and Alderman Cephas B. Gay give some careful attention to tables they are building, while in the foreground a well- Here | IMPROVING Leamington, April 1 (CP)--Health | Minister Martin said today that Canada now is approaching the time when hospital accommodation 1948-1949 will catch up with her needs. Sh 2 $a In a speech prepared for deliv- May : ery at the opening of the Leam- June ington District Memorial Hospital, | July the minister reviewed the progress August . of the national health program Scptember started two years ago. October The Leamington hospital, with ac- | November commodation for 51 adults and 18 | December infants, was one of many complet- | January [ed in the last two years or still | February under construction with federal as- March | sistance. | "It looks now," he said, "as if we will exceed our 1953 tar- get for Canada of new hospital accommodation totalling 40,000 beds as federal aid has already been allocated for hospital con- tions, $417.40. A break-down by months for the past two fiscal years is as follows: 2,951,538.40 2.539,316.36 2,557,429.63 2,714,813.04 1,715,224.20 1,497,550.93 2.008,832.05 1,582,101.30 1,700,504.39 1,540,805.45 643,949.94 980,817.20 $22,432,883.44 Total . 1949-1950 ... § 1,753,280.12 1,953,383.46 2,204,069.91 2,358,701.00 1,880,044.77 April May June .. July | August 22, testified that | ter | again about 12:30 A.M. Wednesday | Sharp testified that after waiting | at the restaurant he eventually left | George Hutcheon, 20, of Niagara | Falls, Ont., also told of seeing Hoo- | per with Miss Davis late Tuesday British Mosquito | in | by the late Bill Odom over the | Karachi, Calcutta, Tokyo and Mid- | known senior citizen of Oshawa, which when finished will be a triumph of woodwork and craftsmanship. | 35 Carriers 'Qualifie Allan Shantz, is producing a desk --C.R.A. Photo. d For Trip to Montreal With one week still to go in The Times-Gazette carrier boys and girls contest to secure new sub- scribers to the newspaper, thirty- five boys and girls have qualified for the Easter Holiday trip to Mont- real which is waiting for all who are winners in the contest. Every carrier who secures fifteen or more start orders from new readers is eligible "for thé all-expenses paid | trip to the largest city in Canada, | and to join in the many interest- ing and educational features of this | grand three day outing on April 12, 13 and 14. The carriers who have qualified for the trip up to this morning are as follows: Eddie Street. Stuart Seymour, Street. Gary Hooper, Street. Rae Hopkins Ave. John Street. David Kelly, 77 Eldon Ave. Glen Pascoe, 91 Gladstone Ave. Donald Badour, Street. Bruce Marshall, 630 Carnegie Ave. David Lowery, 144 Pard Rd. North. James Randall, Street, Whitby. Judy Shearer, 7 York Street, Ajax. Terry Skelcher, Street, Ajax. Orville Thompson, Ont. Janet Bull, 46 Nassau St. Allin Bowler, 332 Gibbon St. Barry Hooper, 323 Division Street. Bill Strutt, 374 Mitchell Ave. Don Jeyes, 420 Arthur Street. Marvin Colvin, Lakeshore. Calvin Bombay, 37 Fairbanks Street. Carl Reid, 178 College Ave. Betty Wood, Albert's Road. Robert Gill, 612 Sommerville Ave. Tony Smyth, 210 Henry Street, Whitby. Alfred bert. Bill Howard, 62 Burk St. Bill Rahme, 39 Burk St. Lionel Kelly, helper, 77 Eldon Ave. Bruce Martin, Harmony Road North. Don Kerr, 70 Warren Ave. Norman Gray, 350 St. Julien, Bruce Stauffer, 319 Gibbon Street. Brian Wilson, 375 Gibbon St. Eddy Dyer, Brooklin. Cash Prizes Offered 2 | Many of the carrier boys and girls | have secured far more than the | fifteen new start orders required to | qualify. For every additional order | over the minimum number, they will receive fifty cents for spending money for the trip, and already some have piled up quite a sub- stantial sum to their credit. As a further inducement to carry on in the contest after qualifying for the trip, additional prizes have been of- fered. For the single carrier who | turns in the highest number of start orders himself, there will be a grand cash nrize of $15.00. There is a second prize of $10.00 to the carrier' who, on his own turns in the second largest number of orders. As an encouragement to those who just fail to secure the fifieen Broadbent, 41 Burk 120 Louisa 323 Division 128 Rosedale 153 Turner, Celina 159 Conant Chestnut 21 Mary Courtice, Newnham, Prince Al- for stops at Newark, Paris, Cairo; |start orders to 'oualify for the trip, [Canada 35 CARRIERS (Conuvinued on rage 2) | accouns, | ; Times-Gazette Circulation Up ' To New Record | | Average daily circulation of The Times-Gazette for | the month of March reach- ed the all-time high record | figure of 10,483, the high- | est figure ever reached by | a newspaper published in Oshawa. The average cir- culation for the city zone increased to a total of 8,- 912, for the Oshawa retail trading zone to 1,279, while all other zones absorbed 292 papers, to make up the {otal of 10,483. 'Reds Make New 'Raid on Hainan Taipei, Formosa, April 1--(AP)-- Chinese Communist invasion forces today began a new assault on Hainan Island but the Nationalists claimed they had the situation in hand. There were only fragmentary re- ports of the operating directed at | the big Nationalist island 10 miles off Luichow Peninsula, which juts out from the South China coast. These reports said 19 of 40 craft making up the Reds' first wave were sunk by Nationalist warships. | At one point 1,000 Reds got ashore but the Nationalists said these "were contained." At another point, 200 Reds were reported to have surrendered. Reds Place Curfew On City of Canton Hong Kong, April 1--(AP)--The Chinese Communists have placed Canton under curfew in an attempt to stamp out resistance, reports from the South China city said today. The Communists blame National- ist agents for the turmoil. It has been so bad the Communists have moved most of their government offices out of the city. Other news from Canton. told the increasing boldness of anti-Com- munist = guerrillas. In Hong Kong, several ship com- panies today were reported work- ing on the project to ferry 400 Americans and 1,200 other foreign- ers out of Communist Shanghai to waiting ships. Fuel Ministry Seeks Greater Production Swansea. Wales, April 1--(CP)-- The British Fuel Ministry is seeking to halt a decline in cutput on | Welch anthracite so that more of | ; i 0 | the high-grade coal can be exported | | The Summary and | {to Eastern Canada. | Because of laber shortages | the fact existing anthracite seams are becoming more difficult to ex- loit, output has dropzed frem ,005,700 tons in the last pre-war Iyear to 2,807,000 tons in 1949, British: cor! exports to ding small shipments f 1 Ty from 4 tons in 1228 to 505,730 tons |< oc rire struction totalling 20,000 beds." Great impetus has been given to hospital construction by federal grapts for general hospitals serv- | ing areas with 3,000,000 people, for | mental hospitals with beds for an additional 3,000 patients and for | tuberculosis sanitoria with beds for | | an 'additional 2,900 patients. The minister noted that 2,000 fed- | | eral projects were underway to train | individual health workers; the tub- erculosis death rate among Indians had been reduced at least 40 per | cent since 1944 and $2,000,000 had been allocated to fight tuberculosis generally. Mr. Martin said that in Ontario five new county health units had been established to care for 200,000 rural people. | In Toronto special studies were | being made of emotionally disturb- ed school children and a training centre had been established for those mentally deficient. Federal tients from Ontario mental hospit- als brought to Toronto for the leucotony operation. 2 Police, 3 Soldiers | Killed By Terrorists Singapore, April 1 (Reuters) | Terrorists Friday killed five mem- | bers of security forces in an am- | bush near Bahau in Negri Sembilan | State where they had electrically | detonated bombs in the side of the ana Two of the killed were police and three others soldiers of the Green Howards. wil Begin Search 'For Lost Atlantis London, April 1--(Reuters) -- A Briton hopes to end all specula- | tion about the existence of the | "lost continent" of Atlantis by get- | ting photographs of ruined build- ings and other relics of the vanish- led civilization reported to be hid- {den under the Atlantic waves. | Egerton Sykes aims to raise $6,000 |to set out in a fishing smack to !look for Atlantis off the Azores. Three Objectives For Pact Program funds would pay the costs of pa-| 1,732,364.14 2.393,189.70 1.914,890.93 1.085,531.51 2.758,353.00 2,328,737.91 2,953,062.61 September October November | December ... January February "March Total ..$25,315,609.09 TWO ABBOTS PLEAD GUILTY OF TREASON Prague, April 1--(AP)--Two of 10 high-ranking Roman Catholic clergymen charged with high treas- on pleaded guilty Friday in Czech- | oslovakia's first mass trial. of | ! churchmen, the official Czech news | agency announced. Six of the 10 clerics--accused also | of espionage for the Vatican and plotting . overthrow of the govern- me* t--had testified by the end of the opening day. Three of them, the news agency said, pleaded in- nocent and one admitted "partial guilt" as having been "associated" with anti-state activities. The two who confessed guilt to high treason were identified by the news agency as Abbot Bohumii Vit Tajovsky of the monastery at Zeliva, in Central Bohemia, and Abbot Augustin Machalka of the monastery at Nova Rise... Abbot Machalka also was said to have confessed to spying for the Vatican. The news agency reported that "foreign and domestic news corres- | pondents" attended the trial. How- ev.., representatives of western news | agencies were refused admittance | Friday bcause, they were told, no | more tickets available. | Abott Machalka was quoted as | testifying that he was involved in | the 'gathering of firearms and the i distribution of. illegal leaflets" for [an anti-state campaign shortly | rafter the Communist coup of Feb ruary 1948 which put the present FOR HIT-RON TRUCK DRIVER Toronto, April 1--(CP)--City and suburban police today were searche ing for the driver of a heavy motore truck which struck and killed twe children on their way to church. Lorine Watson, 13, and her niece Barbara Jones, 5, were on their way to a Friday evening Lenten service at St. Eugene's Catholis Church in suburban North York Township when hit by the truck. The Watson girl was killed instantly and the younger child died three-quarters of an hour later after being admitted to the Hospital for Sick Children. Police said the driver of the truck failed to stop at the scene, Acting on information of an eye-witness they questioned two men but clear= ed both of them. Only witness to the accident was Ernest Berry, who was driving be= Qind the truck. He said the truck was going between 40 and 45 miles an hour when it swerved "and what appeared to be a sack flew across the road." Berry said when his car got to the scene he saw what ap- peared to be two bodies and he took off in pursuit of the truck. When he reached the crest of the hill however the truck was not in sight. He telephoned the police. Meantime the accident had been discovered by the father of the elder girl, Charles Watson, driving along in his tow-truck. He found his own daughter dead at the side of the road and the younger girl barely breathing. Watson announced he was poste ing $100 reward for information leading to arrest of the driver. Po= lice said they had chased a truck on the Weston Road, in the same vicinity, but lost it after getting the licence number. The girls walked along the road, which has no sidewalks at that point, every Wednesday and Friday during lent to the church services. Mrs. Jones, mother of one girl and sister of the other, said that "if the driver feels half as bad as we do he'll give himself up. Perhaps now we'll get some street lights up here." Toronto Police Arrest 120 Toronto, April 1--(CP) -- Police I cells were filled to capacity today as 120 persons were arrested in ane other "black Friday" night. There were 61 charged 'with drunkenness, four for shopbreaking, three for housebreaking, two for attempted shopbreaking, 24 for liquor viola= tions' and four for vagrincy, Force Bhuddhist Monks To Join Army Hong Kong, April 1--(Reuters)-- Communists have forced 400,000 regime in power. | Chinese Buddhist monks and nuns The Hague, The Netherlands, April 1--(AP)--Defence Secretary Louis Johnson of the United States today set three objectives for the 12 country North tAlantic defence program. "First, we seek to deter aggres- sion; and finally, to defeat the aggressor if he forces war upon us," Johnson told the third session of defence ministers from the countries sign- ing the North Atlantic treaty. The ministers met here to adopt an over-all unified military defence plan. German M.P.'s Vote For Higher Pay Bonn, ters) -- German members of Par- liament have voted themselves about the biggest parliamentary pay in Europe. Each member will get an annual salary equivalent to $1,680 plus $840 expenses in Bonn and $560 in their constitutencies. On top of this they will get $7 for leach day's attendance at | tage. | -- | Business and markets .......... | Whitby news .... | Editorials ve | Women's news . Young People ..... Sporty... .. iis Theatre programs .. Comics Sr . Radio programs .... "lavsified * hurches | "He also buried a treasure be- to give up active practice of their {longing to the monastery in its faith, The abbot of a leading Budd- | cellars, consisting of jewels, Czech | hist monatery in Nanking stated | mone; and other. valuables includ-'here. Many of the monks had been second, to defend ourselves, | Germany, April 1--(Reu- | Parlia- | | ment, free rail travel and free pos- | |ing some American dollars," the news agency reported. { | The indictment against the 10, as | re; orted by the news agency, said: | "After the war the Vatican] | espionage service was joined with | the United States organization, the! Counter Intelligence Corps. Their activities were concentrated mainly | against the people's (Communist) | democracies which they wanted tol liquidate, | "To carry out this policy, the, Vatican used its diplomatic offices | in the various states and mona- | steries, which received exact instruc - tions." . drafted into the army or into forc- ed labor and some had become street hawkers, he added. Boost Gas Price In Nova Scotia Halifax, April 1 (CP)-- The Nova Scotia Public Utilities Board Friday approved a half cent a gallon boost in the price of gasoline sold to con= sumers in the province outside a 10-mile radius of Halifax, Imperial Oil Limited said an increase in freight rates necessitated the ine crease. United States Washington, April 1-- (AP) General Dwight D. Eisenhower to- | day proposed a three-point pro- | gram for stiffening the defences of "j| the United States. (Dem, | written | wartime told Senator Elmer Thomas Okla.), who received the recommendations of the allied commander in Europe, a reporter they call for: 1. Strengthening Alaska and its major ai~fields against sur- prise airborne attack, by a per- manent force of well-trained | and equipped ground troops and a radar screen to detect and warn against air forays, ! Eisenhower Would Stiffen Defences 2. Assurance that the 48-group first-line air force is equipped with the most modern aircraft and backed up by a powerful reserve of 12 'well-equipped air national guard groups. 3, Sufficient funds for the navy to start a special anti-submarine force, including destroyers, small aircraft carriers, aircraft and other special equipment, Thomas said the letter fulfilled Eisenhower's promise to senators to spell out changes he would make in President Truman's $14. 000,000,000 defence budget for the 1 1951 fiscal year starting. July §.