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OSHAWA VOL. 9--No. 101 Girl Gui The Girl Guide Cookie Day, held inDshawa on Saturday, was an outstanding succeses and exceeded all ex- This picture is typical of many sales "DAILY TIMESGAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Daily Times-Gazette and Whitby Chronicle WHITBY OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, MAY 1, 1950 Price 4 Cents SIXTEEN PAGES ,ookie Day Every pectations with 7,000 boxes of coelid being disposed of in short order. which were made during the d accorded its campaign and the the Girl Guide Association is most ous treatment given the Guides who manned the bodths. Successful thankful for the generous support ~--Times-Gazette Staff Photo. 34 New Hor In Oshawa Circulation Figur Reach New Recor The average daily circulat! of The Times-Gazette sho { another substantial during the month of April, reached a total of 11,214. T marks another mew high time record for circulation an Oshawa newspaper, toppi the previous record mark of previous month, when it 10,483, by 731 copies on the d average, 'Surplus Down $270 Milli Says Towers Ottawa, May I--(© 1--(CP) --Gr: Towers today estimated that ite favorable balance in Canada'sfiv -+ternational payments ledgers dn ped $270,000,000 in 1949. The governor of the Bank | [| Canada npted a decline in the of all surplus from $452,000,000 in to $180,000,000 in 1949 and attr ted the drop to a bigger plunge red in Canada's trade and ofthe of the country's 1949 interns. tional financial status as chaif- control board. The board's 19 annual report was tabled tod in the Commons. The international payments Be is Are Being Erected ril Permits Reveal * | If the amount of new building | *fcan be taken as a criterion of a city's economic health Oshawa is robust indeed. It is to be expected that with the advent of activity will be resurgent in the {building trades but examination of the number and type of application for building permits show that {there is no evidence of decline in the business of providing new homes and places of business for the people of Oshawa. Total estimated value of per- mits issued during March was $132,810. In April the value jumped sharply to $287,202 -- more than double. Of that amount $209,600 was spent in the erection of 34 new homes. This toial compares to $107,000 spent for the same purpose dur- ing the previous month. The firm of Sam Jackson and Son is carrying out the largest building program of homes. This construction company is erecting 11 new homes, for which permits to the value of $5600 each have been takén out, in the vicinity of Chadburn Avenue, a new residen- tial street in the western part of the city. In addition seven more homes, for which permits to the value of $6,500 each have been taken out will be built by the same firm in the same district and in the vicinity of Yonge Street. Severs] new business estab- lishmemis are in the process of being etected including a new office building, valued at least $10,000 ty the Smith Transport Company, Perusal Hf the permit applications show also that there is an extra- ordinarily. large amount of new roofing beng done in the city at the present time. A list of the permits, their esti- mated valie and the applicants is as follows} count measures Canada's foreig| earnings in the sale of goods, k| and tourist-dollar earnings aga her spending abroad for i shipping, travelling and other coBts | Mr. Towers disclosed that Canad: had over-all favorable balance with all countries, with the excep tion of the U.S. In the case o the US, Canada's deficit grey from $398,000,000 in 1948 to $594, 000,000 in 1949--an increase 0 $200,000,000. He gave three reasons for this elimb: An increase in spending for American goods. A step-up in Canadian travel south of the border, and a greater draining- off of interest and dividend pay- ments by Americans who in- vested money in Canadian developments, Nevertheless, Canada made pro- gress in increasing her reserve sip. ply of dollars. On Dec. 31, 18g, her holdings of gold and dollars totalled $1117,100,000, companrd | with $997,800,000 in 1948 and $501. 700,000 in 1947. On other international finangal, horizons, Mr. Towers noted: 1. The Foreign Exchange Cont] | Board made a multi- million-dolhr killing -- on paper -- as a Fesuld of CANADA'S SURPLUS . (Continued on page 2) -- ee NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette Average Per Issue April, 1950 : calibre House ald Garage, $8,500, William Crawford, 829 Masson St.; Lunch | Counter and apartment, $7,000, John. Sabg 240 Huron St.; Office Building, $10,000, Smith Transport, Bloor St. E.: Roof, $180, Neil Mor- rison, 158 Stacey Ave.; Roof, $120, 3 NEW HOMES (Continued on page 2) 'Remandled One Week On Theft Charge Peterborauigh, May 1 -- (CP) -- John Don¢hue, Toronto, was re- manded tofay for a week on $2,000 bail on a tharge of stealing a .38 ayomatic revolver from Michael OLeary of Peterborough during Feltuary. Charges bf careless driving and having liqupr in a place other than his resideng were adjourned to the same day. 34 Men Arrested In Gdmbling Raid Timmini, Ont, May 1 (CP) ~--In one )f the largest gambl- ing raids| staged by : Timmins police, 34 men were booked early Sumjay for being found in a gamifg house, and Stanley Pietrzyk, §, was charged with keeping common gaming house, The six penstables who stag- were forced to hire the large number to the police sta- of found-iy tion, i Pjetrzyk, whi is a floor sander by trade, ' firnished the $50 property bail for many of the men arrested and all 34 men were relea: spring | Butter Prices Down 5-6 Cents A general decline of five and six cents a pound for butter was announced today by: at at least three large grocery chain stores in Oshawa. The price drops went into effect to- day. J. H. Gibbens, manager of the Oshawa branch of the A. & P. food store, said butter which sold for 62 and 61 cents is now retailing for 56 and 55 cents. Officials of the Oshawa branch- es of Loblaw Groceteria Com- pany Limited and Dominion Stores reported a five cents a pound reduction in price. Commercial dairy experts predicted the general retail de- cline as a result of the new support prices announced in the Commons last week by Agricultural Minister Gardiner. The new support prices, went into effect today for 12 months. Police Avert HUNDREDS EV FLOODS COVER TOWNS RADIO GANG STEALS FIVE IN OSHAWA Radio thieves were at work in Oshawa last night for the second time since the beginning of the year. On this occasion, as in the first instance, they made off with five autcmobile radios, taken from new model vehicles, parked in the north-east section of the city. Police today are conducting a city- wide search for the slick thieves, who entered the cars sometime between the hours of midnight last night and early this morning. Inspector Wilbur Dawn, who along with Sergeant of Detec- tives Herbert Flintoff, have been assigned to investigate the thefts, was non-committal on the outcome of their search. "I think they may have used a bicycle to get away," declared Mrs. Harry Perry, 54 Rossland Road East. Mrs. Perry's 21-year-old son, Jack Perry, found his 1949 model sedan had been broken into some- time between the hours of 1 am. and 7 am. today and his radio taken. "I saw .light bicycle tracks in the driveway close to where his car was parked," said Mrs. Perry. "I'm an unusually light sleeper and I didn't hear a sound all night and I'm sure I would have heard any- one walking up to the car." Mrs, Perry said her husband's RADIO GANG (Continued on page 2) Three Youths Fortunate To Be Alive Three St. Catharines' youths had | a narrow escape from death when the three-ton truck in which they were travelling went out of control on No. 28 Highway, half a mile west of Rice Lake, skidded on the wet road, flipped twice in mid-air, and struck a large tree, coming to rest against a hydro pole. Two youths were flung 15 feet away by | the impact. The truck was entirely demolished. The three, Roland Gundy, 20, of 46 George Street, Bob Barron, 21, 26 Greenwood Avenue and Bob Aird, 18, 415 Welland Avenue, escaped without a scratch. "We were on our way to Peter- May Day Riot Berlin, May 1 1 (AP) itundreds of | other across sector barriers in this tense, . divided city today during rival East-West May Day celebra= tions. There were sporadic flare-ups but police of both sides kept them from turning into riots, | Some 11,000 West-German police, . backed up by 8,000 specially-trained western allied troops, kept affairs in the west sector in hand while an estim- ated 750,000 Germans checred speakers lambasting Russia and communism. A' few blocks away thousands of East Berliners converged on the Lustgarten for the Communist ral- ly, a demonstration organized from start to finish and heavily guarded by Communist sector People's Police. At one point anti-Communist demonstrators at Potsdamer Platz began surging toward the Russian sector border, despite efforts of West-Berlin police to keep them in check. At the Brandenburg Gate, some of the demonstrators began shouting insults at the Communist- controlled Fast-Berlin police, call- ing them the "Black 8.8." and "Communist pigs." The West Germans -- officials said they appeared to be led by young roughhouse elements who may have been drinking -- began AVERT RIOT (Continued on page 2) Will Cut Power, Water to Trailers Toronto, May 1, (CP).--Civic authorities said today water and electricity would be discontinued for 'a number of families in trailers who were supposed to move Sunday. Property Commissioner Bland said 19 families in the camp in the northwestern part of the city were supposed to leave April 30. So far, he said, only one family has shown signs of leaving. The families are part of a group moved from a downtown site in 1947 to make way for a new hos- vital. 'The camp was located on Ryding Avenue - for a- two-year period. Last October a six-month extension was granted. It expired thousands of Berliners jeered each | Sunday. borough from St. Catharines," said | Bob Barron. "Just as we turned a | curve near Rice Lake, the truck skidded and turned over in mid-air, striking a tree, it flipped again, and hit a hydro pole and landed up- right in a 10-foot ditch." The youth seemed quite calm after this har- rowing experience but said, "I guess we are lucky to be alive." "How did it happen," exclaimed the driver of the truck, Roland Gundy. "I don't see how it 'left the road." ; "It was just like being on a roll- coaster," smiled Bob Aird, "but I was scared for a while, I think I'd like to do it again just for fun." The truck which was owned by Barron, was under the control of Gundy because several days ago Barron cut his left foot with an axe and couldn't drive. "We were on our way to Peter- | borough for a load of fence posts, but we never got there," stated Barron. Wins Trip to New York Happy at work this morning, Norma Ashby, 910 Simcoe Street North, is looking forward to her trip to New York City which she won in the draw, at the Oshawa Industrial Fair in the Oshawa Arena, on Saturday Mrs. Ashby has been through New York before but has never night. had a chance to really see the city as she has wanted to. husband will be going in about two weeks. 4 She and her ~Times-Gazette Staff Photo. Last-Minute Negotiations Avert Telephone Strike Big Increase In Customs Collections Customs figures for the Port of Oshawa for the month of April show a dec.ded increase over the previous month. Re- ceipts during the past month were $3,549,279 as compared to $2,953,062 in March. A break-down of the past month's total show import duty collections of $233,351.85, excise taxes, $3,314,939.37, excise duties of $445.50 and sundry collections of $543.10. Total collections for April, 1949, were $1,753,280.12. Wants War Surplus Store Removed ---- Toronto, May 1--(CP)--Judgment has been reserved in the c-~se of a Peterborough haberdashery oper- ator who is trying to force a war surplus goods dealer to get out of the building next door. Mr. Justice G. A. Urquhart short- ly will hand down his ruling on a motion to discover whether Bertram Levy should be allowed to continue operating the war surplus store. "I know what these stores are like," said Mr. Justice Urquhart. "I've been in them myself looking for bargains in fishing equipment. Nobody wants a junk shop next door to a good business. They are detri- mental to good stores adjacent to them." The action arose from a com- WAR SURPLUS (Continued on page 2) Brink's Inc. Robbery Still Baffles Police Boston, May 1 (AP) --Can mod- ern crime detection methods crack the United States' biggest cash robbery? Today, after nearly 15 weeks, the top state and federal crime detec- tion agencies still are stymied by the theft of $1,200,000 in cash and $500,000. in cheques from the Boston offices of * Brink's Incor- porated. . But investigation of the spectacular case goes on. The case is the No, 1 target of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and all Massachusetts police. With an eye towards reward money of more than $150,000 ama- teur sleuths, too, are devoting time to pick up a. trail. To date, not a single tangible clue has been uncovered. All "leads" have fizzled. Questions stumping investi- gators begin at the do.=s of the garage stronghold housing the money transportation firm's water-front offices in Boston's north end. Even the actual number of gun- men who participated in the hold- up on the evening of Jan. 17 re- mains unknown. There were at least six, possibly eight. What's happened to "clues?" The best still is being tracked down. It is a stolen truck, cut up into small pieces with an acetylene torch and sledge hammer, found a month after the holdup on a dump in Stoughton, a few miles south of Boston. A similar truck was re- ported seen by two persons near Brink's shortly before the holdup. Also under way is a check of some 300 former convicts who learned welding in prison. If this has led anywhere epolice are keeping it to themselves. Hundreds of known criminals and others arrested on various charges have been grilled. But investigators still face a blank. Still listed as a suspect is Wil- liam (Willie The Actor) Sutton, one of the F.B.I's 10 most-wanted men. Sutton has a long record for armed robbery. Experienced Investigators think that sooner or later one of the gunmen will make a mistake and provide a "break." all the By The Associated Press The threatened country-wide tie- up of telephone service in the Unit- ed States waz averted early today by agreement of the striking main- tenance and installation men to re- sume negotiations. The action ended at least tem- porarily the week-lond strike ' of 10,000 members of division 6 of the Cemmunications Workers of Amer- ica (C.I.O.) only four hours before they were scheduled to set up| picket lines at telephone exchanges in 43 states. It was the picket line rather than the strike itself that was expected to hobble services. It was beligved that most of the 230,000 ofher union telephone workers would refuse to cross picket lines to their jobs. | daughter, But another segment of com- munications was hit by a strike of teletype operators and other traf- | fic workers against the United Press, a news service. There wer# indications that the end of the 97-day strike of 89,000 United Auto Workers against Chrys- ler Corporation was in the making at Detroit. In New York, 12,000 service em=- ployees called off their four-day strike al 1,000 buildings. More than | 280,000 apartment house dwellers had been deprived of elevator sere vice, telephone switchboard, heat, | hot. water, garbage - disposal and LAST MINUTE (Continued on page 2) Stalin Sees Air Display By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Generalissimo Stalin reviewed thousands of cheering Russians to- day in a mammoth May Day par- ade celebrating international labor day. The Communist slogans in Moscow's Red Square were echoed around the World, from tense and divided Berlin to distant Burma. The eyes of the World, however, turned anxiously toward Berlin where nearly 1,000,000 persons con- verged to hold rival Communist and {anti - Communist demonstrations. Tough West Berlin Police were quick to suppress the first scattered clashes and incidents, East Berlin Police in their Soviet sector also were out in force. Moscow, the capital of all Com- munist-style May Day. celebrations, was engulfed in a sea of Red bunt- ing. * A military parade marched past Lenin's tomb and Stalin's re- viewing stand. Overhead roared Moscow's most spectacular peace- time display of Soviet aerial power, led hed Stalin's son, Lt.-Gen. Vassili Stalin, May Day, established as interna- tional labor day by the Socialist AIR DISPLAY (Continued on page 2) AGUATED AS Troops "Called In To Move Residents Along Red River Winnipeg, May 1--(CP)--The Red River cut loose with new flood blows today. at soggy, groggy Southern Manitoba. Manitoba telephone system officials in Winnipeg said the exchange at the border down of Emerson has been flood- ed out. Four telephone operators--living on the premises for the last week -- were forced to abandon the premises. The girls were evacuated by Red Cross workers. Their evacuation came as the Red River touched 46.18 feet at Em- erson--highest level there in 124 years. --& The Canadian Army moved into ad Three Killed In Quebec Car Crash St. Zotique, Que., May 1 (CP)-- Three persons were killed instantly and four others were injured Satur- day night when the light panel truck in which they were passengers crashed into a transport truck park- ed along the highway near here. Dead are: Mrs. Dianna Addison, 44, her 17-year-old daughter, Paul- ine and Guy Desrochers, 19, all of Montreal. Those injured include Mbs. Addi- son's husband, Rene, 52, another Lucille, 12, Joseph Pitt, 59, driver of the panel truck, and his wife, Marie, 57. Their injuries were not believed to be serious. Three other persons, also pass- engers in the panel truck, escaped unharmed. No one in the parked truck was injured. St. Zotique is about 40 miles south-west of Montreal. 7 Fatalities In Ontario By The Canadian Press Seven fatalities, including a double drowning at Almonte, were reported in Ontario during the week-end, a Canadian Press survey showed to- day. Besides. the. drownings the other | deaths were caused by a fall from a tractor, an accidental shooting, a planing-mill mishap and two traf- fic accidents. Harold McGrath, 15, and John J. Lyons, 14, were drowned when their canoe overturned, throwing them into the near-freezing waters of the Mississippi River. They were on a boating expedition. with eight other members of their Boy Scout troop. Alphonse Bezaire was killed in a fall from his tractor near Windsor while Donald Plato, 12, was acci- dentally shot by his father with a .22 calibre rifle at Fort Erie. Norman Smith, 62, a planing mill employee at Kincardine, was killed when the pulley he was testing snapped, frac- turing his skull. Traffic victims were: Wtadystaw Haduch, 30-year-old Polish immi- grant, at Simcoe, and Grant Robin- son, 24, near Streetsville. Lieutenant-Governor Received at Palace London, May 1 -- (CP) -- The King and Queen today received the Lieutenant - Governor of Ontario, Hon. Ray Lawson, and Mrs. Lawson at Buckingham Palace. A palace spokesman said the Lawsons had a 'very pleasant" visit witia their Majesties. Lawson, on a vacation to Britain since before Easter, is sailing for Canada later this week. Couple Found Dead In Winnipeg Home Winnipeg, May 1 -- (CP) -- Po- lice said today the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Micky Kolt had been found in the basement of their home in northend Winnipeg. A rifle was found near them. Discovery of the bodies was made by a roomer, the flood zone today ag the swelling waters of. the Red pdured towards Winnipeg. . Thirty soldiers were rushed to Morris, 41 miles south, to throw a sandbag dike around a hospital, An amphibious "Dugk" stood by to remove patients if army failed, All of Morris, a/town of 1,100 persons, was cofel by the muddy river water; Scores of residents, heeding their mayor's warningg to evagnate, moved to Winnipeg and other places. Morris was alm@st deserted. A hotel and snack bar were about the only business places open. Not more than one-third of its people were still in their own homes. The Canadian Pacific Railway lines on the town's outskirts were washed out. In Winnipeg the river rose all week-end. By early today ii stood at 23 feet--only five inches below the level reached in 1948 when, the last foods occurred. Streets in some residential suburbs were une der water. The highest water was expected to reach Winnipeg Wednesday or Thursday. It seemed certain the peak of two years ago would be exceeded. Even before Mayor Harfy Shewe man of Morris used a public-address system to urge everyone to lecve, an estimated 500 men, women and children left. The exodus was re- Jsumed in earnest Sunday. Emerson, & the International boundary, was the focal point of flood news up™¥® Saturday. These RED RIVER (Continued on page 2) Will Discuss Wage Dispute Ottawa, May 1 (CP)--Canada's two major railways today advised Labor Minister Mitchell that they are willing to negotiate a settlement of a wage dispute with some 124,000" employees on the basis of two re cent fed®ral conciliation bogrd Te- ports. The Canadian Pacific Railway and the Canadian Nationa Rail- ways emphasized that "the addition al costs involved can only be met by increasing the charges made for our services to the public." The railways estimated imple= mentation of the boards findings would cost between $19,225,000 and $27,000,000 annually, The majority reports of the two conciliation boards handed down April 15 rejected the 17 railway un- ions' claims for outright pay in- creases. They recommended a formula that would give the em- ployees a shorter work week, higher hourly rates and generally, less in the weekly pay envelope. The unions had asked for reduc= tion in the work week from 48 to 40 hours with a five-day week and no loss in take-home pay, plus wags increases above that of from g# to 10 cents an hour. joint letter delivered chell today. The lett by S. F. Dingle, vice the CN.R. and N. R. C vice-president, "The executives of the railways have given careful stully to the boards' analysis of this dispute," said the letter. "It is considered that the members of the majority have resolutely faced the problems laid before them, and that their re ports are as fair and impartial docu= ments as could be produced 'in the circumstances. " Ad been hoped by the rail- wg wements that the appear= was signed * resident of mp, CP.R. The Summa and markets ,. International at Paris in 1889, since f THE WEATHER Cloudy today, clearing this avening. 'Sunny and warmer } Tuesday. Winds light. Low tonight; and high Tuesday 35 [ and 55. Summary for Tuesday: Sunny d (mer. Whitby news .......... Editorials Women's news ... Radio programs 'Sports pig Classified ... Comics a rid rts would initiate ng, 293 | ve. fruitful stage of tion of 4 reel, pns o eporte Limmediate re« ipresentatives, press, indi i in no change their attitude. wo' s is all the more regrettable because railway unions have in the past enjoyed a reputation for moderation and strain in the conduct of thei gaining agtivities,"