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OSHAWA VOL. 9--No, 101 DAILY Combining The Oshawa Daily Times-Gazette and Whitby Chronicle WHITBY OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, MAY 1, 1950 SIXTEEN PAGES Girl Gui; ookie Das Every Successful The Girl Guide Cookie Day, h jhshawa on Saturday, 1 was an pectations with 7,000 boxes of " which were made during the di accorded its campaign and thei tat ding and ded all ex- id being disposed of in short order. he Girl Guide Association is most This hn is typical of many sales 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 autemobile 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, whe along with Sergeant of Detec- tives Herbert Flintoff, have been assi d to investigate the thefts, was non-committal on thankful for the generous ous treatment given the Guides who manned the booths. : ~Times-Gazette Staff Photo. 34 New Holts Are Being Erected In Oshawa § ril Permits Reveal Circulation Figur { Reach New Recor "The average daily circula of The Times-Gazette sho another substantial incre] during the month of April, Jthched a total of 11,214. another mew high time eto 2 Situ circulation | topp i Ar fous moni. When It § by 731 copies on the 2 4 1 | urpinsDo $270 Millia Says Towe Ottawa, May 1--(OP) --Grall favorabl ony Be es e in Canada'sfi "ernational payments ledgers dio ' drop to a bigger plunge ht Canada's trade and oth sin the United State Towers disclosed that over-all favorable bala ves Jon ey in Canadi ertheless, Canada made 1 increasing her reserve ! of dollars. On Deg. 31, 1 'holdings of gold and dol $1.117,100,000, : fithat with the advent of spring fbuilding trades but' examination of i the number and type of application | 11 new wih for which permits 4 to the vilue of $5,600 each have [| been takén out, in the vicinity of i | Chadburn Avenue, a new residen- || tial streel in the western part of, §| vieinity : $997,800,000 in 1948 and Rio in 1947, y other international horizons, Mr. Towers noted: 1. The Foreign Ex Con il Eas Exchange £ = on paper -- as a resulfof | O-- - a CANADA'S SURPLUS .. a (Continued on page 2) NET PAID | 'CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette | Average Per Issue | April, 1950 11,214 the amount of new putlding | an be taken as a criterion of a ity"s economic health Oshawa is robust. indeed, It is to be expected ctivity will be resurgent in the bi (for building permits show that there is no evidence of decline in the business of provi new {homes and places of business for | the people of Oshawa. Total estimated value of per- mits issued auine March was - $132,810. In . the value jumped Freel 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 fitm of Sem Jackson and Son is ¢arrying out the largest building ain of homes. This | construct mpany is erecting the city. In addition seven more homes, which permits to the value of $6500 each have been taken out will be built by the same firm in same district and in the Yonge Street. Seve! new business estab- lishmemis are in the process of being J including a new office byilding, valued at least the Smith Transport the permit applications that there is an extra- the Re eviiis, their esti- ge and the applicants is Lunch apartment, $7,000, 240 Huron St.; Office 10,000, Smith Transport, Roof, $180, Neil Mor- y Ave.; Roof, $120, 3 NEW HOMES inued on page 2) gh, May 1 -- (CP) -- John Donghue, Toronto, was re- for, 8 week on $2,000 |. in a place other than were adjourned to the 34 Men Arrested In Gdmbling Raid -- Ont, May 1 (cP) y for being found house, and Stanley with 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, sald 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 Domini 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 May Day Riot Berlin, May 1 (AP)--Hundreds of thousands of Berliners jeered each 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 cheered 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 sald 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 t» 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- pital. The camp was located on Ryding Avenue for a two-year period. Last October a six-month extension was granted. It expired Sunday. the out of their "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 1049 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 <| 1 didn't hear a sound all night and I'm sure I would have heard any- one walking up to the car." 4 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 night. Mrs. Ashby has been through New York before but has never had a chance to really see the city as she has wanted to. husband will be going in about two weeks. She and her --Times-Gazette Staff Photo. Mrs, Perry said-her husb: s RADIO GANG (Continued on page 2) Three Youths Fortunate To Be Alive Three St. Catharines' youths had 4 narrow escape from death when the three-fon 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- 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 Bayron. Last-Minute Negotiations Avert Telephone Strike Big Increase In | Customs Collections Customs figutes for the Port of Oshawa for the month of April show a decided -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) 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, 0 date, not a si tangible clue has been Fo All "leads" have fizzled. investi- gators begin at the do.~s-of the housing the Even the actual number of gun- men, wigs participa 1s. fhe eld: Brink's Inc. Robbery Still Baffles Police up on the evening of Jan. 17 re- mains unknown. There were at least six, possibly eight. What's happened to all {'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 FBI's 10 most-wanted men. Sutton has a long record for armed robbery. Experieficed investigators think that sooner or later one of the gunmen will make a mistake ovide a "break." 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- surhe negotiations. : The action ended at least tem- porarily the week-lond: strike of 10,000 members of division 6 of ¢he Communications Workers of Amer- | ica (C.I.0.) 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. 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 were 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 ser- 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- maunist-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 by Stalin's son, Lt.-Gen. Vassili Stalin," May Day, established as interna- tional labor day by the Socialist In tional at Paris in 1889, since AIR DISPLAY i (Continued on page 2) % THE WEATHER { Cloudy today, clearing this Jhvening., Sunny and warmer J Tuesday. Winds light. Low Tomight and high Tuesday 35 and 55. «| Summary for Tuesday: Ar] fl} FLOODS COVER TOWNS 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 ii 7 in Winnipeg said the exchange at the border down of Eme Four telephone operators--living on the premises ed out. son has been flood. 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 4 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 | daughter, 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. N@ 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. the flood zone today the swelling waters of. the Red ed - towards Winnipeg. Livy soldiers were rushed to , to throw a a hospital, » stood by to An amphibious "D army failed, remove patients if th All of Morris, persons, was muddy river residents, heedin warningg to © to Winnipeg and #fhier places. Morris was alm@st deserted, A hotel and snack bar were about the only business places open. Not ore 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 it stood at 23 feet--only five inches below the level reached in 1848 when, the last foods occurred. . Streets in some residential suburbs were uns der water. The highest water was expectegl to reach Winnipeg Wednesday . or Thursday. It seemed certain the peak of two years ago would be excéeded. Even before Mayor Harfy Shew man of Morris used a public-address system to urge everyone to lecve, an estimated 500 men, women and children left. The: 'exodus was res Jsumed in earnest Sunday. Emerson, & the International boundary, was the focal point of flood news up Saturday. Thee 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 of a wage dispute with some 124,000¢ employees on the basis of two Ee cent fed®ral conciliation bogrd?® Alphonse Bezaire was killed in a | ports fall from his tractor near Windsor while Donald Plato, 42, 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 Summa Business and markets ,. Whitby news . The Canadian Pacific Riliway and the Canadian Natio Rail« ways emphasized that "the gddition« al costs involved can ol be met by increasing the charges made for our services to the puble." The railways estigiated imple« mentation of the rd's findings would .cost between $19,225,000 and $27,000,000 annually, The majority Eons 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 w. increases above that: of to 10 cents an hour. The railways' acceptal boards' findings was cofffained in a the C.N.R. and N. R. CRimp, CP.R, vice-president, "The 'executives of have given careful stully to the boards' analysis of dispute," said the letter. "It is considered that the members of the majority have resolutely faced the problems laid before them, and that their res ports are as fair and impartial docu ments as could be produced in the railways ehts that the appear= cir ste n a. been hoped by the raile (3 are willing to negotiate a settlement *