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'Commons To Debate Cost-Of-Living Increase On Monday ». - Action On Price Control 'To Hold Cost 0f Living tions in an appeal to the Canadian * Cabinet in Ottawa April 11 for 'up in arms." Plan Legislation For Equalization Of Freight Rates Ottawa, April 6---(CP)--The government plans legisla- tion for uniform freight rates it before parliament at this session. Rate equalization has No. 1 priority among recommendations of the Royal Com- mission on Transportation, the Commons was informed last night by Transport Minister Chevrier. his department now are drafting Railway Act amendments to put it into effect. across Canada; and may have He said experts of The complex legislative proposals® will take some time to draw up, | the minister said, and it will not | the cost of living and "restore con= be known until later if they will |fidence in the Canadian dollar." be ready for action before Parlia- ment rises in early summer. The Royal Commission's propos- als on equalization of rates call for a series of measures, the eventual effect of which would be to level up the differences existing now between different areas. Protests against existing differentials have been in- sistent from the west and the mari- times. Mr. Chevrier's announcements on the commission recommendations were made to a thinly-attended night session, with many members | present at a reception for Presi dent Auriol of France. Living Cost Debated Earlier, the House saw unsuccess- ful attempts by members of three parties. -- Liberal, Progressive Con- servative and C.C.F. -- to open up | a cost-of-living debate based on | Wednesday's anncuncement of a | new high of 179.7 in the govern- | ment's living-cost index. Cabinet members objected to a | debate at the time, and Speaker | Ross MacDonald ruled it out after | the government had promised to | open up an apportunity to discuss | the living-costs issue Monday. Attempts were made by George Drew, Progressive Conservative ! leader, and J. S. Sinnott (L --| Springfield) to move that the Com- mons sidetrack all business to talk of the high cost of living as a mat- ter of "urgent public importance." M. J. Coldwell, C.C.F. leader, also had a motion of his own ready but | supported Mr. Drew's when the | Progressive Conservative leader got | the floor. Call For Action | Mr. Drew's motion said the new | index record called for government | { we've had more of this runaway in= gus MacInnis (CCF -- Vancouver action to halt inflation, hold down Trade Minister Howe, Finance Minister Abbott and Works Minis ter Fournier, Liberal house leader, joined in decrying the urgency of an immediate debate. Says Figures Old Mr. Howe contended further that the necessary urgency was removed from the issue by the fact that the OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETT WHITBY VOL. 10--No. 81 OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1951 PAGE THIRTEEN index figures were "four or five weeks old." | Mr. Drew retorted this was the | first chance the House had to de-! bate them. There was nothing al- | fecting Canadians that called for such urgent consideration as the "runaway inflation." Members should be given the chance to ex- press their views on whether the living-cost trend should be deals with by the government. Affects People's Welfare Mr. Coldwell conceded yesterday's figures were some weeks old but added that "since then (Feb. 1) dom there. Grateful Canadians Return From Yugoslavia * fy erates Movrepr dR ey ok vrrsge kere ren » pe TE Among Canadians glad to be back home after disillusioning experience in Yugoslavia are Stanley Jocich, Goldie Marinkova, and Dan Jocich. Stan served 10 months in prison for trying to leave country. After four years of life in "Tito's Wonderland," newly returned Canadians said they had found only limited religious free- flation." It affected the welfare of the great mass of the Canadian people. i Mr. Fournier said it was not ur- gent for members to tell the gov- ernment that the cost-of-living in- dex had gone up 4.5 points. "It's not by your speeches that you make the government take ac- tion," he said. "Parliament goes out the win- dow," interjected Gordon Graydon (PC -- Peel), Deputy Progressive Conservative leader. "The fact that we can't get the government to act is not saying the emergency does not exist," An- East) said. He added the matter | was one of "particular urgency" that could not be left over. : U.A.W. Delegates Gemand | Cleveland, April 6--(AP)--Cana- dian delegates to the United Auto Workers (CIO. convention reas- serted their demands for stringent price controls today in 'the wake of another rise in the Canadian cost of living index. "I wonder how long the Canadian people are going to put up with what amounts to legalized highway robbery," said Canadian Director George Burt of Windsor. "Canadian workers are sick and tired of being made the pawns in this game of every profiteer for himself and the devil take the hind- most. Stringent and immediate price control is the.only answer." : Shock to Workers Roy England, president of Cana- dian Ford Local 200, said the 4.5 rise in the index would "come as a shock to Ford of Canada workers. "But it comes as no surprise, that laboring people everywhere are Auto workers will join other Canadian Congress of Labor un- controls legislation. Political Fund Burt announced, meanwhile, that the UAW. will spend $72,000 an- nually in Canada for "legislative Spies Sentenced to Death Ethel Rosenberg, 35, and her husband Julius, 34, sentenced to death yes- terday, are separated by wire screen as they ride to separate jails, follow- ing their conviction as traitors in the nation's first atom spy trial. victed with them was Morton Sobell, terday was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment, political action on' the municipal and provincial levels." ; He said the money would come from the U.AW.s newly-adopted dues increase, which sets aside 10 cents out of every member's monthly dues a "Citizenship Fund" The U.AW. has 60,000 members in Canada. "But we have no intention," Burt emphasized, . "of stuffing politics down the throats of our members." The Canadian Congress of Labor, with which the U.A.W. is affiliated in Canada, supports the C.C.F. party. in ANOTHER "STRAD?" Mossel Bay, South Africa--(CP) -- A school teacher in this cape province town is excited. An old violin discovered in his attic bears a label: "Antonius Stradivarius 1721" and if it is a genuine "Strad" it will be worth a fortune. The average Canadian 'worker loses 9% days work annually through sickness. Colds head the list -of causes, with 'digestive up- sets through indiscriminate eating and drinking coming next. { Ontario Spotlight WANDERING GIRLS Lindsay, April 6--(CP)--Four St. | Catharines schoolgirls stricken with wanderlust finished a 120-mile trip yesterday in the police station here when their funds ran out Starting | in St. Catharines, they took & bus | for 'Toronto, then to Newmarket | and hitch-hiked here. Police re- | turned them to their school. | | | BOY'S HAND AMPUTATED St. Thomas, April 6--(CP)-- Six-ycar-old Johnny Page bravely greeted a surgeon with a smile yesterday after his' right hand was amputated. His other hand will also be remov- ed next weck, The boy was badly burned when he touched 2,300-volt wires at the West Lorne Hydro Station a month ago. i BOY SAVES CHUM Lindsay, April 6--(CP) -- Five- year-old Jackie Copeland yesterday saved the life of a three-year-old chum. Jackie called his father when he spotted Paul Fawcett struggling in the Copeland's back- yard pool. Father and son pulled Paul from the pool and called fire- men who revived him. DISBAND HORSE CLUB Brantford, April 6 -- (CP)-- The automobile may be here to stay. The executive to the Brant District Horse Breeders' Club decided last night to dis- continue the organization, which has been inactive for three years. CONTACT BY "HAM" RADIO Dundalk, April 6--(CP) -- Mr. and Mrs. James Musselman have a chat every afternoon--by radio. Both. amateur radio enthusiasts the couple keep in touch on their own sets although Mr. Musselman is working in Sudbury as a radar specialist for the R.C.A.F. civil de- fence program. When transmission conditions interfere other friendly 'hams' relay messages between the couple. SEEK HIGHER FARES Hamilton, April 6 -- (CP)-- Taxi customers will have to dig deeper if the police commission upholds a brief submitted by the cab owner's association. Seventy cabbies are asking a boost from 25 to 35 cents for the initial one-third mile, 10 cents for every 2'2 minutes waiting time, a 50 cent charge for trunk baggage and $1 for toting other articles. Denies Milk Control Act Con- 33-year-old radar expert, who yes- of the Legislature for Toronto St. Is Violated Toronto, April 6--(CP) -- J. E. Fouck, secretary-manager of the Toronto Milk Distributors' Associa- tion, denied Thursday that dealers committed a breach of the Milk Control Act by raising the price of skim milk. William Dennison, C.C.F. member David, said in- the legislature that the government's legislation to con- trol retail milk prices had been bro- ken and that skim milk had gone up as much as two ct Premier Frost said he expected the legislation would be tested al- though he felt it was wide enough to provide necessary control. -Mr. Houck said the milk board set a price on whole milk with a butter-fat content of not less than 3.25 and not more than 3.8. He sald other grades of milk and other milk |in Washington oo had when it docked in Halifax. They were glad to be home. ERE > IR EIR DF Sd ek Am NERY $8 >a There were new Canadians and renewed Canadians aboard the Georgic Among 1,600 immigrants were 20 Canadians returning from Yugoslavia after being enticed over there four years ago. Two charming little immigrants watching their new home through porthole are R. Weller, J. Pardoski. FRENCH AIM PEACE, SAYS PRESIDENT Ottawa, April 6--(CP)--France, although her sole aim is peace in justice and freedom, is "not giving herself up to any naive neutralism," President Vincent Auriol said yes- terday. In a speech prepared for delivery to a joint meeting of the Senate and the Commons, Mr. Auriol said that "France, being the first coun- try on the road of invasions and battles, knows perhaps better than anyone that security is indivisible." He spoke in French from the Clerk's tablé in the Commons chamber, a few feet away from the Speaker's dais. Mr. Auriol, first President of France to visit Canada in an offi- cial capacity, paid tribute to Cana- da's efforts in the two world wars. He paid homage to the late Rt. Hon. W. L. Mackenx=e King, former Prime Minister, describing him as "one of the principal artisans of the com- mon victory of the Allies." "Every nation," said Mr. Auriol, "has the duty to preserve the lib- erty of man against all those who would or could attempt, from their own autocratic will, to impose their fanatical idealogy and thus unleash the most frightful of wars. "Canada has understood this, for twice she has already given men, material and resources, an enormous and sacrificial contribution, to the victory of right and liberty ... You knew that liberty has no frontiérs; that if anywhere in the world the light is extinguished, then the rest of the world is darker." France regretted that the spirit of intolerance and the will to dominate had prevented United Nations from realizing the hope of world peace. "Once again, one after another as before the last war, the free democ- racies have been smothered," said Mr. Auriol. "Vast countries are clos- ed and hostile to the rest of the world. - Violence has reappeared, is menacing, and. even strikes. And so the great democracies enjoying civil liberties had to organize into re- gional defence pacts." France had welcomed the North Atlantic Pact. The pact had esta- blished a powerful bond between Europe and 'America, a bond among --Central Press Canadian. Reports Other Chinese In Manchuria Give Rise To Much Troops Than New York, April 6 (CP}--oreign | quarters find it hard to reconcile Speaker Sam Rayburn's remarks in Congress about a Red build-up in Manchuria with what is known by intelligence and diplomatic sources. | Rayburn, speaker of the United States House of Representatives, in- terrupted a debate on the draft bill Wednesday ond stated that troops other than Chin- ese were massing in Manchuria. He refused to say whether he was talking about Russians but he de- clared his "firm belief that we are in greater danger of an expanding war today than we have been at any time since the close of the world war in 1945." President Truman declined Thurs- day to comment on Rayburn'ss statement but he did say the speak- er is a truthful man, Truman add- ed there is as much danger of a third world war as there has ever been but he said he had no further comment on Rayburn's statement that there is "terrible" danger of another war. Mongolians in Action Intelligence sources in Tokyo sug- gested the answer could be Mon- golian cavalry, some units of which already have fought in Korea. Recent dispatches, delayed by censors, have reported Mongolian troops crossing the Yalu river--but details of these troop movements still have not been released. One intelligence source said he did not know how Rayburn could have obtained information which was not known previously in Tokyo. Gen. MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo said Russia's 500,000-mari Far Eastern army has shown no Treas a = Thomas Nowak, left, and Alfred Graves, both 12, are pictured carrying a rusty paint can out of the 14-room home of the late Mrs. Agnes Edgar Bigelow in Yonkers, N.Y. The boys playing in the abandoned house found the can under the eaves. In it they discovered three metal can- nisters, two jammed with old-style large bills and the third with $920 in gold pieces. Their parents turned the money over to the police, who in products were not frozen. --Canada Wide Picture. ® Phone 35 with yours today ure Hunt Yielded Treasure turn brought it to the bank handling the estate. The lads were promised PN AAT ART he ! a reward. The late Mrs. Bigelow, considered an eccentric by neighbors, Classified ads are sure to' pay --| died amid mounds of rubbish in' her home last August. the peoples united by the same civ- ilization and by the same desire and anxiety to protect and defend it. "If the aggressors of 1914 and 1939 had known that France was not alone, that Europe was not alone, they would have retreated from the criminal folly of their en- terprise," said Mr. Aauriol. "History is the witness: solidarity in defence is a token of peace. "France wants neither war nor servitude. Her sole aim is peace in justice and freedom. It is for com- mon defence, but also for common prosperity that France strives to create a United Europe, to build a young and coherent federation. "In the military field, a European army that will be integrated into the Atlantic bloc is the first link of collective security. In the econ- omic and social field, the free as- sociation of productive forces -- of which the Schuman Plan is the first step -- has to organize collec- tive prosperity. . ." "France wants a democratic Eu- rope, 'not created through the sub- ordination of some nations to ano- ther, but through fruitful harmony. This free Europe would associate it- self with the new world so that upon international, economic and political co-operation enduring peace might be built." tendency to build up its forces within Manchuria. The Russians are believed to maintain some gar- risons in that nominally-Chinese territory. May Be Japanese The New York Daily News, in a special dispatch from Washington, said Red Japanese troops, amalga- mated with the Communist Chinese Manchurian army, are massing on the Korean border in Manchuria, The News said it learned from in- telligence sources that Rayburn meant troops captured by the Rus- sians in 1945 and indoctrinated by the Soviets. (For several years Japanese news- papers have reported a Japanese military force of former war pris- oners has been operating with the Chinese Reds). About 10,000 of these Japanese troops, former members of the Kwantung army, are grouped in a separate division, the News said. It added: The Kwantung Japanese army at the height of the second world war consisted of 700,000 of Japan's best troops. About 50,000 to 100,000 were killed in battle. Russia captured the remainder, and after the war repatriated about 400,000 to Japan. The remaifiing 200,000 to 250,000 still are in Manchuria. At first they were intermixed with Chinese in the Red Chinese army. Reports In Paris In Paris, a French Foreign Min- istry spokesman said reports about troop concentrations in Manchuria --Central Press Canadian. have also been received in the French capital. But there was no information that these troops were other than Chinese. He empha- sized the difficulty of determining Chinese from Mongolians and "cer- tain other Asiatics," EASY LESSONS Yorkton, Sask.--(CP) -- Puppet shows are being used in local schools to teach social studies, hygiene, drama and literature. Teachers report the new experi- ment is 'meeting with keen en- thusiasm from students of all ages. Busy Session Of Legislature Was Ended Thursday Toronto, April 5--(CP)-~New Leg- islation affecting employment dis- crimination, women and farmers highlighted the session of the On- tario Legislature which ended yes- terday. In the last recorded vote of the nine-week session, the legislature gave unanimous approval to its 125th bill, which makes it illegal for unions or employers to discriminate against men or women for race, color, creed or nationality. The 90 members, who held a morning sitting for the only. time since deliberations began Feb. 1 pushed through last-minute business in time for Lieutenant-Governor Ray Lawson to give royal assent to their legislation, Final word in the budget speech debate, which ended in a 48-34 vote 'aganist a C.C.F. non-confidence motion, was for Premier Frost. He told the house that a provincial general election is not being considered for June, anl that he will call members back for a special ses- sion as soon as the federal gov- ernment implements the pro- age pension agreement. Several of the legislature's most important bills of the session will affect women. One new act provides that a woman doing the same work as a man in any establishment will re- ceive the same pay. A second gives women the right to sit on juries. A change in the Mothers' Allow=- ance Act extends the age limit for help to children from 16 to 18 years, provided the child is a satisfactory student. An amendment to another act will bring runaway fathers back from anywhere in, Canada to face court action for support of their families. Of chief intemest to farmers are two new measures--one to permit establishment of pooled prices for regulated farm products, the other to launch a study by the Hydro- Electric Power Commission into im- proving and co-ordinating rural tlephone systems. Premier Frost's budget, brought down in mid-season, provided for a record $265,000,000 expenditure and a $598,000 surplus in the coming year. It called for no new or in- creased taxes and a 2l-per-cent reduction in the hospitals amuse- ment tax. As in every legislature, some things were not done. Thirty-six of the 161 bills introduced were drop- ped by the wayside or left on the order paper. A few of them were government bills dropped to make way for others but most of the opposition member's bills either were defeated or shelved. No action was taken on the Hope Royal Commission report on edu- cation, published last year. Premier Frost said early in the session that it was too early to weigh its recom- mendations. The report's majority recommend= ations dealing with separate schools were attacked by Aurele Chartrand (L-Ottawa East), who said the $300,000 cost of the commission would better have been left unspent. Implementation of the recommend- ations, he said, would destroy ami= cable relations between French and English-speaking citizens of Can- ada. The Premier referred to two questions now. requiring constitu- tional amendments. Ontario was in favor of reaching agreement as soon as possible on ways to reach agreement on the pension plan, he said, and he would attempt to solve outstanding dif- mnferences between the provinces on an amendment t> that end. Of the second matter of whether provinces should adopt. a three- per-cent indirect turnover tax he said: "This government is anything but enthusiastic about indirect sales taxes." Lieutenant-Governor Ray Lawson entered the chamber in the closing minutes of the session to give royal assent to 122 bills passed this ses- sion. 'He had given assent to three other bills in mid-session. Toronto, April Ontario Legislature recommended yesterday that the House consider at the start of the 1952 session the Jussiion of more money for mem- ers. The Legislature adopted the re- port of a committee which recom- mended sharp increases in indem- nities. W. H. Crummett (CCF, -- Cochrane South), a member of the report. Mr. Grummett said he is not op- posed to the increases, but objects to the recommendation the increases be considered at the next session. The C.C.F. member outlined de- lays which the committee faced in meeting after it was appointed at last year's session. It had met only not meet until March 27--"the dy- ing hours of the legislature." "I felt it was held back so that no responsibility would be placed on the government," said Mr. Grum- mett. The committee recommended an $1,100 boost from $2,000 to $2,600 in the members sessional indemnity and a boost from $1,000 to $1,500 in expenses, It also said they should be paid for four trips a year to Toron- to, instead of one. Also recommended was a return of the voluntary $2,000 reduction in salary accepted by cabinet minis- ters during Premier Hepburn's ad- ministration and continued since Higher Pay For Members 0f Ontario Legislature Shelved To Next Session six-man committee, did not sign the | once last December and then did | L 6--(CP) -- The | then. The report said the salary should be returned to $10,000 from $8,000. It also recommended that the Speaker's indemnity and expenses be increased. He now receives $2,- 500 above his pay as a member. The committee recommended that he We paid a $3,000 salary and expenses of $2,000 above his pay as a member. The committee report noted that expansion of government duties made membership in the Legisla- ture "practically a full-time occupa-= tion." It also noted "the desirability of making it possible for citizens to become candidates for election, even though they may not possess suffi- cient private means to enable them to devote full time to their duties as members of the legislature." DISTRESS CARDS Ossett, Yorkshire, England -- (CP) -- Elderly persons living alone have been given distress cards to place in their windows. The cards read: "Emergency, please come and help" and were issued following reports that old people had died alone and without help. Because its fountain pen mecha- nism is so intricate, the W. A. Sheaffer Pen Company devotes one-fourth of all manufacturing time to inspection. It takes more than 300 separate operations to produce a fine pen. Le cause the paper was critical of the Exile Has Its Advantages Dr. Gainza Paz, chief editor of the Argentine newspaper "La Prenza,' which was closed by the orders of Argentine President Juan Peron, be Peron regime, is now living in Col onia, Uruguay, where he was given sanctuary by one of his friends, seer at right with his wife, son and two unidentified friends, Dr. Paz fled the country when Peron issued orders for his arrest. __Central Press Canadian,