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A Growing euepaper 25 in a The ®sh awa Daily Times Succeeding The Oshawa Reformer PROBS. Fair and Mild Tonight and Thursday, With Showers Later, VOL. 9--NO. 99 Published at Oshawa, Ont., Canada, Day Except Sundays and Public OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1931 12 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy TEN PAGES N ATION AL Commission Calls For Tenders on Filtration Plant CONTRACT FOR PROJECT LIKELY TO BE AWARDED AT MEETING ON NOV. 12 F. A. Dallyn, Engineer, Has 'Plans Practically Ready and Work Will Be Start- ed as Soon as Possible PREFERENCE FOR BRITISH MATERIAL Use of Unemployed Relief Labor is Also Made a Condition of the Contract _--Conditions Regarding Labor Discussed Arrangements were completed at 2 special meeting of the Public Utilities Commission held last night for the, work on the filtration plant to be commenced as soon as pos sible. F. A. Dallyn and Company of To- ronto, were formally appointed en- gineers in charge of the. work, Tenders will be advertised for by Mr. Dallyn to be received by the Commission by noon on Thursday, November 12, the Commission open- ing them at one o'clock the same day after which they will be hand- ad over to F. A. Dallyn and W. Chester Smith for analysis. Tenders will be formally consid- ered, and the contract let at the re- meeting of the Commission to be held on the evening of Novem- ber 12, In the opinion of the engineer work will probably be undé» way on or about November 20, and ere is little reason why the whole t cannot be completed before - of March. commencement of the ng Commissioner Stacey, rman of the Commission, stated ihe meeting had been called "in order that action on the filtra- Rion plant can be commenced with- out delay." The first bubiness before the Com. mission was the appointment of an engineer in charge of the construc- tion work, the formal resolution as be appointed to draw y the specifications, supervize a0 appoint a resident en- gineer, carry out the usual du- ties in /connection with such work. Whe feés of the engineer being fixed pt six per cent of the total cost of fhe completed work. Plans cally Completed In reply to a Question as to how soon the work could be started Mr. Dallyn, who was present at the meeting, stated that the plans were practically completed, and that the work of prepa specifications was being gone ahead with, "The plans and specifications will be ready for you by November 2. The contractors who wish to obtain them can get them on November 3, "A. -¢ontractor cannot bid on a job like that in much less than ten days," said Mr. Dallyn. "The equipment alone runs into, about $30,000." In discussing the equipment to be ins in the plant the Commis- sion, through Commissioner Stacey (Continued on page 3) TAXI DRIVER IS VICTIMIZED BY SMOOTH WORKER Drove Man to Cornwall and Was Left Stranded There ~ Without Payment What is thought may be a son of and brings e Toms to one Last Friday a man, a de- scription of whom is in the hands |W the police, visited the ooice sta- tion and represented himself a as an inspector of the pa He reported a Tie cense plate from car had Seen lost near Trenton. After some con- versation with the sergeant in e and showing his card, he called a , tau from the United Taxi all 'T. Lorne Patten, the driver, structed to drive to Belleville. On their namin there a visit was paid to the police station and a fur- ther 4, to Cornwall decided Upon. On tl Rs 7 ra a ds at Kingston where according to the story brought back by Mr. Patten a lecture was given to one of the s by his On their arrival at Cornwall, Mr. Patten was told to call for his pas- Senger 8 at 830 in the morning for trip back Ti Beltville. The r. Patten cal at fhe hok hotel for bis passenger but after three quarters of an FORD OFFICIAL WAS SPEAKER AT KIWANIS CLUB Tells Interesting Story of How Ford Company Has Been Developed The weekly luncheon of the Oshawa Kiwanis Club held yes- terday was very largely attend- ed, and a very fine program was provided by Kiwanian A, F. Cox, who had charge of the arrange- ments for the meeting. During the luncheon, music was provided by the Cox Family Orchestra of six pieces. The speaker was Mr. L. J. Washer, Head of the Retail Sales Promotion Department of the Ford Motor Car Company of Can- ada, who told the gathering of the progress and development of the Ford Company in Canada, since its establishment in 1904. Mr, Washer was introduced by Kiwanian A. F. Cox, while the vote of thanks to the speaker was moved by Kiwanian J. Nor- val Willson, Praise For Ford Henry Ford was one of the oulstanding men in business ac the present time, asserted Mr. Washer, and his life was an in- teresting study. It was an ac- knowledged fact, he said, that Mr. Ford's policies and ideals were once looked upon as radi- cal, but were now adopted by leading automobile manufactur- ers. The idea of the moving as- sembly line originated with him. Another principle that Mr, Ford had adopted was that of a mint- mum daily wage of $5. The em- ployées of the company in Can- ada were earning an average of 85% cents per hour, it was stated. The Ford Company had never had a strike in the twenty-eight years of its existence, it was stated. This was entirely due to the practical application of the ideal of service. All Mr. Ford's ideals of a square dealing applied to all the branches of the com- pany throughout the world, Mr. Washer asserted. Canadian tion The Ford Motor Company of Canada was a distinctly Cana- dian Organization, the speaxer sald. It was formed in 1904 with the Walkerville Wagon Company as a foundation. At its inception the company produced 117 cars for the first year. This was com- parable with 100,000 cars and trucks manufactured in 1926. At the Canadian plant the one mil- liouth car was produced in March of this year, while in the Detroit plant the twenty millionth car was produced in April. In concluding his remarks, Mr. Washer asked that the mem- bers apply the idea of service to others in all sincerity and they might be sure that success would grace their efforts. Appeal for Welfare Fund Ross Mackinon, general chair- man of the campaign to be car- ried out by the Associated Wel- fare Societies, was present at the luncheon and addressed the mombers asking for their hearty co-operation in the work of mak- ing the campaign a success. He stated that it was everyone's campaign and he wished each one to feel that they had a per- sonal responsibility, in the rais- ing of the $30,000 objective. If the work was spread out, it would not be too much for anyone, he asserted. Cuba is building many new roads. hour no one showed up and a search was instituted without results, and as a result Mr, Platten is short the whale amount of his fare and had to return to the city alone. %... gonnectin the Brooklin rob- alleged immigra- ety . icer, it is thought that it may have been the same man as it required considerable nerve and ability to impersonate himself as an official in the eastern centres, while the type 'of impersonation is almost identical, - FERGUSON'S WORK? When the results of the British iglections appeared as- sured ly this marsing, the foll ram, addressed d Fernusoh, London, Eng- ed from 'this aiser :-- _ tulates We 1d only one of many such { ONE DAY'S ORDERS FOR DEALERS IN OSHAWA ZONE ONLY A driveaway of 41 Chevrolets, Pontiacs, and Oldsmobiles from the tGieneral Motors of Canada plant at Oshawa last Friday. This was [shipped from Oshawa at the same time and fifteen trucks were nts r tly, and indicates the excel. lent car sales activity enjoyed by this company. The cars shown were distributed to deal s in the Osh GENERAL MOTORS DRIVEAWAY REFLECTS ACTIVITY a Zone alone. Nine cars were driven away from the Company's ville, commercial car plant at Walker- RELIEF ORDER POLIGY FIXED BY COMMITTEE Attitude of Relief Depart- ment Towards Chain Stores is Defined At a meeting of the Rellef Com- last night it is understood that the question of dealing with the chain grocery stores in giving or- ders for direct relief was discuss- ed, the decision being reached that the policy of the committee shall remain as it is. As stated in The Times in Mon- day no relief orders are issued by the city on any of the chain stores, It is learned this morning, how- ever, that to some extent at least this policy has been recently mod- ified and any man who works for three days on grading under the Board of Works, obtaining one day's pay and "direct relief" or- ders equivalent to the value of the other two days in payment for his work, can obtain an order on a chain store provided he in- sists that the particular chain store is the one where, in more prosperous times, he is in the hab- it of making his purchases. As far as the issuing of direct relief orders, within the generally accepted sense of the term, is con- cerned no. orders are issued by the Relief Department of the corpora- tion on any chain store. Chain Stores Object Managers of local chain gro- cery stores naturally feel that the adoption of this policy by the city is an unfair discrimination against them, They agree that where a citizen is compelled to accept di- rect relief, and owes an account with His grocer, the grocer in question should, in all fairness, receive the order for his needs. On the other hand they claim that there are many men who, in more prosperous times, are regu- lar customers at the chain stores but are now compelled to 'take their orders elsewhere. The chain store managers also point out that such stores have always made a practice of con- tributing their fair proportion to- wards the funds of charitable or- ganizations in the city, while their taxes are also paid regularly, 80 that they claim to be entitled to the Same consideration ag oth- (Continued on page 3) DR. D. R. MITCHELL PASSES TESTS Qualifies at Examinations Held by Royal College of Surgeons, England Dr. D. R. Mitchell, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Mitchell of this city, was one of the only two suc- cessful candidates at the recent examinations held in Toronto by the Royal College of Surgeons, England, the other successful candidate being Dr. H. F. Mowat. The examinations lead to Fel- lawship in the Royal College, and were in the subjects of avatony and physiology, the special ners being sent gut from Englan: The final Sraminstions for Fellow- ship must be taken in England. It is inte: ng to note that both the two successful candi- dates are graduates of the Univer sity of Toronto. A total of seven candidates presented themselves for examination, ae si mittee of the City Council held |. Nat. Liberals Total Government Opposition Labor Lloyd George Liberal Independent Total Opposition Latest Summary of the British Election Employment Conditions in City Show Improvement V/ith the Public Utilities Com- mission and the Board of Works conferring this evening regarding the agreement to be entered into between the Council and Commis- sion relative to the method of em- ploying labour on the construction of the filtration plant, unemploy- ment conditions in the city are, ap= parently, in a fair way towards be- ing considerably alleviated. About 170 men were placed at work on the different gangs em- ployed by the city yesterday, an in- crease of nearly fifty, this increase meaning that three days work in approximately eighteen days may be accepted as a rood average. Up until this week an unemployed man was lucky to obtain three days work in four weeks. General Motors Prospect It is also learned that many men are being recalled to the General Motors plint, with the production of Buick cars commencing almost immediately. "These cars, according to one report, are to be "on the assembly line" in another couple of weeks, about 600 being produced and placed in stock. Commenting on the opinions ex- pressed at the special meeting of the Public Utilities Commission last night, and the conference to be held by that Commission with the Board of Works, Major George Hamilton, superintendent of the Employment Bureau, assured The Times that he and 'his staff stood ready to co-op- erate in the carrying out of any plan regarding the filtration plant. "I'he idea expressed by Chair- man Stacey, of arranging matters so that each man employed earns a minimum wage and then steps out to make room for another, could be worked out in practice", said Major Hamilton, who agreed that "weck about" rather than the three- day system would be more satisafc- tory to the general contractor and everybody concerned. Ready to Agree Ald, Sam. Jackson, chairman of the Board of Works, when inform- ed this morning by The Times of the opinions expressed at e meet- ing of the Utiljties Commission, ex- pressed the opinion that Council would be willing to meet the Com- mission more than half way in any plan submitted, "I think we can get together on either the minimum or maximum swage plan, or on a week about sys- tem," said Ald. Jackson, "either one of them would suit us." The main thing' is to see that the men who are listed as unemployed get the jobs." In spite of the fact that this even- ing's conference is of considerable interest to the general public, and/ more especially to unemployed citi- zens, Ald, Jackson gave little en- couragement to the suggestion that a representative of The Times be admitted to the proceedings. talkies the London has for home, City of Oshawa TAXES "The extension granted for payment without 'penalty of the second instalment Expires Saturday, Oct. 31st A large amount of taxes sti remain unpaid. It is to the interest of every property owner to pressmve the personal Municipality's credit. 'We therefore appeal to all Ratepayers outstanding to PAY Now and avoid thet nesessity of Tax Collector pealty of 5 per cet Is collectable after whose taxes are pil for ether Siti. A E. MARKS, Mayor, Reeve Ralph Russell, POST OFFICE AT BROOKLIN ROBBED | Man Impersonated Inspec- | tor and Walked off With | 200 Money Orders (By Whitby Staff Reporter) Whitby, Oct. 28. --Walking into the post office at Brooklin late on Monday afternoon, and impersonating an 'inspector of post offices," a well dressed stranger made a clean getaway with a book of.200 money orders, The man was driven to Brooklin in a taxi-cab, the driver being Richard Heard of this town, who waited outside while his passen- ger went into the post office, and then drove him back to Whitby, where he took train for Toronto. Entering the post office, the stranger introduced himself to Postmaster 8, Rodd by handing him a card marked, 'Inspector of Post Offices." He checked over the money orders issued, complimented the postmaster on the excellence of his records, and then said he would have to take the book of money orders to Ottawa with him, There were 200 orders in the book, number- ed 4801 to 5000, After the stranger had gone, the postmaster became suspici- ous, and telephoned to Toronto, only to find that he had been victimized. Notices have been sent to all post offices and banks, informing them of the numbers of the stolen money orders. The bogus inspector is described as being about the average height, about 40 years of age, clean shaven and wearing glasses. EIGHT CONVICTED. OF CONSPIRACY Former York Township Councillors and Officials Awaiting Sentences eight Toronto, Oct.' 28.--The to men charged with conspirin defraud the Township of ork were convicted in Fall Assizes last night by a jury which had deliberated over the evidence for seven hours and a quarter. The verdict was qualified by a recom- mendation for leniency. At: the conclusion of last night's proceedings, counsel rep- resenting the eight men announc- ed to His Lordship that the con- viction would be appealed, notice of appeal probably being filed at Osgoode Hall to-day. The eight men facing sentence are Basil Holden, vice-president of the Nelson River Construction Company; D, K, C. Strathearn, il} formerly township designing en- gineer, and all but one member of the 1929 township council: Ex- Reeve Ernest G. Westbury, Ex- Deputy Reeves Isaac Woolner, W. Glen Armstrong, John J. Little, Albert E. Baker, and Councillor William MacQueen. Deputy- who réfused to accept the gift of a $500 Gov- ernment bond from Holden was the sole member of that township couneil 'not included; i has been commended for his' ae tion in Judge Denton's report. wt Taey is aiding its agricultur- : Greece is encouraging the am- ANNUAL MEETING OF OSHAWA BOY SCOUT ASSOC'N. Splendid Report of Last Year's Activities Present: ed--Officers Elected The annual meeting of the Oshawa Local Association of the Boy Scout Association was held in the office of the Ceneral Canada Loan & Savings Company on Mon- day night with a large and en- thusiastic number of men inter- ested in this work present, C. M. Mundy, President of the Associa- tion, presided and complete and interesting reports from the chair- men of the different committees were presented to the meeting. The report of the Secretary, R. St. J. Terrett, gave a resume of the activities of the Association dur- ing the past year, and for the ben- efit of our readers we are giving it in full as follows: i's Report "The last season has been a busy one for Scouting in Oshawa. Visits have been made by the various Troops to the Cyclorama of the 65th Toronto Troop, the Jamboree of the Robert Louis Stevenson Troops in the Sick Children's Hospital at Thistletown, the Toronto Scout Cir- cus, and the Pickering Lone Scout Church Parade. "The Association was represented by Scoutmaster J. H. Rigg at the Scout Leaders' Conference in Ham- ilton. "The new Wolf Cub Packs at Westmount and Albert St. Church have now firmly established them- selves, while Mr. G. Langton, the new Pack Leader tor the 8th Pack, now has things well under way, "News of the revival of the 3rd Troop at Simcoe St, Church, under the leadership of Mr, H. Edmond- son, an ex-member of the original 3rd Troop, has been received and will be welcomed by the Local As- sociation. "Of good turns in the past sea- (Continued on page 5) ESSAYS ARE SENT ON T0 TORONTO Eleven Selected From Which the Prize Winners Will Be Chosen Tho preliminary work of the lo- cal judges selecting the best group of essays on the subject of fire prevention received from the schools of the city has now been completed. The local judges have selected the best essay from each of the different schools, and these have now been forwarded to the On- tario Fire Marshal's Department in Toronto where the final juds- ing to select the winner will be carried out. It is expected that at least a week will elapse before the result is available for publication. Pupils whose essays have been forwarded to Toronto, and from among whom the final winner will be adjudged, are as follows: Veronica Johnson, St. Greg- ory's; Jack Stanton, St. Gregory's; Sybil Coulthurst, North Simcoe; Winnie Griffin, Albert Street; Doreen Schoenan, North Simcoe; Rosette Witte, St, Gregory's; Charles Taylor, King Street; Do- lores Krantz, King Street; Myr- tle Bickman, Centre Street; Neil Bennett, Centre Street; Amy Dis- ney, Centre Street. WOMAN IS FINED $100 AND GOSTS Mrs. Frances Kunikewics, 248 Beatty Avenue, pleaded guilty in police court this morning to a charge of having a quantity of liquor in her possession contrary to the liquor control 'act, not being the holder of a permit. Magistrate Creighton imposed a fine of $100 and costs, with the alternative of three months in the county jail. It was adduced that the police visited the home of the accused on October 21 and found 80 bot- tles of home brew for the manu- facture of which the accused had not taken out a permit, Mrs. Kunikewicz said that she did not know that it was against the law for her to brew beer for the consumption of her husband, as she had only been in Canada for a little over two years. His Worship explained that OV"T. SWEEPS BRITAIN LATEST FIGURES GIVE GOVERNMENT 518 SEATS; OPPOSITION HAS BUT 19 Y Reusvsay MacDonald i is Re- Elected With Majority of Nearly 6,000 in the Key Constituency of Seaham, Durham County 'al ALL MINISTERS "7. WIN THEIR SEATS Amazing Election Turnover In Great Britain Sees La- bor Representation in House of Commons Re- duced to Mere Handful (By Canadian Press) London, Oct, 28.--Not in more than a hundred years has any British Government secured such an overwhelming majority as the National Government will have in the new House of Commons. The opposition has been al- most obliterated. The govern~ ment will have a majority of well over 400 members. The Conserva- tives alone, disregarding the other factions of the government, already have a majority of more than 200 members over all others combined. With 567 soils out of 615 re- ported, the standing of the pars ties at 5 p.m. was as follows; Conservatives 447, pe National Labor 12. National Liberal 59. Labor Party 43. Lloyd George Liberal 4, x Independent 2. This standing gived the go¥a ernment a total of 518 seals against 49 for the combined op-: position partjes, even including among them the two Indepen~' dents and the Lloyd George Lib- erals. Last nights iandslide turnei into an avalanche. today, Se! after seat turned down Labor members in «favor of National Government supporters ---- preé= dominently Conservatives, One after another outstanding Labor men who had been in the old Labor ministry were defeated, while the ministers of the Na- tional government, Conservative, Liberal and National Labor, alike were returned to the House of Commons by substantial ma= jorities. MacDonald Elected & Prime Minister, Ramsay Mag- Donald himself had the hardest fight for re-election, but he was successful. The vote in Seaham, key con stituency of the entire electiotl, was as follows: Prime Minister MacDonald, National Labor 28, 978, William Coxon, Labor 23, 027, George Lumley, Communist, i. 5 Even the popular vote, which does not always correspond to the parliamentary figures, gave hte government twice ' as many votes as the entire opposition. An compiled at 4 p.m. the popular vote was--National Government, 10,624,253; Opposition, 5,280, 338. The total vote polled by the women candidates was 620,258. Late this afternoon, with less than 50 seats out of the 615 to be reported, only two members of the old Labor ministry had been re-elected. Against this sorry result for Labor was the re-election every member of the Nation#l government whose seat had been reported sob far. Gains and Losses London, Oct. 28. onservaiive party gains numbered 13° as 394 out of the 615 members were elected in the general election, At the 394 mark the standing, L with gaing and losses, was follows: Conservatives 309, gains 181 losses none. Natiosal Labor losses non a; National "Liberal 46, gains 14 losses seven, 4 Opposition Labor 47, Tos 9, gains ¥ 145 Liovd George Liberals 4, chang Suged. sents 1, gains 1 three. London, Oct, Winston Churchill, running Conservative in the sion of Essex County, was @ to the house of commons i three-cornered fights Liberal and a Labor candid ---- CAPONE'S AIDE SENTEN Elected 28.--Rt. pod rain | ---- (By The Canadian Chicago, 111, Oct. 28. 'h » k nse ting Ju ignorance of the law did not co offense. -