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"AAI PUBLISHED Every Week Day Except Saturday. he Oshawa Daily Times Partly Cloudy and Warmer. OL. 27--NO. 53 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1940 Single Copies 3c EIGHT PAGES PALACE AGAIN HIT; 193 HUNS DOWNED >» ONTARIO REGT. OSHAWA HALLENGES 0 HORSE SHOE GAME IRISH UNIT J. C. Anderson Pre.| pares "Legal" Document Which Was Delivered by Stretcher Bearers and Escort RIVALRY SEEN BETWEEN BATTALIONS ymaster is Popular Offi- cer as Ranks Get Part of Pay; Whitby Regt. Re- tains Pennant (By Sgt. S. Shantz, Times' Staff) Camp Niagara, Sept. 13.--Protect- pd by the black cat of their regi- mental crest. the Second Battalion, Dntario Regiment today hurled de- fiance at Friday the 13th jinx and e luck of the Irish in one grand psture today. It took the form of a ceremonial delivery of a "challenge pf supreme skill in the ancient art pf Horse Shoes," to the Second Bat- on, Irish Regiment, next door ne ghbors of the Oshawa-Whitby nit in this camp, 8ince the two battalions have hed camp there has been keen : Iry between the two engendered by poaching upon the Ontario Regi- ment's straw supply by men of the Irish. The "feud" came to a head hen word was bandied about that he Irish considered that they pos- d first rate horse shoe tossers. . Issues Challenge Today Lieut.-Col. R. B. Smith, D., gave recognition to the rivalry then he despatched a formal chal- mge for the horseshoe duel to the nanding officer of "the Irish gh the orderly officer of the day, Lieut. A. M. McKinnon. Ac- companying the challenge was a re- over the straw incident in the form of a bale of straw carried to Irish compound by a quartet of Ontario stretcher bearers. The bale surmounted by a flag which the pfficer commanding had secured from the commander of the Irish [Regiment. Delivery of the challenge was the Ih ight of the noonday interval. [Headed by the Second Battalion, Ontario Regiment bugle band under e command of Band Sergeant C. 1, the detachment of stretcher ers and escort paraded from the Ontario Regiment lines to those of he Irish, drawing up directly in Hront of the commanding officer's quee. The officers of the Irish Regiment ere quick to recognize the occasion one of moment and as soon as the parade came within sight all ranks lined up at attention to await he Ontario's detachment. Follow- a fanfare of trumpets Lieut. Kinnon delivered the challenge (Continued on Page 8, Col. 6) MAGISTRATE FINES DRIVER AGED 80 CARELESS DRIVING To Recommend That Driv- ing Ability Be Checked by Department Walter B. Locie, an 80-year-old iman_who lives in Consecon, Prince dward County, and who has been driving for over 25 years, was assess- Wed $5 and costs or 5 days for care- less driving in police court this and in addition a recom- mendation will be sent to the On- tario Department that Locie's driv- ng ability be checked, and perhaps his license suspended. "It is rather unfortunate that you hould be driving a car," declared [Magistrate F. S. Ebbs, "because I believe with the Chief that you are etting a little past the stage where man of your age should be driving, With all due respect to your age, it ould be better for the traffic that you should not be driving." Gordon Jackson, Kingston Road est, Oshawa, testified that on Sep- ember 5 he was walking from north 0 south on the west side of the n intersection at King and Sim- oe, with the green light, when he 8 struck by a car which he never oticed approaching. His injuries sted of a cut in the head and bruise on the leg, and necessitated m losing five hours from work. Dr. Russell put two stitches in the head ound. An independent witness testified hat the accused car came across bf Im in [IM Im on (Continued on Page 8, Col. 3) COMMITTEE HEADS | Helping Draft Plans for War Fund Drive FOR WIN-THE-WAR | DRIVE ANNOUNCED Plans Going Forward Rap- | idly for Big Fund for | All Services The executive committee of the Oshawa Win-the-War and Commu- nity Service Fund drive for approxi- mately $80,000, which will be held from October 1 to 7, today announc- | ed the appointment of chairmen of the sub-committees of volunteer workers. Plans for the completion of these sub-committees are being rushed with all possibie speed, ac- | cording to officials of the executive | committee this morning. Announce- ment of full personnel is expected to be made within a few davs. Chairmen of sub-committe 1= nounced today are: Manufacturers, | Harry J. Carmichael; Employers George Hart; Citizens, Ernie Cay | and J. L. Beaton (joint chairmen); special contributions, George W. McLaughlin. The outstanding feature of drive which opens on October 1, and continues through till the 7th, is that all donations for various national and local war services, and | local community efforts, are com- | bined in one drive, thus eliminating | | the inconvenience and confusion of intermittent smaller drives through. | | | the | out the coming year. Citizens may make one contribution" which will be apportioned to the ganizations. The agencies and organizations | joining in the co-operative effort next month are: Canadian Red Cross; Salvation Army Red Shield; YMCA. War Services; Canadian Legion War Services; Knights of Columbus Army Huts; Navy League of Canada; Citizens' Committee for troops in training; Oshawa Wom- en's Welfare League; Victorian Or- der of Nurses; Christmas Cheer Fund; Boy Scouts, Canadian Na- tional Institute for the Blind; Osh. awa Humane Society and the local Canadian Legion community sery- | ice. various or= Inquest Tonight Into Death of Late Clough Watson An inquest will be held at 8 o'clock this evening into the circumstances | surrounding the death .of Clough | Watson, inspector for the Depart- | ment of Munitions and Supply, ap- | pointed to the plant at the Pedlar | People, who died on Tuesday eve= ning, September 10, after being struck by an east-bound automobile on King street west. Witness of the accident were Pte. Crawford Russel, of Camp Borden, and George Heron of R.R. 1, Whitby. The last inquest at the city hall was held only 12 days ago, Septem. ber 5, when the cause of death of the late James R. Ripley, employee of a local dairy, was investigated. Ripley was fatally injured in an auto collision at Thornton's Corners. No charges have been laid as a result of the findings of the coroner's jury, GEORGE HART HARRY J. CARMICHAEL W. E. N. SINCLAIR, K.C. Announcement of sub-committee chairmen in the Oshawa Win-the-War and Community Services Drive today included, left to right, above: George Hart, of the Employers; Harry J. Carmichael, Manufacturers, and W. E. N. Sinclair, K.C., President of the Oshawa Red Cross Society. Announced at the same time were Ernie Cay and J. L. Beaton, joint chairmen of the Citizens' Committee, and George w. McLaughlin, special contributions, who is also general chairman of the executive committee for the campaign. FOUR ESCAPE WHEN WO FIRE COVERS AUTO Explosion Follows Filling of | Redi-'or at Whitby Service Station Sept, 16. -- Four Peter- | narrowly escaped | Saturday when | Whitby, boro motorists death here early | their car burst into flames in front i of a Whitby service station The front end of the car was enveloped | | in fire, with flames leaping 20 feet high, when an explosion occurred | 1s water was poured into the radia- | tor. Prompt work of PC. Lou Nor- them -and of drivers of three trans- port trucks, who stopped and ren- dered aid, with fire extinguishers, was credited by FPire Chief W.| Heard with saving the car from demolition. The Peterboro party, Including Lucien Gerrard, J. P. Hallihan and Misses E. Brioux and A. M. Brioux, suffered chock. The car is owned by A. McCabe, Peterboro, and. had been loaned to Hallihan for a trip to Toronto. McCabe stonped at Whitby to add | water to the radiator. Apparently the water-can had been used pre- | get a Chris viously to carry gasoline and there | evidently had been a small quantity of gasoline left in the can. the water was added the gasoline came to the top and was poured on the hot engine, causing an explosion The. Brioux sisters were pulled out of the car through a wall of flame Hallihan was scorched in the blast but was not badly burned. License Suspended Driver Fined $100 Pleading guilty to a third offense of driving an automobile while his driver's license was under suspen- sion. Mike Zabihaylo of Oshawa, was fined $100 and costs or one month in the county jail, in police court this morning. "You have been warned sufficiently in this case remarked His Worship. "You can't drive a car and you insist on driv- ing." Chief O. D. Friend pointed out | that the three offenses of driving while license under suspension oc- curred this year. "His record with regard to cars is not very good," added the Chief. Zabihaylo claimed that he had hurt his foot and had to get to the doctor's quickly. but it was pointed out that the injured man had many friends who could drive him. Nazi Time-Bomb Removed From Vicinity of St. Paul's Courage 'and Tenacity of Canadian Officer - and Men Responsible for Safety of Cathedral; 1,100-Ib. Missile Detonat- ed in Marsh London, Sept. 16.--Led by a mem- ber of the Royal Canadian Engi- neers, a "suicide squad" Sunday extricated an 1,100-pound German time-bomb from the precincts of St. Paul's Cathedral and detonated it harmlessly in the Hackney Marshes. The : Canadian Lieut. R. Davies. It was the biggest homb yet drop-~ ped on London, and had it exploded it might have wrecked the cherish- ed edifice, Four smaller bombs re- is "45-year-old main buried in the vicinity of the cathedral. Although the risk of explosion was imminent all the time, Lieut. Davies personally drove the truck at high speed with the bomb from St. Paul's to the marshes, Under Lieut. Davies the workers began tunnelling four days ago, only to discover that a six-inch gas main had been broken by the homb. The workers dug on down 27'% feet to where the bomb had sunk itself On Saturday they hitched ropes to it. Twice, near the top of the hole, the projectile slipped and plunged back into the hole, while every man expected instant death. Praying the bomb might be a "dud," the men kept at it during the forenoon Sunday. It was the accustomed time for Sunday serv- (Continued on Page 8, Col. 1) When | | the factory, | 1 | effort to keep OSHAWA'S | Fences Removed; Levels' pREMIER RECEIVES Staked for Grading; Powerful Diesel Caterpil- lar Scraper Bumps Down Trees and Stumps; New Machinery Moved In The work of clearing and leyelll the site for the Oshawa airport i proceeding steadily. A powerful caterpillar diesel, with a combination scraper and bumpe: attached, is being used for knocking over trees, digging out stumps and filling in ditches. Thi smaller rf machine is tremendously powerfu and when it connects with its Je the result. Huge st take an enormous amo ging and cutting rooted and pushed out Groves of moved, abo chine cutting tmas tr to would tives, there is no question as imps that are qui of th ung e tree like hat spru a mowing ma- "A good time to ee," ed Two moving maci LaTourneau earth s, brand new rived on Saturd large are at work today handling a larg hare of the job, Each of them doe the work of many men and tc These machines are built in Peori: Ill, and came here by rail Fences have been practically the entire has been staged. for grading is evident that the co Construction Ltd. is up 1s one oO that are a long way from the scene of activitity, but wh will have an important bea 4 the ultimate result of the conflict. im removed and airport and 1 r, Don the big job. It war jobs someone ask- | Fe to schedule with |, RK PROGRESSING ON NEW AIRPORT THANKS FROM KING Ottawa, Sept. 16.--Prime Min- ister Mackenzie King yesterday received a message of thanks from King George for his mes- sage of sympathy sent Their Majesties Buckingham Palace was bombed by German when air raiders, "The Queen and I sincerely thank you and your colleague s for your kind and sympaihetic message," the King replied in a cable made public Sunday after. noon, Japan Voices Regret Over Bombing Of Empress of Asia Sept. 16 » been re Canad n Tokyo, ign Office in Expressions of ived by E. D Charge d"Af- he Japanese to the liner, ced an from t egard ac ment, | the 16 i incident » Canadian nce from yasaki. The manav- ship nama en route fr t bomb was ! ] patin Japanese coast J » four menibers of the were injured , the External the sald, but » d'Affaires cee Javanese Foreign Minis- atsuoka teday. His Majesty King George Carries on Indiscriminately bombing London, including the House of Lords, | Downing Street and. Buckingham Palace, in a desperate attempt to force the royal family and the government to flee the capital, Hitler's latest act of terrorism has failed miserably in its objective. With the bombing of the royal residence their majesties have been drawn even closer to their subjects. Shortly after the bombing of the palace, the King and Queen were once again busily engaged in consoling and en- couraging other victims of German barbarism. chatting with a workman during a recent visit His majesty is shown to an aircraft factory. SMALL BUYERS + BEING SOUGHT + IN LOAN DRIVE Support is Urgently Needed, Says Finance Minister in New Appeal Ottawa, Sept. 16.--With Canada's Second War Loan short of the $300,000,000 objective, Hon. J. L. Ilsley, Minister of Fin- ance, Sunday appealed to all Cana- dians to buy war bonds and thus "invest in human freedom for you and your children." At the close of the first week of the loan campaign, total subscrip- tions were $248,200,000. The twelve- year bonds are available in units of | Yoko- manoeu- | major | $100 or more, bearing 3 per cent interest, which at the sale price of 798.75 means a yield of 34 per cent. The objective can only be reached, it is felt, by co-operation of a large number of potential investors who ! | have not yet subscribed. "Last Monday we began the task | of raising $300,000,000 to arm and | fighting forces," | | equip Canada's | said Mr. Ilsley. "That task is still uncompleted. 1 have, therefore, ask- ed the press of Canada for their co- operation in enabling me to make this serious appeal to all Canadians. | Grave events transpire across the | seas; grave events impend. In the ultimate issues, our all is at stake. "Canada needs you to put your money behind your men, for aire planes, tanks, ships, guns, muni- | tions. That is the reason you were asked to subscribe the Second War Loan." "TI urge al' of you at home who have not yet subscribed, to hasten that important duty, comrades. Delay can only hearten our foes. "To those who have subscribed I say: 'Buy more bonds, unless your subscription really reflects your ability to lend.' "Especially do T direct this mes- sage to all those hundreds of thou- (Continued on Page 8, Col. 1) OSHAWA FLIER TAKING COURSE AT SASKATOON A. J. Lewington One of Class Which Graduated at Toronto A. J. Lewington; son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lewington, King Street West was one of the class of 21 | airplane pilots who graduated from | No. 1 Elementary Flying Training School, operated by the Toronto | Flying Club (Training) last Friday. The entire class left: for Saskatoon on Saturday where they will start their intermediate flying training as soon as they arrive at the western Canada Flying Training School. It | is at this stage of their training that | they as Royal Canadian Air Force pilots receive their coveted wings. Those who graduated from the Elementary Flying Training School were: R. M. Bryant, Toronto; C. G. Bull, Sudbury; G. H. Cheetham, Ottawa; E. O. Doyle, Belleville; W. L. Drake, Kingston; H. W. S. Fitch; Toronto; J. A. L. Ford, Fergus; H. B. Hallett, Kirkland Lake; H. C. Handley, Ottawa; H. A. Hindmarsh, Oakville; J. W. Hollway, Jansen Sask.; J. B. Kerr, Trenton; J. F. Lewless, Kingston; A. J Lewington, Oshawa; J. L. F. Lown, Coniston; A. A. Myers, Dunsford; L. H. Netherton, Englehart; T. S. Shep- pard, Toronto; D. R, P. Short, To- ronto; D. E. Trimble, Toronto, and C. A. Wilson, Lindsay. still $51,800,000 | hearten our | + Rotary Speaker Today GENERAL E. J. HIGGINS Recent Commander of the Sal- vation Army of the World, who was the guest speaker at the Rotary Club today noon. CONANT URGES (VIL DEFENSE CO-OPERATION Inspects 800 Volunteer Guardsmen in Sudbury and 200 in Capreol Sudbury, Sept. 16.--Volunteers of the 170 Civil Guard units in On- tario today were asked by Hon Gordon Conant, Attorney-General, to give wholehearted co-operation in the work of the Civil Defense Committee (ARP. organized last week at Queen's Park. The appeal was made during an inspection of the Sudbury Volun- teer Civil Guard Sunday afternoon, when more than 800 men marched past the Attorney-General and high-ranking civic and Provincial officials. Mr. Conant, assisted by Herbert S. McCreedy, Deputy Com- missioner of Provincial Police, pre- sented armbands to the unit. Later in the afternoon Mr. Conant and the Deputy Commissioner inspected and presented armbands to the 200 guards in the Capreol foree. The final inspection at 4 pm. ended a round of duties which opened early with an inspection -of the internment camp in the Sud- bury district from which two Ger- man war prisoners escaped recent- ly. They were later returned to the camp. Deeply Concerned Mr. Conant said the civil auth- orities were deeply concerned with the internment camp problem, be- cause of the disturbance to law and order of the disturbance to law and order which occurred whenever an escape was made. Provincial Police, he pointed out, were drafted in the man hunt whenever there was an escape. "We are now in, complete co- operation with the Federal authori- ties regarding escapes from these (Continued on Page 8, Col. 5) Nazi Invasion Bases on Coast. Smashed by R.A.F. Antwerp Wrecked; Barges Blown Up; Military Equipment and Stores Damaged; Gun Emplace- ments Blasted Along With Airdromes London, Sept. 16.--The big Bel- gian port of Antwerp was left a mass of flames and wreckage after an attack by "waves" of British bombers smashing at Adolf Hitler's | invasion preparations with tons of | bombs all along the Channel coast and deep into the Reich, the Air Ministry states. Pilots returning from the latest blows. of the British counter-offen- sive in the air reported "colossal explosions" that tore apart ware- houses and a power station of the Antwerp docks, and said flames of the blazing docks were visible thirty miles away. Dumping forty tons of bombs and more than 1,000 incendiaries, the British raiders 'devastated" the Antwerp dock area, with both its eastern and western basins, blasted "from all directions," the Air Min- istry said. What appeared to have been a munitions warehouse was blown up, barges were blown to kindling wood, oll stores were set afire and a ship was set ablaze, it was said. Appalling Weather Braving what the Air Ministry called "appalling weather," .squad- rons of British bombers, Saturday night and early Sunday pounded relentlessly at the "front line" of (Continued on Page 8, Col. 1) QUEEN'S APARTMENT HIT NONE OF STAFF INJURED IN WEEK-END NAZI RAID Waves of 350 to 400 Ger. man Planes in Frenzied Raids Meet Disaster Over London PALACE BOMBER SHOT DOWN AFTER ATTACK Raiders Rattled by Tremen- dous Anti-Aircraft Bare rage, Use Blind, Hit-and- Run Tactics London, Sept 16.--Into the moone lit heavens London's anti-aircraft guns began early today their shate tering fire at an increasing proces= sion of German warplanes after gunners and fighter pilots destroye ed 175 German raiders participate ing in mass daylight attacks. A total of at least 193 enemy planes was destroyed on Saturday and yesterday. The air ministry's estimate of German losses, which it said were the highest in nearly a month, counted only planes destroyed in the first four of the Sunday raids on the capital. The fifth, the night siege, started at 8.07 p.m. (3.07 p.m., ED.T.) and after nine hours and 28 minutes, ended at 535 am, (12.35, ED.T.). As night fell on Sunday the Gere mans shifted from costly mass ate tacks to individual "time-table" visits of 10-minute intervals. Then they stepped up the number of "visitors" until the intermittent bark of the guns became after mid= night a steady roll that seemed to shake the foundations of the city. Bombs fell over a wide area, not only in London but in the Midlands and Southeast and Northeast Enge land. One of London's oldest hospitals was struck, and a medical officer was injured. (A British Broadcasting Corpora= tion account of the raids said that St. Thomas' Hospital, in Westmine ster, near Big Ben, was wrecked by Nazi bombs.) In the day raids, cne of the dee stroyed Germans was brought down just outside the gates of Buckinge ham Palace after loosing a new load of time and fire-bomhs on the réyal residence. Palace Again Bombed Bombs hit Buckingham Palace today for the third time in eight days, damaging the private aparte ments of Queen Elizabeth who, with the King, was absent from the roy= al residence, No casualties were re= ported among the household staff. From Hammersmith, in the west of London, to Beachy Head, in Sussex, the story was the same-- British fighters in bitter dogfights with the raiders. Thirty British planes were lost, hut 10 pilots were saved. The German * Sunday daylight raids on England were in two big waves of 350 to 400 planes. Some of the big Nazi bombers were brought down in the heart of London--one on Victoria Station, others in the Kennington and Streatham sections, Then, as night came, the Gere mans shifted to the Ilone-raider technique, over London, over the Midlands and elsewhere in Eng= land. Rattled By Barrage They seemed rattled by the ine tence anti-aircraft fire over London to the extent that they dropped their bombs as soon as they arrived over the city and without the usual preliminary "runs" over a target. The thundre of the barrage made a sound track that traced each raider's course across the sky amid (Continued on Page 8, Col. Nazi Fugitive Faces 5 Counts St. Paul, Sept, 16.--Manuel Fische er, 29, Nazi prisoner who escaped from g Canadian internment camp and was captured in International Falls, Minn., faces five charges of violating United States immigration laws, immigration officials here disclosed Saturday. Fischer is held in jail in the border town. The warrant for Fischer's arrest, said C. W. Seaman, Federal Immi- gration Agent, charges he entered the United States at other than an immigration port of entry; is a person likely to become a public charge; entered without inspection; had no immigration visa; and was not in possession of a valid passe port. ; The date of a hearing to be held on the five counts has not been set and no action will be taken until a decision following such a hearing has been submitted to Washington officials, Seaman said. i