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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1940 * PAGE FOUR 9 9 i 5 - The Oshawa Daily Times I eeding THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) newspaper published every week- A except Saturday at Oshawa, Can- ada, by The Times Publishing Co. of Oshawa, Limited. Chas. M. Mundy, Pres; A. R. Alloway. Managing Director. : Osha pally Times is a member of the me Eonar. Daily Newspapers Association the On- . tario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES "Delivered by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby and suburbs a for We weeks; $3.25 for six months, or $6.50 per year if paid in advance. y mafl anywhere in Canada (outside Oshawa By delivery limits) $126 for three months, $2.25 for six months, or $4.00 per year if paid in advance. By mail to US. subscribers, $6.00 per year, payable strictly in advance. 'TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1940 Highway Cowardice Instructions to Ontario's crown attorneys to prosecute hit-and-run cases under the 'Criminal Code in future, and not under the Highway Traffic Act, as heretofore, is a "."long step in the right direction towards checking a growing menace of the auto- mobile age. Announcement to this effect was made recently by Hon. Gordon D. Conant, K.C., attorney-general, and mem- ber for South Ontario Riding in the Legis- tive Assembly of Ontario. This forthright step cannot be too much commended. The hit-and-run driver has neither conscience nor courage, but, in a very large measure, he has a despicable concern for his own skin. It has often been stated that no jury would convict a hit-and-run driver, in a fatal accident, on a murder charge. But parents of little children ruthlessly slain by the careless, the thoughtless, and the irresponsible are beginning to wonder if theory shouldn't be put to the test. The verdict might be a salutary surprise not only to the culprit, but to hundreds and perhaps thousands of others who lose touch with ordinary human decency, it seems, the moment they get behind the driving wheel of a motor vehicle. It is evident that Hon. Mr. Conant pro- poses to take a stern course with traffic Jaw violators in Ontario, but at the same time doing all he can not to increase the total of regulations or the number of those now employed to enforce restrictions al- ready embodied in Ontario legislation, A Strong Commission By appointing a Royal Commission of outstanding men to seek a solution of the Abitibi tangle the Ontario Government has taken the logical course. Sir James Dunn is an industrialist of great experience. Mr. A. E. Dyment likewise is a successful busi- ness man whose judgment will command confidence. The judicial standing of Mr. Justice McTague, the third member, speaks for itself. As disinterested parties, ap- proaching the problem wiithout prejudice for or against any class of investors, their recommendation is likely to have the re- spect of all concerned. Premier Hepburn's announcement shows further that the ground has been cleared of obstacles by the rescinding of the Order- in-Council passed on March 9 of last year, which declared that any reorganization, re- arrangement or sale approved or directed by the Supreme Court would be deemed a basis satisfactory to the Government in accordance with the provisions of a pre- vious Order-in-Council. Failure to receive an acceptable offer when a sale was at- tempted, together with the ten or more reorganization proposals made, obviously left the situation in the air, requiring the study of a strong Commission untied to any of the several interests. The prompt- ness with which the Premier and Attorney- General Conant have recognized this need and prepared to meet it undoubtedly will have the approval of the public at large as well as those investments at stake. There was a chance, of course, that time would remedy the difficulties, as the posi- tion of the corporation is improving stead- ily and is very different now from the day when it was placed in receivership. Con- structive action was called for nevertheless because of the existing and prospective un- certainty of the values of the various classes of investments. Considering the public interest through pulpwood conces- sions and stumpage charges, it is the Gov- ernment's duty to seek a hasis for sound reorganization, taking into account the merits of the several claims. The old maxim, "Let the buyer beware," still holds good, but it is gratifying to know that when an impasse of this kind is reach- _ ed, threatening the interests of the public domain and the welfare of large numbers of people, democratic institutions provide a way in which a fair and equitable rear- rangement can be 'reached. -- Globe and Mail. The Northern Miner With a splendid special edition of 152 pages, The Northern Miner, weekly news- paper published in the interests of the Canadian mining industry at Toronto, cur- rently celebrates its 25th anniversary. In this number, The Northern Miner's edit- orial policy of finding and reporting facts is strictly adhered to, but excellent writing by men knowing their subjects, endow each of the 152 pages with the romance of virile effort and the glamor of splendid achieve- ment. For its silver anniversary prediction, The Northern Miner estimates that Canada's mining industry will report mineral pro- duction for this year in excess of half a billion dollars. It will be a national and im- perial triumph in the field of industrial progress, and it will be all the more signi- ficant due to the war in which Canada and the British Commonwealths are engaged. Mining in Canada is truly all-Canadian, The Northern Miner sets forth. It is an important industry in all the nine provinces and in the Northwest Territories. Some 140,000 people in Canada are directly en- gaged in mining, milling, smelting and re- fining mine products. They draw wages exceeding 150 million dollars each year. With all The Northern Miner anniver- sary edition's special articles and splendid illustrative material deserving every com- mendation, those dealing with Canadian aviation's service to the mining industry, geophysical prospecting, the essential soundness of the gold standard; danger of inflation schemes, Ontario's highway build- ing fo mines, and the mineral exhibits at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, are especially noteworthy. Editorial Notes "Do Your Christmas Mailing at Once the boys overseas is the current slogan. 2 to Welfare relief lists have been knocked down time after time this year. All it needs is a knock out blow . Che United States presidential election is reaching the final stretch and the election- sers are turning on the heat, Italy has turned her armies against Greece and there are evidences that Con- stantinople may talk "turkey" to Mussolini before the scrap is over. John L. Lewis, head of the C.I.O., is re- ported to have given his O.K. to support for Wendell Willkie. Instead of an O.K. it may turn turn out to be a K.O. Berlin's post office has been reduced to ruins by the R.A.F. Now the planes will have to start a general delivery to other parts of the Reich--and apparently they are doing it. King Carol, of Rumania, may have run- away from his troubled country, but latest reports are that he has been arrest- ed in Spain and may be taken back to Rumania. And more trouble looms for the unfateful Carol. The sale of Christmas trees to United States has been mentioned as one means by which Canadians can safeguard their coun- tryv's exchange and at the same time in- crease their incomes. We recall, however, that a few years ago so many evergreen trees were shipped to New England cities that the market was glutted, prices fell to an unprofitable level. It appears to us that the export of Christmas trees should be under some kind of control to prevent a recurrence of an overplus on the market. A Bit of Verse THE LITTLE DOGS OF DUNKIRK Terrified by noise of shellfire, Lost and helpless, left to roam, All the little dogs of Dunkirk Looking for another home, Shepherds, spaniels, setters, mongrels, They were waiting on the beach; And the soldiers, their companions, Gave a kindly word to each. Little victims of the Fuehrer Shivering little refugees; i Should a soldier not show pity Even to the least of these? One black puppy off to England Rescued from that pleading pack-- British soldiers paid their shillings Just to take that puppy back. --Helen Terry in Chicago Tribune. A Bible Thought for Today . WE SEE WHAT WE LOOK FOR: Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God.--St, Matthew 4:8. | PIP a Crm, British Freighter Caplin Has Played Tag With Death | For 25 Years In Two Wars a | Capt, William Herbert Har-| land has survived Two Sub Attacks, Magnetic Mine, Plane Bombing, Two Wounds as Soldier Baltimore, Oct. 20--(AP).--Capt. william Herbert Harland doesn't | look like a man who could survive two submarine attacks, a magnetic mine, an airplane bombing and two severe wounds in two wars. But the 135-pound Englishman has been weathering such hazards for 25 years. When, last month, he pulled hls freighter through an attack by a German bombing plane, he handl- ed the situation with the aplomb which has long made the folks back in Redcar, Yorkshire, proud of their scrappy, 48-year-old fellow towns- man, ! Capt. Harland's game of tag with death began in the British infantry in France during the first Great War. At the Second Battle of Ypres Harland, then 22, received a knee wound. No sooner had he returned to action than he stopped a bhullét that permanently shortened his left arm three inches. Harland then joined the naval auxiliary. He was aboard the British muni- tions freighter John Henry Barry when a German torpedo sank: her in the -Mediterranean in March, 1918. The commander and four others werevlost, but Harland got away in a lifeboat and was picked up by a destroyer. The present war found him soon after its start In the "front 'on the S. S. Rockpool, 300 miles west of Ireland. "It was Oct. 19, he relates, "when a opened fire with a de 4 three quarters of a m A hit almeést certainly would have | doomed the vessel, loaded with 8,350 tons of iron ore from New- foundland. "Our amateur gun crew com- menced to return the fire, while we zig-zagged the ship according to the fall of the shells. "The battle went on for two hours; we fired 13 shells and got three hits. The German fired be- tween 70 and 80, and never hit us once. "At a quarter of three I left him | in a sinking condition. We later learned a British destroyer rescued part of his crew." That exploit broug Order of the B I He tock most of the Rockpool's crew to a new ship -- the S. S.| He r. Last April 20, tha Hawn- | by s ck a 1939, at 12:45," submarine un about 1t Harland the Empire, agnetic mine "South- of England," and "we all got cut of the ship safely in lifeboats m rast At Air Observers' Graduation | The first class of air observers to graduate under the British com- monwealth air training plan received their wines at R.C.AF. Trenton, Ontario. James S. Duncan acting deputy minister of national defence for air, is shown in the ABOVE of Stoney Mountain, Manitoba, while Flight-Licutenant W. 8, L. man, instructor of air observers, looks on. station, congratulating T. H. Rose, t photo Small | is being organized here. and were by a naval pinnance." He was in command of another freighter. On Scpt. 8, 200 miles west of Irel the ship was attacked by a twin-engined German bomber, The plane circled the ship, drop- ping machines and firing bursts of machine-gun bullets and cannon shells. The last cannon fire carried away the steering gear, and the ship started turning in circles. "We have to rig up a temporary steering gear and navigate this way for 30 hours," said Harland. The engagement lasted between 25 25 and 30 minutes but-- "We never lost a man--no one was hurt as far as we know. "The strong wind mada» it so they couldn't aim their bombs, and spe- cially-installed armor plate stopped many of the machine-gun bullets and shells." When the hullet-riddled came into Baltimore the bridge where Harland stood firing a rifle was dented and scarred and there were 38 holes in but the lookout had hurt, RECRUIT HOME picked up the crow"s nest, escaped un- DEFENCE CORPS Tacoma, W., Organization Model for Other Cities Officer Believes Tacoma, Wash, Act. 20 -- (AP) --A home' defence corps: that in- cludes ground forces, cavalry and a | recruited ex- | harbor defence 'navy' clusively from civilian ranks. and which will use civilian equipment a Its commanding officer, # 'retired major general, believes it n serve as a model for cities 9 oughout the United States. fi Preparing for war, earthquakes. fire or flood, the ground forces will be trained as fire fighters, first ald helpers, evacuation leaders, res- cue crews, anti-sabotage guards and other emergency duties. The cavalry will patrol powmr transmission lines, guard dams and reservoirs and protect bridges and highways. It began training several weeks ago. The "navy," being formed among | Tacoma Yacht Club members, will patrol the waterfront that run past shipbuilding yards, chemical plants, gasoline depots and the Pacific Northwest's biggest smelter. duties normally delegated to National Guard," says Maj.-Gen. David L. Stone. "It will guard our homes, our factories, our public utilities. It will compare with Eng- | ; | and few raiders penetrated the | ' fire fighting units and bomb re- | land's Air Raid Precaution Corps moval squads." een JAPANESE ARMY SUDDENLY QUITS CENTRE IN CHINA | Hong Kong, Oct. 20.--Tnhe Japa- nese army announced that it was withdrawing from Nanning, strat- egic communications centre in Kwangsi Province, which it has held for nearly a year. The announcement, issued by headquarters of the South China command at Canton, came as one of the biggest 'surprises of war. It said: "The Japanese forces are evacu- | ating Nanning, which they occupied Nov. 24, 1939, on their own initia~ tive, as further occupation of that city has become meaningless fol- lowing the entry of Japanese troops into Indo-China." ship | | have been dropped | their utmost to effect. irs before i the job thorouchlv and eonsequent- shorelines | Axis bombers back from the British "This civilian 'army' will assume | Midlands and Northewestern Eng- the | | before. the | three - year - old Chinese - Japanese Hun Oil Firm All Of 12 Plants Blown Up Has To Close R.AF. Spreads Devastation &- > Heaviest Bombs Yet Used Pound Berlin--Systema- tic Raids Show Effect London, Oct. 20 -- In a lengthy report of Royal Alr Force opera- tions over Berlin since the begin- ning of September, the Air Ministry tells of widspread damage in the German capital and of scenes of devastation in key armament fac- tories in the Reich, The Ministry based part of its report on "reliable neutral sources." Among them, it cited a U.S. oil chemist who recently returned home because the German firm for which he had worked 14 years had had all its «12 scattered plants bombed out of existence by R.AF. marksmen, Residents of the Charlottenberg area of Berlin recently went with- out gas for days because of hits on gas works there. Earlier the Ministry and its news | service said that British bombers, flying through thick clouds, dump- ed the heaviest calibre bombs yet | carried to Berlin upon the German | captital Saturday night and other planes attacked at least a dozen | targets in Germany and German- dominated countries. Plane Plant Afire The Air Ministry said only that ts bombers "attacked an aircraft } electric power station and ight yard in Berlin." Its news service, elaborating on the bulletin, told, however, of a | large fire started in the Branden- | Spandau suburb of Berlin; a heavy | asault on the Moabit power station, cn of Berlin's main sources of | electric supply, and salvos of high explesives falling on the Putlitz- strasse and Lehrter railroad yards | | near Berlin's centre. Returning raiders said they could see vivid white flashes at the blaz- | ing airplane engine works as they | | roared homeward. Hamburg's much-bombed docks and shipping areas had three sep- arate attacks at them. Other tarkets attacked were oil | plants at ozne; naval docks at Cuxhaven and Bremen; railway communications at Bremen, Dorthmund and Brus- sels; port facilitizs at Flushing and Antwerp, and several German air- iromez. Sink Supply Ship The night attacks were a contin- uation of the British "master plan" which envisions systematic asaults on the Nazi military machine in- stead of reprisals on German cities | for German ralds on London and British cities. The Air Ministry said planes of the British Coastal Command suc- cessfuliy attacked the electric pow- er station at Brest, France, and sank a German supply ship in 2 torpedo attack off the Norwegian In its survey of Berlin damage ince September, the Ministry sald: "The vast Siemens works which provide Garman armed forces with a great deal of their electrical equinment, has been severely dam- t aged, and, according to one report, hits were scored on the buildings which house the electrical trans- former plant. "A third of the Loewe factory which makes wireless sets and other nlately destroyed and at another electrical equipment has been er city's defenses, From midnight on the night was comparatively quiet. Gunfire Wasted In one East Anglian town a raider swooped low to machine-gun a train but there were no casual- ties. Houses and buses also were splattered with machine-gun bul- lets. In another East Anglian town a policeman was killed and several persons injured when a delayed ac- tion bomb exploded. Raiders also were active in North-east England where a hos- pital was struck. London had six alarms from dawn to dusk and the plane toll was listed as eight German to six British, The raiders again followed one of their favorite tactics--dropping in- cendiary bombs first and then us- ing the light of fires thus started to guide them in attacks with ex- plosive bombs. A town in the industrial Mid- {lands went through its most severe air raid of the war Saturday night in any previous attack on that cen- and its casualties were greater than tre, the Government said. Saturday night's enemy raiders spread their attack over a wide area, but the main force was direct- ed against London and the Mid- lands. The Air Ministry stated that in the London area casualties were | not heavy and a few fires were | soon extinguished or brought under control, NAPANEF FIRE L0SS 1S SET ABOUT $5,000 | Worst Blaze in 10 Years as Restaurant and Bakery Damaged § Stettin, Leuna and Col-| Napanee, Oct. 20--Damage estim- | ated at about $5,000, was caused | Sunday afternoon when fire broke {out at the rear of J. E. Robbins' Arcadian Restaurant, on Dundas | Street and spread to a section of Caton's Bakery adjoining. The rear of the restaurant bore the brunt of the loss, a three-storey | frame addition to that building us- | ed as living quarters on the upper | floors, and housing a large walk- in ice-box on the main floor, being practically destroyed. Volumes of water poured into the main section as the firemen played two hose lines on the blaze for nearly two hours. The whole building soon filled with smoke and patrons at lun- cheon had to leave. y A frame building on the Caton property was burned and 85 bags of flour became watersoaked. There was also considerable damage by | water to a rear kitchen. It was one of the worst fires seen in Napanee in the past 10 years. Canadian Legion \ Will Not Forget Fallen Comrades Ottawa, Oct. 20 -- Canada's sol- factory. where chemical machinery | dier dead will, be honoured by the made, fires broke out after a | | prolonged raid and destroyed half of the factory buildings." Nazis Hide Damiige, Damage in Berlin i{s;muocH greater that the Nazis admit, the*Ministry | said. It pointed to reports of ef-| forts of Berlin police to keep cur- | fous persons from viewing the dam- age [ "In ths words of one informant," the report said, "gangs are put to | work almost as sgon as §he bombs afi they daylicht. In many Instances the few hours of darknes left do not rive workmen enough time to do areas are roped off so as to prevent the truth from leaking out." British night fighter planes and anti-aireraft fire held all but a few capital Sunday night and early Mon- day, but Liverncol and the Midlands towns were attacked repeatedly. The ralds acainst parts of the land were believed to be longer sus- taincd--though perhaps not as heavy--than the attacks the night London, however, had long lulls nation on Remembrance Day, Now. 11, as a result of a decision by thg Secretary of State to proclaim the day a statutory holiday as usual, An appeal to all citizens to pare ticipate in the ceremonies that win be held throughout the. country, is made by Alex Walker, of Calgary, Dominion president of the Cana--. dian Tegion, who announces that provincial commands and branches of the Legion have been instructed to make plans suitable to local conditions, In spite of modified arrange- ments, necessitated because of the war, it Is expected that thousands service men including local de- of citizens everywhere, and ex- tachments of the Venterans' Home Guard of Canada, will take part in | the ceremonies. THE CENTRE OF CONVENIENCE IN' WITH A CLUB RESTAURANT OF INTERNATIONAL FAME OTEL de [A SALLE PRUMMOND & ST. CATE os /ITES 150 BATHS - RATES 3 4 50 Round Trip Bargain Fares NOV. 1-2-3 OTTAWA $35.35 Not good Pool Trains 6 and MONTREAL $7.50 Ste. Anne de Beaupre $12.10 - GOING--First Train 10 p.m. Nov. 1. OSHAWA to QUEBEC $11.50 Trois Rivieres $9.70 RETURN LIMIT Nov. 4. 15 to Ottawa and Montreal, NOTE--No Ottawa connections off Pool Train 14 Nov. 3. OCTOBER 31 St. John, N.B. $15.00 Halifax, N.S. Yarmouth, N.S. $20.00 $18.75 And Other Maritime Points For full particulars consult CANADIAN Ask NATIONAL nu. Agents. Ask for Handbill. CANADIAN PACIFIC dbill