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Oshawa Daily Times, 20 Nov 1940, p. 1

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PUBLISHED Every Week Day Except Saturday. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS The PROBS Cloudy With Light Scat- tered Showers and Cooler. VOL. 27--NO. 99 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1940 Single copies 3c TWELVE PAGES HUNGARY JOINS TOTALITARIAN AXIS British +* T ® ¢ 9» L Calling for On Brides At Rouge, Lynde Creek Tenders in Whitby, Conant Letter to Whitby | pf Reveals Last Engineering Obstacles Being Re- moved Other Developments All Point to Completion, of 4- Lane Highway to Oshawa More conclusive evidence that the Department of Highways in- tends to complete th: four-lane highway to Oshawa in the next year is seen by Oshawa officials in a letter written by Hon. G. D. Conant to the mayor and council of Whitby. In that letter the Whitby offi- cials are advised that tenders have been called for construction of bridges of the Lynde creek, west of Whitby, over the Rouge river, and one at Henry street in Whitby, This announcement, coupled with. the awarding of contracts for a bridge at Pickering, are all seen as indica- tive of the Department's plan to finish the highway right to Oshawa. Tenant's Ordered Ont Another development . in the highways program occurred today in Oshawa when notices were re- ceived by occupants of houses pur- chased in the spring of 1939 by the Department of Highways. The tenants were notified to vacate the department's houses by January 1, 1941, providing further proof that the department is planning high- way action early next year. The department purchased the houses early in 1939 when it was intended to continue highway con- struction. Later the homes were leased to various tenants until highway work was resumed. With the announcement that (Continued on Page 12, Col. 2) BANDAGE-SWATHED FRENGHMAN GOING HOME T0 DUNKIRK One of Wounded French Prisoners Released From Nazi Hospitals By CHARLES 8S. FOLTZ, JR. (Associated Press Staff Writer) Geneva, Ncv. 20 (AP).--oun the scuffed plush seats of second-class railway coaches, a melancholy car- avan of France's war-wounded passed through Geneva bound from German prison hospi- tals to their conquered homeland. There were 630 cf them, the leg- less, the armless, the sightless and the sick, but they lifted a thin hail, "Vive La France!" and again, "Vive la Suisse!" as Swiss relief organiza- tions fed and comforted them. There were tears in many an eye .and some of the men wrecked by (Continued on Page 2, Col. 3) BINGO OVER BURNS, WEDNES- day night, voucher prizes, 8:45, 15¢. (tf) DANCING EVERY SAT. JUBILEE Pavilion, 'Ladies 35c, Gentlemen 50c. (99c) BINGO, CCF. HALL, WEDNES- day, 8:45. L.T.B. Juveniles. (99a) $1 DEPOSIT WILL HOLD ANY Article until Christmas at Bas- setts, Jewelers, on Oshawa's main corner, (99a) MADAME NEVADA, PALMIST, 106 Elgin East, to Thursday. (99a) JO'NT UNITED CHURCH PRAY- e: service at 8 each Thursday evening, St. Andrews. Come (992) today, | Marks 75th Milestone | landed at nearby One of Missing Aviators Found Ottawa, . Nov. 20 (CP).--One of the five airmen missing after they abandoned their Royal Canadian Air Force bomber by parachute near East Lake, Que. last Satur- day night, has been located, the air ministry announced today. An air force statement said only that the airman had been located from the air in the vicinity of East | Lake; roughly 100 miles north east of Quebec City, The man was not identified but | emergency rations were dropped to him. U.S. Planes Join Hunt St. Hubert, Que., Nov. 20 (CP).-- Nine United States army bombers St. Hubert air- port today to take part in the search for the five Royal Canadian | Air Force Fliers missing in the re- | mote district of East Lake, Que. DAVID M. TOD One of Oshawa's highly respected senior residents, who tomorrow, November 21s', will celebrate his 75th birthday. Mr. Tod is now eligi- | ble for membership in the famous | "Three-Quarter Century Club", of | St. Petersburg, Florida. where he and Mrs. Tod have spent several | winter holidays. | HIT-RUN REWARDS CONSIDERED FOR THREE GARAGEMEN Judge Coleman Asked to! Study Efforts of Ux-| bridge, Claremont Men The first Provincial the move to curb hit-and-run driv- ing may go to three Uxbridge gar- agemen, The bombers, of four or five down after they reached the air- | field and an official] said, this in- | dicated they would not take off today to join in the search. The | manned by crews | ceiling was low in this district and | a steady drizzle of rain was fall- ing. TALIANS PUSHED BACH BY GREEKS WITH BAYONETS Losses Said Heavy Fierce Fighting in Koritza Area Athens, Nov. 20 (AP).--Mass bay- | onet charges and fierce hand-to- | | hand fighting have carried counter- | a Greek troops deep into | Albania in the battle for import- | ant Koritzd, the Greek high com- | mand declared today. Italian resistance apparently was stiffened by reinforcements and the machine-gunning and dive- bombing of Greek front line troops. The Greek communique said that "among the Morava Heights" where Greek mountain troops are driving at 'the Italian invasion base at rewards in | Koritza itself "our offensive action continued with success." Other gains were discussed for it was learned last night | Greek forces battling for doemina- at Queen's Park, as Attorney-Gen- | tion of the supply route beyond eral Conant asked for a recommen. | Koritza. dation of police and county offi- cials in the case of Harold Sander- son, Claremont and Basil Merrick. and Lloyd McIllmurray of Uxbridge. The three, it is understood, gave information which led to the arrest of Norman Reynolds on a charge of mansluaghter arising from the motor death on Nov. 2 of Louis Ar- bourne. Reports of the case by Com- missioner W. H. Stringer and In- spector Charles Gurnett, C.I.B. have been forwarded to Judge Coleman, Whitby, and Ontario County High Constable W. H. Clark for consider- ation. Mr. Conant has also forwarded letters to Chief Constable John Nor- ton, Claremont and Chief Constable William Vesey, Uxbridge, commend- ing them for their work in the in- vestigation and arrest. NEW WEDDING SIGN Hartford, Conn., Nov. 20--(AP)-- Sign seen on the rea rof a ribbon bedecked automobile carrying a couple away from a church here:-- "This is real love, not conscription." "Our army ejected the enemy at (Continued on Page 2, Col. 3) Labor Leader Denies Truck Men Working Toronto, Nov, 20--((P)--Offi- cials of two transport companies said last night that some of their drivers who staged a walkout last week were back at work. M. H. Nicols, American Federa~ tion of Labor organizer of the teamsters' union, sak! it was not true. "One man went back last week but he's the only on» we know about. We held a meeting in the Labor Temple tonight and there were just as many men there as before. The companies are just say- ing this as a means of getting the men back to work." One transport official sald 40 or 50 of their men were back at work and an official of the other firm said 10 were back and 25 others had applied for reinst:tement. Swiss Farmers Also Kicking Over Lack of Farm Workers Berhe, Switzerland, Nov. 20-- (AP)--Swiss peasants, overburden- ed with work because of compulsory military © service and consequent shortage of farm hands are grum- bling at government work-creating projects for the unemployed They say that building tunnels and highways is too expensive, "Send the workers to us" said peasant organizations, "we'll = give them plenty to do." Workers, however, prefer govern- ment projects and they have good reasons. One such project is the building of a mountain road through the Essenthal® Valley in the Bernese Alps, for which mainly o'der men have beef engaged. Work on this road has been in progress for two years and there's still ag lot to be done. Absence of cteamshovels is painfully notice- able. Gangs of men cig at huge (Continued on Page 12, Col, 3) » C.1.O. President Lam] basts A.F.L. Leader and each, were tied | in| Chief of Clothing Work- ers' Union Atlantic City, N.J.,, Nov. 20..(AP) | --John L. Lewis had the laurels of | |a major victory in the Congress of | Industrial Organizations convention | over Sidney Hillman and advocates |of new efforts for labor peace to- | day. Lewis. was the victor yesterday | with an attack aimed alternately at | | william Green and the American | Federation of Labor high command land Hillmans Amalgamated Cloth- |ing Workers Union. The conven- | tion gave Lewis a thumping vote on his policy of simply maintaining |a peace committee with power to | | negotiate with the' AF.L. The Hillman blgec wanted the C. | 1.0. delegates to consider an imme- |diate move to re-explore possibili- | | ties of ending United States labor's | lcivil war. But Lewis replied that | {there would be no peace until the See Little Hope In Labor Ranks as Lewis Wins Over CIO Advocates | measure to increase its revenue for 'possible use in a labor war. of Peace AF.L. Leaders Gloomy | at Prospects Following Lewis Speech -- Plan! War Chest | New Orleans, Nov. 20.--(AP)-- Vice-President Matthew Woll, of {the American Federation of Labor, | casting a gloomy glance at the dove lof United States labor peace laun- | ched only yesterday from the White | | House, said today he saw no hope [for a settlement with the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Woll, considered one of the schol- |ars of the AFL. in convention here, | made the assertion after examining |a similar statement by C.I.0. presi- | dent John L. Lewis, directed at the | |AF.L. { At the same time, the AFL. reso- | {lutions committee considered a President Willlam Green called | Lewis a "real dictator" after Lewis | had told his cheering C.1.0. conven- | tion in. Atlantic City "I've done a |C.1.O. demonstrated its strength to (lot of exploring in Bill's mind and | | "bargain on equal terms" with the | {APL |C.IO. to take a stand'against Com- | munism, Nazism and Fascism, an | issue which is reported to be a |C10. Vice-President Philip Mur- ray will. agree to. take the C.I.O. presidency Lewis will vacate this | week. Murray served notice on the con- | vention yesterday that he was not la candidate for Lewis' job and did not want it, and that his interest {in labor was the "promotion of our | ideals, our concepts of true trade union American objectives." Representatives of severa? of the | largest C.I.O. unions a reported | (Continued on Page I2, Col. 1) TURN IN FRENCH ATTITUDE TOWARD NAZIS FORESEEN Influences U.S. to Return | i Withdrawn Charge d'Af- |ing there." {| The Hillman group also wants the | | large factor in determining whether | I give you my word--there is noth- Lewis blasted the AFL. after President Roosevelt in a message | to Green--there was rio indication here that a similar message had (Continued on Page 2, Col. 3) PICKETERS FINED 520 AT WINDSOR; APPEAL PLANNED Magistrate Apppeal -- Holds Guilty of Loitering Windsor, Nov. 20.--Conviction in police court here yesterday of forty- seven Chrysler strikers and U.AW. A. officials under Defense of Can- | ada Regulations will i Bo i in the Supreme Court at Osgoode Hall, it was one id J. L. Cohen, K.C.,, counsel for the | group and solicitor for the or | |in Canada. The forty-seven were fined ol and costs with the alternative of Welcomes Men faires to Vichy Washington, Nov. 20 (AP).--Re- lations between the United States and France entered an apparently new phase today, coincident with the increasing reports that Mar- shal Petain was showing a dis- position to go slow in collaborating with the axis powers. First tangible sign of a possible change was the fact that Robert D. Murphy, a veteran of 10 years diplomatic service in France before and during the war, was ordered back to Vichy to take up the duties of charge d'affaires. Murphy, form- erly counsellor at the Paris em- bassy, has been in this country for several months. In sending Murphy back to Vichy at this time, it was indicated that the United States government felt it desirable to normalize relations to a greater extent. The charge d'affaires was expected to carry de- tailed instructions = fer explaining to the Petain regime the 'attitude of the United States on numerous outstanding questions. The impression, meanwhile, ap- peared to be growing here in gov- (Continued on Page 2, Col. 1) Two Aviators Hurt As Bomber Crashes St. Hubert, Que., Nov. 20 (CP).-- Two airmen were injured.slightly today at nearby St. in the crash of a bomber which | caught fire as it was taking off. An official described the bomber only as "a new aircraft which was awaiting delivery." '°wo of the crew--whose names were not made public--suffered superficial injur- ies when the bomber hit the ground. Hubert airpors | one month in jail, following a | |lengthy hearing at the conclusion | of which Magistrate D. M. Brodie (recommended the appeal on the | basis of the importance of the case. | Pending the appeal, the group Is still out on original bail, totalling | $5,900, George Burt, regional director of the UAW.A. in Canada, said the union will be responsible for the fines in the event the convictions are upheld. He indicated the case may ultimately be taken to the Su- preme Court of Canada. Mr. Burt last night despatched the following telegram to the Hon Norman A. McLarty, Minister of Labor: "In view of court decision declar- ing peaceful picketing illegal under Defense of Canada Regrlations. our (Continued on Page 2, Col. 5) | All Residents Get Times Today The publishers of The Osh- awa Daily Times are distri- buting today's issue to every home in the city and suburbs to acquaint non-subscribers With the service rendered to the community. As the home newspaper, it records all hap- peaings of public interest, | social affairs, sports events, civic progress and through The Canadian Press, provides world-wide news of the day. You are invited to become a regular gupscriber through the carrier boy who serves your locality, or call the cir= culation | department, phone 35. . | the | bombed. | here today * 0 VSocond Bi Bombing For Big Czech Munitions Plant Also Bombed Munitions Stores, Docks at Kiel, Berlin, and Hamburg English Midlands Towns Hard Hit By Heavy Ger- man Night Raids London, Nov. 20 (CP) -- | British bombers raided the great Skoda Armaments Works at Pilsen, Bohemia, last night, the Air Ministry announced to- day. It was the second time British have been over Pilsen, in old Czechoslovakia. Munitions stores and other objectives in Berlin also were Other aircraft at- | tacked ship yards and docks at | Kiel, Hamburg and Bremer- | haven, causing fires and explo- | sions. Three R.A F. craft were lost. It was also announced that |R.AF. fighter planes in Greece shot down nine Italian planes | yesterday without any British | losses. 14 Towns Bombed London, Nov, 20 (CP).--Waves of Nazi planes roaring over one a minute rained bombs by the thous- lands on 14 towns in England's in- dustrial] Midlands last night and early today in a ruinous nine-hour | raid likened to the hardest hit lar eas to last week's devastating [ast on Coventry. Amid the fire blackened ruins of | Amat 20 miles from Birming- ham, the flag-draped coffins of 300 victims of last Thursday night's | attack were to be buried today in Is common grave to be marked by a memorial. Still meager reports at mid-morn- | ing painted a picture of widespread destruction in a belt across the middle of England, but it appeared | that damage in the hardest hit city (Continued on on Page 12, 12, Col. 5) WANTS BRITISH TAXATION PLAN Jantieson Bon Bone Calls for Abolition of Unfair Prop- erty Taxes Toronto, Nov. 20 (CP).--Jamieson | Bone of Belleville, vice-president of the Ontario Property Owners' As- | sociation, said in a luncheon speech that property cannot survive unjust, unfair and dis- criminatory taxation. He called for revival and encouragement of allied trades. To do this he said the British system of municipal taxation and education must be followed. "Pro- perty"s rights and responsibilities must be plainly defined and ad- hered to. All other government and municipal expenditures must come from some other scurce. This in- cludes most of the cost of primary and certainly all the cost of sec- ondary education. Municipal tax- ation must be levied equally on and collected from both property own- er and tenant." * % 9 id Skoda Arms Works in Pilsen L AR OR J FINISH 4-LANE ROAD TO CITY Pact Signed at Vienna Today Linking Magyars With Nazis, Japs, Italy Hun Desecrates Funeral Rites For Coventry's Air Raid Dead Coventry, England, Nov. 20 (CP) -- While anti-aircraft guns barked at a lone German raider over this bomb-devas- tated city, 172 out of some 300 persons killed in last Thursday's heavy attack were buried today in a common grave. Two British fighting planes finally chased the raider from the vicinity of the burial ground while hundreds of the mourners laid wreaths along the two hundred foot long trench dug for the flag-draped coffins. The coffins were laid three- deep in the trench. The Bishop of Coventry, Right Reverend Marvin Hay, spoke at the communal grave pleading for a better under- standing, a closer neighborli- ness and determination to go on. The Bishop was pro- nouncing the benediction when the German raider appeared. The crowd looked up in anger and defiance . Then British fighters moved up and the raider disappeared. NEW GROUP STARTS ARMY TRAINING IN 39 CAMPS FRIDAY Expect Quota Will Be Better Filled Than for| First Call Ottawa, Nov. 20 (CP).-- A full quota of recruits is expected to re- port on Friday at the 39 militia training centres across the coun- try, ready to begin 30 days of com- pulsory military training under the National Resources Mobilization Act. Officials at the Departments of National Defence and National War Services said today everything is in readiness for the start of the sec- ond training period. The quota for the period is 29, 600 men in their early 20's, 100 more than the final quota for the first period which began October 9 and ended November 8. The additional 100 men will go into the training centre at Huntingdon, one of the English-speaking centres in Quebec province. Original quota for the first per- fod was 29,750, but at the last min- ute. the strength of the Huntingdon centre was reduced from 1,000 to 750 when it was found less Eng- lish-speaking men would be avail- (Continued on Page 12, Col. 3) Lives in Ottawa Hospital Room As No Other Room Is Obtainable Ottawa, Nov. 20 (CP) --It's so hard to find. a place to live in war- time Ottawa that ohe newcomer who isn't sick is living in a hospi- tal. He is Andy Clarke, former To- ronto newspanerman now attacned' to the Department of Public In- formation. "They fixed up the hos- pital office to make a room and it's a pretty good room too," he ex. plained today. The YMCA. gymnasium hes, 'said, been turned into a dormitory . to help handle the big population in- crease caused by expansion of most government departments during the past year. "We've been' full ever since the war started," an official "and every week-end we have to turn away as many as 30." Newspaper advertisements aren't mugh help to the rcom or apart- ment-seeker, either, More adver- isenients are. inserted bv people : (Continued on Page 2, Col. 6) Action Seer ws Definite Prelude to Military Oper- ations by Nazis Into Balkans Bulgaria, Rumania and Spain Expected to Follow Example -- Turkey 'Warns War Imminent Vienna, Nov. 20--(AP)--Hungary became a full-fledged partner of the totalitarian Axis today by signe. ing up with the German-Italian Japanese alliance. Thus Germany stretched a po=- tential military avenue 250 miles further into Southeast Europe--to- ward Greece, Turkey and the Sues Canal. The original alliance, signed last Sept. 27 at Berlin, is a 10-year mili-. tary and economic treaty which binds its signers to a one-for-all and all-for-one pledge of aid against any new entrant into either the European or Asiatic wars. Hitler himself came to this one- time capital of Nazi-annexed Aus- tria for the ceremony. A protocol admitting Hungary to alliance membership was. signed by Hungary's Foreign Minister Csaky and for the original signers, by German Foreign Minister Ribben- trop, Italian foreign Minister Ciano and Saburuo Kurusu, Japanese ame basador to Germ:ny. Military Plans Secret There was no intimation from any sources how soon any military operations might follow these Nazi | diplomatic strides toward the Bale kans, but scarcely an observer doubted such a step would be take" en. In the original agreement, Ger-: many, Italy .and Japan bound themselves "to assist one another with all political, economic and military means when one of the three contracting powers is attacked by a power not at present involved (Continued on Page 2, Col. 4) FRENCH FISHERMEN ARE IN DIRE NEED Marooned on * on Tiny Island of Miquelon by Develop- ments in Europe Boston, Nov. 20 -- (AP) -- The plight of 1,500 French fishermen, reported "marooned" and in need on tiny Miquelon Islard off New- foundland--blocked by the war from returning to Furope--led to efforts here today to provide food clothing and fuel for them. The mariners left France last spring to fish at the North Atlane tic's Grand Bank: and planned to go home this fall. but when the mother country was efeated by Germany they put in at the French island. Their plight came to light last night when Francois Briere, French consul in Boston, revealed that at- tempts were being made to raise money to ¢end supplies to the men. He said he had arranged for shipment of 50 cases of foodstuffs and heavy clothing to the island next month aboard g British trawl er and that he was hopeful of send=- ing 100 tons of coal to the men. With the island's scant popula- tion of about 500 persons apparenyg= ly unable to handle the relief load (Continued on Page 2, Col. 2 Close Chinese Border To French Indo-China Chungking, China, Nov. 20 (CP). --Chinese despatches reported the border between China and French Indo-China was sealed since yest- erday morning. They said no Chin. ese was permitted to enter Indo- China and freight and mail was also stopped.

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