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PUBLISHED 'Every Week Day Except Saturday. 3 4 APPS The Oshawa Daily Tunes PROBS Partly Cloudy and 'Cold Tonight and Thursday; Scattered Snowflurties. : { ) [ Q VOL. 27--NO. 104 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1940 Single copies 3c SIXTEEN PAGES R.A.F. HITS BIG SHIP AT VALONA 'Greatly Increase' Damage at 'Turin, Italy ry » BUILD 4-LANE HIGHWAY TO RITSON Contracts for Bridges Let to Brantford Firm, Start Work Next Week Route Through City Will Be Same as An- nounced Early in 1939 --Overpass Bridges at Cromwell and Simcoe Council Finds Cost of Widening and Re- surfacing Simcoe Street, Bloor to Athol, That the four-lane highway which is to be completed from West 'Hill to Oshawa within the next year will be completed right through to Ritson road was one fact which was adduced at last night's meeting of City Council when the various developments in the highway program were discuss- ed. Ald. Ernie Cay even suggested that the highway would be built right through to Newcastle by next "all. ; The same alderman announced that a Toronto construction paper stated that the contract for con- crete bridge underpasses at Simcoe street south, and at Cromwell road in East Whitby township, and a concrete bridge across the Oshawa creek had been awarded to the Brennan Paving Company, Limit- ed, of Brantford. In addition this firm will do two miles of grading and culvert building. The company plans to start work on this contract next week, it was indicated, space for the placing of equipment and supplies having been secured yes- terday. Route Is Unchanged The route which the highway will follow through Oshawa will be the same as was announced early in 1939 when a large sketch of the proposed route through the south- ern section of Oshawa was printed on the front, page of The Times. (This sketch'is reprinted today on Page 3) A few minor alterations may be made. A complete plan of the route as revised will be sent to (Continued on Page 10, Col. 3) AFL STUDIES PART IN DEFENCE WORK Action Taken Toward Ending Racketeefing i in Unions ¢ m---- New Orleans, Nov. 27 (AP).--The American Federation of Labor, with action taken toward ending racket- eering in unions, discussed its part in United state national de- fence. National Commafder Milo J. Warner of the Amefican Legion, in an address prepared for delivery be- fore the convention, said his crgan- ization favored military training for young men before they become wage earners, The AFL, by unanimous vote yesterday, adopted the resolutions committee report urging unicns to take measures to rid their ranks of gangsterism and as a last resort authorizing its supreme body, the executive council, to "use all of its power" to get action. What action could be taken by the council, stripped this week of the power to suspend any single union, was not disclosed. A high AFL. official said the re- solutions committee report today on labor's part in the deferice program made no mention of strikes but emphasized the desire of his group to participate in fullest degree in re-arming America. Asserting the Legion advocates basic training for young men before they reach the responsibility of adulthood, Warner declared: "We want their military training (Continued on Page 10, Col. 2) [uteri Mails To Britain Lost London, Nov. 27 (CP) -- The Post Office announced that letter and parcel mails from Canada posted in Ontario between Oct. 18 and Oct. 23, have been lost. UANA. VULTEE AIRCRAFT WORKERS RETURN TO WORK Secure 16-Months Agreement and Wage Increases he Downey, Calif, Nov. 27. (AP)= The sprawling Vultee Aircraft fac- tory, its 12-day strike settled by a 16-months agreement providing for arbitration of workers' disputes, resumes operations today on its $84,000,000 worth of military con- tracts. The agrement, signed last night by representatives of the company and the (Congress of Industrial Organizations) United Automobile Workers, carries wage increases of some $1,400,000 annually for produc- tion men in the minimum pay bracket. Richard W. Millar, Vultee presi- dent, said "it will take &ilitle time to get the factory in shape for work resumption, but we probably can start some men back to work at once." Other company representatives declared there would be no "mass re-employment." "It will bea slow process," one of them said. "The men will be subjected to almost as close scrut- iny as when they were originally employed." Federal Bureau of Investigation (Continued on Page 10, Col. 6) Britons Saved $2,113,750,000 In First Year London, Nov. 27 (CP)--Sir Kings- ley Wood, chancellor of the Excheq- uer, today warned Britons "it is vital to our war effort to increase still further the amount of saving during the coming year." He spoke at lunch at which Sir Robert Kindersley, president of Na- tional Savings Committee, announc- ed the objective of £475,000,000 ($2,- 113,750,000) had been exceeded at the end of the first year of the war savings campaign, Nov. 23. Actual 72, A '| figure was £475,532,981. War Bulletins Budget Set at $251, 700 "ENORMOUS CALL" London, Nov. 27 (CP) -- Ernest Bevan, Minister of La- bor, announced to the House of Commons today "between now and next June there will be an- other enormous call up" of Britain's manhood for fighting services, CASH PROVIDED Washington, Nov. 27 (CP) --Navy Secretary Frank Knox announced today President Roosevelt 'has allotted $50,- 000,000 for immediate velopment of a chain of air and naval bases on sites recent- ly acquired from Great Britain | 50 United in exchange for | States destroyers. CARGO SHIP SUNK Canberra, Nov. 27 (CP)-- | An enemy raider sank the 8,739-ton British cargo ship Port Brisbane in the middle of the Indian Ocean five days | ago, W. M. Hughes, Australian navy minister disclosed today. ENGINE SHORTAGE US; PLANES NG IN SPRING Further Trade of British Motors for Finished Planes Possible Washington, Nov. 27--(AP)--An official prediction of "a very large shortage of engines for United States warplanes by next spring suggested the possibility today that another trade of United States bombers for British-ordered. en- gines might be in the offing. Such a deal was regarded as be- ing in line with the existing policy of dovetailing the filling of Ameri- can and British military orders here as far as possible. A few hours before the war de- partment announced the impend- ing motor shortage yesterday, the Marquess of Lothian, British am- bassador, made his second call at the state department in two days to discuss all the war needs of his country in the light of his recent visit to London, Lord Lothian has summed up Britain's most urgent requirements as ships, munitions, planes and finances, but he said he made no specific request for aid, On the subject of extending fin- (Continued on Page 10, Col. 4) Premier King Plans To Adjourn House Until February 17 Ottawa, Nov. 27--(CP)--Prime Minister Mackenzie King gave no- tice in today's votes and proceed- ings of a motion that he will pro- pose in the House of Commons whereby parliament will adjourn at the conclusion of the current throne speech debate until Feb. 17, 1941. Feeling among observers on Pare liament Hill is that the debate might end this week. Canada is Given First Whack At British War Supply Orders London, Nov, 27 (CP) --Arthur B. Purvis, chairman, British Purchas- ing Commission in United States, told The Canadian Press today, Canada gets first chance to meet requests for war orders received by the commission in New York. Representatives of the Canadian ministry of supply "sees all incom- ing cables and decide whether Capada can have a whack at them," he said. Britain's biggest buyer added, he was "very satisfied" with Canada's participation, Indicating a heavy increase in United States ald to Britain in 1941, Purvis told the press confer- ence: "Next year if I were sitting in Germany, I would be very worried at what is going to flow out of the United States." He said American plants for construction of war materials in many cases, have been built "from ground up," and will be getting into full operation next year. Airplanes and ships, first of all, are' needed from America, he sald, and after that other war equip- ye fachine tools. TN ---- de- | Increase Made Neces- sary: by Decreased School Grants and War Emergency Class Costs, Says Adminis- trator The Finance Committee of the Board of Education, meeting last | night, estimate of the cost of maintaining | Oshawa's educational] system during 194 and the board was requested to pass this figure along to City Council for inclusion in its budget of civic expenditures for next year. The $251,700 figure for the year 1941 represents an increase of $4,- 102 over the 1940 estimate of $247,- 598. Commenting on the slight in- crease, Gorden Bunker, Board of Education administrator, told The Times that the additional money did not represent broader expendi- tures on the part of the board but rather was the result of reductions in grants to the board. It is not known exactly how much the re- duction in the grant from the De- partment of Education will amount | to but it was considered advisable to budget a sum for this purpose {| It was also expected that there ber of students attending the col- legiate whose homes are elsewhere with a sequent reduction in fees usually ived from this source. (Continued on Page 10, Col. 5) Canadian Sympathy Sent To Coventry Coventry, ®ng., Nov. 27 (CP Cable) --High Commissioner Vin- cent Massey conveyed the sympa- thy of Canada to the Lord Mayor of Coventry during a visit to the bomb-ravaged industrial city to- day. He said he found municipal offi- cials and the people "tackling the task of recrganization in character- istic British fashion." set $251,700, as a tentative would be a reduction in the num- | Off Big Avalanches For '41 by School Board, $4,102 More Than 1940 Kiwanis President HOWARD H| KERR Unanimous choice of the Oshawa Kiwanis Club as President for 1941. Norwegians Sabotage Railways By Setting Stockholm, Nov. 27--(AP)--Aval- anches described as apparently the work of saboteurs are reported to have cut in 10 places a key railway across the southern part of Ger- man-occupied Norway. The Oslo correspondent of the Stockholm newspaper. Dagens Ny- heter wrote that the avalanches roared down mountain slopes yes- terday in .the Westlandet (west land) area to cut the Bergen-Oslo railway and block highways. A state of emergency has been declared in the area, he said, and troops have been posted at strate- gle points to guard the transporta- tion systems. Several weeks of work will be required to repair the rail- way, he said. Two Deaths in West- ern Ontario Result of Storm--Roads Drifted (By The Canadian Press) Snow-clogged highways, stalled cars, delayed transportation sched- ules and frosty air gave evidence to- day that real winter finally had set- tiled over the southern areas of On- tario after it had been experienced in northern sections for more than two weeks, The snow arrived yesterday to the accompaniment of terrific gales which lashed waters of the Great Lakes into churning waves similar to those of the disastrous Nov. 11 storm when several vessels found- ered. : At least two deaths were attribut. ed to the storm--both in western Ontario where the force of the bliz- zard first was felt. Near Norwich Mrs. Tobert Fletcher of Newark, Ont, was killed when her car was forced out of control by the gale Near Windsor another fatality oc- curred when William O'Shea's truck crashed into the rear of a highways department sanding truck and O'Shea was killed. Storm signals were hoisted after mid-day in all Lake Erie and Lake Ontario ports and vessels clung to their safe havens. A number of ves- sels started from Toronto for Roch- (Continued on Page 10, Col. 4) Highway Traffic Slowed To Walk by Heavy Snowfall Throughout South Ontario Transports Hours Late Reaching Oshawa -- Early Train 4 Hours Late Winter descended on Oshawa and district during the night with a fury seldom equalled in November weath- er records. During the night and early today a snowfall of close to six. inches covered the landscape, blowing into drifts several feet deep at many points. Motoring was heavy on all city streets as well as on the highways. Side roads in the country were pretty well drifted shut by the storm, Busses, trains and transports op- erating into Orhawa had schedules disrupted in varying degrees by the record November snow storm. Bus service between Oshawa and Toron. to was maintained on a fairly. sate (Continued on Page 10, Col. 6) New Jap Ambassador To U.S, Appointed Tokyo, Nov. 27 . 21 (AP).--Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura was formally designated ambassador to the Unit- ed States today in ceremonies at the palace. At the same time, Ad- miral Kiyoshi yagegawa, member of the supreme way council, was in- stalled as governor of Formosa. 'Broken Morale' In Italian Ranks Infects New Men Greeks Press "Stead- ily Forward Behind Fleeing Italians Athens, Nov, 27--(AP)--Battered Italian forces, unable to check their retreat despite fresh rein- forcements, are falling back in dis- order and abandoning a wealth of material, Greek reports sald today. A terse army communique mere- ly reported that Greek troops "con- tinue with success in Albanian ter- ritory," and listed six abandoned Italian aircraft as part of the Greeks' booty in the Koritza area, A government spokesman, how- ever, said Italian- reinforcements had failed to brace the Fascists' re- ceding battleline, and that even the fresh troops were yielding | ground to the bayonet-thrusting Greeks. That they are leaving behind al- most all theif vehicles, he said, is a sign of their "broken morale" and the disorganization of their re- treat. Fresh troops are covering the Itallan withdrawal, "making des- perate 'efforts to delay our ade vance," he sald, but "the broken morale of the other Itallans had been imparted to these troops." He sald they "have been over- thrown," and Greek troops are pressing "steadily" forward. (In the sector north of Koritza, the inland war zone, border obser- (Continued on Page 10, Col. 8) DIPLOMATIC FIGHT SHIFTS T0 DANUBE AND ITS CONTROL Bulgaria Pleased With Position -- Never So Many Friends By ROBERT ST. JOHN Associaied Press Staff Writer Sofia, Bulgaria, Nov. 27--(AP)-- Intensified diplomatic manoeuvring for control of the mouth of the Danube River was foreseen by observers today as the next likely development in the behind-the« scenes struggle of Germany and Soviet Russia over division of their spheres of influence. Bulgaria, which with Russian backing has avoided, for the time being at least, a formal embracing of the Rome-Berlin-. Tokyo alli- ance, took further heart today from a British pledge that Bulgarian in- tegrity would be respected, if the country remained neutral in the European war, War Minister Theodossy Daska- loff commented that Bulgaria sel- dom has been "in such a favorable position and with so many friends as now," and sald the nightly pre- cautionary blackouts would be ter- minated, beginning tonight. Observers said that Berlin appar- ently was avoiding for the present any pressing of the delicate ques- tions of Bulgaria's position in the new Europe. Diplomats, as a result, looked to renewal of the Danube Control Conference at Bucharest later this week for fresh indications of the (Continued on Page 10, Col, 7) Damage Done to Quays Docks, Plane Hangar In Raid with Greeks British Fleet Fights Italians London, Nov. 22 (CP) -- The Mediterranean fleet en- gaged an Italian force at ex- treme range today, the Ad- miralty announced. = The Ad- miralty communique gave no details of the result but said the Italian force included two battleships and a large force of cruisers and destroyers. BARN AT COLLEGE RAZED BY BLAZE; LOY 15 $10,000 Firemen "Confine Fire to One Building Despite Stormy Wind Faulty wiring is blamed for a fire which, last night, destroyed the large barn on the premises of the Oshawa Missionary College east of the city. It was estimated this morning by the farm manager that total damage to the building and the contents may reach $10,000, lar- gely covered by insurahce. The large barn which was well built and equipped housed the en- tire season's crop consisting of 1,» 000 bushels of oats, 300 bushels of wheat, and over 50 tons of hay, all of which were lost in the flames. Employees of the farm, through quick action, were able to save 30 head of cattle and four horses which were in the barn at the time the fire was discovered about 11:30 p.m, The fire was first noticed by the night watchman who inspects the buildings every hour. He immedi- ately turned in a fire alarm and roused assistants who fought the fire as best they could until the Oshawa Fire Department arrived. By this time it was seen saving the building was hopeless and the fire- men concentrated their efforts on keeping the fire from spreading to (Continued on Page 10, Col. 5) Canadian Boat Foundering Off Newfoundland Thomaston, Nov. 27 (CP) --Mackay Radio reported to- day a Canadian vessel was in distress 350 to 400 miles north- east of St. John's Nfld., only a few hundred miles from where the Greek steamer Eugena Camban is wallowing helplessly in a gale. Mackay said the Canadian craft gave call letters ""VCRP", which are not listed in the call book, The Norwegian steamer Bernhard radioed she would reach the Canadian vessel's position *'in about four hours." Survivors of U-Boat Sinking Are Ready for Sea Jobs Again Halifax, Nov. 27. (CP)--Twenty- one Canadian and Newfoundland survivors of the torpedoed tanker Frederick 8. Fales, a British vessel sunk by a German U-boat Sept. 20, are ready for sea again today. One of the group--mostly Nova Scotia men--said they were anxious for a ship again. "We got a lot more work to do yet," sald Clarence Cleveland of Musquodoboit Harbor, Halifax county. Their ship was torpedoed a few hundred miles off the Irish coast while travelling in convoy towards Britain, The men said they be- lieved eight other ships in the convoy met the same fate as the Frederick S. Fales. Of the 33 Cana- dians aboard the Fales, 10 were lost besides several British members of the crew. "I was down below when the blast came," sald 18-year-old Stanley Rice of Halifax, one of the men who arrived by train last night from an eastern Canadian port. "We ran out on deck--it was dark and you hardly could see anything {Continued on Page 10, Col. 5) Night Raiders Strike at Both Ends of Rome- Berlin Axis, Hitting at Turin in Particular Nazi Offensive on Britain Lags for Second Successive Night -- Target Cities Named Athens, Nov. 27 (CP) -- British airmen aiding Greece today announced "highly suc- cessful raids" yesterday on Valona, Albanian port, with direct hits scored on a 'big ship," which seemed to be sinking, and damage to quays, docks, buildings and destruc- tion of an airplane hangar and one plane. Blast At Arsenal London, Nov. 27 (CP) -- Royal Air Force heavy bombs ers attacked the Italian Royal Arsenal at Turin last night, the Air Ministry announced and "greatly increased' damage caused there in a raid Saturday, The first aircraft dropped high explosive and incendiary bombs which immediately started a number of fires." "Pilots of the next bombs ers," the Ministry said,- "'de scribed how they saw one of the larger factory buildings, 200 yards long by 50 yards wide, already well alight. Aa flames reach&d explosive mae terial, there were frequent eruptions. Hit Both Axis Ends London, Nov. 27 (CP).--British night raiders struck at both ends of the Rome-Berlin axis while' the ale attack on Britain lagged for the second successive night, it was dise closed authoritatively today. Although Nazi bombers laid off completely after midnight, they were back early this morning and put London under a one-hour daye light alarm at about 7 am. The raiders came up the Thames estue ary and bombed two places on the capital's outskirts. Targets in northern Italy, im (Continued on Page 10, Col. 6) TEXAS GOMBATING RAMPAGING RIVERS Floodwaters Rushing to Gulf Endanger Many Centres Dallas, Nov. 27 (AP). --Hundreds of families fled from their homes today before the onrush of rampe aging Texas rivers that flooded lowe lands in a muddy sweep to the gulf. South Texas braced for the crush of waters that have taken one life and brought untold damage to crops, livestock and homes. The hard-hit east and central portions began the long pull from under devastating effects of the flood waters while the panhandle dug out from under heavy ice forme ations that paralyzed transportae tion facilities and utilities. The Dallas weather bureau sald clear weather prevailed in the southern and southwestern sections of the State with partly cloudy skies elsewhere. Reports from Plainview of cone ditions in Amarillo, isolated by ice= coated power and communication lines, said electrical lines had been restored to some extent and that water was again flowing in many of the mains. The Brazos, Colorado, San Jacine to, Sabine and Trinity rivers dis- gorged heavy waters over rich farm lands and' endangered cities and towns in the rush toward the gulf. One man, Arch Glover, was re- ported drowned near Centerville, Te. was believed to be the only victim of the floods thus far.