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PUBLISHED Every Week Day Except Saturday. AAAAAS he Oshawa Daily Times PROBS Moderating With $ iow. Zero Tonight. ANAS VOL. 27--NO. 108 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1940 Single copies 3c TEN PAGES »* GREEKS GAIN NEW ALBANIAN ARE Bombers Across Ocean Regularly Flying U.S. oo - Deliveries Being Made In Britain by Pilots Without Nazi Trouble Head of Flying Hutch- : 60 Cargo Ships insons Family Tells of Delivery Methods Be- Ordered in U. S. 3 (CP) -- ing Used Atlantic in Ten Hours -- Seven Planes Delivergd in First Flight in November London, Dec. Shipping Minister, | Cross informed the House o Commons today Britain has | placed orders for the construc- tion of 60 cargo vessels in the United States and in addition {would continue to purchase Baltimore, Dec. 3 (CP) -- |erviceable American ships. Forty United States pilots are | Cross assured the House making regular mass deliveries | "everything possible is being of American bombers to Britain | done to get ships with the ith Testati ¢ "the | greatest facilities. Without, molestation from The He said 'old but serviceable German Air Force, one of them | ed an attack on the German sub- | night and blows against shipping Ronald | United States vessels, including disclosed today, and are tak- ing aircraft across the icy north Atlantic at a high alti tude approximately hours. George R Hutchinson, head of the "Flying Hutchinsons" family, which in recent years | made 'good will"' flights to 51 | countries, asserted regular de- liveries had been made since early in November and none of | the pilots encountered German | opposition. Seven hi in ered in the first flight last month, he said. His own ship made the fastest time for the trip, eight hours and 50 min- utes from land to land and 10 hours from takeoff in North America to landing in Britain. Three In Crew 10 | gh-speed Lockheed | Hudson bombers were deliv-| vessels belonging to the Mari- time Commission, have been land will continue to be pur- chased for the British flag as | opportunity offers." BRITISH ALLOWED MORE SUGAR, TEA FOR YULE SEASON Food Minister Forecasts Food Restrictions to | Push Offensive War | London, Dec, 3 (CP). -- "Lord Woolton, food minister, annouriééd today his Christmas "gift" to the | | nation would. be increased Pagar] and tea rations for the week of Di | Planes take off from an airport] 1g They will be 12 ounces of sugar | in "British North America," chinson said, each carrying a pilot, He | co-pilot and radio operator. Hut- | instead of as now. for which | and four ounces of tea, | eight and two ounces, Apart. from loadings BRITISH RAIDERS BOMB NAZI SHIPS ON NORWAY COAST Bristol Subjected to Heavy Raids Last Night --London Raided Early Today London, Dec. 3. (CP)--The Brit- ish air offensive operations includ- marine base of Lorient, France, last off the Norwegian coast. The air ministry said a direct hit was scored on the stern of an| "enemy supply ship" of Norway yesterday. Last night another ship sustained a direct hit and a large explosion and a fire followed bomb- ing of wharves at Feje Island. No aircraft were lost. | Early London Raid London, Dec. 3. (CP)--A squad- ron of German planes dived out of the dawn mist and bombed one London district this morning as workbound residents thronged the capital's streets. First reports said | nine bombs were dropped, but in- dicated there was little damage and no casualties Pedestrians flung themselves to the pavement as the planes screamed down. | Bomb Bristol | Bristol, England, Dec. 3. (CP)-- This big west coast port was attack- | ed heavily by German bombers | during the night. Official Version London, Dec. 3. (CP)--Tuesday's joint air and hbme security minis- tries' communique: -- "Shortly after dark, enemy bomb- ers attacked a town in the west of | England. The attack continued on a somewhat heavy scale until a | little before midnight. A number | of fires were starte consider- | able damage was houses | (Continued -on' Page 10. Col. 7) | | | 'Butter from Britain | Preferred by Spain t 1 To Bayonets of Nazis London, Dec. 3 (CP Cable) --The said about 60 pilots and 30 radio | arrangements are already made, no | | new Anglo-Spanish financial agree- | operators, inclading Americans, Canadians and Britons are partici- pating. Hutchinson said the paid a monthly about one flight a month. | cargoes of fresh or tinned fruit, ex- | will for the time being be brought crews are | to Britain. salary and ind In a. speech at Manchester, Lord | They return by boat, with a round-trip | Woolton said: "This country has taken the of- | fensive and, to make it successful, thus requiring two weeks. Special equipment for flights in- | there must be a speed-up in the cludes oxygen tanks, extra fuel | manufacture of arms. This offens- | tanks and flotation gear in the |jve also will mean a drain on the | event of a forced landing. country's shipping facilities. "There is every reason to hope that before long we shall find our- selves settling old scores and to that end we have to mobilize the whole rescurces of the country. Spanish Train Wreck Kills 50 Zaragoza, Spain, Dec. (CP) -- From 40 to 50 per- sons were believed killed and | Doss it matter that we have had at least 80 injured today in a | {a standard of life that the rest of collision of two express trains | | Burcpe has envied, but now we are at a station between Madrid | going into the offensive." and Barcelona. our food ships to take part in this offensive, I cannot afford to bring 3 | you any longer those things which | are not essential fer the prosecu- tion of the war, "As we are going to lose part of | ! ment was hailed in London today as cept a limited quantity of oranges |a favorable sign that a larger trade | Pany would not undertake as a part | pact with that strategically import- | ant country might be concluded | shortly. It is understcod that progress has | been made in the trade negotia- | tions, which have been under way | for some time, largely due to Gen. | Francisco Franco's personal inter- est in them, Under the agreement announced yesterday Spanish funds frozen here will be freed to permit a larg- er wslume of Spanish purchases in the sterling area. It is emphasized that the agree- ment is purely economic and that | no political clauses or understana- ings are attached. However, it .Is obvious that Spain concluded the arrangement fully awar ethat fits benefits would cease were she to throw in her lot with the axis. A high government leader com- mented that "Spain wanted butter and the axis offered only bayonets." Running at top speed, the express from Bafcelona to the capital was reported to have ploughed into a waiting express from Madrid at Velilla De Ebro, overturning one locomo- Nusshell Summary of New Federal Taxes and Tariffs tive and splintering wooden cars. First accounts faulty switch. Ottawa, Dec. highlights of tariff restrictions and taxation changes introduced yester- day by Hon. J. L. Ilsley, Minister of Finance: 1--Complete prohibition of im- ports, except from sterling nations, of prepared cereals; flowers; pro- cessed and canned fruits and vege- tables excepting . currants, raisins, dates, apricots and grapefruit juice; preserved fish; manufactured to- bacco; spirits and wines; certain fiction magazines and comics; con- sumers' paper items; perfumes; china and silverware; electrical house-hold appliances; bathroom fixtures; automobiles; sporting goods; cameras; furniture; radios; phonographs; musical instruments; luggage; finished clothing; silks; ornaments; jewelry; toys and nu- merous miscellaneous items. 2--Importation by permits, gradu- ally diminishing in number, of un- manufactured tobacco; motor vehi- cles. other than passenger autos: hardwoods, veneers and plywood; raw silks and some partially manu- blamed a 3--Here are the | factured forms of natural silk, but | not artificial silk or synthetic fibres; all petroleum products. 3--An increase to 20 per cent in the excise tax on autos up to $900 It remains at 40 per cent on autos from $900 to $1,200 and at 80 per cent on autos over $1,200. 4--An excise tax of 25 per cent of the factory price on radios and tubes; phonographs, cameras, slot machines, electric and gas stoves, refrigerators, water heaters, light fixtures, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, toasters, grills, irons and ironers, coffee makers, curlers, raz- ors and a number of minor items. 5--Complete suspension of the present tariff against the United Kingdom on all cottons, . artificial silk, bituminous coal, jellies and jams, furniture, and gloves and mit- tens. 6--Reduction in tariffs against the United Kingdom on medicinal supplies, soap, tiles, stone and earthenware, table cutlery, bicycles, generators, transformers and -mo- tors, rugs and carpets, ollcloth and linoleum, . Auto Import Ban To Raise Output In GM. Expect Canadian Auto | Firms to Share Sales of Banned Makes -- Sev- eral Thousand Units for G.M. The ban on the importation of automobiles not manufactured in Canad will undoubtedly result in greater production in the plants of | General Motors of Canada Limited, as official of the company said to- day in a telephone conversation with The Times. The cars which are not manufac- | tured in Canada and have hereto- | fore been from United States include the Nash, Packard, Studebaker and Graham makes. They constitute about 14 per cent of the total sales of all automobiles sold in Canada, it is learned on good authority. If the sales of cars imported Plants G.M. Official Dies 3 TRAFFIC LIGHTS TOBE INSTALLED INCITY AT ONCE Council Reverses Pre- vious Decision--Stacey Still Opposed Three new traffic lights are to be erected at three of Oshawa's busiest intersections before Christmas as a result of City Council action last night when that body reversed a previous decision to defer purchase of the lights until next year. The lights are to be located at Simcoe and Bond Streets, King and Centre and at King and Mary streets. In- stallation is to proceed as soon as possible. The move to reverse earlier nega- tive action was instituted by Ald. Ernie Cay when he announced that the City Property Committe of which he is chairman had met since then and now recommended the im- mediate installation of the lights. "I think it was unwise that coun- J | cil turned down the lights last week. | in Canada ave | among the Canadian manufactur- | at the Oshawa and Regina plants | cement that General Motors of Ca- continue at the same level in 1941 as they did this vear, this 14 per- cent will most likely be distributed mong the Canadian manufactur- ers which include General Motors, Ford Motor Co. of Canada, Chrysler Corporation and the Hudson Motor Car Co. There is the expectation that if all the sales of motor cars! divided pro rata R. J. MacFARLANE Motors who passed away morning following a brief illness. 'No Spectators for 'Council Meet Even If Election Nears Interest in civic politics generally and city council legislation in par- ticular struck a new low at last night's meeting of City Council when the council's entire proceed- ings took place without a single | spectator occupying a seat in the | auditorium. During 1940 spectator interest has ween at a lower ebb than for years past but there h always been one or two of the die- hards present to listen to the alder- manic debate. > The fact that there was nary a listener in the gallery is all the more remarkable in view of the fact that Oshawa ratepayers will be marking of their motor manufacturing oper- | their ballots exactly five weeks from ations but is purely for war effort | last night. In the past two years and is to take care of current as| attendance at the December coun- well as future production and does | cil meetings usually taxed the ca- not localize itself in Oshawa. | pacity of the Council Chambers. ers in 1941 that it will result in a few more thousand cars being made of General Motors. F. C. Willams of the Packard Motor Car Co. according to a Can- adian Press report this morning, | said his firm was considering open- ing the Company's Windsor plant Other motor car makers were doubtful if this will be permitted Only two General Motors cars, now being imported, will. Be affected by the ban, the Oldsmobile: 8" and Pontiac "8", it was learned. The two other models, Cadillac and La- Salle have found little sale during the past season. In respect to the recent announ- nada is to be given a subsidy. of a million and a half dollars by the Dominion Government, this is for plant expansion which the Com- | chief purchasing agent for Geueral | this | Expect New Taxes, Tariffs Will Save $100,000,000 Yearly fo for War Purchases Imports Foo U.S. T Will Be Heavier Than Ever With War Ma- terials Coming in In- stead of Non-Essentials By CARL REINKE, Canadian Press Staff Writer. Ottawa, Dec. 3. (CP)--The aver- age Canadian prepared to tighten his belt a bit today as he looked | over the emergency tax and tariff | proposal just placed before the | House of Commons. He saw that | the use of ordinary consumer goods | | was to be whittled down, chiefly at the expense of imports, in a broad- ranged move by the government to protect the exchange positions of both Canada and the United King- dom. He began to realize that talk of the diversion of funds and labor to war purposes was more than con- versation, Canda's exchange position, he saw, is to be protected by prohibiting or limiting the importation of a wide variety of non-essentials and dur- able consumer goods from the United States. From $70,000,000 to $100,000,000 a year may be saved in American funds by these restrictions but, total Canadian purchases there, including war supplies, will reach an. all-time high this year. Britain's exchange position, par- ticularly regarding - her continued purchase of war materials' in Can- ada, is to be alded.by the relaxing of Canadian tariffs on 15 to 20 per cent of Canada's imports from the Truce at Christmas Urged by Pope Pius Vatican City, Dec. 3 (CP).--Pope Piussasked warring powers today to observe a Christmas truce to keep "the clash of arms from drowning | out the angel chorus of peace." The Pontiff called on belligerents to observe a truce "spontaneously or by mutual accord," in order that 'new bloodshed may not disturb or | miserably extinguish the heavenly Joy of that hour." The appeal contained in Motu Preprio, the name given to certain Papal rescripts because of the phrase, Motu Proprio--"of his own accord"--used in the document, Canadian Soldiers Lose Much Tobacco Ottawa, Dec. 3 (CP). --Post office authorities said today 11,000 parcels of tobacco intended for Canadian soldiers overseas were among the articles of mail lost in the sinking of the Canadian steamship Beav- erford. Mcre than a week ago postal of- ficials saiq they "understood" the ship was sunk by a German ralder and that a number of bags of mail were lost. No further word has been heard of the Beaverford since she sent out p, distress signal Nov. 5 saying she wag being shelled by (Continued on Page 10, Col. 1) an enemy raider, - ~ A progressive city such as Oshawa should have proper traffic lights and | I know they will be a great help to our Chief of Police in handling traf- | fic," he declared. swung in behind Ald. Cay with some slight deviation in opinions. Ald. S. R. Alger thought that a light should King Street. He expressed the opinion that the lights would still be required even though the four-lane highway was being completed, Ald. B. A. Brown disagreed on this point being convinced that the com.' pletion of the 4-lane highway would alter Oshawa's traffic problem con- siderably, He thought that other | civic projects were far more neces- {Coniinded on Page 10, Col, 5) PETAIN SEEKING 10 RULE FRANCE FROM VERSAILLES Seen as Move to Secure Best Possible Conditions For France ablish his government seat at his- toric Versailles was viewed by po- litical observers today as another shrewd step by the marshal to ex- tend his authority over all France at & time when his prestige is at a high level, From Versailles, where Petain is expected to use the Trianon Pal- ace, he would be able to take Ger- man-occupied Northern France at least partly under his wing, and could co-ordinate with the rest of his government at Vichy the inter- ests of all France. Reports reaching diplomatic cir- cles from France hinted that Pe- tain was overriding the advice of his vice-premier, pro-Nazi Pierre Laval, in arranging to transfer his official residence to the traditional capital of royal France and shuttle back and forth to Vichy. Laval, these reports indicated, ad- vised the marshal last week to stay (Continued on Page 10, Col. 7) All aldermen except Ald. J. Stacey | also be installed at Ritson Road and | Berne, Switzerland, Dec. 3 (AP) .-- | Chief of State Petain's plan to est- | 22 Ships Sunk In Week Nov. 24 London, Dec. 3 (CP)--Twenty-two | merchant ships totalling 87,975 tons were sunk by enemy action in the week ending Nov. 24, the Admiralty announced today. This total is 30,- 000 tons above the average weekly loss since the war began. The 'losses were 19 British ships totalling 75,560 tons and three al- | lled vessels totalling 12,415 tons. The admiralty said the Germans claimed to have sunk 118,020 tons of merchant shipping during that week. The total actually lost compared with a figure of 59,534 tons for the previous week and represented the most serious week since the seven- day period ending Oct. 21, during which 198,030 tons were lost. 'It is a serious menace," naval spokesman of the continued | drain on the empire's shipping res- ources, "but as a nation we can take knocks." OSHAWA TO VOTE JAN. 6, BALLOT ON COUNCIL TERM Nominations Scheduled for December 30 By Council Bylaw Oshawa's municipal election will be held on Monday, January 6, if a ballot is necessary and the nomina- tions for the various elective posi- tions will be held on Monday, De- cember 30. In addition to electing a mayor and representatives to City Council, the Public Utilities Com- mission and the Board of Education, Oshawa ratepayers will be asked to vote upon the question of a two- year term for the City Council. | Provision was made for Oshawa's election program by City Council at its meeting last night when two by- laws were adopted giving effect to the statutory provisions for holding elections. Nominations for mayor, public utilities commissioners and school trustees will be received at the council chamber on December 30 at 10.00 am. and for city alder- man on the same date from twelve o'clock noon on. The question on which voters will be asked to vote is "Are you in favor as a war-time measure in accord- ance with the Municipal Term Ex- tension Act that the council elected for 1941 shall be elected for a term of two years?" If this question were not submit- ted then the 1941 council would automatically be elected for a term of two years. In order to continue the present practise of holding an- nual elections a majority of the 1 voters must mark their question bal- lot with an "X" after the "No" sec- tion. Has Accomplished Re- forms Sought for Gen- erations -- Rich and Poor Have New Under- standing (Returned home to become Ca- nadian Press military correspon= dent in Ottawa, Edwin S. John- son, for four years London superintendent. and war corres- pendent with the Canadian forces in England, tells in ghic article of the changes that' aerial war- fare has made in the lives of the Britons.) By EDWIN §. JOHNSON Canadian Press Staff Writer pa East Coast Canadian Port, Dec. 3--(CP)--During the heat of Great Social Revolution Begun By Nazi Bombings of Britain battle, while she is fighting des- perately for her very survival, Britain is undergoing the most sweeping social revolution in her history. What reformers for generations have sought to achieve by agitation and other means the present war has accomplished almost overnight. It has happened because threaten- ed Nazi invasion and terror from the skies have menaced high and humble, rich and poor alike, In face of this common threat class bare riers are crumbling. Today all are affected to the same degree by the Conscription Act and other emergency legisla- tion. Each person contributes fin- ancially toward the war effort to the limit of his means. All are sub- ject to the same rationing regula= tions and the air-raid shelter has (Continued on Page 2, Col. 6) "> Army Past Port Edda Threatens to Engulf All Italians i in South -- Victorious Grecians Advance Along Entire Front From Sea to Yugoslavia -- Taking Thousands of Prisoners ... ren Have Not Crushed : Italian Resistance at Port Edda But Fascists There Are Cut Off Athens, Dec. 3--(AP)--The Greek left wing, reported to have smashe od past Porto Edda, was said today to be making wide new gains all along the battlefront and threaten ing to engulf the last Italian fighte ing force in Southern Albania. The high command reported thag said a | Greek shock troops had won new mountain heights north of Premet, in a th 'ust into Central Albania, and north of Pogradetz, in a drive down the road toward Elbasani near the Albanian capital, on the right wing, but a government spokesman termed the left wing advance the "most important." . There, the spokesman said, "the enemy retreated to the heights around Delvino and has passed, in depth, Santi Quaranta." That is the port the Italians re- named Porto Edda for Premier Mussolini's daughter, The Greeks apparently had not broken Italian resistance in the section immediately around the port, but indicated that I"ascist troops there might be cut off, The high command declared the road linking the port with Argirocastro, 15 miles northeast, had been placed under Greek fire. Delvino, to which Italians were ! reported to have retreated, iz five miles northeast of the port vn that road. In the central and northern sec= tors; the high command reported more prisoners had been taken and started along the roads back into Greece, already said to have been plodded by more than 13,000 dis~ armed Italians. The greatest nume ber of prisoners reported taken was 5,000 yesterday. Their surrender, the Greeks declared, broke the Italian morale and resistance im the centre of 'the fighting front. "Near Premet," the high com= mand said, "our sections occupied new positions ... on the Ostrovitza Mountains successful attacks by (Continued on Page 10, Col. 8) FATHER SEVERELY BURNED IN SAVING HOME FROM FIRE Carried Flaming Radie Horn From Home Housing His 2 Children Severe burns to the face and hands were suffered by Frank ©, Bell who lives in an apartment at 109 Simcoe street north, shortly afe ter 7:30 last night when he became enveloped in the flames of a buffre ing radio speaker of an old style. According to firemen an oil lamp which had been placed near the speaker horn heated the plastic compound of which the speaker had been made until it caught fire. Bell seized the burning speaker in his bare hands in an effort to throw the burning object outside before it could set fire to the house. He hag reached the hall when the flames suddenly flared upwards into ' his face. When firemen arrived Bell had trampled the flames out there= by saving the frame house and its contents from damage by fire with the possible danger to his two small shilisi vo . McMullen rendered emergency ot aid treatment to Bell and ordered his removal to the Oshawa General Hospital where it is report ed this morning that his injuries are very painful but not serious. Docw tors state he will make a full re= covery without serious disability and state the victim is very lucky tht his eyes escaped the flames. * Mr. Bell is a widower and hds two small children going to sch Raid "iy wa a