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DAFOE NOT NOMINATED FOR ANY CITY POS PUBLISHED Every Week Day Except 4 ) The Oshaua Daily Times | PROBS Cloudy and Somewhat Colder Tonight and Tues- day, With Light Snow. VOL. 27--NO. 126 OSHAWA, ONTARIC, MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1940 ' Single copies 3c TWELVE PAGES LONDON SURVIVES FIRE BLITZKRIEG London Greets Talk By Roosevelt As Most Powerful Indictment Further Proof of Cour- age and Realism in U.S. War Attitude -- Source of Inspiration Ottawa Lauds Declara- tion -- Berlin Silent -- Rome Says Axis Toler- ance is Limited London, Dec. 30 (CP)--Official circles said today they welcomed President Roosevelt's fireside chat of last night "as further proof of the courage and realism" of the United States attitude toward wary A spokesman described it as "one of the most powerful, logical indict- ments ever spoken." He said that Mr. Roosevelt's "re- cognition of the futility of appease- ment was noted with especial satis- faction." The spokesman added that the definition of the United States rola as the arsenal for democracy and expressicn of belief in the ultimate defeat of axis would "be a source of inspiration and courage to leaders and people of Great Britain," Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Stan« dard sald "We bend to our task with new defiance and faith." Next Thing to War Ottawa, Dec. 30. -- President Roosevelt's radio address last night was regarded by Government of- ficials as the most significant dec- laration of United States policy de- livered since the war started. In al! but name, it was taken as a declara- tion of war against the 'Axis powers. There has been talk before of all aid short of war, but last night Mr. Roosevelt went so much further in rallying his people to action in the present emergency that officials (Continued on Page 12, Col. 1) ARMS QUANTITIES PLANNED BY US. GIVEN BY BOARD of Guns, R Washington, Deq. 30 (AP) -- The United States Defence Commission reported today that arms output was up to 2,400 aircraft engines, 700 planes, more than 10,000 semi-auto- atic rifles and 100 tanks a month. The defence program, the com- mission said, already had put 1,000,- 000 persons to work in the last two months, and "several million more will be needed by next November." The agency reported that it had approved contracts totalling more than $10.000,000,000 and that the army and navy had awarded nine- tenths of these, inglud 000,000 for ships, $1,550 factory expansion ani 500,000,000 for plan $600,000,000 for am 000,000 for guns and trucks and tanks. These contracts, by Great Britain commit United | produce 50,000 000 airplane 2,055,000 guns ammunition; mercantile nes and 130,- £ ; 9,200 tanks; 'all kinds and their p navy ships; 200 210 camps and 0 g and equip- Page 12, Col. 1) ip City of "BOS" message Mackay Radio at DT.) today saying she 1 at a point about 600 of the Scottish coast. tion as to the identity 'vessel in the reported available. : The City of Bedford is listed in Lloyd's registge of shipping as a 430-foot vessel built in 1924 and owned by Ellermign Lines, Ltd, with intercepted § 4:39 am. (KE was in colli miles due No info of the othe collision wa, "| Term for Councils Mayor Urges Voters To Choose One - Year Oshawa voters should vote for a one-year council term and to do so must mark the. ballot provided | for this purpose with the usual "X" opposite the NO. That is the re- commendation of Mayor J. C. An- Oshawa Nominations FOR MAYOR DR. B, 'A. BROWN, medical doc- tor, proposed by--W. J. Sulley and | Fred O. Kirby. ¥ 2% ! _ JACOB "CARROL ANDERSON, | lawyer, proposed by--David C. Hav | derson, K.C,, which he made in a| telephoned statement to The Times | today. | council term, His Worship would | make no statement as to his per- | sonal election aspirations. He is confined to his home today with a | candidates have been nominated. GREEKS REPULSE COUNTER ATTACKS BY FRESH ITAWINS Shelling Last Fascist Defence Lines in Athens, Dec. 30--(CP) -- Greek forces 'have repulsed an especially strong countet-attack by fresh Ital- ian troops in two sectors of the Al banian front, reports said today. Greek troops are shelling Italian "last stand" defence lines in the Tepeleni-Klisura sector of the Al- banian battlefront today from new= ly-captured heights commanding roads north to the ports of Valona and Durazzo. - A government spokesman said the Greeks "have again attacked fortified positions which the Ital- igns held and defended stubbornly," and finally hurled the Fascists back. "We have been ablé to push our lines forward appreciably," he de- (Continued on Page 12, Col. 6) $800 Damage Done To Bus in Collision About $800 damage was done to an Oshawa Railway bus at 8:40 pm. Saturday when it struck a truck belenging to the Sterling Cor.- struction Co., Windsor. It is alleged that the truck which has been in use on construction work at the new airport -was parked on Simcoe street north without lights. The accident occurred in front of 541 Simcoe street north. No persen was injured in the crash which demolished the right front corner of the bus. Dam- age to the extent of about $75 was done to the front of the parked truck including a smashed head- light and right front wheel. The damage to the truck was caused when the truck was pushed against 8 free by the impact. Apart from his comment on the | slight cold and stated he had no | comment to make as he has no in- | formation as to what prospective | | CANADIAN PRESS erson and Jas, Gregory ERNIE CAY, wood merchant, pro- posed by--Wm. Goold. and 8. G. Carnell. SYDNEY surveyor, proposed by Wm, Boddy and Wm. Goold. | ALEXANDER STEWART Mc- LEESE, agent, proposed by--John | L. Orr and Wm. Goold." I JOHN STACEY, builder and con- tractor, proposed by--F. E. French | and A. S. Ross. ; [ WILFRED GIFFORD, proposed by--Wm. Goold Cay. RUSSELL HUMPHREYS, lawyer, | proposed by--Gerald McCabe and | | AS. Ross, | |" J. A. COLEMAN, cartage agent J proposed by--Gerald McCabe and A. B. Ross. : i 8. R. ALGER, manager, proposed (Continued on Page 12, Col#5) dentist, and E. | BUILDING BURNS RESULT OF RAID Set Afire by Incendiary Bombs--4 Top Stories Burned Away London, Dec. '30 (CP)--A fire started by. incendiary bombs de- stroyed the London building in which The Canadian Press and As- sociated Press offices were located. No member of either staff was in- jured. The top four storgys af the five- storey building were burned away and the remainder of the building was rendered useless by water. The CP and AP staffs transferred to temporary quarters and continu- ed operations. Three bombs hit the voof early in the concentrated Sunday night rald by the Nazi air force. Members of the news staffs ran up the stairs and attempted to ex- tinguish the flames. Flames started by the incendiary -missles gained headway rapidly and within 10 minutes the top of the building was a mass of fire. The staffs were forced out. The London offices of The Cana- dian and The Associated Press was located at 20 Tudor street, between Fleet street and the River Thames. a short distance from Blackfriars Bridge. Earlier in the war a bomb ex- ploded in the street outside the building, blasting a crater over the width of the street. The building was shaken again by a bomb ex- plosion Friday night. Classed As "Deserter" Because He Broke His Neck in Tumble Toronto, Dec. 30 (CP)--It's bad enough to -break your neck but it's adding insult to injury when you're classed as a deserter from your mili- tary unit because of it. Private Fred Pexton, 50, of Oak- ville, Ont., tells the story. He man- ages to keep cheerful in Christie Street military hospital here, even though a plaster cast covers most of his body and holds his head rig- idly in one position. Attacked to a Toronto unit, Pex- ton was to be sent as a cook to a compulsory military training centre. But he missed out on the advance party and that night got leave to go to his Oakville home. go downstairs he slipped and tumbl- ed the entire flight, breaking his paralyzed but is getting back to nor- DO the home port of Rdverp ' mal now. Next morning when he went to: neck. His left arm was partially" "It was just my luck to miss that party, because if I had gone with them I wouldn't have got this," he said. "Oh, well, it's just fate, I guess." His doctor sent a message to the Toronto armories, telling of his in- jury, but it was mislaid in transit. The result was he was magked "away without leave." Later he be- came a "deserter" because, under army regulations, a man is classed thus after being absent without leave' for 21 days. He was sent to Toronto by his doctor. Believing his message hai been received, he told hespital au- thorities he had notified his unit, Seven weeks went by while he lay in hospital here and then he learn- ed he had "deserted" from his regi- ment, Whereupon he told hospital officials and the matter was speed- ily rectified. GEORGE CARNELL, | -| American people were told that the Dr. H.M. Cooke's Overlooked In School Board Nominations Maypr, Sedan Aldermion, Ex-Mayor, and S. G. Cargell Proposed as Mayoralty Con- testants ---- No Definite Indication as to Candidates, Though Anderson Acclama- tion Opposed by Carnelb... All 1940 Aldermen Except Dafoe Nomin- ated for Council ~~ L.R.C. Nominees Limited to McLeese, Possible Aldermanic Williams, Bathe -- Candidates Include Haydon MacDonald, C. V. Purdy, Gordon Davis, Dr, H. M. Cooke and A. R. Alloway 'Forty Oshaw#men ancl one for 18 civic elective positions which the city's voters will be | woman were today nominated réQuired to fill on Monday. January 6, if more than the num- ber required to fill the positions | for the mayor's chair, three for two P.U.C. seats, seven for five Board of Education pcsitions and 21 for the ten seats at the City Counci' board. Nominations gave no clear contest the mayoralty but an el ably certain. The nominations were featured by two noteworthy omis- sions from the iist of nominees. ! Alderman Finley M. Dafoe, wh elective position after a municipal career in 'which he was con- sidered as carrying labor's torch. failure to have Dr. H. M. Cooke, chairman of the Board of Education, nominated for re-elec qualify. Ten were nominated cut indication of who would ection was considered reason- Most sensational was that of o was not nominated for any The other omission was the tion as a school trustee, Annual Nominations Produce 41 Proposals for 18 Positions; 10 Named in Mayoralty Race East Whitby Nominations FOR REEVE Henry Hazell Irvin T. Ormiston FOR DEPUTY-REEVE Henry Hazell Norman Down FOR COUNCILLORS (Three to be Elected) Roy Trimm E. C. Warne A. E, Grass { Norman Down | Those elected will hold office for | two years as no vote to provide for | annual elections is being taken, CRUISER CHASES GERMAN RAIDER SHELLING CONVOY Berwick Sinks Nazi Vessel Believed Raider's Supply Ship London, Dee. 30. (CP)--A "power- ful enemy surface raider"--possibly a German pocket battleship--was { driven away from a North Atlantic | convoy Christmas morning by the British cruiser Berwick, which hit the raider squarely once and also Cooke's omission was said to be purely an oversight but | sank a Nazi vessel believed to have | Dafoe"s omission from the rolls at his specific request. Mayoriity Nominees The ten nominations for the! mayoray included all sitting alder- | -men except Ald. E. E. Bathe, F. M. | Dafoe afd Clifford Harmon. In| addition His Worship Mayor J. C. Anderson, K.C., was nominated to- gether with ex-mayor Alex 8. Mc- -* was said to have been made Leese and 8. G. Carnell, mayoralty candidate in 1939 when he received 162 votes. None of the nominees made any definite announcement except Car- nell who stated that if no other (Continued on Page 12, Col. 5) President Reos Non-Belligerent: Hostility to 'Unholy Alliance' of Axis Trio evelt Declares Asserts Axis Powers Will Not Win War-- Calls on Nation to Pro- duce War Materials With Same Energy as Though Country Act- ually at War Washington, Dec. 30 (CP) -- Against the "unholy alliance" of Germany, Italy and Japan, Presi- dent Roosevelt has proclaimed the active non-elligerent hostility of the United States. In a 40-minute broadcast speech heard around the world last night, the president expressed his faith in the ability of Great Britain to de- feat the axis powers and then gravely told his countrymen that production of war materials for Britain must be multiplied. In an emergency which he de- clared to be 'as serious as war it- self," the United States must turn its hands to defence works. The idea of "business-as-usual" would have to be abandoned. "I believe that the axis powers are not going to win this war," he said. "I base that belief on the lat- est and best information." ; At another point, he paid high tribute to Britain and the Empire in these words: -- "In a military sense Great Bri- tain and the British Empire are to- day the spearhead of resistance to world conquest and they are putting up a fight which will live forever in the story of human gallantry," Speaking with great seriousness, he said the British people battling the axis were fighting "an unholy alliance of power and pelf" which (Continued on Page 12, Col. 3) ARMOURIES FLOOR GETTING 'FACIAL FOR BIG FROLIC | | Building Busy Spot First Three Days of This Week The Oshawa Armouries will be the city's busiest building the first three days of this week what with preparations for the New Year's Eve regimental frolic, the big fun and dance event itself, and the traditional New Year's Day festivi- ties. Building Superintendent Bert Eurnley is rushing carpenters who are installing facilities required for the big dance so that he can start his portion of preparation work. Carpenters have partitioned off 'a sizable room which is to serve as a men's canteen and today they are putting up hooks and other appar- atus needed for checking outer gar- ments of dancers. Once the carpenters and other workmen get out then Superintend- ent Burnley will marshal his bat- | talion of floor scrubbers to give the big floor a thorough soap and water facial in preparation for dance cos- metic treatment of wax and boracic powder, The program for the dance. frolic has been completed and with a large staff of MP's ready to super= vise activities under the direction of R.S.M. Bennett and Provost Ser- geant Charles Gunn it is expected been the raider's supply ship. The admiralty said the 10,000-ton Berwick, recently transfererd from the Mediterranean service, suffered slight damage and five casualties in the fight and, although the raid- | er escaped, the 8204-ton steamer | Baden was sunk after being set afire by her crew. It was the second time in a month that the Berwick had suffer- ed scars of battle. She was hit twice and lost seven men in a bat- tle off Sardinia Nov. 27 against Italian warships. Despite her new wounds, the ad- miralty declared the Berwick re- mains at sea as an "effective unit" of the British fleet. One ship on the convoy was hit but suffered "slight damage" be- fore the cruiser came up to drive off the raider. Poor visibility was blamed in part for the Berwick's failure to come to close grips with the raider. The (Continued on Page 2, Col. 8) Kingston Crash Kills 2 Airmen Kingston, Dec. 30 (CP) -- L.A.C. Henry Levy, 21, of Toronto and L.A.C. George Douglas Lowe, 22, of Water- loo, were killed today when their Harvard Training plane crashed, into a house at West- brook, eight miles west of here. 'Deliberate To Burn C Fleet Street Blazes Like Suburb of Hell But News Keeps Right on Flowing to Canada Canadian Press Carries on News Service With Only Brief Interrup- tion Due to Fire Raid By SAM ROBERTSON i Canadian Press Staff Writer | London, Dec. 30 {CP)--Parts of historic Fleet Street blazed like a suburb of hell, but news kept flow- ing to Canada. Like flaming meteors of hate, three of thousands of fire bombs that axis raiders rained on the city section of London last night ripped through the roof of the building the Canadian Press Lendon bureau and below it the Associated Press office. They are 'he clearing house for news of the empire and a great deal of the rest of the world and al- though they are- a mass of debris today--water ruined almost every- thing the flames missed--there has been scarcely any intermission in the tempo of news flow across the Atlantic. Some delay in cable transmission occurred, since London offices of (Continued on Page 2, Col. 2) Worst Fire Raid Of War Smashed By RAF. Planes By J. F. ANDERSON (Canadian Press Staff Writer) London, Dec. 30 (CP) --Its dome blackened but defiant St, Paul's stands today as the hub of a scene of devastation probably as great as any ever caused by flames ignited {by the hot hate that is bred by | war. Even as I write this story, smoke from one of Sir Christopher Wren's most famous churches, St. Bride's, is curling past my window. Only part of the walls of the church are standing. Without a doubt it was the worst fire raid of the war. The German air force apparently selected a com- paratively small area @nbracing the City of [London and' plastered it with thousands of incendiary bombs. Fires broke all over the area. Bombs camig down in such numbers that it Was impos- sible to stamp out hundreds of + v them before they caugh hold. Masked firemen. fought fires most of which were in @pmmercial premises, Fire apparatus lined streets or rushed past in!the, eerie light, drivers dodging up de- bris in the roadway. It was R.AF. night fighters that saved London from wo destruc- tion, When the German bombers first flew over the city and drop- ped fire bombs they were subjected to a heavy barrage by ground de- fences, but fighter pilots swept in to smash and scatter German formu- tions, War Prisoners Help Solve Canada's Eel Market Worry 50,000 Pounds of Snake-Like Fish Sold to Canadian "atern- ment Camps By T. R. WALSH (Canadian Press Staff Writer) Quebec, Dec. 30 (CP).--Nazi and Italian war prisoners in Canada's internment camps are enjoying the holiday season, a dish which the war has denied their ' countrymen back home--eels from the nearby Island of Orleans, in the St. Lawr- ence River. The camps have taken ' 50,000 pounds of the seasons' 600,000- pound catch, said Louis Coderre, Quebec's deputy minister of trade (Continued on Page 11, Col. 7) Great Britain and the United States have absorbed the balance. "For the first time in years we haven't a pound left to sell," said the deputy minister. "We sold about 50,000 pounds to the intein- ment camps and, if we had it, we could have marketed 150,000 pounds there." Before war erased them from the province's war lists, Germany and Italy were the major markets for the eel catch and they paid as much as 14 cents a pound for the long, wriggly fish which some cooks say "look like snakes and taste like chicken." Italians, particularly, regard the' eel as a Yuletide delicacy and a big market is found annually -- In Fiercest | Attempt' ity Is Seen Fire Raid St. Paul's Cathedral Barely Escapes -- Guildhall Burned With Dozens of Buildings, Churches, Canadian Press Office i Firemen Bring Out- breaks Under Control After Heroic Fight in Which Scores Killed-- Explosives Follow In- cendiaries (By Hugh Wagnon, Associa Press Staff Writer.) London, Dec. 30 (AP) Historic Central London suf fered today from the fiercest | fire bomb attack since the start] of the air siege last September] in a raid the government called a "'deliberate attempt" to burn the heart of the British capital. The ancient Guildhall damaged and St. Paul's cath edral was endangered b spreading flames. The building housing the o fices of The Canadian Pre: and Associated Press was ie stroyed by fire started by an incendiary bomb." No one injured. The fierce raid caused mo fires in the heart of London than any previous assault. The threat was the greatest to the ancient city since it rebuilt after being laid waste in the great fire of the 17th century and only heroic work by firemen and volunteers and a fortuitous rain -- pre vented even heavier damag A number of firemen wer killed and injured. Save St. Paul's St. Paul's, menaced before delayed-action bombs and fi was saved when firemen, working through a hail of explosives whieh killed some of their number, vented flames from spreading from neighboring buildings. Damage was expected to run Int millions of pounds sterling. Ca altifes in the hard-hit fina centre of London were said to bx few, but the toll throughout (Continued on Page 2, Col. 6) HUNGARY STARTS MOBILIZING ARMY IN BALKAN MOVE - Seen as Aid for Ges as Nazis Hit at Greece, Turkey Budapest, Dec. 30. (CP)--Hun gary began mobilizing addition troops today in a movement repon ed designed to lead to total mobil zation by next Jan. 15. The action was interpreted {x some quarters as sign of anothe move in German preparations fi war.in the Balkans where Hungary army might help strengthen th German flank against Soviet Rus: sia while the Nazis struck soutH toward Greece and Turkey. Balkan tension increased today the advance guard of a large Ger man expeditionary force movin across Southeastern Eurcpe rolleg through Rumania up to the Bul garian frontier. Estimates of ° c h e Nazi troop moving across ngary into Ru mania mounted 300,000 origin. ally to 600,000 and #Hungary's minis ter of agricult: Michael Tele! resigned because @ff a reported dif ference with his @bvernment ove BRE of German sol ation. hs, knowing wel y constitutes 0 Greece ,to Tul Russian-domi that their potential ave key or to about 250,000 pounds this year -- and commerce, while markets in + *\ (Continued on Page 12, Col, 1) Black 8 fered where and 1 o on Page 3, Col. 3) \ k