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Bowling Alleys Bring $135,800 THE DAILY TIME { at Court Sale Today OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle S-GAZETTE WHITBY OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1946 Price 4 Cents FOURTEEN PAGES VOL. 5--NO. 153 SEEK SITE FOR C.R.A. BUI Lloyd Ayre Wins Winter Fair Gold Medal hg Tops Contestants In Inter-County Livestock Judging With a score of 1,863 points out of a possible 2,000, Lloyd Ayre,"son of Mr. and Mrs, A. A. Ayre of Hampton, topped all the competitors from the 34 teams taking part in the inter-county livestock judging competitions at the Royal McKenzie School Pupil Is First To Be X-rayed Winter Fair yesterday. Lloyd won the gold medal award-® ed by the fair for the highest standing in the judging of swine. He had a score of 382 out of a, pos- sible 400. For standing first among WILL ENDORSE CIVIC OFFICE CANDIDATES The question of whether or not labor should endorse a slate of can- didates in the coming municipal el- ections was discussed during last evening's Oshawa and District La- bor Council meeting. It was finally decided that the council should "continue the practice of past years of endorsing candidates for muni- cipal office who we think will work in the interest of labor and who seek such endorsation." It was also added to this motion | that an advertisement should be | put in the Times-Gazette announc- LLOYD AYRE individual contestants, he won a cash award. 'The Durham County judging team of which he was a member placed second in the inter-county competition with a total score of 5273. The Simcoe County team, which won the Jeffrey Bull Memor- WINS GOLD MEDAL (Continued on Page 2) Terrorist Precautions Said Futile Paris, Nov. 13--(Reuters)--Samuel Merlin, political spokesman of Irgun Zval Leumj, the Jewish terrorist or- ganization, claimed here today that Britain's precautions against the ar- rival 'of Irgun or Stern Gang forces were "futile." "These men will carry the war into Britain," he said. If they want to enter Britain they will do so in 8 way in which the chances of their being caught will be reduced to zero. "They cannot land by parachute or by submarine but they will enter in such a way that no one will re- cognize them as being engaged in operations against Britain." London, Nov. 13--(CP)--An in- formed source said today that se- curity precautions against threat- ened violence in Britain by Pale- stine underground organizations would be continued indefinitely, des- pite the fact that yesterday's Royal opening of Parliament passed with- out incident, There were unconfirmed rumors & member of the so-called Stern Pool_ and thes. the. meer" ena Of a e Mail in London has y p. Sir Harold Scott, metropolitan po- lice Commissioner, issued a call for 8,000 volunteers for part time ser- vice with his forces, badly depleted 'during the war, to grapple with an increase in the number of crimes as well as increased security duties. Jerusalem, Nov. 13 -- (AP)--A¢- tackers described by police as Jew- ish extremists today ambushed a police dawn patrol, which daily combs railway lines for bombs, blasting its ramshackle hand-pro- pelled trolley and killing all six of- ficers aboard. . The "suicide patrol," instituted two weeks ago when Irgun Zvai Leumi said it was 'launching an anti-railway drive was ambushed at Beit Safafa on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The patrol had been appearing daily at the same spot, a few minutes after starting its track inspection tour. from Jerusalem yards. Killed were two British constables, one Arab sergeant and three Arab police officers, ing this resolve on the part of the council so that there would be no WILL ENDORSE (Continued on Page 2) 292 Births In Three Months Recorded A total of 202 births were report- ed in the city during the three- month period ending October 31, City Hall statistics showed today. Ninety-two were reported for Aug- ust, 77 for the first four weeks of September and 123 for the five weeks from September 20 to No- vember 2. For the same three-month period, the number of marriages recorded was 128. With three exceptions-- the first week of August and the weeks of August 18 and October 13 --the marriages came at the rate of 10 each week. From August 1 to 10 there were 20 and only eight were reported for the week of Aug- ust 18 while there were none for the week of October 13. : Deaths from August 1 to Novem- ber 2 numbered 61. Of these, 21 were in August, 22 in the first four weeks of September and 18 in the Jve-wesk period ending November LamaHearing Due Soon Cornwall, Nov. 13--(CP)--Inspec- tor W. J. Franks of the Criminal Investigation Branch, Ontario prov. inclal police, disclosed today that the case for the Crown against Wil- liam Earl Lama, Harrison's Cor- ners farmer awaiting preliminary hearing in connection with the kill- ing of his wife and daughter August 16, was "just about completed." He has been assisting township police chief R. H. Hawkshaw in assembling evidence in the case. Lama has been remanded in cus- tody at County jail on two succes- sive Fridays since his capture in Moulinette Oct. 26 after evading po. lice for 71 days. Paint Truck Burns Following Collision Belleville, Nov. 13--(CP)--William Clarke, a truck driver from Toron- to, was admitted to hospital early today with severe head and body lacerations suffered in an accident which destroyed his transport and its contents of paint and varnish. Police said Rene St. Germain of St. Johns, Que., had parked his car on the road two miles west of here to fix a crumpled fender when Clarke's truck struck the car, hit a tree and caught fire, LDING Favor Location Near Centre and (zibbs Street Area A committee representing the Community Recreation Association and other interested organizations will endeave our to have a joint meeting of the City Council, the Board of Education 'and the Board of Parks Management called as soon as possible to decide on a suitable site in the city fom ES or chased by the City Council for the CR.A. This decision was reached after considerable discussion last night at a meeting of the CR.A. which wag attended also by representatives of OUTBIDS PETE BAKOGEORGE (See Picture on Page Two) After only about ten minutes of spirited bidding, in the main chiefly between the two former partners in its opera- tion, Manning F. Swartz and Peter Bakogeorge, the May- fair Lanes Bowling Alley was sold at 2.20 p.m. today to Mr: Swartz for $135,800. The sale opened at 2.06 p. m. with Auctioneer William J. Sulley recit- ing the conditions of the sale to the gathering of about 80 persons who gathered on the ground floor of the building. After several questions re- the City Council, the Rotary Cluh, the Kiwanis Club, the Kinsmen Club, the Board of Education, the Town Planning Commission and the Boy Scouts Association, O. R. A. BUILDING (Continued on Page 2) Link Pole Treasure To Election Ottawa, Nov. 13--(CP)--Informed sources here sald today they saw & possibility that the coming gen- eral elections in Poland 'would bring developments in the mystery of 32 trunks of Polish ark treasurers and would lead to discovery of the treasures' where- abouts, . The Polish government said night the first post-war gener elections will be held Sunday. A Montreal source said the trease ures are not "missing or stolen." "It is much better ¥ you say hidden, because that is exactly what they are. We are not stealing anything and those who are trying to find them also know they are not stolen or missing." General belief here is that Poles sympathetic to the "exile" regime know where the treasures are hid- As the Kiwanis Club's T.B. X.ray clinic got under way this morning, the first to be X-rayed was five-year-old George McKenzie, who came with his teacher Mrs. Jessie McKenzie and eight fellow pupils from McKen. zie's School near Raglan. In the upper photo, George is seen in front of the camera, with H. Giffin of the Provincial Health Department, in charge, With the McKenzie School pupils were 13 from Raglan School headed by their teacher, Mrs, G. Corner. In the rear are Kiwanians in charge, and health officials. Those in the group to the left of the camera are: front row, left to right, Kiwanians Dr. B. A. Brown, M. D. Wyman, Harry Gay, head of the rural survey, Evan Reynolds, and Fred Bartlett, den, se Beill Meanwhile, the Canadian govern- ment sald last night in a prepared statement that following a meeting between Dr. Fiderkiewicz and Lester B. (Mike) Pearson, Under Secre- tary of State, the Dominion will "consider whether any help could appropriately be given in this mate ter." survey treasurer; back row, Kiwanians Dr. Angus McDonald, Harry Raglan and Cedardale Pupils First In Line When TB Survey Opens With children from Raglan and Cedardale Schools first in line, the stream of applicants in the Kiwanis Club T.B. survey began to pass before the X-ray camera this morning in the temporary clinic in the local Armouries. More than 21,000 persons, including some 6,000 school children from the district have registered for the chest ®- X-rays which will be conducted un- til December 7. The clinic got under way promptly at 9 o'clock this morning and soon the long line of applicants were passing through the hands of the Provincial Health Department tech- nicians at the rate of nearly 125 ax hour. Members of the Kiwanis Club's T.B. committee, headed by Kiwanian Dave Jamieson, were on hand to look after any necessary last minute arrangements and the volunteer clerical workers were soon functioning at top speed registering T. B. SURVEY (Continued on Page 2) Sewer Contract Well Under Way Work on the city's recently awarded sewer contract is well un- der way in the east part of the city, the City Engineer's Office reports. The contract, awarded to the Scott Jackson Construction Co. calls for the laying of 6,500 feet of sanitary sewers in various parts of the city, When the company ar- rived a week ago last Monday, work was begun on Gliddon Avenue and the workmen have now progressed to Highland Avenue where a stretch of 750 feet is to be laid for the Integrated Housing development there. School Blast Casualties Feared High Baroda, Mich, Nov. 13--(AP)--A steam boiler exploded in a rural school near here just before noon today but rescue workers first on the scene said they found no fatal- ities. Ten or 12 children and one teach- er later were reported injured in the blast in the basement of the build- inf. Forty children were reported trapped in the collapse of two rooms. All available fire and policemen rushed to the scene. A telephone operator said she feared "a lot of casualties." . Reports soon after the blast said the oilers in the heating room ap- parently exploded, wreckage piec- ing two floors above the boiler. The reports said many children, on their way down the corridors and stairs to the basement lunch room, were trapped. It could not be learned immediat- ely how many children were in the building or the number of casual- ties, but it was feared the toll would be heavy as the explosion took place while the building was nearly full, ¢Joh Ev. Disney, head of the survey in the schools, Len Coulson and Reg. Gibson, chairman of the clinic. Dr."A. F. Mackay, Medical Officer of Health; Ki jan Dave Jami i 'ed chairman of the T. B. Committee; T n, of the Kiwanis T.B. Christmas Seal Committee, and Dr. H. B. James, chairman of the local Board of Health. Above, Donna Bray, 6, from Raglan School is X-rayed with H. Giffin and C. Winton (extreme right) Lower left, Mrs. Reg. Gibson, one of the the fluorescent screen of the X-ray d4and; head technician, in volunteer workers, stands before machine, To the right of the machine are Yoh Ki chairman --Photos by Campbell's Studio PIGEON HATCHES HEN'S EGG Kitchener, Nov, 13--(CP) -- After three weeks of unremit- ting toil, a pigeon, belongi Antarctic US Test Choice | Washington, Nov. 13--(AP)--The United States, aware of Russia's 1 over military manoeu- ging to Matthew Tabar of this city, yesterday produced a baby chick, and is now proudly strut- ting back and forth in the hen- house guarding her new foster- child. A hen had apparently flown four feet up to the pig- eon's nest to lay, and although she had a mnest-full with one chicken's egg, she stuck it out for the necessary three weeks, Peru 'Quake Claims 100 Lima, Peru, Nov. 13--(AP)--Peru, counted at least 100 known dead today in interior towns wrecked by earth shocks which n last Sun. day and feared a high®r toll might become kn with restoration of smashed communications facilities. More than 60 persons were killed in Sihaus, a town of 11,540 and al- most completely destroyed; 30 more perished at Pomabamba and several more were reported dead at Molle- pata, a town of about 2,800 said to have been about half destroyed. THE WEATHER Cloudy and slightly warmer, clearing this afternoon. Clear and slightly warmer Thursday. West winds 20 m.p.h, decreasing to 15 m.p.h, tonight, increasing again to 20 m.ph, after day- tireak Thursday. Low tonight \ lage was done, . i un vres in the Arctic, has picked the other end of the earth for a frigid zone test of naval ships and wea- pons. A navy announcement giving de- tails of a forthcoming expedition to the Antarctic defined it as "primar- ily of a military nature," prepara- tory for a possible "day in the fu- ture when the navy may be called upon to operate in cold weather." Selection of the south polar re- gion for training naval personnel and test ships, aircraft and other paraphernalia of modern war pre- sumably was dictated, among other things, by two United States de- res: 1. To allay Russian worries over operations in the vicinity of Soviet territory. 2. To assure, by means of the "pmoteness of the area, some degree of secrecy. . Fire Department Has Two Calls The fire department today report- ed only two minor fires over the night. One last might occurred at the corner of Bond and Prince Streets when a car owned by J. McQuade, 110 Agnes Street, took fire. The cause of the fire was said to be anti-freeze blazing in the en- gine. This morning about 6:40 fire- men were called out to a small chimney fire at the home of J. Far- rell, 11 Athol Street West. No dam- MANNING F, SWARTZ garding the equipment and encum- brances the sale proceeded. First Bid $80,000 The first bid was that of $80,000 made by B. Myers which was im- mediately followed by a bid of $90,- 000 from Mr. Swartz. Mr. Myers re- plied with a bid of $95,000. At this point Mr. Bakogeorge placed his first bid, it being $101,000. Mr. Gangbar of Toronto, was the next bidder with $105,000. From that point on the bidding kas entirely between Mr. Swartz and Mr. Bakogeorge, with the price rising by $1,000, $2,000 and $5,000 jumps. When $135,000 had been bid by Mr. Bakogeorge, there was some consultation between Mr. Swartz and his friends. He then offered $135,500 with a return bid of (Continued on Page 2) The government has refused ta accept responsibility for the treass ures on thie ground they were stored) in Ci a in private custody. Former Oshawa Woman Injured In Car Accident Leamington, Nov. 13--Mrs. George | R. Brett of Leamington, the former Norah Mundy of Oshawa, is ins hospital here as a result of injuries sustained in a motor car accident near Blenheim on No. 3 Highway Monday night. Mrs, Brett was keph at the home of Rev. and Mrs. John Duncan of Blenheim over night, and removed to hospital yesterday where she will be confined for a few days. According to police, Mrs. Brett was a passenger in a car driven by hem husband which was in collision with a car driven by John Severan= sky of St. Catharines; * LATE NEWS BRIEFS Lake Success: Field Marshal Smuts told the United Nations today that he is prepared to take over mandated southwest Africa by unilateral action if the General Assembly refuses to approve his proposal for its an« nexation. Ottawa: At the direction of County Court Judge A. G. McDougall, David Gordon Lunan today pleaded mot guilty to a charge of conspiring to communicate confidential information for Russia. Burbank, Calif-: A Western Air Lines Plane carrying two Canadian women: six other passengers and a crew of three was missing today in the snow-swept moune tains north of here. London: A Foreign Office spokesman said British vessels engaged in minesweeping operations between the Is. land of Corfu and Albania had "accomplished their task in part" and would continue it today: Madrid: Generalissimo Francisco Franco maintained today that United Nations isolation of Spain would greatly, increase the possibility of war, Tokyo: Former Premier Hideki Tojo accepted "full responsi. bility for all his official acts, including the execution of the Doolittle fliers." associate prosecutor John W, Fihelly. said today.