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piece en ap a HC i MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1947 .. | Editor Warns Canada's : THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Widely Mourned and Mrs, Preston) are ppy the b! of their son inton on Thursday, March Oshawa General WHITE--Mr, (nee Viola announce Robert Ki 20th, 1947, at the Hospital. BONGARD--In St. Thomas on Sunday, March 23, 1047, Elizabeth Ann Gurley, beloved wife of the late Ww. 3 Bone and 0 1, St. Thomas, in her 85th year. Funeral from Luke-Mcln Funeral " Home, 152 King East, on Tues- i day, March 25 at 3.30 pm, Interment .Union Cemetery. WBON -- At the Oshawa General PA N Monday, March 24th, kins, in her e of R, B Hamilton, Mrs. W, Potts of Co- Da Wilbur Hopkins of Rochester, PAW CR pkins of O Ross Hopkins of 'oronto. Interment Warkworth Cemetery on Wednesday afternoon, March 26th, KING--Entered into rest at the Mus- koka Hospital, Gravenhurst, on Sat- ursday, March 22nd, 1947, Marvin King, beloved husband of Eudora Bennett, in his 51st year. Funeral from the Armstrong Funeral ' Home, Oshawa, on Tuesday, March 25th, Service 2 p.m. Interment Mount . Lawn Cemetery. Cards of Thanks Mr. C. A. Tibbits, and family, wish to . thank their many friends for kind- nesses shown them, duri thelr - re- cent sad bereavement, in the loss of a dear son and her, Carlton E Tibbits. Ohituary MRS. MARY E. GOODMAN Following a short illness Mrs. Mary E. Goodman away quietly in her sleep at her residence Brooklin, Ont., in her 76th year. Born near Fergus, Ont, in 1871 as Mary Ross, daughter of John and Eliza Ross, she resided in Wood- stock during her early life coming to Brooklin some 30 years ago, She was predeceased by her hus- band, Thomas Goodmab, and her two daughters Irene Burleigh and Clara Foxlee. Surviving are her grandson David Burleigh at home, two sisters, Mrs, Rebecca Coleman, _ Woodstock, Ont, and Mrs, E. A, Following a service to be held at ° Robinson's funeral parlors at 1.30 pm. Monday, March 24, the body will be taken to Woodstock for bur- ial from Meadows funeral home, Tuesday, March 25. MARVIN KING In poor health for ithe past year and e half, Marvin King, 328 Lake- _ shore, passed away Saturday in the Muskoka Sanatorium, Gravenhurst. in his 51st year. as born in Port Hope, and Mrs, Wil- Workers of America (C.1.0.). Mr. King served for five years in World War I with the 50th and . 26th Battalions. C.E.F. He fought in the front lines for nearly three " years and was with the army of oc- cupation in Germany for eight months, Surviving besides his wife are three daughters, Mrs. G. Shane (Ruby) of Oshawa, Mrs. D. Lansing (Madeleine) of Brantford and Miss Betty King of Oshawa; two sons, Marvin and Willlam of Oshawa; One sister, Mrs. Reuben Carter (Pearl) of Toronto; three half-sis- ters, Mrs. Sidney Woolly of Lost Hill, Calif, Mrs. Jack Elcott of Thornhil and Mrs. Sadie Merril] of Cleveland, Ohio.; two half brothers, Jack and Frank Ashby; and two ildren, Errol and Wade Shane of Oshawa. The funeral will be held from Armstrong's Funeral Home tomor- row afternoon at two o'clock with interment in Mount Lawn Ceme- tery, Rev. E. A. Justice, of St. George's Anglican Church will con- duct the services. LATIN DESCENT The squirrel family gets its name from the Latin word sciurus, which means shade-tailed, BILLIONS OF CELLS The human body contains 6,000,- ROBERT B. DAWSON art tn the Osh Gener. AWS - During his lifetime . Dawson had been a leading fi- the promotion of public contests for the pupils of schools of Northumberland for many years umberiand County Music Festival : Farmers' Market Local Grain -- Lo:al selling prices for grain $29-3$30 ton; shorts $30-$31 ton; baled hay $18-$20 to..; straw $16-$18 ton; pastry flour $2.85 a bag; bread flour $2.90 a bag. Dealers are paying no set price. Wheat, $1.26 a bushel; oats 653- gis barley 65¢; buckwheat 75- c. Livestock -- Toronto, March 24-- (CP) -- Cattle prices were steady in ear- ly sales on the livestock market here today. Choice weighty steers brought $15, good butcher steers $14-$14.50, heifers $14.25-392, Veal calves were steady at $16- $17 for choice with plains down- ward to $12. No price was estab- lished for hogs, which closed pre- viously at, dressed, Grade A $21.- 76, Grade B1 $21.35. Good West- ern lambs sold at $16. No sheep were offered. Receipts: Cattle 2,- 330 calves 120, hogs 60, lambs 10. Cheese -- Toronto, Mar. 24--(CP)--Whole- sale cheese quotations were un- changed here today at: first grade large ed, colored 22 3/16 'cents. 1b, white 22% cents, both F.O.B. factory. J Fruit -- Toronto, March 24-- (CP) -- Wholesale fruit and vegetable prices here today supplied by White and Company follow: Domestic: Cabbage orange crates 50c; mushrooms 5 1b, car- tn $2.65-82.75; radishes doz. 40- 60c; beets bu, 50-65¢c; green on- fons doz. 35-50¢c; Ontario new po- tatoes 75 1b. bag No, 1 $1.10-§1.- 25; carrots bu, unwashed 75-865¢; washed $1,25-$1.35; turnips un- washed bu, 50-60c; waxed tur- nips 50 1bs., 90-81, Imported: Calif. oranges $5.- 25-$7.60; Messina Italian lem- ons $5-$5.60; Florida grapefruit $3.650-8$4; Texas grapefruit $3.50- $4; pineapples $5.75-$6; Texas spinach bu, $2.25-$2.50; Calif. cauliflower $4; Calif, lettuce $5- $5.50; Calif, carrots crt. $4.76 $5; Calif, green peas $4.75; new cabbages crt, $4; Florida celery $6.$6.50; Yams $4.25; sweet po- tatoes $3.75; beans Fla, plenti- ful Valentine $8.50. Produce -- Toronto, March 24--(CP)--Prod- uce prices in the spot market here today were reported as follows: Churning cream unchanged, No. 1 1b. 41 FOB, 45 delivered, plus 10 cents subsidy. 4J, 2nd grade 39. Butter solids unchanged, 1st grade 40, 2nd grade 39. Eggs: Receipts plentiful, stocks moving readily, breaking stock in particularly good demand, prices unchanged; wholesale to retail, A large 40-41, A medium 38, A pullet 36, B 35, C 34; country shippers quoted grade eggs, cases free, A 86-36%, A medium 34-34%, A pullet 32%-33, B 32, C 30. Honey -- Toronto, March 24 -- (CP) -- honey quotations were unchanged here today at: 24 1-lb, glass jars $4.82; 24 2-1b. glass jars $9.12; car- ioe 34 1-1b. white No, 1 8492; 34 te Wo. 1 $904; 8 6.10. white No. 1 $8.67; 2-1b. Orange Label 24 $8.36; 2-Ib, Red Label 24 $7.98; bulk 160's Golden Amber $6.98. Hogs -- Toronto, March 24-- (CP) -- Grade A, dressed bacon - hogs were unchanged at Brantford $21.60 delivered, in market re- porting early today. LARGEST MAMMAL The largest mammal is the blue 000,000 muscle cells. whale which may measure more than 100 feet in length. 'Gawk And Grin' Passes For Moscow Howdy-Do Moscow, March 24--(CP)--The descent of 400-odd foreigners on Moscow for the Council of Foreign Ministers' Conference has produced a popular pastime best described as "gawk and grin." We gawk and grin at the Rus- sians. and the Russians gawk and grin at us and when there is this wide chasm of uage between u there is not much else you can The Muscovites seem essentially people and do not gawk bold- . It 1s done almost timidly with a touch of furtiveness about it. But we are new people from. yond the USSR, and we seem to fascinate them in a friendly and Everytime you stand on a side- "i walk outside Hotel Moscow waiting for a car for a few minutes you catch a score of Russian adults or wide-eyed children looking around quickly after they have passed you. They grin when they see you looking at them and you grin back. They seem to wonder about your coat, your suit and your hat which is of different material, cut and co- lor from their own. On a Moscow street it all makes me feel much like a goldfish in a bowl. We gawk and grin at the Rus- sians in a far more forward manner for the Moscow crowd is a fascin- ating and varied throng of modern and anclent Russia 'mingling to- gether. The Russians do not seem to mind, They do not gawk and grin as we do but thev enjoy it just as much, Still No Sign Of Missing Nine Airmen Halifax, March 24--(OP)---East- ern Air Command officials here said today they had received no further word on the American Sky- master aircraft reported missing five miles from Stephenville, Nfld., yesterday with the nine persons aboard. However, they sald four aircraft which took part in a short but fu- tile search yesterday would pro- bably return to the hunt early to- day if conditions permitted. - A storm was reported sweeping over the gulf of St. Lawrence and west- ern Newfoundland. Snow and rain was reported over the area where the plane was last heard from. The final message from the American craft came at 3:30 p.m. AST. yesterday when the radio operator talked with the con~ trol tower at Harmon Field, Amer-~ ican base at Stephenville, At the Sime, the plane would be over wa- Air force officials here also pre- dicted other planes would join the original four search craft today and a full-scale search of the bar- ren, lake-studded wastes surround- ing Stephenville as well as an ex- tensive search of the coastal area would be organized. The plane took off from Westover Field, Mass, at 11.40 am. and was due at the Newfoundland base at the time the radio operator con- tacted the control tower. Meanwhile, farther north across the Strait of Belle Isle still another search was brought negative re- sults, Ten days ago an American Norseman carrying three crew members disappeared over the fro- zen Labrador wastes. R.CAF. planes have joined in the search and an American helicopter is also |. taking part but there has been ne word of the craft. Given Chance To Earn Fare Home Andre Vachon, was given a three months suspended sentence in Magistrate's Court this morn- ing when he pleaded guilty to a charge of trespassing on the Ca- nadian Pacific Railway property last night, He was found on a Toronto to Montreal train in a compartment behind the baggage car. In his own defense, Vachon told Magistrate F, S, Ebbs he had been forced to ride the rails from Sud- bury when all his papers and mo- ney had been stolen, He had been working in the bush for a short time. and then went to work in a mine. He reported the theft to the Sudbury Police, but received no satisfaction so started out for Montreal, Asked how he planned to get the rest of the way to Montreal by Magistrate Ebbs, Vachon said: "I was raised on a farm and should be able to get a job around here and make enough money to pay my train fare home." 3 Accused (Continued from Page 1.) or three nights a week at about this hour and on the night in question they left at approximate- ly 1.30, He couldn't tell how they were clothed. He added that Dean was sitting at another table with three girls and left about 3.30 a.m, Robert J, Miller, Lindsay gar- age operator, told of having a dark green 1947 sedan drive up to his service station on Febru- ary 19 or 20, He saw the vehicle several times again that week and on February 24 the driver was unable to pay for his gasoline, so Miller took a jack as security. He identified a document bearing the name C. Dean as the copy of & sales slip he had given in connec- tion with this transaction. "I asked him who he was and he said Cecil Dean of Oshawa, so I put down C, Dean. The license number was 46850 and I put that down 100," the witness said. He said there were two men in the car and he identified Cecil Dean as the driver. He said he did not recognized the other man as being in court. Asked to describe the other man, the witness sald he was 20 years of age, five foot seven or eight, 140 pounds, dark hair, with a kind of layny complexion--*a quiet fellow". Miller sald he had been some- what suspicious at the first visit as he would expect to see more well- to-do appearing persons in such an expensive car, "He (Dean) told me he had been an amateur boxer and his father owned two restaurants in Oshawa and sald he would give him a nice car if he would give up boxing," the witness testified. . Mrs, Maude Munroe said she had rented her garage at 142 Perry Street, Whitby to Elgin Richards the evening of February 27. With him was Frank Podvinsky, brother of the accused Michael Podvinsky. At about 10:30 a car drove up, she said. Richard got out and then drove away again. . "It was a dark car,' she said, adding that it was not the one Richards usually drove. there was a maroon-colored car in the next driveway which she recog- nized as Frank Podvinsky's, and here were two men standing beside Asked how Richards was clothed, she sald he wore a blue oversoat, and a fedora. Frederick Brick, night clerk at Hotel Genosha, testified that his car was missing from the parking lot at the rear of the hotel when he went to get it the morn of February 19 and when he saw it la- ter at the police station the 1047 license plate, number 46850 was missing from the back seat. Carl Stafford, despatcher for the McCallum Transport Co. told of finding that a 1947, dark green se- den was 'missing from the McCal- lum yard on Ritson' Rosd North the same day. She said [req Today's Short Story VIVIAN By Lillisce M. Mitchell VIVIAN Longstreth took one last aliases around her room, made straight a picture on the slanting ceiling, for which, had she been taller, she would have had to stc~p, and ran downstairs, Already the n was whistling at the mile crossing and she must be at the station to see her guest. If her heart beat rapidly it was not because of the running down the shady streets with June roses climbing over trellises at almost every house. It was because she held her letters in her hand and * talked to the postmaster. She had been curious enough to ask the tmaster later that man's name ut he Jaa onl! shaken his head, "Bou, a spec! very stamp," he said shortly. Slowly now, Vivian started home again. e man ep towards her. "Miss Longstreth?" he said, hat in hand. . She nodded shyly, with down- cast eyes and hand upraised to flip her hair back as if to say "I don't speak to strange men." "You're not very cordial," he said with a laugh and fell into beside her. e color sprang into her cheeks and she looked to see if Jerry was surely in the station. Jerry had been a cowpuncher thirty years ago in the West and it didn't take him long to deal with fresh fellows--not that this man looked fresh at all but-- "lI can't stay as long as I'd hoped to," he continued easily, "but next time I'll make you a real visit, I hope!" "But you've made some mis. take," said Vivian with reddening cheeks. She was thinking how she would love to have a man like this visit her! He was so quiet, so courteous and yet, withal, so--so --well, s0 he-manish! He was looking at her now with laughing eyes and drew from an inner ket an envelope. "Par- don," he said, "I have your letter pry. you care to verify the invita- on," She took the envelope and re- ~Illustrated by E. L. Sonne She nodded shyly, with down- cast eyes and hand upraised to flip her hair back, as if to say, "I don't speak to strange men." was wondering what this other Vivian would think of her. This other, Vivian Longstreth, A friend in 'the next town had first shown her the book with her own name as author. "But I didn't write it," Vivian had said laugn- ingly. "Oh, it only I could have written a book!" "Well, it did seem funny," the friend had said. "it's really a man's book and I'didn"t see how you could know so much about men-- living 'way out in Mosstown!" Vivian had read the book and had written to the author care of the publishers. She had never be- fore heard of anyone with the same name as her own! And in due time a reply had come back to her, the first of many letters. Sometimes the letters came from New York City and sometimes fron. Los Angeles. Once the stamp had been foreign and Vivian 'had been thrilled to learn that the other Vivian was in Lon- don. And now the letters had one back and forth for two years. But for all of that they had be- come very little acquainted, each starting the letters with a formal: "My dear Miss Longstreth." And now the other Vivian was for a brief visit. Vivian that they had a larger house witk a guest room but there was none and so she had moved her father's old couch into her ropm for herself to sleep on since the downstairs rooms were all so open that she couldn't sleep down there. And when Number 54 pulled in with many huffings and puffings, no girl stepped off daintily as Vivian had © expected. Instead there was but one passenger: a well-dressed man with a black walrus Gladstone. Vivian had seen him several times before but no one seemed to know who he was nor why he had ever stopped in Mosstown for anything, Once she had seen him drive through the Main Street, later passing her home in a smart little coupe of some make she did not know. Another time he had stood next to her in the postoffice while she comin, wish g it as one of her own: one, to be accurate, bought in the centre aisle of the Mosstown Phar- macy. She looked at the address on it. "But how did you get this letter addressed to M ivian Long- streth? Is she your--your sister, perhaps?" e shook his head. "No, I am Vivian Longstreth." he stared at him. "Vivian--?" she sald doubtfully. "I am hoping that you'll call me that," he said, bowing slightly. "In fact, through our letters I've come to know you so well that--that-- well, dash it all," he sald redden- ing and glancing at his watch, 'let's go up to the house where we can talk without all of these folks staring as though we were --glraffes!" hey walked in silence down the shady street. , "I suppose you are surprised," he said natty. "You see, ve stop- ped here a half dozen time Arist 4 see you! But the letters were such a pleasure and I felt that when you knew I was a man the tone would caange." "Then you were just writing back and forth for--for copy." she d in dismay. « He shook his head hasyily. "No, no! I'll have to tell you all about myself--you and Your father, that is," he amended. "I am the young- est child in the family--nine brothers and two sisters all in 3plendid health, thank fortune! If they all died, I'd have a seat in the House of Lords--" 'In England?" she interrupted. He nodded. "But knowing for a practical certainty that I'd stand all of my life if 4 seat," he continued with laughing eyes, "I came to America with my book and found my dream girl» Vivian felt a sudden let-down that she could not explain. In two weeks I have to go to London but that will give your family plenty of time to cable about me if only you--you--you-- think you might care!" he ended. "You see," he went on softly, you really know a good deal about me--from our letters. And we'll come back on the very next sailing, you know, so you wouldn't be gone for long! "But a June wedding--" Vivian gasped. "You mean--" He looked down at her: "Why, yes! I thought all girls liked cave man stuff and that America stood for speed, haste, rush! I've known for months," he said. And although they were mar- ried only on the last day of June, Huey did have a June wedding. And when Vivian wrote her name, her married name, the only change she had to make on the tablet of paper before her was to write Mrs. Vivian Langstreth some forty-two times, But she had always liked her name any- how! Stewart's Resignation Forwarded To Guard Against 'Usurpation' Toronto, March 24 -- (CP) -- Hon, William J. Stewart, Speaker of the Ontario Legislature whose resig- nation was sent to the Clerk of the House Friday, today said that the resignation resulted from the "firm conviction from recurring incidents and my own experience that it is the duty of the Speaker to guard against usurpation of the rights of the Speaker of the House." This statement was made in a letter addressed to the leaders of the four political parties represent- ed in the House -- Premier Drew, Farquhar Oliver, Liberal House Leader, W. J. Grummett, CCF, House Leader and A. A. MacLeod, Leader of the two-man Labor-Pro- gressive party group. Mr, Stewart's resignation Friday followed a brief exchange on the floor between Highways Minister Doucett and the Speaker regarding issuing of tickets for the Speaker's gallery. . Mr. Doucett said he had uested two tickets for friends of his and that he had been refused them by a member of the Speaker's office staff. Mr, Stewart sald he had written the letter "so that all members of the House may know of the policy overning the issue of tickets to the ouse." The letter .ncluded two statements, one concerning the de- tails of ticket issuing, the other concerning last Friday's incident between Mr. Doucet and Mr. Stew= art. ' The letter said: "My resignation was handed to the Clerk of the House Friday af- ternoon, - certainly not because of the attack upon me as an individual by the Honorable Minister, whom I have alweys highly regarded as an able Minister -- but solely because of a firm conviction from recurring incidents and my own experience that it is the duty of the Speaker to guard against usurpation of the rights of the Speaker of the House, to hold inviolate the prestige and respect for the ancient, honorable and important office of Speaker, originated in 1763. "Oonvinced as I am that the Speaker is the custodian of the time honored rights, privileges, pow- ers, dignities, liberties of the Mem- bers of the House. The Speaker stands between the Ministers of the Crown end His Majesty's dutiful, faithful and )ayal subjects. "The Speaker is responsible to the House and not to any member of the government, any more than to any other member, The Speaker is the eyes, ears and mouth of the House. Respect for the office is a basic and fundamental principle of time-honored custom, tradition and democracy--in a word, a constitu- tional right. "The occupant of the Speaker's office may at times err, such is human, as and when such does oc- cur there are other methods of cor- rection than an attack by a Minis- ter of the Crown on the floor of the House." \ In the attached statement re- garding the incident about the tic- kets, Mr. Stewart sald that the em- ployee in the Speaker's office .who spoke to Mr. Doucett did not tell the Minister the Speaker's gallery was full. . Mr, Stewart's statement added that Mr. Doucett was not know: by the staff and did not make himself known to these men. The member of the Speaker's staff who hanales tickets -- Major John H. Adams-- has complained of "abusive langu- age" and hag resigned. The two women for whom Mr, Doucett asked 'tickets' "had their tickets" before the incident occurred. waited for that: No Troops From U.S. For Greece Washington, March 24 -- (AP) -- The United States Undersecretary of State, Dean Acheson, declared firmly and flatly today that Am- erican plans for bolstering Greece and Turkey against Communism "do not include our sending troops. He said: "We have not been asked to do so. We do not foresee any need to do so. And we do not in- tend to do s0." His Yeohmany Va Spared a the o ar lg, Ty relations committee on President Truman" program for shoring up the independence of the two countries with American dol- lars, weapons and limited military missions. When he appeared before the House of Representatives foreign affairs committee last week, the acting Cabinet officer said he does not think the aid proposals will lead to war. "I think that quite the opposite is true," Acheson told the Senators. "These proposals are designed to increase the stability of, and to fur- ther the opportunity for. Democratic development in, two countries most important to the world community. "These are not acts which lead to war. "They lead in the other direction. . "They help to maintain the in- tegrity and independence--what the United Nations charter calls the 'sovereign equality'--of states. That is one of the principles upon which the whole effort to organize the world peace is founded." $80,000 Loot In Palestine Robbery Jerusalem, March 24--(AP)-- Tel Aviv police reported that a gang robbed the Palestine Dis- count Bank of £20,000 (about $80,000) at the peak of business this morning, The report from the All-Jewish coastal city northwest of here said a group of men first walked into the bank as a screen for the gun- men, Ten armed men followed a few minutes later, police reported, and, forcing a dozen employees and 50 customers to hold up their hands, scooped up cash from the tills, The account said that the rob- bers stopped on their way to a vault at a clerk's cry for help, that one fired at the clerk and another hit him on the head and thet the whole gang then fled in waiting taxicabs, Frightens Man With Her Scream Peterborough, Marcn 24--(CP)-- Annette Decarlo, desk clerk at the Grand Hotel, screamed and fright- ened off a man who threatened her Saturday night and demanded that she open the cash register. Later po- lice arrested Donald.Cole, Owen Sound, and are holding him on a charge of attempted robbery. Hen Lays Egg Of Giant Size Lindsay, March 24--(CP)-- A hen, owned, by Casey Junkip, Veru- lam township, has produced a giant egg. It measures 8% inches in cir- cumberence, 6% inches in diameter and weighs 4% ounces. The hen is a Rock and Hampshire. Selling Nails (Continued from page 1) Harvey, He sald he had helped carry the nails out to the car, J. A. Aldwinkle told how he marked the kegs and took them to the W.P.T.B. office at 65 Sim- coe Street South, where he locked them up until the trial. "There was also a discrepancy," he said, "between the kegs of nails and the invoices shown to us by the older Glecoff. One receipt was for a keg of two and three-quarter inch nails, but we didn't see any nails of that size around, The warrant also called for the seizing of new nails, so we left a pile of old nalls lying on the floor of the build- ing." The evidence of Mr, Aldwinkle concluded the Crown's case but as there was not sufficient time to hear the defense, Magistrate Ebbs set the ease over to Tuesday, April 1. DEMOLISHING RESIDENCE David Kalnitsky, proprietor of the Reliable Furnishings Com- pany, said this morning that he would build a new store on the Parks estate property at 104 King Street East, He said he had no im- mediate plans however. He has taken out a permit and is proceed- ing with tearing down the present structure, Mr. Kalnitsky purchas- ed the property last year, When .James Cassidy, the Prime. Minister's secretary, received tickets for Mr. Drew's guests, he offered to help Mr. Doucett get tickets, but "persons who heard the kindly of- fer" heard Mr. Doucett say "no, let me handle this in my own way." "When I left the House to inves- tigate the Minister's complaint, his guests already had the required tickets," the statement added. "The Minister refused to listen to any explanation. The slight delay was unavoidable and I respectfully submit my staff was, as always, co- operative, courteous, efficient and in no sense delinquent." The second statement describes the allotment of tickets for the 404 seats available to the public in the four galleries. A Foreign Policy Is Now Important Matter * Toronto, Mar, 24--(CP)~Canads never again must fall into the mis- take of thinking that foreign policy is "none of our business," George V. Dally Star, said today in an ade dress prepared for delivery to the Canadian Club ub, This mistake, "that we could safely trust somebody else to keep trouble away from us," was one in- to which Canadians fell just before the war, thought we could safely leave things to great Britain, and smoth- ered up any misgivings we had by uttering platitudes about the great- ness of the British Empire," Mr. Ferguson said. "We learned, or we should have learned, that even the greatest of nations can take the wrong turning." Mr, Ferguson suggested that "we should jump immediately right down the throat of anyone who suggests that it is good policy for Canada to sit back and allow other people to mind our business for us." "I don't mean by this that we won't make mistakes," he said. "We will make many of them. But at least we. will be responsible for them in every sense, and responsi- "Some of us, in those days, | pared iblity is a good thing to develop in people's minds. ; Ferguson, editor of the Montreal | cur country like ours to try to exclusive hand in matters of The Svar editor sald, "If we to sell our goods--and we can produce them on a bigger scale than ever before--we must be pre- to take our neighbor's goods in payment. If that means a change in our traditional protectionist pol- icy, the change must be made." A third suggestion Mr. Fergtison made was that Canada, of all na tions in the world, "should be in the most forebearing, the most tol erant, the most enlightened," Canada had become an amalgam of almost all the peoples of the world, "and it is on the , basis of that amalgam that we are trying still to create a homogeneous Can~ ada, each part of which respects the other, and each part of which hopes that, in the process of time, there will be so complete a union that the unhappy heritage of -dis- sension and division will become a thing of the past." Vancouver, March 24--(CP)--A police commission inquiry into the conduct of a number of Vancouver police officers, including former chief A. G. McNeill and his deputy, Norman Corbett, ended Saturday night in a flurry of developments which included:-- 1. Reading of a letter containing what was presumed to be a threat against the life of a key witness; 2. Evidence of a former detective that convictions against a house of prostitution were quashed and a judge had told him "we have to have to have those people;" The five-day probe, in addition to reviewing police department ad- ministration in Canada's third lar- gest city which had been investi- gated bq Lt.-Col. C. H. Hill who re- commended the dismissal or demo- tion of a number of officers, who, he charged, had been negligent, al- Witness' Life Threatened In Vancouver Vice Probe so heard the appeals of those offi- cers. A report on the inquiry will be submitted to Attorney General Gor- don 8. Wismer of British Columbia. Mayor G. G. McGeer, Chairman of the commission, said the result of the investigation would be announ- ced some time this week. He indi- cated some of the officers would be reinstated. The letter containing the threat was allegedly received by Harry Tisman, self-confessed gambler with his brother, Louis, was author of a 41-page letter which prompted the probe. Willis Harrington, former detec- tive of the vice squad, said he had "wonderful evidence" on a house of prostitution but "I could not secure convictions." He refused to name the judge, he claimed, had told him such houses were necessary. Stepped From Curb, Goes In Up To Armpits Belleville; March 24--(CP)---She didn't 'mind getting her shoes wet when she stepped off a curb into what she thought was a puddle of water but when the young visitor to Belleville sank to her arm pits, she became annoyed. She had step- ped into an open catch basin and fier claim for damages filed : with the city clerk is now in the hands of an insurance company. Blast Creek For Body Cornwall, March 2¢ --(CP)--Dy- namite was used Saturday in unsuc- cessful attempts to dislodge the bo- dy of four-year-old Robert Greeley, believed drowned in Hoople's Creek at nearby Wales. The youngster has been missing since last Thursday. Ice jams were broken in the hope that the body would blow free, Wolf Toll High Near Lindsay Lindsay, March 24--(CP)-- RoV- ing packs of wolves are taking a heavy toll of deer in the Bobcay- geon area, George Potts, lumber camp owner, reported today. He found several dead deer and many badly wounded or crippled by wolves. : Another lumberman sald he had seen wolves attacking deer in the open. DEPENDABLE AT ALL HOURS; in all kinds of weather, she's at her post. You count on her and she's proud of it. With switchboards busier than ever because of the many more telephones hers is still "The Spirit of Ser. vice". More switchboards are being added and more operators trained so that you may continue to have the best telephone service at the lowest cost. THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF CANADA ANNUAL MEETING Oshawa ' at 8 o'clock. All those interested invited to be,present. General Hospital Notice is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of Oshawa General Hospital will be held at Adelaide House on the evening of Wednesday, April 9th, 1947 Reports of the various Departments and Com- mittees will be given, followed by. the election of officers for the current year. in the welfare of the Hospital, all friends who have made donations and all members of the Hospital Auxiliary are cordially BOARD OF DIRECTORS.