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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZET OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle TE WHITBY VOL. 6--NO. 79 OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1947 Price 4 Cents SIXTEEN PAGES [HAMILTON JAIL-BREAK IS N 518 'Dangerous' U.S. Mines Ordered Closed oe 4 40,000 Miners Out Pending Approval Safety Inspectors Washington, April 3 (AP)--Interlor Secretary Krug today directed that 518 government-operated soft coal mines in the United States remain closed indefinitely because they are believed dangerous. Krug said the 2,013 other mines under federal control # could reopen Monday at the con- Acting Judge R. D. HUMPHREYS, K.C. Who is presiding over Division Court in the absence of His Honor Judge D. B. Coleman who is in the United States for two weeks. Safety Honor For Oshawa Girl Gayle Sanders, six-year-old daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Jack Sanders, 113 McMillan Drive, is to be honored by Lowney's Young Canada Club for her "outstand- ing action" in rescuing three- year-old Lynn Cowie from the Oshawa Creek February 6 last. Gayle's name will be mention- ed on the "Men «in Scarlet" pro- gram over radio station CFRB, Toronto, at 5:45 p.m. April 17. She will also receive an honor award certificate from the club, whose motto is "Safety first and play the game." Seeing. the little fall into the water near McMillan Drive, Gayle ventured out on the thin ice and with the assistance of a dog which was already trying to catch hold of her, pulled the three-year-old child to safety, clusion of the six day "mourn- ing" period called by John L. Lewis for miners killed at the Centralia, Ill, disaster, if the "operating managers certify that they have reviewed safety condi- tions and practices and that there is no imminent danger to the men working in those mines." Approximately 40,000 miners are employed at the 518 mines which Krug said are "believed dangerous from an explosion point of view." These pits will be closed un- til certified by the local union's mine safety committee and the operating managers or until new inspections determine that they are "reasonably safe." Lewis, commenting on Krug's action, said: "May God in Heaven forgive him" for not closing them before 111 miners died at Centralia, Lewis was testifying on mine safety to a Congressional com- Ritse when Krug issued the or- er, "I point out," the United Mine Workers chief sald, "that Secre- tary Krug is doing now what he should have done ever since the safety code became effective. He's starting to enforce his own code--but after 111 men died in Centralia." Lewis then demanded: ' What should the United Mine Workers do now? He continued: "If we must grind up human flesh and bones in the industrial machine that we call modern Am- erica then before God I assert that those who consume the coal and are made comfortable by it owe protection to those men first, and owe security to their widows and children. "I say it. I voice it. I proclaim it. And I care not who in Heaven or Hell opposes it." NO PAPER TOMORROW In common with a great many daily newspapers in the province, The Times Gazette will not publish its usual issue tomorrow, Good Friday, All the news of the holiday: will be carried in Saturday's issue .which will be published as usual. The Times-Gazette will publish on Easter Monday. More Definite Figure Sought Before Vote On School After a three-hour juggling of a motion to build an $87,000 ad- dition to North Oshawa School, ratepayers of School Section II 'decided to schedule another spec- ial meeting in an effort to famili- arize themselves with every as- pect of the proposed four-room structure, Pikiog meeting was set for April Final vote on the addition will be taken at that time following a therough questioning of the ar- chitect and contractor. The School board, in an amend- ment to the original motion, was instructed to secure a fixed con- tract price on the basis of present costs with an esculator clause taking care of any future price increase in materials or labor em- ployed. No Fixed Price Ralph Schofield, who proposed the amendment, said this action actually "killed" the original mo- tion, which had provided for ac- ceptance of the $87,000 tender submitted by Douglas Redpath, Mr. Redpath's tender, consisting of a $75,000 estimate plus a fixed fee for contractor and architect, made no mention fo fixed con- tract price. Despite a rising tide of protest Trustee S. J. Stredwick, chair- man of the meeting, put the ori- ginal motion to a vote only to have it rejected. Mr, Redpath told the ratepay- ers he would set a definite price =not merely an estimate--with SPECIAL MEETING (Continued on Page 5) Addition Stolen Gold Is Recovered By Police Val D'Or, Que, April 3--(CP)-- Gold valued at $24,300 and destin- ed for the Royal Canadian. Mint at Ottawa was recovered today after being stolen late yesterday from the railway station here and two men were placed under arrest, Police identified the men as Con- rad Morrisette, 29, and Cere Tous- sent, about the same age, both of Val D'Or. They are expected to ap- pear in court later today. The gold, in the form of two was recovered from a snowbank about two miles from this north- western Quebes mining town. It was still in the iron safety box in which it was sent to the station from Sigma Mines for shipment, Full details of recovery of the gold and arrest of the two men were lacking. The gold evidently had been tak- en off an express truck at the Can- adian National Railways station and loaded into a vehicle. The road along which it was recovered led to Malartic, Delivery of the bullion was made to the Canadian National Express Company and placed on an express truck, which was wheeled along the platform to await the train, solid bricks totalling 137 pounds, | bris, No Appeals To National Labor Board Toronto, April 3--(CP)-- A record for speedy passage of legis- lation in the current session was set yesterday after Labor Minis- ter Daley introduced the Labor Relations Board Act, Within two hours after first reading, the bill was given second reading and then was: passed through committee stage. Third reading was given at start of the night sitting after a Labor Pro- gressive motion to give the bill a six months hoist was defeated 38-20. Under the terms of the bill, the Ontario Labor Relations Board now will have full jurisdiction over all provincial industry. The Act provides that only ap- peals now pending before the Do- minion Board will be heard by them and no further appeals will go to the federal body, Mr, Daley sald. Snuffed Out 4,000,000 He Dies, Too Warsaw, April 3--(AP) -- Rudolf Hoess must pay with his own life for more than 4,000,000 lives snuff- ed out at Oswiecim (Auschwitz) ex- termination camp in the 2% years he was Nazi commandant there. The 47-year-old ex-Colonel, on trial for three weeks, was sentenced to death last night by the nine- jujdge Polish Supreme National Tribunal. No date was set for the execution. ' The prosecution accused Hoess of supervising the gassing and crema- tion of some 3,000,000 Jews and 1,- 000,000 other men, women and children from a dozen countries-- including Poland, Russia,r Hungary, France, Belgium. The Netherlands and Czechoslovakia -- at the camp in southwestern Poland, Hoess, commandant at Oswiecim from mid-1941 to the end of 1943, questioned thig figure. He said he could count only 2,500,000 victims. He took respohsibility for carrying out the exterminations, but blamed Superiors for institution of the pol- cy. 11 Are Killed In Fireworks Explosion . Clinton, Mo., April 3--(AP)--An explosion and gunpowder-fed fire destroyed a fireworks manufactur- ing plant yesterday, burning to death 11 of the 28 employees, work- ing in the one-storey frame build- ing and injjuring four. One of the injured was in eriti- cal condition. Ten of the victims died in the explosion and fire and the 11th succumbed in hospital. The workers were making toy buzz bombers in the Brown Manufactur- ing Company. Shortly after the blast, cause of which was not known, flames were so intense that firemen were unable to get ¢loser than 100 yards from the building. Some of the victims were so bad- ly burned identification was only possible through rings and other personal effects or through teeth. C. 8, Knoles, a worker, said the flames swept through the building in a matter of minutes. "By the time I got to a door, I could hardly find it because of the smoke," he said. "I could hear the girls behind me screaming, I closed my eyes and mouth and started for the road outide. When I reached it I turned around. There was fire everywhere." Floyd Shepard, a worker whose wife died in the fire, told a reporter that she was being led from. the building when she suddenly remem- bered her daughter-in-law was in the plant. She cried, "Oh, Hazel," and ran back into the building. Her body was found later in the de- The daughter-in-law, Hazel She- pard, was burned critically, MOTORCYCLE ENGINE FIRE Piremen were called out last night about 8 o'clock to extinguish a fire which had started on the engine of a motorcycle parked in front of Bill's Place, Simcoe Street South. The fire was out on the arrival of firemen and no damage was re- ported, AIR SHOW DATE SET The Ontario County Flying Club has announced that its sec- ond annual air show will be held on Saturday, September 6, Their Business Is To Collect Stamps Intent upon the business of collecting and mounting stamps are these boys at the Centre Street School stamp club. The Centre Street club was the first of a series of such groups which have grown up in most of the public schools in the city during the past few months. weeks and under the supervision of Ed. Kennedy, of the Community Recreation Association staff collect stamps, exchange them and learn about the countries from which they come. The members meet after school once every two --Photo by Campbell's Studio Children Learn Geography In After-School Stamp Clubs Every two weeks more than 200 Pupils in six of the city public schools are meeting to discuss and exchange stamps from countries all over the world and incidentally to learn many points of geography. These activities are taking place in hobby groups, meeting after school, which have grown up dur- ing the past few months under Community Recreation Association direction, Began At Centre School Beginning with Centre Street, where a group of boys asked about organizing a stamp club when R. L. Coleman, director of recreation was speaking at a Home and School As- sociation meeting there -- these clubs have developed in the various schools until there are now six and King Street School is planning to organize one immediately after the Easter holidays, While a teacher is in attendance, the pupils have complete charge of their own meetings, a president, vice-president and secretary being elected in each case. Ed. Kennedy of the C.R.A. staff, an ardent stamp collector himself, teaches the children how to mount their stamps afld gives general supervision to the groups. The largest club sp far is at North Simcoe School which has a mem- bership of over 60. The next is at Mary Street where there are 58 members and an average attend- ance of about 38 and Centre Street 23. Each meeting sees two or three new members at most of the clubs. The significant feature of the pastime is the small amount of ex- pense involved. Instead of spend- ing large sums buying stamps, the children depend mainly on devel- oping a network of helpers among friends and relatives, some here and some in other countries, who save stamps for them. Then at the meetings they trade among wi Si 'Savagely' Beaten About Head Cornwall, April 3 -- (CP) Beaten savagely about the head and suff-ring from a broken right arm when he unsuccessfully attempted to resist robbers at his home last aight, Duncan MecGillis, 60-year- old Harrison's Corners cattle buyer, was reported in "fair condition" at Hotel Dieu Hospital here this morning. Police said the assailants made off with a "considerable amount" of money. More than 40 stitches were re- quired to close the extensive lacera- tions on the victim's face and head. Police said McGillis told them he was assaulted by two men when he answered a knock on the door late last night. He was alone in the house at the e. When he came to, he was tied hand and foot, but despite his in- juries he succeeded in freeing him- self and made his way to a8 neigh- bors where he turned in ap alarm. ARTHUR WALKER Who has sold the Oshawa Cour- ier, He will continue in the job printing business, Courier Sold To Unnamed Buyers Announcement is made in today's issue of the Oshawa Courier of the sale of that publication to a new company called "Independent Pub- lishers Limited." The names of the stockholders or officers of the com- pany are mot given but it is stated that "the directors are substantial citizens of Oshawa and other sec- tions of Ontario County." The state- ment is also added that "the present issue has been published under their ownership and direction". Arthur Walker, the founder of the publication, states that the sale does not include any plant or equipment and that he will continue in the job printing business and will print the newspaper for the new owners. A further statement by "Indepen- dent Publishers Limited" and head- ed "Change of Ownership" appears on page four of the current issue. This statement also gives no hint as to the personnel of the new com- pany. . Interviewed by The Times-Gaz- ette, Mr. Walker, the retiring. pro- prietor, stated that he was not al liberty to disclose the names of the new owners but referred to James R. MacBrien as solicitor for the newly formed company. Mr. Mace Brien was asked by The Times-Gaz- ette for a statement but said that the company was still in the hands of the provisional directors and he was not in a position at this time to disclose the names of the perm- anent officials or owners. He hoped this information would be available later. Various rumors are current re- garding the identity of the new owners. Some of these rumors link the purchase with the Progressive Conservative Party but the local mémber, T. K. Creighton, K.C., and local officials of the party inter- viewed by The Times-Gazette den- fed any knowiedge of the transac- tion, ~. Drew Sees Long Tenure Of Office Toronto, April 8--(CP) -- Premier Drew implied last night that he intends to remain at the head of the Ontario government "for a long time yet." In a discussion on estimates for the legislative committee for art purposes, it was disclosed that two former Liberal premiers of the province have not yet posed for portraits to hang in the Queen Park legislative building. Mr, Drew asked members of the opposition to put pressure on Mitchell Hepburn and Harry Nix- on to have their portraits painted so that the money appropriated can be written off the books, J. B, Salsberg, Labor-Progres- sive member from Toronto, sald it was his opinion that there will be no delay in having a por- trait painted when the current Premier 1s out of office. "That won't be for a long time yet," Mr, Drew countered. Local 222 Votes Financial Aid To Ottawa Strikers At its general meeting last night the membership of Local 222, U.A.W.-C.I.O., voted to send $100 a week to the members of Local 641, Ottawa Car and Air- craft Co. Ottawa, Thomas Short, president of the Ottawa Loeal, was present at the meeting. The meeting also voted to ask the federal authorities to use the powers to end the Maritime coal strike, . Honorariums were voted to the president of the local and to the committee chairmen of the G.M. Shop Committee, Ontario Steel Products, Skinner Co. Ltd., and Duplate Canada, Limited,. Fracas In Cafe Brings 2 Counts As the result of a fracas at the Embasy Cafe last night in which the proprietor, Harry Seto, suf- fered face injuries, William My- les, 138 Albert Street, appeared in magistrate's court this morn- ing on a charge of disorderly con- duct and assault occasioning bo- dily harm, The accused, who was not ask- ed to plead, was remanded until April 10 with bail set at $500. The alleged disorder took place shortly after 11 o'clock last night, It was reported that one table was broken and in the scuffle which followed, Seto, suffered a cut on the nose and the loss of a tooth, Myles was warned by Magis- trate F, 8. Ebbs to keep away from this restaurant and one across the street during the week, THE WEATHER Clear and a little warmer to- day and Friday. Winds light. Low tonight and high Friday, 32, 44. Summary for Friday: Clear and warmer. - (offering a light when one girl IPPED Matron Assaulted: To Call Mrs. Dick As Star Witness Hamilton, April 3 (CP)--Mrs. Evelyn Dick, sentenced to life imprisonment on a ch death of her baby and now an arge of manslaughter in the anonymous jail inmate swept back into the news today through being a witness to an at- tempted jail break at Barton Street Jail. It became known this morningé that three women attempted to break out of jail. Their attempt failed. But Mrs. Dick, central figure in the sensational torso-murder trials here, saw the attempt and will be a court witness against the three women, By now Mrs. Dick is familiar with old Barton Street Jail. She has been there more than a year during which time she became one of the stand-out figures among its inhabi- tants, the woman charged for so long with the torso-killing of her husband -- a charge of which she was acquitted--and the woman to whom all bits of prison gossip were brought. 3 Currently she is being held in jail pending the disposal of an appeal by the Crown against her acquittal on the charge of husband murder, the Crown contending her state- ments to police should Have been admitted to evidence. At first report few details of the attempted jail break were available. Mrs. Dick will be one of the Crown's star witnesses when the three young women appear in Magistrate's Court on a charge of attempting to break jail. The wo- men were Misses Helen Rea, 25, and Florence Arnott, 18, both of Hamil» ton and Evelyn Hamilton, 37, Tor- onto. They appeared in court today charged with assault occasioning bodily harm and attempting to break jail with intent to escape. None entered any plea. The attempted break was staged in a women's cell block when the matron, Mrs. Sadie Andrews, was attacked by the three women. She warded them off, prevented their escape but was confined to her bed today with lacerations. Mrs. Andrews was in the act of sprang at her, threw a coat over her head and dragged her to the floor. It was reported one girl struck the matron over the head with a shoe. Someone else hit her with a scrub brush, As Mrs. Andrews screamed for help there was a gen- eral melee and the woman let her- self out of the cell block as three guards came to her assistance. Mrs. Dick sald she was seated at a table and took no part in the dis- turbance. Kohen Firm Has Contract With Union A contract has been signed be- tween Local 222, U.AW.-C.1.O., and Kohen Boxes Ltd., it was announced this morning by James Smith, In- ternational Representative of the U.AW. The agreement was signed by Hugh Miller and Morris Kohen for the company and by George Lukowesky, Mike Poloz and Nick Romanoski for the employees and James Smith for the International Union. The contract provides for an ir- revocable check-off of union dues, assessment and initiation fees for the life of the agreement. The question of vacations with pay has still to be settled. The contract also covers grievance procedure and seniority. The agreement provides for a five cent per hour premium for the night shift. A temporary wage scale was approved which gives a wage increase of five to 15 cents per hour. This increases the minimum for 70 cents per hour and the top wage to $1 per hour. It is expected wage negotiations will be opened in the near future. Easter Speaker +H REV, ERNEST HARSTON Former minister of Simcoe Street United Church, who will be the speaker at the annual Easter ser- vice held under the auspices of St. John the Almoner Pr A No. 15, Knights Templar, The service will be held in the Mason- ic Temple at three o'clock Sunday afternoon, Nova Scotia, Ottawa Tax Plan Fails Halifax, April 3--(CP)--The No- va Scotia Legislature was out for Easter recess today after the gove ernment, acknowledging a rejection by the nion of its most recent proposals for a taxation agreement, went ahead and presented a budget which, without recourse to federal subsidies or any increase in taxes, forecast a surplus of $122,635 for the year ending Nov. 30, 1947. The House adjourned yesterday until April 8 after Premier Angus L. MacDonald disclosed a reply from Finance Minister Abbott had indi- cated that "the Dominion's position . .remains as it has been for some time." However, he sald, "we never clos- ed any doors. I still hope for a fair settlement." The budget, presented by Mr, MacDonald, also Provincial Secre- tary, forecast revenues for the year of $22,370,483 and expenditures of $22,247,848. It was the biggest ex- penditure in Nova Scotia's history. Last year's surplus of $2,588,648, made up of revenue of $22,546,259 and expenditures of $19,957,611, had been estimated at $51,446. Without a tax agreement and with no increase in provincial le- vis, the Nova Scotia fiscal picture is affected in this manner: The Federal subsidy under a war- time agreement, which last year amounted to $2,911,078, is wiped out; As of April 1, the province assum- ed a three-cents-per-gallon tax on gasoline dropped by the Dominion and it is estimated this will mean an increase of about $850,000 for the remaining eight months of the fis- cal year. Regarding taxation negotiations with the federal government, Mr. MacDonald said the Dominion"re- fused to vacate the electricity tax field and would withdraw from amusement and pari-mutual fields only if adequqate compensation were pald by the provinces. % LATE NEWS BRIEFS x (By THE CANADIAN PRESS) Ottawa: Cracking down severely in line with a government policy to hit big income-tax evaders hardest, Magi- strate Glenn Strike today sentenced two Ottawa department store merchants to six months in jail plus a $40,000 fine. Washington: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee to- day approved by a vote out President of 13 to 0 legislation to carry ruman's program of extending $400,- 000,000 financial and limited military aid to Greece and Turkey. Lake Success, N.Y.: Sir Alexander Cadogan of Britain at- 'tacked Soviet delegate Andrei A. Gromyko today for vetoing a British resolution in the Corfu Channel mine-blast case Berlin: Gen. Lucius D. ainst Albania. . lay declared on his arrival today from Moscow that "all hope has been given up of reaching a settlement ference." on reparations at this con- pre ES.