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ar THE D OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle AILY TIMES-GAZETTE WHITBY 178 VOL. 6--NO. OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1947 Price 4 Cents SIXTEEN PAGES 4 Have Narrow Escape in GM Flash Fire Electric Cord Short Ignites Solution In Dipping Oven Pe A 4 No appraisal has been made yet of damage caused by a fire on the second floor in Department 26 at General Motors' whic. alerted all trucks of both city fire stations at, 2.35 p.m. yesterday. The blaze is said to have started vhen a short + circuit on an electric extension cord ignited the waste paint and a tankful of solution in the® dipping oven while four men were cleaning it. Plant officials said the loss was caused chiefly by smoke and water damage to stock. It will not inter- fere with re-opening of the plant following the present vacation period. Searing Flame In the large oven, approximately 75 feet long, through which metal seat backs travel to be dipped or sprayed, an extenion cord supplying light somehow shorted, and a sear- ing flame sent the four men running for their lives out one end of the enclosure. Members of the factory fire brigade and maintenance staff vainly emptied 25 or more foam ex- tinguishers on the blaze. One re- port stated that 150 gallons of the enamel mixture exploded before the city firemen arrived. The fire occurred in a somewhat remote part of the building and a total of 1,400 feet of hose had to be laid in three separate leads. With one length leading through a win- dow and another up a stairway, ap- proaches from both ends of the oven were attempted but. said De- puty Chief Ray Hobbs, "It kept e from thg ts cam city fire station at 3:05 "o'clock as all available men were called in. Stock Damaged Flames broke into the third floor where they played havoc with stocks of rubber parts. Creeping past spaces against the wall, the blaze singed the first floor ceiling. Smoke was so thick and potent that Wil- . liam Herrington of Stephenson's Corners, a maintenance crew man, was all but overcome when he tried to indicate the location of the con- flagration to the firemen. Charles Skea, first aid attendant in that sec- tion of the plant, gave eye baths to those who got too much of the stinging smoke. Four large canisters of chemical in aadition to hundreds of gallons of water were spread around before the stubborn blaze was brought un- der control. It was 5.22 p.m. when the trucks returned to headquarters. 800 Arrive At Halifax From Europe Halifax, July 31--(CP)--Break- ing through a thick fog curtain early today, the American troop- ship General M. B. Stewart steam- ed into port with more than 800 displaced persons from Europe aboard--the first of 10,000 immi- grants of this category coming to Canada, Cheering wildly as' their 12,000- ton vessel slowly manoeuvred alongside the dock, the shabbily- dressed Europeans appeared happy that the first leg of their long journey was over. They readily posed for photographers, but few could reply with anything but "nien" to reporters' questions. Among the 800 passengers were 305 women and children bound for homes of relatives in Canada. The remaining 700 men will leave today aboard special trains for lumber camps from Buebec to British Col- umbia. The troopship left Bremershaven, Germany, eight days ago when the immigrants had their first North American meal in many years, It was the first time any were served three meals a day since 1939. The women appeared tired, but happy. They were dressed in pre- war clothing, wearing long shawls about their heads. The men, dressed in cast-off Un- ited States army clothing, were in need of haircuts. They came from countries all over Europe but the majority were Lithuanians and Ukrainians, who had been drafted into Hitler's slave-labor battalions, These young men, bound for lumber camps, ranged in ages from 20 to 30. Many were graduates from European uni- versities. All spoke German, as well as other European tongues. THE WEATHER Mostly clear today and Fri- day. Cooler today. Not much hange in temp e Friday. Winds Northwest 15 decreasing to light this afternoon. Low to< night and high Friday 58 and 81, Summary for Friday: Clear. UP WAGES BY SEVEN CENTS AT FIBERGLAS The members of the Fiberglas Division of Local 222, U.A.W.-C. 1.0. at a meeting in the Union Hall on Tuesday night, accepted a wage offer from Fiberglas Ca- nada Limited. The increase is re- troactive to July' 18, Th. proposal from the comp- any provides for an increase of seven cents per hour and pay for four statutory holidays, At pres- ent between 50 and 70 hands are employed although in peak pro- duction periods the payroll runs between 100 and 125. An official of the Union stated that the increase brings the hir. ing rate for production workers to 76 cents per hour. The top rate for production workers is now $1.01 per hour, 13 at Tweed Hurt When Barn Falls Tweed, Ont., July 31 (CP).--Three volunteer workers went to hospital for treatment and 10 others were bruised and shaken when the frame. work of a new barn being erected on the farm of Clayton Fisher, four miles south of this Hastings County community, collapsed yesterday. High winds and the weight of men on the scaffold were believed the cause. Ambulances moved the most seri- ously hurt to Belleville hospital. Reeve Harry Coulter of Hunger- ford Township was thrown on his shoulder, which physicians thought was broken. Ralph Franklin, Queensboro, suffered deep gashes to his foot; Leo Johnston of Stoco was the victim of a fractured leg. Others who suffered bruises. abra- sions and a general shaking"ip were Lorne Holmes, Carl Bateman, Bur- ton Coulter, Jack Smith, Tweed; Douglas Boldrick, Fred Langevin, Ray Phillips, Laurison Kennedy and William Deline, Thomasburgh. The men are all district farmers and their injuries will mean that harvesting operations will be tem- porarily held up. 3 Alarm Blaze Damage $70,000 Toronto, July 31 (CP).--A spec- tacular three-alarm fire early today levelled the one-storey frame build- ing of the McIntosh Granite Com- pany on uptown Yonge Street with a loss estimated by firemen at $70,000. An additional $5,000 loss was suffered by 'the neighboring Clnada Building Materials Limited plant. which 'raged for more than six hours until 9 a.m. but tombstones were turned into piles of powdered stone. The razed warehouse is just south of a railway underpass south of St. Clair Ave. : No Licenses For 3 Hotels Brockville, July 31--(CP)' Applica- tions of three hotels for beer licenc- es in this district have been refused by the Ontario Liquor Licence Board H. J. F. Stewart, K.C., district regis- trar reported today. The Brockton Hotel, Brockville; New Céntral Hotel Frankville, and the Mountain View Hotel, Mountain Grove were refused licences. No decision has been reached on applications from two Gananoque and two Kingston clubs made at the same sitting, July 4. RAF. Squadron to Visit C.N.E. After U.S. Tour No one was injured in the blaze | Air Forces Day, Aug. 1, and later to | Sixteen RAF Lincoln bombers are seen lined up at Andrews Field, Md. | after arriving from England to tour U.S. as part of celebration of Army fly at CNE. Squadron 617 is a "cin- derella" group, secretly trained in 1943, which with heroic efforts bombed the big German Mohne and Eder dams and also helped sink the German battleship Von Tirpitz in September, 1944. --pnoto by Globe and Mall No Bribery Prosecution Allowed CSU Ottawa, July 31--(CP)~The Na- tional Labor Reldtions Board today refused the Canadian S8eamen's Un- ioh permission to take court action against chiefs of three lake ship- ping companies on charges that they tried to bribe T. G. McManus, national C.8.U. secretary. with an other of $100,000 to accept a work contract on their terms. The board, however, granted the union permission to prosecute the three companies for alleged breach- es of labor regulations for refusing ship-boarding passes to C.8.U. offi- cials as provided in their collective agreement, while issuing such pass- es to a rival union. The ruling of the board, handed down two days after hearing of the application, expressed "the earnest hope" that the parties would settle their difficulties without recourse to court proceedings. This was an obvious reference to this morning's meeting of represent- atives of the union and the Canada Steamship and the Sarnia and Col- onial Lines with L. W. Brockington, appointed by the government as an industrial disputes inquiries com- missioner to investigate differences that have cropped up between the two factions since they ended a long inland shipping strike with agreement last year. In the case of the rejected appli- cation for permission to take court action against captains Scott Mis- ener of Sarnia and Colonial and Norman. Reoch of Canada Steam- ships, the board said it would give its reasons on or about Aug. 26. The date of its next meeting. At the hearing, McManus charged that they had offered him $100,000 in a Toronto hotel room last August if he would accept a contract "much less favorable" to the seamen than that then under negotiation by Mr. Justice 8. E. Richards of Manitoba. Company lawyers denied the charge. The board said it had granted its consent for prosecution in the other charges after "finding that a collec- tive agreement had been entered in- to between the union and te three companies under date of Sept. 3, 1046." Permission for the QG.S.U. to board their vessels was one of the clauses, Drop Demolition Bomb In Los Angeles Harbor San Pedro, Calif., July 31--(AP)-- H.MS. Kenya, 11;000-ton cruiser of the Royal Navy dropped a demoli- tion charge at her berth in Los Angeles harbor last night when bubbles, later found to have been caused by an auxiliary engine. gave rise to fears of underwater sabot- eurs. All automobile traffic to the wharf was restricted immediately after the incident, harbor police reported. A telephone caller yesterday to the British consulate was reported bo have protested the Kenya's visit ere. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Don Hurlburt, son of Mr. and Mrs, Earl T. Hurlburt, 204 Oshawa Blvd. was recently named editor- in-chief of Moody Student, bi- weekly newspaper at the Moody Bi- ble Institute, Chicago, where Hurl- burt is a fourth term student. He is also an active announcer on the Institute's two _ radio stations, WMBI and WD) : Robson Co.Charges Contract Claims O ffer Fair Violated; Robson Leather Co. in a state- |; ment issued today charged striking Local 205, International Fur and Leather Workers Union, with two major violations of its current con- tract and said the company's last offer of a straight 10-cents-an-hour wage increase and four paid statu- tory holidays was "comparable to settlements made in other indust- ries in Oshawa in recent negotia- tions." Members of Local 205, IL.F.L.W.U, went on strike yesterday when wage negotiations broke down after a final °union-company conference failed to snap the wage deadlock. Union officials said the company of- fers were "unacceptable to the work- ers in the plant." Pickets Continue Pickets continued to patrol the plant today with a headquarters tent set up on Whiting Avenue. A union source denied rumors that plant executives were being detain- ed inside company grounds. "They're free to come in and go out as they like," the source declared. Quoting from Article XI of the firm's one-year contract with Local 205 signed November 30, 1946. the company's statement declared the union agreed that "during the life of this agreement there will be no strikes, slowdowns or stoppages of work, either complete or partial . . ." The statement charged that since the signing of this agreement "three strikes have taken place contrary to its terms." According to another clause of this article, the union undertook in the event of a stoppage of work to maintain qualified men on the job "$0 ensure the working out of all perishable goods in process at the time of such work stoppage," the statement read. "The union has completely ignor- ROBSON CO. (Continued on Page 2) Child Is Killed By Paper Truck At Green River Four. year . old Lynn Marie Sinstead, Woodbine Avenue,. Toronto, was- instantly killed - when she ran across No. 7 high. way into the path of the To- ronto Daily Star truck at 12:55 pm. today. The truck was driven by F. Peters, Lakeview, Ontario. The child, who was staying for the summer with her mo. ther in cabins at Green River, ran across the highway in an effort to reach her mother. Provincial Constables Keast and Bone of Oshawa are inves. tigating the accident. Coroner Dr. V. E. Cartwright of Picker. ing viewed the body after the accident. 2 Cars Damaged In Collision A two-car collision at the inter- section of Prince and Colborne Sts. at 9.25 a.m. today resulted in dam- age to both vehicles but no injuries to the occupants. Fred Ball, 482 Louisa Street driv- ing east along Colborne Street col- lided with a car driven by Bernard Kinlin, 66 Aberdeen Street who was travelling north on Prince Street. Damage to the Ball car consisted of smashed right head light, front fender and grill while Kinlin's veh- icle was dented on the left door and the rear fender driven in. The lat- ter car cameyto rest with the rear wheels Biwi north-east curb. Price Level Beyond Many But No Serious Decline In Sale of Houses Here Although prices continue on a level beyond the means of a large section of the house-hungry pub- lic and some real estate firms re- port a slight tendency on the part of buyers to delay purchases in the hope of lower prices, there has been no serious dropping off in the sale of houses here, a sur- vey today showeu, There is no sc.rcity of pros- pective home purchasers, but with prices at:least as high if not higher than during the war years, the average working man finds. it impossible to obtain the house he wants for the money he has avail- able. As one real estate agent put it: "They come in with $1,500 or $1,600 but they don't want to look at the houses selling for that." On the whole, houses on the | market this year have been of a somewhat better class, The most popular house at present is the five-room bun_alow and there are not enough of these to supply the demand, Prices for this type range in the neighborhood of $6,- 6500 to $7,600. \ * About an equal nwmber of old and*new houses are on the mar. ket and both are firing purcha- sers, Many 'of the newer houses are in out-of-the-way districts than those preferred by the av- erage buyer, While some real estate agents predict some easing off in prices before too long, others are of the opinion that the present high lev. el will continue for some time yet--depending on how soon the supply of homes can catch * up with the.demand, ' l }| crete roadway. Lakeshore Area Homes Under Water Lakeshore Road was more like a miniature lake last night as high waves rolled over the short expanse of beach and calmed on the con- "Never like this in a lifetime," said the proprietor of a soft drink stand who grew up in that district. : The breakwater on the south edge of Lakeview Park simply acted as a springboard for the skimming, browned white-caps. Then zipped over the wall and gouged into the already beaten terrace, filling the hollow directly behind the con- crete. : Mrs. B. Dean, 331 Lakeshore Road said it was the most discouraging experience she had had in five years of residence while her boys, Bert, 8, and Tommy, 5, were enjoy- ing themselves immensely wading thigh-deep in the cool flood. Not being certain of the name of the flooded area, The Times-Gaz- ette reporter asked Mrs. L, Colley for the information. "You can call it Tobacco Road or anything you like," she replied, as she unlocked her front door and splashed through, od The area was dry soon after Sun- day's rainfall but the sudden squall on Lake Ontario at about 4 pm. yesterday sent waves across the beach to surround the cottages and permanent homes. . "It was the worst we have ever had at the club. There are three inches of water covering the lower floor", commented Bob Lang, the lifeguard employed by the Oshawa Yacht Club, this morning. Two Months For Break-In Clifford Bebeé, 24, of 266 Clark Street was. sentenced by Magistrate F. 8S. Ebbs in police court this morn- ing to'two months in county jail on charges of breaking and entering, and theft, resulting from a breav-in at Jubilee Pavilion early Saturday morning, July 26. Bebee pleaded guilty to the charges and had little to say in hI8 own defence. Owen McCrohan, manager of the pavilion, reported that the building had been entered between 11:30 p.m. Friday and 5:45 a.m, Saturday, and $77 taken. Entry was gained by forcing the south door. Ontario Policemen Hold Elections St. Catharines, July 31--(CP) --Inspector Art Webster of the Forest Hill police department succeeded Chief Harola Nash of Guelph as president by acclama- tion yesterday at the 15th annual con.ention of the Ontario Police Association. Two other offices were filled by acclamation: E, N. 'Coulter, London, was elected second vice- president and W, M, Croft, Ham- ilton, treasurer, Gordon Preston, Windsor, and Edward Osler, Cornwall, were to contest the of- fice of first vice-president - at elections today, Ne er HANG HOSTAGES, BLOW UP BODIES Brutal Terrorists' Cowardly Revenge Stirring Revulsion By EDWARD CURTIS Jerusalem, July 31 (AP)--The bodies of two young British sergeants, kidnapped as hostages by Irgun Zvai Leumi, were found hanging today from two eucalyptus trees and were blasted to bits by a booby trap when British sol- diers started '0 cut them down. & Jewish settlement police found Heap Scorn On Jewish Murderers By REUTERS Horror and indignation keynoted comments today on reports that the bodies of two British army ser- geants slain by Jewish terrorists had been found and then blasted to bits in a Palestine forest. Alderman G. Briggs, Mayor of Coventry, Eng., home town of Sgt. Clifford Martin, one of the slain men, said the "town would be stunned by this terrible crime." Alderman G. S. James, Lord Mayor of Bristol, birthplace of the other victim, Sgt, Mervyn Paice, sald: "A terrible crime against human- ity has been committed. The whole civilized world will be appalled." Jewish organizations in both London and Palestine were unani- mous in condemning the terrorist action, Dr. Hussein Khalidi, secretary of the Palestine Arab higher commit- tee, described the "murder of two innocent British soldiers" by Jews as "the most dastardly, cowardly and fiendish crime ever perpetrated in this part of the world. "Even the most cruel and mania- cal gangster would shudder and hesitate before committing such an act," Khalidi said, He added "the murder of §ir Lee Stack by a gang of irresponsible youngsters lost Egypt her indepen- dence for a decade." (8ir Lee Stack, a former Govern- or-General of the Sudan who be- came a Sirdar in the Egyptian ar- ny, Jas assassinated in Cairo in Mother Blames Government, 'Could Have Waited' London, July 31--(AP)--Mrs. F. R. Martin, widowed mother of Sgt. Clifford Martin, who was hanged in Palestine by the Irgun Zvai Leumi underground, collapsed today at her home in Coventry and was reported in serious. condition. "We do blame the govern- ment," said her son-in-law, Frederick Kemp, "Surely they know how desperate these peo- ple are and they could have waited until our boys were safe before executing the terrorists." Martin and another sergeant were hanged after three Irgun- ists were executed. Appoint McTague | Telegram Trustee Toronto, July 31 (CP).--Charles P. McTague, K.C., chairman of the Ontario Securities Commission has been appointed to succeed the late Mrs. I. Cameron of Toronto as trustee of the John Ross Robertson estate, proprietors and publishers of The Evening Telegram, it was an- nounced today. the bodies in a forest preserve near Natanya just 24 hours after Irgun, extremist Jewish underground or- ganization, announced it had exe- cuted the Britons in reprisals for the hanging of three Irgunists con- victed in a prison delivery. Set Dogs on Killers The area was surrounded and dogs were turned loose in an at- tempt to pick up the trail of the killers, Aa Dalestine government offi- als met to map a rigid ca n against underground pain official said plans under considera- tion included a demand upon the Jewish agency to co-operate active- 4 A stamping out underground at- Ci . When soldiers started to cut the bodies down after an hour-long probe for mines, the booby trap ex- ploded behind the body of sgt, Clifford Martin. It blasted to bits his body and that of Sgt. Mervyn Paice and scattered the pieces over a wide area. Attached to Body The booby trap mechanism ap- parently had been attached to the arm of one of the bodies. The ex- plosion uprooted several nearby eu- calyptus trees and pieces of the bo- dies were found 300 yards away. The blast wounded one Grena- TERRORISTS (Continued on Page 2) Barbarous Crime, Says Creech Jones London, July '31--(Reuters)--Col- onial Secretary Creech Jones declar- ed in the House of Commons today that there could scarcely have been "a more dastardly act than the cold- blooded and calculated murder" of the two British army sergeants kid- napped by Jewish terrorists in Pale- stine and hanged in retaliation for the execution of terrorists convicted of taking part in the May jail break at Acre prison, "I express the deep feeling of hor- ror and revulsion shared by all of us here at this barbarous crime. "This was an outrage against men discharging a service in fulfillment: of international obligations and was abhorrent in the eyes of all civilized persons everywhere and must surely, mean the final condemnation of the terrorists by their own people. "We can only hope that this late est act will stir the Jewish come munity in Palestine to root out this wil from their midst," Creech Jones sa Stabbed, Critical, Wife Is Held Windsor, July 31--(CP)--Stabbed in the chest and throat following what police said was an early morn~ ing argument at his home, Lawrence Ranger of Windsor was in critical condition in hospital here today. His wife was held for investigation and no charges have been laid. Ranger suffered one stab wound in the chest and two in the throat. His wife, after treatment for minor injuries, including scratches, was taken to jail. Hospital officials sald Ranger had lost much blood. * LATE NEWS BRIEFS (By THE CANADIAN PRESS) Lake Success: The possibility that the U.S. might announce a drastic move today to counter Russia's veto of an American proposal for Balkans was advanced Edson, Alta.: A thirteen-year- a U.N. border watch over the here. old boy was thrown 70 feet to his death and his mother and brother had legs severed when a Canadian National Railways train struck them. Valleyfield, Que.: Less than three hours before he was to be transferred to Amos, Que., to answer false pretences charges, Paul Emile Desrochers, 32, of Valleyfield, escaped from the local London: The House of Lords jail today. passed today the bill national- izing British electricity generating and distributing companies, estimafed to cost $1,400,000,000.. - Boston: Customs officials today began an exhaustive ques- tioning of crew members of the British motorship Silverlarch in an effo rt to determine who tried to 'smuggle $100,000 worth of gum opium into the U.S,