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. THE D OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle AILY TIMES-GAZETT WHITBY, VOL. 6--NO. 179 A OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 19 ak 47 Bl Price § Conte TWELVE PACES EXTREMISTS ATTACK ARMY BASE Dutch Are Ready to Accept U.S. Mediation INDONESIA IS * ALSOIN FAVOR OF PROPOSAL Lake Success, Aug. 1 (AP) Dr. Belco N. Van Kleffens, Netherlands Ambassador to Washington, told the United Nations Security Council to- day his government had accepted a United States offer to mediate the undeclared war in Indonesia. He said he had been authorized by The Hague to say that the Netherlands "gladly accepts" the mediation offer and that his gov- ernment is ready to enter into con- sultatiens with United States offi- cials immediately. His announcement came as & surprise. . No Formal Offer As the Council met to resume de- bate on Australian and Indian complaints of the Indonesian ques- tion, Van Kleffens had told a re- porter the Netherlands Government had not yet reached & formal medi- ation offer. "When and if we do receive such an offer," he sald, "I am quite sure we will accept it." Herschel V. Johnson, United States deputy delegate, disclosed at | the Council session last night that the United States was offering to mediate the conflict. Would 'Gratefully Accept' Batavia, Aug. 1 (AP)--A. K. Gani, Deputy Premier of the In- donesian Republic, who is under Dutch arrest here, said today he believed his government would "gratefully accept" the United States offer to mediate in Indonesia if the Dutch. would. agree. bo, retu to the areas they held befor: smashing across Java and Sumatra. Gani. has been a prisoner for neatly two weeks in the house from which President. Soekarno pro: claimed Jgdonesia's ihdependence two years ago. He said his personal opinion was that the Republic fav- ored American intervention and now after the Dutch "restore law and order." G.M. Auto Prices in U.S. Up 2 to 6 p.c. Detroit, Aug. 1--(AP)-- General Motors Corp, today announced a two-to-six-per-cent increase in the list prices of all passenger cars ef- fective immediately. "Price adjustments on specific models and body styles will be es- tablished individually by the divi- sions involved," the announcement said. Cadillac, Buick, Oldsmobile, Pon- tiac and Chevrolet passenger cars were affected. President C. E. Wilson sald the Company's first general price boost since last November was necessita- ted becausé "increased costs of both labor and materials now are too great for General Motors to pos- sibly absorb through improved pro- cessing and the use of better ma- chines and tools 'or from afy po- tential increase in volume." He cited what he termed a 12- Ee ns, a, 8 per-cent increase in labor costs be- cause of April's Wage agreement * with the United Auto Workers (C. 10), as well as rising costs of steel, pig iron and other materials. China Will Re-Open Limited Trade With Japs « Nanking, Aug. 1 (AP). --China-de- cided today to reopen limited trade with Japan with the proviso that nothing be exported that is. needed at home, -. The government decided to send a compinercial inspection party fo Japan before actual trading begins. Tt aleo insisted that where possible, Japanese imports would be obtained 8s reparations, RE-STOCK TROUT LAKE North Bay, Aug. 1 (CP)~One of the few Nofthern Ontario lakes in which Atlantic Salmon thrive, out Lake, hear here, received 10,- 0 salmon [fingerlings yesterday. The salmon came from the Glenora Hatchery near Picton, Ont., to their new home; more than 1000 miles from their place of origin off the New Brunswick coast. Seg meme iret AIR CADETS ARRIVE TONIGHY London, Aug. 1 (Reuters) --Forty- sik Canadian Alf Cadets are due in London tonight on a three-weeks tour of Britain. They also will be taken on a one.day rip ovis Branst and Germany to see a and famous war sives. Forty-six British gadets have already started # coast. tour of Canada, -_- ow ia fo Nearly 100 boys and girls from all parts of the city. took part in a Community Recreation Association spon. sored evening at the McLaughlin Bandshell last night which saw activities ranging from a boxing bout to a pantomime of Tchafkovsky's "Nutcracker Suite." The upper photo shows a large section of the cast with their instructors and the Kinsmen Boys' Band in the background and Master-of-Ceremonies "Gus" Habberfield at the microphone. Lower left is the North Oshawa School girls' choir conducted by Mrs. Alex Fisher while the photo at the right shows a section of the crowd which set a record for the season, One of the interested spectators was Mrs. R. 8. McLaughlin seen on the extreme left of the picture. ~Photos by Campbell's Studio Record Crowd Sees Children's Band Shell Presentation! Would Take Juil Perm: Rather Than Pay Fine Toronto, Aug. 1 (CP) A 22.year- old Baptist rginister, Rev. Murray Heron, and Miss Alice Moore, missionary, last night ad 1,000 persons in Jarvis Street Bap- tist Church and declared themselves ready to go to jail rather than pay a fine for helding a meeting on a street corner in Rouyh, Que. Authorities in Rouyn charged the two with holding the meeting without permission and Mr. Heron stated he faced a $40 fine or two months in jail if convicted when the case 1s heard in Rouyn Aug. 11. Will Go To Jail "I will refuse to pay any fine and will go to jail if a penalty is im- posed," he told the church con- gregation, which also was addressed by Rev. D. C. MoLelland of the Canadian Protestant League. Miss Moore said she was determined to continue preaching the Gospel on the street corners. "I know' what I will have to face if I go to jail, and I will go to jail rather than pay the fine," she said. Miss Moore said that the cell in which she was placed when arrested at Rouyn had doubledecker army cots with straw mattresses and dirty blankets and no sheets. She was placed in the cell with a com- panion, Miss Eileen Veal, and Miss Moore gaid that in the cells at the time was an 18-year-old girl Who had been there 15 days because she was unable to pay her fine, Mr, Heron said he had been un. aware that the privilege to held meetings on Monday and Tuesday evenings in Rouyn had been re- vokeqd. He said police had informed him his meeting was causing a trafjec hazard, "The chief of police thought we were connected with Jehovah's Witnesses because I had a New Testament in my pocket," Mr. Heron continuéd. "Mayor Cuddihy asked me if I was ordained. I told him I wasn't, and he replied, 'you have no more right to préach the Gospel than I'." Mr. Heron said he only sought the same rights as granted the Salva- tion Army. (Mayor Cuddiby has announced that the Baplist Church has been granted permission to hold open.air meetings Monday evenings). Describes Attempt Present Brief Mr. MeLelland deseribed to the sent a brief during an income tax case before the Exchequer Court of Canada at Ottawa when Mr. Justice Thorson térmed the brief "filthy propaganda." Mr. Mclelland said he had only started to present the brief, and he added:. "How could he tell with the few words that I had uttered that it was Althy pro- paganda?" Mr. McLelland then claimed that Roman Catholic priests were not paying their full share of income tax. In his brief, he said hat a priest of th it in a good parish may have congregation his attempts to pre. h Roman Catholic |, Plan Sending Gift Apples To Britain Vancouver, Aug. 1--(CP) -- A pledge of 5,000 cases of apples to be sent tost-free to Britain, today was seen by backers as the pos- sible forerunner of a Dominion. wide "Lend-Lease fof Peace" move, The plan, backed by 14 greater Vancouver fraternal organiza- tions, was originally suggested by the North Vancouver Chamber of Commerce, following cancella~ tion of contracts for British Co- lumbia apples earlier this year by British importers attempting to stabilize their shaky dollar- scarce economy. It is the first phase of a mas. ter plan to send 260,000 boxes, purchased by public subscription. North Vancouver's Mayor Jack Loutet suggested that 100,000 persons each buy a box for ship- ment overseas, Arthur Woodhouse, . president of Branch 118, Canadian Legion, and ohe of the originators of the idea, said that a prominent ship- ping official had promised, if the scheme went through, free freight on a special rate aboard his ves- sels. X The Britis Food Ministry would oversee distribution in England and Britons would have British Columbia apples on their tables by mid-October without arting with any of their scarce dllars, ; More than 1,000,000 boxes went to fruit-hungry England last year from the Pacific Coast, Says Immigration Would Remove Needed Workers Toronto, Aug, 1 (CP)~<The On- tario Government was accused to- day by O. H. Millard, national di- rector of the United Steelworkers (CCL.-C10), of '"enticihg Brite ish immigrants to Canada by paint- ing a rosy picture of conditions are." Mr. Millard, who recéntly retutn- ed from a two-months' tour of England and Europe, said that any widespread immigration from Eng- laid "was unfair becauge it robs Great Britain of badly workers." J THE WBATHER Clear today. Not much change in temperature. Winds light. Saturday clear beco eloudy in thé even. ing, Lif warmer. Winds light. Low t and high 8 58 79. Sum. . TAKE JAIL TERM _ Continued on Buge 3) Ji oF ye a dai bs. ROPES WAS G00 -. LYNN MARIE SINSTEAD Aged four, of 1141 Woodbine Av- enue, Toronto, who was instantly killed at Green River yesterday gf- ternoon when she ran across No. 7 Highway in front of a Toronto Daily Star paper truck. No Developments In Ontario Steel Products Strike No progress has been reported. in negotiations betwéen labor and management in the three-weeks-old strike at the Oshawa plant of On- tario Steel Products Co. Ltd. A 92 per cent vote in favor of strike action by Local 222, Ontario Steel Products division, brought the men out July 16 after a compahy wage offer had been rejected. New developments are expected after the presnt Gneral Motors holiday period terminates. Holiday Mail Times Announced Post Office service in the city for Civic Holiday was angounced today. There will be no letter carrier delivery but post office wickets will be open frog 8 to 10 am. and the public lobby. will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 pm. There will be one complete street letter box collection at 5 pm. Rural mall delivery as well as receipt and despatch of mails will be as usual. goal MRE CALL 70 ELEVATOR At 8.06 ap. today, the Fire) Department answered a call to Hogg and Lytle' grain elevatoi on the corner of Church and Richmond Streets where a cigar. ough thr & ventilator, Deputy Chief H. R.. Hobbs repoftéd thet no damage] be eite butt had been thrown a amma J s Nutcracker Pan tomime New Building Slumps Here During July New building tn the city slumped to the lowest'point since February last: month and below the July level for any year since 3 Building permits {issued last month represented bmilding val. ued at $49,435 as compared with $167,266 for the same month a year ago and $60,312 for July, 1945. With considerable building commenced earlier in the year, however, the total for the year to date stands at nearly $926,000. This compares with $1,189,696 for the same period last year and $539,122 the previous year. The largest perniit last month was the $10,000 addition to the South End Bar, 5 Bloor Street Bast, A permit was also obtained for the erection of a graqcery and meat store at 185 Bloor Street East, Alex Nikeforuk plans to erect a $3,000 conorete . block building for this purpose, Another business project was a $7,600 addition begun on the south-east side of the Times Pub- lishing Co. building, This will be a one-storey structure of concrete construction. Only three new houses were begun during the month. Douglas ore is erecting a $5,600 brick house at 145 Yonge Street; Roy H, Peyton a $7,000 stucco house at 136 Central Park Blvd.; and N. Wirsching a $6,000 stueéo house at 86 Cadillac Avenue North, J, Kozakewich obtained a per- mit for a $2,000 cement block building to be used ad a welding and general repair 'shop at 283 Byng Avenue and Cole of Califor. nia is making alterations at its plant in the Williams Piano buil. ding. to provide two new offices. A large number of permits Were issued for minor alterations and repairs, INO PAPER ON MONDA In common with other busi- nesses in the city anf news. papers in many sections of the province, The Times-Gasétte will observe Civic Holiday on Monday next. No issue of the newspaper will be published add the business office will closed all day. The: co.opera- tion of advertisers and those ishing to insert élassifiea ad- vertising in Tudsday ¢ will be apps & All In C.R.A. Revue In the Bandshell last evening, the Kinsmen Boys' Band and nearly one hundred representatives of the Community Recreation Association put on a program displaying numer- ous varieties of talent and sketches of interest to every resident of Osh- awa and its suburban areas. To a capacity crowd--the largest yet-- which appeared unaffected by the chill night air, the participants gave of their best. ; "Gus" Habberfield, conductor of the C.R.A. radio shows, was master of ceremonies; he introduced the skits and music which opened with the Boys' Band under the baton of George Hood, playing "Old Com- rades", a sprightly march. Assistant Director of Recreation Ed Kennedy, topk over the microphone for about "half an hour to explain, aided by a revue, the activities promoted for children in the seventeen parks throughout the city, Teeter-totters and a swing had been set up in front of the shell and Miss Catheg- ine Cameron supervised 4s. three little gifls satisfied their eagerness for recréation. Bill Goulding had to referee a boxing bout on 'thé stage between a couple of energetic youngsters and while Ed questioned them, a happy group of boys and girls directed by Miss Marg Me. Gregor, represented a picnic party complete with First Aid kit in case of accidents. Two ball teams crowded around a microphone. To their adult attend- ants Ed had this to say: "You know, it's you people who are doing this kind of job and helping these boys' and girls' teams, who will help them become fine upstanding citi- zens. You are instilling in them the sense of fair play. It matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game." ; Even Kitchen Sink : Little Miss Jean Panko from Viec- tory Park, did a solo old-country dance indicating that national tra- ditions are accepted and encouraged at the playgrounds. A troop of cyc- lists from College Hill pushed their wellgladen bi¢ycles across the stage and when Ed suggested that they had everything but the kitchen sink, they held up an enamelled carried that. Musical games under the direction of Miss Ruth Arrel previewed a fashion show from 'way back when to the present, pleasant Summer of '47. odel#®. Marlene Brain, Sybil and Tema Evenstein, Joan Holdaway, Marilyn Miller, Blinot Wilson, Barbara Workman and Séotty Robert Mofrison sidled past ih réminiscent réview. From under a spréadipg stetson, short, talented Harry Drugomatz amused the audience and made folks gealize that even a lowly imitator could get ahead in these recreational organi. sin and proved that they even' | = AConiinged, on. Page 3d 2 | Say Armored Car Fired on Funeral Crowd at Tel Aviv By EDWARD CURTIS Jerusalem, Aug. 1 (AP)--A British régimental headle quarters here was attacked today with grenades and mortars and one attacker was killed, while in Tel Aviv several Jews were reported wounded by gunfire from a British armored car which created panic among a funeral procession of NO ONE HORT [Eire AS GASOLINE TRUCK UPSETS quaters of the Hampshire regiment, only 200 yards from the Jewish Agency. i Two Suspects Captured | 'Two suspected attackers were eApe tured alive. No casulaties améng the Hampshires were announced. Alarm sirens summoned troops te action stations and the aréa was cordoned off as police began rounde ing up some 200 men for questione A British-American Oil Comp- any truck driver escaped injury when his tractor-trailer unit, loaded with gasoline, swerved in- to a ditch three and a half miles west of Whitby, at 4.45 a.m. to- day, Total damage was estimated at $1,500, Heading east on Highway No. 2, the driver reportedly lost eon- trol of hig vehicle which left the road and turned over on its side, wedged between a hydro pole and # {rge in the south ditch. The Whitby Public Utilities Commis. sion emergency crew headed by Foreman G. Brown, was called olit to remove the hydro poles so that the truck could be uprighted, About 500 gallons of the eargo leaked out and the mén working in the ditch were knee-deep in gasoline, : "Fear of thé gasolin®- igniting necessitated extreme caution. A nearby liouse occupied by Dewart Carruthers would likely have been a casualty if fire had brokén out, Nothing could have been done to save it," remarked one witness, Provincial Police Consta- bles G. Robinson, C. Hetferon and J. Scott investigated the ac- cident, All Quiet On Robson Picket Lines A reply to Robson Leather Co.'s statement cparging the union with contract violations will be made la- ter today union officials indicated, as the strike of 230 members of Lo- cal 206,\International Fur and Lea- ther Workers, moved into its third day with no new developments re- ported. Company officials said the situa- tion was unchanged with no meet- ings in prespect as yet, Pickets patrolled the strike-bound plant today and union sources said "all was quiet" on the lines which are being maintained on a 24-hour -a-day basis. Employees went on striké Wed- nesday after wage negotiations roke down. The union had asked for a straight 25-cents-an-hour wage increase while the company offered first five. cents and then 10 cefils an hour, an offer which the company termed "comparable to settlements made in other indus- ists in Oshawa in recent negotia- ons." CUSTOMS TOTAL up _ Customs collected at the port' of Oshawa during July totalled $1,322,- 634.20 as compared with $1,010,978.- 51 for the same month last year. The total was made up of $221,384.14 in import duties, $100,840.68 ex- cise taxes and $402.40 sundty e¢ol- lections. % LATE NEWS BRIEFS x (By THE CANADIAN PRESS) Valencia, Spain: A firing squad today exécuted three men condemned as chiefs of a guerrilla group, and ace cused of being members of the Levant Communist Sentral Committee. They were convicted of 11 murs ers. . Windsor: Deputy Inspector James Yokum said today charge of attenpted murder would be laid against Mrs. Emma Ranger, 38, in connection with throat and chest wounds suffered by her husband, Lawrences Ranger, 34, in a family argument at their East Winds sorhome yesterday. Paris: Ten priests, arrested last April oh charges of hiding Vichy fugitives were sentenced today to terms of im« prison/ei varying from six months to two years and ines from 8,000 to 20,000 francs (about $68-to $164). London: More than 29,000 cars were produced in Britain in a June «= highast output for any one month since th ar, thy Motor: Manufagturérs' Society disgl ays : & g. In Tel Aviv, private sources said three bursts of gunfire from an armored car manned by policemen wounded several persons in the funeral procession for five Jéwish FIRED ON FUNERAL { (Continued on Page, 2) ' Draft Terms For Union With Newfie By D'ARCY O'DONNELL 1 Canadiah Press Staff Writer ; Ottawa, Aug: 1 = (OF) == : drafting of terms that would cone stitute a workable basis for the union of Newfoundland and Canse' da wag begun today by representa' tives 'of the two countriés as theism six-week-old discussions moved oul of the exploratory stage. ] The representatives" will draft report on what the financial -af constitutional position will be if the peorle of Newfoundland and the Canadian Parliament agreed thas union of the two countries is desire' able, ; ' It was agreed at a closed plenary meeting of the two delegations last night that sufficient inforaationy' had been chtained in discussions and study, since, June 25, permig the drafting of possible terms. John Baldwin, member of the Privy Council staff and liaison ofe ficet between tie two delegation said the report of the terms coifie miitee would represent a reasonably' clear statement of what the posie' tion would be .if Newfoundland: came in as a 10th province. i 80 far neither delegation has given an indication of what tke possible financial terms of unioy might be. Figures mentioned in spé=' culation in unofficial circles have' rlaced the cost to the Dominion at amounts ranging from $10,000,000 to $100,000,000. It is generally agreed by thosa close to the discussions that the. first few years aftef union the cost | i to the Dominion would be heavy, but many of the charges would ba of a non-recurring nature. For ine stance, the Dominion might agree to take over the Island's $78,000,000 public debt. The taking aver of the Newfound. land rallwhy and water transportae tion system also would prove costly in the first few years. In addition the Dominion might pay epesial subsidies for a time to bring the Island's health and other services up to a par with those in the existe ing provinces. Besides there would have to be payment of the subsidies now pro vided for in the Canadian Constj= tution and for those Which might arise out of a taxation agreement, similar to the agreement already concluded with seven of the nine existing provinces, i £