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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle OSHAWA WHITBY VOL, 6--NO. 264 'OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1947 Price 4 Cents FOURTEEN PAGES B-- HUNT TWO IN CABBIE SLAYING Britain Doubles Tax On Industrial Profits Purchase Tax Up, Income Tax Same In Dalton Budget London, Nov. 12 (CP)--Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Exchequer, introducing his anti-inflationary crisis budget in the House of Commons today announced that the profits tax on all profits would be doubled as from Jan. 1, this year. There would be no change in income tax, which remains at the standard rate of 9 shillings ($1.00) for each taxable pound ($4). Food subsidies now costing £302,- 000,000 annually will be maintained but Dalton warned that it would be impossible to justify any further in- creases. Existing subsidies on leather, cot- ton and wool now costing £33,000,- 000 annually will disappear next year. Other announcements made by Dalton were that in future three percent. interest will be charged on arrears of income tax, surtax, pro- fits tax and excess profits tax. In the future only one-half of the cost of commercial advertising will rank as allowable expenditure to be set off against taxes instead of | the whole as at present. Dalton announced there will be no increase in tobacco duty. Cigarets currently cost three shil- lings four pence (67 cents) a pack. Pipe tobacco is correspondingly dear, Big Increases in -purchase tax were announced. Articles at present bearing a tax of one-sixth of the purchase value will in future be subject to a tax of one third. Those already taxed at one-third will be taxed at one-half of the purchase value, Articles now taxed at two-thirds BRITAIN DOUBLES (Continued on Page 2) ® Lg pr Murder Victim RALPH MARGESON 32-year- Toronto faxicab driver, whose y was found in a muddy '| ditch beside tlie Dixie Road yester- day afternoon. Police believe the the early hours of yesterday morn. ng. Child Fought Attacker Until Hit With Hammer Owen Sound Jury Told Owen Sound, Nov. 12 (CP)--Trial of Frederick Bussey, 23-year-old one-time circus barker accused in the sex slaying of 11-year-old Betty Playford, went into its second day today before a jury of district farm- ers, Bussey, who surrendered volun- tarily in Montreal four days after the girl was killed last Sept. 21, listened impassively while special Crown prosecutor C. P, Hope told the jury that the girl had been at- tacked sexually before being beaten to death. » "The motive was sex," said Mr. Hope. "The Crown does not have to prove motive but that is what it was in this case." Mr. Hope said the slaying occur- red shortly after the girl left the home of a friend, Joyce McLay. He charged that Bussey had come along in a car, picked up the girl and asked her directions since he had made a wrong turn while én route to a nearby town. po The Crown prosecutor charged further that the child had resisted when Bussey attacked her. "He picked up a hammer in the car and a pulp and dumped her into a ditch." The prosecutor said a girl's tam had been found in a car abandon- ed with its gas tank empty on the outskirts of Thornbury. The father, James Alexander Playford, identi- fied a tam shown him as one that his daughter had been accustomed to wearing. Finding of Betty's body was re- lated by Gordon McLay, father of Joyce. He and other formed a search party the day following the disappearance of Betty. He had | found the body in a ditch, Final piece of evidence in the Crown's case will be the statement made in Montreal by Bussey in which he is alleged to have confes- sed killing the girl. It is not ex- pected the case will go to the jury before Friday. Reuther, Mazey In Office, Backers At UAW Certain Burt Will Be By MAX HALL Atlantic City, N' J, Nov 12--Wal- ter Reuther and Emil Mazey, the fiery No. 1 and No. 2 men of the CIO's United Automobile Work- ers set about sweeping 'two more of their political foes out of union of- fice today. Now it was vice-presidents R, J. Thomas and Dick Leonard who fac- ed almost certain 'election defeats as the Reuther faction took full con- trol of the union at its convention here. Thomas was opposed by Dick Gos- ser of Toledo. Leonard's opponent later in the day would be John Liv- ingston of St. Louis. After' Reuther's re-election as president yesterday, Mazey beat George Addes out of his secretary- treasurer job by a vote of 4,820 to 2,572 in a thunderously noisy elec- tion last night. \ Surprise For Labor This was an eye-opener to the whole labor movement, for Addes had been the "strong man" of the hice ants thronteh most of its 11-year existence. ian Re-Elected The team of Reuther and Mazey brings new militancy into the U.A. W. leadership. 4 It's true that their triumph is a crushing defeat for the Union's small Communist minority, because that group hates Reuther and sup- ports the Addes-Thomas-Leonard faction. But it is a mistake to think of the U.A'W. political turnover as merely a "swing to the right" or te assume tlrat the uhion: necessarily will be more conservative in its economic and social policies. Reuther and Mazey are former Socialist Party members, and their intellectual background is Socialist, Furthermore they are a couple of the most militant leaders the U.A. W. ever had. 3 Noisy Parade . Before the long roll-call vote be- gan, the supporters of Addes, and then- -those- of Mazey, paraded around the convention hall shout- ing, singing, bdnging wash tubs, + REUTHER | (Continued on Page 2), Pe hd + building across the street was rob- brutal murder occurred sometime in' THREE KILLED IN PALESTINE GUN FIGHTING Jerusalem, Nov. 12-- (AP) --Two Jewish girls and a youth were killed today in a gun battle with British troops surrounding a coastal plain house, suspected of being an under- ground Irgun Zvai Leumi hideout. Two others young Jews were | wounded in the encounter, between Raanana and Hezliya, | Military sources at Tel Aviv said | 10 Jews were captured in a raid on the isolated house where the army was tipped the Irgun was conduct- ing "armed exercises." A British police sergeant was kill- ed and three other British police of- ficers were wounded by machine- gun fire while they sat in front of a cafe on the Kingsway, main street of Haifa. A fifth British policeman in the party escaped injury in the attack, which officials said was directed at | the seated group from a rooftop across the street. . It was the first serious outbreak of violence in Haifa since Sept. 29, when extremists blew up a district police station, killing 10 persons in- cluding four British policemen. The assailants escaped. Police said they were young Jews, who assembled in the cafe as the policemen were drinking tea and then left. A short time later an office in the upper floor of the bed, apparently by the same group, and some of the Jews came out and fired on the policemen. The cafe's customers scattered in panic. Officials said the condition of the three wounded men was grave, 'The attack cameyp short time aft- er a military tributjal in Haifa sen- tenced two members of the Jewish underground. Stern gang, which calls itself "fighters for the freedom of Israel," to 20 years in prison for possessing firearms, ammunition and: two bombs. Santa To Have Assistant This Year labor" Counties. Possible Opponents For Burt ARTHUR G. SHULTZ RICHARD F. COURTNEY Who are mentioned in an Associated Press despatch from the U.AW. | convention at Atlantic City as possible selections, by a caucus to be held | tonight, to oppose George Burt in the contest for the office of Canadian | | director of 'the U.A.W.-C.I.O. Mr. Shultz is financial secretary of Local | 222 while Mr. Courtney is president of the Lecal. | Labor Council Supports CCF--Some Want Voice In Choosing Candidate Oshawa and District Labor Coun- cil. after a sharp, stinging debate last night, threw its weight behind the C.C.F. as the political arm of in Ontario and Durham |. = Despite opposition from delegates who claimed the motion would vir- tually allow. the C.C.F. to dictate the choice of candidate to Oshawa labor, overwhelmingly to give sible backing" to C.C.F. riding asso- ciations 'in the coming provincial and Dominion elections. the council pledged itself "all pos- Council also urged its affiliates to take the same action and "promote support for the C.C.F. among their members and followers." Opening a defence of the motion, smashed the back of her head into | Oshawa and District Labor Council appointed a Santa Claus last night. What's more, council delegates named an As- sistant Santa Claus. Arranging a Christmas Tree party for delegates' children De. ber 22, the c il i ated Tom Hart to descend on Union Hall as Saint Nick. When Delegate Hart, of the Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union, pointed out he would only be able to attend for an hour, council named Herbert Bates as a -stand-in to fill any possible gap in the proceedings. The committee, appointed to map plans for the party, in. cluded: Mable Mayne, James Cullen, William Rutherford, William Howells, 8. H. Atkin. son, President E. A, Jones and Herbert Bates. Plan Mass Meeting Polish Fund Here Oshawa's whole Polish community will be held in the Polish Hall, 219 Ol- .30 p.m, to organize local fund raising for the current campaign of the Uni- ted Polish Relief Fund of Canada, night at a meeting of local heads of the Po- lish Alliance, the Polish National Veterans A mass meeting of ive Avenue, Sunday at 2 it was decided last Union and the Polish Association, Word organizer for the fund,' at the mass meeting. Begun yesterday, drive aims to raise of needed supplies, ations such as the Polish Cross, Caritas, and the Y.M.C.A,, under the supervision of a delega- tion 'of prominent Canadian eciti- zens, The national night at 9 p.m., EST, THE WEATHER Clear today, variable cloudi- ness tonight and most of Thurs. day, clearing Thursday evening. Cooler today, not much change in temperature Thursday. Winds light. Low tonight and high Thursday 30 and 37. was received from UPR FC headquarters in Toronto today that James N, Shepherd, Ontario would come to Oshawa Sunday to speak which was Polish Independence Day as well as Remembrance Day, the nation $1,500,000 across Canada, The money will be spent in Canada for purchase which will then be distributed in Poland by noa-political, charitable organiz- Red S. H. Atkinson warned that "it is only by the threat of a third party that we've forced the two old line parties to give us any sort of decent legislation." "Labor should crawl out of its shell," he said. "Instead of being split up into this and that faction, we should get behind the only party in Canada that's going to give labor what it wants." "I can't support the CCF. as labor's political arm until we know who their candidates-are going to SUPPORTS C.C.F. . (Continued on Page 2) UA.W. Head Again WALTER P. REUTHER Who was given. 5,502 votes, 79 per cent of those cast, as he was re-elected president of the U.A. W.-C.I.O. at its annual conven. tion in Atlantic City yesterday, To Check Gallup, N.M., Nov. 12--(AP)--A¢ least four airlines grounded their huge DC-6 planes today, pending an inquiry into the cause of a fire yesterday which forced an Ameri- can Airlines ship to make an emer- gency landing. The Douglas Aircraft Corporation, which builds the four-engined planes, also urged that all other users of them do likewise until cause of fires "have been establish- ed and eradicated." Twenty-five passengérs and crew personnel emerged unscathed yes- terday after the American Airlines' DC-6 en route to New York from San Francisco came in for a specta- cular emergency landing at Gallup Airport with flames spouting from beneath its fuselage. - In quick succession American, lines suspended flights of their DC- 69, One source termed the fire "be- yond doubt a near parallel" to the blazing crash of a United Airlines campaign chair- man of the UPRFC, Mr. Justice Percy H, Gordon, will speak over a national hook-up of the Canad- jan Broadcasting Corporation to- | Utah last month. ? Meanwhile an informant here who declined to be quoted by name ex- | pressed the view that the flames in i both instances apparently originat- | |ed in the heater compartment be- | low the pressurized cabin. He did not elaborate. Accounts from passengers and crew of the ship forced down here stressed the impression that all aboard displayed amazing calm, al- though' several said they could see flames from the right side while still in the air. Warned by a smoke indicator, Pilot Evan Chatfield discovered the flames about five minutes ont of United, Braniff and National 'Air- DC-6 which killed 52 persons in| U.S. Air Lines Ground Giant DC-6 Skyliners Fire Causes Gallup, circled to fly across town and brought the ship down in a steep dive. Despite smoke filling cockpit and cabin, he set it down smoothly at one side of the main runway, where the flames were extinguished by the local fire department Predicts Election In Ontario in 1948 London, Ont., Nov. 12--(CP) --Hon. W. G, Webster, minister without portfolio in the Ontario Government, said here last night there was a possibility of a pro- vineial election next year, "There are the beginnings of whispers on the streets of an elec- tion next year," he told the annu- al meeting of Ward One and Ward Two Progressive Conserva- tives, "I have nothing at, all on it from the government, but the ru- mors are there, There are: grave possibilities--I wouldn't 'say pro- babilities--of an election in 1948." Normally an Ontario: election would not he due until 1949, BANDIT GETS $35 St. Catharines, Nov. 12--(CP)--A highway stand one-half mile west of Grimsby on Highway No. 8 was heid up last night by a man who rode up to the stand on a motor- cycle which had been reported. stol- en in Hamilton. Brandishing a black automatic, he took $35 which Auchinleck Withdrawn From India New Delhi, Nov, 12--(Reu- ters)--The British government will withdraw Field Marshall Claude Auchinleck, Commander of India and Pakis- tan Dominion Forces, and his staff Nov. 30 owing to complaints by the Supreme Commander of "the absence of the necessary spirit of co-operation hetween the princi- pal parties concerned," it was an- noinced today. Supreme headquarters, which had the task of reconstituting the | former armed forces of British India into new- separate India and Pakistan forces after the parti- tion of Ind' in August, will '"'au- tomatically cease to exist" Nov, 30, the announcement .said, A "Commander, British in India and Pakistan" will take Supreme | | trip. PY 'Women Tip Police On Location, Time Of Previous Trip Toronto, Nov. 12 (CP)--With a $1,000 reward offered for the killer-of taxi-driver Ralph-Margeson; police said to! day that new clues were unearthed in the evidence of twa: { women passengers believed his last fares before the fatal: To Run Again forces | over the responsibility of Auchin-! lack for formations of the British Army and R.A.F, and for British officers and other ranks serving in India and Pakistan, This new Commander, headquarters here, wil] until Dec, 31 and will have no responsibility whatever for the two dominion armies or any con- cern with them except in respect of British troops serving with them, Pray Worthy Of Sacrifice, Masons Told Lebanon Lodge, No. 139, last night played host to Right Worshipful Brother Donald E. Gibson, D.D. G.M., Newcastle, representative of the Grand Lodge of Canada in On- tario, on the occasion of his official visit of the year. Responding to the toast to Grand Lodge proposed by Bro. Stan Ever- son, Rt. Wor. Bro. Gibson disclosed that 104,400 Masons were affiliated with Grand Lodge. This year, he stated, there were 4,891 new mem- bers. After the observance of a one- minute silence in answer to the re- quest of Bro. Lloyd Currell, it was fitting that Rt. Wor. Bro. Gibson should say, "Remembrance Day is one which binds us heart in heart and mind in mind with memories of those who gave their all that democracy and freedom should not perish -- that even we might meet here as Masons. 'We think of the things they wanted to do," he con- tinued, "but they passed on before their wishes were realized. Down through the ages, men have fought and died for a high purpose and a noble endeavor, for a warmer under- standing of the brotherhood of hu- manity. Let us pray to God that we may be worthy of their sacrifice." A toast to the visitors was ably presented by Bro. William Gibbie and responded to by Wor. Bro. Thomas Hopkins, Wor. Master of Cedar Lodge, No. 270, and by Wor- Bro. Clarence Allen, Durham Lodge, Newcastle. Miss Jean Magill, soprano, accom- panied on the piano by Mrs. G. Fleming, sang The Song Is You, Beautiful Dreamer, All Mine Alone and Schubert's Ave Maria. Wor. Master Harold Fintoff thanked the artists and asked for further calls from visiting members. with Club Contributes $50 To Fund Members of the Oshawa Ki- wanis Club responded generous- ly to the appeal made for the Princess Elizabeth 'Fund at their weekly luncheon meeting on Tuesday, when a collection or donations amounting to $50 was taken. The fund is to pur- chase parcels of canned goods and other nutritous food for the peoples of Great Britain and will be sent as a wedding gift "by the Canadian people. For the convenience of resi- dents of the city and district who may wish to contribute to the Princess Elizabeth Fund, these gifts will be received by Cyril Waite, manager of the main office of the Dominion Bank here. $100 INCOME TAX FINE Steve Georgia, 108 Olive Avenue, was fined $100 and costs or one month by Magistrate F. S. Ebbs in police court today on a charge of failing to make returns under the Income War Tax Act. Georgia pleatied guilty to the charge which involved the years 1937, 1939, 1940, was in the stand and rode off east- ward, . : 1941, 1942 and 1943 inclusive, function | MAYOR F. N. McCALLUM Who has announced his intention to stand for the mayoralty of the city for a third term. Mayor to Seek Third Term With municipal elections less than three weeks away, Mayor Frank N. McCallum today announced his in- tention of seeking the mayoralty for a third term. Mayor McCallum said it was blems which this year's Council has (before it under the heading of un- finished business that he felt he owed the city another term as mayor. He included among the "musts", problems of annexation, sewage, street paving and local im- provement items. "Oshawa is today, I believe, on the threshold of much greater things," he said, "and my judgment based on this feeling is that the administration of the city's affairs, during the next 12 months at least, needs the advantages of men with municipal experience who have vis- ion and an overriding desire to make Oshawa the city which we all visu- alize is becoming a centre of po- pulation of at least 50,000 in the not too distant future. Whatever abili- ties I may have are fully pledged to the development of Oshawa." His Worship paid tribute to the members of Council, who he said had worked with him diligently and were "entitled to the thanks of the electors for their conscientious en- deavors." He also expressed appre- ciaion to Norman Millman, chair- man of the city's Planning Commit- tee, and the members of his com- mittee. "They are doing a really worth- while job for the city and the gen- erations of the future will undoubt- edly have a far greater appreciation for the work than ever we have today," he said. CANAL CLOSES DEC. 7 Cornwall, Nov. 12--(CP)--Tenta- tive closing date for Cornwall Canal has been set as Dec. 7, it was dis- closed. here today. This if four days earlier than last year's clos- ing date. 2 4 chiefly because of the many pro- | The reward was offered today by the Ontario Government for evid« ence leading to the arrest and cons' viction of the killer or killers wha shot Margeson, 32-year-old father of five children, through the head and dumped his body on a lonely road. Police said they believed two men passengers, whom Margeson picked up shortly after 'discharging the two women, were the slayers, with rob- bery the motive. They said the women, who volunteered their evi dence today, had helped them fix the district in which the men were picked up and the time, shortly after midnight yesterday. Neither of the women knew anye thing that would help identify tha HUNT TWO (Continued on Page 2) Local Man Sent To Reformatory For Car Theft Convicted of an automobile thef# charge, Gerald Thornton, 20, 270 Albert Street, was sentenced today by Magistrate Frank S. Ebbs to twos years less one day in the Ontario Reformataory at Guelph. An inde= finite term of six months was alsa imposed. 4 Thornton had pleaded not guilty to the charge when he was arraig« ned last Monday. The evidence pro" duced by the prosecution left ng | doubt in the mind of the Benchg | His Worship referred to the accuse | ed's previous record as one "heavily | scarred for one so young. I was | lenient with you," said Magistrate Ebbs, "because of your péople an {on the condition that you woul | not again appear in this court. You should have learned your lesson." Accused took the 1940 model ses dan, owned by George E. Ansley, North Oshawa, from its parking place in front of the Public Utilities Commission building on Simcos Street South between 3.15 p.m. and 345 pm. November 3. Witnesses, testified'that they had seen the car careening along the base line road | at a very fast rate of speed. Ona witness said that he saw it smash into a letter box and swerve inta and out of a ditch without stopping, Before he deserted the vehicle in & | ditch south of Courtice, Thornton {is said to have endangered the lives | of children coming out of Ebenezexm | Church where they attend school, The youth was arrested later the same day on Bowmanville by Proe vincial Constable R. Pollard. Truck Taken From Downtown Parking Lot No word has been received regards ing the present whereabouts of a Libby Plumbing Company panel truck which disappeared about 7% o'clock last night from its parking place on King Street near the in< tersection of King and Simcoe Sts. "You would hardly expect anyone to take truck with the owner's 'name painted on it," remarked | Martin Libby. He sald he was fore | tunate in having a new pick-up jr delivered today. : vicinity were requested to women, in a fight with 300 in' the Serres area. % LATE NEWS BRIEFS > BANDITS GET $600 Toronte, Nov. 12 (CP)--Two armed men today held up a food market in North Toronto and escaped with $600 in cash. Further details were not immediately available. SHIP AFIRE AT SEA San Francisco, Nov. 12 (AP)--The S.S. Althearat, a Dutch ship, is on fire and has called for help in the China Sea approximately 150 miles southeast of Hong Kong, Globe Wireless reported today. All ships in the stand by. K'LL 28 GUERRILLAS . Athens, Nov. 12 (AP)--Press dispatches said today the Greek army had killed 28 guerrillas, including four insurgents on Mt. Menikion, The accounts said the troops had released in Western Macedonia 300 or 'so villagers re- cruited by force by the guerrillas. UKRAINE ONLY CONTENDER Lake Success, N.Y., Nov. 12 (CP)--India today with- drew from the deadlocked race with the Ukraine for Poland's seat on the United Nations Security Council. The decision of the new dominion left the Ukraine as the only council candidate before the General Assembly.