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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZET Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle OSHAWA WHITBY VOL, 6--NO. 265 OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1947 Price 4 Cents EIGHTEEN PAGES COU LTE IRM PLANS EXPANSION Britain Rejects U.S..Soviet Palestine Plan a Man Was Injured In This Crash U.K. Won't Agree To Partit ion Plan Suggested At U.N. London, Nov. 13 (AP)--Britain has decided against ac- cepting or substantially sha ring in, the Soviet-American plan for partitioning Palestine, high Whitehall sources said today. Under the Soviet-American plan Britain would be asked oby the United Nations Assembly to Speaks Tonight JUDGE FRANK M¢DONAGH Who will be the guest speaker at the annual;dinner of the Oshawa Educational Association, to be held this evening in the Masonic Temple. continue to be responsible for law and order in Palestine until May 1, 1948, (A British U.N. delegation spokes- man at Lake Success, N.Y. said Britain would make an official de- claration on the plan to a sub-com- mittee on Palestine meeting later today.) Disclosure of the decision came a few hours after the cabinet's regu- lar weekly meeting. The informants said Britain's de- legadion at Lake Success has been instructed to inform the United States: 1, Britain will not be a party to the use of force in the implementa- tion of any solution in the Holy Land. 2. Britain will not be pared to make any substantial "fontrinution towards implementation of a settle- ment not acceptable to both Arabs and jews. 3. Britain will not by herself carry out the Soviet-American partition plan which would require this coun- try to remain as mandatory until next May, when the process of transferr power to the Arab and Jewish States should begin, Blood-Stained Slipcovers Are Entered As Exhibits In Bussey Murder Trial Owen Sound,. Nov. 13--(CP)-- Blood on slincovers in an automo- bile allegedly abandoned by Fred Bussey, accused murderer. was of the same type as that of Betty Playford, the 1l-ear-old Owen Sound girl he is accused of slaying, Crown Prosecutor C. P. Hope con- tended today. 8he slipcovers were Introduced as evidence on the second day of the 23-year-old youth's murder trial yesterday, when Police Inspec- tor Alex McLeod testified he took them from the car in which the Crown claims Bussey attacked the girl and smashed her head with a Counsel Youis Isaacs asked why they were introduced. "There is human blood on them, of the type that came from his lit- tle girl, that's why the slipcovers were brought in," 'replied thte pro- secutor, Despite defence objections, Mr. Justice D. J. P. Kelly ruled as ad- missible evidence concerning samp- les of hair taken from Bussey, for- mer carnival barker barker who surrendered in Montreal four days after the girl's body was found in a ditch near her home Sept. 22. Mr. Justice Kelly said he did not' agree with the defence argument that the same precaution must be used in taking such samples as in takink a voluntary statement. The Crown had introduced a consent form signed by Bussey concerning the samples, which "definitely" showed police were "very anxious to observe every precaution in his favor." It was indicated during yester- day's sessions that the matter of whether Bussey is mentally sound may play a further part in the hearing. The quetion of the itinerant car- nical worker's sanity was raised yesterday during the trial's second day. Mrs, Doris Demitro, Toronto gypsy fortune-teller, said the for- mer Regina navy man whom she befriended "used to sit down in the yard and eat in the dirt." "I was good to him," she said. "1 bought him new clothes and under- wear and he folded them up and put them away by the old stove. I told him, 'Freddie; you must change your clotthes. You are dirty and I don't like you around the house.' But he did not wear them." Mrs. Demitro said Bussey took her car and disappeared with it. BUSSEY TRIAL (Continued on Page 2) Legion Hall Undergoing Extensive Renovations Extensive alterations and renova- tions, which have been under way at the Legion Hall on Centre Street, are expected to be completed by the end of the present month. When completed, the interior of the build- ing will have undergone marked improvement and will be much bet- ter fitted to cater to the entertain. ment and comfort of the veterans of World War I and World War II. New Heating Plant The addition at the rear of the building is nearing completion. On the ground floor this addition had provided a new furnace room in which a new heating boiler with automatic feed was installed in re- cent months, This section of the building will also accommodate a new lavatory. On the upper floor this section of building will provide 2 new room which is being used at presen by the Public Health Baby ie. Extensive alterations have also been under way in other parts of the building. The old entrance to the clubroom has been closed up and a new entrance of brick and glass brick has been erected at the northeast corner of the building, facing on Centre Street. A similar ¢ entrance is to be constructed at the southeast corner of the building on Centre Street. Painting Clubroom At a recent meeting of the execu- tive sanction was given for the spray painting of the clubroom and the installation of a soundproof ceiling. The painting job was sched- uled to start this morning and the installing of the new ceiling will commence immediately after this is completed. Last night's meeting of the mem- bership approved of the installation of six new fluorescent lighting units in the clubroom. The members greeted with applause the announce- ment that the Ladies' Auxiliary is installing venetian blinds on the windows of the assembly hall, When taken on 'a tour of the building last night, a representative of The Times-Gazette was shown the library which is one of the rooms in the building in which the membership takes real nride. Fur nished with luxurious lounging chairs, well-stocked shelves of books and a generous supply of magazines and. papers, it is a spot in which the members take great pride, as it provides a place to relax and study. & b 4 Example Set For All CIO By UAW Vote By MAX HALL Atlantie City, N.J.. Nov. 13--(AP) --Walter Reuther's impressive vic- tories in the United Automobile Workers election shot new strength today into-the growing campaign of Congress of Industrial © Organiza- tions leadership to push down Com- munist influence in C.1.0. unions. Oshaw President Reuther's forces now have captured the four top offices | of the 900,000-member UAW. To-! day in more elections at the UAW. | convention, they seemed certain to get a majority of the 22-man exe- cutive board for the first time. - These facts have sharp meaning for the whole C.1.O,, in the following ways: ' ' | First, by example, The U.AW.'s | waning Communist majority was on | the losing side of the fight. There are Communist groups in certain | other C.I.O. unions, too, Their foes have taken new encouragement. Second, by putting Reuther in a stronger position to support Philip Murray, President of the C.1.0. who has been gradually--and more open- ly--applying the pressure on the C.1.O.'s left wing. Here are the U.AW.s four top leaders gor the next year: President, Reuther, who was re-elected with- out serious opposition; Secretary- Treasurer, Emil Mazey, who deposed George Addes; Vice-President, Dick Gosser, who beat R. J. Thomas; Vice-President, John Livingston, who beat Ditk Leonard in the fourth election last might. As a result of the UAW. elec- tions, Reuther can speak and act with the authority of his union be- hind him. Up to now, the execu- tive board, the union's governing bcdy, has consistently opposed his plans, 1t is probably an over-simplifica- tion to think of this week's events in terms of right wing and left wing. Those expressions, as used loosely in the union, have little or no ec- onomic and social meaning. They came into use merely because the Reuther-Mazey- Gosser - Livingston faction is anti-Communist, and the small Communist group was con- sistently lined up on the Addes- Thomas-Leonard side along with many other elements. \ Police Questioning 'Certain Suspects' In Cabbie Murder Toronto, Nov. 13 -- (CP) -- Still seeking. clues on the - identity of Ralph Margeson's slayer, police feared. for four hours early today they had another taxi-driver killing to cope with when Earl Russell, 35; was overdue in reporting back on an out-of-town trip, 'The pattern appeared so. similar to that in the Margeson case that police flashed out descriptions af- ter Russell's office reported him missing. He had been hired at § pm, to drive three men to Niagara Falls, Ont., his office said, and still hadn't returned at midnight. The wide-spread search, during which police squads combed the Queen Elizabeth Highway between Toronto and Hamilton, was called off when Russell returned at 5 am. and disclosed the delay was caused in waiting for his fares. Meanwhile police still were with. out tangible clues to the identity of two suspects, believed to have shot and robbed Margeson after hiring him after midnight Tuesday. A $1,- 000 reward has been offered for in- formation leading to the conviction of the slayer, who dumped the 32- ditch -off the Queen Elizabeth High- way west of Toronto. si car shown at right, Es by % #Donald E. Jackson, 109 Park Road South, Oshawa, and J. L. Carmitcheal, ® University City, Missouri, who was injured on Tuesday morning in an auto accident near Hamilton, are resting comfortably in a Hamilton hospital, Mrs. Jackson told The Times.Gazette this morning. Mr. Jack- son suffered facial lacerations and an injured knee while Mr. Carmitcheal sustained a broken leg. Mrs. Lela Marr of W wreckage of the coupe shown at left, and died shortly after she had been pried out by police. Mr. Jackson and Mr, Carmitcheal were riding in the Act was pi d in the Red Riots Sweep Italy, Tear Gas, Guns In Play As Disturbances Spread Naples, Nov, 13--(AP)--Police fir- ed on Communist demonstrators here today as Italy's wave of poli- tical turmoil spread southward sev- eral wounded were in hospital. Industrial Northern Italy, pro- 'minently leftist, was quiet but tense after a week of violence and blood- shed in the burgeoning assault from | the left against Premier De Gas- peri's Christian Democratic Govern- ment. Naples police: in light armored cars, moved in on the heart of the ciyt where a demonstration was held to protest against what Socialists and Communists called "neo-fascist" provocations in Milan and elsewhere in the north. Some demonstrators used tear gas bombs against the police and were reported to have fired shots in the air, The Italian constituent Assembly convened this afternoon in Rome in an atmosphere of tension; with De Gasperi"s Interior Minister, Mario Scelba, scheduled to answer Com- munist. charges that the govern- ment was responsible for the recent disorders. The Rome newspaper' Il 'Popolo, organ of the Christian Democrats, charged that the Communists, "hav- ing failed in democratic methods, now have turned to direct action." Naples authorities threw a cordon of troops around the police prefec- ture. after the armored cars scatter- ed the angry demonstrators and pre- vented them from making their way back to the centre of the city. The demonstrators had succeeded, how- ever, in invading headquarters of the National Monarchist Party and at- tacking several newspaper offices. At least two persons died 'in-the north's week of violence. Disorders erupted yesterday in Milan, Bologna and Venice, as leftists massed in protest against incidents in the vil- lage of Mediglia, near Milan, the previous night. Rightist party offices in Milan were wrecked. In Mediglia a man described as a member of the rightist Uomo Qua- lunque (common man) Party had fired into a leftist parade, killing one man and wounding two others. The enraged marchers beat him to death, : ¥ Watson vs Burt In UAW Election Atlantic City, N.J., Nov. 13--(CP) Canadian delegates to the conven- tion of the United Auto Workers INDIA TROOPS IN COMMAND AT KASHMIR By DOON CAMPBELL Srinagar, Kashmir, Nov. 13 -- (Reuters) -- Indian' troops drafted | into Kashmir to deal with in vading | tribesmen who entered the Himala- yan State from the northwest fron- tier province three weeks ago were in sufficient strength' today to eli- minate any immediate renewal of the raids. Rearguards of the raiders' main | Apsley column, elements of which on Nov. 3 pushed to within six miles of this Kashmir capital, were at least 60 miles away on the road leading | westward to Kohala on the Parki- | stan frontier. | (C.I.O.) were staging a close election campaign today for director of the | Canadian region. | George Burt, seeking re-election, is a member of the faction which opposes Walter Reuther, emerging this week as the union's strong man. The Canadian Reuther delegates | early today chose Earl Watson, of Local 195, Windsor, Ont., to oppose Burt. The 60 Canadian delegates were to vote later today. The vote was expected to be close. Airliner Reported In Crash Landing London, Nov. 13--(AP)--British- South American Airways announced today that its four-engined airliner Starlight had made a crash landing | in Bermuda this morning.after de- | veloping engine trouble on a flight | from Santiago, Chile, to London. Cmdr. A. C. Graham received fa- cial injuries, but there were no oth- | er casualties, .the announcement said. It did not specify how many were aboard the plane. | The Starlight is a converted Lan. | caster bomber. the same plane made a 14,000-mile survey flight to Buenos Aires and re- turn in preparétion for inaugura- tion of Britain's South American service. In January, 1946, | » THE WEATHER Variable cloudiness, clearing by evening. Olear tonight and Friday. Not much change in temperature. Winds west 20 to- day, light tonight and Friday. Low tonight and high Friday 25 and 39. Giant U.S. Dreadnaught / Faces Stiff Opposition By 'Water Pistol Navy' Newark, N.J., ~--Sir Richard Grenville may be nodding approvingly today from some sailors' heaven at Newark's sturdy mariners. Like Sir Richard, the Newark 'navy' 'isn't afraid of odds. You'll remember that Sir Rich- ard's little Revenge took on 53 Spanish galleons back 'in Eliza- bethan times. Today the Newark "navy"'--two 30-foot fireboats--is standing firm to repel the 30,000-ton bat- tleship New Mexico. ~The decommissioned super dreadnought at the moment * is drifting helplessly somewhere off the coast of Long. Island. But Newark is ready, just in case. Last night the battlewagon was Nov. 13--(CP) | cit loose from the tugs which were towing it from Boston Newark for breaking-up. A Coast Guard plane located the "lost", warship this morning and dis- patched rescue tugs; to its aid. When they start hauling along the New Mexico again, the defen- sive "navy" will go on. the alert once more, Newark just doesn't want the New Mexico in Newark harbor and the fire boats are rea. dv to resist its entry with every gun (water gun, that is) at their | diposal, The New Mexico {8 owned by Lipsett, Inc.,, a New York salvage firm which purchased it for scrapping purposes and also leas- ed part- of the Newark navy base for the dismantling job, to | Indian armored spearheads were | reported outside, if not already in, | Uri, 54 miles down the road, after | recovering the power house at Ma- | hora, 23 miles west of Baramula, ! main source of electricity for Kash- mir. Damage to the power station | was being assessed. Reports of these advances reach- ed Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, In- | dian Prime Minister, yesterday in | the gutted town of Baramula, where | he spoke to a gathering of some | 1,500 townfolk. | "You have had a taste of what Pakistan means," * he told them. "The invasion of Kashmir is no cal- amity. It has taught you a great iesson in unity and discipline." | | Men and supplies are reaching | | Kashmir daily from the Dominion | | of India. But as soon as winter sets in, blocking the passes and sealing up the airfields, the severe conditions alone are likely to look after the security of the valley of Kashmir, where the last roaming raiders are being mopped up. 8-Cent Bar Back Again Local Stores The eight-cent chocolate bar is here again Some local stores still hung ou: the seven-cent banner but the ceneral consensus among retailers here was that the eight-cent bar | had arrived, Villain in the piece seems to be ! the lowly cocoa bean. Price of the | bean has bounded up on the! world market with one manuflac-! turer reporting a price jump of 35 cents a pound--ifrom 10 to | 45 cents, i Cocoa butter, another chocol- ate bar ingredient, is now priced | at 75 cents a pound, one candy firm informed a local retailer, but it is expected to zoom to $1 per pound 'or more." Although the eight-cent and protest parades months ago, the latest change promises to be a bit more perma. nent even if the "beefs" start to flood 'in azain. A ten-cent bar has been predicted freely in some quarters as a result of the cocoa bean's helter-ckelter - meander- Ings, "I was the most surprised per- son," said a salesgirl today, "I went out for lunch, came back and kept selling them for seven cents, But they'd changed the price tag to eight in the mean- time." One store manager. was any- thing but optimistic: "With the cocoa 'bean price the way if is, they'll 'either have to cut the size or raise the price." Did somebody say peanuts were 11 a nickel a bag? | sti bar | was greeted by a storm of jeers: several | Plant In Toronto Sold; Will Centre Activities Here , Coulter Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has sold its factory building in Toronto as a first step toward centering all of its: activities in Oshawa. This important announcement was made today to The Times-Gazette by A. E. Coulter, president and general manager of the company. The' Toronto building is on Gerrard St. East and is a very modern structure containing 40,000 sq. it. of floor space. The Coulter company has made an arrangement with the new owners to rent for an indefinite period about one-third of the space in the building. This will permit the company to leave certain very heavy presses in their present locations for the present, All of the assembly and finishing opegations, including lacquering, will be moved to the Oshawa plant at an eaxly date. Build Additions Here To provide for the necessary ex- pansion here. the company has al- ready begun a building program. The first unit which houses a new heating plant, heat treating room and shipping space, comprising about 2500 sq. ft. has been com- pleted. The next step will be to put a second storey on this addition. located ® Expanding Plant This work will be proceeded with at | once. Next spring ground will be broken for 10,600 sq. ft. to the rear of the pres- ent building on Richmond Street. The company's property extends tarough to William Street, giving FIRM EXPANDS (Continued on Page 2) Man Lost In Bush Apsley, Ont., Nov. 13 (CP)=-Robert Scott, 57, a bush worker of this ham- let. near Peterborough, has been missing since Tuesday noon when he separated from a deer-huntine party on Serpentine Lake, seven miles north of here. Scott, a former forest ranger, fail- ed to return when darkness came and his friends became uneasy. They started a search, but were hampered by darkness, On Wednesday at noon word got through to Scott's son, Jim, 18, here and with two relatives set out by car for the camp. 'Today Provincial Constable Bert Howden with Game Warden Vern Windsor and 10 other residents of Apsley left for Serpen- tine Lake to aid the searchers. It is likely a general appeal for aid will be made unless Scott is found today. Constable Howden learned Scott had a heart condition and it is feared he may have col- lapsed in the bush. Spring Assizes Begin Feb. 23 Spring jury sitting of the High Court of Justice in Whitby will begin Kebruary 23, nounced today, Opening day for the non-jury sitting is May 17. February 9 and May 31 are the dates set for the jury and non- jury sittings in Cobourg. Meanwhile, the 1947 fall non- jury Assizes in Whithy are sched- uled to open December 8. it was an-! a further addition of | A. KE, COULTER President and general managee of the Coulter Manufacturing Cog Ltd., who has announced the sale of the firm's Toronto factory buile ding and plans for extensive exe pansion of the plant in Oshawas 4 Junior Chamber Elections Nov. 24 | ~ With some changes, the constitus tion- and by-laws proposed by the | steering committee for Oshawa's Junior Chamber of Commerce, were | approved by the membershiv ab | Adelaide kiouse last night, | Unanimously accepted, a by-law | stating that no president shall hold | that office for more than one year, | revealed a principal goal of the ore | ganization: training for leadership. A nominating committee undem the chairmanship of Bern Mona- ghan, to choose six members for the | 8 first year's executive body. It was de | cided by a majority vote that six executives rather than five, as pre= | viously reported, would be more | suitable to handle affairs during | the organization's initial year which will end July 1, 1949. The commit« tee is to meet tonight. Election of the president, two, vice-presidents, secretary, treasurer! and oné member-a-large, is sche=, duled for a meeting on November 24 at Adelaide House. TELEPHONE POLE FIRE A telephone pole burned yester« 'day near the Oshawa Railway | tracks at Court Street until fire | men arrived at 6 p.m. to extinguish | it. The fire had apparently started | from a short circuit-spark. There | was no interruption in telephone service although some wire insula= | tion was slightly burned. J * LATE NEWS BRIEFS > OSHAWA DRIVER CHARGED Hamilton, Nov. 13 (CP)--Provincial police announcec today there would be no inquest in connection with the death: of Mrs. Lela Marr of Woodstock who was killed in an automobile accident Tuesday. A charge of danger- ous driving has been laid against D. E. Jackson of Oshawa, said to have been driver-of the second automp- bile involved in the accident. Mr. Jackson is confined to hospital here. DUMPS GRAIN CARGO Sault Ste. Marie, Nov. 13 (CP)--The grain carrier W. C. Warren, hard aground at Presque Isle Point heavily loaded, is dumping part of her cargo.into Lake Huron in an effort to lighten sufficiently to free her but today is still only a few feet nearer deep water near Rogers City, Mich. UKRAINE ON COUNCIL New York, Nov. 13 (CP)--The United Nations General Assembly today elected the Ukraine to the Security " Council seat which Poland vacates next Jan. 1. The final vote was 35 for the Ukraine and two for India. LOSES CAR YEAR, FINED $500 Toronto, Nov. 13 (CP)--Jack Dunham of Toronto, charged with dangerous driving arising from an accident Sept. 22 in which Michael Foy of Niagara Falls, Ont, was killed, today was fined $500 and costs and prohib- ited driving his automobile for one year. Witnesses testified 'Dunham's car was travelling 55-60 miles an hour when it struck Foy on Yonge Street outside the northern city limits,