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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle - OSHAWA WHITBY . OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1947 Price 4 Cents SIXTEEN PAGES VOL. 6--NO. 289 UNLOP PLANT FOR WHITBY Six Of 29 Survive Goose Bay Crash Worked Hard To Secure New Plant 23 Reported Dead As Rescue Squad Reaches Airliner Westover Field, Mass., Dec. 11 (AP)--The United States Air Transport Command announced today there were only six survivors ofthe 29 American military*men aboard the transport plane/that crashed in Labradors icy wilderness Tuesday midnight. ----9 A doctor who landed at the To Present Awards senha. 4. 0. TYREE, RE! Supervisor of § and water safety in the On Division of the Red Cross, who will be in Oshawa tomorrow night to present the Red Cross swimming and water Facts at the C.R.A. headquarters Appeal Court Cuts Terms Bank Thieves Sentenced by Judge D. B. Cole- man on September 8 last to terms of eight years for the armed rob- bery of the Canadian Bank of Com- merce at Pickering, Theodore Gre- gor and Frank Polanski have been successful in securing a reduction of two years in their sentences. Their appeals were heard before Plustices Henderson. Laidlaw and Roach in the Coury of Appeal in Toronto yesterday, C. L. Dubin act- ed for the appellants and C. P. Hope, K.C. for the Crown. It will be recalled that the two young men entered the bank during the noon hour on August 13 and made their escape with $14,213.58. Gregor was arrested .in a Toronto house within five hours while Pola- ski was taken into custody at the Toronto Union Station before mid- night the same day with a ticket for Winnipeg in his possession. Both pleaded guilty to the charge . when they appeared before Judge Coleman in County Judge's crim- inal Court, wreckage eight miles north of Goose Bay reported that 23 were killed in the crash, A hard, driving wet snow has prevented any large-scale rescue operation but doctors and medi- cal supplies are oeing landed by Helicopter, A space has been cleared within a half mile of the scatter- ed, charred wreckage, The huge transport plunged flaming to earth in forested, hilly | country that could not 'be reach- ed by air or ground for nearly 24 hours, A rescue party travelling over- land with dog-sleds reached the wreckage last night -- but first reports of the survivors came on. ly after the landing of a radio- equipped helicopter, Stormy weather hampered communications cven though on- ly eight miles separated the scene of the wreck from the Goose Bay aii "jeld where the rescue opera- tions are being directed, It wasn't until day break that the first word came from Goose Bay. It was & terse message read: ing only: "Believe there are some surviv- ors." Communications were meagre because of the stormy weather. Fumes Force Occupants Of Apartments Out Gas fumes from a burned out refrigerator last night forced a number of apartment occupants to temporarily vacate at 10.15 o'clock, Firemen warned the peo- ple to leave their rooms over the Home Appliance store at 90 Sim. coe Street South, until ventilation cleared the vapors, The motor of an old model re- frigerator running on test in the shop's rear storeroom, caught fire and would have resulted in a dan- gerous blaze had firemen not re- sponded promptly to an alarm and extinguished the flames which had begun creeping up the wall, | Fibreglas wall insulation was blackened by flames from the machine's motor but only minor damage was reported by Assistant Chief H. R. Hobbs who said that thick smoke filled the store and pervaded the apartments above. HE WEATHER Clear today oecoming over cast Friday morning, Snow Fri. day afternoon and evening, Colder tonight becoming -a lit. tle milder Friday afternoom. Winds light. Low tonight and high Friday 7 and .i5. I Fire Wrecks Plans For Very Happy Christmas Kind neighbors last night took in four of the eight people driven from their Hart's Hill home by the ravages of fire yesterday at noon. Two young married couples were able to rearrange the furniture in the main floor living room which was comparatively free from dam- age. Plans cheerily laid for a merry Christmas seasbn were squelched without warning for Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kantor, Mr. and Mrs, John Snyder, Misses Jean Bailey, sister of Mrs. Kantor, Ruth Noble, Dorothy Smith, and Shirley Wile liams of Brantford. In spite of the ruination of their home's interior, the group remained undaunted and found humor enough in the tragedy to keep them smiling. Found Ceiling Afire Mrs. Kantor was alone yesterday morning since everyone else had gone to work at the nearby Maracle Printing Company plant or at the Oshawa Missionary College. Seat- ed, dressed only in pyjamas at the kitchen table, she did not 'become suspicious when a noticeable scent of wood smoke attracted her atten- tion. Only "about 10 minutes be- fore," she had put some wood in the furnace to stoke up the coal fire and, smelling the smoke, it oc- curred to her to look at it again. Reaching the basement, Mrs. Kan- tor saw flames running across the ceiling, She retained her composure and turned on a hose kept in the cellar but "it'didn't reach," so she ran upstairs and telephoned th: fire department. Running to a clothes closet on the first floor where the Snyder's' live, Mrs. Kantor was about to remove suits and frocks belonging to the young couple but flames shot out the door when she opened it. The house was "in these few minutes" filled with smoke so she donned a coat and yan outside to await ar- rival of the firefighting equipment, According to witnesses, it. was nearly an hour before firemen could bring the flames under control, The PLANS WRECKED . (Continued on Page 3) ' JOHN R. FROST Town Clerk Who were prominent] 41, the County Town, WILLIAM J. DAVIDSON Mayor |. d in the news release from the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Goods Company as working in close co-operation with the firm in working out of the details for the location of its new plant at Whitby. With others in the community they gave unsparingly of their {ime to further develop industry in JOHN M. ROBLIN Chamber President 500,000 IDLE AS STRIKERS TIE UP ROME By FRANK O'BRIEN Rome, Dec. 11--(AP)--A general strike directed by leftists closed down all but vital public services and railroads in Rome today, but government and labor leaders were reported to have agreed on broad general lines which might end the multiple walkout. The Chamber of Labor, which called the strike in protest against unemployment, estimated 500,000 workers were made idle, The government-labor conference at the Treasury Ministry lasted five hours. Later today Giuseppe Di Vittorio, Secretary of the General Italian Confederation of Labor, was to report on the meeting to the executive committee of the Rome Provincial Chamber of Labor, which would have to approve any agree- ment. Informants said an agreement would return strikers in Rome and Rome province to work tomorrow, or possibly earlier. Many workers reported for duty and stood by hoping the strike would be called off before dark. Strong police and military forces were on patrol and at stations to prevent disorders. The dominantly leftist Chamber of Labor of Rome Province which called the strike last night, esti- mated that 500,000 workers were made idle by the strike, the first general work stoppage in the Ital- ian capital in 25 years. Light, gas and water services continued uninterrupted, as did in- ternational telephone and telegraph services, Workers in those fields were exempted from the strike call, along with hospital workers, milk and food haulers. Food stores were given permission to remain open until 1 pm. The strike arose out of the plight of Rome's setimated 80,000 unem- ployed. The issue was seized upon suddenly by the leftist foes of Premier De Gasperi after a skirm- ish between police and jobless riot- ers in the slum suburb of Prima- valle, in which a slum-dweller was killed. : Similar labor troubles, instigated by the left, have stalked up and down the Italian peninsula for weeks, punctuated by political dis- turbances, rioting and bloodshed. This was the first time, however, that the capital itself had been affected. The Chamber of Labor said it wanted a sweeping program of win- ter relief for the unemployed and a Christmas dole. The Premier's party, the Christian Democrats, said the strike was a political man- oeuvre aimed at De Gasperi, who threw the leftists out of his cab- inet last May. i KENNEDY UNINJURED Toronto, Dec. 11--(CP)--Ag- riculture Minister T. L. Ken- edy emerged uninjured from a three-car crash near Burling- dbn last night while en route from Toronto to address the annual meeting of Halton County Fruit and Vegetable Growers at Burlington , Slip- pery, snow-covered roads pre< vented Col, Kennedy from con- tinuing to his degtination and his address was cancelled, 4 British Troops Block Clash In Walled City As Hundreds Flee Area By JOSEPH C. GOODWIN Jerusalem, Dec. 11 (AP).--Jews and Arabs battled today in Jeru- salem's old walled city in a con- tinuation of the Holy Land strife which has taken 153 lives in 12 days. The deaths of 20 Arabs and two Jews were reported today in spor- adic outbursts throughout Palestine, principally in Jerusalem and the port city of Haifa, British troops blocked the gates of Jerusalem's walled city, barring passage of both Jews and Arabs who, panic-stricken by the violence touched off by/the United Nations decision to partition Palestine, were moving out their possessions in army trucks. The death toll in the whole Mid- dle East was 269, Five Arabs were killed and about 30 were injured in Haifa by an anti-personnel bomb hurled from a small truck at a Lebanese bus and a taxi on Kingsway Highway. The explosion was followed by bursts of shots. A Jew was killed and another was wounded in a bomb atfack on a Tel Aviv-Jerusalem bus convoy near Beith Dagan, Several Arabs were believed to have been wounded when the convoys escort fired on a coffee shop believed to have been the source of the bomb. Several hundred families already have fled the wall area, which in normal times has a population of about 20,000 Arabs, 2,500 Jews and 4,000 others of mixed nationality, mostly Armenians and Greeks. A business man from the new city, who left the walled region a few minutes before the gates closed, sald he had seen dead and wound- ed lying in the streets. The battle apparently broke out when Arabs occupied "a synagogue and hoisted their flag over the building. They later were driven out by the Jews. One Arab was reported killed and two Jews wounded in this engagement. Arab sources said two more Arabs were killed in an attack on the wall surrounding the ghetto-like Jewish quarters. These killings, together with oth- ers reported from different sections, increased to 146 the number of fatalities in Palestine during the 12 days of communal strife resulting from the United Nations decision to partition the Holy Land. For the whole Middle East the toll was 258. At Haifa, an official announce- ment said, a British sentry at a military hospital was fired upon by four Jews this morning and re- turned the fire, killing one of the Jews. The bodies of six Arabs were found, meanwhile, in an orange grove bordering the bloody Hatik- vah quarter of Tel Aviv, where an Arab-Jewish gun battle raged Mon- day night. The Tel Aviv-Jaffa borderland area was reported quiet. British security forces moved out of( Petah Tiqga and Ramat Gan today, leaving the Jewish constables of the Palestine police force in charge of maintaining order. The action was in line with the announced program of British with- drawal from the Tel Aviv area, which the government said would be completed by December 15, Ski Enthusiast Maywood, N.J.,, Dec. 11 (AP). ~--Ten-year-old Timothy Mur. phy decided today's light snow would be ideal fo try out his new skis. Police, who found him going up and down a hill, bundled him into a squad car and returned him to his home. It was 4:00 a.m, 3 Sons Dead Father Hurt In Rail Crash St. Thomas, Dec. 11--(CP)--Three children of Elmo Howey, 42, are dead and Mr, Howey and his daugh- ter are in Tillsonburg hospital after Howey's car was struck at a Cana- dian Pacific Railway crossing two miles north of Straffordville as Howey was driving children to school this morning. Howey's condition is reported ser- ious. Dead are Howey's three sons. William, 13, died in hospital. The others, whose names and ages were not immediately available, were killed when the locomotive and coach bound for Port Burwell on the Canadian Pacific Railway line ripped into the Howey car. Police said Howey apparently did not see the locomotive until the car was on the level crossing. Then the icy, condition of the road surface prevented him from getting the car off the tracks, Will Pay Passage Of All Who Want To Live In Russia Hartford, Conn,, Dec. 11--(AP)-- The Connecticut Secretary of the State's office approved papers to- day organizing the American Anti- Communist League, whose slogan is a "free one-way ticket to Moscow." Albert B. Bpstein, a restaurant cashier and one of the founders, said the league will give a "free, first class, one-way ticket to Mos- cow" to any American Communist who renounces his citizenship and promises to "go to Russia and stay there." Epstein said: "I lived in Russia at the time of the revolution and have had enough of Communism." PRESSMEN CONFER Toronto, Dec. 11--(CP)--Of- ficials of the Printing Press men's Union (AFL) and repre- sentatives of 30 "union shop" printing establishments confer- red yesterday in an effort to reach settlement of the wages dispute which was brought threat of a strike of printing pressmen next Monday. Such a strike would affect many print- ing houses including those of some national' magazines, but Firm To Erect $1,500,000 Factory On 55-Acre Tract South Of New Highway the three Toronto newspapers, $1374 1S SET AS DAMAGE FOR COUPLE Robert Ballantyne and his wife Josephine, of Napanee, were today '| awarded damages totalling $1,374.62 as the result of a collision in Nov- ember, 1945, at the intersection of the Oshawa-Highland Creek dual highway and the Fairport Beach Road. In the accident, the Ballantyne car, proceeding east on the highway collided with one, driven by David Gow, of Toronto, which was.enter- Ing the south lane of the highway. Finding that Gow had not stop- ped before entering the south lane of the highway and had not seen the approaching car until immedi- ately before the accident, Mr. Jus- tice G. A. Gale, awarded damges of $574.62 to the plaintiff Ballan- tyne land $800 to Mrs. Ballantyne who suffered lacerations of the forehead and other injuries. He dismissed a counter-claim by the defendant, holding that Bal- lantyne had done all that a rea- sonable. driver would do under the circumstances. His Lordship said he could place no confidence in the evidence of Gow and his wife, although he was reluctant to say so as they ap- peared. to. be. fine people. "He (Gow) changed his story at least eight times on vital matters," His Lordship remarked. A. W. 8. Greer, K.C., was counsel for the plaintiffs, Yesterday afternoon four small boys were called as witnesses by Defence Counsel Harry A. Newman, K.C. His Lordship hesitated to have the boys sworn and did so only after questioning each carefully as to his awareness that he must tell the truth, The boys had been on the rail. way track, just south 'of the Fair- port Road interesectiont, throwing stones in the creek, when the acci- dent occurred. , Saw Auto Stop The first of the boys, Kenneth McGowen, aged 12, said the Gow car was stopped at the north of the new highway when he first saw it. It then crossed the north lane and boulevard and stopped before going onto the south lane, he said. In reply to questioning by Mr. Greer, Kenneth said he didn't re- member Provincial Constable Rob- ertson asking whether they had seen the Gow car stop. Carl McGowen, 13, Kenneth's brother, said he had seen the Gow car proceed along the Fairport Road and stop at the new highway. He sald he was quite sure the car had stopped at both the north and south lanes, When Mr, Greer referred to evi- dence given at a previous hearing, Carl admitted he wasn't sure that he had seen the car actually stop but he had seen"it "start up." James Daniels, aged 14, said he saw the Gow car coming down the Fairport Road and stop at the north edge. of the highway. "I saw it continue across the highway and slow down on the boulevard but I didn't see it stop," he testified. He added that he wasn't paying much attention and couldn't tell whether it stopped or not. Did Not See Collision Earl Robinson, aged 11, said he saw the Gow car approach the new highway and stop. "It was going slow as it went over the one highway and then it stopped in the boulevard. Then it started up and was hit," he con- tinued. ° Asked if he had seen the colli- sion, Earl said he had "stooped over to pick up a rock" and just looked up and saw the cars hit, The defendant, David Gow, who complained of being hard of hear- ing, testified that he came slowly down the Fairport Road, stopped at the north lane of the highway and again at the south lane. He said he had "looked east and west" before going out. on the south lane. Questioned carefully by the Bench when his evidence conflicted with that given on a previous oc- casion, Mr. Gow testified that he saw the Ballantyne car, about 500 yards away, when he was on the boulevard between the two sections of the highway. Mrs, Ethel Gow, wife of the de- fendant, who was partially blind, claimed she remembered the car stopping at the north side of the highway and again in the boule- vard. "I heard the horn, I turned my head and saw the car and that's all I remember," she said. Residents of Whitby and the surrounding communities will be greatly interested to learn that the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Goods Company Limited, of Toronto, have recently taken up an option to purchase, for industrial purposes, a highly desirable piece of property within the boundaries of FRANCE MAY FIRE MARQUE ON RED ISSUE By CARL MARTMAN Paris, Dec. 11--(AP)--Lt.- Col, Raymond Marquie, chief of the ousted French Tepatriation mission to Moscow who yesterday attacked his government for its "malicious attitude" toward Rus- sia, was - identified today as a Communist of many years stand- ing who wants to stay in the Sov. fet Union. One of Veterans Minister Fran- cois Mitterand's aides declared that if Marquie's statements last night in Moscow "are confirmed he will be dismissed and expelled from the Army as soon as he gets back." Marquie and the four oth- er members of the mission are due to leave Moscow tomorrow, The Ministry said Marquie was appointed to his post more than a year ago when Communist Lau« rent Casanova headed the Minis. try. The War Ministry termed his rank "fictitious," saying that be. fore the war he was a staff ser- geant in the reserve, The Russian government ord- ered expulsion of the mission in retaliation for similar French ac- tion against the Soviet repatria- tion mission' in Frarce, Expulsion of the French mis- sion was reported in a Soviet note which the French government yesterday refused to accept be- cause of its strong language and the fact it had been published before dzlivery, The diplomatic, dispute follow- ed and grew out of the month- long, Communist - propagated strikes in France which ended yesterday, 3 Marquie accused his govern- ment af plotting for three months to evict the Russian mission from France and systematical- ly carrying out this plan, He told Russian and - foreign reporters at a press conference in Moscow that French charges against two officers of the Soviet repatriation' commission were "without proof and false." Marquie said his government was entirely responsible for the "events of the last few days," during which the mutual expul- sions were ordered and trade ne- gotiations between the two coun- tries broken off. # Whitby itself. This new acquisition' by the Dunlop Company consists of a 55-acre tract of land, beautifully situated about a quarter of a mile from the recently opened new high. way and overlooking Lake Ontario, So far the purchase price has not been disclosed. Start Next Year The securing of this fine piece of property is in line with the policy of the Dunlop Company to secure adequate space for future industrial expansion. The Company has long felt that the present location of its plant in Toronto does not provide sufficient space for the steady de- velopment of such a fast-growing organization. It is anticipated that a start will be made during 1948 on the erection of an initial plant unit on this new site at a cost of approximately $1,500,000. Building operations should provide consid- erable employment to people in this district. It is understood that the decision of the Dunlop Company, in favor of the Whitby site, was made only after an exhaustive and prolonged search for available properties in many localities adjacent to Toronto, The Whitby property is certainly ideal for industrial purposes, situ ated as it 1s, convenient to two highways, and alongside an existing spur on the main line of the C.N.R, It is, therefore, provided with une excelled shipping facilities. Credit Given Whitby Men A great deal of the credit for bringing this well-known and pro= gressive industry to Whitby must be given to members of the Whitby Town Council, staff and Chamber of Commerce, namely: + William Davidson, Mayor; ndrew Muir, Reeve; Duncan B. McIntyre, De= puty Reeve; Russell Underwood, Council; John R. Frost, Town Clerk; H. L. Pringle, Engineer; W, M, Pringle, Chairman Public Util. ities;; Jack M. Roblin, Chairman 'Chamber of Commerce, and J. G. Bateman, Secretary Chamber of Commerce. These gentlemen have been une tiring in their efforts to attract outstanding industries such as the Dunlop Company. They were ably assisted by T. H. Bartley of the Toronto Industrial Commission and E. T. Rowe, Whitby realtor, Whithy itself is to be warme, ly congratulated also, especially in view of the fact that the proposed new development will result in ine creased employment to the people of Whitby and surrounding com- munities, The Dunlop Company is a world-wide organization manu facturing a wide range of rubber products, the main Canadian plant in Toronto having at least 1,600 per- sons in its employ. Whitby feels honored that so prominent and progressive an organization as Dun. lop has chosen their town as the site for its new expansion program. (See Story on Page Four) ' . % LATE NEWS BRIEFS U.K. GETS SOVIET WHEAT London, Dec. 11 (AP)--Britain will receive "a sub- stantial quantity" of Russian grain under terms of a trade agreement announced today by Harold Wilson, President of the Board of Trade. Newspapers speculated this might mean the end of bread rationing for Britons. The House cheered the news. UNIVERSITY HEAD MISSING Sherbrooke, Que., Dec. 11 (CP)--Search parties made up of Provincial and dents continued toda Dr. A. H.(McGreer, Bishop's Ui noon whe Lennoxville Police and stu« to seek the whereabouts of Rev. rincipal niversity missing since late he left his home for his office. On and Vice-Chancellor of ssierday after« y trace of Dr. McGreer found by the searchers was his cloth cap near a railway bridge over the St. Francis River. INVESTIGATE WOMAN'S DEATH Toronto, Dec. 11 (CP)--Police today investigate the death of Mrs. Alice Byers, 32, said to have allen from a second-storey window last night at her home in down-town Toronto. Robert McBain, another resident of the house, told police he left the house last night after an argument with the woman and saw her fall from the . window. She died in hospital a few hours later. UK QUITS HOLY LAND MAY 15 London, Dec. 11 (Reuters)--The date for the re linquishment of the British mandate in Palestine will be May 15 next year, subject to' negotiations with the United Nations, Colonial Secretary Creech Jones an- nounced today in the House of Commons. He said the withdrawal of British troops would be completed by Aug. 1, Y