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/ - ~ o- 1 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle OSHAWA WHITBY OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1947 Price 4 Cents SIXTEEN PAGES VOL. 6--NO, 290 POLICE IN JEEPS NIP ROME RIOT Father, Shock Of 3 Sons Killed; Mother Dies Of Grief & A 4 Tragedy At Level Crossing Kills Mrs. Howey Tillsonburg, Dec. 12 (CP)--Mrs. Louise Howey, 40, who was a. home when her husband, Elmo, and three sons, were killed yesterday in a railway-crossing accident two miles north of Straffordville, died from shock early today at the home of friends here. She had been taken to the home ® of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Climie here soon after the accident to be near the Soldiers Memorial Hospital, where her husband and one son died, and her seven-year-old daugh- ter, Mary Lou, only survivor of the crash, were taken. She spent the night in a bedroom with Mrs. Climie who ministered to the stricken woman throughout the night. At 5:45 am. Mrs. Climie heard Mrs. Howey gasp three times and she called to her husband, sleeping across the hall, for ald. Doctor Called A doctor rushed to the Climie home but Mrs. Howey was dead when he reached her bedside. He sald it was simply a case of the woman's heart being unable to bear the shock and grief of the tragedy. She suffered severe shock shortly after the accident when she stop- ped near the Canadian Pacific Rallway crossing where her hus- band's truck collided with a train, and asked what had occurred. A young man standing near the scene, unaware of the identity of the woman, told her, "the Howey family had been killed" She was overcome with shock and taken to the home of Mrs, Harry Kennedy Where she found first aid being Hum to her little daughter, Mary At the time, Mrs. Howey, born in Stratford, was hurrying to her home with a nurse who attends Mrs. Howey's aged father, Lawrence Fulton, formerly of Stratford, who is critically ill. Mrs. Howey's mo- ther was also ill and lving with another daughter, Mrs. W, Jones in Kitchener. Son in Hospital Eleven-year-old Kenneth Howey, only other son in the family, has been in hospital for two weeks for treatment and had he been well, would probably have been in the ill-fated truck on his way to school with his brothers and sister. Only last night Coroner C. W. Sinclair said he would call an in- quest into circumstances of the deaths of the four members of the Elgin County family, Date of the inquest has not been set but it will probably be held in Staffordville ary next year. ctims of the collision between the truck and a Canadian Pacific Railway train were: Elmo Howey, 42, driver of the truck, and his three Sons, James 15, William 13 and George, nine. James and William were killed in the crash and George Bisel Sun alter being gu thed to hosp! ere. r. Howe, BC Sous later. y. sia authorities today re- ported Mary Lou's condition as good." Her injuries were mostly ge wiih Be Hos not been told of eal of her father, and brothers, ¥ othe -------------- AUTOMOBILE RECOVERED Stolen last night from its park. ing- place near Fittings Limited where its owner was working, an automobile was recovered by Pro- vincial Constable Harry Kift about a mile south of Harmony today. John J, Caines, 298 Park Road South, found his car miss- ing when he was preparing to drive home after the night shift ended. At Ladies' Night GORDON NAIRN Executive vice-president of the Life Underwriters Canada, who will wa Life Underwriters Association 'ladies' night" to be held tonight in Ade. laide House. A.J. 0'Grady, regional vice-president, will also be a guest. Six Injured When Train Strikes Car Hamilton, Dec. 12--(CP)--A level crossing crash at nearby Burlington last night resulted in injuries to six persons, including four members of the Kitchener Greenshirts Junior A hockey team homeward bound from a game in which they beat St. Catharines Lions. Reported in "fair" condition in hospital here today were Green- shirt players Jack Novak, 15, with head injuries, and Dennis Barnes, 18, head injuries and shock; and George Hummel, 34, of Kitchener, a passenger, who suffered rib frac- tures and shock. Two other Greenshirt players were dihcharged from hospital after treatment. They were Earl Reibel, 17, who had slight chest injuries, and Arnold Miller, 19, abrasions to the right ankle. Also discharged was the driver, Lloyd Cross, 42, of Kitchener, who suffered head abra- sions and chest injuries. Constable Frank Wayne of the Burlington police said the car in which the four members of the Ontario Hockey Association team were travelling stalled on the rail- way tracks in front of Burlington's Plaza restaurant and a Canadian National Railways freight train from Fort Erie, Ont. struck it squarely in the middle. The car was twisted around and thrown 10 feet 'against a hydfo pole which it snapped off 10 feet from the ground. Board Seeks Compromise On Charlton Area Plan The Town Planning Commission, after a two-hour session with a six- man committee from the North East Community Association last night, agreed to attempt formulation of a compromise plan permitting event. ual opening of Colborne and Rich- mond Streets in the area to the west of Cadillac Avenue North. Under the commission's original plan, the city would compensate the Charlton Transport Co. for loss of property through the opening of Richmond Street by granting the firm city-owned land to the east of its present holding. The plan en- visioned a "buffer strip" between the Charlton Co.'s eastern limit and properties of residents on: Cadillac Avenue. : ; Lists Objections Association members objected to the plan on two counts: (1) According to a letter from the association to the planning coms [v mission, the residents in the Cadil- lac-Rogers Street area "vigorously protest any disposition of the said city-owned land (the vacant land east of the Charlton Co. property and between Richmond and Bever- ley Streets) that will in any way allow the Charlton Transport Co. to make use of Cadillac Avenue North as a means of ingress or egress to its present property ..." (2) The residents also claimed that "any adjustment permitting development to the east of the present Charlton Co. property will have a detrimental effect on Cadil- lac Avenue properties." The comprise between the com- mission's plan and two plans pre- sented by the association, neither of which contemplate the opening of both Colborne and Richmond SEEK COMPROMISE (Continued on Page 2) 20 ARE DEAD IN TENNESSEE PLANE CRASH Memphis, Tenn.,, Dec. 12 -- (AP)--A United States Army O- 47 plane burst into flames with a flash seen two miles away and crashed into an open hillside near here shortly after dark last night, killing at least 20 persons and possibly 21. The big craft slashed through a small wooded area within two miles of the Memphis Municipal Airport and twisted into a sage field, scattering bodies and wrec- kage over a quarter-mile path. Small trees were torn down, in one, a half-open parachute dang- led. Twisted masses of metal hung on other limbs and dotted the ground. : Col. Donald F. Fargo, Com- manding Officer of the 468th Air Forces Bese Unit, announced the toll as 20 and said another body possibly was in the wreckage. G. V. White said he saw the plane explode and .burst into flames from his home two miles away. "It wasn't more than two sec- onds before it hit the ground," he said. Rescue Six From Plane Carrying 29 8t. John's, Nfld, Dec. 12--(CP)-- A group of tired rescuers, who had kept an all-night vigil in the Lab- rador wilderness over three injured survivors of a United States Air Transport Command plane crash waited for favorable conditions to- day to evacuate them to hospital at Goose Bay where three others were already under treatment. Work of rescuing the six surviv- ors among the 29 passengers and crew members of a four-motored C-54 which plunged to earth near the northern air base 550 miles northwest of here Tuesday night was cut short last night by dark- ness after three men had been tak- en out by helicopter. Members of the ground rescue squads and doctors flown to the crash scene by helicopter set up an improvised shelter and cared for the three men who ®ad to be left behind. It could not be learned immedia- tely the extent of injuries suffer- ed by the survivors." Members of an R.CAF. ground rescue squad, believed to have been the first to reach the wreckage of the plane, flashed back the message that there were survivors and there were "several seriously injured." Although the big plane, which was taking off for Westover Field, Mass, at the time, crashed only eight miles from Goose Bay it took ground rescue squads 20 hours to pick their way over the lake- studded, densely wooded territory towards the wreck ® scene when weather conditions prevented im- mediate rescue attempts by air. The helicopter, flown up from the A.T.C. base at Westover Field, set out from Goose Bay yesterday and put down on a frozen lake a mile from the wreck. Doctors at once began to treat the injured and the job of taking them back to hospital one at a time began. Press Hunt For McGreer Que., Dec, 12 -- --(CP)--Police pressed the search and reported today no new clue in the disappearance of Rev. Dr, A, H. McGreer, Princi- pal and Vice-Chancellor of Bish- op's University at nearby Len. noxville, missing "ation left his Sherbrooke, home Wednesday afterfioon, Provincial and Lenn®xville pol. ice are continuing dragging op- erations in the Massawappi Riv- er and powerful floodlights were used last night to scan the bot- tom of the river, Groups of professors and stu- dents are scouring the country- side and combing nearby woods but no trace has been found of the 64-year-old educationist who told his sister-in-law that he was going to keep an appointment at the college, Wednesday night, his car was found a few feet from a railway zridge over the river while his footprints in the snow were trac- ed in the general direction of the railway tracks, nt D Once-thriving Manilla, 14 miles west of Lindsay, sti ves in other parts of the world. Among , who have distinguished themsel promo i pls or 4 , and his brother, A. T. DeLury, professor emeritus of Fr " Revising History Of Manilla (standing), retired mathematics at the University of Toronto, seen revising Il retains the loyal interest and support of her sons and their history of the village in their home there. them are Relph DeLury Girding for the Christmas rush when the regular stream of mail be- comes a torrent, the Post Office plans to add 57 men to its staff beginning December 15, Postmas- ter N. J. Moran announced today. Although mail and parcels from far-away points have begun to trickle in, the annual flood of loca. mail is still several days off, Mr. Moran said. An unusually heavy load of parcels slated for Great Bri- tain and. other overseas countries has already been cleared, Deadline for posting to assure lo- cal delivery is December 19, the Postmaster disclosed. "After that," he said, "it's doubtful whether it will be delivered by Christmas." Facing the regular "headaches" of a Christmas rush, the staff is further handicapped this year, he pointed out, by the change in head- quarters for the Post Office's oper- ating services. Obstacles Crop Up Division of staff between the old office on King Street and the new hehdquarters at 51 Simcoe Street South means that additional per= sonnel cannot be thrown into the breach when extra work piles up, Mr, Moran explained. The change itself, he added, has turned up new obstacles and upset staff arrange- ments, "We have more space for forward sortation and letter carriers," he said, "but not as much for city sor- tation." Add 57 To Postal Staff For Christmas Rush Of the 57 men to be added to the staff, 12 will be used in the forward dispatching section and seven in city sortation. Twenty-six extra let- ter carriers will be added and six men will be engaged to handle par- cels for local delivery. Six others will be added to the various sections as need indicates. Three extra trucks will be on the job to hustle those Christmas let- ters and parcels to their destina- tion. According to Post Office Depart- ment regulations, those on the civil service eligible list have priority for the jobs available with veterans' preference candidates-- particular- ly those with dependents-- coming next. Students will be taken to fill any gaps remaining, Correct Address Postmaster Moran reminds every- one to get the correct street and number on all mail in order to pre- vent delay. Christmas seals should not be used on the actual face of any mail although they are per- fectly acceptable on back of letters or parcels, By the way, if you've been in the habit of putting stamps in the up- per left hand corner of any mail- ing matter, stop now! The cancel- ling machine can't cope with things like that. If stamps appear anywhere but in the upper right hand corner, it's necessary to cancel the mail by hand with a consequent slowdown in handling. Santa Claus Also Officer Winooksi, Vt., Dec. 12--(AP) --Santa Claus doubles in brass here, From four to six p.m. every day he goes about the streets talking to children and taking them into stores to look at toys. | Then at 7 p.m. Santa swaps his red and white costume for a blue one and goes on duty with the police force as Patrolman Joseph Sprano. Fire Destroys Car Lot Office Fire of unknown origin last night completely destroyed the frame office building containing valuable sales records of the Bennett Motor Sales, King Street West. Firemen fought the blaze for nearly an hour before return ing to headquarters at 9.42 p.m. Using booster pumps and wat- er in the truck tanks as at the hrnge fire on Hart's Hill two days ago, the night platoon was directed by Assistant Chief H, R. Hobbs who reported the building and contents "a complete loss." The loss was fully insured. | One of the cars on the lot was | singed and will require a new | paint job. Uxbridge Man Faces Cruelty To Animals Count Harvey Elson, Uxbridge, will ap- pear in Port Perry police court next Thursday "to answer to a charge of cruelty to animals laid by Provine cial Police when they investigated reports about 11 horses being left unfed and unprotected in a field since October. The offence is said to have taken place just north of Manchester in a field bordering on No. 12 Highway. Attention was drawn to the case when one of the horses reportedly died a few days ago from malnutri- tion and exposure. Only possible edible food in the boggy field is swale grass, witnesses state. One Manchester resident is quoted as saying, "Things were getting so bad that people on: passing buses came into the local stop and asked why nothing was being done." Believed to have been the subject of a dispute over costs after their alleged purchase by Elson, the hor- ses are being attended to temporar- ily by neighbors. THE WEATHER Variable cloudiness today with occasional very light snow. Clear tonight and Saturday. Little change in temperature. Winds northwest 15, becoming light tonight and Saturday Low tonight and high Saturday-- 18 and 26. HINT RUSSIA MIGHT DEFER REPAT. CLAIM London, Dec. 12 (AP). --Russian sources reported today Foreign Minister Molotov might offer to de- fer Russia's $10,000,000,000 repara- tions claim against Germany if the foreign ministers' conference would agree to immediate establishment of all-German economic and admini- strative agencies in Germany. These sources, close to the Rus- sian delegation at the conference, said Molotov might propose today a deferment of the claim for repara- tions from current production until German economy is balanced and the country is paying its own way. There was no immediate estimate of how long this would be. Whether such a concession would open the way for an over-all Ger- man settlement remains question- able. The Russian approach to the creation of all-German administra- itve and economic agencies differs substantially from the views of the western powers. Russia prefers the vesting of more power in a central authority. The United States, backed by France and Great Britain, favors a limited decentralization. Molotov is expected to make a major statement today or tomorrow. This statement probably 11 be Molotov's promised response to State Secretary Marshall's assertion Wednesday that Russia's repara- tions demands could not be paid without either wrecking German economy or making the American taxpayer carry the load. The Soviet Minister contended that Marshall was incorrect anc said he would prove it. His reply was expected yesterday, but was not produced when the council, instead of debating reparations, took up secondary German economic issues. The only agreement of signifi- cance reached in this discussion was that if and when all Germany is unified the level of steel produc- tion should be set at 11,500,000 ingot tons a year. Steel output is mea.- sured on the basis of other German industrial production. (Total steel production in the United States this year is expected to raech about 85,000,000 tens). Brookes, Joyce Dropped By UAW Windsor, Ont, Dec. 12 (OP). -- Fred Brookes of Brantford and Woodstock, and Fred Joyce of Ot- tawa and formerly Sarnia, are the second and third international rep- resentatives of the United Auto Workers (CIO) to be discharged under the union's economy plan, it was announced today. Last week Charles Tanner, inter- national representative in Windsor and St. Catharines, was drppped from the paid staff of 14. The three dismissal followed ord- ers from International headquarters to cut down the Canadian regional paid staff, by three members as an Charge Strikers anthem "Red Flat." Baby Girl Born Going To Hospital When Bob Corby, 20, Midtown Taxi driver, answered an emer- gency call to Burk Street at 4.30 this" morning he didn't expect that his cab would be the scene of the birth of a baby girl. Corby picked up the expect- ant mother and her husband at their home and when they reached the hospital the nurse, who came to assist the lady in- to the hospital, emerged from the cab with an eight-pound- six-ounce baby girl in her arms, The physician had not yet ar- rived, Check Fire In Big Mine New Waterford, N.S. Dec. 12-- (CP)Miners ascending from the depths of No. 16 colliery here today reported that two fires which broke out at separate places had been brought under control. No injuries were reported among the 1,300 men estimated to have underground. Officials of Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation, operator of the colliery, could not be reached for comment, Miners who had been lifted from the underground caverns by electri- cally-operated "rakes" said flames broke out in two places but it could not be ascertained what had been the cause. Singing Red Song At Foreign Office By Frank Brutto : ' Rome, Dec. 12 (AP)--Jeep-borne police riot squads, swinging clubs, charged surging crowds today in the heart of strike-bound Rome, as throngs chanted the Communist Police quickly cleared the crowds, in the Piazza Colonna, ---® from their concentration point bee low the windows of the Italian for eign Office. The crowd gave way, jeering and hooting. Rome's general strike, now In its second day, appeared to have loose ened its grip somewhat, despite the determination of the Communist controlled chamber of labor to pur« sue it to the bitter end. Strong-arm police measures weakened the strik« ers effectiveness as Premier Ale cide De Gasperi's Christian Demo cratic government pressed for a settlement. Fracas Starts The most vigorous police action was at the Piazza Colonna, and leftists were angered and embitter- ed. At one point, Pietro Nenni, the leader of the Socialists' Pro-Com- '| munist wing, and Giuliano Pajetta, a Communist member of the Con- stituent Assembly, were mixed up in a fracas after attempting to rem onstrate with police. Neither was injured. Groups of idle bystanders had aroused the policemen by jeering, whistling and shouting insults at those detailed te protecting private vehicles pressed into service to re love the shortage of transportae on, Two uniformed police officers armed with carbines and trunche eons were assigned to each halfe ton truck converted to passenger service. These have become Rome's only transport system. Throughout Rome jeep loads of police circulated constgntly. Other officers, walking three or four abreast and brandishing trunche eons, kept demonstrators on the ROME RIOT (Continued on Page 8) Jersalem, Dec. 12--(AP)-- Jewish Tireh near Haifa today with gren- ades and automatic weapons, killing 14 Arabs and wounding six, This brought to 185 the Holy Land death toll since partition was voted, The best available information was that the Jewish groups were squads of the Irgun Zvai Leumi and Stern group. They went into action from Haifa to Hebron, Some authorities expressed belief that Jewish bands appeared to be opening a widespread offensive against Arab masses opposing a di- vision of the country into Jewish and Arab states. Counting earlier communal cas- ualties in Aden and Syria, the Mid- dle East death toll in 13 days had mounted to 303. Hnudreds were wounded, Property damage in Pa- Jewish Commandos Hit Arab Village Of Tireh lestine was estimated at above $10,« British troops in steel helmets and police armed with automatic weae pons moved into the Jerusalem Old City during the morning where thousands of Arabs gathered at mosques near the walled Jewish quarters. A police recapitulation showed 108 casualties in combats during the 24 hours ended at 8 am. today. Mae official tally showed 25 Arabs and 12 Jews killed. Wounded were 49 Arabs, 18 Jews, one Briton, one Mauritanian and two auxiliary po- licemen. In a bomb attack on an Arab hus company at Ramle, 22 vehicles were reported demolished. In the Jew ish attack on Tireh, a house was de- molished and a dozen others were damaged and set afire, commandos attacked the village of | 000,000. watch were stolen. said the Bedford Siamese economy move. * LATE NEWS BRIEFS EVADE TAX, FINED $15,000 Ottawa, Dec. 12 (CP)--Following the line of gen- eral government policy of stiff penalties for major income tax evasions, Magistrate Glen Strike today fined two executives of the Capital Carbon and Ribbon Com- pany of nearby Eastview a total of $15,000 and sen- tenced them to six months each in jail. DOG IS FIRE HERO Cornwall, Dec. 12 (CP)--Alvin Lauber of nearby Moulinette today credited his pet dog, Timmy, with sav« ing his life last night when fire destroyed Lauber's one- room frame house. Barking of the do just as the interior of the dwelling Homeless today, Lauber estimated the loss at $2,000. NAB 4 HOLD-UP SUSPECTS Paris; Ont., Dec. 12 (CP)--Four youths, believed to have fired three shots at a pursuing police cruiser dur- ing a 70-mile-an-hour chase earlier in the day and suspected of participating in the holdup of a Sandwich, Ont., service statien last night, were arrested by Paris police today. Sandwich police left for Paris to question them regarding the holdup, in which $90 and a gold aroused Lauber urst into flame. SIAMESE TWINS PROGRESS Indianapolis, Dec. 12 (AP)--Dr. | director of the Indiana University Medical Centre here, Ronald Casely, twins are past the critical stage, and that no separation will be attempted unless one of the boys appears to be dying: The twins, 11-day- old sons of Mr. and Mrs, Edward R.. are joined together at the tops of their skulls by a bony structure three inches in diameter, _ Speer of Bedford,