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s HE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle OSHAWA WHITBY, VOL. 6--NO, 292 OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1947 Price 4 Cents SIXTEEN PAGES HOLD-UP MAN GIVEN LIFE TERM > Four Dead, Several Missing As Ships Crash British Motorship (SOVIET ORDER Rescues Crewmen Of Burning Tanker New York, Dec. 15 (AP) --At least four persons were killed and several reported missing early today after a col- lision between two tankers off Curacao, Dutch West Indies. Dispatches from Willems tad, Curacao, said both ships ----awere aflame and that the count of Removed by Death EARL BALDWIN Of Bewdley, three times Prime Minister of Great Britain, who died in his sleep on Saturday dead and missing was being com- pile as victims were being landed. The Argentine tanker Los Pozos and the Venezuelan tanker Tucapi- ta collided in Curacao Bay at about 4am. (EST). The Los Pozos, 5,180 gross tons, is owned by the Argen- tine Navigation Company. Reports to the Coast Guard here said the British motorship- San Eliseo was standing by the burning tankers and attempting to get her small boats near enough to help rescue the crews. The Coast Guard said the air was jammed with distress calls and re- lays in the area, clouding positive identification of the ships and de- tails of their condition. The Merritt-Chapman and Scott Corp., owners of the ocean-going Tug Killierieg,. which ran aground about one mile off Morant Point, Jamaica, B.W.I., said the crew had been taken off but that the master and mates remained aboard await ing a tug sent from Key West, Fla., to refloat the Killierig, The crew was estimated at 40 or more. A company spokesman said the Killierieg was reported in no dan- ger. Suspended Sentence On Assault Count Alfred H. Adams, 104 Arlington Avenue, pleaded guilty today to a charge of assault occasioning bodily harm to his wife, and was placed on suspended sentencee for one year. Bond was set at $200 and conditions were that he would pay the court costs and keep the peace for one year. Mrs. Adams testified that she was visited by her husband on Decem- ber 8 and when he tried to force her into an automobile, her cheek- night at the age of 80, bone was fractured. Department to Consider Park Rd. Paving Proposal Contemplated paving of. Park Road South has moved a step clos- er with agreement by the Depart- ment of Highways to consider a pro- posal for financing the project by which approximately 50 per cent of the cost would be borne by the De- partment. Reeve A. E, Grass reported town- ship council Saturday on a meet- ing in Toronto last week between city and township representatives and J, D. Millar, deputy minister of highways at which assurance was given that the Department would give consideration to the plan put forth. According to the proposal discuss- the Highways Department would ve 22 feet of the roadway ving Oshawa and East Whitby le for five feet each. A contract would cover the paving operation with party responsible for a portion cost. [This would amount to payment of approximately 50 per cent by the Department and 25 per cent each by the city and township. Township Clerk D. F. Wilson was instructed to draft a joint letter with City Clerk F. E. Hare request- ing the Department to proceed on this basis. Of the township's share, two and a half feet is expected to be con- sidered as coming under the head- ing of local improvement. Reeve Grass and Councillor E. J. Powell represented the township at the Toronto meeting. and the city's re- presentatives were Mayor F. N. Mc- Callum, Ald. Ernie Cay and City Engineer W, T. Dempsey, Council decided to arrange a meeting, with E, F. Marston, dis- trict municipal engineer, present, in order to interview applicants for the position of township road su. perintendent. The present road superintendent, Howard Hoskin, rv- signed at a November meeting of the council, His resignation is ef- fective January 1 next. Big Four May Call Quits If Deadlock Is Continued London, Dec. 15--(AP)--A United States demand that Russia lift the curtain of secrecy .surrounding her activities in the eastern zone of Germany was expected to open to- day's session of the Big Four For- eign Ministers conference. If V. M. Molotov, Soviet Foreign Minister, refuses--as he has in the past--to supply figures of Russia's reparations removals from her oc- cupation zone, the conference may come to a speedy end. State Secretary Marshall of the United States paved the way for the anticipated United States de- mand. by issuing a statement yes- terday in which he categorically de- nied that the United States or Brit- ain had received any profit from ransactions in {Western Germany as charged Friday by Molotov, Marshal declared that diseitesion of the German problem was "un- real" in the absence of figures on Russian reparations removals and demanded that the Soviet Union give an immediate accounting. The majority of the American de- legation feels that it is useless to go ahead with the remainder of the agenda in view of the Soviet stand to date, and Molotov's answer to Marshall's request probably will de- termine whether or not the confer- ence continues. Marshall's statement reflected a belief in Aumerifan quarters that Molotov's repeal attacks on the United States might be making some impression on European pub- lic opinion and that a detailed reply was necessary. Until now Marshall has refused to answer Molotov's. long tirades on the grounds that he was here to negotiate and not to propagandize. In his statement yesterday Mar. shall pointed out that Russia had refused to accede to a proposal months ago that all the occupying powers make public their policy on financial matters and other trans- actions in their respective zones. ON CURRENCY HITS SAVINGS By EDDY GILMORE Moscow, Dec. 15--(AP)--The So- viet government has announced in a decree signed by Prime Minister Stalin that it will attempt to check inflation with the issue of a new currency tomorrow and, at the same time, will abandon the rationing of all "good and industrial goods." (The decree was the first admis- sion by the Russian government that the controlled Russian economy had been affected by post-war in- tlation. The Soviet action came 10 days after a statement in Washing- ton by Robert Lovett, United States Under-Secretary of State, that something "in the nature of panic buying" had gripped Russia follow- ing rumors of impending devalua- tion of the ruble.) The currency decree stipulated that rules brought to banks for conversion would be exchanged at the rate of 10 for one new ruble, thus making cash holders the principal losers under the reform. This exchange must take place betwwwen Dec. 16 and 22. Affects Bonds The decree affects persons with bonds, savings accounts and cash. Bank deposits up to 3,000 rubles will be exchanged on a one-for-one basis; accounts up to 10,000 rubles will be exchanged-at the rate of one-to-one for the first 3,000 rubles and the remainder on a basis of two new rubles for three old; deposits over 10,000 rubles will be exchang- ed at the foregoing rate for the first 10,000 rubles and the remain- der on the basis of one new ruble for two old. . Holders of ordinary state bonds will receive new bonds with a face value of one rublé for each three rubles of face value of the old bonds. Holders of ithe 1938 issue of state bonds will receive one new ruble for each five of face value. Wages Untouched The reform does not affect wages. All factories and officers have been ordered to pay their employees this week in new money their salaries for the first half of the month to enable them to get started under the new program. The ending of rationing of all "food and industrial = goods" will bring consumer . goods under uni- fied price control, The announce- ment said one object of the program was to check inflation and specula- tion, which had increased market prices of some commodities to 10 or 15 times their pre-war levels. The old ruble was held at 5.3 to the dollar in foreign exchange. The diplomatic exchange rate, at which diplomats change their money, was 12 rubles to the dollar. Wrong Exit . New York, Dec. 15--(AP) -- Edward Sweeney's bed in his rooming house caught fire yes- terday. Sweeney leaped from the cot, ran to a door, opened it, ran through, slammed it shut. ~ Firemen arrived, rescued Sweeney's roommate, prepared to leave, heard a knocking, op~ ened a door. There was Sweeney--in a clo- set, 2nd Nomination Brings+Election At Bowmanville ---- Bowmanville's second nomination has proved more fruitful than the regular one a week ago when elec- tors failed to choose a complete town council. Of the five nominated Friday night to fill the two remaining va- cancies on town council all five have filed qualifications and will seek election at the polls Monday. Candidates for the two posts are Donald Boe, Ivan N. Hobbs, Wil- liam G. James, J. Frank Jamieson ard Charles Shaw. Elected by acclamation at the regular nomination were: Mayor Sidney Little, Reeve J. S. Baker, Deputy Reeve \ Norman Allison, Councillors R. J. Dilling, L. C. Ma- son, E. Patterson and R. J. Niddery. THE WEATHER Clear and mild today. Cloudy and colder tonight and Tues- day. Occasional snow Tuesday afternoon and evening, Winds southwest 20 becoming north- east 15 tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight and 'high Tues- day 18 and 30. | § Dec. 9 and 10. Oshawa Airman Receives B.E.M, Shown above are Flight Sergeant and Mrs. V. I. Gillet te, of 537 Percy St., Ottawa, and his mother (left) of 528 Mary St., Oshawa, shortly after F/Sgt. Gillette had received the British Empire Medal from His Excel- lency the Governor General, Wednesday, Dec. 10. F/S gt. Gillette was among more than 160 serving and ex-Service personnel who received awards during a two-day investiture held at Government House, Ottawa, --R.CAAF. Photo U.S. Won't Truman Gives Warning Stand Idle If Italy Is Threatened Washington, Dec. 15--(AP)--A few hours-before withdrawal of the last American soldiers from_ Italy, President Truman warned Sekurday "night. that if. Italys' threatened "dlerctly or indirectly" the United States will consider "ap- propriate measures." Without mentioning Communist- led strikes and disorders, the formal 100-word statement emphasized that while troops are being with- drawn in accordance with treaty obligations, the United States has by no means lost its interest "in tthe preservation of the peace and independence of Italy." The statement coincided with a report which lacked official con- firmation--that the United States is actively considering supplying modern arms to the limited forces permitted to Italy by the new peace treaty. Truman's statement said: "Although the United States is withdrawing its troops from Italy in fulfillment of its obligations un- freedom Is: der the treaty of peace, this coun- try continues its interest the preservation of the peace and in- dependence of Italy. " e-course of -evertts it bee comes apparent that the freedom and independence of Italy on which the peace settlement is based are being threatened directly or indir- ectly, the United States, as a sig- natory of the peace treaty and as a member of the United Nations, will be obliged to consider what measures would be appropriate for the maintenance of peace and se- curity." The treaty, which went into ef- fect Sept. 15, following its ratifica= tion by the United States, Russia, France and Britain, calls for with= drawal of all Allied occupation for- ces within 90 days and the period expired at midnight Sunday. Five thousand American troops remain, along with British and TRUMAN (Continued on Page 2) East Whitby Township Council, continuing its quest for a solution to the policing problem, decided Saturday to advertise locally for a police chief and one other consta- ble to make up a two-man force. A previous decision to confer with Provincial Police authorities was reinforced when council authorized Township Clerk D. F. Wilson to contact Inspector E, J. Hand in connection with a 'possible two-man provincially-administered force. Township representatives = were unable to secure an interview with Ontario Police Commissioner W. H. Stringer last week, The move to advertise for district men was taken after Councillor Edgar Glover, continuing his earl- ier opposition to employment of Provincial Police, pounded away at the increased expenditure involved. "I still don't see why we need to pay that much money for the work there is to do," he said. When Reeve A, E. Grass suggest- ed the Attorney-General's Depart- ment might be able to do a better Township Now Seeking Local Police Applicants policing job or else allow the Pro- vincial Police to assume control, Deputy-Reeve. T. D. Thomas de- Pmurred. "They can't come in and tell you you've got to police this area," he declared. "There's been no crime wave in Bast Whitby." Councillor William Noble said the Department could only assume such powers in case of an emergency such as rioting. Turning to the present situation, Councillor Noble said the Provincial Police had not yet officially con- tracted to police the north end of the township beyond the fifth con- cession, "Officially," he said, "they could take their men out and we wouldn't have any protection north of what- ever area we designated for the new force." Both Councillor E. J. Powell and Reeve Grass suggested that in the long run employment of a provin- cially-administered force -- par- ticularly a two-man one--would be cheaper than.a township-organized system. An express bus service no High- way 2A--the new dual highway be- tween Toronto and Oshawa--will be inaugurated immediately fol- lowing the granting of a franchise to the company, Gray Coach Lines officials said today. Permission to operate on the new route is expected "any day now," company sources said. An intensive study by the com- pany. of Toronto-Oshawa bus line traffie ic yinder way with a view to determining the "most suitable" number of express runs necessary, officials disclosed. When the new run is introduced, Plan Express Bus Service From Oshawa to West Hill buses leaving Oshawa will travel to Whitby via No. 2 Highway and turn south to Highway 2A. From that point, buses will make an ex- press run to West Hill and then continue loading dnd unloading passengers as under the present sys- tem. Leaving Toronto on the express run, buses will pick up passengers until they reach West Hill and then proceed on Highway 2A. Decision to include Whitby as a stopping point on the express run was taken because such a large per- centage of Whitby passengers made the through trip to Toronto, officials pointed out. Rev.M.Heron And 3 Others Re-Arrested Rouyn, Que., Dec. 15 -- (CP) -- Rev. Murray Heron, Baptist minister awaiting judgment on a charge of holding a public meeting without a permit, was re-arrested Saturday night on a similar charge along with three other persons. All appeared before Justice of the Peace J, H. Forget today and were released on $25 bail each on ad- journment. of the hearing until Dec. 22, Those arrested with the minister are Leslie Barnhart, Mabel Bourne and Eileen Veals. The minister first ran afoul of Rouyn"s bylaws last July when he, Miss Veals and Alice Moore were arrested. After trial last month, Judge F. Allard of Amos reserved judgment pending study of many documents submitted in evidence. At that time he said he thc. zht he would not be able to five his deci- sion until January. Bail of $25 each was continued pending judgment. The four arrested Saturday night are charged with having held a meeting at Campbell and Main Streets in Rouyn, Chicago Gangster In Triple Slaying Is Held By Police Chicago, Dec. 15 (AP)--The sur- render of James Morelli, 20-year= old &onvicted robber, brought to an end yesterday a 48-hour police search for two survivors of a trio suspected of a gang-type triple slaying last Friday. Richard B. Austin, acting state's attorney, said he would ask a grand jury today to indict Morelli and Lowell Fentress, 21, on char= ges of murdering the three men in the shooting spree. Fentress al- ready was in police custody. The third suspect, Thomas Daley, 36, an ex-convict, was shot and killed by police in Morelli's apartment Saturday morning. Police said Morelli denied. firing any of the fatal shots and that he blamed Daley for all three killings and the wounding of two pthers. Slain were John Kuesis, 40, a second-hand furniture dealer, The- odore Callis, 29, and Emil W. Schmeichel, 22. . Police said that Fentress had made a statement saying the slay- ings stemmed from a mission of reprisal against John Kuesis which was intended to be nothing more serious than a beating because he was believed to have implicated Daley and Fentress in a robbery case. Remanded A Week For Watch Theft was remanded in custody one week for 'sentence, after pleading guilty today to a charge of theft of a watch, Evidence was that Clayton took the watch from a coat hanging in the house where he boarded at 351 Albert Street. Accused told the court that he though he could "find the watch if given a few days." He stated that 'he had borrowed $3 on it. 3 Bandit In Windsor Who Shot It Out Is Called Menace Windsor, Ont., Dec. 15 (CP)--Glen Davis, 88-year-ola armed hold-up man who was police at a drug storé here Nov. involved in a gun battle with 28, was sentenced to life imprisonment today by Magistrate Angus W. Mac- Millan, é Allan Clayton, no fixed address,. U.A.W. Vote 'Detroit, Dec. 15--(CP)--Local 600, United Auto Workers (C10), whose 63,000 members make it the biggest local union in the world, to- day were called to a showdown vote on the Communist issue. A referendum will be taken im- mediately on whether to expel five union officers who refuse to sign affidavits swearing that they are not Communists as called for under the Taft-Hartley Law. The decision to abide by the law was made at the U.A.W. convention in Atlantic City. All but' five of the 200 officers of Local 600 have signed the affida- vits, WINS 'BRITISH AWARD Riverside, Ont., Dec. 15 -- (CP)--George Leach, first world war veteran and employee of Chrysler Corporation, has been advised of the award of the Bri- tish Empire Medal for outstand- ing service during the war, ad Davis, who was surprised by police in the act of holding up Wilkin son's Drug Store, elected to shoot it out, He fired one shot at police who surrounded the store. Police opened fire and wounded Davis in the right arm as he ducked into a telephone booth. He immediately surrendered, Appearing in court the following day, Davis at first was remanded without plea. He returned to his cell where he considered the evie dence against him. Davis called a detective and was returned to co where he pleaded guilty to a charge of armed robbery . In passing sentence, Magistrate MacMillan branded Davis a potene tia, Imurderer, a menace to society with no hope of reformation. He declared that if Davis had been more accurate, he would have shot and possibly killed a policeman. Davis had $84 in his pocket when he walked from the * telephone booth at the store and collapsed in a pool of blood from the bullet wound. Appearing in court with his right arm in a sling, Davis repeated his plea that he committed the holdup because his compensation cheque for $43 had not arrived and he was desperate for money. He had suf fered a broken foot while working, Troops Of Arab Legion Kill 14 Jews, Wound 15 By JOSEH C. GOODWIN Jerusalem, Dec. 15--(AP)--Jewish leaders called upon the Palestine government today to order the im- mediate evacuation from Palestine of all Trans-Jordan Arab Legion troops, a detachment of which yes- terday machine-gunned a truck con- voy near Tey Aviv; killing 14 Jews and wounding 15 others. The Arab Legion forces, which have British officers, are on loan to the Palestine government for po- lice duty in the Holy Land. Demands for withdrawal of the forces coincided with a grenade at- tack on a truckload of Arab Legion troops near the Mustapha police barracks in Jerusalem. One soldier was injured in the bombing. A spokesman for Hagana, a Jew- ish underground group, declared that "failure of the British to eva- cuate these foreign troops will be considered a British provocation against the Jewish defence forces." A Jewish agency official, who also demanded withdrawal of the Arab Legion, said Legionnaires had at- tacked Jews in at least three places yesterday. Cars Are Stored The official said that 1,700 Jew- ish settlement police had been ene gaged in convoy duty but that they were travelling in open cars and "form an open invitation to mas- sacre." Eighteen armored cars ale lotted to the settlement police are now in storage and the government "will not permit their use," he de< clared. 3 "The government is conducting a sytematic campaign to disarm us," the Agency spokesman asserted. Overland transport throughou$ Palestine--already badly disrupted-- was further demoralized by the eon. voy attack yesterday. Food supplies in Jerusalem and other cities ran low as the Holy Land began to feel the pinch of broken communication resulting from 16 days of bitter communal strife that has claimed 244 lives, Hardist hit were the Jewish and foreign communities, which depend for their supplies largely upon ime | ports and Jewish distributors in Tel Aviv, Arabs with donkeys and cam=- els continued to carry Arab goods to their own communities. In Jersalem bakers were short of : ARAB TROOPS ) (Continued on Page 2) 4; % LATE NEWS BRIEFS x PIRATES ROB SHIP Hong Kong, Dec. 15 (AP)--Pirates boarded the 4,552-ton Dutch passenger ship Van Huetz, robbed the passengers of cash and jewelry valued at hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars and escaped in coms mandeered junks today after temporarily holding the captain hostage. New Delhi, REPORT 400 SLAIN Dec. 15 (Reuters)--Hundreds of fatal casualties were claimed by both sides in the week-end's flare-up of fighting in Kashmir between Indian Do« minion troops and "Free Kashmir" rebels and invading tribesmen. Killing of 400 Indian troops in a surprise at- tack on Uri on the road to Srinagar, capital of Kashmir --was claimed by the "Free Kashmir" government in a communique received from Karachi. The attackers' casualties were given as 35. BAST HOURS FOR CHAMBERS St. Catharines, Dec. 15 (CP)--Sydney George Chambers will be hanged shortly after 12 o'clock tonight on an indoor scaffold because "it is more suitable in this weather" and will avert a public "spectacle", Lincoln County jail officials said today. Chambers was sentenced to death for the furnace-slaying of nine-year-old Marian Rusnak. HINT OF POWER PROJECT Toronto, Dec. 15 (CP)--The Evening Telegram said today that announcement is expected soon of On- tario undertaking development of hydro-electric power on the St. Lawrence River. The newspaper said a report, "prepared at the instigation of the government," is near- ing completion. it deals with future power resources of the province, "with particular attention being paid to the St. Lawrence Waterway."