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"THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE "© OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle 'WHITBY VOL. 7--No. 16 OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1948 FOURTEEN PAGES "BLAST ROCKS OSHAWA BUILDINGS $200,000 Annually For Princess, And Philip Apartment Panes & Lg Price 4 Cents Labor Opposition Fails In Commons After Brief Debate London, Jan, 20 (CP)--The Hpuse of Commons voted today to grant Princess Eliza Philip, £50,000 ($200,000) a y The vote was 294 to 17. than two hours, in which a revolt by a handful of Labor 4 members was put down, beth ear; It came after a debate of less nd her husband, Prince E.A. Cooper Cooper-Smith Head Passes Manager of Cooper-Smith Co. for 20 years and a prominent Mason, Elgin Aubrey Cooper died today in the Oshawa General Hospital at the age of 55. He had been seriously ill for two weeks. Mr. Cooper was born north of Thornton's Corners and had lived E. AUBREY COOPER 1 this community all his life. He 12d been associated with' the flour nd feed business founded by his ther, the late Elgin Cooper, for yer 35 years and had been man- vier since the passing of his fath- Us partner, the late H. S. Smith, in $28. He was married to Winnifred *utter on September 7, 1925. Mr, Cooper was a past master of emple Lodge, AF. & AM. and was onored by the Grand Lodge by be- ng made a Grand Lodge steward. ie was a member of St. George's Zhurch. Surviving besides his wife are two laughters, Mrs. D. McLaren (Ruth) nd Miss June Cooper, and one ister, Mrs. George Robinson, all of Oshawa. The deceased is resting at the Luke-McIntosh Funeral Home there a Masonic service will be held omorrow at 7.30 p.m, The funeral #11 be held from St. George's Shurch Thursday at 3.15 p.m. with nterment in Mount Lawn Cemetery. ay D. M. Rose will conduct the - Mic TO MEDIATE IN INDIA Lake Success, Jan, 20 (AP)--The jaited Nations Security Council ted 9 to 0 today to establish a three-power "good offices" commit tee to mediate disputes between In- ila and Pakistan, The action was taken on the de- cisive second reading of the gov- ernment-sponsored measure, Earlier Sir briefly, expressing hope bill would go through. already accepted by the Commons. It provided an annuity of £25000 ($100,000) in addition to the exist- ing payment of £15,000 ($60,000) for Princess Elizabeth and £10,000 ($40,000) for the Duke of Edin- burgh. Opposition came at once from Labor member Ronald Chamber- lain who said that the undoubted enthusiasm at the royal wedding did not mean approval of certain ' outworn aspects of the court sys- tem. J Chamberlain said his views had been distorted in the press. He was not a republican and was not op- posed to the royal family, The young couple should have an ade- quate personal allowance and all other expenditure should be certi- fied in the, usual way, That would reduce court expenditure. # Parliament returned today from a month's Christmas recess and the measure to increase the couple's allowances topped the agenda. The Commons advanced the. bill through its first reading in De- | cember after 163 Labor members | voted unsuccessfully for an amend. ment to trim substantially the pro- posed allowances. Conservative ALLOWANCE (Continued on Page 2) Struck by Puck Girl Suffers Fractured Skull Ten-year-old Mary Lou Taylor, who suffered a fractured skull Sunday as the result of being struck by a hockey puck, is report- ed "much better" today in Toronto Sick Children's Hospital. Mary Lou, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Percy R. Taylor, 17 West- moreland Avenue, was struck above the right eye by a flying puck Sunday afternoon while skat- ing on the North Simcoe School rink. Some older persons were using the rink for a hockey session when the accident occurred, it was learned. ; "The doctor didn't expect her to live," said Mr. Taylor today. "Down there, they're calling her the 'miracle child' now." Mr. Taylor said she would be operated on Thursday according to doctors at the Sick Children's Hos- pital. "That was the first time we al- lowed her to play at rink on Sun- day," recalled Mr. Taylor. '"Per- haps the real solution would be to close it on Sundays." 10,000 Coal Miners Out As Settlement Hits Snag Edmonton, Jan, 20--(CP)--A new Jag slowed down efforts to bring bout settlement of the wages strike )f nearly 10,000 coal miners in Al- berta and British Columbia today in the shape of rejection by the Al. serta government of a representa- ive named by operators to a three- man conciliation board. Trade Minister C. E. Gerhart of Alberta said last night the name of the operators' representgtive had not been acceptable because of "conditions" which had been at- tached. Operators said they felt¥ they had made their appointment in a manner "in accord with the "Alberta labor code." Mr. Gerhart said operators would have until midnight last night to submit the name of a representa- tive on an "unconditional" basis. Since the operators held the view that their original nominee con- formed to requirements, it appear- ed the next move was up to the government, The Trade Minister, in discussing the matter, had said that if the operators failed to submit a new the responsibility of appointing a nominee and would do so. Mr. Ger- hart also disclosed that the United Mine Workers of America had named Chris Pattinson of Edson, Al- ta., as their representative. As the strike went into its eighth day, one of the latest developments was curtailment of electric power through a large section of the Drum- heller Valley because of a coal shortage. Hospitals and "essential industries" were served, although stréet and store window lights were "blacked out." Hardware stores in the valley were deluged with orders for coal oil lamps, wicks and kerosene today following a drastic reduction in elec- tric power yesterday when the big Canadian Utilities steam generating plant began running short of coal. Officials of the Utilities company, which supplies electricity to about 40 towns and villages in the area, were attempting to truck in coal from open-face strip mines still op- erating, but they were only able to obtain about 50 tons daily while' the plant normeallv consumes 200 tons name the government would have a day. Stafford Cripps, | Chancellor of the Exchequer, spoke | that the | Sir Stafford said the bill only -| put into legal form the resolutions & bd MAN IS HELD FOR BOMBING GANDHI MEET New Delhi, Jan, 20--(Reuters)--A crude bomb exploded 15 yards from Mohandas K. Gandhi, Hindu spirit- ual leader as he addressed his pray- er meeting tonight. No one was injured. Gandhi con- | tinued with his speech. Afterwards the police arrested a well dressed young man reported to be in possession of another crude bomb. He was believed to be one of four who arrived in a jeep. The other three sped away in the jeep as the explosion occurred. Gandhi, 78, broke a 121.hour fast last Sunday after members of the Indian government and heads of all parties, communities and organiza- tions had signed a pledge to imple- ment the seven conditions prescrib- ed. by him to achieve Hindu-Moslem unity. was reported last night to be He still weak after his fast and was carried to his prayer meeting in an armchair, Library Bd. Budget Same As In 1947 The Public Library Board will ask City Council for a grant of $19,- 500, the same as that received in 1947, it was decided last night when the Board approved a budget pro- viding for expenditure of $23,444,- 22 in 1948. Major item in the budget is sal. aries which this year will amount to $12,780 as compared with $10,137, 70 last year, The salary increases effective January 1, were approved last night, The staff has approxi- mately 10 members. A sum of $6,000 has been set aside for the purchase of new books dur- ing the year, $380 for periodicals and $400 for repairs to books. With the new record and film depart- ments gaining rapidly in popularity, amounts of $300 and $200 have been estimated for these items. Other anticipated income includes a government grant of $2,225.24 and desk receipts of $1,300. Expenditures in 1947 totalled $23,404.53. It was decided at last night's LIBRARY BOARD (Continued on Page 2) THE WEATHER Mostly clear today. Overcast tonight 'and 'Wednesday. Inter- mittent snow Wednesday, Mild today. Not much change in tem- perature Wednesday. Winds southwest 20, low tonight and high Wednesday 15 and. 27. Summary for Wednesday: In- termittent snow, Mild, 7 : Two Buildings Shaken, 14 Panes Broken By Explosion' IN FIGHT KILLED AS IRAQ) MOB FIGHT SPOLICE A mysterious explosion on downtown Celina Street a few feet to the rear of the Star Laundry shook two buildings shortly after 11 o'clock last night and shattered glass in at least 14 windows. In the top picture, Peter Boyle, maintenance man, is seen as he finishes installing one new window pane in the apartment of Mrs. J. A. Ritchie, one of a row of apartments above the Royal House Furnishing Co. rocked by the blast. Below, Bern Crozier, of the furniture shop, points to the storeroom door, from which police dug a jagged piece of tin, ~--Photos by Campbell's Studio Arabs Hit Jewish Town In Reprisal For Raids; HaganaBuysU.K. Arms By CARTER L. DAVIDSON Jerusalem, Jan, 20 (AP).--Arab fighters, apparently striking in reprisal for Jewish raids yester-! day, hit today at the Jewish colony of Yechiel, northeast of Acre, and police said fighting was still going on three hours later. The colony is one of 19 Jewish | settlements which are outside the Jewish state proposed under the United Nations' partition plan, approved Nov. 29. ewish settlement police left the colony at the height of the attack to evacuate casualties but their vehicle was stopped and burned. There was no official report on the number of casualties. ' Earlier, 'sporadic outbursts of | sniping throughout the Holy Land claimed the lives of two Jews and one 'Arab, bringing to 907 the un- | official death toll since the parti- tion decision was voted Nov. 29. In Jerusalem a military court sentenced four Jews, ranging in age from 15 to 17, to life impris- onment for carrying arms and fir- ing upon British forces last Nov- ember in the Raamane area of | Palestine, . J | reconnaissance 5 | Sources close to the Palestine government said the British Army surplus goods officc here has agreed to sell 21 used scout planes to the Jewish agency. The source said the office also had agreed to sell barbed wire, cars and other equipment to the agency. It added that the equipment was offered at the same price to both Arabs and Tews, but the Arabs had rejected Jewish sources said they under- tood only eight or nine of the out planes were in condition for mmediate use and that some of hem probably were fit only for | lismantling for spare parts. A Jewish Agency spokesman aid later today that the agency had bought some used but service- able scout planes from British sur- plus for the "training. of Jewish pilots in commercial aviation." The spokesman said there were now about 50 R.A.F.-trained Jew- ish pilots in Palestine who would work with the agency-sponsored Aviron Company in training new pilots and developing a local avia- tion industry. Baghdad, Jan. 20--(AP)--Eight persons were killed today in six hours of rioting started by youth- ful foes of the new British-Iraqi alliance, Policemen with armored cars and | machine-guns finally restored order around noon. The Iraqi Army also .was ised on the alert. Hundpéds were arrested. About 40 policemen and 100 civilians were injured. The dead were two police- men, tho inspectors and four civil- ians, Gunfire was exchanged heavily in the main centres of Baghdad and considerable property damage re- sulted. Official sources asserted that "subversive hands" exploited feel. dng against the treaty, signed last week, to foment the disturbances. The Council of Ministers had the situation under study. More than 6,000 youths were among the demonstrators. Demonstrations by mobs of stu- dents broke out yesterday and con- tinued today. - One mob hurled stones through windows of the United States Information Service offices, but no attempt to enter was reported. Police foiled efforts of the mob to reach the British Em- bassy. Today's attempt by police to block crowds of marching, shouting stud- ents failed under sheer weight of numbers, and the students resisted with sticks and stones. . Police re- sorted to firearms to halt the mobs, and shots were returned from the ranks of the demonstrators. U.S. Frees | Greek Gold Athens, Jan. 20--(AP)--In a move { bolster the rapidly depreciating « :ek Drachma, the United States "Is released $2,000,000 in American- I:1d Greek Gold, Dwight P. Gris- io aid Greece, announced last night. At the same time, threats of an impending large-scale guerrilla at- tack were. reported along the coun. try's northern borders. Reliable sources at Salonika said there were heavy movements of military vehi- cles in Albania and Yugoslavia, to- ward the Greek border. ° . These informants said it was be- lieved an attack was in prepara- tion somewhere along the Greek Frontier, The vehicles were report- ed carrying military and medical supplies, accompanied by foreign dical officers. Some of these of- ficers, the sources said, indicated by appearance they were Hungar- ians, vold, chief of the American Mission |- One person, Mrs. Betty by the explosion which shook ap- artments above the Royal House Furnishing Co., 35 King Street East, and ripped through the night to be heard blocks away. Traced to Snow Pile Police traced the explosion to the edge of a snowpile a few feet to the rear of the laundry building. Inspector W. Dawn said today that whoever set off the blast prob- ably had tossed hot coals or poured acld into a tin containing gun- powder, Only evidence was pieces of green-painted tin--one found em- shop storeroom and one lodged in the wall of the laundry boiler room. Police said one piece "smelled of powder." At least 14 windows were smash- ed and others cracked by the force MYSTERY BLAST (Continued on Page 2) Photo Engravers Won't Back ITU In Chicago Strike Chicago, Jan. 20 -- (AP) -- A local official of the Photo-Engrav- ers' Union (AFL) sald his group is nof supporting the strike of union printers against six Chicago daily newspapers and declared the Inter- national Typographical Union (AFL) "has erred." Willlam Clemens, Executive Board Chairman of Chicago Local 5 of the International Photo-En- gravers' Union told the Local's an- nual meeting Sunday that the en- gravers will not support any con- troversy arising from "a refusal to sign a contract." "While we are of the opinion that all unions should stand shoulder to shoulder at all times, but especially when a dispute arises, we fedl that the ITU has erred by its conven- tion action to re-establish jurisdic- | tion over all branches of the print ing industry and by refusng to sign The strike of about 1,500 printers Nov. 24. Since then the newspapers hav - econtinued publication = by means of typewritten or varityped copy reproduced by the photo-en- graving process. N Shattered; Damage Reported Slight An explosion behind the Star Laundry, 13 Celina Streef, which rockd two buildings and sprayed broken glass into apartment bedrooms and living rooms shortly after 11 o'clock last night, remained shrouded in mystery late today. Greenman, narrowly escaped injury and dozens were awakened ¢ bedded in the door of the furniture | a contract for more than 60 days." | employed by the six dailies started. Vice President WILLIAM H, KELLAR who was elected vice-president of Local 1817, United Steelworkers of America (CIO-CCI) last night re- placing W. R. Welsh who has been named president. Mr. Kellar was secretary of the local in 1942 before enlisting for service in the Cana« dian Navy, 100 Drowned As Ship | Sinks Santiago, Jan. 20 (AP).--The Interior Ministry said today about 100 persons died last night when the steamship Cautin capsized and sank in the Imperial River in Southern Chile, The steamship carried 350 pas- sengers, many of them women and children. Officials said an ex€cssive cargo wag responsible. They arrested the captain. Survivors saved their lives by long distance swims. They landed at Puerto Savedra. Luis Pena, one of the rescued passeng- ers, said water seeped into the engine room of the Cautin and eventually flooded it. By JOHN LEBLANC Canadian Press Staff Writer Ottawa, Jan. 20 (CP).--A broad re-alignment of cabinet duties was in progress today, but the para- mount question of Canadian poli- tics--the future of Prime Minister Mackenzie King--was still un- answered. Mr. King avoided any commit- ment on his own plans last night as he announced a three-way shift in the cabinet lineup that sent Veterans Minister Mackenzie to the Senate and brought new Howe Is Trade Minister MacKinnon To Fisheries In New Cabinet Shuffle holders to the veterans, fisheries and trade portfolios. "It isn't for me to say what my, future will be; that is in the hands of the Liberal party," he told a press conference on the eve of an address--forecast as his retire ment speech--tonight to the ade visory council of the National Liberal Federation. Brought about by the wishes of Mr. Mackenzie and Trade Minister CABINET SHUFFLE (Continued on Page 2) PLANTS Rouyn Que., Jan. 20 other cases % LATE NEWS BRIEFS RESUME Windsor, Jan. 20 (CP)--Gas supply will be turned "on this afternoon in plants which laid off 3,440 em- ployees here Monday, Russel M. Perkins, manager of Windsor Gas Company, said. However, not all the plants affected by the cne-day shutdown to conserve dwind- ling supplies for consumer gas will call back workers to day since it takes time to warm up ovens and fires. RAT ATTACKS BABY Windsor, Jan, 20 (CP)--A baby was attacked in | kis crib by a large rat last night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Brown. Aroused by the screams of 17-month- | old Larry, Mr. Brown rushed in with a hammer and | killed the rat. It measured 14 inches in length. ROUYN PASTOR FINED (CP)--Rev. Murray Heron, 22-year-old Baptist minister, and two women parish joners were convisted today of holding réligious street services wil Hut a permit and fined $25 and $45.10 costs in the -minic#r's case and $5 and costs in each of tha