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OSHAWA THE DAILY TIMES-GAZ Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle ETLE WHITBY VOL. 7, NO. 58 OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1948 Price 4 Cents TWELVE PAGES PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY CRACKS DOWN ON GAMBLING 'BILLY TAYLOR EXPELLED BY N.H.L. Suspend Gallinger On Charges Based In Gambling Probe : A gree To Pay L 4 iremen Every Two Weeks Hurl Intimidation, Blackmail Charges At Council Meeting Demands by the bargaining committee of the Oshawa Fire Fighters' Association that City Council either pay fire- men every second Friday or increase their pay to measure with the Police Department, provoked charges of "black- mail" and "intimidation" by aldermen at City Council The meeting in the Public Utilities Building last night. After lengthy discussion council approved a motion by Alderman R. D. Humrhreys that their pay date request be granted beginning with the April 2 pay. The motion car. ried a rider that the firemen be given notice that the present agreement be terminated at the end of this year and be re.nego- tiated for the coming year. Alder. man Clifford Harman seconded the motion. . Amendment Lost An amendment to the motion proposed by Alderman Michael Starr and seconded by Alderman Cephus Gay, asking City Treasurer P. A. Blackburn for a report on what it would cost to pay every city department each two weeks was lost. An amendment to the amendment sponsored by Alder- man Sam Jacksbn, Jr, and sec. onded by Alderman Evelyn Bate. nan that no action be taken oh he request was also lost. The fire fighters' demands § rom two errors made by counc uring negotiations with the asso. ation, The first mistake was ade when council authorized PAY FIREMEN (Continued on Page 2) Jelegates Back Seven Clauses In Five-Power Pact Brussels, March 9--(AP)--Dele- gates from five Western European powers today approved seven arti. cles to be included in a proposed pact for a union against Communist axpansion. Approval of two of the articles, 'Jowever, was subject to sanction of he French and British govern. nents, informants said. Conference officials declined to ay which articles were being re. erred back. One of them was re- sorted to bind all signatory powers to refer differences to the inter. aational court. A second meeting was scheduled 'ater today. Officials from Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Lux. embourg forecast a speedy agree. ment on economic issues, They ex- sressed hope the economic phases of the pact would be ready to sign by the end of the week. French delegate Roland De Mar. zerie declined comment on reports that the five.power "Western Uni. on" would seek to have its defensive stature backed by the military might of the United States. Hugh Mallard, American Charge D'Affaires here, said the United States was standing aside from ne- gotiations among the five. : De Margerie said one of the pact's purposes is to harmonize the social and economic systems of the five countries to achieve the basis for an eventual customs and economic union, ! . PY 9 LIST 100 DEAD 250 INJURED IN EXPLOSION Shanghai, March 9--(AP) -- A Chinese ammunition dump explof- ed at Tsingtao today, levelling 'a city block and causing 250 casual- ties, An estimated 100 were killed. United States Navy sources here said the explosion occurred just be- fore noon, within half a mile of docks where the U.8.S. Estes, flag- ship of the American Western Paci. fic Fleet, and the Navy hospital ship, Repose, are tied up. Tsingtao is the Chinese base of the U.S, Navy's far Western figet. There were no immediate reports of casualties among American per- sonnel, The explosion, set-off by an unde. termined cause, swept an aref Bast of the docks. Resulting fires left a mass of blackened ruins in a wide section. The Repose and all available Uni. 'ted States Navy medical facilities afloat and ashore immediately gave | ssistnce. The {fires raged for two hours, Barbers Seek To Set Hours And Scale Of Prices At a meeting of the Oshawa Branch of the Ontario Barbers' As. sociation, in Genosha Hotel last night, a motion was passed to have the secretary, L. Smith, apply to the provincial government for a conference to establish prices and working hours for the Oshawa zone. Seventy-five per cent. of the members attended. Delegates to the convention of the Ontario Barbers' Association to be held at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto on April 27 and 28, were voted on with L. Shobrooke and J. Zeller. William Peters, president of the branch, urged all the barbers to back up the delegates selected by attending the convention in good numbers. PLANE LANDS SAFELY Honolulu, March 9--(AP)-- Radio failure aboard a B-29 Super- fortress flying from the United States to Japan caused search and confusion before the plane landed safe yesterday near Honolulu, The plane, with a crew of 20, was one of 10 Superfortresses and two C- 54 trandports which took off Sun- day night from the Spokane, Wash., air base. Royal Navy Ready For Sea In Ten Days If Necessary Churchill Told In House Loddon, March 9--(CP) -- De- fense Minister A. V. Alexander, answering charges by Winston Churchill that the Labor Govern- ment had weakened the Royal Navy to "lowest level," told the House of Commons Monday Brit- ain could send a balanced naval task force to sea within a week or 10 days if needed. He said he would like that to be known to the world. Such move "would very serious- ly interfere with the detailed tech- nical scheme of training, but never- theless it can be done and would, if necessary, be done," Alexander said. Alexander made his statement in reply to Churchill as the Commons opened debate on the navy esti- mates for 1948-49 which are $612, 000,000, 174,800,000 less than for eurrent fiscal year, ; Churchill criticized the govern= ment decision to scrap five old battleships. "If the United States had fol- lowed the purblind policy now pro- posed by the British Admiralty under the direction of Social min- isters, 50 destroyers (which the United States lent to Britain dur- ing the war) would have been scrapped 25 years before as mere junk. Alexander replied that the ships would be too slow in any future war and would cost millions of pounds to make fit enough for a reserve status. Churchill said that "India has gone down one drain and the Ad- Suivaley proclaims. that the Home Fleet has gone down another." John Dugdale, financial secre- ROYAL NAVY {Continued on Page 10), | Elected Directors of Chamber o EDWARD ROBSON f Commerce DOUGLAS M. STORIE , JOHN G. GEIKIE JACK BIDDULPH To Study Cost Of Reporting Weather Here Alderman R. D. Humphrey , chairman of the airport commit. tee, was instructed by council last night to study further an offer by the Department of Transport, Ot- tawa, to supply meteorological equipment provided that Oshawa Airport kept Malton supplied with 24 hourly weather reports a day. A letter from Ottawa pointed out that a suggestion by George Hurran, airport manager, that the data could be phoned into Malton pence an hour 24 hours a day would cost the city in excess of $2,000 an. nually. A teletype system would halve the cost, Ottawa said. Alderman Humphreys reported that the flying club deficit for 1947 would he about $300. He suggested that since the Department of Na. tional Defense uses two buildings on the airport and its land for training, Ottawa be asked to pay a yearly rental of -$1,500, This council decided to do. The city was also responsible for a $405 power bill for street lights and pumping water, the alderman said. He suggested that tenants at the airport be assessed $10 per month for water supply. If Oshawa airport obtained the meteorological equipment and if the runways were extended an. other 350 feet as promised by Otta- wa, it would be in a position to of. fer facilities to T.C.A. He thought it probable that if the field was improved, Oshawa might recive a good quota of T.C.A. freight busi. ness as Malton is already heavily Svevionded, It might also be used as a secondary field when ton wes fogbound, Ng (Once Oshawa School Boy 'Bill' Mather Now Heads Canadian Pacific Railway The announcement from Mon-! treal that Willlam A. Mather, Vice~ President of the Prairie Region of the Canadina Pacific Railway since 1942, has been named President of the company, adds to Canada's list of illustrious sons another native of Oshawa. . Mr. Mather, who has been a rail. roader since he was 19 years old, was born in Oshawa in September, 1885, and attended public and high school here where he was affection- ately called 'Bill', before going on to McGill where he graduated with an engineering degree in 1908. His progress since that time has been steadily toward his present position. He transferred from engineering to operating in 1912 as acting -su- preintendent at Kenora, after two years as resident engineer at Win- nipeg. From then until May of 1933, the Vice-President of the company at Montreal, he served at Kenora as Superintendent, as assistant general superintendent at Vancouver and as general superintendent at Calgary and Moose Jaw. One year after he was made as- sistant to the Vice-President he re- turned west as General Manager of Western Lines with headquarters at Winnipeg in September of 1934. Mr. Mather is a director of the Great West Life Assurance Com- pany and of the Calgary and Ed- monton Corporation, a member of thte Winnipeg advisory committee of the Royal Trust Company and of the operation committee of the Northern Alberta Railway. He is on the Board of Winnipeg General Hospital and Knowles School for Boys at Winnipgg and is RAILWAY when he was appointed assistant to HEADS (Continued on Page 2) March 20 Is Date Set For Russ-Finn Talks By EDWIN SHANKE Helsinki, March 9 -- (AP)--Fin- land picked a leftist-tinged delega- tion today for the Moscow talks on a Russian-Finnish treaty of friend- ship and mutual assistance, a gov- ernment member said. - Government quarters said they expected the negotiations to begin on or about March 20. The seven- man Finnish delegation will be headed by Premier Mauno Pekkala. There was no indication whether special technical advisors on mili- tary matters will be attached to the group. The majority of Finland's politi- cal parties have expressed opposi- tion to a military alliance with Rus- sia. Of the seven delegates, three represent parliamentary groups which have gone on record against an arms pact. ; The Finnish cabinet session decid- ed upon the make-up of the delega- tion at a meeting this afternoon. Finland's Foreign Minister, Carl J. A. Enckell, a non-party man, is vice- chairman of the delegation. Pekkala is a member of the So- cialist Union Party, which is affilliat- ed with the Communists in Fin- land's "democratic union." The Russians suggested a friend- ship and military pact. A majority of the Finnish political parties ap- proved negotiations but disapproved the idea of a military alliance. . President Juho K. Paasikivi, in accepting Prime Minister Stalin's suggestion to work out such a treaty, proposed yesterday that the negotia- tions take place in Moscow. Stalin's earlier letter said either Helsinki or | Moscow would be all right. The President's decision climaxed | two weeks of conferences with gov- | ernment officials and party leaders. | His final actlon was taken after a | 30. hithute conference with the cab- | et, A government said: "The President of the Republic has today in the State Council de- cided to reply in the affirmative to the Soviet government's proposal of entering upon negotiations towards the conclusion of a friendship and assistance agreement and to propose that the said negotiations take place in Moscow." A Foreign office spokesman said Paasikivi's reply might be sent to Moscow today. Its contents have been kept secret. Finns agree that acceptance of the negotiation offer constitutes a "dangerous first step." They do not feel, however, that Finland has been placed in the position of Czecho- slovakia, - where -the- 'Communists grabbed power in a recent coup. A majority of Finland's parlia- mentary groups favored negotiating but opposed any far-reaching mili- tary alisnment with Russia. announcement RUSS PLANES MACHINE GUN BIG, AIRLINER Shanghai, March 9--(AP)--Two0 | P-39 fighter planes marked with the red star of Russia made five passes at a commercial airliner yes. terday, firing their machine.guns but apparently not trying to hit it, airline officials said today. The transport, one of the planes owned by Maj.-Gen. Claire L. Chen- nault's Commercial Airline, was carrying 32 refugees from Fukden, Manchuria. It was crossing the Gulf of Chihli south of Russian-oc. cupied Port Arthur and Airen, the airline reported, but was giving those cities "a wide berth," as all Chennault planes do. Whiting Willauer of the airline staff reported the incident and said the transport was not within 40 miles of the Port Arthur-Dairen Peninsula. He said the pilot, I. B. Buol, took photographs which con. firmed the red.stwr markings on the fighters. The pictures were turned over to authorities in Tsingtao, North Chi- na, where United States Marines are based, Willauer did not say what authorities he meant. * Chennault's airline, which is evacuating 7,000 persons from Com- munist_encircled Mukden, tempor. arily suspended flights after the incident but later resumed opera- tions over a different route. . 4 Children DieIn Fires Early Today Thornbury, March 9 -- (CP) ~--Fire claimed the lives of two small children when it swept a small frame cottage in this Georgian Bay port 25 miles east of Owen Sound this morning. The victims were Brenda, three, and Marily, five, daughters of Mr, and Mrs. Carman Boyle. Tommy Goldsmith, mail and express carrier in Thornbury and Clarksburg, attempted to save the children but was driven back by searing flames. Neither Mr. and Mrs. Boyle were home at the time of the blaze and a meighbor rescued one child less than a year old. Valleyfield, Que., March 9-- (CP) -- Two small children were burned to death early today when fire destroyed the one-storey wooden home of their parents. One child was five years old, the other four. A number of others were in- jured in the fire and taken to hospital. The destroyed home was on Fabre Street in Billette Vil- lage, a Valleyfield suburb, 25 miles southwest of Montreal on Lake St. Francis. The names of the two dead children and the injured were not available immediately. Balloting Starts For UAW Election Windsor, Ont.,, March 9--(CP) -- Balloting for election of officers for all units in local 195 of the United Automobile Workers Union (CIO) started here yesterday, Earl B. Watson, president of the local an. nounced. Officers up for re_election include Mr. Watson, President and J. H. Budd (Morillo) Financial Secretary. Other nominees are, Wilfred Black- burn for first Vice-President; Joe Badcur, for Sergeant.at-Arms an Lloyd Minor for Guide. SEALS NOT FOR SALE Lansing, March - 9 (AP)--National Hockey League President Clarence S. Campbell today expelled Billy Taylor, New York Ranzer hockey player and suspended Don Gallin- ger of the Bostor Bruins on charges of being associated with gamblers. Campbell reported the punitive Expelled BILLY "THE KID" TAYLOR Former star of the Oshawa Gener. als and the Toronto Maple Leafs, | who later played with Boston Bru- ins and the New York Rangers, who has been expelled from the N.H.L. as a result of the gambling investi. gation carried on by President Clar. ence Campbell. ~Times-Gazette Staff Photo TAYLOR WAITS FOR DIRECTION ON EXPULSION (By G. H. C) Contacted by The Times.Gazette at his Sporting Goods store on King Street West, shortly before noon to- day, Billy Taylor, while naturally perturbed over the announcement by N.H.L. President Clarence Camp. bell, which was released from Lans. ing, Michigan, late this morning, was quiet and calm but would give only a brief statement. "I have heard nothing definite from President Campbell and any future action on my part will de. pend upon our conversation," stated Taylor, As to his immediate plans, Tay- lor pointed out that being expelled meant that since he could not play for his team, when or even if he will return to New York Rangers remains to be seen. Taylor expressed himself as be. ing surprised at the serious nature of the outcome and punishment (if the expulsion holds, he is out of hockey for life) and admitted that TAYLOR WAITS (Continued on #®age 2) action to Michigan's Governor Kim Sigler. Campbell had returned to Michi- gan to announce his decision be- cause Detroit police officials had given the league president infor- mation pointing to a link between gamblers and professional hockey players. The hockey league President ex- pelled Taylor for conduct "preju- dicial to and against the welfare of hockey." He charged that he had sufficient evidence to show that Taylor had "knowingly associated with an communicated with James Tamer a criminal and known gambler." Taylor, Campbell reported in a formal statement to Sigler, "was interested with Tamer in a wager on the outcome of a National Hockey League championship game played in Chicago on Feb. 18 be- tween the Boston Bruins and the Chicago Black Hawks. Taylor's interest in this wager was that he authorized Tamer to place for him a bet of $500 on the Chicago Black Hawks." Campbell said he was suspending Don Gallinger indefinitely pending further investigation of his associ= ations with James Tamer, the De- troit gambler. The hockey president said his in- vestigation has "established to my complete satisfaction that no other layer in the National Hockey ague was involved in any game bling." Cites By-Laws Campbell said the hockey league by-laws permitted the President "on such information and reports as he may deem sufficient" or on any act or conduct of an official or player who has been "dishonest, prejudicial to or against the wel. fare of the game or the league to hand out fines or suspensions." "A player has violated the rules EXPELLED (Continued on Page 2) Seven Members Are Elected To Chamber Board Election of seven members to serve on the directorate of the Oshawa Chamber of Commerce for a two.year term was announced yesterday by T. L. Wilson, presi. dent of the chamber. The new di. rectors are: A. W. Armstrong, Armstrong Funeral Parlors; L. M. Souch, On. tario Motor Sales; Douglas M. Storie, Fittings Limited; Ernie Cay, Cay Lumber Company; Jack Biddulph; Edward Robson, Robson Leather Company Limited, and John G. Geikle, Pedlar People Limited. Following the counting of bal. lots yesterday the election commit. tee, consisting of Dr. Grant Bird, Allin Annis, Les Eagleson and K, G. Gahan, was disbanded. % LATE NEWS BRIEFS ROYAL VOYAGE VIA PANAMA London, March 9 (Reuters)--The outward voyage It has been brought to the at. | tention of the Oshawa Rotary Club ! Easter Seal Committee that chil-! dren have been trying to sell these seals from door td door, The com= mittee wishes te point out that this is entirely unauthorized and house- holders are asked to refuse all such | canvassers. z THE, WEATHER Cloudy with scattered light snowflurries and not much change in temperature today. Clear and colder tonight and Wednesday. Winds southwest 15 today, light tonight and north 15 Wednesday. Low tonight and high Wednesday 19 and 21. Summary for Wednesday: Cold- eh of the King and Queen to New Zealand and Australia early next year will be via the Panama Canal, it was learned today. This rules out speculation that the Royal party will visit the new Dominions of Indian and Pakis- tan on the way to the Antipodes. RUSS FREE U.S. OFFICIALS Nuernberg, Germany, March 9 (AP)--Two high officials of tha United States war crimes prosecution staff returned to Nuernberg safely today after 27 hours in the custody of armed Russian, soldiers within the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany. $1 MILLION DOPE SEIZURE New York, March 9 (AP)--Customs officials, who seized morphine they valued at approximately $1,000,- 000 retail aboard a ship docking from Europe, believe they have broken up "the Havre inteknational 'dope ring." Pure morphine, in protective wrappings, was dis- covered in. flour barrels, cracker barrels and an oven SEE FURTHER AUSTERITY London, March 9 (CP)--British hopes of easier times in 1948 were shattered today by a government economic survey which said that even with Marshall Plan aid, living standards will be reduced compared with those in 1947. Without Marshall Plan help Britain faces wholesale unemployment, the report said, along with distress, dislocation of industry and no prospect of a decent living standard for years.