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Ss AILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITBY THE ) OSHAWA D ( vgl. 7, NO. 72 OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1948 Price 4 Cents EIGHTEEN PAGES BRITAIN, U.S. IN DEFENCE MOVES ° Will Construct 56 Low Rental Houses Here Number Is Reduced As Lots Suggested By City Unsuitable While protesting that the plan was a question of the muinicipality subsidizing the versa, City Council Wartime Housing Ltd. for the last night signed an £5 government, rather than vice | agreement with construction of 56 low rental | houses as the best method available at the moment for| easing the city's housing shortage. ®-- One hundred houses had been the number proposed originally but only 56 of the lots suggested by the city were approved by officials of Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, government agency administering the plan. These are located on various streets, mainly in the south part of'the city. Next step will be letting of the contract by CM.H.C. for construction of the houses. Motion to sign the agreement was made after Council had con- sidered such alternative proposi- tions as seeking permission to under | take a municipal housing scheme or a CM.H.C, plan applying to con- struction of a block of homes in an now undeveloped area. Can Be Speedily Erected Deciding point in favor of the agreement was the speed with which such houses could be erected. It was pointed out that plans were already drawn and the government was in a position to divert mater- ials nito such construction. Under the agreement, which runs for a period of 50 years, the city | with a similar order to utilities to agrees to provide land and install such necessary services as roads, sidewalks, sewers, watermains and street lights, up .to a total value of $600 per house. In return, the Crown company agrees to erect the houses, costing from $6,100 to $6,800 a piece, and RENTAL HOUSES (Continued on Page 2) US. UTILITIES TOLD TO CUT USE OF COAL Washington, March 25 (AP)--Tle | United States government drafted | new coal-saving orders today for possible use in its pension strike | showdown with John L. Lewis. | Federal officials still hoped the United Mine Workers chief would | call for 400,000 soft coal diggers back to work before the shortage becomes acute. But they were not | | counting on ft. | Instead, they prepared to follow | the cut in passenger and freight | | service on coal-burning railroads slow down their plants. Dimouts and brownouts to con- serve power possibly would result. The freight order, effective next | Tuesday, reduces shipments 25 per cent. The Interstate Commerce Commission set up a priority sys tem giving top transport rating to U. 8, TIES (Continued on Page 2) Federal Housing Effort Off In Ontario By Action Of Province, Howe States Ottawa, March 25--(CP)--Recon_ struetion Minister Howe said today that because of housing legislation by the Ontario government the Dominion will be forced to termin. ate its efforts to relieve Ontario's need for rental housing. He said the Ontario legislation is the Dominion Crown Tenants Pro- vincial Municipal Services Act, which has passed second reading in the Ontario legislature, At a press conference, the minis. ter said the gist of the bill was that as far ag wartime housing is con- cerned, the Ontario government can take action "where the arrange. ments for the payment of provin. cial and municipal services are not considered suitable by the munici- pality concerned." The province can exclude any such wartime housing from the lo- cal municjpality and order the cut. ting off of all services, including schooling, water, sewage, fire and police protection, garbage disposal and health and welfare. | Mr. Howe said this will - affect { 9,670 war workers houses including 5,000 occupied by veterans, and 5,- 560 veterans' houses. Asked why he thought the On. tario government took this action, he replied: "Just to take a roundhouse swing at the (Federal) Government, I (Continued on Page 2) FEDERAL HOUSING Retirement Plan For Employees Approved By Council After nearly three years of study and negotiations, Ald. Rae Halliday iast night saw the passing by the city of a retiremest annuity plan for its employees. The scheme, advocated by Ald. Halliday, ever since his election to Council, has just one more hardle to cross be- fore it can be put into operation. This is approval by government authorities of one amendment recommended last night by Council. Under the plan the employee con- tributes five per cent of his earn- ings, not to exceed $300 per annum, and the city provides a similar amount. Any member of the plan also has the privilege of making contributions for years of past ser- vice during which he was not a contributor to the plan. Maximum annuity available from the government for any member is $1,200 and normal retirement ages range from 65 to 70 in the case of male employees other than police and fire department members and from 60 to 65 in the case of female, employees and fire. and police de- partment employees. Retirement age on the age of the em- ployee at the time of becoming a member. _All employees, with at least two years service on the present perma- Annuity or over in the case of men and 30 or over in the case of women, are eligible to join the plan. Any join- ing the staff in future are eligible for the plan only if they are 40 years of age or under in the case of female employees or male mem- bers of the police and fire depart- ments, and 45 or under in the case of other male employees. Anyone joining the staff in future, who are eligible for the plan becomes a member of 4t as a condition of em- ployment. Each member of the plan will re- ceive at normal retirement date, subject to the terms of the plan, the amount of annuity purchased by the contributions made by him- self and the city. . As presented, the contract pro- vided that in tne case of a member ceasing employment with the city prior to his normal retirement date the total of the contributions made by him under the plan would re- main at his credit with the govern. ment or insurer to provide him with an annuity commencing at normal retirement date. The amendment, proposed by Ald. Evelyn Bateman, was to the effect that in sus; cases, the city's con- tributions for such employee should be returned tor credited to the city's share of its contributions for other nent staff, who are 21 years of age employees. Great Interest Shown In Gardening Poster Contest | Ushering in the gardening season are these ! | School, who are joining with several hundred school children in the city, | Harmony and North Oshawa in vying for top honors and cash prizes in [to left are Elinor Woodcock, Sylvia of Westmount Public the Poster Contest sponsored by the Oshawa Horticultural Society. Boys in the background look to the girls for a few artistic ideas. From right | IicInroy, Betty Irwin, Joan Jackson. | "7% Fe an --Times-Gazette Staff Photo UK. REJECTS RUSS PROTEST ON GERMANY London, March 25 (AP).--Britain today rejected . Russia's against the AnglosUnited States- French negotiations™for rebuilding Western Germany's economy. A firm note to the Soviet govern- ment said Great Britain wished "entirely to repudiate the accusa- tions" made by Russia that the negotiations violated the Potsdam agreement. The hote blamed Russia for the breakdown of four-power co-opera- tion for restoring Germany's eco- nomic unity. "In the opinion of His Majesty's government," it said, "responsibility for the frustration of their-consist- ent attempts to promote to the greatest possible extent practical co-operation in German economic recovery and unity of that country . rests clearly upop the Soviet government. "The refusal of the Soviet gov- ernment to allow those conditions to exist in Germany which are es sential for the well-being of Europe has been amply demonstrated by their actions in the Control Council and the Council of Foreign Minis- ters and 'in all aspects of the poli- tical and economic discrimination in the Soviet-occupied zone." The note was sent in reply to one directed by Russia to the three big western powers while their repre- sentatives were conferring in Lon- don, Out of that eonference came an agreement to place the industrial Rhur Valley under international control, give Western Germany a federalized form of government and assign the area a role in the Euro- pean economic recovery program. The Soviet protest said that the conference 'violated the Potsdam agreement and the agreement on control machinery in Germany, des- pite the best endeavors of the Soviet government to promote the successful working of the agree- ments." Britain said it saw no reason to comment. in detail on the allega- tions. Ask New Lights On King West The Public Utilities Commis- sion is to be requested to instal new type street lighting on King Street West to Park Road North. A motion to this effect, introduced by Ald. Alex Ross, was passed last night by City Council. In addition to the new light- ing with underground wiring installed in the downtown area, modern lighting has already been erected on King Street East and Simcoe Street. South, 21 protest | Ft ---- Await Rescue By Ship As Plane Drops Food Halifax, March 25 (CP)--Twen- placed at a position 20 miies. south- ty-one dalen Teazer an ice Islands sealing abandoned ship boday pack off St. Pauls in the Cabot Strait between Cape Breton and Newfoundland crushed and splintered the stout hull of their vessel. The men are huddled on the tearing jam of ice hoping their dis- tress signal, sent out before they abandoned the sealer, has been hcard. Unknown to them the signal was picked up by the R.C.A.F. here and a search and rescue Canso with emergency suppfies is on its way from here. ; I feanwhile the ice-breaker Saur- el is also steaming to the rescue from North Sydney. * The crew of the rescue plane will drop sleeping bags, tents, rations and other equipment for use of the shipwrecked sealing men until the Saurel arrives to take them off. The Saurel has 240 miles to cov- er but some of thé course lies through pack ice and this will slow her down considerably. It also makes it difficult to estimate when the men will be reached. Search and rescue said there was no immediate danger for the men but a sudden storm might break up the ice pack, separate the men and make their situation grave, The sleeping bags and other supplies would give them some shelter and remove some of the danger of ex- posure. The sealer Teazer, owned by the Gorton Pew Fisheries Company of Graindstone, Magdalen Islands, was Cancer Society Unit | crew members of the Mag- | schooner | when | Island | east of St. Paul's. On Tuesday a Canadian Press staff writer flew with the ice patrol and reported: "The flight also looked over a herd of several thousand seals, wobbling over the floes to escape the crew of the sealer Teazer out of the Mag- | dalen Islands. "The Teazer was embedded in a sheet' of ice which' will carry her along until it melts in southern wa- ters. Meanwhile, | with Ontario County | terms for the construction | joint county home. | question, crew members | Humphreys, Men On Ocean Ice Committee To Consider New Home Only brief reference was at last night's City Council meet. ing to. the city's failure to agree Council on of a At that time County Council had agreed to ter. minate thé present agreement with the Oshawa Council and request the. city to remove from the Home by the end of this year. Last night Cecuncil's present spec. ial committee on the County Home headed by Ald. R. D. was authorized to made could be seen walking along the ice, | pring in recommendations on a new overtaking a seal, to 'bat it over the head.' Large patches of red indi- cated where the skinning of the animals had occurred and evidenc- ed a bumper catch." Veteran fishermen experienced in the ice-fields said the Teazer must have been seized in a tremendous grip before its hull gave way. They said all sealers are special- ly reinforced and also sheated in Greenheart to shoulder their way through the ice-pans. Although no serious accidents have befallen sealing expeditions in recent years, terrible losses had been suffered in early days. Sev- enty-seven men froze to death on an ice pan April 14, 1913, only a few years after the heavily-ladens Southern Cross plunged beneath the waves off Cape Race with the loss of 290 men, THE WEATHER Clear and cool today. Friday overcast and milder. Winds east 15 today becoming south 20 on Friday. Low tonight and high Friday 32 and 50. Summary for Friday: Overcast and milder. Organized In County At a meeting held last night in thie offices of the Chamber ¢f Con. merce Dr. Walter Bapty was nam. ed Chairman of the South Ontario Counf§ Unit for the Canadian Can. cer Scciety, and immediately set plans in motion to tie in with the general campaign for membership which is taking place throughoui the Province April 1 to April 30. 2 general meeling of all interests citizens will be held on, Frida night, April 2, at 8 o'clock in Ade- laide House, when Iioaoraasle Rus sell T, Kelley, Minister of Heall in the Provincial Government, will be the gyest speaker. Te Seek Membership The general off an all-out campaign by the Oshawa unit to build mewhiiship meeting will touch | for the society in this area with the membership 'goal set at 6,800 per- sons, Members of the organizing com. mittee rallied round Chairman Dr, | Walter Bapty to make plans for the fouminz of a memoership com- mittee made up of representatives rom the various Oshawa and dis- r.2t businesses, service clubs, fra- sernal societies, and religious fac- sions." "It will be the duty of this zmmittee to sedure membership 1 their district in 'whatever rman. nér they feel most expedient," Dr. ~-ntr exilained. f Explaining the purposes and "m-tions of the Canadian C.icer CANCER SOCIETY (Continued on Page 3) | building and for accommodating meanwhile its County Home in. mates. Point on which the two Councils disagreed was apporiionment of the assets of the present County Home building and property. The city had asked a 50 per cent share while the County held that the city should receive only 1212 per cent. The city had offered to contribute 50 per cent towards the capital cost of a new Home. Much Interest Is Aroused By Poster Contest Spring, and a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love, or so the story goes, but to the chil. dren of Oshawa their fancy strong- ly turns to thoughts, and actions, of gardening. Some several hundred public school chlidren have entered the Horticultural Society "Poster" con- test,, and in 'classrocms throughout the city youngsters are busy with paints and brushes capturing on canvas their Springtime thoughts. The Horticultural Society, inter. ested in developing civi¢ beauty, and better health through gardening, has sponsored the ccntest and of. fered prizes for the best posters to be judged on artistic. workmanship and originality. Indicative of youthful imagina- tion are the varie} poster layouts on which pupils are busily engaged. Designs range from flowing multi- colored letters speaking the words "Gardening For Health" to cleverly sketched scenes of industrious gar. deners cultivating the family plot. Pupils have caught the atmos. phere of the competition and nearly all have made plans for their own private spot in the family lot in which potatoes, peas or pansies will struggle for top honors over those | planted by Mom and Pop. Fathers are said to be encouraging junior's interest in nature and development of the garden, perhaps with the thought that-they will be relieved of the weekly grass-cutting ritual, its residents U.K. To Oust Reds; Attlee Warns Of War Danger By JAMES McCOOK Canadian Press Staff Writer London, March 25--(CP)--Prime Minister Attlee said today a possi- bility of war justified Britain's purge of Communists from security posts in the government. "I might be accused of many things but I cannot be accused of | ever trusting the Communist Par- | ty," Attlee told the House of Com. | mons~which had been thrown into an uproar by the assertions of Wil. liam Gallacher, veteran Communist member for West Fife. "There are secrets of defence," the Prime Minister said. "As long as there is a possibility of war, we must have defences and those sec- | | rets must be preserved." | The security order, announced last | week, also applies to Fascists. | "It is limited to excluding from | secret work those who cannot be | trusted -- there will be no general | purge; no general witch hunt," Att_ lee said. | "Communists do not accept the | | obligations of loyalty and of ordi- | | | ATTLEE WARNS (Continued on Page 2) Small Groups 'Of Dutch Folk Arrived Today Through the combined arrange- | | ments of the National Employment | Service and the Provincial Depart- | ment of Agriculture, a group of | Dutch .immigrants arrived at New- | castle, Oshawa and Whitby at an early hour this morning. A family group arrived at New- castle to take up employment with | Ausfin Turner in general farm | work. Two brothers, previously visi- tors to Canada, returned with their wives and families to enter | tobacco farming with their brother- | | in-law J, Jillisen, at Kendal. Two | single Dutch immigrants arrived at | both Oshawa 'and Whitby on the | same train. | The first impressions of some of these new Canadians seemed to be the fresh clear atmosphere of the open countryside at this season of | | the year in comparison to the rath- er crowded areas of their native Holland. | The adequate food supply of | | course was very prominent in their | coprstsmion. In general they seem- | ed pleased to be in Canada and ex- | | pressed their feelings that they | hoped soon to become Canadians. | | It was stated by the National | Employment Service that further | { arrivals of Dutch help for farm work are expected during the com- .ing spring and summer season. NO PAPER TOMORROW In common with its usual practice, The Times-Gazette will not be published tomorrow, |! Good Friday. The business and | editorial offices will be closed | throughout the day. The co- operation of advertisers and those with news copy for Satur. day's issue is requested so it will be available Friday night or early Saturday morning, Washington, March 25 tine. . Massena, N.Y., died this mo rotary house of the Giant Al ica plant here. Berlin, U.S. Draft Urged For Men 19 To 25 Forrestal Asks Arms Increase | Washington, March 25--(AP)-Top | military leaders of the United Sta. | tes asked Congress today for an im. | mediate expansion of the armed services and the drafting of men [19 to 25 years of age. Defence Secretary Forrestal grim. ly outlined the recent turn of world events in urging steps to make the United States military might match that of Communist Russia. As Forrestal spoke before the Senate Armed Services Committee, President Truman announced he is preparing to give the Congress a revised defence program. Truman told his press conference he can't estimate yet how many ad. ditional billions of dollars the pro- gram will cost. Estimates from the defence department had not yet reached him. . Forrestal said the odds still favor peace and the free countries of the world. : But he asked Congress to approve immediately: 1. An increase in the present au. thorized strength of Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force manpower by 349,500 officers and men. 2. Another $3,000,000,000 in cash and contract authority for the arm. | ed services to cover this expansion. This presumably would be in addi. tion to $11,000,000,000 already in the budget. 3. Drafting by selective service of men from 19 to 25 years inclusive. He said this would provide 1,355,000 men but added that only about 220,. 000 probably would be taken. He es. timated 500,000 probably would vol. unteer. 4. A permanent system of univer, sal military training which would ; become fully effective within three years. Forrestal said this would pro. vide some 850,000 men each year with basic training. "Because of the world situation | as it exists today, there is certain detailed information which we can. not safely disclose in open session," Forrestal said. Current strength of the armed services is 1,392,000. Forrestal used blunt words to make clear he is asking for men and money to combat the spread of Russian influence. Comparing the Soviet with the governments of Kaiser Wilhelm, of Hitler and Mus= solini, he told the committee: "Today, another power, wearing the false mask of freedom for the people seeks to spin its web over all Western Europe. . . "It must be made clear and manifest to the world that any pation which tries to copy the pat- tern of action which through Hit= ler brought so much disaster on mankind must, like Hitler and Ger- many, face thé determination and will of the United States that it shall not happen again." Forrestal said the Italians in elections April 18 will be put under pressure to "accept a system for which they have no stomach." He said the democracies offered no firm resistance to aggressions which took place before the second world war. He added: 'Today another great and dese FORRESTAL ASKS (Continued on Page 2) etl * LATE NEWS BRIEFS x CALL TRUCE CONFERENCE (AP)--President Truman said today he has instructed Warren Austin, United States United Nations representative, to call Arabs and Jews into a truce conference to halt bloodshed in Pales- MAN FATALLY BURNED Cornwall, March 25 (CP)--Kenneth E. Magin, 32, of rning at Massena Memorial Hospital as a result of severe burns about the face and body received Monday afternoon while working in the uminum Company of Amere RUSSIA WANTS BERLIN March 25 (AP)--The Russian-licensed newspaper Berliner Zeitung insisted today the day is cupation troops will have to manders-in-Chief of the we many. ACQUITTED not far distant when American, British and French oc« leave Berlin. All three Com= stern allies, in the last sev« eral days, have announced their forces will stay in Berlin so long as their is an allied occupation of Ger« OF MURDER Cochrane, March 25 (CP)--Mrs. Clara Irene St. Cyr, 32-year-old mother of six children, today was ac- quitted by a Supreme Court jury of the axe-slaying of her 34-year-old hushand, Jerome. . 4 N ¥Y Al34VS