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\ * I OSHAWA - ™~ 1) 'THE DAILY TIMES.GAZETT Combining The Oshawa' Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITBY VOL. 7--NO. 80 . OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1948 Price 4 Cents FOURTEEN PAGES ® 14 KILLED IN BERLIN AIR C Strike In Alexa; Police ® ITALY SHOWS ARMED MIGHT T0 POPULACE By PHILIP CLARKE Rome, April 5 -- (AP) -- The Italian government replied with a two-hour display of military might yesterday to Communist election campaign threats. Nearly 500,000 Romans cheered as ! 25,000. tanned troops marched ' through the heart of the capital. Scattered Communist jeers were | drowned out by the plaudits of the | crowd. In the procession were 40 tanks, including eight American Sher- mans, scores of British armored cars and more than 8) mobile ar- tillery pieces. It was the most im- pressive military display since pre- war Fascist days. "It's just like Mussolini's time," said one watcher. Russia's military aftache in Rome, Col. Serge Zotov. and Lt.- Col. Janez Jerzersek of the Yugo- slay Embassy watched the proces- sion with other foreign military ob- Servers. B'Nai B'Rith Lodge Officers The installation ceremony at the B'Nai B'Rith Norman Cowan of Toronto Lodge No. 1, placed in executive offices (seated from left) Michael Sossin, 2nd vice Officially the parade was called president; Maxwell Palter, president; Martin Atkins, 1st vice president, The big smile from the gentleman is ting in the G h radiated by B'Nai B'Rith past president "Mac" Collis. / Hotel last night, by installing officer RASH British Transport And Russ Fighter ge Collide In Mid-Air Berlin, April 5 (AP) --A British trafsport plane crashed in flames today after colliding with a Russian fighter craft, British authorities announced. The British plane, a Viking, | carried 10 passengers and four crew members, R.AF. officers said all 14 were killed. Two of the --Times-Gazette Staff Photo / Hint Four Power Parley To Discuss Berlin Rights Over Blockade By Soviet Berlin, April 5 -- (AP) -- British authorities accepted today a Rus- sian offer to talk over the alleged deadlock over Russian restrictions the military 'Commanders of all four occupying powers. British of- ficials warned against attaching special significance to this. | The special train' of Lt.-Gen. Sir Alfred Krupp And 11Others Freed | By U.S. Nuernberg, Germany, Ah 5 (AP)--Alfred Krupp an 11 co- defendant. directors of the Krupp Munitions combine were acquitted by a United States war crimes court CHIANG QUITS AS PRESIDENT T0 HALT REDS issimo Chiang Kai-Shek has de- cided to quit the Presidency of | China, a spokesman said last night, | but there were indications he would | remain the Nationalist strong man by becoming Premier, ang has been the tcp figure since | establishment of the Republic in in order to Chinese Communists. central committee that the 4 passengers were understood to b# Americans. The Russian fighter also crashed. Press Association said American passengers aboard the plane were a Sergeant Pintus and Mrs. J. Clough, Other passengers included a Ione doner named Hald; Miss J. Shea; a Mr. Roberts of the German section of the British Foreign Ofrice; S. J. Sticking; Captain Flemings; Rober} Collier, correspondent for the Brit= ish. United Press, H. Reagd-Jahm and a Mr. Lewin, The transport, belonging to Brite | ish European Airways, crashed as it | was about to make a landing after a flight from London. R.AF. officials said the planes fell when their wings hit. Both dropped near the Spandat international prifon, which holds the Nuernberg war crimes i7iai de. fendants who drew penitentiary | terms, Spandau is on the edge of Berlin, There have been frequent rumors in Berlin that Russian fighters were diving on Britisfi and Ameri~ can planes, but there was no ime mediate indication whether this was true today. In London, the airline said the crash occurred after the Russian fighter flew across the transports nose. German police reported the gighte AIR CRASH (Continued on Page 2) By HAROLD K., MILKS Nanking, April 5 (AP)--General- Under one title or another, Chi- 1927. | A spokesman for fhe Kuomin- | tang, China's governing party, sald | the Generalissimo was determined | to free himself from the Presidency | lead a "Holy War" | against the increasingly powerful | That was even an intimation that he might take the field in person. Chiang told the Kuomintang civil war was China's most critical prob- lem and "the Communists must be beaten if China is to live." The committee scheduled another session for Tuesday to decide what to do next. Members literally moan- ed because of their chief's political thunderbolt. ; Informants said Chiang told his COTTAGES ROBBED Lindsay, April 5 (CP).--Three summer cottages at Cedar Glen og Sturgeon Lake were entered by | burglars over the week-end. They | belonged to Mr. Joe Fee, Lindsay ion said : | clothing éherchant, E. J. Kern, and party he was "anxious to serve the | james Devers, both of Toronto. Mr, i 1 i country and 'the people and will |g . take any official position within | Re in vival Dene. We the government", except the Presi- | entry 'was gained by forcing the dency or Vice-Presidency. | doors of all three cottages. All 12 pleaded innocent last Nov. | 17 to a 50-page war crimes indict- 4 ment. It accused them specifically of plotting' aggressive warfare, plundering peaceful countries and | exploiting slave labor. The trial started Dec 8. The co-defendants are Ewald | Loeser, Eduard Houdremont, Erich | Mueller, Frederich Lanssen, Karl | Pfirsch, Max Ihn, Karl Eberhardt, Investigate Butter Sales The Ontario County Flying Club enjoyed one of its busiest days of | the year yesterday. The weather was perfect for flying and many of the members took advantage of con- ditions to add to their flying hours. During day not a little gliding | was Ey The job of re-painting the flight | lounge has been just about comple- ted and presents a pleasing picture. When the re-furnishing program is completed, the enlarged room will "Bé one of the finest of its kind to be found anywhere. Last week the club purchased a Piper Cruiser. This. plane, which seats three, has a cruising speed of 105 miles per hour and has two. | way radio communication. A new organization has been for- | med within the Ontario County Fly- ing Club. The 100 solo pilots be. longing to the club have formed a Solo Pilot's Club to promote recrea- tion and instructional flying. Tucker Convicted Of Retaining Stolen Auto A Sentence of two years less a day to run concurrently with an earlier five and a half year peniten- tiary term was imposed on Donald Tucker, 25, of Oshawa, who pleaded guilty before Judge D. B. Coleman in county court today to a charge of retaining a stolen auto used in the drug hold-up at the Whitby On- tario Hospital, February 28, 1947. The car was stolen from the Mc- Callum Transport Co. Ltd. yard in Oshawa a few days before the hold. up. It was recovered in the snow at the corner of the third concession road, Whitby Township and Coch. rane Street the morning of the hold-up. Tucker was arrested in a farmer's . field nearby with others involved in the hold-up. . Two Children . . Die In Fire Matane, Que., April 5 -- (CP)-- Two small children lost their lives in a fire which destroyed the store and residence of Leo Deschenes in the neabry village of St. Luc, early teday. : The victims were Mr. Deschenes' five.year-old daughter Ggetane and a seven.year.old child of Wilfrid Truchon, who was visiting with the Deschenes, Awakened by the smell of smoke, Deschenes discovered his store ablaze. Returging to his Hving quagers he aroused his wife and they.succeeded in getting five child- ren to safety but were prevented by tHe fast spreading flames from reaching the other two. ' Big Sh In City | 13 civilians were slain in Alexandria today as a police strike Scores were wounded. More than 100 buildings were opened fire three {mes after 'being | . ..' stoned by screaming Semonstest | V oid Election { The fate of Prime Minister Nok- seized the strike issue to stir up| is By Local 200 al ' I -- ter working conditions. They were | Windsor, April 5--(CP)-- Local Suez Canal region, who walked out (C.I.0.) last night charged there toughest in all Egypt, ran wild. the election committee. shopping district. According to un- | the March elections voided on to mark reactivation of the historic Premer Nokrashy Pasha flew t0 | tion does not mean a new election. personally the military operations | seventh consecutive term as Pres- | the display was intended to warn Three thousand policemen, AleX- | i}. olection was thrown out. He elections approached. di high- : out this morning, demanding high- | oeficers scheduled for Sunday | goo military police and 200 heavy | truck ro= | .. ; sifu in Caire, protesting a p tive meeting has been called for | Last week, Interior Minister villages and asking more pay. of a new executive will be discuss- | 330,000 armed men, including a | Alexandria. | : set streéieats ablaze In Alex ties" was not disclosed. lence. ers forced to get off. yesterday in cities and towns |on railroad traffic to and from Ber- | Srian Robertson, British Command- Jea segs. to the Italian-Yugoslav frontier of . g ontler of | The United States previously had | parent interference. and the customs warehouse in the as usiest & Communist rally in Gorizia. | discussion of these restrictions. | western military passenger train to Two policemen and a 13-year-old strators were 'halted by Italian forced suspension of allied military | Allied freight trains have been mov- | Mohamed Aly Square, Alexandria"s | The Russians wanted to board drew military police from around An army officer was beaten un- casualties also. were in hospital. sonnel of the fire brigade at Cairo's came snarled as traffic police be- both places, with civilans rallying both cities, Armored cars took up In Alexandria the striking police fan orowd stated a pro-police dem- Minister) Nokrashy." They helped Cairo was not known, but nearly 120 Killed A Ne 3 . Alexandria, Egypt, April 5 (AP)--Seven policemen and left Egypt's second largest city terrorized by looting mobs. set ablaze. Troops, trying to maintain 'order, ~ ors. | rashy Pasha's government hung in | 5 AW | Ir ed! the balance. Political opponents agitation for his removal by King Alexandria's police struck in demdnd for higher wages and bet- | joined by police in Cairo and the 200, United Automobile Workers in a s athy strike. | were. "irregularities" in the annual The on ey of Alexandria, election for officers, and dismissed Hoodlums looted and burned the | The membership voted to have official estimates, property damage | charges of committee negligence. .of llars. | i i - ran into millions .of do Some members maintained the ac Sardinia Grenadier division. The Alexandria from Cairo to supervise | Roy England, who was given his government made it plain, however, - : : Communists and to reassure anti- against the strikers and demonstra | ident under the March election Lobors. | would neither deny or affirm that Communist voters as the Aprfl 18 y fi walked | 5: : : : The peace treaty limits Italy's' andria's entire poilce force did admit that the installation of | army to 250,000 men, including 65,- er wages and improved Working | op. 4ij not take place. He an- 150 A and medium tanks. There is no | condition. Hundreds of police also n.oq also that a special execu- strict limitation. on civil police, . | transfer of some officers 10 |, 0; Tuesday at which the naming | Mario Scelba said Italy had some Gangs of hoodlums, including d teen- hops and | 9: ! shock force of 150,000 ready to age boys, smashed. shop The nature of the "irregulari- [smash attempts at election vio- ided and : a Fain 30 Oaifo Wag Te Political orators addressed crowds Yooters stormed through the coach- (today of plotting aggressive was- es, snatching furnishings and bag- : throughout Italy. : |lin, They suggested a full four-|er, passed the Russians Marienborn | '& ying u Some 4,000 Italians swarmed up ' power meeting. | checkpoint early today with no ap- Fireb set the police station ugs Trieste yesterday after breaking up accepted the Russian proposal! for It was the first Berlin-boun district ablaze and they 3 a were burning fiercely. Shouting "Long Live America" | The controls, on traffic through |get through since the Soviet rules Y and "Death to Tito," the demon- |the Soviet occupation zore, had |took effect Wednesday midnight. student died of wounds suffered Day Of ear ; when troops fired into a mob in| TOops, | rail traffic between Berlin and the | ing both ways since Friday. western occupation zones. | The United States Army with- main square. -gonscious by civilians armed with sticks and stones, Nineteen other Two hundred police of the station near the Royal Palace and the per- main station joined the Cairo strikers after appeals. Traffic be- gan walking off the job. There were demonstrations in to the side of the strikers. The army took over at once in stations near government buildings in Cairo. paraded - through the city shouting thelr demands. In Cairo a civil- onstration near strike headquarters. They shouted: "Down with (Prime the strikers seize four police trucks. The total number of strikers in 500 assembled at strike headquar- ters. 2 MRS. ROCKEFELLER DIES New York, April 5 (AP).--Mrs. Johni D. Rockefeller, Jr., died today at her home of a heart attack. Mrs. Rockefeller was the former Abby '| Green Aldrich, daughter of US. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island. She married the present head of the fameus Ro¥kefeller family in 1901, They have five sons--John D., III, Nelson, Laur- ance, Winthrop and David--and a daughter--Abby. Mrs. Rockefeller was a sister of Winthrop Aldrich, the noted banker. THE WEATHER Variable cloudiness and war- mer today with isolated show. or thundershowers this eve- aing. Clear and cooler tonight and Tuesday: Winds southwest 20 today light tonight north- east 15 on Tuesday. Low tonight and high Tuesday 30 and 43. Summary for Tuesday: Clear and cooler. _ Inexperienced Pilot Flies '@Bomber On Sunday Hop Minneapolis, April 5--(AP) -- A twin-engined bomber, McGrady set United States Air Force Sergeant 3 Jown whdigey on Je smal Dua onna municipal field, notifie e with an urge to fly but no experi. | Minneapolis base of his safe arri- ence as a pilot went visiting Sunday | ya] and then went to the home of in a B-25 plane and made an un- | his brother to await military police. authorized solo flight from Ohio to Manager * Glenn Degner of tte Minnesota. Owatonna airfield said McCrady Today he was held at the Minne. | landed the plane downwind in dusk. apolis air base for authorities at | Normal landings are made into the Wright Field, Dayton, O., where he | wind. took off on his lone, unannounced A Minneapolis air base officer 560-mile flight to' Owatonna, 60 said McCrady reported he had just miles south of Minneapolis, to visit | returned to Dayton from San An- a brother. ,| tonlo, Texas, and got an "urge" to Officers identified the Sergeant fly the B-25-as he walked down the as Malcolm McGrady, 30-year-old | field. All he had with him was a ~trew chief from Wright Field. map of the United States. While the air force: and police | - He said he nad no trouble onthe 3 within a 1,200-mile radius of Day- | flight but that he was a "little busy" | from the Cedar Dale station re- © ton scanned skies in vain for the on the landing. sponded. No damage was reported. 3 ! 4 1] 14 FLEE FIRE Toronto, April 5 (CP).--Fourteen were forced to theestreet in night clothes early today by a fire which gutted second-floor apartments in a Jarvis Street rooming house. REFUSE TAKES FIRE Lint and refuse saturated with naphtha and cleaning solvents caught fire at 7.14 a.m, today be- hind the Pickwick Cleaners build- ing, Simcoe Street South. Firemen persons -- five of them children -- | pO! and inspect such trains. The west ern powers refused tp let them. Regularly scheduled = passenger trains still were suspended today, but allied freight trains were get- ting through to Berlin. In his answer to the Russians, Maj.-Gen, N. C. D. Brownjohn, British Deputy Military Gevernor, 35cepted their invitation for Brit- ain, 'Then he remarked he understood the United States and France had received similar offers to discuss the regulations. "I would suggest, therefore,' Brownjohn said, "that it would save time if representatives of all four commanders discuss the ques- tion together." If the Russians should agree to this, it would result in the first four-power meeting on the German control level since the Russians walked out on the Allied Control Council: March 20. ' : Field Marshal Viscount Mont- gomery, Chief of the Imperial Gen- eral Staff, is scheduled to fly into Berlin for meetings tomorrow with Russian railroad headquarters in the American sector of Berlin ves- | terday, after the Russians gave in | to American demands thdt they re- | move eight armed sentries from the | building, Some 50 M.Ps had sur-| rounded the headquarters since Friday night. : American-Russian agreement discuss the Soviet regulations was disclosed in letters made public by the United State military govern- ment yesterday. The correspond- ence was between Brig.-Gen. C. K. Gailey, United States Chief of Staff in Germany,.and Gen. M. I. Drat- vin, Soviet Deputy Commander. In their correspondence, Dratvin insisted some regulations must con- tinue, while Gailey said the Ameri- cans could not .allow train inspec- tions, Both favored a discussion. Montgomery will dine tomorrow with Marshal Vassily D. Sokolovsky, Soviet Commander in Germany. He will lunch with the American, Brit- ish and French Commanders--re- | spectively, Gen. Lucius . D. Clay, Gen. Robertson and Lt. Gen. Pierre Koeriig. Accuse Resort Operators Anti-Semitic Practices . "The $2,000,000 tourist promotion program being carried out by the government is being sabotaged by summer resort operators" claimed Louis 'Herman, K. C., head of the public relations department of the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews, in his address to the B'Nai B'Rith meeting in Genosha Hotel last night. Mr, Herman stated that his de- partment had Sent out 98 letters to 48 summer hotels in. Ontario re. questing accommodation. One half of the letters were signed by an obviously Jewish name the - othe: 48 were signed by a ntile name. Only 9 hotels would alford accom. modation to Jewish letters, 15 re. rted no accommodation and 24 failed to reply while the letters pearing the Gentile signature glean. ed replies from all of the hotels and 46 offered accommodation. Certain. ly undeniable. proof that individual racial discrimination is on the in. crease Mr. Herman said. Install New Officers Installation officer Norman Cow. an of Toronto Lodge number one, conducted the installation ceremony and introduced the 1948.9 officers and committee chairman. Officiating this year will be. Max. well Palter as president; ton Atkins, 1st vice; Michael Sossin, 2nd vice; Morris Marder, typasurer; Art Cole, financial secretary; B. Morrison, warden; Sid Topp, re- cording secretary; Morris Berg, cor- responding secretary. Committee chairmen included E. Wilson, mem. bership, 8. B. Horwich, program; Mac Collis, publicity; Lionel Schwartz, sports; M. Atkins, 'com. munal affairs; Chas. King, anti. Defamation; M. Sossin, Youth; S. Topp, Welfare; 8. Einhorn, Zionist; H. Marks, entertainment; 8. Roti, degree. The club past president is Mac Collis Past president "Mac" Collis was présented with a jeweled club pin which he stated he would "Trea. sure and be proud to wear". Judge Refused Accommodation The speaker told of other acts of anti-semitism one of which involv. 'ed an American, supreme court judge who, because his Jewish Hes. cent was refused admission to a prominent summer resort. "Two other men of Jewish faith were re- fused service at one hotel and one of these men returned home with ANTI-SEMITIC = 38 Arabs Die i Jewish settlement of Mishmar Hae- (Continued on Page 2) Heinrich Korrschan, Firedrich Von ! Buelow, Werner Lehmenn and Hans Kupke. . As Jews Nip N ight Raid Jerusalem, April 5--(AP)--Hag- ana said 38 Arabs were killed today and many others were wounded when Jewish settlers repulsed an Arab attack in Northern Palestine. Hagana, the Jewish militia, re- ported Jewish losses were three killed and 10 wounded when about. 1,000 armed Arabs attacked the mek, on the Haif-Jenin highway. The attack began 'before mid- Board into butter sales in Toronto, | vestigations are continuing in great- er Toronto today. chants who sell butter ceiling," stated Grant Young, prices | and supply representative of the 73 cents a pound. Some dealers are doling out butter in quarter-pound more than 18 cents a quarter pound, of them have been selling it at In Oshawa, Other Centres | 'Toronto, April 5--Investigations | housewives are complaining to our by the Wartime Prices and Trade | board about these prices." . Mr, Young said investigators are Oshawa, Aurora and Brampton combing all of Toronto and sube Saturday have shown that in sev- | urban districts in their search for eral cases "doled" butter in quar- | dealers selling over the ceiling. "If ter pound lots has been sold over | dealers want to sell butter in the ceiling of 73 cents a pound. quarter-pound lots they can sell all The board has recommended | they want at 18 cents but it means prosecution against a '"iair num-|in most cases they will be losing ber" of retailers in these areas. In- | money. That is up to them. We have recommended to Ottawa that prosecutions be made against some retailers." V. 8. Milburn, secretary-manager of the Ontario Federation of Agrie culture, said Saturday there is enough butter for everyone, but panic buying and "refrigerator stor- age" has created a severe shortage. "We expect that within two weeks enough butter will be flowing in from rural creameries to overcome the present low supply. Good weather will save the situation." "We are cracking down on mer- over the board. "The top price for butter is lots. They cannot by law, sell it at but in order not to lose money some over 18 cents. This is iliegal, and night and continued into the early morning hours. Arab leaders said the attacking force was under Fawzi Bey Al Kaukji, leader of the Arab volun- teer liberation army. The attackers were reported to have stormed the settlement on a wide front. One Jewish source saide they met heavy machine-gun fire from Hagana fighters. Mishmar Haemek is a collective settlement in the western part of the valley of Esdraelon, linking Haifa Bay with the Jordan Valley. It is the seat of one of the biggest schools maintained by Jewish workers' organizations in Pales- tine. Jews still hung on last night to Kastel, strategic village five miles northwest of Jerusalem overlook- ing a road from Tel Aviv. They took the place from Arab defend- ers early Saturday to clear a way to supply food to. 100,000 Jews be- sieged in the Holy City. In Jerusalem, British forces fired six-pound shells at the Monte-Fiore Jewish quarter yesterday to still guns aimed at Arab-held Jaffa gate. : The Jews started shooting after they slew an Arab and his donkey. They suspected the donkey bore explosives but British. military spokesmen said it carried water. Two other Arabs and a Jew also were killed here. By unofficial count, 2,310. per- sons have died by violence in" Pale: stine since the United Nations vot- ed last Nov. 29 to partition the |- country, : ~ 3 4 * LATE NEWS BRIEFS * _ TRAPPER"S BODY FOUND Napanee, April 5 (CP)--The body of Fred Vanval- kenburg, 75-year-old Napanee district trapper, missing for two weeks, was found yesterday in Big Creek about a mile and a half from where he was last seen when returning from running his trap lines. U SAW"S EXECUTION DELAYED Rangoon, April. 5 (AP)--Former premier U Saw today was granted a stay of execution by the Burmese Supreme Court. The delay was granted to U Saw and four confederates who were to be executed April 9 for abetting the machine-gun murder last July of U Aung San, leader of the Burma Indepencence Movement, and six other cabinet members. - U.S. SHIPS TO VISIT NORWAY Washington, April 5 (AP)--A carrier task force will visit Norway this month "for the promotion of good will", the United States Navy announced today. The vessels will visit Nogway from April-29 to May 2 after a visit to southern England April 18 to 26. The Navy's an- nouncement said the visit. will be "for the furtherance' of friendly relations." . : MAN KILLED BY TRAIN Almonte, April 5 (CP)--The mangled body of Don- ald Blakely, 25, of this town 45 miles west of Ottawa, was found early today lying on-the railroad tracks about 300 yards east of the Canadian Pacific Railway station. It is believed he fell beneath the wheels of a passing train while on his way to work at Stewartville, Ont. : 7