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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITBY vaL. 7--NO. 115 OSHAWA-WHITBY, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1948 Price 4 Cents TWENTY PAGE! ISRAEL HIT FROM AIR, INVADED ast 10.9 Mills 2 J ax Rate Set At 22 Mills Whitby Below Last Year's Figure But Asses Anticipating an overall expenditure of some $222, sment Up 999 800 in 1948, East Whitby Township Council last night set a tax rate of 22 mills, exclusive of school for the current year. 'While this rate represents section and water area rates, a reduction of 10.9 mills from the comparahle figure last year, to- tal taxable assessment in the town- ship, based on the new county plan, has risen from $2,768,375 to $5,807,875. As a result, it is esti- mated that the 22 mills will raise approximately $128,000 while the amount brought in by the 32.9 rate last year wag in the neighborhood of $91,000. After considerable discussion Council passed road and bridge es- timates of $60,000, compared with an expenditure last year of $54,000. While reluctant to raise this out- lay, Council wag of the opinion that there was no alternative if roads were to be put in proper shape. It was felt that taxpayers would not object to the accompanying in- crease in mill rate if better roads were provided. "I don't know how we can give them the service and keep our ex- penditures down," Councillor Elmer Powell declared. Councillor Neil was of the opinion that with a qualified engineer on the job the expenditure would show greater re- sults than previously, Township Engineer J. D, Kean suggested that if more had been spent in years past this amount would not be required now. Coun~ cillor Norman Down considered the EAST WHITBY (Continued on Page 2) Accepts Call WE REV. F. J. WHITELEY, BA, B.D. of Coe Hillywho has accepied a call to serve as minister of Centre Street United Church, Oshawa. He will conduct his first services here on Senday, July 4. 2 Trapped Miners Safe, Still Digging For Third Shamoki, Pa, May 15 (AP).-- Grimy, bedraggled and sleepy, two exhausted miners were rebcued early today from a flooded coal pit. They were trapped Wednesday by water rushing in from a nearby abandoned mine. Edward Heck, 42, and Peter Gor- ton 35, both of Shamokin, were taken to hospital for their first food in more than 60 hours, then bathed and put to bed. Both were physi- cally unharmed. They said they believed their companion, Charles Bashore, 42, was trapped in the lowest part of the mine by the inrushing waters and had no chance to escape. But rescue workers continued the long task of bailing out the water- logged mine in the flickering hope Bashore might still be alive, . "Miracles sometimes happen in mines," said onie weary worker. The miners were trapped in the rain-drenched shaft late Tuesday and it wasn't until late Priday night that contact between rescuers and the trapped men was made. The incident recalled the Moose River rescue in April, 1936, when three Toronto men were trapped in an abandoned Nova Scotia gold mine. Two were brought out alive after Stellarton, N.S. draegermen worked more than a week to tunnel their way towards the trapped men. The third man died before the res- cuers reached him. Heck, Gorton and Bashore had gone to work Wednesday morning in the small independent pit which they had carved into the side of a 600-foot mountain, At noon, Heck and Gorton told reporters, they ate their lunches and drank most of the water they had carried with them, They were 175 feet underground late in the afternoon when an ex- pluive charge, set off to loosen coal for mining, blasted a passageway into a nearby abandoned working. Water in the abandoned pit came flooding into their operation, trap- ping them at a high poi on a heading off the main shai, Both Gorton and Heck said they had remained dry through the long wait, and kept alternatively tapping on the coal vein to tip rescue work- ers they were alive, Gradually the water level was lowered by pumps. Miners Louis Bogetty and Peter Lazarski pushed to a point where they could talk to the trapped men. A little later a thermos bottle of coffee was push- ed into them, and at 6:46 a.m. Gor- ton and Heck were aided through the area still under water and brought to the surface. Meanwhile the grim hunt con- tinued for Bashore, whose wife has remained at the pit mouth in silent, almost unbroken vigil, Heck said the last they knew of Bashore he was working in the "sump," lowest point in the mine. Fear 40 Dead In 2 Crashes Of Air Liners Johannesburg, May 15 -- (Reu- | ters)--Ten persons were feared kill- ed when an aircraft flying from NINE ON TRIAL FOR SLAYING OF M. GANDHI New Delhi, May 15--(AP) -- The Indian Government announced to- day the names of nine men who must stand trial for their lives on charges that they conspired to en- gineer the assassination of Mohan. das K. Gandhi. The official Gazette of India na- med N. V. Godse as the trigger man and said he and his eight co-: defendants would be tried before Judge Atha Charan, a session judge at Cawnpore. Judge Charan will head a special court at Delhi's his- toric Red Fort. Official sources likely will start "towards the end of next week." Gandhi was slain in New Delhi Jan. 30, and the investi- gation since has been veiled by of- ficial secrecy. The Gazette linked Godse with Madan Lal, who was accused of planting a bomb at Gandhi's prayer grounds, later the 'scene of his death. The bomb exploded without casualties 10 days before Gandhi fell to an assassin's pistol. The Gazette gave no hint of de- tails of the alleged conspiracy, merely stating that the defendants would be tried under sections of the Indian Arms and "Explosives Substances Acts and Indian Penal Code sections which are punishable by death on the gallows. It identified the defendants as members of the Mahratta race, known foes of Gandhi's policy of love and non-violence toward Mos- lems. The Moslems are traditional enemies of the Mahrattas. Defendants named in addition to Godse and Madan Lal, included V. D. Savarkar, former President of the Anti.Mohammedan All India Hindu Mahasabha, an old-time re- volutionary independence worker, and Gopal Vinayak Godse, brother of the accused assassin. Except for Godse, a newspaper editor at Poona, and Savarkar, a lawyer and author, all are virtually unknown to the Indian public. Coe Hill Pastor Accepts Call To Centre Street Rev. Frank J. Whiteley, B.A, B.D, of Coe Hill, Ontario, has accepted the call from Centre Street United Durban to Johannesburg crashed | Church, Oshawa, and will conduct in the Witkoppe Mountains, in the | Orange Free State, early today. The plane came down 12 miles from an Orange Free State village and burned so fiercely that police could not apbroach the wreckage. Mist and rain had made visibility poor. Brussels, May 15 -- (AP) -- A Belgian Sabena Airlines spokesman said today only one person is be- lieved to have survived Thursday's crash of a DC-4 plane in the Bel. gian Congo. He said 25 passengers and seven crew members were aboard. First message received by Sabena from rescuers said there was "very little hope" regarding the fate of other passengers and members of the crew. Child Abducted, Released Later Police Hunt Man Toronto, May 15 (CP)--Toronto police had a kidnap scare last night when six-year-old Carol Flanagan disappeared from the front of her home and was reported by a four- year-old companion to have been taken away hy automobile by a strange man. Three hours later the child was found and turned over to her par- ents, . She told a story of meeting a man outside a candy store and be- ing given a' ride a few blocks. She said he let her out of his automo- bile and she spent the rest of her time looking in store windows. THE WEATHER Mostly clear today becoming overcast this - evening then clearing again by noon Sunday, Scattered showers and thunder- showers tonight, ending by mid- morning Sunday. Winds light. Low tonight and high Sunday 51 and 65. Summary for Sun- day: Mostly clear and warm, his first services as minister of the congregation on Sunday, July 4, as suecessor to the late Rev. T H. P, Andérson. Mr. Whiteley was born in Eng. land in 1914 and came to Canada at the age of five years. He received his early education at Dryden, Ontario, graduating from high school there. Enrolling in Queen's University at Kingston in 1939, he was certified as a candidate for the ministry by Trinity United Church, Peterbor- ough, in 1941. He graduated in Arts from Queen's University in 1944 arg in Divinity in 1946, After being ordained by the Bay of Quinte Conference in 1946, he served for three years as student minister at Parham mission field and for the past two years on the mission field at Coe Hill, Mr. Whiteley has taken an active part in the work of Boy Scouts, Cubs, young people's organizations and boys' camps, and has been a scoutmaster and cubmaster for the past six years, Tr Toronto Mayor Will Address Lodge Meeting Brother Hiram McCallum, Mayor of Toronto, will be guest speaker Tuesday at a special "civic night" arranged by the -officers and mem=- bers of Temple Lodge, AF. & AM. No. 649, G.R.C., when they will hon- or Bro. Frank McCallum, Mayor of Oshawa and Bro. Thomas D. Thom- as, Reeve of East Whitby Township, both of whom are members of Tem- ple Lodge. Masonic members of the civic de- partments of the Corporation of the City of Oshawa and many civic dig- nitaries of the City of Toronto have been. invited to attend the meeting at whcih Wor. Bro. E. S. Reading will preside in his capacity as Wor- shipful Master.. An open invitation has also been extended to all Ma- sons in Oshawa to be present at Temple Lodge, Tuesday evening, May 18. ~~ said the trial Policy Differences Bring Dismissal Of C.R.A. Director The executive committee of the Community Recreation Association of Oshawa and Dis trict today issued a statement announcing the termination of the services of Robert L. Cole- man, director of recreation, sin The reasons given by the ce April, 1946. executive committee for the dismissale were "that findamental®- differences existed between the executive committee and the direc. tor, which vitally affected the po- licy and administration of C.R.A." Mr. Coleman was appointed as director of recreation shortly after the formation of the organization. Under his direction the C.R.A. has expanded by leaps and bounds. Last year recreational activities were carried on in 17 playgrounds. Con- tingent with this growth activities have been greatly expanded to in. clude crafts and many leisure time instructional work. This phase of recreation has been given impetus by the moving of one of the build- ings from the airport which is now the C.R.A. headquarters building on Gibb Street where many of the organization's activities are carried on. The constitution and operating principles of C.R.A. are the respon. sibility of an elected Board of Directors of 21 people from 'all walks of life in Oshawa. This Board is chosen by secret ballot from the whole membership of the Associa- tion, 'and many able, well.kngwn citizens serve as Directors of the Associatiofi. The Board annually elects an Executive Committee of six members. The Director of Re- creation is employed by the Board. According to the minutes and con. stitution of C.R.A. he is responsible to the Prgoram Committee on program matters and to the Ex- ecutive Committee on matters of administration and policy. Text Of Statement The following in text of the statement: -- "On Friday evening last, the Board of Directors of the Commu- nity Recreation Association met and heard a unanimous recom- mendation by the Executive Com- mittee that the services of Mr. R. L. Coleman as paid Director of Re. creation for this Association be dis- continued immediately. The reasons given by the Executive Committee were "that fundamental differen- ces existed between the Executive Committee and the Director, which vitally affected the policy and ad- ministration of C.R.A." "The Director wished to have his authority extended beyond a point where it was considered wise to grant him complete control, "The Committee's recommenda- tion was based on specific cases in which it was shown to the satisfac. tion of the Board that Mr. Cole- man had refused to carry out mo- DISMISS DIRECTOR (Continued on Page 3) ROBERT L, COLEMAN CRA Director Reviews His Stewardship Olosing his two years' service as director of the Community Recrea- tion Association of Oshawa and District, Robert L. Coleman has forwarded to members of the board of directors a review of his work during the past two years together with a number of recommenda- tions. In his letter, which is in the nature of a valedictory, Mr. Cole- man expressed the hope "that Oshawa may continue to progress to better things." His letter is as follows: To the Board of Directors of 1947 and 1948, Community Recreation Association, Oshawa. Ladies and Gentlemen: The following is in the form of a two-year accounting and a hand. ing back of the tools with which I have been working. Office files, both administrative and program, are complete, though left in some disarray because of REVIEWS WORK (Continued on Page 2) $30 Million Proposal On Public Health Plan Announced By Mr.King By DARCY O'DONNELL Canadian Press Staff Writer Ottawa, May 15--(CP) -- The federal government is ready to mal:e multi-million dollar grants to the provinces to help them expand their public health services to a point where national health insur- ance can be started. In a surprise announcement in the Commons Friday Prime Min- ister Mackenzie King said that his administration is ready to distribute $30,000,000 a "year among the pro. vinces during the next five years. At the end of five years parts of the scheme will be reviewed. But Health Minister Martin said at an informal press conference that, aside from the review, the program is "permanent." In the main, these preliminary steps will be the awarding of grants to cover: A health survey, strengthening of general public health services, Tu- berculosis control, "mental health care, venereal disease control, treat- ment of crippled children, profes- sional training of public health per- sonnel, public health research, con. trol of Cancer, and. hospital con- struction, All provinces will be entitled to a share of the federal grants. The fact that Ontario and Quebec still lack taxation agrements with the federal government will not dis- qualify them. The only condition | 170; attached to the 'grants is that the vices. Generally, the grants will be made on a per capita basis. Mr. King's announcement won approval from opposition leaders, but John Bracken, Progressive Con- servative leader, said the grants could have been inaugurated long ago. M. J. Coldwell, C.C.F. leader, welcomed the announcement but siad some of the grants appear "pitifully small." Solon Low, Social Credit leader, termed the program a "great step forward" and a "splendid start." Timing of the announcement caused some eyebrow.lifting among opposition members. Some hinted at 8 belief the government, in bring- ing dow the plan now, was not un- indful of the imminence of: three eral by-elections and two pro. vincial general elections. Mr. King said these grants will be available to the provinces: 1. Outright grants for the con. $30 MILLION {Continued on Page 2) 3 Fo US. MAY LIFT BAN ON ARMS T0 PALESTINE Washington, May 15--(AP) -- A White House source said today the government is studying the question of lifting the United States embar- go on arms to Palestine. The source, who refused to be quoted by name, said the matter of an exchange of diplomats with the newly-recognized Jewish State of Israel also is being studied. The fact that the government is studying these two steps followed President Truman's announcement of United States recognition of the State of Israel late yesterday. Tru- | man's action came almost immedi- ately after the Jews had proclaim- ed the birth of their nation in the Holy Land. United States recognition was on | a "de facto" basis--that is merely | recognizing that such a state exists. This differs from '"'de jure" recogni- { tion which involved exchange of | diplomatic representatives with a | legally-constituted government. | An embargo on shipment of armg was placed in effect last December. It covered the entire Middle East. Diplomatic officials previously had sald possible lifting of the ban might be considered. However, they indi- cated main United States efforts would be directed toward winning a truce in the Holy Land dispute between the Jews and Arabs. Truman stressed this objective in a statement issued Friday night with his announcement granting "de facto" recognition to the pro- visional Jewish regime. ("De facto" recognition is reserv- ed for a government existing "in fact," where there may be some dispute over its legal authority. wegally-constituted regimes may be accorded 'de jure" recognition.) Some authorities believe this em- phasis on truce efforts indicates administration unwillingness to scrap the arms embargo right away. The ban was imposed by the United States last Dec. 5 after the United Nations asked all member governments to help halt the Arab- Jewish conflict. Unofficial speculation over why President Truman acted with such speed in extending recognition to the Jewish state centred around three possibilities: (1) His desire to discourage an Arab invasion of the new state; (2) A belief that the United States should act before the Soviet Union, and (3) domestic political consid- erations. PUC Receives $88,351 | Hydro Refund Refund of $88,351 will be made to Oshawa Public Utilities Com- mission by the Ontario Hydro-Elec- tric Power Commis:ion, Robert H. Saunders, commission chairman, announced in Toronto yesterday. The refund arises from the Ontar- io Commission policy of providing hydro at cost. The commission de- termines at the end of the year how much it cost to deliver power to the municipalities and the over- charges are refunded. The interim rate to Oshawa for i 19047 was $26 per -hoursepower. Last year the refund amounted to $57.- 330; in 1046 $50,943 and in 1945, $105,819. In all Ontario Hydro is refunding $3,115,403 to municipalities in the Tel Aviv Blasted By Raiding Planes Southern Ontaric system. The re. funds include: Toronto, $595,923; | Windsor, $124,463; - Hamilton, $100, | London, $81,101; Kitchener, | $60,528; Kingston, $64,448; Peter- provinces maintain "at least" their | borough, $52,163 and Brantford, present expenditure on health ser- | $40,926. Mine Blasts San Francisco, May 15 -- (AP)-- | United States Coast Guard head. quarters here reported today an S.08. from the U.S. freighter Wil- liam E. Channing saying it had | struck a mine and was sinking! fast about 35 miles off Crescent | City, on the northern California | coast The Coast Guard said later, how- ever, that there appeared some | misetake in the- identity of the | vessel. The call letters were for the Channing but port authorities at | Astoria, Ore, said the vessel was | laid up in port there. | * The Coast Guard said the mine | apparently strayed from a Japan- ese wartime mine-field broken up by spring storms. As Mandate Ends Spitfires Attack For Fourth Time Tel Aviv, May 15 (CP).--A fourth air attack on the Tel Aviv area took place this afternoon, Hagana reported that enemy Spit- fires attacked several Jewish settle- ments in the Samakh area of the Jordan valley. The Jewish air- drome at Akir near Rehovoth in Southern Palestine also was attack- ed by air, Hagana said that Egyptian artil- lery and tanks were attacking the Nerim settlement in Negeb. Hagan forces occupied the Arab village of Malakir on the Lebanese border and were "in contact" with Lebanese forces. Enemy planes dropped leaflets on the Urim settlement, in the Negeb calling on the settlers to surrender. Hagan further reported that the Arab attack against the settlement of Kfra Adarom was continuing, Earlier Hagan reports sald one plane was shot down and it BEgyp- tina pilot was taken prisoner. (An Egyptian communique said Egyptian planes bombed Tel Aviv's military airport, wrecking the hangar and one DC-3 plane on the ground. The bulletin declared an Egyptian Army column crossed the border into Palestine this morning and destroyed the Jewish colony of Al Dangor with artillery. An earlier communique said another column was spearing toward Gaza.) The Jewish Army said the two attacks on Tel Aviv came three hours apart, shortly after Jews had danced in the streets at news of the birth of their. nation and. the American recognition of jts exist- ence, W The Jewish Army droye north in Galilee to bolster the area against possible invasions from Syria and Lebanon, Along the coastal area north of Haifa, Arab villages have been cleared from Acre north to Nahar- yia and beyond, Hagana said. The Arab city of Acre sued for peace after a sharp night attack, Jewish informants in Haifa reported. Hagana announced the entire population of Kfar Etzion settle- ment, south of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, has been wiped out by the Arab Legion, and men and women alike had been slain. The Arabs inflicted casualties and took prisoners in two tiny communities of the Kfar Etzion bloc. Resistance is continuing in another settlement there, The government imposed censor- ship, informing correspondents they | will be given "security guidance" on information sent out on the air attacks. Hagana rushed its troops to all the frontiers, bent on short- ening lines and building up de- fences gaainst invasion, (An official source in Cairo said Egyptian air force planes flew over Tel Aviv today and dropped pam- phlets demanding that all inhabit- ants surrender with their arms, raising white flags, within an hour. ("If the demand is not met," the pamphlets were quoted as saying, "you will be treated as aggressors who want fighting.")' The bombing came at 6 am. of Israels birthday. The new state came into being, by its own decla- ration of independence, a minute after midnight, the hour Britain SPITFIRES ATTACK (Continued on Page 2) Invasion Troops =. Drive Northward By MAX BOYD Cairo, May 15--(AP)--Egypt an. nounced that two columns of her mechanizea troops and artillery crossed the border into Palestine today, destroyed a Jewish village and speared northward toward Ga- za The ministry of defence said Egyptian planes bombed the military airport in Tell Aviv, Israel's tempor- ary capital, destroying a hangar and one DC-3 plane on the ground, Egyptian planes also scattered pro- paganda leaflets over Tel Aviv. (Tel Aviv came under two air raids this morning when planes bombed and strafed in two separ ate attacks, killing at least one per« son, Jewish sources said one plane was shot down and the pilot, an Egyptian taken prisoner.) A high spiritual leader of Mos- lems here called upon all Arabs to bring holy war to Israel against the Zionists, saying: "Be ready to die for Allah." The Foreign Office announced that Foreign Minister Ahmed Kha- sheba Pasha handed notes to the foreign ambassadors, including the American, Russian and and British Envoys, outlining Egypt's views on her intervention in the Holy Land. Steel-helmeted police patrolled Cairo's streets. The entire country is under martial law, proclgimed last night by King Farouk to safe guard troop movements. The King promised that 8yptian Jews whe remain loyal to the government will be protected. Premier Mahmoud Fahmy Nokrae- shy Pasha said Friday night in a statement that Egypt ordered her armed forces into Palestine to "restore security and order" and stop "massacres perpetrated by tere rorist Zionist gangs." Shortly before, Al Assas, Cairo newspaper of tlie Premier's party, said its correspondent , with the Egyptian Army reported that two columns jumped off into Palestine at dawn Friday. Al Asas said the invasion com- mander was Gen. Ahmed Moham- med Al Mawowee Bey, 50, leader of INVASION TROOPS (Continued on Page 2) | Rental Rate Bogs Oshawa Housing Plan Toronto, May 15 -- (CP) -- The Central Mortgage and Housing Cor poration has Tejected estimates for building houses in some Ontario cities because they would not per- mit of rentals under the $37.50 maximum. Regional Supervisor P. 8S. Secord said Friday the estimates were too high to allow rentals of $37.50 on 346 houses at Oshawa, Peterboro, Cobourg and Wingham. «Mr. Secord said satisfactory are rangements had been made for erection of 500 similar homes at Windsor, Rental in this case would not exceed $37.50. x LATE NEWS BRIEFS * DROP FOOD TO 6 ON ICE St. John's, Nfld., May 15 (CP)--Food supplies were dropped today from a United States Army plane to six seal hunters off Port Au Choix on the northwest coast of Newfoundland, at the entrance to the Strait of Belle Isle. The six men were found Friday after a 36-hour search. They were on an ice patch and had only small supplies of food with them. SEVEN SEAMEN SENTENCED Welland, May 15 (CP)--Seven members of the Canadian Seamen's Union (T.L.C.) who pleaded guilty to charges arising from the boarding of the collier Glen elg in the Welland Canal last April 22 were each sen- tenced today to six months and fined $205. Each will serve an additional three months and 20 days if the fines are not paid. 15 DIE IN TRAIN WRECK Calcutta, May 15 (Reuters)--Fifteen persons were killed and 30 injured, 12 seriously, when the Calcutta- Dehradun express was derailed today about nine miles from Dhanbad, coal-mining centre. IRANIANS KILL 5 RUSSIANS Tehran, May 15 (Reuters)--Five Russians were killed today in a skirmish with Iranian frontier guards the Aberbaijan border. A party of 40 Russians were try- ing to cross the frontier, Iranian military, circles stated, 0S A Q! &)