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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE § Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle OSHAWA WHITBY] VOL. 7--NO. 158 OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1948 Price 4 Cents SIXTEEN PAGE] PROBE OSHAWA LINK IN DRUG RING Gardiner To Run For Liberal Leadership -------------- Farm Minister Says He Will Seek Post At Party Meeting . ) Ottawa, July 7 (CP).--Agriculure Minister Gardiner announced today he will stand for nomination for the Lib- eral leadership at the party's He said in a statement convention here next month. he had been approached by Liberals from every province in the Dominion and agreed to Seeks Leadership HON. JAMES G. GARDINER Federal Minister of Agriculture, who announced today that he is letting his name stand for nomin- ation when the: Liberal Party oon- vention selects a new leader to suc- ceed Prime Minister King, who is retiring, allow those who felt he was of lead- ership timber to place his name be- fore the convention Aug. 5, 6 and 7. He already has informed Prime Minister Mackenzie King, retiring as party leader, of his intention. He also has discussed the matter with External Affairs Minister St. Laurent and Trade Minister Howe, both of whom have been mentione as possible candidates. : Mr. St. Laurent already has an- nounced that he will stand for nomination. . Mr. Gardner said his discussions with Mr. St. Laurent and Mr. Howe led him to believe that his entry into the leadership race would do "no harm to the Liberal Party." Saying he wished to clarify his position, the Agriculture Minister said he had refrained from making any statement on the leadership until Mr. King himself had made his own position clear to the people. Mr. King now had done this. He had told Parliament he did not in- tend to remain as Liberal leader. Therefore, said Mr. Gardiner, he wished to announce his willingness to run. His announcement automatically ensures.at least a two-man contest when nominations are handed .jn to the convention chairman Aug. 7, the last day of the party congress and upon which balloting for the leadership takes place. However, there still is considerable | Despite a ruling by the local Board of Health that an impervious floor | must be installed before a building permit will be issued, work on the cattle barn being erected in the north-west corner of Alexandra Park by the South Ontario Agricultural Society is proceeding. E. W. Webber of Work On Alexandra Park Cattle Barn Well Under Way x: ERE ST rier ued RR AREE RITE i BAS RIRE Ph Columbus, secretary-treasurer of the society, told The Times-Gazette today that the floor would be put in after the necessary fill had settled. Several small dressing rooms for the use of athletes are included in the south-east corner of the building. --Times-Gazétte Staff Photo CHEER BENES, POLICE STOP = Prague, July 7 -- (CP) -- Former | down by the Oshawa Board of President Eduard Benes was cheer. | Health recently in connection with ed again today in the streets of | the building of an impervious floor Prague. This time police squads | in the large barn being built in broke up the short-lived demonstra- | Alexandra Park for the South On- tion. tario Agricultural - Society, Ernie Most of the crowd massed in front | Webber, secretary-treasurer of the of the newspaper Svobodne Slovoj| South Ont. Agricultural Society and berleath' a huge electric display for| member of the building committee the 11th Sokol Athletic Congress, | said today, "We'll get to the floor and shouted "long live our Presi-| when the time comes. There will dent Benes." be 18 inches of fill in places and Police ordered the demonstrators| we can't do anything until that to disperse. When this failed, they | settles." Health Board Ruling | Not Holding Up Barn At Alexandra Park HEAVY BATTLE RAGES AGAIN i Construction of the barn was | commenced some weeks ago with- | ! out the formality of securing a heh fighti a a} thi ildi mi i i+ | iSh-Arah fighting raged along e {Juilding Baris rom the city. main Tel Aviv-Haifa highway Tues. { en application for a permit Was | day night as the United Nations | made no immediate action was tak- made 11th-hour efforts to extend {en by the City Engineer's Depart- : the shaky Palestine truce. {ment to comply. Tuis, It is ex-| Qount Folke Bernadotte, U. N. { plained, 1s routine, as the specifica- i palestine mediator, tola reporters tions dealing with plumbing and |, Cairo that he will continue peace | sanitary conveniences must be ap- | iajks even if his request for an ex- | proved by Board of Health offic-| tension of the four-week truce is re. | ials in every instance in which con- | jected, | struction is commenced. At Lake Success, Britain drafted: By MAX BOYD Cairo, July 7--(AP)--Heavy Jew- IN HOLY LAND speculation about other possible candidates and it is considered likely several more candidates, some of them Federal Cabinet Ministers; also will choose to run. The probable starters in the Fed- eral field include Health Minister Martin, Finance Minister Abbott, Defefice Minister Claxton and Mr. Howe. There is talk, too, of candidates from the provinces. Premier Mac- donald of Nova Scotia is said to be leaning towards nomination and Premier Garson of Manitoba also may allow his name to be entered. Shunky, little James Garfield Gardiner is a westerner by adop- tion who came to the Federal fold 18 years ago to become Agriculture Minister, and, some political quart- ers said, with his eye on the Federal leadership. He had resigned as Premier of Saskatchewan to take 'Soviet Plans To Tie Berlin To Her | Zone Berlin, July 7--(AP)--The Com- munists announced today a two- | year plan to tie Berlin economically to the Soviet occupation zone of Germany. They warned Berliners not to pin their hopes for the fu- ture on the Western air bridge over the Soviet blockade. The Communists also announced they are drawing up a constitution for a German Republic--their an- | swer to the projected Western Ger- | the Federal post, many Constitutional Assembly. | A native of Exeter, Ont., he has At the same time the United | been in politics most of his life. He ates Air Force attacked the| won election to the Saskatchewan owing fuel shortage in blockaded | Legislature in 1914 and spent 21 Western Berlin, which in 19 days | years in that assembly. He was pro- has cut factory operations 40 per | gressively Minister of Highways, cent. Premier, Provincial Treasurer, Edu- Discussing this latest phase of | the east-west battle for the Ger-| man capital, the Soviet-licensed | Berliner Zeitung said: | "1f Berlin wants to live it has only one possibility at the moment | --connection with the economic plan for the Eastern zone. Berlin- ers should seriously consider which is wiser: To build the future of Berlin on the swaying pillars of the | air bridge or on a long-term plan." The scope of the air left is in- dicated by United States Air Force figures on the 18 hours from 4 p.m. SOVIET PLANS (Continued on Page 2) cation Minister, Opposition Leader and Premier again. He is 64 while Mr. St. Laurent, so far his only announced rival for the leadership, is 66. START WAREHOUSE PROJECT A steam shovel was at work yes- terday excavating for the new warehouse to be erected by Bathe and McLellan for the Oshawa Pub- lic Utilities Commission. The new building will face on Metcalfe Street and will extend easterly from the garage building erected by the Commission last year. It is expected the building will be com- pleted by fall, Five Britons Kidnapped By Jewish Terrorists London, July 7--(CP)--The For- | eign Office reported today that five British subjects were "kidnapped" in Palestine Tuesday night by Irgun Zvai Leumi, a Jewish extremist ore ganization, A spokesman told a press con- ference the Britons 'were taken | from a "building on which was| hoisted the flag of the United Na- tions Truce Commission." He could pt further identify the building. "We take a very serious view of his incident," he said. He could not identify those "kid- napped." . The Foreign Office's brief report, he added, came {from Sir Hugh Dow, British Consul-General in Jerusalem, Both Sif Hugh and the U.N. Truce Commission in Jerusalem - have lodged a protest. He did not say with whom, but presumably it was with the Israel Government. "We assume the five persons will be. released," the spokesman added. The announcement indicated that the incident took place in Jerusalem but the Foreign Office spokesman could not confirm this. The five Britons were employees of a commercial firm in Jerusalem and not members of the Truce Com- mission, it was learned tonight, Political quarters here attributed the incident to the failure of Israel authorities to control extremist ele- ments among the Jews. The British Foreign Office called for a full report. Sir Hugh Dow is carrying out investigations on the spot. The Belgian Consul-General in Jerusalem, Jean Nieuwenhuys, a member of the United Nations Truce Commission, has already pro- tested the kidnapping to the Jewish authorities, a Foreign Office spokesman said, moved through the crowd, arms | pistols as usual, but no weapons | were used. Prague police do not car- | ry clubs. The anti-government sentiment apparently was touched off during the day when a parade by the Sokol Athletic organization | througth the street cheering former | President Eduard Benes. They with- | held their cheers as they passed the reviewing stand where Communist | Premier Klement Gottwald sat. The Czechoslovak press agency said the cheers were withheld at the | point because "the same spot was occupied by the tomb of Czecho- slovakia's Unknown Soldier" of the First World War, but without this explanation it appeared to foreign | observers that there was a distinct | passive demonstration, against the president. Later in the evening, a Reuters corréspondent reported demonstra- tions in Wencelas and said in some cases violence was used to break up the gathering. Some eye-witnesses said there had been many arrests and that it was "very bad." New Method Used To Level Storie Park A process known as "Sanitary {Land Fill" is being used to level | ravines in Storie Park, which is be- ing readied for use as a baseball aiamond and recreaticn centre. Sometime ago five large trenches weremade by widening the ravines, and four of these are now filled with alternate iayers of garbage and earth. It is estimated that the operation, including surface level- ling, will be finished within one month, According to City Engineer W. T. Dempsey this 'process of filling in low ground- is comparatively new, and this is one of the first times that it has been used in Canada. Despite the use of garbage instead of earth fill, there is no danger of infection from the refuse, for the alternate layers of earth cause very rapid decomposition. One of the | principal advantages of this method | is its economy, for the use of gar- bage instead of earth fill 'reduces the cost substantially. The park area was donated to the city hy A. G. Storie, President of Fittings, Ltd. It was formerly an orchard, and a few of the old trees remain too as reminders of the past, THE WEATHER Clear, with not much change in temperature today and Thursday. Winds northeast 15 today, light tonight and Thurs- day. Low tonight and high Thursday 50 and 77, linked. Some police carried small] Mr. Webber said that the ruling | No Permit Issued | from the Board of Health had in| when the matter was brought | no way held up the building pro- pefore the Board of Health | gram and Dr. W. H. Gifford said | week, the Board ruled than an im- | that a crew of men are today work- pervious floor must be installed. As | ing on the project. a result no building permit has yet Will Stable 130 Horses | been issued. The barn, when completed, will | city Engineer W. T. Dempsey marched | stable 130 horses and has a length | states that the structural part of | | of 170 feet and a width of 72 feet is | the building is satisfactory but that being built by the T. A. Wilson | the issuance of a permit is being Lumber Company of Cannington, withheld until all the requirements and will be used largely for the | are met. | annual race meets and the Oshawa | 71t js pointed out that the city Fair, | would be within its rights to take The structure is to be located on action against the fair board for the northwest corner of the park not complying with the regulations. and will be of rock-faced concrete However, it has been felt that such | construction and will afford 10,000 | action is not justifiable as the feet of floor space. The building | fair board has not refused to com- | will have two huge doors, 10 feet | ply. | high at the south entrance which Dr. A, F. MacKay, medical offic- will permit the entry of large |er of health, stated that a building vehicles. The gable style steel roof of this type should have proper is to be supplied by Pedlar People | drainage connected with a sanitary Limited of Oshawa. sewer, | The value of spraying Oshawa with DDT to try to eliminate the fly menace has been discussed by the Board of Health, Medical Of- ficer of Health Dr. A. F. Mackay said this morning, and costs and feasibility of the plan are being ascertained at the present time. The chief holdback to a spray- ing campaign, he said, is the dis- tance that a fly can. travel. "Up, down, or across the wind," he said. "A fly can go ten miles at least. However, there would be con- siderabale benefit in spraying the Oshawa business district even if there was a possibility of a fly in- vasion from unsprayed rural areas." Repeated, widespread, and thor- ough spraying would be needed, he stated. The DDT spray campaign ini- tiated in Toronto as a protection against infantile paralysis is still in the experimental stages, according to Dr. Mackay. "We do not even know for sure that flies carry polio," he said, "but even if they do not, they are known to carry so many diseases that.any program that will reduce them would be worthwhile." The DDT spray con- trol for infantile paralysis is being tried in several places in Quebec. It was first used at Naples by the United States Army. Although health authorities in England and some parts of the United States no longer quarantine for poliomyelitis, Ontario health of- ficers still regard it as a communi- cable disease, according to Deputy Provincial Health Minister Dr. J. T. Phair. Dr. Mackay emphasized that even if the DDT spray plan is not feas- ible in Oshawa, flies can be con- trolled by the use of ordinary pre- cautions. - He mentioned livestock, Health Board Probing DDT To Combat Flies + barns and manure bins as likely breeding places. Present city by- laws make it obligatory to spray these areas with a 5 per cent. solu- tion of DDT in oil. By-laws also require standard jcovered metal containers for all | garbage, and the Oshawa garbage disposal system, known as the "Sanitary Land Fill" system, eli- minates garbage dumps as a breed- ing ground. Dr. Mackay said that additional protection would be given if garbage receptacles were periodically washed and sprayed with DDT. Danube River Parley Called By Yugoslavs Belgrade, 'July 7 (Reuters).--The Yugoslav Government has agreed to a four-power request to call a con- ference on the Danube question in Belgrade July 30. The United States, Russia, Bri- tain and France asked Yugoslavia in notes Tuesday to call the meeting on the question of future control of the Danube River, Europe's most important inland waterway. The Yugoslav decision to call the Danubian conference was disclosed in a government announcement re- ported in London by Tanjug, the official Yugoslav news agency. The meeting will bring together representatives of the Big Four Powers and the Danube neighbors. They are Bulgaria, Hungary, Ro- mania, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Austria, . | | | | turned back by Arabs who fired on | a security council 'proposal calling the cease fire. The plan set no ex- piration date. The truce-ends Friday. Neither Arabs nor Jews have replied to U. N, extension requests, There was no official indication as to how seriously Jewish authori- which occurred in Israzli territory between Tira and Jaba, about 10 miles south of Haifa. Telephone lines betwen Tel Aviv and Haifa were cut off during the night. Two United States marines driv- ing N. N. truce-team trucks were on the Jews and Arabs to extend last | ; | $400,000 By RAY Vancouver, July 7 package." Package Mailed Here Seized In Vancouver Raid TIMSON Canadian Press Staff Writer (CP).--A narcotics ring with Canadas wide connections was believed smashed today as R.C.M.P, details moved in on Oshawa to find "a man who. mailed & MALAYA REDS PLAN REVOLT BRITISH SAY Singapore, July 7 --(Reuters)-- Rt. Hon. Malcolm Macdonald, British . Commissioner-General for Southeast Asia, declared in a broadcast tonight that Malayan Communists were planning a vio- lent revolution to capture by force the government of Malaya. Broadcasting over Radio Malaya, | Macdonald said: "That is a sober statement\ of fact." | He declaxed that since he broad- {cast a month ago the authorities had gained much evidence to show that the present terrorist outbreak in the Federation of Malaya which might at any time spread to Singa- pore was part of a deliberate plan to seize power. Militant Communists, represent- ing less than one per cent of the population, were fighting in Malaya to establish a state which would enshrine the principal articles of their political faith, A check made by The Times- Gazétte this morning revealed that members of the R.C.M.P, | narcotic squad from Toronto were in Oshawa yesterday but were not here today. The Cane adian Press bureau in Toronto stated that while an effort had | been mades to secure a statee | ment from the R.C.M.P. it hag | been refused. Oshawa Police | Department officials said they | had been contacted by the | R.C.MLP, but were not required | to give any active assistance. | Postmaster Norman J, Moran | stated that the first he knew | of the investigation was when | he heard an announcement ! over the radio this morning, He did not know R.C.M.P. officers ' had been in Oshawa and had not been contacted by them. A month's undercover investigas tion by 12 "Mounties" and city pow lice was climaxed here Tuesda$ night with seizure of $400,000 worthy of Mexican brown heroin. The R.G, M.P. said it was the largest heroin haul ever made in Canada. Toronto Man Charged A Toronto man, Ronald Douglag Dean, 24, today is charged with possession of. narcotics .along with William Kusnik, 32, a Vancouv mechanic. Most of the. sensatio heroin haul was Contained in package mailed to Dean from Oshe "It is not government of the people by the people, for the people, but government of the people for murderers by murderers," Macdon- Murders by terrorists Tuesday | brought the death toll to five in 24 | hours in the Ipoh area where the military authorities last week had | said the terrorists were "definitely | on the run"after military sweeps | and patrols. | Macdonald said the Malayan | ties considered the highway clash | Government has gained much in- | | formation of the Communist plot. | | Some came from the agents in the | enemy's ranks. Some desperate men | | talked after capture. Many docu- | ments had been captured. Other in- | | formation was volunteered by pri- | | vate citizens. | them for 40 minutes before they | had escaped despite more than 1,000 | waved a white flag to stop the shooting. . Pte. Charles Phalen, 19, and Pte. Lewis Taylor, 19, said they were forced to pull their trucks into a ditch and crawl for cover under Arab rifle and machine-gun fire. Phalen said a youthful, English- | speaking Arab leader finally agreed to let the trucks turn around and return to Tel Aviv. The marine quot- ed the Arab -as saying the fighting began when 20 Jewish soldiers on a bus stopped two local Arabs walking along the road. An Israeli communique said Tues. | HEAVY BATTLE (Continued on Page 2) P.U.C. Signs Agreement With Union At a short meeting held last night in the P.U.C. building, the Oshawa Public Utilities Commission signed an agreement with their employees of Local 894 of the In- ternational Brotherhood of Elec- trical Workers, AF. of L. 'The Commissioners had previously re- fused to sign the contract because of fears, that it could be interpret- ed as binding on next year's com- mission, In signing this year's agreement, they specified that it should last only to the end of the year, and that if any similar con- tracts were issued in future years, the disputed section which had | held up this contract would be al- tered to limit the life of the agree- ment to one year. The Commission also moved the appointment of a committee to stu- dy the question of obtaining a right - of = way for an ex- tension of Ritson Road South from Simcoe St. to the Pumping Station. The path of the proposed extension passes through property belonging to the Robson Leather Co. The committee, is to consist of PUC Chairman S.. J. Babe, PUC Man- ager George Shreve, and Acting Mayor Russell D. Humphreys, K.C. They are authorized only to negoti- ate for the land necessary for the required right of way. pe | arrests during the last three weeks | | but many important men had fall- | len into government hands. , | | "We know their capture [thrown out of gear parts of the has | al are concocting," Macdonald said. ald said. | Some of the principal agitators, awa. Tuesday night's seizure was th@ | first since the opium smuggling ring was unearthed here last fall. Th | $4,000,000 worth of opium was di | covered cached aboard the Dutelj | freighter Manoeran in North Vamwe couver harbor. Opium traffic fade {ed with the war. The brown heroin seized Tuesday | night is processed in Mexico. fold 'R.C.M.P. narcotics detail here tok | the Canadian Press that it is transe | ported from Mexico to New YorH and enters Eastern Canada at | unknown border point. Joe Cotter, a Vancouver "black Maria" driver for the past eighl years, is credited with furnishing the R.C.M.P. the first inkling information on the huge ring. He was reported to have worked off-hours on the case, secretly obs | taining incriminating data and 3 casionally took samples of "powder" |to the R.CM.P. laboratory for ane ysis. It wasn't until last Friday posie i y ir fri { | plans Which te) Sod Shei Zriends) tive heroin was discovered. City "As a result certain actions which | they were preparing have been postponed, readjusted or abandoned altogether." Outlining government action to meet the challengé, Macdonald said that in the civil sphere sweeping | emergency powers of arrest, deten- tion, banishment and execution had been introduced. SLIGHT DAMAGE Members of the Oshawa Fire De- partment, under Asistant Chief R. Hobbs, answered a call to the Ru- therford Furniture Company, 156 Simcoe Street South, at about 9:35 p.m. yesterday. The fire, which started in a pile of cardboard boxes and slightly damaged a garage was put out in 10 minutes. The cause of the fire was believed to have been children playing with mat- ches. | arrived at the police combined on operations with the "'Redcoats" and placed an easi | end home under close surveillance, | saturday they caught the package. | The R.C.M.P. unwrapped the pare | cel, substituted plaster and waited for someone to claim it. Kushnii house and was promptly arrested. Minutes later, & special detail brought in Dean. Toronto, July 7T--(CP)--Seizuré of $400,000 worth of Mexican brown heroin in Vancouver was believed in police circles here to have resulted from a tip picked up by the R.C. M.P. in Toronto and Hamilton two nights ago. The tip received was that a packs age of narcotics was being mailed from Oshawa to one of four houses in Vancouver. A trap was establishe ed at all four Vancauver address and the "parcel" seized on deliverf Tuesday night, seven other crew members was brought under control. Lake Success, N.Y., Jul of the United Nations Secur BALL PLAY Sault Ste. Marie, Ont occurred when Israelson's truck driven by Walkers . et hi th a A de A ed x LATE NEWS BRIEFS ' LAKE TANKER AFIRE Ludington, Mich., July 7 (AP).--Five crew members were reported badly burned today when the tanker Edgewater caught fire in Lake Michigan, 23 miles south- west of here. The Ludington Coast Guard station said ' escaped injury as the blaze ARAB DELEGATE WALKS OUT y 7 (AP).--The representa- tive of the Arab Higher Committee today "walked out" ity Council in protest at the Council president's designation of Jewish representa- tives as representing "the State of Israel." ER KILLED ., July 7 (CP).--F. Birrel Israelson, 31, a Toronto amateur baseball pitcher, died Tuesday night from injuries suffered in a highway ac cident 65 miles east of the Sault. thy Henderson, Toronto, multiple head cuts and shock, and James Walker, Iron Bridge, head cuts. The accident Injured were: Dora® automobile collided with a