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'THE DAILY TIMES. OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazeite and Chronicle AZETTE WHITBY VOL. 7--NO. 241 OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1948 Price 4 Cents SIXTEEN PAGES 'TAX PAYMENTS HERE SET RECORD ' No Mediation In Berlin Crisis--McN aughton a ---------- Canadian Delegate Says Neutrals Ask FullestInformation Paris, Oct. 15 (CP)--Andrei Vishinsky broke his Kremlin-imposed silence in the Security Council today and renewed his charge that the Berlin question arose because the Western Powers violated agreements with Russia. Earlier Gen. A. G. L. McNaughton of Canada acted as first spokesman for the six lesser powers -- the "neutrals" Jon the council in appealing to the Big Four to settle the blockade by direct negotiation. countries have no intention He said the six "neutral" of drafting a resolution or attempting mediation in the Berlin crisis. Gen, McNaughton said what: the®- v neutrals wanted was the fullest in- + formation, because "we are carrying on this debate under the shadow of violence." Foreign Minister Juan A, Bramu- glia of Argentina, acting Council Chairman, asked the four big pow- ers today for details on the Aug. 30 agreement between Prime Minister Stalin and Western diplomats and for the instructions given the four military governors of Germany to implement the accord. Under the agreement, Russia was to lift the blockade and the West- ern Powers were to recognize the Soviet mark as the sole currency for Berlin. The British, American and French delegates said they were willing to answer Bramuglia's questions at the next Council meeting on Berlin. Vishinsky then rose and declared the Argentine's questions were a "very skilled" manoeuvre to drag the Soviet delegation into the Ber- lin debate, McNaughton said the small pow- ers on the Council again appealed to the Big Four to try to settle the crisis by direct negotiation. The "neutrals'--Argentine, Bel- gium, Canada, Colombia, Syria and China--tried without success for a week to reach a compromise formu- la which might dissolve the issue. The Western Powers have refused any settlement which does not in. clude immediate lifting of the block- ade. Four of the six lesser pdwers on the Council said they believed there A Hearty Welcome On hand at the Parliament Build- ings in Ottawa to welcome The Times.Gazette carriers' party prior to their tour of the premises this week was Hon. C. D. Howe, Minister of Transport. He is shown (right) talking with Fred Stone, one of the carriers, --Photo by Don Houlden peaceful settlement. They said this | after a week of exploratory talks still is a possibility of a direct | with the Big Four delegates. Second Woman Missing In Kitchener Mystery Galt, Oct, 15--(CP)--Mrs. John Stuart, mother of William Stuart, held in Kitchener on a public mis- chief charge in connection with the disappearance of Mrs. Emma Pohl, of Kitchener, has also been missing from her home- for more, than a month, police said today. Police said they learned that Mrs, Stuart had left here to visit North Adams, Mass, and had never ar- rived at her destination. A second son, John Jr. telephoned North Adams Thursday night to enquire and said he was told his mother had not arrived. Mrs. Stuart left here Sept. 15 to go to North Adams via Tofsnto. She had $300 in her purse. Stuart was arrested Oct. 1 when police suspected some of the infor- mation he gave them about Mrs. Pohl's disappearance was untrue, He told police he met Mrs. Pohl the day she disappeared and repayed |. Ler a $600 debt. He told police he had been gamb- ling in a local hotel and that he had been threatened by two armed gangsters, identified only as "Sam" and "Harry." Police who said they had obtain- ed a warrant to search Mrs. Stu- art's home did not execute it. Husband of the missing woman, William Pohl, said Thursday he and his wife had a joint bank ac- count of about $5,000 which has not been drawn on. "If she ran 'away she certainly wouldn't go with a little bit of money," he said. The Pohls were married last Feb. 13. She was divorced last year from Joseph Patiént, now overseas. There are two children by the first mar- riage, Beverly, 13, and Dennis, nine. Mrs. Pohl is about five feet, six inches in height, has"dark hair, and brown eyes. When she left home she was wearing a pale blue dress with sequin peplum. She walks with a limp caused by a childhood acci- dent which necessitated the ampu- tation of two of her toes. Both Sides Want Palestine Truce Paris, Oct. 15--(CP)--The inter- im Palestine Mediatior told the United Nations today : that the "time is ripe for a settlement" in the Holy Land and he believes both sides would accept a reasonable U.N. proposal for peace. "On both sides there is a desire and a need for peace," Dr. Ralph Bunche told the 58-member Politi- cal Committee. 'watt hours next week. L 2 FURTHER CUTS ARE EXPECTED BY SAUNDERS Toronto, Oct. 15 -- (CP) -- On- tario faces new power cuts. Robert Saunders, chairman of the provincial power commission, said Thursday night the province still was using too much electric current and, at the present rate of consumption, new cuts might be necessary next week. But the So would not take any further s until next Tuesday. Speaking in Windsor, Mr. Saun- ders said: "We are hopeful that the regulations we now have in effect | but we | won't know until about next Tues- will produce this saving, day." adian Congress of Labor called for a special session of the Ontario Legislature to deal with the Hydro crisis, One delegate, M. J." Fenwick of | scarcity was | Oshawa, said the caused by "political meddling.' Mr. Saunders said the province | would have to save 3,000,000 kilo- Only the Thanksgiving holiday had saved an equivalent amount of power this week. Ontario's second power shortage in two years has been blamed on light rainfall which lowered water levels in rivers serving hydro proj- ects and on increased consumption by the, province's booming indus- tries. Mr. Saunders said Ontario was "wasting which if os) woul 'supply all our needs." Thursday, in London, hydro offi- | cials announced a new schedule of | compulsory cut-offs for rural Mid- dlesex County. The staggered shut- | downs of one hour will continue until late afternoon. As the power shortage, the second in two years, dragged on, the Can- | power" i, » at' a rate, Ox Team Used | In Plow Match Lindsay, Oct. 15--(CP)--Take it from Hubert Carruthers of Eau Claire, in Ontario's Mat- tawa district, oxen still have a place in the farm picture. He's currently staging a plow- ing demonstration with his team of red-and-white Here- ford steers at. the International Plowing Match. And the oxen haul a plow down the fields in fine style. "You can use them in the bush in the winter," says Car- ruthers flicking the huge, 10- year-old beasts gently with the trimmed-off maple limb he uses to guide them. "They never seem to mind heavy jobs and they don't tire as fast as horses." Prime Ministers' Talks Continue London, Oct. 15--(CP) -- Behind- the-scenes talks between Common- wealth representatives continued today, with Rt. Hon. Louis St. Lau- rent, acting Canadian Prime Minis- ter, scheduled to have tea with Prime Minister Clement Attlee at 10 Downing Street. A series of other meetings among representatives to the Dominions Prime Ministers' conference are ar- ranged. These informal talks continue un- til Monday, when the prime minis- ters and their deputies assemble again in plenary -session. St. Lau- rent will be present at the session for the first time. Prime Minister Mackenzie King was busy in his Dorchester Hotel room where he has been confined to bed for a week by doctor's orders. He has been in touch with represen- tatives of almost all the Dominions. Quaker Minister at West Hill May Inherit Ancient Title Toronto, Oct. 15--(CP)--A be- spectacled, 66-year-old Quaker min- ister from nearby West Hill village today was unruffled by the news that he may soon become a baronet. Sir William Henry Hay, eighth Baronet of Alderston. has been missing since 1916. For 32 years the British Home Office and Debrett's Peerage have been fruitlessly searching for his three brothers. Debrett's announced Thursday that unless the brothers-are found, briar-smoking Conran Ker, Hay of West Hill is probably heir-: App rent to the 509-year-old baronetcy Mr. Hay is a cousin of the missing English nobleman. Baronetcy or no baronetcy,~Mr. Hay said he's content with life in West Hill. He isn't going back to his native Isle of Man, Mr. Hay said he has never met his cousin, the missing Sir William, Just a year ago he retired to his six-room home at West Hill. Now one of his main concerns is tending his little vegetable garden and even if he does become Sir Conran Ker Hay, ninth Baronet of Alderston, hen still continue growing toma- S City Is Assaulted By Chinese Reds Nanking, Oct. 15--(AP)--Gen- eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek flew to Peiping today because. of the critical Communist assault on Chinhsien, reliable sources said. These same sources said the Man- churian city had not fallen but was in great danger. Press accounts said the city was aflame from more than 1,000 artil- lery shells poured in from the encircling red lines. The dispatches reported the Com- munists had smashed into the city and there was fighting in the streets. This is a bad sign. Such re- ports usually precede the announce- ment of a city's fall. versity. As Russian Vice Consul Left Mr, and Mrs. Ivan Tarassow and their three: children' (one wn infant) are shown just before they sailed from New York for Russia. He is the ~ The thE 'CaMtornia former : vice~consul at San' Kira city was closed at the same time that the New York consulate went out of business as a result of the affair of" et were C hol outward b d on the Gri 'achoel. 2. Alse il-General Konstantin Efre- mov and his family, re --Central Press Canadian Co-operative Safe At Sunderland Robbed Of $1,231 In Cash Eastern Ontario police are today | | on the lookout for a gang of safe- breakers, believed to. be from To- ronto, who jimmied open the safe of the Peterborough Co-Operative branch in Sunderland and escaped with $1,231.76 in cash. The break-in was discovered Thursday morning by Al Aylsworth, manager of the Co-Op when he went to the premises at 8 o'clock Thursday morning, Police are of the opinion that the safe-breakers are the same as those who have "cracked" three strongboxes in this area within the last few months. Mr, Aylsworth told the Times- Gazette that he locked the safe on Wednesday evening at 5 o'clock be- fore he left the office. When he arrived for work at 8 o'clock Thurs- day, he found the front door un- locked and the safe broken into. Ontario Provincial Police Con- stable William H. Andrews of Beaverton, who is investigating the break-in, said that the safe had been pulled away from the north wall of the office, turned on its back and pried open with railway crow.bars, The safe-crackers, he said, had tried to force.three or four windows into the office and then had entered through the front door. Police believe that the gang is responsible for -the Port Perry Post Office robbery and the Fast' Whitby Township Municipal office 'robbery. In the latter robbery the ttiieves not only carted away the East Whitby Township safe and broke it open to take some $1,200 in cash and $3,000 in cheques," but also pried open' a cabinet in the Provincial Police of- fice in the same building and: es- caped 'with' the arsenal consisting of three. revolvers and one rifle. In the Port Perry robbery the thieves broke into the post office, carried off the safe containing $1,200 in stamps, $341 in cash and a number of' blank money order forms. The empty safe was later recovered with the stamps and money gone 'but the blank money orders. were strewn around the dis- trict. In the Easy Whitby break-in, the cash, cheques, and municipal papers were taken. None of the guns or 'ammunition have been recovered. Say Quebec Influence Used To Let Vichy Collaborators Take Residence In Canada Ottawa, Oct. 15--(CP)--Four al- leged wartime Nazi collaborato:s from France, whose method of en- tering Canada has not been divul- ged, are residing in Quebec prov- ince by Cabinet approval. This was disclosed Thursday night by a government source who said the men would have been de- ported, along with two others who fell under the same class, but strong Quebec intercession resuited in a special Cabinet Order-in- Council granting them permission to remain. He named these men as: Dr. Georges Benoit Montel, Dr, Andre Charles Emanuel Boussat, Julien Gaudens Labedan and Jean Louis Huc. One of them is reported to be teaching in a Roman Catholic Uni- They are reported to be Yous of six alleged Nazi collaborators who entered the country while the French Government apparently convicted them in absentia for war- time collaboration 'with the Nazi hordes. . One of the six, it was: léarned, was deported. The other is Count Jacques de Bernonville, fighting deportation in a Montreal court. Had is not been for thei war- time records, the source said, the four might have been accaptable under the immigration laws. They were in good health and otherwise suitable for residence in Canada. However, departmental - officials who turned dpwn appzais against deportation, were bypassed. Influ- ence, it was reported, was exerted, on the Cabinet to approve the, resi- dence even though immigration of- ficials were preparing to deport them. STEADILY IMPROVING 'The condition of J. Nolan Sisson, publisher of The Trenton Courler- Advocate, who suffered: fractures of bottx legs when his. automobile struck the:abutment of the over- pass at Ajax earlier this week, is reported as "good and steadily im- proving." Mr. Sisson is a patient in the Oshawa General Hospital. by WILL BAR YOU, CHIEF OF CCL WARNS UEW Toronto, Oct. 15--(CP)-- A. R. Mosher, President of the Canadian Congres of Labor, told the Com- munist-led United Electrical Work- ers-today they'll be "thrown out" of the Congress if they don't change their tactics "damned soon." Speaking after a U.E.W. criticism of the C.C.L. voting procedure, he sald: "Unless you change your tactics --and change them damned soon-- whether you leave or not you'll be thrown out. "We're not going to put up with the kind of tactics and philosophies you're giving us here." This blunt statement came on the final day of the Congress' week- long "clean-out-the-communists" convention. It was the most straight-forward of three such ultimatums by Mr. Mosher this week and a direct reply to a pronouncement Thursday by Ross Russell of Toronto. Mr. Russell, Organization, said: "The adminis- tration will never get this union to leave: this Congress. We're staying --to fight Red-baiting and to battle | for the things Labor wants." Mr. Mosher tossed his warning back at the U.EW. after that union's Canadian Director, C. S. Jackson of Toronto raked the con- vention voting system over the coals. He charged it is not rep- resentative. Some groups of 40 and 50 mem- bers had three and four voting delegates simply because they were classed as national unions. Mr. Mosher defended the system as "precisely 'the same as used in the House of Commons and the provincial Legislatures and in every U.EW. WARNED (Continued on Page 2) Last Meeting On McKinnon Strike Fails St. Catharines, Oct, 15 -- (CP) -- The meeting between management | of McKinnon Industries and offi- | | cials' of Local 199, United Auto | Workers being held in the Toronto office of Hon. Charles Daley, On- tario Minister of Labor, broke off | Thursday afternoon" without any progress made toward settlement of the 14-week.old strike at McKin- non's, St, Catharines largest indus- try. , Neither side would budge from their previously stated positions, the company still offering 12 cents increase and the union asking .18 for day rate and 15 for piece workers. Described as a 'last meeting' by Mr. Daley on Tuesday, there are no further discussions scheduled. French Strikers Barricade Selves Inside Factory Paris, Oct. 15--(AP)--One thou- sand Bordeaux auto workers barri- caded themselves inside the Georges Irat factory today and refused to leave. 'The workers kept the plant man- ager as a hostage and welded the factory doors shut. The Communist-led Confedera- tion General du Travail asked other metal workers in the region to be- gin sympathy strikes and ordered the men inside the auto plant to resist arrest. France's 335,000 coal miners re- mained off the job for the 12th day, despite a government expression of confidence Thursday that the Com- munist-led strike wave was on the wane. In Paris, taxicab drivers ended a week-long strike and went back to work today after being granted fare increases of about 33 per cent. U.E.W. Director of | NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette Average Pet Issue September 1948 8,592 Collector Cox. -- 96 p.c. Collected In Current Year, Figures Reveal From 1939 until this year there has been a steady f= crease in the percentage of taxes collected by the City of Oshawa. An all-time high was the 96.31 per cent of all taxes, arrears and current, collected this year. shown in a comparative statement released today by Tax These figures were Arrears at the beginning of this "Wins Fellowship I ROBERT J. BUCKLEY | Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Buckley, | 1 242 Kendal Avenue, who has been awarded one of the Advertising and | Sales Club Fellowships by the Uni- | versity of Toronto. Mr, Buckley graduated from St. Michael's Col- lege in Philosyphy in June, 1947. Rural Power: Users 31 P.C. Over Quota Rural power consumption fig- ures, released today by George | ¢ F. Shreve, Oshawa P.U.C. Man- [ ager, show that consumption | still far exceeds quota. City of Oshawa consumption figures are in excess of quota also but not by nearly as much. In Oshawa yesterday total consumption was 221,440 kilo- watt hours. This figure is 10,- 440 or 4.95 per cent in excess of the quota of 211,000 K.W.H. 42,560 K.W.H. were consumed in the rural area district by the Oshawa P.U.C., an excess of 10,135 K.W.H. or 31.25 per cent over the rural quota of 32,425 K.W.H. Thursday's report, stated er- roneously that rural (figures exceeded guota on Wednesday by 4.2 per cent. Actunl excess of quota was in the neighborhood of 23 per cent, Belleville Block Swept By Blaze; Loss Is $100,000 Belleville, Oct. 15 (CP).--One of Belleville's oldest and largest build- | ing blocks was swept by fire Thurs- | day night, leaving damage estimat~ | ed at $100,000. The fire started in the basement of one of the stores in the downtown -Robertson block, | near the city's main intersection. | Most of the damage resulted from | smoke and water. | The entire city fire department | was called out to fight the blaze | while city police switched off street | lights to avoid danger of short | circuits which might spread the fire. | 2,000 calories a day. calories. by a coroner's jury today for near Munich, the United fliers. LATE NEWS BRIEFS x LINDSAY Y BREAK- IN N PROBED Lindsay, Oct. 15 (CP)--Lindsay police are investi- .gating the theft of $900 from the Olympia Tea Room this morning. Entrance was gained through a foot- square washroom window. The restaurant was ransack- ed and the money taken from a desk drawer. The thieves replaced the window after leaving. BOOST BERLIN RATION Berlin, Oct. 15 (AP)--The Western Powers told blockaded Germans of Western Berlin today that, begin- ning Nov. 1, the average food ration will be boosted to he increases will average 270 year amounted to $11,680. Added to the current levy of $1073791 it made a total to be collected this year of $1,085,451. How successful the tax collectors were in their work is shown by the collection figures Arrears collected amounted to $8,344. The amount of current collections was $1,087,016, making a total,of $1,045,360. This means that up to Octobep 13, 96.31 per cent. of all collectable taxes have been received; 71.56 per cent. of the arrears have been col. lected while 96.57 per cent. of the current tax roll have been paid. 1947 figures show that fotal cole lectable taxes amounted to $1,008.= 714. Of that amount $958,184 or a percentage of 94.99 per cent was taken in by the tax collectors, Percentage collected in 1946 was 92.90 and in 1942, 85.41. By compari- son the 1939 figures show that only 63.63 per cent of all taxes were cole lected. Broken down the report shows that the greatest increase in collec tions comes in the taking in of cure rent taxes. In 1930 only 29.41 per cent of arrears of taxes were col- lected, This year, up until October | 10, 71.56 per cent was taken in. In 1939 tax arrears came within a hundred thousand dollars of the current levy. This year, by compar. ison the arrears are an infinitesis mal amount of the levy, "I would not want the release of this report to give an erroneous picture", said Mr. Cox today. "Wea are still in the business of receiving taxes and would ™ urge taxpayers who have riot anready dohe so to { meet their obligations as soon ag. possible." Daily wl From Meters About $58 Oshawa has a daily income of about $58 from its 285 parking me- ters, The income, furthermore is in- creasing. Last month the total amounted to approximately $1437 while, for the same period last year the total take was $1,187. Total income from the meters for a period of 107 days from April 24 to August 27 this year was $6,243.10, The average daily take for each me- ter was only 19 cents, but as has been stated, the total daily take was arotind $58, In the 107-day period 158,458 cop+ pers were collected, 91,640 nickels, 266 dimes and 22 slugs. King Street is the most produce tive area. In that period the aver= age per meter, there are 66 of them on the street, was $30.20. Next came Simcoe Street. It has 95 meters each | of which averages $24.42. Ontario | Street meters took in $18.77 each and those on Bond Street, $17.52. THE WEATHER i. -- 1 Clear today gand Saturday. Warmer Saturday. Winds light, becoming . south 15 Saturday afternoon. Low tonight and high Saturday 44 and 68. Sum- mary for Saturday: Clear, Warmer. " BLAME 3 IN DEATHS 4 Montreal, Oct. 15 .(CP)--Douglas and Donald Per« reault and Noel Cloutier were held criminally responsible the slaying of two Montreal constables in a bank holdup last Sept. 23. | TEN NAZIS HANGED 5 Frankfurt, Oct. 15 (AP)--Ten Germans convicted of war crimes were hanged today at Landsberg tates Army announce charged to the 10 included murder of captured American prison, Crimes