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- OSHAWA G. - THE DAILY OSHAWA AY-OFF CANGELLED ES-GAZETTE Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITBY VOL. 7--NO. 253 RIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1948 Price 4 Cents Drastic Measures Seen Imminent By Power Committee Oshawa, which has consistently been exceeding its power quota, faces further power cuts at the beginning of the week following the announcement by the Ontario Hydro Electric Power Commission that the city's Reach Settlement Five-Months-Old wre MeKinnon Strike HYDRO SLASHING CITY POWER QUOTA 14,800 K.W.H. MONDA Pe L 4 | | quota will be | more Germans convicted of war NINE NAZIS HANGED FOR WAR CRIMES Munich, Oct. 20 -- (AP) --Nine atrocities were hanged today. | Today's executions brought to 29 the number of Germans sent to the | gallows at Landsberg Prison since slashed 14,800 kilowatt hours from 211,000 KWH to 196,200 [Oct. 15. A 10th man scheduled to | KWH. The cut represents a seven per cent decrease. Announcement of the cut which will be effective on Monday, Novem- | ber 1, was received this morning by Public: Utilities Manager George F. | Shreve in a telegram from Toronto over the signature of E. B. Easson, secretary of the H.EP.C. of On- tario. The telegram read: "Gatineau power deliveries now | reduced by 14,000,000 kilowatt hours and MacLaren (Quebec) deliveries by over 5,000,000. A total cut in ex- cess of 19,000,000 kilowatt hours. The commission has therefore no alternative but to reduce your present quota to 196,200 commenc- ing Monday, November 1." Mr. Shreve would make no im- mediate comment on the cut but it is obvious that further cut-offs for domestic and commercial hydro users, if pot for industrial Sonsum- ors 'are in store. Pointing up, the need for drabtic action to save power, Oshawa was | again over its\quota yesterday. City power consumers on Thursday used 222,800 KWH, or 11,800 KWH over the 211,000 KWH quota, an excess of 559 per cent. The rural area served by the Oshawa Commission used 37,600 KWH or 5,175 KWH over the quota, an excess of 15.96 per cent. 8. J. Babe, chairman of the Pub- lic Utilities Commission would make no comment on the latest quota re- duction. = "This stresses all the more the necessity for our citizens to do their utmost to conserve hydro," Mayor Frank N. McCallum said. "Our re- cord thus far has not been good and it is in the interest of each and everyone of us to save all thc power we can. The situation is real- ly serious." The Mayor also thought that a meeting of the Power Co-ordinat- ing Committee, made up 'of repre- HYDRO SLASHING (Continued on Page 2) Fog Snarls All Traffic | By The Canadian Press | No relief is in sight from the | 4 dense fog gripping Eastern Canada | from the head of the lakes to the | Atlantic and extending into the Northeastern United States. Again today the fog, caused by the mixing of cold air from the eastern seaboard with unusually | warm air in the interior of the | continent, slowed highway traffic, snarled shipping and grounded planes for the early part of the day. The fgg started to close in Mon- day night but its effects were little felt until Thursday. "It's thinning a bit," said a wea- ther man, "But we can't say yet when it's going to Jife." Such pea-soup fogs sometimes oc- cur in the spring in sections of Eas- tern Canada but they Seldom are so dense or last so long. But they | are rarely seen this late in the | year. The mist early today crept over the Maritimes, sections of which | Thursday went fog-free. | Yellow fog lights on motor vehi- cles blazed Thursday night as traf- | fice moved slowly along inland highways. In areas where. the fog shroud was especially thick, trans- port drivers and commercial travel- lers halted their journeys at way- side towns. Some truckers pulled up beside service stations and went to sleep in their cabs. In Toronto there was a possibili- ty that the fog would force post- ponement of tonight's Ontario Rug- by Football Union senior game be- tween Sarnia Imperials and Toron- | to Beaches Indians. Plans Near Representative citizens and or- ganizations from all walks of life in Ontario County will be sent special invitations to the unveiling and de- dication of the new plaques for Osh- awa's war memorial to be held on Sunday, November 7, it was decided at a meeting of the committee in charge under A. J. Graves held at Legion Hall last night. Col, Frank Chappell, chairman of the sub-committee in charge of in- vitations, pointed out that it was impossible to send personal invita- tions to all citizens and by cutting the list to possibly 100 placing an invitation in the press, all members of the community could be reached. The special invitations will be sent to municipal officials, all veteran organizations, all labor organiza- tions, members of parliament, ser- vice clubs, past commanding offi- cers of the Ontario Regiment and prominent citizens of the county. Community Chest | | Legion, GM War Veterans' Club, Completion For Unveiling Plaques Charles Wilcox, chairman of the ccemittee in charge of the plaques, reported that the Thompson Monu- ment Company of Toronto, which is installing the new plaques, has promised that the work will be completed in time for the dedication. Owing to the fact that the plaques weigh approximately 650 pounds each and are flat, considerable stone cutting was necessary to fit them at the memorial, It was decided that benches will be placed just north of the "Gar- den of the Unforgotten" for use by the next-of-kin who will be in at- tendance and that members of the Ontario Regiment will act as ush- ers, Boy Scouts will look after hand- ing out copies of the order of ser- vice while sound equipment will be installed by Warner Williams, Parade From Armouries The parade to the Cenotaph will start from the 'Arenouries and will i be an all-veteran affair. Led by the | regimental band and the GM Pipe | Band, members of the Canadian | Polish War Veterans' Association, | and ex-servicemen will parade from | the Armourijes at 3:15 p.m | Confirmation that Major General C| C. Mann, CBE, DS.0., will of- ficiate at the unveiling was read at the meeting while assurance was also received that the Hon, Arthur Welsty, DS.O., will be in attend- ance and deliver the address. The Salvation Army Band will supply the music for the church service while members of the Oshawa Min- isterial Association will take part in the order of service, An invitation to thie general pub- lic to attend will be placed in the press and it was hoped by the com- mittee that the majority of Oshawa and district citizens would take an | thausen sub-camp. Hanged was that of Julius Straub, | rant further investigation. G.M. Sales High Level active part in the solemn service. Y | die today won a last-minute stay of | execution. | Convicted of slaying fliers were | S.8. Lieut. Karkl Hunsicker, 41; S.8. Col. Willy Stemmler, 48; S.S. Cpl. Heinrich Franue, 49, and S.A. Col. Ludwig Kluettgen, 39. 8.8. Pte. Mathias Frindt, 24, was hanged for atrocities at a Mau- An unusual case among those a prisoner at a concentration en who became' an S.S. man, Others hanged for concentration camp atrocities were S.S. Capt. Kurt Schmutzler, 52; S.S. Sgt. Alois Hollriegel, 39, and S.S. Sgt. Rudolf Kelin, 27. The man who won a reprieve was Hermann Dammann, b4, a home-guard leader accused of beat- ing with a rifle butt an unarmed flier who later was given a "mercy shot" by another German. The Army announced that the Judge Advocate General of the | | European command felt a late peti- | tion filed on Dammann's behalf | was "of sufficient merit" te war- At All-Time Detroit -- (CP) -- General Motors' vastly improved production was re- flected in its third quarter report, which showed sales and profits at all-time highs. But in making the report, C. E. Wilson, president, deprecated its rate of profits in relation to sales as being "in terms of inflated dol- lars and below prewar." Wilson also said that the net income does not reflect current increased material prices, Part of the materials used in the third period was drawn from inventories bought at lower prices, he said. After deducting regular dividends of $3,232,079 for preferred. stocks, the corporation's net amounted to $2.27 a share on the common stock outstanding. For the first nine months of the year, G.M. reported net sales of $3,- 436,331,992 and profits of $327,155,- 222. The net income was equivalent to $7.22 a share on the common and preferred dividends of $9,606,235. Compared with 1947 sales of three and three-quarter billion dollars, 1948 sales are running at the rate of four and a half billion dollars. Jap Admirals Go On Trial Yokohama, Oct. 29 -- (AP) -- Seven former Japanese admirals, including a grandson of the late Emperor Meiji, today pleaded in- nocent of charges of robbing, tor- turing and murdering 800 survivors of torpedoed allied ships. They are among 43 members of the one-time Imperial Japanese Navy on trial before a United States Army commission. The de- fendants are accused of conspiring in atrocities against British, French, Indian, Dutch, Norwegian and Am- erican survivors of at least 11 ships sunk in the South Pacific and In- dian Oceans by Japanese sub- marines, Survivors were machine-gunned in the sea and in lifeboats, and were clubbed with pipes and sledge hammers, bayonetted and shot on submarine decks, the prosecution charges. The grandson of Emperor Meiji is Vice-Admiral Teruhisa Komatsu, 60, a fcrmer commander-in-chief of the Japanese sixth submarine fleet from Maich, 1942, to June, 1943, Other admirals on trial are: Vice-Admiral Hisashi Ichioka, Vice- Admiral Tasuku 'Nakazawa, Rear Admiral Kyugoro Shimamoto, Rear Admiral Noboru Ishizaki and Rear Admiral Haruo Katzuta. Archery Popular Sport At O.C. V.L St. Catharines, Oct. 20--(CP)--A proposed settlement of the five- month-old McKinnon Industries strike was agreed upon today by company officials and representa- tives of Local 199, United Automo- bile Workers (C.I.O.). Terms | must be ratified by the union membership were not made known. The settlement agreement was signed today by McKinnon officials | and members of Local 199 policy committee. Company officials and | representatives of General Motors Corporation, of which McKinnon is a subsidiary, took part in almost | day-long discussions this week with union representatives. A meeting of the policy committee Thursday | night decided to accept terms of- | fered by the company. A general meeting of the union membership will be held here Sun- | day ance or afternoon to vote on accept- | rejection of the proposed | settlement. T. J. Cook, president of McKin- | non's, said today: "Should the ! membership ratify the agreement | we intend to re-open immediately." | Employees would be notified when ¢ | to report for work. | plies parts The McKinnon plant here sup- for General Motors plants at Windsor and Oshawa. Fog Slows Traffic On 'Highways Traffic in this area was slowed | down to a crawl or brought to a | complete stop last night by a heavy | fog which blanketed the Oshawa | district along with other large sec- | | # |of the city. Heavy transports were | Some hardy drivers While perhaps not as prominent as many of the competitive sports in which the boys of. the school participate, archery is one of the most popular among the girl pupils at the Oshawa Collegiate and Vocational Institute. Shown comparing their scores at the target are, left to right -- Martha Washington, Betty Skelton and Barbara Whittington, all Form III pupils. --Times-Gazette Staff Photo No Power Exemption For Local Post O ices Due Extreme Shortage A request from Postmaster N. J.| Moran that the postal buildings on King and Simcoe Streets be ex- cluded from the power cut-offs was turned down last night by the Pub- lic Utilities Commission. Mr. Moran in his request had pointed out that the cut-offs affected the caficelling machines .and interferred with the sorting of mai due to employees being unable to work without light. P.U.C. Manager George F. Shreve told the commission that in Toronto there are 13 post offices and all but two of them, the main offices, are being cut off at present. He had been informed that the main offices will soon be affected as well. The commission decided to send a reply to the Postmaster saying that "due to the extreme power shortage," it was unable to grant this request, Consistently Exceeds Quota Discussing the power shortage, Mr. Shreve pointed, out that Osh- awa is consistently exceeding its quota. and warned that industries which have been the main offenders in using too much hydro face the possibility of being cut off. "How big a farce is this power shortage?" asked Commissioner Harry Baldwin. "We have been run- ning over our quota for a month now. Why haven't they cut us off?" "I think we will have news on that on Monday," Mr. Shreve re- plied. "There may be an announce- NO EXEMPTION (Continued on Page 5) Mackenzie King May Take Drive London, Oct. 29-- (CP) -- Prime Minister Mackenzie King of Canada is "coming along splendidly" and may take an automobile ride around London today if the pressure of his engagements is not too great, his staff reported this toring. Tomorrow he will leave for South- ampton to board the Queen Eliza- beth, which sails Sunday for New York, on his way home to Canada. THE WEATHER Nightime fog with partial day- time clearing today and Satur- day. Little change in tempera- ture. Winds light. Low tonight and high Saturday 38 55. Sum- mary for Saturday: Little change. Police Ask Drivers Exercise Great Care Hallowe'en Night "I would like to issue a warn- ing about driving tomorrow eve- .ning," said Police Chief Owen ,D. Friend. "There will undoubt- edly be a good many parties aronnd town gnd parties occa- sionally have a deleterious ef- fect on some drivers' perform- ance in a car." Safe and careful driving is a must at any time the Chief pointed out, but on Hallowe'en one should be particularly care- ful. Few Hallowe'en Decorations Available Here There's more to: this mask busi- ness than meets the eye--and that's no gag. A tour of Oshawa stores made this morning indicates that there is a very definite shortage not only of false faces but also of Hallowe'en decorations of all kinds. Reason for this is the restrictions on imports from the United States: Before the last war, it appears, most of the masks were made in Germany. During the war the busi- ness was taken over by United States industrialists. Sudden clamp- ing down of restrictions caught Canadian manufacturers with their masks "down and they are now able to cope with the present de- mand. There are false faces on the shelves but they are made mostly of paper and are of a cheap and sleazy material. The elaborate moulded masks of yesteryear are no more. There are going to be a good | many disappointed youngsters in town. Hallowe'en last year was a tame affair in Oshawa. The fire depart- ment reports that not a single alarm was turned in. Police say that they had little trouble last year with. the exception of the odd drunk teetering around. Conse- quently they are making no excep- tional preparations this October. JL ISLEY | RESIGNS SEAT IN COMMONS | sag | Prime Minister St. Laurent an- nounced today Hon. J. L. Ilsley, | former Finance and Justice Minis- | ter, has resigned his Commons seat and a by-election will be held Dec. 13 to fill the vacancy in Digby- Annapolis-Kings. Mr. Ilsley resigned the justice ministry last June 30 to return to private law practice. He now is a member of a Montreal firm of law- yers. ' A member of the Commons since 1926, Mr. Ilsley was Canada's Fin- ance Minister during the Second World War. He became Minister of National | Revenue in 1935 and switched to the finance portfolio in 1940. After serving through the balance of the war in that tough post, he moved over to the less strenuous Justice Ministry late in 1946 for health reasons. Arab Attacks Gaining Force Tel Aviv, Oct. 29-- (AP) -- The | Israeli Army said today the force | of Arab attacks on the central and : northern Palestine fronts had in- | creased in the last 24 hours and | the Jews have given up some | ground. | A Jewish spokesman said Iraqi | artillery 15 miles from Tel Aviv was | shelling the Ras El Ain area just | east of the Jewish capital this mor- | ning and that Iragi infantry cap- | tured a second height inside Jewish | territory in that arc- The Jews apparently are replying only with artillery and mortar fire. | NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette Average Per Issue September 1942 8,592 | Ottawa, Oct. | stable Kowal, | tinental at- Arequipa, {other army units in Southern Peru tions of the province. At one time, during the worst of | the fog, at about eight o'clock, traf- | fic was piled up on the outskirts | loath to take a chance on the al- | most completely obscured highway | so they stopped and waited until | the fog lifted. Police here and Provincial Con- | of Bowmanville said today that not all traffic was stop- of the settlement which | * The anticipated lay-off at the General Motors plant which had | been expected to go into effect at | the beginning of next week has been | cancelled, J. B. Highfield, General Manufacturing Manager of the com= | pany, announced this morning. About 3,500 employees are affected here. "The inventory period has been | postponed for the time being," Mr, | Highfield said. "We will try to op= | erate as much as possible with the | stocks on hand. Material shortages | may bring about an occasional days' [lay-off but the general lay-off has | been cancelled." | Notices announcing cancellation of the lay-off were posted on bul- |letin boards throughout the huge plant. The notices read: "Disregard | previous notice. The plant will oper |ate normally at 7 a.m. on Monday, | November 1." The previous notice referred to | was one announcing the general |1ay- off. Mr. Highfield did not enlarge on his brief statement. Union officials | also withheld comment. On Wednesday W. A. Wecker, President and General Manager, announced that the plant would close down early next week unless there was some relief from present material shortages. At that time | Mr. Wecker said that the company was faced with the shutdown be- | cause of the prolonged strike at McKinnon Industries in St. Cath- arines. McKinnon's is one of the company's important suppliers, he continued, and the company was unable to secure alternative sources for a number of items which they supply. Mr, Wecker said that when the supply of such items became | exhausted the company would have | to stop production operations in the | plant. Windsor Lay-Off Cancelled Windsor; Oct, 20--(CP)--D. K. McDonald, general manager of the Windsor office of the General Motors of Canada, Limited, today announced the cancellation of a shutdown, scheduled to begin today. The announcement followed a re- port from Oshawa that G.M. there had cancelled.a shutdown scheduled for Monday. 'Serbia Stone ped although it was slowed -down. | continued to press on through the murk. The mist lifted at about nine- thirty or ten o'clock and traffic re- sumed its normal pace. Patches of fog continued to drift across the 'Not Intended 'As Platform roads but there was not enough to! make driving a hazard. Canadian Car 'Market Goo Ottawa, Oct. : 29-- (CP) -- Factory shipments of Canadian-made motor J cession, the said Thursday. The figure, highest since last April, compares witia 16,959 in Aug- ust and, 24,205 in September, 1947. At Sept. 20, this year's shipments totalled 185,022 units, compared with 187,986 in the same nine months of last year. September shipments included 16,- 378 passenger cars and 6,397 com- mercial vehicles, Of the passenger units, 13,384 were made for sale in Canada, 2,994 for export; 5936 com- mercial vehicles were for Canadian sale, 1,461 'or export. | Air Force Used Against Rebels Lima, Peru, Oct. 29--(AP)--Mili- tary action against an army revolt in southern Peru was cloaked today in 'a war of words between the government and rebel-seized radios. The air force was ordered into action against the rebellious army garrison at Arequipa, main city of Southern Peru. The rebels, through radio con- said several had joined the revolt. The - stone that has served fo® close to 25 years as a speaker's platform at Oshawa's cenotaph was i never intended for that purpose | and it is still not too late to remedy' | the situation, Col. Frank Chappell pointed out at a meeting of the Memorial Dedication committee last | night. | The popular local historian told the meeting that when "The Gar- {den of the Unforgotten" was ready | venices jumped to 23,775 units in | for dedication back in 1924 all the September after a. two-month re- | Bureau of Statistics | stones requested for the monument had arrived except one, that from | Serbia. Afraid that the 'memorial | would look unfinished, the contrac= tor placed a block of local granite in the vacant spot under the name of 'Serbia. "As usual, a day or two later the stone from Serbia arrived. and as it was too late to change the stones it was placed on the ground in front - of the memorial until after the dedication," Col. Chappell de- clared. "At the dedication, and since that time, it has been used as a speaker's platform and I often wonder if the powers that be will ever have it installed in its proper place." Injury Accident Award Man $350 Cobourg, Oct. 28--Judgment for $350 and costs was handed down in Assize Court to Clifford Allen of Darlington Township in his action against Lorne Bradley of Hampton. Allen claimed $5,000 damages. for a broken leg he said was suffered in an argument with Bradley over some lumber, plaintiff claiming he was pushed into a depression in the ground. The jury ruled the in- jury accidental. * LATE NEWS BRIEFS C.I.D. TO INVESTIGATE Toronto, Oct. 29 (CP)--Provincial Police said today an officer of the Criminal Investigation Department will be sent t6 Amyot, Ont., 250 miles west of Sudbury in dense bushland, to investigate a fire in which Jack Har- gis, 68-year-old tourist guide was killed. SENTENCED FOR MANSLAUGHTER Toronto, Oct. 29 (CP)--Convicted here Thursday of manslaughter in the traffic death Aug. 13 of James Walter Hughes, Clifford Reid, 37, today was sentenced to one year definite and six Reformatory. months indefinite in Ontario CANADIAN PLAN ACCEPTED Raris, Oct. 29 (CP)--The United Nations Security Council today accepted a Canadian plan to turn over the hot issue of sanctions in Palestine to a sub-coramittee. Meanwhile unconfirmed reports circulated that Presi- dent Truman had withdrawn United States support for economic pressure to stop the Holy Land waf,™- , * b 4