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FEAR 300. AFRICANS KILLED IN MAU MAU MASSACR

Comrnunisl:s' Spring Drive Stalled By Marines

Electoral Reform Considered

Moubund Issue

The possibility of any electoral reform in this Province is remote now following the filing of its re- port by the Select Standing Corn- mittes appointed at the last ses- sion oof the Legislature. The com- mittee was automatically dis- banded

The committee found that "citi- zens generally aippeared either to be satisfied with the present state of the election law or indifferent as to the various matters referred to your committee for study and report." It: had previously made note of a lack of public interest as shown by non-attendance at the hearings.

The last paragraph brought forth considerable discussion in the morning session yesterday as it suggested the committee had de- cided to give the people a further- opportunitw of being heard by holding additionsi meeting this year. However. Mr. William Hugh- es. Fifth Kings. immediately rose to inform the members that the committee was automatically fin- ished when the House met! and heard its report. This, he stated. was b the committee had been appointed by the last session "and one Legislature cannot bind succeeding ones". '

A large number of members took part in the debate on the report with the Progresive Conservative side oi the House maintaining they had not bear the ones ruponeible for asking fior electoral reform al- though most of the speakers read-

By Legislature B u I I e ti n

CONNEAUT. 0.. (AP)-Two crack New York Central pas- aengsr trains smashed into a derailed car of a freight train near here Friday night and the iaiiroad said firstreports were that five passengers were killed.

were necessary. .

Mr. George savllle objected to the implication that bribery was rife in Provincial elections. "I don't think anyone on this side bought hs seat", he said. "I know X did not. I could not afford it.' He also said that if he had to pay a man to vote for him he would want to see him mark the ballot before he could trust him.

Vote Figures

Hon. A. W. Matheson gave the total votes in the 1947 and 1951 elections to show that a statement before the committee that one speaker represented a group (the C.CJ'l. Party) indicated that only 1.000 people of a total of 45.000 voters were meant. He paid a tri- bute to one Charottetown citizen who had appeared at the hearing simply to exipress his own personal views l-ie wished there were more like him. The reference was to Mr. Arthur Wright.

Mai John A. MacDonald said the vote figures quoted represented

ily admitted that isome reforms

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Floodwatea-s Spread Across New England

BOSTON. (AP); -- Floodwatsra sprud across New nd and northern New Tork day night as three days of torrential spring rains filled streams to overflowing.

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..Coming Events

"Dance in Millview Hall, s:a's't?r Monday.

"Farmers. ask about the Bhui Gain Feed Finance Plan. For part iculars contact your local leed mill

"Rummage sale. zion Hall. Sat- urday. March arm. at 2.30 in aid of Girl Guide Company.

"Salvation Army programme and Sunday awards. Monday. 0 P.

"Alpha Phiat Rummage sale, if. M. C. A.. Junior League. Sat- urday. March lath, 2.30.

"Modern and Smsra "GIT Saturday night. Ballroom.

Dancing Sunnyside

"Easter Monday dance. Mount Stewart. Legion Hall. Burns Or- cheatra.

"Pantry sale, More & M l.eod's, Saturday. March seen, 3.90 P. M. llighneld W. I.

"Kathi! Mestins Mt suvart Branch Canadian Lesion. will be held in Legion Room. Monday. March 30th. 0 P. M. Please attend.

"Come to Bean Supper in Crap- aud 1-fall Saturday. March Bath. Serving from 5 o'clock. Auspicu Ladier Aid Crapaud vriitad Church.

"Here it is! The reopening Dance. lst. Patrick's Hall. ricrt Augustus. Easter Monday. April 0th. sponsored by 5., P. Y. C. Burke's Orchestra.

"We are pleased to announce the snpointmssip of Grave Mac- Miilan as ex usive rill-O-Pep dealer for the icovehead district and vicinity. We solicit your pat- ronage on behalf of our dealer. Quaker Oats Co. of Canada

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homes in Maine, where the floods were described as the worst since the 1930 disaster which left five dead and caused s25,000.000 in loses,

Hardest hit communities were in Maine and New Hampshire where melting White mountain snows added to the rainfall in swelling the Androscoggin and slice rivers.

More than 1,200 families were ev- Wmled in Mexico. Me. where the turbulent Swift river joim the An- droecoggin. and some 40.000 per- sons in the industrial Lewiston- Auburb section prepared to aban- don tihcir homes.

one Death

The on-ly death was reported from Fainfield. Me.. Wthere 5 70- year-old teamster drowned with his horses when a bridge collapsed rm. der them.

swirling waters flowed at depths up to three feet in the main streets 01 many small towns and state highways were closed. in isolated ed sections iirom central Maine. acres New Hunpshire and Ver- mont to the Black river valley in central New York.

The floods dmrupted train sched- ules wflfi traffic to Canada from Concord. N.H.. virtually at a standstill.

Disaster-trained Red Omm per- sonnel from washinslton was being flown to the flooded areas by plane and additional units were being sent to Maine by all available tranmortstion. '

IDNDON. (OP) -- Authorities have employed a normally-illegal inlthod in trying to catch a "moon. erased" sex sadiat who killed at least four women and concealed their bodiu in his dingy London apartment. ' ' . A nhototnph of bald. meek-looib inc um. John Christie. No. 1 sus- pect in the country-wide manhunt. was published Friday in OWlpUD- srs all over Britain. -

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Win Back first Ground Since Drive Started

By GEORGE McAltTHUR

SEOUL. (AP) - Hard-flivhting United States iviiarinee. sitter knock- ing out possibly two-thirds of the 3,500 attackingt Chlnae Reds, to- day clamped a firm grip on the first hill ground recaptured since the Communists last Sunday un- leashed their spring drive in west- ern Korea.

Hand-to-Hand Combat

Friday night armor-vested Ma- rines elimaxed 10 hours of savage, hand-to-hand combat by winning back Vegas outpost.

Vegas was one of two outposts near Bunker hill where Marines fougfht to the last man Thursday before yielding to wavm of Chinese attacking at 10 points.

The Reds had swung their punch to the Marine sector after driving U S. 7th division inifantry off Old Baldy. 25 miles to the northeast. Wednesday. Since then. Old Baldy has been given such a ceaseless shelling and bomibing that Allied stragglers coming in from its slopes say the Reds have pulled back from it momentarily. .

old Baldy and Bunker are sen- tinel hills on two invasion routes to Seoul,

Air Move Falls

While Friday's fight for Vegas was at its height. the emboldened Reds apparently tried to send MK!- 15 Jets down to the front against the Marines. They got within 25 miles before intercepting Austra- lian twin-jet Meteors tzumecl them back. probably shooting down one MiG and damaging anolther.

Shipping Seasoniio Open At Montreal

MONTREAL. (CF)---Two ships are expected to arrive here next week to open the Montreal ship- pmlz season. but only one is elig- ihle for the honor of opening the port.

A contender for that honor is the Canuk Line steamer Sea. board Star which may enter the Gulf of St. Lawrence today. The ship now is seven days out of England and her skipper could win the coveted gold-headed name if first in from an overseas port.

The N0FWPRian American Line

vs-sscl Svi-nfjcli is expected to leave Saint John, N. 8.. for Montreal today.

Ice conditions in the gulf

largely control the opening of the port. The St. Lawrence river channel is mainly open, but, them still is considerable ice in the gulf. , .

N. 3. Schools To Close For Funeral

' . (OP) -Educa. tion Minister Claude D. Taylor annomiced Friday that all public schools in New Brunswick will be closed Tuesday. March 31. The We-dny closing has been ordered

to mark the funeral of Queen Mary. which will be held that day.

Country-Wide Hunt For Suspected Sex Killer

frlilhtening for Londoners since the "acid bath" slayings four years ago in which dapper George Halan con- fesed killing nine persons and dis- solving their remains.

One police theory is that the killer. driven by the fury of a de- ranged mlnd. might strike satin when the moon is full - in four ds.ys' time. There is some evidence: to show that some at his previous victims whose bodies he hid -bah-ind the wall and floors of the death autrtment were killed when the moon wssluil a month ago.

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Jobs Unless

NtEw'WA'IiElR.FOR.D. N. 5.. (CP) -Close to 3,000 Cape Breton coal miners were told Friday they will be kicked out of their uii'iori- which means loss of their jobs- unless they and a wildcat strike which has closed three of the is- land's top-producing pits.

United Mine Workers (COL) district 26 said it will revoke the charters of the three locals in- volved unless the men go back to work. '

Order Ignored

President F r e e m a n Jenkins, whose "back to work" order Wed- nesday was ignored, said the charters will be suspended unless the men go back into the pits.

suspension would mean that members of the locals would not be employed by the coal company and other unionized miners would refuse to work with them.

The deadline wasn't announced, but the next shift begins Sunday night and it is believed that will probably be it. The miners do not wonk Saturday.

"The cost of living is so high it is reducing the standard of liv- ing," Major John A. MacDonald. chief financial critic of the Pro- gressive Conservatives. said yes- terday as he resumed the debate on the budget in the Legislature. Maj. MacDonald also said that the ,, test pressure in this respect was being felt by the primary pro- ducer and the white collar worker.

He thought the Western wheat farmer was the one who was get- ting all the consideration today and said the Maritime farmers got none. and in addition they were saddled with the extra burden of mounting freight rates. He did not believe that the Government could successfully regulate farm prices as they would always have a ten- dency to seek their own level through the natural law of supply and demand.

The speaker exipressed agree- ment with the budget speech in that there were three important factor - volved in building the ecfr of this Province. He de-

iored the declining population and said we could support more peo- ple while at the same time point- ing out that the public deibt now amounted to approximately 3190 per person or a mortgage on each farm of about 31,700.

pack into Old Groove

While expressing appreciation of the present budget for the past year he noted that "we are get- ting back into the same old groove by budgeting for mother deficit next year." He suggested that the Province was becoming too de- pendent on the Federal Govern- gieflit, the taxes on liquor and gaso-

ne.

He disagreed with the Govern- ment that ths farmers here were in a good position as he pointed out that though they might be purchasing many tractors and oth- er equipment it was a possibility that even a. slight recession could place them in a bad position be- cause of a too sensitive cred-it position.

The speaker said that possibly one of the reasons for the over- all surplus this year was the fact that the treatment centre at Fal- conwood had not been built. though it had been expected. He did not approve of the reduction in the coat of operating the Department of Health and Welfare and said it was his opinion that the Govern- ment wss .not generous enough

Lightkeeperis Wife Ila: Prize iiovel

TORONTO. (OPT-Mrs. Evelyn M. Richardson. wife of a light- lrouha keeper on non Ptrtage island

on Dhar Harbor. us. has won "II 01.000 Ry fiction award for lm. SI novel,

'D00ii'0d Haven", in A story of the Nova ,sectia coast.

lira aloha:-don won the Gov- Itidr-Gedaraib Ivan! for creative ncudstion in 106 for "we xosp A mat". a samltivs narrative of ' lite on tin ltland.

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3,000 Miners Face Loss 01

Strike Ends

Mr. Jenkins said "the decisi5'n to return to work must be made by each local individually, not at a mass meeting." The strikers plan to hold a mass meeting Sun- day.

Started Monday

The walkout started Monday when 1,200 miners at the No. 12 coiliery stayed home in protest against the suspension of 13 fei- low-workera. The men were sus- pended for refusing company or- ders to work in another section of the mine.

Another 1,200 from No. 16 pit joined the walkout Wednesday and 550 more stayed away from the single-shift No. 10 Thursday. No. 12 is the top producers, with 3,000 tons of coal daily.

The strking miners could not be employed by Dominion steel and Coal Corporation if they lost their union membership.

The strike was a blow to the union. whose executive officers were negotiating for a new work- ing contract.

Opposition Critic Continues Budget Debate Yesterday

MaJor J. A. MacDonald

with old people. They needed more than they were getting and he ob- jected to the Government trying to save expenses by cutting down on amounts paid to them. However, he said he realized the Island could not hope to match the ex- penditures of other. Provinces be- cause we did not have the re- sources.

Teaehers Need More Money

While not critical of the De- partment of Education he thought

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Men. viifen And Children Hacked To Death .

By RONALD BATCHELOR. UlPLA.N-D6, Kenya. (Reuters)- Police today poked through smould- ering ruins looking for pharred vic- tims of 'I'hu.rsd:ay night's -hideous moonlight Mau Mau massacre.

some 300 Africans were feared dead after the anti-white Mau Mau terrorists wreaked savage vengeance on members of their own race.

Already more than 150 bodies have been recovered. Senior police officials said they believe at least another 150 hacked and burned corpses are in the wreckage at Lari Location and the Naivasha police station near here.

Killers Get Arms

The area is on guard. A raid on the police station armory has given the Mau Mau killers a big supply of guns and ammunition.

To support the local security forces. two more battalions of British troops will be airlifted into this East Africa colony next week. bringing the trbops in action against the Mau Mau to a strength of 5,500.

This will not help the dead - the butchered children. the slaught- ered pregnant women, the head- less men lying in blackened pools of blood.

Few Escape

The few survivors escaped when they shammed death.

Police said the massacre. in which no Europeans were attacked, was s. carefully-planned operation against Kikuyu loyal to the British colonial government. They said the whole night murder had been pian- ned by Kenya's No. 1 Mau Mau terrorist. Dedan Kimathi. He is waruted, dead or alive.

500 Suspects

.The police compound is cram- med with some 500 suspects. and police said they believed they have rounded up most of the men who took part in the raids.

The success of the biggest man- hunt sinoe the Mau Mau terror began came when the native wo- men broke silence and denounced by the score the men who they had seen rip up small children with long knives.

one Kikuyu woman pointed out a. suspect and declared he had torn her baby from her breast, held it wt arm's length and sliced off the

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B.ii. Legisl-ahue is Prorogueii

VICTORIA. (OP) - The British Columbia legislature was prorogued Friday ending an historic session.

It was the first session of From- ier W.A.C. Bennett's Social Credit government and it marked the first time in 50 stars an administration had been defeated on the floor of the House.

The defeat came Tuesday night. Premier Bennett is expected to ask Lieutenant-Governor Clarence Wal- lace for dissolution of the 48-mont- bar House and an election. The

probabh date is June it.

'I'ORON'IO. (CP) -- Joe Lacosse. 26, taulked out of limping 300 feet from A television tower. is to be mentally examined. ,

Laoosse appeared in court Friday on a charge of creating a. public disturbance and was remanded to April 2. The Crown suggested the mental examination. A

Police said Lwcosse climbed the townr of the CBC's Toronto TV station CELT Thursday nlirlit after the CBC fired him as A TV sound- effects man and after he spent several hours in a drinking spree with his red-haired girl friend. Jane Kilmourne.

His stunt created more drama than the TV program being watch- ed at the time by viewers within about 100 miles of Toronto. the Golden Gloves boxing tournament. in Chicago.

Thousands Watch

While tinussnds of persons galli- ersd in thevatresta near me once new television building in.ceiitrsi Toronto. powerfxd seamhlighb were set updonrssnen need a not below the. -cfootstedspireandDe- toctive Robes-t Miller climbed to the 300-foot level where Lscosss was dining.

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his descent. She threw her arms around him and asked:-

Refers To Fight

"om, Joe, why did you do it?" Today Mics Kiibourne, s. CBC em- ployee. said the incident was part of wthat she called "a real battle” between Lacosse and top officials of the CBC. But. neither she nor Lacosse would say what the fight was about.

Ron Fraser. director of public relations for the CBC in Toronto. released an official statement which said: "There is no difference of opinion between Toronto and Ot- tawa on the discharge of this em- ployee. Every case is thoroughly in- vmtigated before any employee is discharged.

0'1-rswa. (OF) A Defence Min-I ister Olaxton said Friday thati Canada still hasn't got any squad- rons of the C-100 jet fighters spec- ially designed for home defence but that the first squadron now is in proces of formation.

It was impossible to form a de- fence squadron earlier, he said. be- cause there were no planes avail- able of the type. Canada needs for her defence - long-range, all-wea- ther planes - either in Canada or elsewhere.

Behind Schedule

Various delays have put C-100 production mcntuhs behind sched- ule. In the meantime. the R.C.A.F. has formed 12 squadrons of short- range, daylight F-86E S-abre jets for service in Europe, .

As the Commons echoed briefly to a retired wing commanders charge that Canada is defenceless in the air and that Mr. Claxton has misled the country into think- his otherwise. the minister predict- ed that within a year Canada will lock on the decision "to build C-1005 as "a major contribution” to con- tinental defence. He said he has made the present air-defence sit- uation plain "time and time again.”

Claxton's Forecast

Mr. Olaxtdn's forecast that the l2-squadron commitment for Eur- ope wili be met on schedule - by the spring of 19.54 - and "it should be possible for us similarly to com- plete the planned buildup of the defence of Canada." In the mean- time, there were Sabre squadrons on duty in Canada preparing to go abroad plus "0. large mi-miber" of air crew and aircraft at operation- al training uniis and a number of auxiliary or reserve squadrons with older Mustang and Vampire planes.