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DEMANDS INDEMNITY FROM USSR FOR LOSS OF PLAN

Gardiner Forecasts New Farm Marketing Plan

Conservatives Withhold Fire As Cripps Presents New Austerity Budget

By ALAN HARVEY LONDON. April is - (GP) -sir Stafford Cripps. stern caretaker of Britain's finances, today granted the public some minor income-tax relief but announced that other- wise there will be no tempering of the country's austerity in the com- ing year.

His tax wncesslons in lower in- rome brackets. announced to the House of Commons in his budget speech. put savings of up to iii 55 ts:H.S5) a year in the pockets of the middle classes, some of whose tots the Labor Government hopes to win at the next election.

Benefits on a lesser scale went to lower wage groups who have been agitating in recent months against the wage-freezing policy imposed so rigidly by the Chau- cellor of the Exchequer.

The lowest-paid stand to gain little, but the increased allowances may encourage more overti.ne work. ”Coai miners in particular have been loud in complunts against paying I heavy percentage of their extra earnings to the government.

Cripps sat there could be no re- laxation of wage stabilization policy vwithout courting inflation and unemploymtnin

An immediate attack on the bud- get by the Conservative ODDOW tion, predicted by some observers with their eyes on the Govern- ment's shaky majority of four. did not materialize. Anthony Eden. deputy Conservative leader. said big party would reserve its coin- uent for a day or so.

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In his two-hour-and-19-minute speech. Sir staffoi-cl save the crowded House of Common: thll

other news: -.

1, 1' on gasoline will go up so. (about 10 cents) makins the selling price 35. (46 cents) 8 gallon. but the standard gaso- line ration will be increased enough to allow for 180 miles driving a month - double the present ration.

2. strength of beer will be in- creased 10 per cent. up i0 M” its pre-war potency. but the pi-lea of 9d. g glass remains.

"What it means is better beer for the same price." the Chm- celinr said.

3. A purchase tax of 33 1-3 99? cent will be levied on commer- cial vehicles. The purchase tax on high-priced cars will be re- ducecl from it 2-3 to 33 1-3 per cent.

4. The housebuilding program will be restored to 200.000 houses 3. year from the 105.000 to which it was out last year.

5. No further increases will be permitted 'n the cost of the me national health service. and food subsidies, which keep down prices oi bas.c foodstuffs. will be frozen at f4l0.000.000 a

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Coming Ev ants

"Don't miss Variety Concert in Stella Maris Hall. Tuesday. April '31st. at 8.15. ”

'.Piease bring grain and fl be cleaning before May. Int. Wilfred Pickering. Clinton.

"Loading hogs. April 20th. at Fredericton until 11 a.m. and Col- Vilie until 11.30. D. L. MacDowell.

"Show. "ltomame of the Royal Mounted" plus "laurel and Hardy" Short at New Glasgow tonight. Don't miss this Showi

"Dance to Eastern Rhythm music in Mt. Stewart Canadian gashion Hall. Thursday nlsht. NDT11

"'l'ruoking for Canada Dalton. Winsioe and vic- Cliffosd Chandler. North

P lnity. Milton.

"Mail your Films to Garnhuin Photo ltudio. Charlottetown.

"Farmers new booking Clover 30?. Rush order. ptcoulsln & ya.

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Mr. Leon Balcer. K.C.. M.P. for Three Rivers (above) who was elected president of the Young Progressive Conservatives of Can- ada succeeding E. D. Fulton, it.f.P. Kamioops. B. C.. at bhe seventh annual meeting of the Y. P. O.'s. at Ottawa on Monday.

'I'hirty-three years of age. M.r. Balcer was elected to Parliament in the 1948 campzslgn.

He was born on November 30. 1917 at Three Rivers. the son of the late Leon Baker. barrister. and Mrs. Balcer. He studied at Three Rivers Public Schools and college and studied law at Laval University. Quebec City. He was admitted to the Quebec Bar in 1941.

From 1941 to 1945 Mr. Balcer served in the RONVR with the rank of first lieutenant.

He is a. member of the Junior Chamber of Commerce in Three Rivers and served as secretary of the suburbs of Three Rivers and has served as secretary for the Commission on Juvenile Delin- quency.

He is married and is the father of two children.

Mr. Balcer will undertake ex- ienslve organization particularly within the Province of Quebec. Di his acceptance speech he statediie would visit every section of the country in the near future on be- nur of the young Progressive Conservatives of Canada.

Leaves 530.000 Legacy To Acudio

AM'.HER.ST, N 5., April ill-(CP) -Acadia University of Wolfvilie, N. S., has been left a 530,000 1830037 by Annie M Hickman of Amherst, a graduate. Miss I-lickmnn's ivill. prohzited lodny. stipulated that the money be used to help poor and needy theological students at the University.

The will also provides flint residence and mud he sold the proceeds going in the Minist- ers Annuity Fund of the United Baptist Convention of ihe lviaztmes for relief of aged and infirm mini- sters. .

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By Philip Clarke

ROME. April 18 -- (AP) -Rus- sin is building I submarine and rocket base on an Adriatic isle only 50 miles east of Italy. "1- formed Albanian exiles report.

This "Red Gibraltar" is Saseno. a strategic isle off Albania's port of Valerie. It is only two square miles in size but commands the 50-mile-wide bottleneck. between the Adriatic and Mediterranean

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Through thin narrow Strait of Otrantc" mun um -11 WP5 bound to and from the important Anglo-American occupied Port 0' Trieste at the head of the Adri- atie.

The exiles are leaders of the anti-Communist Albanian national

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Says Dehls Are Being Worked Oui

KINGSTON. Ont.. April is (OP) - Agriculture Minister Gar- diner said tonight the Government is trying to work out a new agri- cultural marketing plan that can function under private enterprise with the minimum of Government interference.

The basis for the new plan will be experience the Government gained in Canada's recent market- lngs or butter and eggs, he said in a. speech prepared for delivery before the Kingston Rotary Club.

While not disclosing how the new plan will be worked out, Mr. Gar- diner said the Government's great- est concern at the moment was that Canada's production be at a level "which will take core of our possible markets."

Marketings of butter and choice are functioning in different ways. The Government supports the price of butter and buys the surplus as it occurs. It does not take delivery od eggs, but merely guarantees the price the wholesaler will get at the end of the year.

Mr. Gardiner said the Govern- ment was supporting the prices of farm products in return for their consent to accept less than the world price for their products im- mediately after the war.

"When has the promise been ful- filled?" asked Mr. Gardina. "Tne answer to that question will be worked out in due course.

"When it has been fulfilled. we intend that a. plan -will have been worked out which removes the weaknesses of the free enterprise system without destroying its l.(l- vantages.”

Canada, he said. would in the future still be able to sell its sur- plus cheese and bacon in Britain but the question of selling butter and cheese in foreign-markets was a different matter.

"It is impossible for us to ship either product any distance from Canada in normal times and tell it after paying shipping costs in com- petition with producers living in more moderate climates."

The plan, then, would have to be worked out so that the full pro- duction of these products is con- sumed in Canada. Mr. Gardiner said. V

Cuts in U. S. Postal Services

WASHINGTON. April 1a-(A.P)- sharp cuts in United States postal service. including a reduction to one delivery a day in residential areas. were ordered today by Post- master-General Jesse M. Donaldson.

The orders, effective immediately upon receipt, reach most postmast- er: tomorrow in the regular postal bulletin.

The orders come at at time when Donaldson is seeking increased postal rates and appropriations from Congress.

The r-stmaste -General said the

reductions are necessary in view of ;Congress' decision against his rec- ,ommenda.tion for rate increases amounting to about t800,000.0C0 I lyear. The House of Representatives out the rate raise to t1oo.ooo.ooo land that increase is still pending tin the senate. Donaldson said ithat amount would be "wholly in- sufficient" to cover present operat- ions. -

Russia Building Red Gibraltar In Adriatic

............-.e---e Saseno and the port of Valona. Russian supplies and other ma- lei-lais arrive by sea in soviet ships or by a Red air lift shuttling between Budapest, Sofia and Tir- ana, the lead-locked capital of Al- bsnia.

From Tirana. the air lift sup- plies are trucked 70 mils along an Italian-built highway to Valona.

Meantime. lnver Hoiiha. Al- baiiia's at-year-old Premier. and his Interior Minister and Vice- Premier. Mebrnet shehu. are busy trying to keep the country's anil- Cornmdnilb in line.

shehu. often described as Al- baniats real strong man. is Mos- cow-tralned. He has waged a number of purges since the Com- munists came to power in 1045.

” At present. 8behu's force of 70.- (too police and regular troops is battling It brigades of snti-Corn- munist partisans entrenched in mountain stroogbolthin-the north. 0 rebels are,si-med with latt- German Itlnli

One of the most valuable ship- ments of livestock purchased in this Province, comprising thirty- flve head of standard bred Jersey cattle. will leave here on April 25th for the Sunny South.

The cattle have been purchased by Mr. L. C. Coleman, of Nash- ville, Tennessee. through Mr. Harold Stead, of Buckley.

Last Spring Mr. Coleman was so pleased with the shipment of Jer- seys he acquired here that he placed this large order this year with Mr. Stead. They have been bought from the following island

Large (Shipment Of P.E.I. Jerseys For Tennessee

breeders: Messrs. Fred Coles. Clark Brothers. .l3ruce MacDonald, Miller Henderson and Alex. Hen- derson. of New Wiitshire; George MacMillan, Cornwall; Rev. Donald Nicholson, Brookfieid: Emerson MacLeod. Glasgow Road; Dr. J. T. Lantz. Charlottetown. and Har- old Stead, Bracklcy.

Mr. Coleman is known through- out the United States for his abil- ity to judge Jerseys. and his pur- chase of this second large ship- ment of island standard breds is striking testimony to the superior quality of Prince Edward island stock.

Naiionalisis Claim Complete Viciory Ovgr Reds

HONG KONG. April 19 - (Wednesdsy) - (AP) - The Chinese Nationalism today pro- claimed a complete victory over the Communist invaders of Hainen Island. The Red press and radio did not contradict them.

There still is the possibility that the Reds are holding on at

South China and the possibility the Nationalist claims are gross- ly exaggerated.

But thus for the battle news all points in favor of the Nation- alists. It indiicatm --' but does not confirm - that the Reds made a big and desperate effort to take the stronghold and were bloodily. perhaps dlsastrously, repulsed.

News reaching Hong Kong's independent Chinese papers .. usually more reliable than the official Nationalist versions is- sued at Formosa---reported:

Only I handful of Rods still were resisting on Limko Cape at dusk yesterday and the remaind- er of a "two-division invasion” force had been either killed, captured or dispersed.

Beavercove Wins Race -10 Montreal

MONTREAL. April 18- (CP)- The fast Canadian Pacific cargo ship Beavercove tonight won the rnce to open the 1950 ocean ship- ping season to this inland port. overtaking two other vessels be- tween Three Rivers. Que.. and Montreal.

The 9.824-ion Eenvercove docked here at 8:15 p.m.. EST. completing the 150-mile dash up the narrow. twisting channel from Quebec to Montreal. She left Quebec at 9:50 a.m. today. nearly six hours behind the Swedish freighter Erland.

When the Beavercove docked. there was no immediate sign of her .., is. the 1.334-ion bland nnd the Manchester Port.

Capt. S. W. Keny. skipper of the Besvercove. will be given a gold- headerl cans for bringing his ves- sel first into port. The ceremony is expected to take place tomorrow Thursday. .

Driving Too Fast With 1910 Aurornobllo

BROOKLINE. Mass.. April 10 - (AP)-John P. Miller of Stratford, Conn.. reported today that he was stopped by a Bmokline policursan Yb? thought helwse driving too as .

That was a bit unusual. consid- ering that Miller. heading for an antique auto show in Boston. was driving a car built in 1910.

In the ensuing conversation. the policeman decided Miller wasn't going too last after all. Miller was driving a 1910 white steamer. and he ted the policanan as saying his original speed estim- ate: "I guess it was all the steam and the noise."

WINDIOII IN IIONTIIAL

MONTRIIAI... April is - (OP) -The Duke and Duchess of wind- aor arrived hm today from Ot- tawa for a one-day visit. The cou-

ple will leav; for New York to- Bllht. ' -

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Love Triangle Theory In Plane-Bomb Case; Suicide Watch Ordered

By HERBERT D. WILI-IOIT

LOS ANGELES, April 18 - (AP) -- Heavy indebtedness, not "the other woman." aeronautical engin- eer John H. Grant told police to- day, calmed him to plot the death of his wife and two children - along with 13 other persons aboard a commercial airliner yesterday.

But in 9. Hollywood hotel suite. red-haired Betty Buornela, airlines stewardess, told a press conference that Grant had proposed marriage to her and that she wants to help him. if possible.

Detective Ned G. bogsdon said Grant dictated an extensive state- ment about his plot to do away with his family, collect 135.000 in insurance. and square himself flu- Inoialiy. :

Grant's wife. Betty, 26, and their daughter, Marie, 0. and son, Hob- ert. 5. were aboard a. United Air- lines San Diego-bound plane on the ground here yesterday when he rushed to the baggage-loading rack and shouted: "Don't let that plane take off! I Just put a bag on it full of gasoline."

Actually. the bag was about to be loaded. but it was carried to the runway, where it burst into flames. Police chemists said it contained a clock bomb timed to ignite a. gas- oline-filled rubber inner tube which would have set fire to the plane 50 minutes after its scheduled depart- ure. .

Pangs of conscience. Logsdon quoted G-rant as saying, caused him to repent.

Under Strict Guard

This morning juilord found Grant had torn strips of mattress from his cell bed and was trying to fash- ion a. noose. They placed him under strict guard.

He was booked on suspicion of attempted murder

Detective Jack ciouldstone quot- ed Grant as saying today:

"Let me stress that Betty Sno- mela was in c mplete ignorance as

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Siiffly v73rded Noie Delivered To Moscow

By Edward II. Bonner

WASHINGTON. April l8-(AP) -- The United States today filed a stern indemnity demand on Russia for what it termed the "unprovoked destruction" of an unarmed American patrol plane and the loss of 10 crew members in the Baltic Sea.

it also called for steps to pre- vent a "repetition, under whatever pretext. of incidents of this kind." The attack on the plane. the United States Government said. exposed the ”lnsincerity" of Russian claims of desiring peaceful relations with the west.

The Stale Department, in deliv- ering the stlffly-worded note to Moscow. rejected outright a Rus- sian protest that the navy patrol plane, missing since April 8. fired

on Russian fighters over Soviet- controiled Latvia. investigation shows, it said, '

that the plane at no time flew over Soviet territory and "it must be concluded that Soviet aircraft fired upon an unarmed

American plane over the open sea."

The United States also called on Russia to give prompt and severe punishment to those responsible for the incident.

Legislators Approve

The State Department stand found quick support from legis- laiors.

Chairman Carl Vinson (Dem.- Ga.) of the House of Representa- tives armed services committee. who is seeking a big boost in United States air power. told rs- porters that the United States "must be prepared to back up" any diplomatic notes it sends to Rus- sia.

Senator Tom Connally (Dem.- Tex.). chairman of the Senate tnreign..relalion.s committee, said: "I thoroughly approved the State Department note."

Senator Claude Bricker (Rep.- Ohio). observing mat the State Department took "proper" action. added: "I'm glad to see them take a positive position."

Along with its note the State Department released a statement, even more sharply worded, which praised the Scandinavian coun- tries for their help in the search for the missing plane then said:

Lack Of Courtesy

”By contrast there has not been the slightest evidence of any con- cern on the part of the soviet Government over the fate of our plane and its personnel. This seems an astonishing lack of common in- ternational courtesy and an un- usual disregard of human life.

”'1'his attitude of the Soviet Gov- ernment shows clearly the insin- cerity of its oft-proclaimed desire for peaceful relations with the United States and the non-Soviet world in general.

"The cause of peace is not furthered when the U. S. S. R. ostenlatiously decorates Soviet

airmen in a manner calculated to give the impression that they are being rewarded for shooting clown

a defcnceleu American plane."

Federal Govit May Get Out Of Butter Business

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OTTAWA. April 18 - (CF) - The Government may get out of the butter business.

An announcement on new butter support prices is expected within the next two weeks. A dairy auth- ority thinks it may contain .1 statement that the Government will leave future marketing entire- ly to the butter trade.

This step may be taken, it is un- derstood. as a result of talks os- tween the Government and the' butter trade. Dairy organizations have asked that they be given full responsibility for the sale of but- ter, with the Government support- ing the price as it does in the case of eggs:

The new procedure. if approved, is e ected to give butter manu- factu rs and distributors a freer hand in the sale of the product.

Last year the Government, in announcing a price support of 55 cents a pound undertook to buy all surplus butter as it became avail- able and as a result ended up in December, ms. with holdings of more than sii.000.000 pounds.

The new support price is expect- ed in be slightly below - probably about three or four cents - the 1040 rate. i

The new support plan. if it works the same way as it does for eggs. will mean that the Ctovem- ment will guarantee a floor price (for butter which will "pirate throughout the butter year but will

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storing and attempting to rid Government warehouses of surplus butter has caused some diilleuhy in the Agriculture Departmentls Marketing Branch.

Commercial Jet Plane Makes Aviation History

Nrzw YORK, April 18 - (orn- A jet-powered. four-engined com- mercial plane today streaked the 305 airline miles from Toronto to New York in Just under one hour.

The silver-hued Canadian-built Avro cleared the control tower at Melton Airport. just outside the Ontario capital, at 0280.04 A. M. E. S. T. and was clocked in over the control tower of ldlewiid Airport here at 10:30 A. M.

Captain Donald M. Rogers. chief test pilot for the firm. A.V. Roe Canada. Ltti.. of Melton. gave the time of so minutes 56 seconds for the flight and said the etllner av- eraged 400 miles an hou . .

Normal flying time for commer- cial airliners between Toronto and New York is one hour so minutes.

The Avro plane. powered by four gas turbine engines. carried the first mail ever flown by let.

Gordon Mcoregor. president of Trans-Canada Air Lines and one

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