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Russianlieio. Bars ItalylFrgm U. N. Membership King Gov't To Face

Major Test In House Of Commons Tuesday

Ooloinhian Revolt Seen Playing Into Oommunist hands

(B! 3011!! M. llightower)

WASHINGTON, April ll-(AP) —'I‘he Colombian revolution in re gsrded here as playing into the hands of Communist propagandistr throughout the world.

It disrupted the inter-American Conference at Bogota iust when western hemisphere leaders were seeking to present the world with fresh evidence oi inter-country uh- lty and stability. -

The revolt confronted State sec- retary George Marshall of the United Btatcs and other delega- tion chiefs at Bogota with the em- barrassing necessity ‘oi interrupt- ing their work on economic and political issues vital to inter-Am- erican relations.

It also left them with the diffi- cult question of whether they should seek to resume-ii they could-their meeting at Bogota, should call the conference of! Ln- definitcly, or should try to meet in some other place immediately.

All this is grist for the Com- munist and Russian propaganda mills, particularly in Europe.

But diplomatic officials in Wash-

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Coming Events

"Reserve July 21st for Stella Maris Picnic, North Rusticc.

"kinkora. Hall, Monday, 12th, Card Barty and Dance.

"Unloading carloed driving-wag- ena today. C. O. Green, Emerald-

"Reserve Saturday, April 24th, for Baptist Ohm-ch Princess Eliza- beth GroupCalre Sale.

"Buying daily potatoes and tur- nips. Also in stock, asphalt shing- les and cement. P. J. Noy do Co.

April

"Reserve Saturday. May 1a. m.- Notre Dame Alviznnae Rummage sale at Holy Name Hall.

"C. C. l". broadcast by Irving Toombs. past. provincial party pre- sident, CFCY, Monday, 8:45 pm.

"Come to Hunter River variety concert. Tuesday, April l3, at 8:80 pm- If storming, following night. Sponsored by Brookfleld W. I.

“All interested in C unity Hall reserve Monday night. April £33110: meeting in North Milton

"Unloading car Shavings at Brackiey Siding Monday and Tucs- day. April 12th and 13th. Livestock Feed Agency.

"No. I mixed clover seed. 'i0 per cent timothy, 80 per cent clover. 22 centa Book now. MscGuigan and Boyle, Hunter River.

"Come tn Hunter River variety concert. Tuesday. April l8. Brook- field Hall, at 8:80 p.m. Ii storm- ing, following night. Sponsored by Brcokileld W. I.

"finders will be received by the lialalbcook Dairying Co, until Wednesday. April 28th. for pill- mhlsb of Buttermilk for season 1H0. Further particulars on poster at Creamery.‘

"Comeold and yang and loin the tun. Cards. Dance. and bunch. Victoria. Hall, Mfltdly. April 12th. I30 P. M, Door prise. card prises. Admission 25 cents. Auspicaa Wm’: Auxiliary Canadian

"Correction: Special meetill of Ill ratoplym of Central 311mm! school District are to

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lca Conditions lmprovingiiapldly

“Ice conditions generally are improving rapidly, and a steamer track of l0 to 00 inilea wide is now Open from the St. Imvrence River thfflllfih Cabot Strait to the sea,“ was the report given by Mr. Angus Brown. official ice observer f0; the Department of Transport, after returning from yesterday's air ice patrol.

Mr. Brown said that heavy icc is still in evidence extending from East Point, P. E. I., to the Mag. dalen Islands and down the north west coast of Cape Breton, and that heavy drift ice is flowing south through the Strait of Can- so. but that the north entrance c! this strait is still not fit for navi gation. The Northumberiand Strait conditions are progressing favour- ably. Mr. Brown said. but there is still about 50 per cent ice drifting slowly eastward.

The Charlottetown, and Crapaud harbours are now open, but the Souris harbour is still blocked around the docks, and the Bumxn “ harbour is still blocked solid. Ice in harbours of Nova. Scotis and New Brunswick which border on the south side of Northumberland Strait, is break- ing upjapidiy, and some have ai- ready opened up. Conditions from Scatari to Cape North. Capejsre-

Georgetown

" "ton, are still notr very goodv‘ Mr.

Brown stated, due to heavy drift ice, and Sydney harbour is only navigable with the aid of the ice breaker.

Ontario Woman Oharged With Murder

KIRKLAND LAKE Ont,, April l1 - (OP) - Accused of tihrovring her ‘owo-month-old baby into a kitchen stove, Mrs. Percy La- marche, about 30, today was charg- ed with murder. she is the mother of two other children. _

Polcic Sergeant N. Dania said he found me charred baby, still alive and wrapped in dirty rags. on the kitchen table, He had the child taken to hospital where it died soon after admission.

‘Phebe were indications both Mrs. Lamarche and her husband, a gold cninet‘, hadbeen drinking, police said. Dnlpty wine bottles were scattered around the four-room apartment. '

“Joyce Pickering. a teen-aged girl. said she minded the baby and the couple‘: other children, aged three and four years, from 7:80 PM. un- "til late in the evening. Mrs. La.- marche accompanied her when she walked home.

ONTARIO MEMBER DIIS

‘TORONTO, April l1 — (OP) -- Dr. Gordon J. Millen, 48, Progres- sive Ccnaervaiiva member oi the Ontario legislature for Toronto ltiverdale. died at his home his Ilatflrdey ma: a than d and! months.

By IYARCY OTONNELL

OITAWA, April ll—(CP)-'I'hc Government is expected to (we a maJor test. of strength on the freight-rate issue Tuesday. Some Liberal members of the Commons are worried about the result.

The test. will come on a non- coniidenrc motion moved by the 0.0.1:‘. when the Government de- clined to delay enforcement of a Zl-per-cent increase in the freight rates. The increase, authorized by the Board. of Transport. Commis- sioners, went into efiect Thursday.

The C. C.F. is ready to fight a general election on the issue. As a. result there Ls no betting or bragging on the probable outcome.

The Progressive Conservatives- the official Oppositicn—have not decided how they will vote. The question will be settled at a cauc- us.

A Progressive Conservative mem- bcr said he was sure the majority c! his party agreed with the Gov- ernment that the nilwaya needed higher freight rates for successful operations. However, the 0.0.2‘- motion was tlckllsh.

It asked the House to express the opinion that the Government's failure to delay the rates was in- imical to the best interests of the state. It also asked that. the Gov- ernment withhold the increase un- tll the Maritime and Western Pro- vinces could appeal the decision of the ‘Ranaport Board.

'.l‘he Progressive Conservatives- unless the unexpected develops; support the increase. But-the Progressive Oonservauvos. member’ spelled out the word in capital letters-the official Opposition, has no confidence in the Government. ‘rherofbre, he said, “we will sup- port a non-confidence motion."

The vote is a major issue for the Liberals from British Colum- bia, the Prairies and the Maritim- ea--i.he Provinces most aflected by the freight-rate increase. They feel they would be sounding their own political death knell by supporting the increase. They would be doing t-he some thing by voting non- confldence in the Government which they support.

One Liberal member said that in somewhat similar situations, Gov- ernment supporters were prone to disappear on days when uclslish votes were to be taken.

But the present Government can count on a majority of less than l0 votes in a full House. Further- more, Liberal members now absent have been reached and told to be on hand for the vote.

The C.C.F. Party has no such worries. 1f the Government is de- feated they'feel their stand on freight rates and on price controls will help them st. the polls-

ln hospital After Taking 38 Aspirins

SAINT JOHN" N.B.. April 1.1 _.. (C1?) - Admitted to hospital un- conscious. a 22-year-old youth told hospital officials here that he had consumed 36 aspirin tablets.

His explanation: '

"I had a headache."

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Tho Bahamas Islands were for- merly called tfhe "mayor.

Poles Developing Large Deposit Of Uranium

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waneaw, 4pm u - (AP),- Polea- an feverishly developing m; their Government regards an m! second largest deposit cf um, a basic eluuant of the

_ atomic bomb. Russian ‘engineers

4:4 raposflfi Aiding their. "

A big/TIMI]! in operation in Lower lilcaia‘ O miles southwest ed Wroclaw, the name the Poles have given idtho ore-war German city of nmlau. The mine is acidic cm- ploy 1M0 man. ‘nine Poles have been omlottilll the ii since 104d.

The project area is closely watched and rcetri ‘ ‘.. Two assist- ant United Stains rnillta at- taches, IA-Ool. Frank Jo c and Capt- liichclu li-udlilk. Wm taken into custody April-i while-on an

‘Hill. .' Aflfllfitly‘ M001!!! ‘Nflfdo not want the project publicised, the

his: have labelled that‘ uranium

mind ll an iron m project. Ito- ceotly the name of the mine um was changed from Itraylatka no KowaryJt is situated between u» towns cf Kaieno Cora and "Jolonio Gore.

I; is believed the‘. the uranium oro femd thus fer has been of a relatively poor grade. Ifmnvlr. the Poles are optimistic that {unim- development will show the extent of the deposit is u ‘ ’ in lur- cpa only by that in the‘ lcvial Union.

fishnet of the deposit was ro- voaiad Nov. If. 1010 by Prof. l. Bohdanowics, a Bunion-bathed Polish geologist». He sold the War- saw newepllkr Wiocsor that the field hold immense r aaibilitloa. ‘The Carmina met. round Md bo-

‘gaa exploiting the deposit toward

the and of the wit.

Ichdanowics died in ilfi. r a long ulna no was director the Ceoioglcal Institute in Ibnifllfid and helped the" Russians in the ax- plciteuca of uranium ia the Urala.

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Only Burma's Application Wins Approval

LAKE SUWESS. N.Y.. April l1 --(CP) - Russia's veto Saturday in the Security Council which again barred Italy from membership in the United Nations raised the pos- sibility that non-U.N. member states will be heard from the floor of the General Assembly.

After Soviet delegate Andrei A. GfCifihYki) wielded t-he veto for the 223m time in the Council's history, Warren A. Austin, United $13135 chief delvzflte. told reporters than. Afnerl" W“ Studying a proposal by which the Assembly would m. vite non-munber states to appear when matters directly affecting them were being discussed.

A dozen membership applhfflflgng came before the Council but only U18?- of the Union of Burma, won recommendation. Ten or 111g 11 morn-hers of the Council voted for acceptance of the world's youngest independent republic. Argentina's delegate abstained for lack oi in. struction from his Government.

Burma's confirmation by the General Assembly 3,5 the 5w, m"... ber of the U.N. appeared assured.

Voting on the 10 other applicants was postponed indefinitely thus averting five more Soviet vetcs. Applications of Ireland, Portugal, .‘I'rans-Jocda.n, Finland and Aus- tria had been vetoed previously by Russifl- Hungary. Romania, am. Bfi-ria, Albania and Outer-Mongolia had failed to get the necessary seven affirmative votes.

momyko once again insisted that the former enern countries via-the Second Woridi ar ‘should bradmittcd en bloc or not at ab. UainB the veto for the third time to bar Italy. he charged the Un.

to influence the campaign for sh; Italian elections scheduled for April l8.

14 Eliteiiuard Officers To iiang

NUERNBIJIG. April 1l-(AP)- An American tribunal Saturday sentenced l4 officers of Adolf Hit- lers Elite Guard to death on the saliows. It was the biggest batch of death sentences ever handed out in a war crimes trial in Ger. many. '

The S. s. officers commanded roving bands of triggermen who killed 1.000.000 Jews, Communjgg partisans and Gypsies in the wake of Nazi armies in Poland and Russia.

Pro-election Riots In Italian Oapiial

ROIVE. April l1—(AP) - Riot police swung clubs tonight onmon archist. heads to break up a pre- eiecticn rally in which the mon- archists carried the forbidden em- blem of the House of Savoy.

communist newspapers mean- W 0 Printed new statemerte of alleged Vatican activity. and Pal- miro Togliatti, leader of the ital- lan Communist Party, accused the United States of trying to drag It aly into a war with Russia. He laid Premier Alcide de Gsspsri and his supporters were willing servants oi the Americana in such a move. .

The election is next Sunday. The main issue is Communism vs. anti-Communism. A Communist victory will moan cud of Uniiod States aid to Italy under the nur- opoan Recovery Program.

It was the second night in a row in Rome that police were called out to subdue political dom- onstrations. Saturday night the miles quailod street fights that

when 5.000 Communists at- tacked a rally of the avcwedly hseiet Italian Social Movement.

iiAd States with using the U. N._

P. E. Island

Interested .

In Representations Re Trans-Canada Highway

Seek To Influence Thinking Of O. Pia In Canada

By JOHN PATERSON

(Canadian Press Correspondent) '

VAL D’OR, Que. April 1l-- (CP) —'l‘he pressure now being applied on displaced persons to influence their political thinking was em- phasized by two week-end rallies, one which praised aid-to-Russiu campaigns and the other an anti- Communist rally bailed by the Knights of Columbus.

Friday night, DP’s heckled Vasil M. Terecio, national representative of tihe Association of United Uk- rainian Canadians, when he began to describe the wonders accomp- lished by snopoo collected from Ukrainians in Canada and distrib- uted among refugee children in Ukraine.

"Were you there when the dis- tributicn was made?" one DP ask- ed. When Terecic said that he was not, his heckler replied "Well, I was and you are a liar. You get. all your information from Toronto. "You are a paid agent of the Krennlin," the unidentified DP. continued, “and you let your in- formation from the Labor Pro- gressive ;Par,_ty., If you ever come back here I will push your face in]?

_When DPJs begun to ask more questions. ‘Ilerecio refused 1c an- swer and tried to speak on other matters.

0n Saturday, more than 100 D.P.'s now working in local mines attended the anti-Communist rally sponsored by the Knights of Col- umbus where the main speaker was a former Russian Army officer who escaped in 1944.

The officer, a Lithuanian was not identified and said that he could not give his name because he had relatives in Russia.

“People of western culture and progress cannot appreciate what Ccmmunisim means in practice," he said. v

"DPJs are bitterly anti-com- munist and they are ‘begging the chance to fight Communism. in a newly-adopted country." ‘

Less Butter And Sugar In Stock

OTTAWA, April 11-(CP)-The Bureau ol Statistics reported Sat- urday that stocks of creamery but- ter at this time last year were al- most twice the size of, prdsent stocks-l6,356.200 pounds in cold storage, dairy factories and m transit on April l. 1947, compared‘ with 8,189,300 pounds for the same i048 date. Current stocks of dairy butler totalled 4,000 pounds com- pared with 9,000.

UITAWA, April ll - (C?)- Btocka of raw sugar in Canadian refineries this spring were only half those of a year ago. the Bureau of Statistics reported Sal.- urday. On March 20, refinery stocks were 00,168,000 pounds. On the same day in 1041 they were 108,200,000. Stocks oi refined sugar this year were 164,015,000 pounds eonaparsd with 181,804,000 pounds.

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SAINT JOHN, NB, April 11 - (OP) - Work orrthe reconstruc- tion of the McLeod and Pminglll wharves in Saint John harbor will begin tomorrow, it who announced today. The 03.800000 contract for the work was anrarded to the Saint John Dry Dock Company. ,

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QFITAWA, April ll-(SPECMD- With the onset this month oi

highway construe tion, improvement

and repair programs from wast to coast, representations are again being made to the Dominion Gov- ernment for financial co-operation with provincial administrations in the building of a. trans-Conedfl highway of standard width. fully paved and free from sharp curves or steep grades.

While motorists today can actu- nally drive from Atlantic to P1101316 on. Canadian soil. the journey is a. tortuous one in spots and for 1on8 stretches such facilities as adeq- uate service stations, accommoda- tion and good paving are lacking.

1n a recent statcmcntpRecon- sir-notion ivlinisier Howe said he regarded trans-Canada. highway construction as a. means of fight- ing unetnployment. On the other hand, he stated that should there be a general recessicrhhe regarded "the coast to coast highway as an important Federal-Provincial un- dertaiting-

I‘. E. I. Claims

Under existing highway plans, it would appear thatPrinco Edward island can justly lay claim to the stretch between Charlottetown and Borden as an integral part of the trans-Canada. highway. It. would also be essential for Prince Ed- ward Island, in co-operation with New Brunswick to have the stretch of highway from Tormentlne to Suckville declared part of the trans-continental road. _

‘ In theevent of this being sch- iaved and accepted by the Do-

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l Speaks iicre Today

D, R. MacLaren, D.S.0., M.C. and BB1". D.F.C.. Chevalier do la Leg- ion dT-Ionrieur. Croix de Guerre with Palm, Director of Tasscnger Service. films-Canada Air Lines, who will be a. guest speaker at meeting of the Rotary and Gyro Clubs in Charlottetown today.

Brush Fires Break - Out In Maine

AUGUSTA. Mo, April li-Light snow and rain pelted drying Maine woods and fields today, but. fire- fighters kept watch for new out- breaks after controlling sporadic blazes that swept many acres and five buildings.

Rising winds, which the weath- erman said. would reach 35-80 mil- e5 an hour in the northwest quar- ter by tomorrow, spurred the vig- ilance of. state and town tire- fighters who recalled the $30,000,- 000 sweep oi Maine forest fires last autumn.

Fear Russian Policy In Berlin May Lead To New World Conflict

By IVES GALLAGHER

BERLIN. April 11 — (AP) Ten days of intense Soviet action apparently based on a policy o! trial and error have turned Berlin into r potential i948 Danzig.

Veteran diplomats here feel it is a policy which may blunder the world into another war no one wants, including the Soviet Union.

At any time during the last i0 days a nervous Russian, British, French or American soldier tobing a tommygun might have fired shots as disastrous a! those at Sarajevo in 1914. The shots would not have been on any ‘government order but the results could have been the same.

As the situation now stands the shots were not fired. The situa- tion is a stalumate. quieted for the ‘time being.

Ten years ago from belligerent Berlin Adolf Hitler screamed to

the world that the international

city cf Danzig must be returned to Germany. _

This time the Germans are sil- ent, but; the demands are similar to those 10 years ago. Not far from Fitlers balcony stands the Zim- mer Street home of Berlin's Soviet- controlled MEWS-Dupes. 1t does the thundering. The words are differ- ent bu‘; the tune is familiar. It goes like this:

"The excuse for Berlin being an international city is ended. I: is in the soviet zone. It belongs to the Soviet occupation area. The West- ern Allies must get out.”

The Russians placed restrictions on Western Allied military freight and passenger traffic in and out of Berlin. They coupled this with a virtually complete embargo on freight and mall moving out of Berlin,

British officials accuse the Sov- iets of trying to strangle Berlin's

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British Commons To Debate Death Penalty

(By James McCook)

IDNDON, April li-(CB-With deep-seated differences of opinion involved, the House of Commons this week will debate a proposal no give the hsngman a holiday for five years.

The Criminal Justice Bill comes before the House for final approv- al on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The Cabinet has approved the proposal of Home Secretary Chuter Ikie that it would be bet- ter to keep the death penalty for the present due to the crime wave which usually follows war.

The Home Secretary supports his policy of citing recent cases of violent crime and the need of stern punishment. But l-louae mam- bn-s will be allowed to vote as they

please. . Political observers said it was estimated that 00 per cent of lab- or members are determined to make the experiment of dropping the death penalty for five years. A substantial section oi the Con- aervative Party during the last few years also has supported abolition of the death penalty. Before the war, Viscount Templowood, Con- servative Home Secretary. drafted a bill which would have _ abolished

hanging. \ The debate will be on an amend-

ment to the Criminal Justice 51.1 signed by nearly 200 members of Parliament, mainly Labor but. with some Conservative and Lib- eral members also listed. The spon- sors of the amendment will argue that the death penalty should be abolished i media‘ ‘y for a trial period. ,