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Brazil Plans To - Welcome Alexander

RIO DE JANEIRD. June 10 — (APP-Brazil will give an "all out" weloome tomorrow to Held Mar- shal Viscount Alexander of Tunis, Governor-General od Canada.

Preparations were completed to- dsy under the direction of Gen. Enrico Gaspar Dutra, r " ‘ o! BiaZil, for the official six-day visit which is expected to be one of the most elaborate in Brazilian hist-

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Coming Events

"Dance. Elliottvalo School. liki- dsy, June 11th.

"Dance in Walter Oonnlcku Friday night. ,

"Abegweit Preoopwry No. at Kingston tonight.

“Movies - Fiat River, Monday. Big Double Feature Show.

car load Pressed imited, Klimuir.

“Just arrived, Bay. McGowan:

"Dance, Lorne Valley Hall, June 14th. Webster's Orchestra.

"Come to Dance in Water poa- nick's, Friday night.

"Movies -- Kingston, Tuesday. A big double feature show. "

"On Saturday our Mill closes at noon. McGuigan 8r. Boyle.

"Dance every Saturday, Mon- tague Curling Rink, Webster's Or- ciicsira.

"Movies - Bridgetown, Satur- day. "Dead Reckoning", Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott.

"See ‘Iracadie players in‘ Fort. Augustus Hell Friday night, June llili.

"Dance, Millview Hell. Wednes- day. June 16th. MillviewiWomenh Institute.

"Beginning June 10th, Bonshaw inn will close every Thursday, but will be open every other day and night during week. ‘

"There will be dancing at Camp- boil Bros, Dance Hall, Sea View, every Thursday night till further notice.-

"See Lorne Valley players pra- seiit "Susie Shoots ‘the Works,” Belfast Hall, Monday, June 14th. Curtain at 8.30 p.in.

"Reserve July 22nd for Parkdale women's Institute Aftemon Tea and Bazaar at the Experimental Siiitlon.

14th, “Safety of

"York Hail, Monday, itornwali Players present First". 3 act comedy. Aueplces Ladies Aid.

"Pownai Y. P. U. present “A Pair of Country Kids” in Pownal liall, June 15th, at 8.30. Specialties. Sale of Ice Cream.

"ooid Chicken and Salad soo- ilrr by Crapaud United ‘Church indies in Crapaud Hell, Saturday, Julio 12th, 5 to 7 P. M. .

“Unloading two cars shingles at Coiwili. One car cedar, one es- ilhnit. Also cedar posts and spruce studding. R. A. llscPhsil, New Haven.

"Notices-There will be e spee- lal meellts in North niver nsii Monday evening. June '14. All int- Frosted in the welfare d the Hail lilcnse attend. ' '

' The Annual Meeting of the P. E. I. Superior Holltnln Sui! Club will be held in Room ll. P. W. College on Tuesday morning, June 15th, at 10.30 A. M. Cecil J. Stewart, Secretary.

"Unloading cedar shingles at Coiville mursdey. June l0. All

. trades. Highest duality. Will be

at car from) a.ni. to 0 pm. Aa-

ilhalt shingles. rooflne. and paper

:1 stock. R. A. hloPhall. New even. , l

"The Annual lleetlns of P. n. l’. Brandi Holstein “Societies: win be held TI"ROGII 1.1.1’. w. Coll , on Tuesday morn- lllf. Jurielfitg. 11411.00 A. bl. 110l- liteln Breeders try and attend. oeell

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Mention Murder, llowardicc ln Fire Probe

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HALIFAX, June l0-(CP)—The words murder and cowardice were heard in police court here today as an inquiry concluded into a north-end Creighton Street tene- ment fire that took seven lives Feb. i0.

lldrs. Emma Grant testified that she heard a woman scream "don't kill me; don't murder me" Just be- fore she saw flames leap through the roof of the doomed tenement, She lived in rneighboring dwell- explain the screams.

Magistrate B. J. Flinn closed the drawn-cut hearing and announced he would file a. report on his de- cislon.

Testimony of several witnesses centred around the actions of Jos- eph Gaudet, who scoped uninjur- ed although his wife perished in the flames.

After listening to the evidence for a. time Magistrate Flinn inter- rupted with a brusque: "l know that Joseph Gaudet exhibited con- sidereblrcowardice when he left his wife in bed while he saved his own hide. . . .but what's that got to dowlth the cause of the file?" The hearing had been about to close several weeks ago when Wil- liam L. Caswell, father of Mrs. G-audet, asked for an extensTon to present further evidence. Caswellls two daughters, Elsie and Ruth, told of a conversation between their father and Gaudet subsequent to the fire in which Gaudet reportedly said he was un- able to escape .down the back stairs because his brother. Ernie. on the floor below, had boarded them up with beaverboard and tin. When Magistrate Flynn asked Caswell today "do you think Jos- eph Gaudet ‘set the fire?" Caswell cited Mrs. Grant's testimony about hearing a woman scream before the blaze. -

At earlier hearings Gaudet testi- fied he had been unable to awak- en his wife when he discovered the lire and was forced to leave the building through e window.

Canadian Stcl Prices To Advance Today

OTTAWA, June l0-(CP)—The price cf steel goes up tomorrow, partly to meet rising costs in the industry andpsrtiy to let the Gov- ernment reduce its subsidies.

The increases. announced tonight by the Prices Board. range from se a ton for rods to 012 for plate. They will apply in varying amounts to bars, eheste and ekelp-e. form of plate used in making pipe.

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Raise - Makers Plan Experiment In Fire, Areas Tn Ontario

(By The Canadian Press)

Rainmakers, who hope to bring drenching showers to Northern Ontario's raging forest fires, are waiting for heavy clouds of black smoke to clear before going aloft with their cargo of dry ice. i

Firefighters in Ontario and Que- bec. meanwhile. manned .l1u.il- in an effort to halt hundreds of fires, raging through millions of dollars’ worth of timber.

Six hundred pounds of dry ice flown to Sudbury has been stored in a frozen food locker until the air clears. The Dominion meteoro- logical office, co-operating with the Ontario Department of Lends and

, TORONTO, June 11 -- (Fri- day) - The Globe and Mail says today in a copyright dis- patch from Blscotaslng bhat dry ice was usedJuccessfuilv Thursday to create rain over a Northern Onta-rio forest flire area.

The paper quotes K.G. Pet- tit, Dominion meteorologist in charge of the experiment as saying:

"We couldn‘t see any rain be- fore the experknent but 10 minutes later we saw rain and word is that it is raining very heavily there now."

forests, plans to dump hhe ice into rain clouds to produce the much- needed rain. ‘

At North Bay. Ont., regional forester E. L. Ward said the gener- fire situation in Northern Ontario was "a little better." Planes at sudbiiry. Gogama and Bis- cotssing were grounded by heavy smoke.

Winds were spreading the Mississ- agl blaze to the east and the Chapieau fire to the south west.

Sixty pulpwood camps and eight sawmills have been closed in Northern Ontario because of fire conditions. Some 4.000 bush work- ers diave been thrown out of work.

In Quebec. almost 1,000 rnen fought three unchecked fires 90 miles northwest of Rouyn, Hardest hit areas are at Forbes Depot and

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llo Money Voted For Fredericton Airport

(By The Canadian Press)

OTTAWA, June i0—The Federal Government has not yet made any provision for the construction of an airport at Fredericton, Trans- port Minister Chevrier said today in the Commons. ' .He said he does not know whe- ther some provision will be made iii su-nlemantary estimates of ex- penditures.

complete 2i Years As Prime Minister

OTTAWA, June l0—Prime Min- ister Mackenzie King today coni- pieied 2i years as Prime Minister.

He was guest at an informal re- ception tendered by Speaker Gas- pard Pauteux of the "Commons. Cabinet Ministers and selected meirib of t Senate and Oom- nions attende . ’

3y L. S. OBAKALB

ATKINS. June 10—(AP).—I‘or- iner Kin! llichael and Princess Anne, whose romance encountered religion; differences, were- married today the solemn ritual of the Greek Orthodox Church. The oer- emony united the royal families of Romania and Denmark.

(Roman Os to preletes at the Vatican said" e bride had placed herself outside the Roman catho- lic Church and incurred a “grave sin” .in marrying Michael. They added that the cerernpnv lll Mll- ena ie"'ne~ marries!" lll "l! 0m of the Catholic Church).

Anne. 24, a member ‘of tho

‘ Rouse of Bourbon-Perms, felled to

win spacial dispensation from the Vatican for hei- marriage to‘ Mich- _ To protect his eiaiai to the Icriisniln throne he says he wasforoed to abdioate. ilielieel insisted upon the ortho- dox Church ceremony and u

brlnlllll w in that faith any ll- fllfl from the union.

f Primed Anna's title will be "Queen," a member of the Greek

Former Kiasg Michael A Weds Princess Anne

royal household end one of for- mer King Michael's entourage d. Pobviousiy she will be Queen of Romania," they eeid.

Michael and Anne first met at (he wedding of Princess Iiiaabeth and Prince Philip in London lest November. Anne once worked‘ for two months in a New York de- partment store. ’

The wedding ceremony was eon- ducted before a small gathering of royalty is the palace of the Greek roysi family. Anna and her tall 20-year-old bride groan

royal house. . Archbishop Dasnaekinos. former

ceremony. He was assisted by six priests dressed in embroidered

about I0 minutes. * The last wenia of the ceremony

"isslah Home." which mean. "le- sish, start dancing in Joy." in accordance with the ancient rite Michael and Anne made three turns around s blue velvet-covered

table decorated in silvea,

used crowns borrowed from the Greek iegsnt of Greece. conducted the . veal-merits. The ceremony iastsdl-

sooee by the Archbishop. wemi

BLAZES CHURCH TRAIL Muriel Phyllis Revington ofLon-

don, Qnt., recent graduate of University of Western Ontario, is l-be first woman ever ordained in London conference of the United Church of Canada. She was or- dained at Windsor, Ont.

Speed llot Revealed, May l'op1,000 M.P.ll.

WASHINGTON, June 10 --(AP) —An Air Force research plane - the XS-i-- has flown much fast- er than the speed of sound, Air Secretary Stuart Symington said today.

Symington told a press confer- ence the euper-sonic .feat was performed not once but ‘imany times." 'Ilhe flights vwere made at the Muroc, Caiif., air force base beginning last October.

A spokesman for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronau- tics said two of its pilots had sur- passed the speed of sound on sev- eral occasions in the XS-i. This

agency conducts aerial-dynamic and other experiments for the gcvemment.’ ~

The speed of sound varies from ‘I63 miles an hour at sealevel to I

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ll. S. Secretary 0f Labor Dies

WASHINGTON, June 10-(AP)-' Lewis B. Schwellenbach, 53. who had been a private in the infantry, a United States Senator, and, fin- ally, Secretary of Labor. died to- day.

Schwelienbach ivas more than Just another department head to President Truman. He also was one of the Presidents best friends. Schwellenbach died at Walter Reed Hospital where he had been since May 28. The White House, in announcing the death, saicl it was due to "cardiac failure which com- plicated his recent illness." Schwelienbach, born in Superior. Wls., was appointed Secretary of Labor July i, 1945. When he came in, he was constantly in the news as the man who would have.to bring peace to post-war labor. But Congress started whittiing away at the Labor Departments powers. Finally, by the time he died, Schivellcnbachfle. name rarely was mentioned in stories dealing with labor disputes.

Flood Menace ilontinucslnBli.

VANCOUVER, June 10 —- (GP)

Grim-faced flood-fighters to- night held the water defences along the fraser, Columbia and Kootcnay Rivers, but. the situation grew more serious by tlie hour.

Mass evacuation faced 5,500

Fraser Valley residents in the Sinnas Prairie district where 20.000 acres of fertile farmlands, protected by the five-mile Vedder Canal dike system, were threatened. The Columbia River. with a rise of eight inches in 24 hours, heigh- tens the growing menace to Trail, 2S0 miles east of Vancouver. Cou- stent downpours are loosening gravel and sandbag barriers. and seepage already has penetrated the waterfront residential and business sections.

Packard Grants Wage lsereaee, Boosts Prices

DETROIT. June'10 - (A?) -— 'lihe Packard Motor Car Co. today granted its 10,000 production work- era a 13-cent wage increase and boosted its new car prices by

Armed Quiet Begins Settling in Palestine As Truce Time Nears

‘lzed tho seizure of sll Israel-bound

By MAX BOYD CAIRO, June '10 — (AP) Aimed quiet began settling in the Middle East today after 26 days of the Palestine war.

But..a jarring approach to the Friday truce hour (8 A.M. A.D.T.) was provided by discordant notes and belated offensives on four fronts which continued at least through Wednesday nigiht when both sides tried to improve their strategic positions.

Lebanese Government

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shipnients touching Beywouth. Israel, in accepting the truce al- ready had déclared any Arab at- tempt ‘to confiscate or hold up cargoes would be regarded as a ‘war-like act."

Irgun Zval Leilml, which already has threatened to disregard any truce in Jerusalem, broadcast that the Israel Government's accept- ance of the truce was a "great blunder." Irgun said the agree- ment was as bad as the 1939 Brit- ish white paper limiting Jewish immigration.

Secretary general Abdel Rahmen Azzam Pasha of the Arab League declared the truce did not mean war would not be resumed if the Jews “insist oni creation of a Zionist state.”

Dispatches from Amman, the Trans-Jordan Capital, said the Arab people appealed puzzled by their leaders’ acceptance of the truce which they regarded as a Jewish stratagem to gain time and throw the Arab military machine off-stride.

But an Israeli army spokesman at Tel Avlv said a lull already was setting in today and only minor shooting was reported anywnere. Tel Avlv even missed its aimcst daily bombing. Sunbathers in the Jewish Capital welcomed the re- spite but did not dare go swim- mlng for fear of floating mines.

143 Nominate In Saskatchewan

REGINA. June 10—(CP)—A total of 148 candidates were officially nominated today for the so seats to be contested in the Saskatchewan general election Juneafld. _

The C. C. l‘. Government forces entered a candidate for every seat. liberals nominated 40. Social Cred- it 36, and Progressive Conserva- tives nine. Miscellaneous candi-

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Permit Import 0f ll. S. Potatoes Into Quebec, 0ntario

OTTAWA, June l0—(CP)- United States potatoes are coming beck to the dinner fable in Ontario and Quebec, starting tomorrow.

Import of these spuds has been restricted to save dollars, but the Prices Board announ- ced tonight domestic shortages has caused a lifting of the bars.

Under the Board's new order, Quebec and Ontario importers who brought in potatoes dur- lng the base year ended last June 10 will get new import quotas.

The Boa-rd pointed out these are under margin‘ of profit control. On the basis of present U. S. prices. it said, they should . cost Canadian consumers 40 to 50 cents a Iii-pound bag,

ll. S. llrait Bill

Advances 0ne Step

(By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June lo-Tired and almost talked-out, the Senate today passed a bill to draft men lil through 25 into military service. The vote was '18 to 10.

But this senate-passed bill is not law and won't be unless, arid until, the House of Representat- ives also approves.

The House may act next week but-there's an outside chance that, in the rush to finish the year's work by next week-end. the House may skip the draft bill al- together.

That would kill the draft for i940 unless Congress came back after the political convention this summer and the House acted then.

Special Auxiliary Ferry Urged For Borden Route

OTTAWA, June 10 — (SpQ¢i31)_ Prince Edward Island was to the fore in the House of Commons to. day when estimates for ‘the car ferry and terminals at Borden and Tormentine were discussed and 1.. bated. J. Watson MacNaugnt, Liberal member for Prince and w, Chester S. McLure, Progressive Conservative member for Queens T001; a prominent part in the dis. cussion and Tramsport Minister Chevrier defended his estimates and government policy with respect to Prince Edward Island trans- portation.

From the debate, the following highlights emerged:

‘l - The car ferry "A-begweit" with her rail deck plunked will ‘oe back on her regular run by July 1.

2 - Total cost of the "Abegweit." lllollrdlhg to Mr. Chevrier was between $7,100,000 and $7,200,000.

3 - Mr, MacNaught urged tlie placing in service of a. special "allxlllllify" lorry for the trans- port of passenger automobiles and trucks only, to operate between Borden and Tormentine during the summer months. .

4 - This year the Department of Trans-port will spend $3,500,000 on the completion of the car ferry terminals at Borden and‘ Tormen- tine.

5 - Mr. McLure told the Com-k mons. backed by latest statistics. that Prince Edward Island provides a large segment of the most profit- able freight carried by the Canad- ian National Raliwaysli

6 -- Clarence. Glllls. C.C.l". mem- ber for Cape Breton South said the idea. of a ferry between Prince Edward Island and the mainland was outdated and that it should be replaced by a. submarine tunnel.

7 —- Mr. McLure urged con- struction of a bridge or causeway across the Strait of Canso on grounds that such s. connecting link would mean a splendid market 1n Cape Breton for Prince Edward Island farm produce and would also mean that Cape Breton would get high quality food prod-nets from P. E. I. at reasonable prices.

Mr. MacNauglit opened discuss- ion of the car ferry ittm by prais- ing the performance of the "Abegweit" as a ferry and an ice- breakor. Owing to its seaworhiy

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HALIFAX, June lo — (OP) - Three witnesses declared in city court today that 39-year-old Vic- tor Robert dragged Mrs. Maureen MacDonald by her hair and beat her with his fists before she was found dlying in g backyard here June 2.

They were testifying at the opening of a preliminary hearing of s murder charge against tlie huge (Negro) Camp Hill l-lospitbl fireman, arising from the death of the 86 year old native of London- derry, Northern Ireland.

Tlhe witnesses identified Robert

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Deseribel How, Halifax Woman Dragged From House Before Murder

sacked it, and hauled Mrs. Mac- Donald onto the street ‘lwhlie she begged for mercy." '

Mrs. MacDonald was quoted as crying: "Vlc, don't lilt me no more .. .. I'll come home."

Because there are at least nine‘. more witnesses to oe heard the hearing was adjourned to June 15.

The accused listened attentive- ly while John sparks, Mrs. Ger- aldine Pilgrim and Jean Lynch described events in the Vvater Street home the night of the woman's death.

Mrs. Pilgrim, owner of the waterfront residence, said Msg.

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(By The Canadian Press) OTTAWA, June 10-—~l'lorces op- posed to Canada's margarine ban today won their first victory in the Senate. I The Upper Chamber. which three times has rejected bills to repeal the hen, voted to ask the Govern- inent for a Supreme Court refer- enoe on the onstitutionality of the law.

Without a dissenting vote, the Senate adopted a formal resolut- iorrto thla effect moved by Sen- ator WJJ. lhiler (L-Ontario), who has unsuccessfully pl sed repeal bills for the last three sessions. The resolution calls on the Gov- ernment to refer the ban-which is embodied in the Dairy Industry Act- the highest court as soon as po lble after prorogstion. Before the vote, Senator W. McL. Robertson. Government leader in the Upper House, deprecated the request in the resolution but said he hsd no doubt the Government

would give it full consideration if

Senate Suggests Courts Rule On Margarine