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To Double t Capacity; Supply Situation Tight

(By The Canadian Press)

The steel Company of Canada. Ltd.. has announced plans to doub- le the capacity of its big plant at Hamilton. I-mid. indications that a tightening steel supply is causing anxiety to Canadian industrialists.

A Canadian Press survey showed yesterday that the difficulty of ob- taining steel has led to a few lay- offs across the country, although these have'been offset to some ex- tent by efforts of steel manufactur- ers to increase production

workers Laid Off

As a result of a scarcity of steel. 200 workers were laid off by Gen- eral Steel Wares of Iondcn. Ont., some 600 by National Steel Car. it fabricating plant in I-Iami"ton, and 20 at Standard Tube Limited in Woodstock. Ont.

Elsewhere. Crane Steelware Ltd.. of-Quebec lass cut its working force to 40 from 00. Eastern Car of Am- herst, N.-8.. plans to drop 300 men from its payroll next month be- cause lack of steel is holding up the start of an order.

Since Jan. 1. Federal bans on the sale of steel for non-essential bulld- ing have been in effect as a means of coping with the shortage. They forbid use of steel in construction of dance halls. theatres. breweries, to- bacco factories. outdoor advertis- ing shoe and other specified types of structures. However. steel may be used in building houses. com- mercial office buildings and most manufacturing plants.

The restrictions are tied in with similar measures in the United states, introduced to divert steel to defence plants.

Even defence contractors must wait their turn to obtain steel un- der another order which created is

Coming Events

"Mail your Films to Garnhum Photo Studio. Charlottetown.

"Dance. Vernon 1-fall. Monday, January 8th. Vernon Driving Club.

"Lucky and his Eastern Rhythm Boys, Sunnyside Ballroom tonight.

"Crapaud District Lodge meets in Prince Arthur Lodge. Crapaud, Tuesday. January 9th. at 2 P. M.

"Reserve January Rummage Sale at School Room. 7 P. M.

"Meeting of the Clyde River Manse Committee in the Church, Monday evening. January 8th.

20th for st. Peter's

"Annual meeting New Will- shira District Lodge at Brook- fleld, Wednesday. Jan. l0th, 2.30 pm.

"Laughs. Laughs. Laughs. see Bob Hope in "Sorrowful Jones" at MacDonald Bros. Theatre Friday. Saturday. Show time s P. M.

"The Annual Meeting of Mur- ray Harbor Presbyterian congre- fialicn will be held in Church on January 9th, at 2 P. M. A

"The Annual Meeting of the Crapaud-Victoria Board of Trade will be held Monday evening at I! P- M. in Crapaud Hall. The offic- crs tfor the year 1051 will be elected.

.','if70tice to farmers Eldon and ”i"'llly. If interested in pur- "ha-tin: Cockshuu machinery ace ".7 or our local dealer. msdon E11111: Eldon. Weeks Farm Equip-

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"Monthly Meeting of Mt. stew- 'lI't Branch Canadian Legion will be held in Legion Boom. January 8th. Guest speaker will be Mr. Pear Pate. civil defence organizer. All veterans welcome. R. 1!. Fur- nm. secretary Treasurer.

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'- To Require is Months

The Stelco expansion program, expected to take 18 months to com- plete, will cost about 545,000,000. Plans call for it to increase pig iron production, now 'l50.000 tons a year. by 460.000 tons and to step up the steel ingot capacity of 1,080,000 tons by 660.000 tons.

At Hamilton works. stelcois basic steel producer, 8200 persons are employed, The expansion will add several hundred persons to the pay- roll.

The other major basic steel plants in Canada are those of the Algoma Steel Corporation in Swult Ste. Marie, Ont... and of Dcmlnlon Steel and Coal Company in Sydney. ma.

W. F. Holding. president of the Canadian Manufacturers Associa- tion. said the Stelco expansion pro- gram will beneflt all classes of in- dustry.

H. M. Tamer. president of the Canadian General Electric Comp- any, saw it as beneficial Va all manufacturers using steel. includ- ing his own firm. He said the steel shortage had already company to consider curtailing pro- ducltlon i.n the second quarter of 195 .

Report 30 B. C. Residents Await End Of Vhirld A

KERIEIMIIOS. B. C., Jan. 5-(CP) -Thisrty members of a. religious sect, who have sold all their world- ly goods, today await the end of the world.

In a locked and shuttered house. the group, all dressed in wh , has been in self-imposed confinement for 11 days. ..

They are members of the "Church of God" who broke away from a Pentecostal Tabernacle in this British Columbia. interior town of 1.000. 150 miles east of Vancouver.

Behind the barred doors. the elders stand apart from the world. have made no public statements. but friends report they are waiting for the world to end. basing their belief on Biblical prophecy.

These friends did not say the date on which the "Church of Ciod" expects the end of the world.

Grouped in the small house are men, women and children. includ- ing eight students of the town school who have not returned to class rooms alter the Christmas

holidays. Before entering the crowded dwelling. all worldly belongings

were sold at sacrifice prices. it was reported to police.

Police. school and health auth- critics are watching developments at the house. Health authorities fear congestion constitutes a pub- lic health danger.

The "exiles from the world" are mostly farmers and fruit growers in the--district.---w -- --

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Police removed two teen-age girls from the house a few days ago at the request of their parents. The only other person to leave is a wid- ow. she told neighbors she left when asked to surrender her wed- ding ring. The reason for this was not explained.

Immigration

OTTAWA. Jan. I - (OP) - Im- migration Minialer Harris said to- day he would order a d trhental on: that displaced persons rna e yrnents to Canadian selection b can in lamps in order to be allowed to come to Canada.

Mr. Barrie said he would launch the investigation on the basis of a orted statement by Dr. A.!f.

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DONIDON. Jan. 5 - (CP) - Prime Minister Nehru of India to- day asked British Commonlwedth leaders to withdraw their military forces from Asia, but to continue to help raise living standards there.

Qualified sources said Nehru dominated talk among leaders of the eight countries represented here on the topic of restoring peace to Korea and stability to Asia. The study was inconclusive. It is to be completed Monday.

Nehru'a formula provides:

Communist China to be ad- . mitted to the United Nations;

A Korean cease-fire as a pre- lude to creating an independ- ent, united and democratic Korean state;

Formosa to be turned over to the duly-recognized Gov- ernment of China, as provided in the Cairo declaration of 1943: .

A peace treaty to restore independence to Japan;

France to consider quitting Indo-China and Britain. in time, to pull out of Malaya in the face of those couniries' risinng revolutionary move- ments: and

The advanced countries of the west to help the under- developed Asian peoples to raise their living standards -- but without strings.

Foreign Secretary Bevin of Bri- lain was atoms have led off the discussion by "reaffirming his view that Britain was right in' re- cognizing Red Chine. .Bevin's rea- soning was that if peace.could be preserved a policy of friendship with Red China might pay off and might weaken. if not break. the Peiupinvg-Moscow axis.

Opposes China In U.N.

Prime Minister R. G. Menzies of Australia was said to be against admitting Red China to the U.N'. at a time when her troops are fighting American and other United Nations soldiers. .He argu- ed American public opinion could not be ignored on this score. New Zealand and South Africa were reported in broad agreement with the Australian view.

The invfonmants said there seems to be a general feeling among Commonvwealth leaders - so far it is not a set attitude - against supporting the United States pro- posal that the U.N. declare Red China an aggressor-. -

The "freedom bell" presented by the U. 8. A. to the western sector of Berlin has much the same tone as Londonls "big Ben".

OTTAWA. Jan. :ida.'s only active cruiser. the On-

for exercises with the Australian fleet. the navy announced today.

The 15-week training cruise is being made on the invitation of Prime Minister Robert Menaies the sister Dominionyand will mark the first such trip ever made Australia by a Canadian warship

The 8.000-ton cruiser has been

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' "A full investigation was made at that time and in most of the cases." he said. "the illness was of a tem- porary mature and such that would not have been sufficient to refuse their entry as immigrants."

Reports to the Department have indicated that paper company of- ficials are pleased with the calibre of displaced persons, brought from liropo to work in the mills.

More than 61.000 displaced per-. sona have beentbi-ought to Canada in the three-year period from 1011 to NIC.ffIHdIelol last -year. They came in under agreements with various industries in which the DP umall undertook to remain in the specified industry” for at least a

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says Dobbin beats a convertible any time-any time you're court- ln'. that is. i

He told a group of students at the Ontario Agricultural College last night:

"I courted my wife in a horse and buggy-it beats a Car a mile. Wish I could do it again!"

WASHINGTON. Jan, 5 - (AP).- Senator Robert Taft (Rep. Ohio) declared today the United states is making a mistake "butting in" in Europe and challenged President Truman's claimed authority to send American troops there without first asking Congress.

Launching an attack on the ad- ministration's foreign policy. Taft toldithe Senate:

"We have no business going over there and trying to prod them into a. great military program -which. in my opinion, is certain to produce war.

"I doubt very much that the Russians contemplate any military conquest of the world. I do not myself see any conclusive evidence that they expect to start a. war with the United States." g

Instead of sending American sol- diers to Eunspe, Taft said. the U. S. should build up its sea defences and develop an air force "more effective than the world has ever seen."

would Limit Force The Ohio Republican said he

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Canadian Cruiser To Sail For Australia On Feb. 19

dockyard at Esquimalt, British Columbia naval base. for a eiit. she is due back there June 7. The announcement came shortly after Defence Minister Claxton raid the Defence Department's aim is to double naval operational activit-

of ies -this year.

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to ment is not anticipating a general

war will break out at this time and indicated. too. that the navy wants to get ready to operate in the Pa- cific. with Pacific fleets, if and when major war does come.

The great bulk of the navy's fight- ing in the last war was done in the North Atlantic. "

The Ontario's cruise marks an ex 'on of the system of train- ing Canadian warships with British and American fleets. This is the first time this system has been ex- tended to include Australian units.

Naval officials said the cruise will not denude the Canadian Pacific coast of naval strength. Three de- stroyers from ilhqulmalt now .I.rc, in Korean waters-where they. have served with Australian warships- bu-t they will start coming back. one by one. next month and be replaced by others.

There are two frigates on that coast and two destroyers. the Crus- ader and Algonquin. are being brought out of rnothballs.

The Ontario is commanded by .CoinInodore Hugh 1'. Pullen of Oakvilie. ont.. and Victoria. she is to join the Royal Australian Navy in early April in combined exercises somewhere in the south seas.

The navy said it is intended that the Ontario will visit various Aus-

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U. S. Table Stock Quota Mounting Up To Limit

The American to-ble stock potato quota of 1000.000 bushels was seventy-five per cent filled on Dec. 30. according to a telegram re- ceived yesterday by the Provincial Potato Marketing Board from the Commercial Councillor of the Canadian Embassy at Washington.

The American quota calls for the importation of 1,000,000 bush- els Canadian potatoes with the dut of 37 1-2 cents per cwt. Duty rate on any additional table stock potatoes will be 75 cents per cwt.

Officials of the Board here be- lieve that the double duty rate will be imposed shortly in view of the fact that several shipmerrls are on route to the U. S. A. by water.

About half the seed quota of two and one half million bushels of Canadian potatoes has been filled, it was estimated. The duty rates for the seed quota. are the same as those for table stock and will be dou-bled as soon as any ad- ditional seed is shipped across the border.

Diamond-Siudci-ed Bracelet Stolen

OTTAWA. Jan. 5 -(GP) - A diamond-studded platinum brace- let valued at s8.000ihe.s disappeared from the downtown Henry Birks and Sons jewelry store, police said tonight. store officials would not comment but police said it is be- lleved to have disappeared Friday or Saturday of last week.

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U. S. Air-I-iorce Halls Flights To Wonjil

Fall of City Would Threaten Retreat .Of Allied Troops.

AN AIRBASE IN JAPAN. Jan. 6 - (Saturday) - (AP)--The United States air force today suspended all flights into Red-threatened Wonju, Korea, except for the emer- gency airlift of wounded.

Wonju is a vital rail-highway hub 55 miles east and slightly south of the abandoned uth Korean capital of Seoul. Chinese and North Korean Communists are dI'ivim',' on wonju in an effort to out off the Allie.s' retreat routes.

The makeshift airfield just out- side battered Woniu had been a scene of busy airlift activity as late as dusk Friday.

Today air drops and nnn-evacua- tion landings were stopped. a com- bat cargo command spokesman said,

Threat sharpens

Virtual suspension of traffic into Wonju apparently indicated the North Koreans' flanking threat against the lmperilled communica- tions centre had sharpened during the night,

Air Force ground crews had been under orders to keep the field open until the infantry ordered it closed.

TOKYO. Jan. 6 - (Saturday) - - (AP) - Communist armies thrust southward through frigid mountain passes of East-Central Korea Friday in a. sudden shift of power that in- creased :1 flanking threat to Un- ited Nations forces pulling back

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Attack of. Truman Policy

"some limited number of American divisions" to Nort-h Atlantic de- fences. Europe must lead off in es- i-ablishing such a force, however. he added.

Senator Joseph o'Mahoney (Dem. Wyo.) retorted that Taft keyed his speech to an assumption "not borne out by any facts revealed to me" that U. S. military leaders are plan- ning "to raise an army of American boys to defend a Europe nct will- ing to defend itself."

0”Mahoney said that as a mem- ber of the senate Appropriations Committee he had talked to all the top military figures and "defin- itely did not receive from tliem" any such plan.

Taft declared:

"It's a startling thing to find our-” selves getting ready to send mil- lions of troops to Europe without

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Flu Epidemic In Germany

HAMBURG. Germany. Jan. 5 - (Reuters) - An influenza epidcinir: which -has claimed 20 lives here spread near-panic among Ham-burg citizenry tonight while many other parts of western Europe reported widespread attacks from a less vir- ulent fonn of the disease.

The greatest number of cases was reported in Britain. A wave of "three-day flu" hit one in five per- sons in Belgium. and Paris doctors reported a "mild epidemic" in France.

An epidemic which started on Britain's northeast coast and spread from wmtem port areas - taking in Ncrthcrn Ireland on the way .- was reported moving through the industrial Midlands Friday.

Absenteeism in industry. trans- port and mail services was wide- spread and thousands tool: the germ to bed with them. In Liver- pool. 80,000 were listed sick.

London waited anxiously for the lgteaiim to spread throughout the cup-

The National Institute of Medi- cal Research in London identified theftorth-Country influenza bug as. the some as had already swept Sweden and Denmark. It had not caused any direct fatalities in Brit- ain but doctors say it is putting victims to bed for a week at least. Industrial chiefs fear substantial production losses.

May Take Cruiser Out of Mothbolls

VICIORIA. B.C.. Jan. 3 - (CP) -serious considerations is being given to the re-commissioning of Canada's first cruiser, i.'he,Uganda. it was learned today.

The 0.000-ton ship now is in mothballc at nearby Fequimalt naval base.

Correspondence on her return to active duty has been exchang- ed between Victoria and Ottawa but the navy here would neither

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Price Of Tires

'IORlON”ID, .lan. 5 -(OP) - The General Tire and Rubber Company of Canada. Limited. an- nounced tonight immediate price increases of 2 1-2 to 10 per cent on passenger automobile tires and of five to 12 per cent on truck tires. Cost of passenger car tires now

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By JACK BRAYLEY (Canadian Press Staff Writer)

HALIFAX. Jan. 5 - (OP) -- In a relaxed pre-holiday mood before leaving on A 21-day Caribbean cruise. Finance Minister Abbott to- day skirted questions on his bud- get, said Canada's war-preparedness was on solid grounds financially, re- iterated his belief that general con- trols were not an immedate neces- sity. had hopes for increased west Indies trade and had something to say about the future of old age pen- siom and sales tax legislation re- sulting from Dominion-Provincial talks.

In Happy Mood

Accompanied by Mrs. Abbott. the man charged with raising millions to finance the countryls big defence program was in a happy frame of

Good Results In Drift Netting Of Herring In Gulf Of St. Lawrence

OTTAWA, Jan. 5 - (CP) Good results from exploratory drift. netting for herring in the Gulf of

- St. Lawrence during 1950 were

reported today by Dr. A. W. H. Need-ler of the Atlantic Biological Stallion at St. Andrews. N.B.

The herring stocks of the Atlan- tic coast constitute one of Can- ada's major unused fishery re- sources, he told the concluding session of the annual meeting of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada.

Good catches o-f herrin-g. sonic- iimes exceeding 500 pounds of fish per 40-yard length of net. were made in ihe Gulf. These catches com-pared ”very favorably" with average drift-net caicihes in the North Sea. although the effective amount of flit used oiiien was less ihan one-tenth of that used by some commercial fishermen.