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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA,

Readby Everybody Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1953

REPORT BAN IMMINENT ON INTER-ZONE TRAVEL IN

U. 5. To Consult: Allies Before Drastic Moves

charge communists Have

Nazi - Style H

camps In East GermanL

BQNN, Germany, (Reuters)- Communist East Germany has im- prisoned 5,000 men and 1,000 wo- men at Waldheim prison. Saxony, under conditions recalling the Nazi horror camps, West German intelligence officials say.

The chief difference is that Com- munist authorities have not in- troduced gas chambers and crema- tion ovens. the officials said Pri- (lily.

storlu From Prisoners

Their report was based on the interrogation of prisoners released last October. They said at least 90 per cent of the inmates are political prisoners. Most prisoners sleep on straw sacks on the floor. they said, and some have not. had a change of clothing in three years.

Women are housed six to a cell and each cell receives only one can of water daily for all purposes.

Ration: of food have improved in the last year to the level where they are ltenough to keep one go- lng."

snblect To Beating:

All inmates are subject to beat- ings and "many die partly as a re- sult of their treatment," the report

said. It said the prison is administer-

Coming Events

"Reserve February 27th for Variety Concert in Hampton Hall.

"Auction and dance in Vernon hall, Monday, Feb. 16.

"Dance 'inM"lVflllvale Hschooi, Monday, February 16.

"No skating at North River Rink Saturday afternoon.

"Cards and dance. Corran Ban hall Monday, Feb. 16th. Music by Charlottetonlnns.

"Farmers. ask about the shut Gain Feed Finance Plan. For part tculars contact your local feed mill

"Modern and Old Time Dancing vvery Saturday night. Sunnyslde Tiallroom.

"C'ard party and dance Hope River Credit Union Hall, Monday, Feb. 16th. I '

"Buying Pigs Monday at Fred- cricton. Tuesday 11 A. M.. Char- lottetown Market Square. Paying 320.00 per pair for good pigs over 40 lbs, each. Will also buy smaller ones. Knud Jorgensen.

"Hockey at North River Rink Saturday. February 14th. Cornwall Meteors vs. Glasgow Road Maple Leafs. second semi-final game. Game time 8:15. Skate after.

"A joint meeting of st. Peters Canadian Legion Number 12 and St. Peter's Canadian Legion Hall i.td., Monday. February 10. 8 PM. All members and veterans are urged to attend.

"For an evenipg of fun and entertainment come to York Hall on Tuesday. February 1'lth. Spec- ial selections by Willlam MacEach- ern, Cornwall. Highland dancers will also be in attendance. Ladies please bring lunch.

"The Annual Meeting of Crap- nud Creamery Company will be held in Crapaud Hall, Tuesday afternoon. February 17th. It 3 o'clock. If not line will meet the first fine day. Every one is welcome 13- C. Wood, Secretary:

"Oatmeal was the chick feed our forefathers used. oatmeal is 9496 digestible. Fortified with min- erals and "extra" vitamins its still the best. Use Ful-O-Pep Chick Starter and Grower-the feed with the oatmeal base. Ellis Bros., cen- tral Royalty.

"A special General Meeting of the shareholders of the west River Telephone company will be held in Long creek Hall. on Tuesday. February 24th, at 0.00 o'clock. for the purpose of deciding on the transfer of the West River Tele- Dhone line to the Island relephone C0mlIany on terms that may be "llnltd to the satisfaction of both Compani .

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"Full-0-Pep feed and the Aunt Jemima Products (Aunt Jemima hnncake flour; Silver and Devils Cake Mixes) are synonymoul in that both are manufactured and sold by the Quaker OatItCo. of Canada Ltd: and that both are ND Quality lines. When next in need of feed or food try a top lliinmil Quaker Product. Jelley'a

. Dept. Store. 0'Leary.

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ed mainly by prisoners themselves. The camp commander was said to be a Spanish Civil War veteran who is responsible for much of the captlves' suffering.

One unidentified guard was re- ported to have beaten a prisoner to death with a rubber truncheon for making remarks about the Communist "peoples police."

The report said prisoners get a bath once every two weeks.

"The procedure is that the men have to undress in freezing stone corridors. are placed four to a shower and get 30 seconds of wat- er to wet their bodies.

"They then have precisely one minute to soap themselves and then comes another 30 seconds of

have to get dried and dress again in the same freezing corridors."

Waldheim was built to house 1.- 200 prisoners. Among the 6,000 im- prlsoned. 2'15 were reported to be members of the Jehovah's Wit- nesses. a religious sect banned in East Germany.

Find ooiiymif Water- Filled Boat

HALIFAX, (OPi-The body of Otto Frizell, about 45. of Locke- port was found in his water-filled fishing boat Friday off Potato Is- land. on Nova Bcotia's south shore.

Frizzell was reported to have had a heart ailment.

The 28-foot fishing boat mid its tlone occupant were the object of an air-sea search after being re- ported overdue on a fishing trip I t -

R.C.MP are investigating.

Compliments Exchanged

OTTAWA. (CPi - Prime Min- ister St. Laurent gave Stanley Knowles (COP - Winnipeg North

Central is short, sharp answer Fri- day when the latter asked about the results of at noon conference between Mr. st. Laurent and re- presentatives of the Civil Service on rates of pay and hours of work.

"1 can assure you." said Mr. St. Laurent, "that there were com- pliments exchanged on both sides."

water to wash themselves off. They.

Dulles Ndkes Promise To Senate Committee

WASHINGTON, (AP)--State sec- retary John Foster Dulles told senators Friday that the Eisen- hower Admlnistration will consult Congress and United States allies before undertaking any drastic new moves in the Far East.

Members of a Senate foreign re- lations sub-committee said Dulles informed them the administration is not planning any action now to- ward a blockade of Red Chimi-

Van Fleet To Testify

Meanwhile, chairman Dewey short, (Rep., Mo.) of the House of Representatives armed s e r v lc e 5 Committee announced that Gen. James Van Fleet, retiring com- mander of the 8th Army in Korea. will testify March 4 on his views on the Korean war.

short said he hopes the public will be able to hear at least part of Van Fleet's testimony "because the public has a right to know.”

Van Fleet stirred widespread in- terest earlier this week with a statement that an all-out Allied offensive in Korea now would de- feat the Communists.

Anticipate Unified Action

Info:-manta who heard Dulles testify said they understood the State Secretary plans to keen American allies fully informed and

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News In Brief

MONTREAL, (C?) - Richard Joseph Lavote, No. it on the RCMP list of most wanted criminals and wantedsin Montreal on a 320.000 armed robbery charge. has been ar- rested in Buffalo, The Canadian Press learned Friday.

CYITAWA, (GP) - The Canadian Red Cross has offered amistance to victims of the earthquake which wiped out the Iranian village of Tormud Thursday.

WASHINGTON. (AP) - The United States government Friday relaxed controls substantially on steel, copper and aluminum in an- other step toward a free economy.

TOKYO, (AP) - Japanese police said 30 persons were killed and 150 homes were demolished Saturday when a. fire works factory blew up

five miles from Tokyo.

LONDON, (OP) - The battered and patched coastal defences of Britain, The Netherlands and Bel- gum are holding fast against the first onslaught of dangerous high tides. -

As the North Sea swept toward critical tide peaks Monday. thou- sands of troops and volunteers toiled through freezing winds to rebuild and strengthen dikes and seawalls wrecked by the disastrous floods 13 days ago.

All along the threatened coast- lines there is cautious optimism that the defense will hold and prevent any repetition of the Feb. 1 floods which drowned more than 2,000 people and devastated huge areas.

High winds and seas which swept Britain's flood-battered-east coast Thursday slowly abated Friday. Dutch officials said a recurrence of the Feb. 1 disaster caused by combined high tides and gates seems "highly improbable."

Home secretary sir David Max- well Fyfe told the House of Com- mons that Britain's new sea de-

LEVIS. Que, (OP)mLl.sted misa- ing two years and recently declar- ed dead while apparently an am- nesia vlctlm. Laurent Dube came home Friday and had-to be intro- duced to his wife and relatives.

''It will all come back to me, he said. "It will all come back."

Dube. 32-yea-old Quebec wax salesman, arrived by train from Halifax where he was found earlier this week working in a hospital.

He was reported missing Jan. it, 1051. during I business trip to New Brunswick. His automobile was found abandoned ion a road bridge near Shediac. N. B.

Greeting Dube at the railway station here. across the at. Law- rence River from Quebec. were his pretty wife, who kissed him on the

check. his father. msebe Dube,

Coastal Defences Hold In Britain And Holland

fences are standing up against the first of the critical tides but warn- ed "the real testing time is still to ome."

T e twice-a-day tides will inch steadily higher to the season's iiighest peak Monday, higher than the levels predicted before the Feb. 1 disaster. The tides are swept along by the pull of the moon.

Holland ordered military and civilian personnel to stand by on weakened dikes for the next three days. Belgium has declared a state of emergency along its North sea coast.

Britain organized a four-day alr- llft to fly 5.000.000 sandbags to the flood front by Sunday from the United States and eight Enr- opean countries. The British gov- ernment appealed to other coun- tries to help meet a critical short- age of the sandbags in Britain.

The Queen and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh. made separate tours of east coast flood areas. For to hours, the Queen visit- ed rest camps and chatted with flood victims.

Laurent Dube Missing Two Years Returns Home

........:.?M.n.g,gggg, other relatives and Rev. Gerard Marchand. former army padre and friend.

Dube recognized only Father Marehand and had to be introduc- ed to the others. He talked to rather Marchand about their days together in the second world War.

Dube scarcely spoke to his wife in the station. To photographers he said: "Pin tired; please hurry."

Dubels father said his son was thinner than two years ago.

Dube was located by R.c.M.P. through fingerprints taken when he served in the Army.

Dube was declared legally dead hy Quebec superior Court less than three months ago and a part payment of 00.500 insurance was reported to have been paid benefic- iaries. '

West He-a.rs Crack-Down

Maritime R.C.A.F. Association Due Sunday

To Meet Here Over Week-End

Fifty delegates representing 18 wings of the Royal Canadian Air Force Association in the Maritime Provinces will meet for their-fourth annual convention at Charlotte- town this weekend.

The majority of the delegates will reach the Island by air lift and business sessions will get un- der way at 9 am. Saturday morn- ing and continue trroughout the day. Distinguished guests expected to attend the meetings are Air Commodore A. D. Ross, Cl-C. CBE, Commanding Maritime Group R.C. AF, and Air Vice Marshal Mor- fee, CB, CB-E. National President of the R.C.A.F. Association. Fly- ing Officer George Gillespie, of the Ground observer Corps will be a, special speaker.

.F'0llowing the mar ing sewlon, delegates will parade o the Char- lottetown War Memorial and place a wreath in honour of the valiant dead.

During the afternoon session of-

Polandis Red Regime To Control Catholic Church

Chinese launch Probing Allacks

SEOUL. (AP) - Chinese Reds ushered in the Year of ilhe Snake Saturday with brief probing as- saulis on the Korean battle front and Christmas carols played over frontllne loudspeakers... A F

The Reds also marked the ad- vent of the Oriental New Year with propaganda broadcasts at the front appealing for a cease-fire. They suggested "that. United Nations troops go home.

Communist units attacked three Allied outposts on the eastern and east-central fronit during the night. All three thrusts were driven off in short scraps.

Says Butler Shortages Only "Artificial"

.shortage exists where wholesalers

are withholding their stocks to create an artificial shortage.

He was commenting on reports that the Quebec Milk Distributors Association has asked for immedi- ate intervention because Quebec province dairies are being blamed for a butter price increase. The protest has not been received here

The government is delivering butler from its stocks of 80,000,000 pounds, particularly to areas where it. is most needed. the official said. It is only a matter of time until these deliveries offset the artificial shortage.

The official 'said butter slfcks on Feb. 1 totalled 4-4.216.000 poinds in cold storage plants in Canada com- pared with 38,013,000 a scar ago.

Although consumption in Janu- ary increased eight per cent over the January consumption last year, production was 21 per cent higher. -

Quebec, butter stocks of lli.Bo1,- 000 pounds were 40 per cent higher than a year ago and Ontarlostocks of 11,96'7p00 were 46 per cent higher.

Seven Persons Flee As Fire Guts Home

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BAULT STE. MARIE. Ont.. (OP) -A sl00.000 fire forced seven per- sons. one in a wheel chair. to the street Friday when it swept a three-storey apartment building on Queen street, this Northern On- tario city's main thoroughfare. Third-floor Quarters of the

Knights of Columbus were gutted and a wall of the building col- lapsed before the blaze was brought under control.

Court Raisers Appeal In Manslaughter Case

QUEBEC, (GP) .- Quebec Court

of Appeals has rejected the ap- peal of two mental hospital guards convicted of manslaughter in the fatal heating of a patient. . Conrad Asseun. 33. arid Emanuel Audet. 35, were sentenced to four years in penitentiary after a jury found them guilty of beating Arthur Parc, M. to death, April 5. 1900.

- ciergymen except vicars fully sub-

ficers of the Maritime Group will be elected as will representatives of the Dominion Executive Coun- cil. Severai important resolutions are on the agenda and include discussion of "Boy Voyage" parties for officers and men embarking for overseas, air shows, and a rit- ua.l for an installation of officers.

In the evening a. banquet will be held in the Charlottetown Hotel and guests will include: His Honor T. W. L. Prowse, Lieutenant. Gov- emor; I-Ion. J. Walter Jones. Pre- mier: Mlayor J. D. Stewart. of Charlottetown; Mayor Henry Wedge of Summerside, and wxc. A. G. MacMillan. aide to the Lieu- tenant Governor.

A. F. Wigglesworth, REM, Liver- pool, N.S., Maritime Group Presi- dent, will preside at the meetings.

Delegates attending the fourth annual convention are as follows:

Group Executive: A. F. Wiggles- worth, president, Liverpool, N. S.:

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WARSAW. (AP)-Poland's Com- munist regime has issued a de- (tree that all appointments in the Roman Catholic Church within this country must be approved by the government.

The decree said Friday that all appointees must be Poles and that they must take an oath of loyalty to the government. It also made government approval obligatory for all transfers. releases. crea- tion or abolition of church posts and changes"in their functions.

The central presidlum will pass on bishops, auxiliary bishops and clergyman acting for a bishop. while provincial presidiums will act on appointments at lower levels.

A Polish source with close Val.- lcah contacts said in Rome that the decree was the severest meas- ure yet taken by Poland against the church.

Opposition Expected "It would lead eventually to the elimination of bishops and arch- bishops and the elimination of all

Ject to the government," he said. Presumably this meant that the

church would not bow to sharing its authority over clerical appoint-. merits, and therefore the clergyi would eventually dwindle to a na- tionally-controlied hierarchy.

Partly because of the almost? solidly Catholic character of Po-l land's 24,0t'J.000 people, Commun- lst authorities there have pro- ccded more slowly against the church than in most other Sovietl satellites. '

The Vatican reported in 1950. however. that 1,000 Polish priests had been deported. Hundreds have been arrested, and the govern- ment has stripped the church of 700 square miles of estates. its bu; charity organization and its hos- pltals.

Drive Accelerated

Recently the drive against the church has been accelerated. Only last month a priest was condemn- ed to death and three others to long prison terms at Krakow on chargu of spying for the United States and the Vatican. Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski did not go to Rome for the January consistory to receive the rled hat of his new rank, apparently because he fear- ed he would not be allowed to re- turn home.

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Army Promotions Are Announced

OTTAWA. (CPi-The nnunced promotions Friday for two officers in the headquarters branch which directs the works services-subject of the celebrat- ed Currie report.

It said Maj. R. T. Miller of Saint John" N. B., and Mel. M. J. E. Churchill of Winnipeg are both being promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel with the dir- ectorate of works, quartermaatrn

Army Hu-

general branch at Army head- quarters. George-S. Currie reported "a

general breakdown" in control of the works services and said his criticism would apply both to that branch and to those responsible for supervlainiz it.

COPENHAGEN. (R. e u t. P r at -- Britain will lndrease its exports of Scotch whisky and beer to neu- mark under a new Anglo-Danish trade ureement for 1953, it was learned Friday. Reliable sources said Britain also would send Deh-

By Tom needy

BERLIN, (AP)-West Berlin has heard reports that the Commun- ists intend it week-end crackdown on travel to and from the Soviet sector.

The newspaper Nacht Depeschc said Friday that the Red gestapn plans a complete check of all pas- sengers uslng the elevated trains and the subway today.

The Kurier, published in the French sector, said it had learned that the Communists will snip ele- vated train traffic Sunday and from that time on the

the Russian border. New Blow Expected

The reports could not firmed in official

fie has long been

Until now, controls on persnns' moving back and forth bctwecni East and West Berlin have been perfunctory. an acknowledgment of the four-power rule of the city. The ruling Socialist Unity Coin- munist party of East Berlin de- clared two days ago that the Al- lies and West. Germans are de- stroying thls four-power status by espousing the European defence treaties.

The party threatened to "furth- er isolate" West Berlin as a pen- ally.

East Lays Groundwork

The East has laid groundwork for some tinkering with the S-balm which carries 1,000,000 Berliners daily. Bypasses have been built on some lines to skirt the

West sectors. workmen have bceni

building platforms on the East sector side. Trained transport people say they are platforms for hauling people off trains and sub- jecting them to rigid controls.

The S-bahn, which reaches into various soviet nine points outside Berlin such as Potsdam and Oranienburg, is soviet controlled. Employees at the 73 stations in West Berlin are from the East zone. .

Herbert Hoover Feels Much Better

MIAMI BEACH. Fla. Herbert Hoover left St. Hospital Friday "feeling much bettci"' and immediately went aboard a chartered yacht for two weeks of fishing off the Florida Keys. The 78-year-old former pres- idrnt was taken to the hospital sntiirdny with a mild case of in- fluenza.

(AP)- Francis

HALIFAX. (OP)-Premier Mac- rionald preseiit.c-xi his budget to the Nova srotia. legislature Friday but cicapiic increased expenditures there were no new taxes or increases in old ones. -

He estimated revenue at. s47.-i.'l.'i.- H2 and expenditures at 543,218,824. Taking 33,682,185 for the sinking fund. that leaves an estimtated sur- Dlus for tho fiscal year ending March 31, 1934. of 3532.103.

Last year the province had a def- icit. of sl86,(l0fl, mainly because it had to repay Si,-1-00.000 the federal government overpaid under the do- minion-provlnciai financial agree- ment. The overpayment was be- cause of an over-estimate of tlhe province's population by the feder- al bureau of statistics,

Revenue for the coming year is expected to be about 32,000,000 more than last.

in Tax increases

"This increase," the premier said. "is not brought about by the im- position of any new taxes or in- creases in old ones. It has come about in the ordinary. natural way. as a result of what I may justly call improved conditions in the prov-

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