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War Talk Widespread in The ll. S.

By 1M. Inheri- Jr.

Associated Press News Analyst

A flood of public statements in the last few days demanding that m-ongsz" action against Russia be “dad. to tha war of dollars and words has created a jittery atmos- phe-fl. There is widespread talk o; we possibility 0! war within the next. few mommi-

Former United States State lea ggmry Jsunes Byrnes is advocating , warming to Russia that further gggression will be met directly by American force while the United Nation; L; being called on to act.

President Truman ls awaiting word from United States military quarters on what the United States i, prepared to do. and that the military can prepare to do in the next few months.

France wants arms from N10

United States. Siaie secretary George Marshall describes the over-all situation

as serious and asks more aid for Greece and Turkey. ‘Britain takes occasion to remind that she has a mutual assistance pact with T111‘-

key. lialy is threatened with ex- sunmunication from the Mcrbhlll

Plan unless her people eschew Communism. Vladimir Matchek. Qostiam

Peasant Party leader and fdmlet Yugoslav vice-premier, says Rus- sia must be cohfronted with "the only argument they understand. force."

Arihu: Henderson. Britain's lec- rotary of State for Air. warns his units of an "extremely Irlm" ill- ternntional situation "which W! have to take into consideration in [olllg about our work."

Herbert Morrison says Britain ‘is back in the same sort of nisht- more of aggrossioxl we kiwi-Uh‘ W9 had banished by" disposing of ‘Hit- lsr" and calls for new resistance.

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Cominglivents

"Crushing as usual. Johnston's ifiil. Suffolk. _

"St. Patrick's Variety Concert in Moreil l-lall, March 11th. Spon- sored by Morell C. Y. O.

"Horse races at Stanley Bridge Wednesday, March 1'1 at 1:30 P-M- Three classes.

Concert. Stanley e H ital-ch 17th. Aid of Appeal for Children. _

"St. Andrew's Dramatic Club presents Clously United. March 17th. in MacDonald Bros, Theatre.

"Variety concert in Long River hall Wednesday night, March 1'1- Bale of cakes and candy. if uot. fine, Friday night.

"Reserve St. Patrick's nilbt. liiarch 17th for variety concert. Stella Maris Hall. North Ruetlco. Matinee‘ for children. Admission. adults 35 cents; children 16 cents.

"Jimmie Power's variety con- cert. in Mount Albion Hall Tues- day night, 8:30 sharp. Sale of baskets after concert.

"Unloading coal Tuesday and Wednesday. Special prices on car. Also in stock, Brantford flaifllea. 7- J- Nov l c».

“come to the basket social and entertainment in Canoe Cove Hall Wednesday. March 11th. Ladies Hth baskets free.

"Free Show: in Brahman-ville School. March 17th, 0 P. M’. Sale of "he and candy between drown. Proceeds European Aid. etc.

"Loading Hogs at Roderick!!! {of Canada. Packers ovary Thursday ill 11 A. M. and COlvillc llntll 11 5- L. MacDawsll.

-" walrus-my: lilgfillt Prices for used feed bill-n We freight onlote of 100 or Iicra. . l- Morris. lad Service mu. ,

“Wheat an-ivingt-Iocking or- 4"! for car choice 4 Northern “hm now exu-ouh from Hone- real. Barrain eff car pricifoa- ‘illbntitiea. Bock st-oacs arbar- "his must be snapped up to be 0' value. look yourforder now- P- a. r. livestock nos Annoy.

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Packing Strike Discussed By Government Controller

Revolt Flares In Bosta Rica

IAN 105E. Colic lice. March 1B - (AP) - Government forces uaarshalied all their strength cc- day in an attempt to stamp out a revolution sweeping through thll Central npuhlm,

T118 "Pill! was virtually lac- ltcd. with three-fourths of m Pvwer plants blown up. Two plane loads of rural troopa ar- rived at dawn to help defend the city.

The leader of the revolution- Jry forces is Jose Figueroa, who Wflllrlca a hidden mountain stronghold south of cur-cap, about 45 miles from San Jose.

Parliament At-A-Glance

By The Canadian Press

The Coonmons approved in prin- ciple a bill to extend wartime “M41018- bllfi boazed down on dis- cussion of details. I

JI-Dlheac policies were debated when Labor Minister Mitchell ‘W80! lllilhflrlty to continue ord- ers controlling movement of Jap- ansae.

Prime Minister Mackenzie King said the Government is not con- ‘MQHM P751"!!! additional copies i’, u" 5°08 Kong Royal Con-amis- sion evidence.

5Deaker .1. a. Kin: ruled um: any interference when Transport Minister Chcvrlcr introduces Gov- ercrnent legislation in the Senate will be out of order.

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The Commons will consider var- ious Government legislation. The Senate will sit.

S150 Taken From Saint Join Safe

SAINT JOHN. N. B. March 15- (CPb-Pclics tonight were inves-

Ill. tigatiaig l. aafecracking, first in the

city shoe last summer. which netted thieves 0150 daring lure week-end. The robbery at the Union Club on downtown Germain Street was discovered when the buildifg was opened today.

Mai-Sea. Meyers Begins Ssrvlng Shalom

(by The Associated Press)

WASHINGTON. Mar. ill-Mai.- Gcn. Bennett Meyers, who during the Second World War Ipent mil- llous of the era’ money as an air forces supply officer, went to Jail today to begin serving a 20-month to five year sentence.

His crime, persuading a former business associate to lie to a. Unit- ed States Senate Investigating Committee.

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T110 packizt strike coutrovtly

-ravarbcrl-tcd in the legislature

yesterday as Hon. Horace Wright, ‘Government controller at the local Canada Packers plant since it was strikcbound last September. made a. lengthy statement and was cross-examined sharply by Mr. D. L. Mathieson and Hon. Dr. W~J.P. MacMillan, leader of the Opposit- ion.

Mr. Wright's statement came

committee to amend the ‘Prado Union Act, to which reference is made elsewhere.

Mr. Wright said the main pur- pose of the bill was to prevent a repetition of the circumstances which occurred in connection with the local packing plant last Fall. when the farmers were threatened with very severe losses. ‘There had been a good deal of discussion re- garding the validity of the action of the Government in taking over the plant at that time. He did not intend to discuss this point, but. as he listened to the legal mem- bers discuss it, he felt that mem- bers who wero not legal men were satisfied that the most important point was whether the Govern- ment's action was in the best int- erests cf the Province.

In order to show the necessity for this legislation it was neces- sary to go into the details of what occiu-red since last September- The Government had been accused. and he as controller had been accused. of trying to hide information. This was “entirely contrary to the facts." Mr. Wright maintained. “We welc a full investigation and it is my desire to give a full report of everything that has transpired in the plant since I took over control.”

The strike, Mr. Wright said, had been timed so that the farmers

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Dwelling Bonstruotlon in Canada Increases

(By The Canadian PHI)

OTTAWA, March 15--An estim- ated 42.215 dwelling units were under construction in Canada at the end of 1041, tho Bureau of statistics reported today. This was an increase of 2,045 over the num- ber under construction at the end of i940.

Tor-lays report followed a ro- iease Friday which said a total of 70,738 new units were completed duriul 1947.

A breakdown by Provinces of the number of units under con- struction last Dec. S1 compared with a year ago showed 2'1 per cent more in Prince Edward Ici- and. and three per cent in Nova Scotia.

New Brunswick had S8 fewer units under construction.

Actual numbers for Maritime Provinces. with figures for Dec. Si. 1940 in brackets: P.E.I.. 200 (188); Nova. Scotia. 2,161 (2.090); New Brunswick, 7S6 (1,107).

Urges Protection For

p Canned

OTPAWA, March iB-(Speciab- An appeal to the Minister of Fish- eries to protect the Canadian shipper of canned flab and also tbs buyingJublic against spoiled or cub-grade products was made today by w. Chester s. mum. Progressive Conservative member for Queen's through the medium ofqueationa on the Commons or- dfl 110G‘- ‘

Prince Idward Island buyer-a and shippers of canned nah. Mr. 110L111! It?!» have pointed ‘out tn him that cannery registration numbers have u» beau made av- ailable to the trade. thus cauainl considerable inconvenience in cac- aa cf complaint or refusal to ac- cept shipments. -

"If these numbers ara not made available in the trade.” Mr. Mo- Lura uh. "for what raalon an

Fish Shippers

A dealer or shipper of canned ash. Mr. Mei-urn ‘explains, purch- ases the product from eight or tcn different oanueriea in order to make up his shipments tc the Un- ited Kiusdom. the United Stats: or the domestic market. in Can- ada. In view of standard buylbl methods. the shipper more often than not docs not know at the time of shipment exactly which case was unt bhu- from which ahiplfllh. He might [at a cable from overseas complaining that a casa from a. shipment marked ill was spoiled. '

“In order to trace that flip- mautl’ w. Nolan contends. ‘the shipper would have to make a re- port w Ottawa. and explain pre-

flabiag industry and it nonreac- ' enable that the Govarcmautwculd

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First Flight 0i Ice Patrol Made Yesterday

“The heaviest ice in my 22 years experience,” was the report brought back by Chic! Officer Angus grown, Department of ‘Transport. at the conclusion of the first Ice Patrol of the season yesterdays

The Patrol. a Mani-inc Central Airways Douglas aircraft, left. the Charlottetown Airport at S15 yea- terday morning and returned about 4.80 p.m., A stop was made at Patrol Headquarters, Halifax. Gap- taln and Pilot of the aircraft was R. W. Mills. first officer and co- pilot, L V. MacDonald, navigator, Ted Watson. observer. Chief Of- ficer Brown of the C. G. S. Brant, Department of Transport

The Patrol will make other flights this month on the 20th and 25th. Daily flights are scheduled from April first.

Yesterday Chief Officer Brown stated the Patrol, which was out for over eight hours, covered the Gulf area to, the mouth of the St. Lawrence River.

Heavy lcc conditions were ob- served which continued along the Newfoundland coast to Carp Ray and along the southern Nova Sco- tla coast about 100 miles offshoref. l-leavy slob ice, regarded as m- noying to fishing craft, extended to Halifax Harbour.

Canao Strait Blocked

The northern entrance to the Strait of Canso was blocked by “board ice" and the possibility was held that an icebreukcr would be

requiredbefore the Strait couiribe’

dperféd ttfnavlgation. ‘

Last year, Chief Officer Brown recalled, the ice remained north of the 46th parallel on the Nova Scotia. and Cape Breton coasts, but this year extended to Halifax.

In addition to the Federal De- partment of Transport, a three- plaue United States Patrol is op- erating further north.

Data collected by the Patrol are made the subject of daily broad- casts, for the information of mar- iners,‘ by Capt. W. C- Balcoim. O. 3.8., Halifax, retired Department of Transport official.

It is understood the icebreaker Saurel is at present stationed at Louisburg, Cape Breton, ready so

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Russians liemohilize Senior Age Groups

LONDON, March 1s -L (AP)- Tass News Agency said tonight the last of the senior age groups in the Rdssian Army would be demobilized by the end of March.

The official Russian news agency said in a dispatch from Moscow that after March 3i the “army contingent” would consist chiefly of two age groups-those born in 1926 and 1921, who now are 21 and 32 years old.

The dispatch disclosed that a decree. apparently bringing the army down in its planned peace- time strength of con-scripts and professionals, was issued in Fab- ruary by tbc Supreme Bovld.

Sllld Strangle: 0a Belay lallccl

DETROIT. March IB-Robert C. Gasco is the resuscitation expert of suburban Berkley’: Fire Depart- moat

A call for halp sent him racist to his own home Sunday to find bia tbraa-yaar-cld son. Rotor. strangling on a penny balloon-

Tiac efforts of both Gasco and a Physician, however. were fruit- laal.

"I've handled hundreds of auch caaaa audthfaisibaflratoua I've lost," laid the heart-broken fath- or.

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Truman To Deliver Special Message

WASHHVGTON. March l5— (Alb-President Truman will go before both Houses of 0on- neaa on St. Patrick's Day in delivc a special, possibly mo- mentous message on the inter- national situation-described by Secretary George Marsha-ll as “very, very serious."

The White House, announc- ing this today, declined to give any inkling of what Truman would say. There waa immed- iate, unofficial speculation, that be might-call for new mean- urcs to block Communist at- panaion in Europe.

Two Burned In Galgary Fire

CALGARY, March l5 — (C?) - Poiice and Fire Department offic- ials tonight were probing the charred interior of an East Calgary roaming house basement for the cause of a fire that claimed the lives o! a 19-year-old girl and, s two-year-old baby earlier today. .

Louise McQueen, 19. daughter of Mrs. May McQueen, and Sandra Halverson. two-ycar-old daughter of Mrs. Lawrence Halverson, died from suffocation in the {ire thv. swept through the Fourth Street two-storey building.

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Strikeiiegmsi Todar

CHICAGO. Mad-ch 15 -(AP)-A, country-wide strike of 100.000 United States Packlrvghmsse Work- ers. called for midnight tonight, appeared certain late today. Feder- al concilstors strove to stave off the threatened work stoppage.

Conciliabors headed by Con-mala- sioner Thomas Cleland met with union and company representatives throughout the day but c. rmion spokesman said he doubted that s truce would be effected.

Major targets of the threatened walkout by the United Packing- hcuae Workers (C10,) over a wage dispute are Swift and Co. the Cudshy Packing Co. Wilson and Cc... and Armour and Co. In addition, more than 100 smaller packing finms throughout the country were 0n‘ the strike list.

Packer representatives assert the strike if carried out. would cut the country's meat supply in half

lialf U. S. Soft Goal Minors Strike

PITTSBURGH. March l5 -(A.P) ‘Almost half the 400,000 soft ocal miners in the United States quit work today to back up Jolm L. Lewis‘ demand for miners pens- ions.

The leader cf the United Mine Workers (Ind) had asked rank- and-fiie “reactiun" to his charge that coal operators had "dishonor- sdflthe 1947 contract by failing to grant SIOO-a-month Pmsiona.

Tgdny he got that. “resctioiW in ever-growing nusnbera as more than 194.000 miners in 11 states laid down their pioka and shovels to support. Lewis’ rtend.

The coal industry's richest as-aa _western Pennsylvania and West Virginia-accounted for more than 98,000 idla. '

TWO-YEA] SINTENOI

WOODSTOCK. N3. March 15- (Cm-Ciaytcn Ha-ilett of Has-thud. N3. was sentenced to two years in penitentiary today when ha was convicted of escaping from the Woodstock Juli March 0 while serving a 14-month sentence on a liquor charge. Ha was arrested in

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LL-Gen. Simonds May Be Recalled

OTTAWA. March 16—Lt-Gen. Guv Simonds, probably Canadac most successful field commander of the Second World War, may be recalled from London to Ottawa if the international situation be- comes graver with consequent growth in threat. of a. new conflict.

This is the belief of some well- informed military authorities hers who see Gen. Simonds as the like- liest choice as the next Chief of the Canadian General Staff,

This 45-year-old professiouaisol- diei- now is the army instructor at the Imperial Defence College in London. During the Northwest European campaign he was com- mander of the 2nd Canadian Corps.

Sixth Death By Fire In Montreal

MONTREAL. March 15-46?)- Death toll in a series of major fires which have exhausted bioni- real firemen was set at. six tonight and property loss was counted at more than $1,000,000 when the -ai.ghth~fire---in»tha metropfliitan _ ..8aturday, had been 1.x- tinguish .

The sixth life claimed was that of Roger Gendron. 34-year-old machine shop operator. burned to death in a fire and explosion in

tha Western Machine Works on St. Catherine Street east this afternoon.

Committee

Begins Investigation

Prices

(By John Leblanc)

OTTAWA. March i5 - (GP)- Cmadws current butter ceiling is a “fair compromise" between the interests of producers and con- sumers, Kenneth Taylor, Prices Board Chairman, declared today before the Commons Price Com- mittee.

Mr. Taylor gave this evidence as the committee, turning from bread after a three-weeks investigation into that commodity. opened an inquiry into the jump in butter prices during the last six months.

F‘rcm the Board chairman, the committee heard also that there was no evidence that hoarding or “rigging of the market” has caus- ed last year's sharp jump in prices after the ceiling was taken offdn May.

Both Mr. Taylor and J. Cr. Sing- leton, Federal Dairy Commissioner, agreed that. active bidding by ody- ers in the face of a shortening supply situation was largely re- sponsible for sending up prices.

Mr. Taylor said that, as it. now stood. the butter ceiling was ap- proximately ln balance with the price of cheese in the new United Kingdom food contract.

Cheese is at 30 cents a pound wholesale in the contract and bonuses bring that up to S3. The wholesale ceiling on butter Ls 67

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$110,000 Flre loss lnxMagiialea Islands

(By The Canadian Press) G-RINDSTONEI, Magdalen Iai- ands, March 15—Loss la estimated at 8110.000 after a. fire that. de- stroyed a large store and ware- house owned by La. Madeleine Co-

operative here yesterday.

legislation providing that trade unions in Prince Edward Island shall be "autonomous" and that “no action, deliberation or decis- ion" of such unions shall be ‘dir- ectly or indirectly controlled or directed by any other person or group of persons," and that all members of unions shall be em- ployees within the meaning of the Act, was moved into committee in the Legislature yesterday after- noon by Hon. Horace Wright.

Tbs bill, after protests by Op- position members that copies had not been made available twenty- four hours in advance of second reading, was held over until 00- day, progress being reported to Mr. Speaker.

"an Act. to amend the Trade Union Act," it specifically exempts employees of the National Railway system. Among its provis- ions are the following:

“No strike action shall be undertaken nor shall any vote be taken 0r held with respect there- to nor shall any lookout action bl

Would MakeTrade Unions “Autonomous” In P.E.I.

taken by any employer unless and until all differences which may arise or exist between any em- ployer concerncd in such strike and his employees shall have been submitted to arbitration in con- formity with the provisions of The Arbitration Act. His Majesty shall be deemed to be a party to every such arbitration." '

The bill provides that no agree- ment between employer and em- ployees or between employer and any trade union shall contain a “closed shop contract". The latter words are defined as meaning “any clause in any collective bargain- ing agreement whereby the em- ployer agrees to employ only trade union members."

Authority is vested in the Pro- vincial Secretary to grant licenses to trade unions which have com- plied with the provisions of the Act “for such period or periods as he in his discretion may deem ad- wsabie, and any cuch license may be revoked and cancelled at any time in the discretion of the Pro- vincial Secretary."

(By lol Munro) UITAWA. March f5 - (C?)- luca for" leadership at the Liberal national here in Aili- uat’ today shown signs of becoming a competitive, wide-open contest —rat.her than one firmed ahead of time.

Two mouths Ito-When P!!!" Minister Ilackanaic King announ- ced ha intended to It» down-At appeared that the mantle would fall, without much argument, on the shoulders of mternal Affairs Minister 5t. Laurent. Heborcallthellluaof being the hair apparent. lie alts to the right of m. King in the Com- mons. His voice carries great authoriw in the Cabinet. Ila scam- cd appropriately cast in the role. lomc of the vmlnler Cabinet llluiafcro. who themselves Wm considered ecauadm. such as s-‘ifi- anca liaison Abbott Health Min- ister tlutin and Dsdensa Minister olaatou. 1110094 "W W"! Pf"- stair that they would back llr. It. Laurent.

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Keen Race Developing For Liberal Leadership

I first did nothing in stop the boom for the 08-year-old French-speak- ing lawyer from Quebec city who has only been in politiu since the end of 190i.