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CHARIJOTTETOWN, CANADA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1949

ACT COUNTRIES AGREE 0N DEFENCE PLAN

Doulchobor Terrorism Threatens To Hall: Trains

House Approves Bill To Aid Mechanization Of Maritime Coal Mines

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OTTAWA. lire. 1 ~tCP) —Lack pl lllecllaiiizaltcn-a mB-JOI‘ lmfliedl‘ ment in the development of the Maritime coal industry-was tackled wispy by the Commons today,

Alter a host of expressions of ap- proval, tile House passed a bill wiring the way for government loans to Nova scotla and New Brunswick vcal mines to hell! Dill m» modernization and mechanizat- ion projects.

The aim, as outlined ~by Trade Minister llowe. ls to improve Marl- time coal mining methods and op- eratiom so illat the industry w.ll Mable to rcinpete on a production mi; with Failed States mines.

rile eosf of Maritime mining continues to rise while it goes riotvri in other areas, Mr. Howe nld. Federal Government subven- lions currently help make up the difference but the loans would tackle the problem on a long-term ind more permanent basis.

The bill authorizes the Govern- ment to lend a total of $10,000,000 it could pay tip to two-thirds of the cost of a project designed to improve the efficiency and pro- duction of a mine. The Govern- ment would retain the right to lee that any proiect is in the pub- lic interest and is efficiently plan- tied.

At one point. Mr. Howe. spon- lor oi the measure. indicated Brat. Dmllnion Coal Company, produc- lrof more than 8t) per cent or lhrltime coal. would be the big-

Coming Events

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friars Stlldld, onatldftcfiwrfim“

"Blue Goose, De Sable. closed all fly Saturday, December 3rd.

"Reiiular Dance at Skyline. New lnndorl. each Friday night,

"Long Creek Christmas Concert, December 19th,

"New Haven Christmas Concert, er 2lsi.

"Christmas Oanccrt. Covehead Mad School. December 20th.

"Christmas Concert. Long River Hill. Dfiflliflbcl‘ 19th.

"Ruttulasc sale, Trinity Social liall. Saturday, 3 P, M,

“Card Party, Clinton Hall, Mon- lly. Dtoember 5th,

"Reserve Doc. 22 Hunter River ltltool concert in hall. H"Baztlar ztnrl Pantry Sale by °Pnlll0rt \\ nncns Institute, Fen- llhl and Cllnlldmr, December 3rd.

{Sec Jack llaley in "Vacation in Keno and have a good laugh at orih llilt~lilrt~ tonight at 9,30,

05.8% "Skllll ‘My Ixsve" at Mac- nalil Brats. Theatre tonight, plus Stooges.

sgliwttntase Sale. Holy Name Hall, “T585. December 3rd. 2 P. M. St. Charles auxlllarv. '

“Rtcervo December 21st for fllzfgdflle School Qonccrt. Dance

"$900111 Tibcdting . Pl!" gwggiorth River School, Tuqodny, er 6th. at 8 P. M. Order of Trustees.

rdmfy ‘all’. Moore d: McLeod ‘xfllkllec. 3rd. Highfleld Un-

llp“ Batu lied u _-._ mcpsnce o-Jery Friday night M

Gord We,“ gram L Good music.

"Rm"! Satutrde y afternoon, in filfrngth for Rummage Sale 0 by a. A1." gzlcslgtyail. Blbnsorcd

"time to Cor ‘M "wall Hall tonight, M" Chen and Lumen, in aid

of Y randli-rk PM"! School. Sale of

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their Th; k w; n Offering ger. ‘lg: ‘Emu church. Deeglmlber 4th. at W" ma mmm,

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Mxflks: Sale. Fancy m4 , a Mona. miller-en's

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gest beneficiary.

Alter the House passed the coal mines bill, it gave similar treat- ment to another of M.r. Rowe's measures. this one to streamline the business of selling war sur- plus. A crown-agency known as Crown Assets Disposal Corporation is set up as a successor to War Assets Corporation.

Schoolboy ls Faially Eaten

SYDNEY, N. S., Dec. 1 —- (CP) — Douglas Oland, ll, of nearby Coxhealh died lIl hospital here late tonight after being beaten by three or four other children on his way home from school to- day.

R. C. M. P. left Sydney for the community tonight to start an investigation. The boy died from a brain hemorrhage. No other details were immediately available.

Moncion Gas Supply Critical

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(C?) — The natural gas supply situation at Monoion has become critical, "and there is cvery rca- son to believe that this situation will become progressively worse durtn-g ihc coming ivlntcr." the New Brunswick Public Utilities Board» was told today by D.' W. Storey, Moncton city solicitor.

In a petition on behalf of the city. Mr. Storey and W. A. Mac- Willlam, superintendent of the Moncton Water and Light Derx-irt- men-t, asked the board to set rules rcg-ulaiintg the supply and con- sumption of natural gas in Munc- ton.

Board chairman F. Dodd Twee- die said that a hearing on the petition will be held at Saint John Jan. ‘l2.

The petition requested that na- iural gas be eliminated frotrn all furnaces and gas heaters wherever possible and that the use of na- tural gas by all industries in the area served by the distributing company (the Mon-cton Electricity and Gas Company) be prohibited during the win-ter months so that natural gas may be supplied, in sufficient quantity to domestic users for cooking and heating wa- ter.

Disabled Vet Sent To Jail For Taxes

DORCHESTER, N. 8., Dec. 1 -— (CP) -— Edwin A. Rutledge of Bale Verte, N. 13., a disabled vet- eran of the First World War, to- day was released from the county jail here after spending 16 days in custody for failure to pay a tax bill amounting ‘to $36.92. The debt, a poll tax levy against all male residents of the county, was paid by the Moncton Branch of the Canadian Legion.

Rutledge is the father of eight children. Two sons served in the Second World War. Op. y" kit. lad and the other seriously wound- E .

TWO-WHEEL SPEED

The fastest dirt track motorcy-

RJVERS. Man, Doc. 1 —(OP) — A military glider crashed into the frocon ground here today u it cum in for a landing. Its 10 oc- lcupants were injured, three serious-

y!

The punch-up occurred at the Canadian joint air training centre operated at Rivera for personnel of all three services-Army. Navy and Air Force. Group Captain PA. Gil- christ. commandant, said the glider wn nosing downfora landing when it piled up.

Medical officers said the three men seriously injured are not on the dlrler list.

Officials said the glider had re- lened its brake-arrester, s, para- ehuto which checks speed of the craft! descent. and the crash came l moment later. ‘

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Series Of-Blasis Tear llp Sections 0f (Lilli. Track

NELSON. B.C., Dec, 1 _(Qp) _ Ralllvtownea said today that a halt ma)’ b8 Called on operation of trams through the Doukhobor dis- tricts of British Qqlumlblu‘. Wes, KWWTHYI unless tralnmen get Protection, from bombing terrorists. , A irritant explosions on Canad- ian Pacific Railway tracks in the last three weeks brought a demand for immediate protection for the railwaymen.

The council of the Nelson Board 0f Wadi‘ called a special meeting to discuss Douloliobor re=rmri§m_ 1n Vancouver, Provincial Police heads relrtlgwed ithe situation.

e ra ivaymeti, ‘n 1 g Federal authorities} daolxntflilydfrl axol increase of track patrols, arid spec- llll Dfilloe measures to comlbat ter- rorism.

Just Missed Train

The latest em oslon Tuesday night. three milasl om Nelson, tore our a 30-foot section of track, and left a crater six feet wide and two feet deep. 1t came 10 minutes after a freight train had passed. No one was lnJured,

Island Poultry Goes T0 Bermuda, Trinidad

Probably for the first time in the history of the Province, ship- ments of frozen poultry have been mride in Bermuda and Trinidad. Sonic 200 fluxes were trucked it» Halifax and pill nhoard tho ship Alcnrl Pennant. ll is expected that "l0"! FIllDHlPnls will go forward W week. one oarload. moved lo

rmlreai during tho past week and a few other shipments to Maritime points. '

Egg production on Prince Erl- wnrtl Island shows a further slight increase with prices lowered from lust quotations. reports Mr, F. M. Nash, suporvising poultry products inspector. Quality is good and tli~

Price-Fixing In Fish Industry Is Charged

Flood lsolaies West Vancouver

VANCOUVER. Dec. l —(CP) -.F‘loocl waters of the Capllano River for the second time in five days isolated suburban West Vancouver.

A temporary Bailey bridge, erected by the Army Sunday, was washed out this afternoon as heavy rains continued to batter the British Columbia‘ mainland.

The sole motor vehicle link with West Vancouver. the tem- DOTBW bridge went out as the swirling ivaters ate away the gravel bed on which it rested.

Ferries are being called back into service to provide trans- portation for the thousands of persons who commute daily from West Vancouver to van- couver city.

North Vancouver. also on tlho north shore of Burrard Inlet, was fighting a flood threat a; the Seymour River went on the rampage.

supply is far from sufficient to fill the demand from Newfound- land and other Maritime points. Dealers are quoting today for unfzrrided eggs fob station Al. 4Zl, AM 41-39, AP 32, B 39. C 28 and for graded eggs fob station AL 48. AM 46, AP 37, B 44, C 33. Rctwthnnd coniirrnier-“Ytrices ' will undoubtedly adjust Immediately to conform with above quotations. Poultry receipts continue to iri- crrase and all surplus over zin- mcsiic requirements is being hox packed and placed into storage for

fuitlrn dellvcrin Poultry prices remain un- changed.

By Norman Altstedter

NEW YORK. Dec. 1 -—- (CP) - Carladas External Affairs Minister today called on Russia to stop the Comiriforms violent threats as proof that Soviet peace proposals are sincere.

L. B. Pearson delivered a strong indictment of Russia. linked with a not-e of hope for cast-west co- operation. in a "show me" address shortly before the United Nations. Assembly adopted an Anglo-Am- erican 12-point plan for pennan- cnt peace.

Tho fill-member Assembly re- jected a Soviet call for a peace pact among the Big Five powers and prohibition of atomic weapons. lumped with a condemnation of

Wild Goose Collides With Plane Over Ocean

NEW YORK, D80. l _tAP) ~ A wild goose 75 miles at sea. dented llle wing of a transatlantic plane today; and caused the craft to return to New York. Capt. Jan F, Donia. pilot of tlin Hmyal Dutch Airllms plane. said he encountered a flock of geese ovor the ocean. one goose struck a wing. causing a "dent about the size of a football." Denla said he felt it safer to return to New York international ail-port. since he

ole travels a mile in 31.06 seconds.

10 Airmen Injured Military Glider Crashes

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two pilots and 13 passenge m Of- ficials said that those injured in- cluded one Air Force man and nine Army men.

Rivers is about 150 miles west of Winnipeg. Service personnel are given instruction lri all phases of air maiters-parachuting. air trans- port, air support and air supply.

Officials said cause of the mid- morning crash was not known. A vow-i, or inquiry, under theauthor- lty of the R.C.A.F.. was convened to investigate the training-flight ac- cldent.

Although injuries suffered by the molt were not dangerous. it was de- cidcd to fly seven of the injured to Winnipeg for hospital treatment at the Deer mdae Military Howl“!-

Narnes of the injured were not disclosed immediately. Officials said they would be withheld pend-

im notification of QQXirOI

Pearson Tells Russia To Stop Cominform Threats

Britain and the United States as war plotters,

The majority supporting the l2- point Anglo-American resolution was the largest in U. N. history on a major issue. The vote was 53

5.

The Western "essentials for peace" include the proposals that no country use force or threats again-st other states and that all countries refrain from stirring up civil strife or otherwise interfer- ing with the integrity of any coun- try.

It demands settlement of inter- national disputes by peaceful means, and co-operation to regu- late both atomic andhon-atomlc arms.

The final hours oif one of the bitterest debates ‘in the present assemibly session saw Andrei Y. Vishinsky to Russia defending his pet scheme with personal thrusts against Pearson and other delegates,

Vishinsky wound l") his "carn- paign for peace" by shoutln-g a denial that his country is inter- fering with Yugoslavia. Such charges are "nonsense." he slid.

Pearson ridlculed the Russian resolution. He said Vishinsky wanted the assembly lo brand Britain and the United States as waranongers; then have the two Western Powers "embraced" in a peace pact by Russia and also have the Western Powers disarm without any adequate R§UTIHCE that Russia would disarm or co- operate.

The leader of the Canadian dele-

§fQli€Oi.iILi"€li to peace now is bodied in Vishlnsky‘: own words-"ldeologlcal intervention is wont to become military." "Albove all. Pearson said. “we ask the U. S. S. R. to keep its Cominfor-m from nttetrrvoliing to overthrow by force other peoples‘ governments and institutions.”

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T0 MUCH COVEBIN G

LONDON. Dec, 1—-(AP)——Entlre- ly too many Communist leaders are covering up for friends who make mistakes at work, the Soviet newspaper Pravda said today. An editorial broadcast by Moscow radio told Communist leaders they rnunt put the party. the Soviet state and the Soviet people above

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OTTAWA, Dec. 1 -— (C!) — Oth- ator F. P. Quinn (PC-Nova Sco- tla) changed in the Senate today that a price-fixing combine exists

in the fishing industry in the Maritimes. He called for an investigation

into thiedndustry to determine wthy prices in his native Halifax were so high and ivhether the fishermen is getting a fair share of these prices.

The Senator said he had infor- mation that there is a combine in Halifax which fixes the price

paid to fishermen and said that

independent buyers operating out- side the “combine” are subject t0 restrictive practices.

The fishermen had one of the most dangerous occupations in the world. yet had to take what- ever the buyer's combination de- cided to pay.

Lively Debate

Senator Quinn made the charges during a lively debate on a bill to tigth-ten fisheries inspection.

Others taking part were Sen- ators S. S. McKecn tL-Britisll Columbia); Arthur Roebuck (L- Ontario); A. N. McLean tL-New Brunswick); J. P. McIntyre (L- Prince Edward Island) and Tho- mas Reid tL-Britlsh Columbia).

Discussion arose during second reading of a bill to tighten coriitrol of qu-ality and tighten inspection of fish products. The bill, after second reading. was referred to committee.

Explaining the fish-inspection bill, Senator McKeen said the Fisheries Department had been a "political football" for some years. It had been used as a stepping stone in breaking in new Cabinet. Ministers. This had held back de- velopment of the fishing inditsiry.

Great Strides Made

However. Fisher-ties Minister Mayheav had taken a real interest in the Department and already had made great strides in a con- structive program to develop the home market.

This development must come throng-h ensuring the quality of fish reaching Central Canadian consumers and by training Cana- d-ians in the proper methods of preparing fish.

Canada stood eighth. in world production of fish but first in the value of exports, which this year, with the inclusion of Nev/found- land. would amount to an estimati- ed $ll0,000.000, about three per cent of Canada's total export trade. Sixty per cent of this went to the United States,

Senator Quinn said in Halifax, right on the fishing seaboard. prices were too high. I-Ie recalled n time when dried cod sold for five to seven cents a pound. It now sold for 2T,

Senator McKeen said that in Bri- tish Columbia, all prices received by fishermen wore fixed by un- ions, not by tho buyers,

Sonia tor McIntyre

Senator McIntyre noted that dried cod, to which Senator Quinn had referred, shrank considerably in the drying process. A 100~pound fish shrank to about 33 pounds in the drying process and when skin- ned and boned amounted only tri about 20 pounds,

Senator Reid said that, if there was anything ilmt nor-dud inspec- ilon, it was fish. Senators well knew that evcn in the parliamen- tary restaurant, they did not ai- ways get the kind of fish they or- dered, but a suhsiliilto.

Some so-called smoked fish in Canada wan not smoked at all. it was painted with acid. IIumnn na- ture.- being what it was, there were persons who would sell any- thing as long as ‘it made a profit.

Bar Minister For lndisereer Letter

TORONTO. Dec. 1 —(CP) — An Ontario supremo Court iudse today barred Rev, ‘Thomas L. Guthrie from the pulpit of his York Road Baptist Church in Guelph for writ- lng an lndlscreet letter to a mar- ried woman parlshloner. Mr. Just- icg Kelller ‘Ma/okay granted all in- junction sought by five of six dea- cons and all three trustees of the little church, whose congregation was split by the affair. The young married minister WES given until Saturday to remove his belong- ings from church properly. Mrs. Robert Stitf, 27. laid in n SW07" I-frldavit that the minister forced attentions on her.

DIVIDED COUNTRY

Pakistan's 76,000,000 people live in the amass square square miles of Western Pakistan and the 54.- ltl) lqtiare miles of Eastern Fak- this.

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ls Aimed-Ti Hailing Possible Red Aggression

PARTS, Dec. 1 -- (GP) —- The North Atlantic treaty powers bid for peace tonight by svrlting a plan for defence in war.

The 12 members agreed to mould their armed forces into a single wall of steel to halt any aggression from the Soviet-controlled East. The plan, formally approved af- ter three days of closed meetings by generals, admlrals and cabin- et ministers. opened the way for a $l,000,000.000 floor of United States military assistance to wor-

lmpoverished European govern- ments. Defence Secretary Louis John-

son of the United States. the chairman, said the gathering was harmonious. He took off by plane for Washington, to put the plan on President Truman's desk to- morrow, Approval by the President will release the American funds.

A conlmunlque issued by the North Atlantic defence committee, made up 0f the top military plati- ners of the Western world, said the objective of the plan is "adequate military strength accompanied by economy of resources and man- power."

To Foster Peace

Co-operation in the plan, it said, will foster the "primary purpose of the (Jnited Nations _- the maintenance of international peace and security.“

Soviet Russia, which has attack- ed the treaty organization for months as aimed against her, was not, mentioned by name.

"The meetings of both the mil- itary and defence committee con- cluded the official tasks of organ- ization and formulation of agreed objectives necessary to carry out the defence provisions of the North Atlantic Treaty," the oom- rntlnlque said.

"The principles agreed here will constitute the basis for further cf- forbs by the parties, individually and collectively, toward strength- ening the common defence. These efforts are with peaceful intent: they are not. directed against any the parties are determined that their civilization and institutions shall be safeguarded."

Four-fold Agreement

The conferees were reported to have agreed unanimously on;

A. Strategic concepts for the integrated defence of the North Atlantic area.

B. Provisions of a program for the production and supply of amaments and equipment.

C. Clo-ordination of planning between the various regional groups. (The regions are North America, the North Atlantic, Northern Europe, Western Eur- ope and Southwest Europe- Mediterranean).

D. The progress of defence planning of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

The Atlantic Pact countries are Britain. the United States, can- nda, France. Italy. Belgium, Tile Netherlands. Denmark, Iceland, Luxembourg, Norway and Portu- gal.

Canada's D ei e I'l c e Minister. Brooke Claxton. gave a first offic- ial clue on the status of the talks iirhen he bold reporters:

"This meeting nlarks the coul- pletion of the second stage and a. little more than the beginning of the third-stage -_ consideration of strategic requirement; in the life of the North Atlantic arrange- merits.