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Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew CANADA. MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1951

Atomic Blasts Reported From Testing Range

Latest Meat Ration Cut Threatens Life Of British Gov”t

LONDON. Jan. 28-(AP)-- The British meat shortage appeared today to be blowing up a political uorm which might even push the L.'il)0l' Government from office.

The press almost unanimously itiricked the Government on the ilCll' 20-Pet-cent cut in the meat niinll. announced Friday. The out has the third since meat ship- ments from Argentina, Britain's biggest supplier. were suspended last July in a dispute over the price the British would pay.

The new eight pence (about in reiiis) weekly ration of fresh meat is about twice the size of a penny box of matches and a. little over half the portion allowed during the worst days of the war. In addition, each Briton is allowed two pence worth of corned beef.

Irritation manifest by house- wives. butchers and the press is expected to be reflected in the House of Commons, where the Labor Party has a majority of only six members.

Papers Blast Government

Most of the newspiipeirs, Con- servative anyway. usually attack Government policies. But this time the independent Times. in- dependent Liberal Manchciitcr Guardian and Liberal News Chronicle also turned against the Government. only the Daily Her.- aid. owned by the Trades Union

Coming Events

"Mail your Films to Garnhuin Photo studio. Charlottetown.

"Concert in New London Hull. Wednesday January 31.

Vernon

"Auction and dance. Hall. Tuesday, February 6. "Mt. Stewart Legion Hall.

Dance. January 29th.

"The road is being kept open to Bedeque Flour Mills.

"Garden Seeds! Scnd for free catalogue. Arthur Vesey. York. "Parkdale community concert.

five nights. opening Feb.

"Box social and Dance at at. Pct:-r's Lake School. Wednesday, January 31st. Good music.

Station regularly

"Card piiriy Wiiisioc Hail tonight 3230. held every Monday night.

"Card Party ahd lunch. Hope River Credit Union Hall, Tuesday. Jan. 30.

"Ex R. A. 1''. meeting to be livid at the Legion Hall. Tuesday. 30th. at 7.30 prompt.

"We are buying mixed grain or straight oats daily. Get our prices. 5. .i. MacDougall. Vernon.

"show. Morell Community Hall. riery Friday only. Show starts 8 niclock.

"Hockey mulch Long River

rink tonight. Long River versus French River. First league game. 8 o'clock sharp. "Hockey at Graham's Road Rink tonight. First some of Mer- r-haiit'g League. Bradalbane VI. Graham's Road.

"Variety Concert. Marshiiold Hail. Wadnssdsy. Jadnuary list. Sponsored by Suffolk W. 1. sale of boxes.

"Hockey tonight River Rink. Don't miss this lea- lllle game. South Rultico vs. Hun-

ter River shur Gains. skatinzl after. i i i "Hockey at North River rink

"might. Jan. 29. Nine Mile Creek Bulldogs versus Southport Ramb- 8.30

It-rs. Gama time Canteen. skate after. "Puitin on a play? Write Mrs.

Frank latch. Charlottetown R. R. 8 for -Drama Booklet telling when to get plays. how to enter Spring Festival. etc. Bend today for free copy.

"A Meeting of the Board.of Managers will be held in Harts- Villa church. Wednesday evening. Jami-rv am. at no r. M. Coi- icrtors are requested to have all Budget Money at Hosting. Nell Nicholson. Chairman. h"l-fear W. it. Shaw. M. B. E.. in "in own inlrnitablo way tall the '.' Ilofir of-Burns in mbl'"IPY..-.lat...aLl P. M. Am L dinu. sons: and dancinl.

unchu. Sponsored by Ladies Aid llowiouninion mum ciima. .

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Congress. maintained its support. The papers at the week-end criticized both the bulk buying

system of the Government and its negotiations with Argentina. The Government does all the buying of meat. as system started in 1040.

"It has been claimed that the present system of purchases has kept the cost of living down in this country.," said the Times. "At the moment it is keeping down not the cost of living but the standard of life."

The Times said the price Arg- entina is asking would cost Britain an increase of only i5,000,000 ('sl5.000,000) a year-or just over two shillings a person.

Bare Shelves Costly

The News Chronicle noted that when the ration goes down the Government pays the butchers a subsidy so they can make ii. living off their decreased trade. It esti- mated these subsidies would cost E20.000.000 a year.

''it will, therefore. cost the tax- payers four times as much not to have meat as it would cost the consumers to have it." the paper concluded.

The Labor Daily Herald said. however, it is the principle oi the thing and "we mustn't allow our- selves to be held to ransom by President Peron" of Argentina.

The Daily Mail said the "wick- eted Argentinos" were serving as a useful screen for the Govern- ment to hide "the incompetence of the bulk buying system." It pre- dicted the system will continue "so long as the Socialists retain power."

N. B. legislature To Open Jjarch 6

FR.-EDER.IC'IDN. Jan. 28 -- (OP) - The third session of the 41st Legislature of New Brunswick Will open March 6, Premier McNair said yesterday.

William Leigh Williamson. M. - L. A.. of St. Andrewsnwilli move. and Louis A. Lobel. M. L. A.. St. Quen- tin. will seccnd the adoption of the address in reply to the speech from the Throne when the session opens.

Three Burned To Death iniifld.

CORNER BROOK, Nfid.. Jim. 28-(CP)-A father and his two children perished here Saturday when raging fire consumed is large neighborhood-type grocery store and residence.

Dear arc: Gus Elms. his foiir- ycar-old daughter Ruby. and one- year-old Margaret. Damage to the store and living quarters was esti- mated at 525,000.

Elms died in a heroic attempt to save his children. He was suc- cessful in passing his son Derek to safety from a second-storey window but was trapped when he returned to save his your!!! daughters. His Wife escaped. hysterical but unharmed.

U.S. Rejects

Nevada Town Rocked By Three In Four Days

No Details Revealed

But A.E.C. Says H- Bomb Not Being Tested.

LAS VEGAS. Nov. Jan. 28 -(AP! - The third atomic blast in four days jolted this desert gambling town early today and everybody who felt it agreed it was by far the strongest of the three.

The Atomic Energy Commission again shrouded its experiments in silence. But residents of Las Vegas and vicinity heard plenty. some were rather irked about the whole business.

Tremendous Flash

Today's explosion. occunlng at about 6 A. M. P.S.T. (lo A.M E.S.T.i. was described as resemb- ling two great thunderclaps flun- dreds of witnesses beheld a tremen- dous white flash in the sky. close- ly followed by another flash, orange in color and not as bright.

The atomic testing range is about 40 miles from Las Vegas. The blast presumably took place well within its huge perimeter. The A. E. C. wouldn't. say. It merely confirmed that a nuclear detonation had taken place. .

The first test came last Wedres- day night. The second occurred Saturday at about the same time as today's. It felt as if the first two were simply build-ups to this Sun- day punch.

Whereas many persons slept through the first two jolts. the Sunday punch aroused nearly ev- erybody. The Police Department handled a flood of telephone calls at the rate of four a minute.

Citizens Annoyed

The citizens were miffed. One woman said she was angry because the blast nearly broke her laY1r1d”E.5v- some callers feared the detonations would damage the foundations of their homes. No damage was reported any- where. however. and Richard El- liott of the A. E. C.'s public rela- tions staff said a radiological sur- vey team had surveyed t-he area within a 150-mile radius of Satiir- day's second explosion. The find- ings: No radio-actigity.

in suburban No th Las Vegas. the shock set off all the burglar alarms in business establishments.

Speculation ran high as to the nature of the tests -being conducted. There were even murmurings that this may have been the big bcmb, the hydro- gen variety. But the A.E.c. denied that the H-bomb was be- ing tried out.

Elliott gave out an official des- cription of the explosion. He aiso announced that the experimenters are "all quite haiopy" with the re- sults of their tests.

The blast was brilliant. Elliott.

said. like a magnesium flash. It turned to a rosy colcr. like the sunrise. The explosion also was felt and seen in Boulder City. about "is miles from the test range. Like the others. it was recorded on the Cal- iforriia Institute of Technology's seismograph in Pasadena. Calii.. some 300 miles away.

Proposed

Conference With China

LAKE SUCCESS. N. Y.. Jan. 20 -(AP)-Warren R. Austin of the United States Saturday rejected Nflb-Allin proposals for a con- farenca with Communist China on the For most and Korea. I-is de- manded an immediate United Nat- ions verdict that Red China has engaged in aggression and in ef- fect gave assurances that this would not mean American bomb- ing of Chinese territory.

In a solemn 23-minute speech to the U. N. political committee. Austin answered objections to the U. 8. resolution which says Corn- munist China encoded in lures- alon in Korea and proposes that the U. N. study what to do about it Committee debate will continue Monday morning on an issue that has rocked the U. N. fpr three months.

In brief. Austin said:

1. The American people and the American Government feel that the U. S. has delayed too long in calling Rad China an aggressor. Ba could not "conscientiously" an- e of further delay. This re- jooted the Arab-Asian formula and doomed even before it is sub- mittod. perhspl Monday. I new Ai-oii-Asian plan vrrlprinc W

. Canadian ideas for a conference

within a week on a cease-fire in Korea.

2. The U. 6. resolution does not give the U. N. command under Gen. Douglas MacArthur author- ity in take any action which the U. N. command does not already possess. MacArthur has taken the position he now lacks authority to bomb Rad China's bases.

3. The American suggestion for a special committee on collective measures to study and report to the General Assembly on steps to carry out punishments does not commit the U. N. to any action and dose not bind one single man- bar of the U. N. to any sanctions.

(Britain and other countries have turned down any idea of punishment against Red China).

4. The good offices committee suggested l)yVAI.MllLlAl',lA can get, to work immediately. if it finds the Red Chinese have not shut the door to peaceful settlement. the collective measures Iroup can hold up its work while good offices are attempted.

Austin said it is "not true” that the U. 8. resolution slams the door on any further attempts at peaceful settlement.

Marshal Man

By Michael Goldlmlfh

LAUSANNE. Switzerland. .lan.2il -(AP)-Field Marshal Boron Cori Gustaf Mannerhcim. Finland's hero. former president and leader against the Russians in two wars. died Saturdaynlgfitina Lausanne

hospital. The 83-year-old soldier who once was known as ”the un-

crowned king of Finland" suc- cumbed io heart failure following an emergency operation last Wed-

nesday. In Finland. the ringing of church bolls preceded the news

of the Marshal's death in tiie first morning broadcasts today, and Finnish dirges followed the sombre bulletin. The aged Mar- shal was immensely popular. Mannerheimls body is to be flown to Finland Wednesday for burial. Mann:-rheim's

name became

Finlandis Hero, Field

nerheim Dies

known to all the world when. in 1939. the Russians attacked Fin- land. The line of fortifications across the Karelian Isthmus was known as the Maniirrhcim Line.

For more than two months. the Well-trained Finns under Mon- nEFhelm'S command held the line against overwhelming odds. The Russian breakthrough meant the practical end of the war for Fin- land.

But less than two years later. Marinerlicim again led hls.iroops against the Soviets with the Ger- mans as Allies. This campaign. also, ended in Finnish dc-feat.

In 1944. he was appointed President with the hope that his enormous prestige would help

Baiile I? Reported To Be Continuing

TOKYO. Jan. 29 -(Monday) - fAP)-Chincsc Coininuiiist forces. at boy on the approaches to Seoul. turned and fought back Early Monday at advancing Unli- ed Notions troops within 11 air miles south of that battered Red- iielii capital.

A field dispatch from ilie Kor- ean western front said the Reds hit back with battalion strength counter-attat-ks-upwards of 1.000 nieri.

AP correspondent Sinn Swin- ioii. in a dispatch timed at l a. m., said fighting was continuing.

(E reeks In Action

American troops. supported by Puerio Ricaii. British and Greek units. advanced Sunday on an averaize of three miles along a 40-

pull the Finns through the agony of defeat by Russia. An armistice with the Soviets was completed the next moiiiii and Maiiiierlieim remained President until illness forced him to resign in 1946.

Arms Slated

Fire Saturday On liensington Road

City firemen and Parkdale fire- men combined on Saturday even- ing to extinguish a blaze in the Kensington Road home of Her- bert Stanley.

A call was received by the City Fire Department soon afteril p.m. and they arrived at the scene to find a fire well under way in the attic of Mr. Stanley's bunga- low-type home. Purl-tdale was call- ed at about nine o'clock and ar- rived with their pumrping machine and 500 gallons of water. Damage by the fire was con- fined to the upper portion of the house where it gutted the attic and burnt off part of the roof. The only damage downstairs was caused by water.

Decision Reversed in Mink Ranch Damagesgase

HALIFAX. N. 5.. Jan. 28 -(CP) A history-making legal case. watched by many aeronautical authorities. took another turn here Saturday when Supreme Court de-W cisions reversed a jury's verdict which had granted a mink com- pany dainages 'iotaliing 510,000 from Trans-Canada Air Lines. The case, which likely will have wide bearing on responsibilities of an airline to people on the groiin-cl, arose after a T. C. A. air- craft passed over a mink. ranch owned by Nova M.ink Limited at Musquodcvboit Harbor. 28 miles from here. investigation of the mink pens. on the day following the incident. revealed a large number of mink ”'kiis" had disappeared. The com- pany claimed they had been dc- vourcd by iihcir mothers who had

been fi'ightened'by the noise of the passing aircraft. A decision wnitien by Chief

Justice J. L. Iisley of Nova Scolia. said the mink ranch had been cs- tmblishcd after the air line began operating along this air lane. He

Canadian Troops An.d

For Europe

OTTAWA. Jan. 28-(CPI-Cam adian troops. airmen and more arms will probably be committed to Gen. Eisenhower's European command within ai couple of months.

Ottawa looked forward today to a quickening of the 12-power eff- ort to defend Europe in the wake of statements here by the General that what is done during the next 12 months is of the most crucial importance for peace.

The next year. he told Ottawa, is of more importance than the next 10 years.

Canada's own plans to aid Eu- rope were developing.

Ready Within Month

At Fort Lewis. Wash. the army's special force pitched into the last phases of its training and the word was that it will be ready for action within 9. month. About half of- its 10,000 troops may be en route to Europe to bolster Gen. Eisenhowerls Atlantic Pact army within two months.

Shortly after a

smiling Gen.

Eisenhower waved goodbye to I Ottawa Saturday. Defence Minis- 1 ter Claxton told reporters his

talks here covered the whole fieldi of Atlantic Pact organization and co-operation, including "proce-1, (lures and arrangements for the transfer of more equipment." to Europe.

Mr. Claxicii said Canada hopes

to get. word from the N.A.T.0. organization -- specifically the three ...power standing group of

military leaders in Washington- withln a few days of the proposed destination for Canadian equip- ment for a second European divis- ion.

Holland, Italy and Belgium have been reported as countries: bidding for the arms for an infan- try division. including rifles, anti- tank and artillery pieces. ma- ciiine-guns and other aims. Mr” eiaxton said they could be on their" way within three weeks.

The equipment is of British: type left over from the last. wanl As it goes. it is being rcpluceii:

with Americeli equipment. Canada already has sent tor Europe the equipment for a Neth- erlands division and a fighter- squadron. new training with the; R-.A.F. in Britain. it is expectedi that the squadron will he turnedi over to Gen. Eisenhower's head-5

said he did not believe the air line had a duty to search for mink ranches or to fly so high that it would not disturb a mink ranch.

J. E. Rutledge. K. C.. who rcp- rescnicd the airline. said that Iihe case had been the s-I.-bicci of ill- quirics from airline officials from several countries.

u. s. Rosrridi-s-ass Of Tin For Cons

WASHINGTON. Jan. 28 -IAFi -The Government Saturday ban- ned the use of tin in most kinds of coffee and paint cans and in a large number of other products. At the same time it ordered in 10- per-cent cut in the use of tin for beer and pet food cans during the first quarter of this year. It said studies of further savings are be- ing made.

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.l"llR0l-J IN CHINA TAIPEI. Fcrrnlosa, Jan. 23- (AP)-The China Union Press said Saturday the Chinese Redo have executed 17.000 persons in Ohekiang Province as part of a country-wide puns. It said most of those put to death were formerly Nationalist officials and military- personnel.

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quarters for use in Europe and' that. it will be followed by othevi's.'

iIire?EIIiHFeii Burned To Death In Ontario

SUDBURY. Ont.. Jan. 28-(OP) -Three children were burned to death early today when a fire. apparently caused by an explod- ing oil stove. destroyed their thrcc-room hcme on 6udbur.v's outskirts.

Neighbors said the fire was touched off by an explosion and destroyed the house within min- utes. The children's parents both were injured and their father, Jean Guy Mathleu. 23, is in ser- ious condition in hospital. A fourth child escaped unhurt.

The three victims wt-re Jules Mathieu. 5; Gerald, 3. and Rita. 2. Their bodies were found in the bed in which they were sleeping when the fire broke out.

Jean Guy Mathieu suffered burns on more than 50 per cent of his body. His wife. Therese. 22. suffered shock and minor burns.

mile front south and southeast of Seoul. Red resistance during the day had been scattered.

'i'liis was the first reference to Greek troops in action. The censor would permit iio clarboration.

AP I-oi'i-espoiident Siaii Swinioii reported an entrenched line of Chinese Reds may be south of the Han River. which flows west- ward to the Yellow Sea.

Three Chinese amiics warps)- wiiile believed to be for under normal strength of 00,000 men due to cold wt-athcr and battle casualties-apparently were de- ployed around Seoul rind in an arc In the north.

A staff officci- said the Chinese vvcrc 'suffc-ring iiadi,v" winter weather and the cruel ter-

Firemen said the expl0Sl0Tl ap- parently took place when Mathieu

numbers through disease.

ularly tnihus. he said. The Allicd advance in the west

came during a personal inspection

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News In Brief

lVASHlNG'I'ON. Jan. 2T-(CP)- iPrcmier Rene Pleven of France. leadinz of! a dramatic week of Al- lied sii'aie'.:',V talks hero tomorrow. is reported in he reiid.V to fissiiri: the United States that French troops will fifzlii on in Indo-Cliizin -even if Chinese Comniunlsts in- tervene on a massive scale.

OTTAWA, Jan. 28-ICP)--H. M. C. S. Sioux, en route hack to Can- nda after a tour of operations lit

the Kort.-zin threnire. left Pearl Harbor today. Naval Service Headquarters announced. The

Sioux is due at Esquimait. B. C. Feb. 4.

WARSAW. Poland.

I(AP)--The Government ced Saturday that gasoline will be rationed starting Feb. 18. Private cars will receive enough fuel to travel 125 miles a month.