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Arabs Determined" To Bloelg Jewish State In Palestine

ileet Causes Blight Damage n Province

The week-end sleet storm caused m; breakage to telephone com- m wires in Prince Edward ls- ,n but. don-sage was believed not npngive, As a result of icing con- lions Saturday uishi. Wires be- veen Charlottetown, Summerside id Tignish were broken, with the orst damage occurring in the rederlcton to Kenslngton area. No ales were reported down. Yesterday afternoon wires from illrlntlefouryi to Souris broke in is vicinity of St. Peters. it ivas at known whether the trouble was ie result of ice from Saturday ght’; rain or whether additional e formed Sunday. Reports from is: of Souris before communica- on railed indicated it was raining . South Lake. ' Charlottetown escaped damage id even the slippery streets did ll lead to lily serious accident t the local Police Station officers .id they had no reports of even lnor crackups.

Overcast skies and s ohlli wind inday discouraged but did not itirely eliminate the traditional aster parade. .

'heatre Burned Iear Moneton

MONCTON. N. 8., Much 38e- iti-Fire early today destroyed a Star Theatre and e one-storey

ibd‘ business building in nearby..-

wisville. causing damage 1st!- ited by theatre manager Nathan alder at $50,000.

cause of thefira was unknown. t it was believed it might have irtad from an oil furnace in the sement of the theatre building. is fire wsa first discovered out b a-m. end spread rapidly. Firemen from Moncton fought e flames, preventing them from reading to houses near the cstre and a large school.

A heavy coating of sleet on the ois of the nearby buildings pre- nted sparks from igniting them.

Ioming Events /

"Croklnoie Party, Mt. Albion ill. Tuudsy night, March 30th. "Dance. Tracsdle Hall, Monday. ucn 29th. Good music. ‘

"unloading ca: of o, hoe

Over and starter. ernon J. we. Hunter River. "Lot 6b Hell. Elater Monday

iii’. Play "Aunt Jerufhey on ‘he Ir Path". 8.15. Dance after Play.

"Klnkors lllester Monday, dd Party and Dance. If not fine. llowlng slight.

"Plan to attend the big Easter nce in Leo's Dine and Dance

Wt. Good music. good food; onday, March 20.

"Kelly's Oroel tic Phy- I Presents their play "Shaun

Pill)". Easter Monday in Kelly's ‘N! Hall.

"BMW tales big Legion Dance t Btevsrt. lester Monday night. Mt of music by lluteru Rhythm

ill. "Prlbrhrisn w. M. s. ert ll‘ Tuesday Much Csbllilsofili"

l s ll . ‘I th belrete free. .-

._.._ "Uniwilm esr of bran. shorts

i4 middlines. tail-ecu clalclr NI. Miracle be! starter and zlluer- Venso J. Noye, Hunter

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"Dame in wsitoi counters, okors. Wednesday. 31st March Mt- itne on Wedneede! night. We will be Iridey. April 12nd.

"new! roles the 8 set comedy libs Yoineir’ by Hsaspshlm were in Kinsston Rail. armour. "vb Mn. l! stairw- April 1st

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Papers In

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Charge Sweden Plans Bases For ll. S. Planes

BY THOMAS P. WHITNEY

MOSCOW, March 28 — (AP) __ Tho newspapers of Russia's army "m! "Ivy unused Sweden's. mili- tary commander today of planning to build bases for United States Planes and "parachute troops on Swedish soil. The papers, Bed Star and Bed Fleet, mid a war clique ls striving to. control the. Swedish Government.

The accusations came a day after tho. Governupnt ..nowspa|icr ilvestla. accused. the ldorweglan Government oi planning to lease military hoses to Britain and the United States.

Commentator M. Bomenov wrote the article in Red Fleet. He said Lt.-Gen. allelic Jung, ‘s attempt- lllg to plan. the “use oi Swedish armed forces as an appendage of the American military. machine end to Iubloet the foreign policy of Sweden to the expansionist ambition! of the United Sisicg in Northern Europe."

Jung's plan, the newspaper con- tinued, in booed eo United States help and provides for: Construction in the northern pnrte of Swedes! of new fortifi- cations and alrdrouses for the ule cf A- lIQQIQ-W ._ Inclusion of Swedish eviction in tlr- 'mllitary air force system of the United States. ' ' Mobilization of industry on '-~. basis of the importation oi’ "Ml-

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Increasing the contingent of tra’""d officers "ml r-an n ‘ with United S‘~'-- "“P"0IU.

TOMMY DORSEY WED!

SANTA MONICA. Calif. March 28—(AP) - Bandleeder Tommy Dorsey and former dancer Jane New were married Saturday in Atlanta. 6a.. his mother. Mrs. Theresa Dorsey. reported.

WINNIPDG, March 38 —(CP)-- "Operation Docids." tho n. C. A. R's mercy flight to polar Antie Bay to evacuate Urlousiy-lli Mrs- Sam Dodds, ended today when the Dekote aircraft taxied to a land- ing at Winnipeg's Stevenson Field boa-ring the metoorologlcaf offic- er‘: wife and two other patients. The flilht orisinaily lied been authorised by Air Force heed- quarters at Ottawa for the purpose of evacuating Mrs. Dodds, ill for the last four months. from the lonely outpost 2,000 miles north of hare.

At Arctic In! however s. sick Eskimo. Akemeiiie, also was allow- ed transportation aboard the De- koto aircraft which once was pert

Finland A

Charge Communists Dictatorship

HELSINKI. March 28 —-iAPi-~ The Conservative press charged Corrmunlsts Saturday with plami. Jug’ a dictatorship izn Finland while an iron curtain hid the course of Moscow negotlot ons for a Furnish-Soviet friendship and military pact.

The report that the negotiations had reached a serious phase coin- rcided with articles in the Soviet IPIQSS which strongly accused Nor- way 0X following a “dangQi-Q-yg’ trend of military collaboration wihli the United States.

Finland's strongest. independent ‘evening newspaper Helslngln San. 0111M. said: “T fact that a. ornall minority of our people (the Finnish Communists) openly threatens to ‘use our foreign political position ,to force its own will on the great majority 0f the people according t0 the well-known pattern has caused nervousness.“

i The paper refer-red to a speech ilast week by Harts Kuusinen, wife i°l Finlimd’! Communist Mtnlstor of the Interior, in which she said

“Finland must follow the flame road ea Czechoslovakia." The Conservative paper Kpup.

palehti took the same lino cou- cerning the Kuuslnen speech.

“One could not express more openly and precisely the aim of the Finnish communists," Kaup- palehti commented. “That aim is to have a one-party dictatorship and crush all reactionary elem- ents."

The- Commiuilst-domkiated’ bloc in Parliament controls 51 of fih 200 seats, but slaoweci a. decline _ strength in last Decembefs municipal elections. -

Cabinet Ministers met Friday night. and it was felt certan the Goverrment. had been informed by now of what Russia actually is demanding in the negotiations for a pact.

Finnish political quarters ex- pressed the theory that the next move in the negotiations was up to the Fmns. I

Dispatches from Moscow aald Izvestie, the Government news- paper, in an article by Peter Grinin struck out strongly at "hbrwegiam diehards" and “Ruling circles” for their present policy.

Norway has a common frontier with Russia for a short distance

in the Arctic north of Finland.

Mercy Flight To Far North) Is Completed

of an R.C.A.F. squadron operating

in Burma.

Third patient. two-clay-old daughter of ueut- and Mrs- 5- Martin of Churchill, Man, was

picked up at the Pas, Main, after having been flown there by s Norseman aircraft from the joint Army-Air Force base where his parents are stationed.

Ambulances were waiting at the sir field when the Dakota. piloted by 1'0. Bob Race of Vancouver. rolled to a stop at S p. m. today. one week after the operation start- ed. Detailed reports on conditions of the patients were expected fol- lowing hosp tai examinations, bu‘. all were beieved in fair shape. with no iii effects suffered from

their air voyages.

JllI-UIALIM. llemh N -(APi --llesaed Arab attacks wiped out e eI-man Jewish motor and forced another to yield its arms in bitter Holy bend warfare ‘this Isabel- d».

Despite the use of planes for bombing the Jews suffered heavily with e total of as officially re- ported stain. The din or battle drowned out the Easter bells in letblehemk Ohurcls of the Ns- tlvitmeputfli lite o! Christ's birth.

To Are losses were not known. Ran . the Jewish army. reported it inflicted 800 densities on the Arebl, but this lacked of- ficial confirmation. ,

An official . statement sale el one wm billed when e one of SIC Arebe ambushed s ire-vehicle convoy new Nsherlvs. ietewes‘ ea tbs northern Palestine beset betwsesi Acre and tbs lab-

aniee treaties. , .

who reached u» after encoun- tertnl- rose bieebs mad the bod-

l." ‘moses . Music been let's-sauna: lfeli. ni- z-‘Mflllsdgtasdt Mimi-Tern?- ll llllille We!» pies "Olin Yourself."

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Bitter Fighting Land On Easter Sunday

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the convoyb vehicles was burned.

British officers sold ‘the Arabs were entrenched in the El Keibri hills between Nehertyafa coastal resort, and the Jewish settlement oi Yebiezn. They used two-inch mortars and light machine and withwaw onLv after * yei Artillery time fired i2 rounh of ell-pounder shells into their po- aition.

Arab losses in this encounter weave given es Ill killed end four wounded.

The second convoy battle wee south of Bethlehem. Almost 300 Jews, including members of 8s- gsise. surrendered their arms end equipment to the Arabs in return for‘ safe escort under Brit-iii ro- tection to Jerusalem. The on

but been under sieemiset night ehdtedevneu u» villeee of NIH Dietet-

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Jews Are.

4s To Cne

By DANIEL DE LUCI;

CAIRO, March 28 - (AP) The fear of s Jewish nation grips Arabs of the Middle East. ft is lho_ kind of fear that breeds war.

Seven Arab powers with a, com-_ bincd population of nearly 35.000.- 009 consider their No. 1 enemy to be a potential state of lees than 750,000 Jews.

The Arabs claim only one way is Open to make peace in Palestine ~ abandonment of the attempt to re- store a Jewish state after a lapse of 2.000 years.

During the last; month I ‘nave visited all of the Arab countries now actively intervening in the Holy Land uilihh volunteers, arms and money. They are Egypt, Syria, Le- banon, Iraq. Trans-Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Old feuds, rivalries and jeaiqusics hamper their unity. Yemen. seventh member of the Arab League, is having internal strife as the result of the death of_ the old king and is unable to do much about Palestine. Against the political ambition of Zionism, how- ever. all the Arab states are able to offer a solid front despite their ancient rivalries.

To analyze the Arab attitude to- day is perhaps a problem for psy- chiatrists as well as statesmen. But it is obviously rooted in anxiety that a Jewish state, no matter how tiny at the start. ‘might finally dominate the economy and politics of the Middle East,

The Arabs intend at an cost to keep tho Middle East. for oir own. at the a ti o tn A11. fess to afifiglliib ‘ogrwefn f", anti-Zionist and anti-Jevidsh. ‘they point to communities of more than 200,000 Jews in Arab states which have been virtually ‘in-molested dur- ing the recent turbulent months.

For Palestine Jewry, the calm- est Arabs say, extraordinary min- orlty" rights might be guaranteed but the Holy Land must go undiv- ided as a sovereign democracy with the Arab majority of 65 per cent" intact. 'I).‘1a very,word partition is classed as a profane gpithet,

American pressure was blamed for the United Nations Aasemblyb vote in favor of Partition. The Middle East called the recent Am- erican shift to truatceohlp an Arab victory, but second guesserfquiclt- 1y charred it was s manoeuvre to save partition for a later date when the so-callecl cold war with Russia is less heated. '

With limited means except man- power the Arab states are prepar- ing to wage war if necessary in the Holy Land. it is said they will fight the PYODosaI for United Nations trusteeship as defiantly 5,5 par-i,- itlon.

Sealing Ship g Reported Safe

HAL-FAX. March lid-JG?)- The R. C. A. l". tonight received a wireless message from the sealer Alfred and Emily that she coiilu see the sealing ship Mary Hyde 1i- the horizon and that both vessels were safe.

Previously. a request to make a position chock had come from owners of the Mary Hyde at Port Aux nasoues. Nfid. who said the sealer had not reported for mm" time. -

Both sealers are in the vicinitr of 5t. Paul's island in Cabot Btreit where two other lhlpl were crushed to death by ice Thursday and Qriday. The Mary Hyde cai- riea no radio.

Tniro Mali Inland In Stabbing Affair

‘TRURO. N!“ Meflh I -'(°1‘) -Thosnas Foster, a, was in hol- pttel here tonilht in critics-i cen- ditlon after being stabbed in the throat at his home. Police declined to reveal any details of the incid-

Anclent Babylonian Tablet Discovered

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NEW HAVEN. Conin., March 2B - (CP) - Discovery of a Babylonian tablet estimated to be nearly 4.000 years old and c011. taming the “oldest system of igwz, known to man" was armour-iced Saturday.

A joint announcement. by hire Yale Department. of Near East- ern Languages and Literature", and the tmerican Schools of Oriental Research termed the d1‘- covery “A sensational firs-d."

The ancient legal code, written between the 20th and 19th cen- tury. B. C., has at least one mod- ern note. lt. contains a price con- trol secton listing standard prices

for such commodities as grain. oii and copper. , A Yale scholar, Professor Ai-

brecht E. R. Goetze, found the tablet in Baghdad. Iraq, m“. lated it, and identified it as ho- ing 100 years older than pro-v- lously known oldest legal code.

‘The announcement of its dis- covery sol-d: "It is the code of Blalama.

King of Esihriunna. a. kingdom o! the east bank of the Tigris River which flourished 200 years before Hammurabl, the great "law giver" of the Babyloniams, held sway at Babylon on the west side of this same river. Like Hammurabis famous code it has penaltaes resembling the famous “eye for an eye. tooth for 1. tooth."

Tlhat section reads:

“If a. man bites another man's nose and severe it. lie pay; one mina of silver. (for) an eye {he pays) one mlnvof silver. a tooth a. half mine of silver. an ear a half mlna. of all , alap in they face 10 si-ickelsof Ivar?“ """

The legal code is written in cuneiform Akkadlan, the Semitic language of Babyionis.

Gootze made the discovery utofie examining tablets recently excavated in Tell Hormel. s. smell town near Bagidad.

Chilly Easter Weather In Canada

(By The Canadian Pres!)

Chilly weather, accomvlnieii l" some sections by snow and rel!)- msde fur coats a "must" item yea- tgrqgy in most, o1 Canada's Easter parades.

A cnnsdian Press survey showed u cold, blustery Easter. weekend almost everywhere across the land.» The sun shone on ohurchgoers and strollers in Ottawa, Toronto-Harm- llton and Edmonton but low tern- peratures and brisk breezes kept even many of the wvmeu With "PW hats at heme.

ln New York Too

NEW YORK. March b! -(CP) vwvThe Easter parade along New York's Fifth Avenue today eon- slated mainly of looking at the Easter bonnets - with perhaps a peek here and there to see how far off the ground the newest ‘in the "new look" was.

Today's traditional fashion par- ode took a beating at we hands of the weatherman and from the neck dcqm there was little to 5Q? in the way of "the latest" other winter furs on the dlstaff side and buttoned topcoate with scarf-wrap- ped neckline: among the male par- adore.

Dairy Production Declines In ll. B.

FRIIDIIR-IUION. Mai-eh I —- (op) ... Production of dairy pro- ducts in New Brunswick durinl the 1040-41 seam-i showed a de- crease compared to the WWW"! season, JJt. Sutherland, Director of the Dairy Service in the Prov- ince, said in his report to therm- vinciel legislature. .

The "Port we! tAblOd before the House adjourned Mercia 19 for the Easter recess.

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Freight Rates Decision To Be lleard Tuesday

OTTAWA. March Db- i C?)

—A decision on the railway application for o. SD-per-cent general increase in freight

rates will be handed down by the Board of Transport Com- missioners Tuesday,_ after 16 months oi’ litigation and pro- tests by seven oi Canada's nine Provinces.

Says Too Tolerant With Communists

NANKING. Mlrcli 2B —iAP)- Genoralissimo Chiang Kai-Slick today blamed Cliinafis civil war on his tolerance of the Communists during the Japanese invasion. but said it was o. mistake ho would not make again-

Tha Chinese cliioftain spoke st a farewell meeting of the Peo- ple's Political Council, formed as a Government advisory body 10 years ago.

Ohio a Tttcd hue concern

n‘ dqilnstntb of affairs, but asserted, “in my opinion both the international and fictional situations -\ clouded though they may 11g - were more unfavorable in 1938 than today.”

This Wu challenged by Chem Po-Ldng, chairman of the meeting. who warned Chiang:

“The general morale of our peo- ple is lower todiay than l0 years ago. Be as it may that the situa- tion. is better, we must arknlt that the people are most unhappy."

Barri And Potato Warehouse Burns

GRAND FALLS. N. 13., March 28 — (OP) — Breaking out early Saturday morning, fire raced through a combination barn and potato-house on the farm of Peter Desjardixis causing damage estimated at $25900.

The flames jirnped to tho near- by farm house but. volunteer fire- Lgihters prevented serious damage. The farm is located at Four Corners, about six miles from here. A blaze in the same district earlier in the week destroyed three home's, a barn. a barber shop and a. general store causing more than $20,300 damage.

Legion Will lirga Compulsory Service

~MON'I‘R.EAL, March 28-031’)- A resolution urging compulsory military service for all physically fit Canadian males of 19 is one of ditto be placed before the Can-

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Popo A World-At

(By Frank Bruit»)

VATICAN CITY. March IS-(AP) -Pope Pius declared today Italy and the world have naohed the crossroads in the struggle agsins‘ Oominunisrn-"tho great hour oi Christian conscience has so ed."

He spoke to 400.000 Italian! Ind people from all over the world who crowded into 5t. Peter's square and filled the roof! 0t buildings surrounding it w receive the Pope's Easter blessing. 4

The assembly dwarfed all Pe- litiosl rsiliea that have been neii for the Avril is elections in which itsiiaris will decide whether Com- rnunista shell control their govern- mint

The Pontiff. dressed all in white. spoke from the centre balcony of the Vatican above the hesdl of the cheering meal. Be said the present moment ts one of singular gravity and importance to the world.

As is his custom. the Pope did not mention Communism by name. But no ons doubted when: ho ineent when he quoted from St. Matt-how the "terrible verdict" of

Reports Construction Wool; ls Planned At Summerside Airport

There will likely be s col-raid}:- sble amount of construction work done at the Summerside Airport this summer. acoordinl t-o Mr. J Watson MacNaught, M.P., who has arrived home at Summerslde for the Easter parliamentary recess. Mr. MacNaught made it plain that as far as he knows, no final decisions have been made but no believes that the work done this summer will fall into three parts, the rebuilding cl one runway with cement, construction of 6-- housing units for Air Force per- sonnel and the placing of founda~ tions under a number of bulld- ings on the station. He said that if this work goes forward tenders will be called for within n month.

The reason given by Air Form authorities for rebuilding one run- way with cement is that jet pro- pelled planes generate so much hleat that they damage asphalt in landing and taking off. It is understood that it is not necessmy that all the runway be cement. but. only at the ends.

The housing units planned are single buildings of bungalow de- sign and according to information available the over all plan cans for the construction 0f Over 200 i» them eventually. The exact loca- tion of this housing project has not been learned. The administra- tion and barrack buildings on the station were put up as a wartime project and were not meant to be permanent. However, now that it has been decided that the Sum- rnersido station will be one of one bases pf the post war Air Fore: renovations will be necessary to make the buildings suitable for permanent use. ‘rho first thin; necessary is to put foundations under them and this has been la- cluded in the plans for this sum- men-S.