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China's Premier DecIaresfU.i S. WantsWar!

Minister Claims Statement To Growers Misinterpreted

FREDERICTON. N.B., Feb. 2 - (CPJ - Hon. A. C. Taylor. Pro- Viflciil Agriculture Minister, is- sued a statement here today clari- lying remarks attributed to him before a meeting of potato grow- ers held in the county court house at Andover yesterday.

Declaring that his promise to the potato growens had been mis- inicspreted. Mr. Taylor stated that the plan of procedure outlined by him for the potato growers had not included I definite promise of Federal aid. The meeting was called by potato growers to deter- mine what steps could be taken

Coming Events

"Skating Cornvwali Rink tonight.

"Mail your Films to Garnhuin Photo studio. Charlottetown.

"Wheat 53.15 per hundred. Mc- Guigan do Boyle.

"Salvation Army Rummage Sale. Tues.. Feb. 13.

"Dance in Mt. Stewart Legion Hall Monday nigiht.

"Buying oats and mixed grain. also feed,ba.gs daily. Highest prices Fraser and Annear Feed Service.

"The official opening of West Royalty School will be held on Monday. February 5th. at 3 P. M.

"Buying good feed bags daily. Highest prices. Russell Driscoll, Mt. Herbert.

"Hockey Graham's Road rink tonight. Graham'; Road vs. Long River. Game time 8:30.

in Wiltshire Miracles vs.

"Hockey tonight rink, Wiltshirc Hampshire Bulldogs.

"Hunter River Rink tonight. League game North Rustico vs South Rustico. Skate after.

"Hockey tonigiht New Glasgow. Glasgow Road vs Cavendish. Skate alter.

"Dance in Vernon River Hall, Monday. February 5th. in aid of C. W. L.

"Bnuying good straight oats and mixed grain daily. Dillon as Bpillcft.-u

"Loading Hogs every Tuesday at Bradalbane for Swift Canadian Co.. Ltd. Earl Todd

"Dance and Card Party, Trac-

adie Hall. February 5th. Good music. Lunches.

"Hockey. Stanley Bridge rink '0niS:ht. Bradalbnne vs. Stanley Blrirlze. Game time. 8:30. Skate diff.

"Skating North River rink Sat- iifdax afternoon for school child- ren from 1 to 3 o'clock.

"Receiving Hogs at Crap ud for gclflgdn Packers Limited. ntil 12 lsioon each Tuesday. Robert Daw- on. "Queen's County Lodge, mcefa It Kingston. Tuesday. February iifh. Meeting starting at 2:10 P. M. Iharp.

"Come to card party and dance ll Hunter River Masonic Hall Tufsdiay. February 0 in aid of the hockey team.

"Hockey. North River funk to- "iilhi. Covehead Redwings vs. Cornwall Meteors. Game time 8.30. Skate aim,

'fHoc-key in Long Creek Rink ivmzm. Nine Mile Creek School "- 3 Point School. Game starts at 1.30. Skate after.

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to secure financial aid for the in- dustry.

The plan he outlined, Mr. Tay- lor said. was similar to that which the Federal Department of Agri- culture had instituted in connec- tion with apple growers in British Columbia and Nova Scotia. Under that plan. the potato growers would make every effort to sell their output at a satisfactory price under normal marketing condi- tions. After the crop had been disposed of information would be gathered, determining the price received by the growers. costs. etc.. -before the Federal Government -would give full consideration to the request for help.

It was in the gathering of this information that the Provincial Department of Agriculture offer- ed assistance to the New Bruns- -wick Potato Marketing Board, Mr. Taylor stated.

His department would. of course. -he added. also support the grow- ers' representations.

The Federal Department of -Agriculture then would deter- mine whether, in view of the in- formation before il, New Bruns- -wick growers would be eligible for help. This plan. he said, had worked out satisfactorily in Bri- tish Columbia and Nova Scotia and he was confident it would in New Brunswick also with minor varia- tions.

Yesterday's news story had quot- ed Mr. Taylor as saying the grow- ers would be paid the difference between their selling prices and a "fair" price.

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Peace In Korea is Blocked

TOKYO, Feb. 3 - (Saturday)- (AP) - Communist China's Pre- mier said today iihe "United States Government and its accomplices" want war and have "blocked the path to a peaceful settlement in Korea."

Chou En-Lai's statement came in a Peiping radio broadcast giving Red China's first official reaction to the United Nations resolution branding his country an aggressor in the Korean war. The broadcast was monitored in Tokyo.

The no. 2 man of Communist China declared his regime "will absolutely pay no attention to a U. N. good offices" committee proposed in the resolution to help bring the conflict to an end.

The Premier. who also is the Foreign Minister. said the resolu- tion "in a most naked way proves to the peace-loving people of the world that the United States Gov- ernment and its accomplices want not peace but war and that they have blocked the path to a peace- .f'ul settlement.”

Chou declared the General As- sem-blyls action had encroached on the power of the U.N. Security Council.

He said the Assembly "blatantly" adopted the U. S. resolution ”slandering China without the par- ticipation of the lawful represen- tatives of the Peoples (Communist) Republic of China."

He asserted the U. N. acted "un- der the domination and coercion of the United States Governrrnent."

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Reveal To Reorganize Air Arm

O'1'rAWA, Feb. 2-(CF) - The navy today announced a reorgan- ization of its air arm. posting two of the four squadrons of aircraft

to sea ready for action at any time. - Headquarters said the arm -

still plagued by a shortage of pi- lots for expansion plans - is be- ing divided into operational and support groups. one permanently at sea. the other ashore.

The aircraft carrier Magnificent will sail from Halifax Monday for five weeks of flying training and exercises in the South Atlantic. mainly in the Bermuda area.

Aboard will be the 18th carrier air group. The group will take to sea for the first time the United States-made Avenger anti-suib- marine planes acquired last year.

The 18th group has been reform- ed to become an operational for- mation permanently attached to the Maggie. giving her an ever- ready air striking force.

Similar to the support group, it has two squadrons. one a fighter squadron. the other an anLi-su-b- marine squadron.

The support or training group, now called the 19th Support Air Group. is being based at the naval air station, H.M.C.S. Shcarwaier at Dartmouth. N.S.. where a 54,- 000,000 rebuilding program was an- nounced recently.

For some years there have been two groups. as now, but one con- sisted of two fighter squadrons. the other of two anti-submarine squadrons. Both were in training.

Now the Magnificent always will have one squadron of each ready

Four Of Seven Negroes Are Executed For Rape

RICHMOND. Vs.. Feb. 2 - (GP) - The first four of seven Mutton- ville Negroes condemned for the crgy-rape of a white woman were eloctrocuted here today and a cum- or for clemency continued for three others who are to die " t v.

The Negroes were put in death within an hour. Imamodistely be- fore they died a white man ISM 1-0 the chair for murder in the rape- slaytng of I White schoolgirl.

Eleventh-hour efforts for I119 Martinsville men failed to halt the largest multiple electrocution In Virginia. Their counsel. tamed down finally by Governor John 9. Battle yesterday. rushed to Washington for a mldnlaht Dies

elunsnayfor lie . on the conten- tion ths oorutitu onsl rkhil 01 "I0

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for action.

The Avengers will be flown by 826 Squadron under Lt. Cmdr..J. N. Donaldson of Ottawa and-Tm route. The fighter squadron. No. 883. under Licut. W. D. Munro of Dunnville. Ont... will fly British- made Sea Furies.

The two squadrons come under Lt. Cmdr. R. E. Bartlett of Fort Qu'Appelle. Sask.. as head of the

12,000 Dosco

GLACE BAY. N.S.. Feb. 2-(CP) - Dominion Steel and Coal Cor- poration today took notice of spiralling living cash by announ- cing jointly with District 26 of United Mine Workers in 60-cent daily increase covering 12,000 men employed in the firm's mining op- erations.

The increase. to run for a year, is effective as of yesterday. Previ- ous basic wage in Dosco's big coal mines was 01.08 an hour under a

two-year agreement signed last year. The joint announcement was

signed by Harold Gordon, coal op- erations chief for Dosco, and Free- man Jenkins. district president of the mine union. Hourly-rated workers now will be paid an ad- ditional 7 1-2 cents an hour and

Coal Miners

Given Increase In Wages

60 cents per shift. The agree- ment does not affect some 1,000 miners employed by independent operators in the Maritimes.

The announcement stated that all other terms of the existing agreement will remain in effect until the normal expiry date of the contract Jan. 31. 1952.

Dosco first acknowledged the cost of living increase by grant- ing its coal operations employees a. 5100 bonus immediately before Christmas last year.

The announcement today said that the increase is in lieu of such a bon-us. A second bon-us had been expected around Easter.

Pressure had increased lately among the local unions for re- newed efforts by district officers to obtain relief for the miners, whose contract still has nearly

contract earnings are increased by

News In Brief

WASHINGTON. Feb. 2-(AP)- The Wages Stabilization Board to- night relaxed the wage freeze to permit pay increases to millions of production workers.

OTTAWA. Feb. 2 - (CP) - France's tall. scholarly Premier. Rene Pieven. arrived today on a brief official visit; and was given a. hearty welcome.

Jr! 520.. E ii ,a-.- c .l-A... aaiulir desiro;e;”wdi"J;dpoi-to day to have bombarded Commun- lsi positions on -the west coast of Korea today. Associated Press war correspondent Stan Swlnton reported the action but did not identify the destroyer. Nor did he give other details.

BATESVISLLE, Miss., Fab. 2 - (AP)-A roaring fire was report- ed tonight to be out of control at Ponioioc. Miss..l about 56 miles east of here. The Mississippi state highway patrol officer here said "the whole town was burning up." The patrol radioed for aid from

group.

New Albany and Tupelo.

Concern In Las Vegas

Over Fourth

By GARE!-Ill DAVIDSON

LAS VEGAS. Nev.. Fab. 2-(AP) - The fourth atom blast in a week shook Las Vegas like an earth- quake today.

Concussion was the heaviest yet, and a big window in a furni- ture store shattered under the strain. One witness said other win- dows "bulged in and out like bai- loons. I thought they were all go- ing to go." lThe third shook, yesterday. brought only a ho-hum reaction. But today there was some con- cern in this city famed chiefly for wide-open gambling and six-. week divorces.

The man in the street wonder- ed out loud what the Russians think about it all.

Boomed a cattleman: 'Theylve only shot off one. havenlt they? Look at us, four in a week."

"Pretty expensive," a poker

.::..j- man were abridged in.t.hIt the death penalty for rape in Virginia. has been reserved solely for Neimtes.

The four executed this morning went to the chair unaware of fran- tic last-minute efforts to save their lives or of the protests over the

" from ' . Petping and other 0osununiot.ca.pita.ls as well as from groups in the Untied States.

Tha.whitc man. George Thomas Halley, 27., of Halifax county. Va.. was the first to go.

Then at 10-minute intervals. the four Negroes died for their abuse two years ago of Mrs. Ruby troud Floyd. :2. wife of a Msrtlnovllls do- partment store manager. in a

"shanty town" socta of Martino- vills.

They were: 1 '

Joe Henry Hampton. E: Howard

no lfalrston. 21; Booker '1'. Mill- nar. 2. and Hank L. Hairaton. 21.

To die Monday are their three companions. rrsnois Denies Gray- scn. 40: Johmclwbon Taylor. :4.

Atom Blast

dealer put in. "but I'm sure it's worth it."

Mrs. Mary Ellen Davis. whose store window was shattered by the blast. summed up a lot of the thinking this way:

"It has occurred to us that we may be just letting Russia know what we have in the way of atom weapons."

There were uncounted versions of what's going on in the 5.000- square-miie proving ground north- west of here.

One version is that they're test- ing a fixed charge placed on top of a tower. but of'smaler force than an A-bomb. Oiih a lean to the theories that atomic weapons such as artillery shells and guided missiles are being looked into.

Some citizens thought today's shock was about as much rocking as the city could take without ex- tensive damage. Even the city's low buildings were Jarred. and a

four-storey hotel trembled vio- lently. At one hotel. the bug- eyed night clerk reported the

doors swung open and shut in the concussion as if tripped by an elec- tric eye.

The whlte flash. quickly turning to orange and finally fading in a yellow core. came at 8.49 a.m. EST. lt took six minutes for the con- cusslon to reach he-re. vlxtting the distance st roughly 75 miles.

As dawn came, a "dirty-brown” cloud was observed. it drifted to- ward Las Vegas but ”

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Cost -. Of - Living Index Continues Upward Climb

OTTAWA. Feb. 2 -- (CP) Living costs climbed again in Dc- cember. boosting the official cost- of-iiving index by. 1.4 points to a peak of 172.5 from 171.1.

In reporting this. the Bureau of Statistics today also estimated tht wholesale prices for selected in usliria-l and farm products hit fresh heights in January. That may be an intimation of what is yet to come for consumer prices.

For the cost-of-living index. a barometer of consumer costs. it was the biggest moniihily increase . .iui-.-time's. 2.1-pain-t... climb. "Al groups "surveyed movbd to high ground. '

The index. based on 1935-32 rprices equalling 100. recorded price increases for meats. butter. vege- tables. fruits. men's weer. furni- burs, blankets. carpets, telephone rates. laundry. coal. health care. barbersf fees, gasoline. street car fares and newspapers.

Eggs. however, dropped about 11. cents a dozen in December, fol- lowing I shahp seasonal price de- cline.

The Bureau estimated that since August. 1939. the index has in- creased 71.1 per cent.

Rents were not surveyed. They remained at the peak of 136.4 established in October.

in the wholesale field, the Bur- ecu reported a 73-point advance in January for its composite in- dex for 30 industrial materials. moving the barometer to 206.2 at Jan. 20. from 198.8 Dec. 29, 1950. This index is based on 1926 prices equalling 100.

Canadian farm product prices at wholesale level were firmer, too: The composite index register- ing an increase of 3.0 points to 147.7 from 144.7. in the month end- ing .Tan. 20. Prices were higher for livestock. hides, skins. fowl, raw wool. rye. flaxseed, potatoes and onions.

Prices ind eggs slightly lower.

U. S. Gov'i Seeks To End iiaii Slrike

CHICAGO. Feb. 2-(AP) -The Government applied both legal ac- tion and persuasion today in an effort to end the swiichmen's "sick-call" strike that is progres- sively paralyzing rail service and' crippling industrial production .in the Unted states.

The Government said the work stoppage is "directly injuring our national security" and that "the American people can tolerate no other outcome" than a return to work.

In Chicago. leaders of the key union in the walkout. the broth- arhood of railroad tralnmen. were nanmonad into ndaral court on

were

in about two hour; in the fiuert air. Informed sources said it was dust stirred up by mg a.. tonstion.

An A.E.C. statement amplified. referring to the blasts Saturday. Sunday. yesterday and today: "We are able to say that no levels of radiation have been found any- where which could conceivably produce damage to humans, to animals or to water supply."

FRANKFURT. Germany. Fab. 2 -(AP)-U. 3. High commissioner John J. 1(oCloy's private di

train was severely demand is fire car today at the lad nom- burg ra old station. causing an

unfounded rumor whld: swept Germany that an attempt had

rr -3- a , The 010" citations stem from a similar "sick-call" walkout of -witchmeri

in mid-December.

The Government took steps at the contempt hearing to obtain the names of every swltchman who took part in the December walk- out .In its effort to prove that the work stoppage was I concerted ac- tion and not the result of sickness.

1-IIIDELBIRG. 2-tluutorll - Mai. Banning today was sentenced to five years hard labor and fined UIMIID by a United states army court martial on charges of mis- aioro than 8500.000 in army fun s. Banning was finance of- ficer in the Berlin military post

Germany. Nb. Harold D.

and James 1-lslrston. 23, a brother of Howard nsinton.

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Review OT lnlernaiionai SiiuaiioiL0iven

OTTAWA. Feb. 2 - (OP) - Ex- ternal Affairs Minister Pearson solemnly warned the Commons to- day that the free world is "in the greatest possible danger" from Comm-unist aggression.

In a 75-minute run-down on the critical world situation, he told the Chamber that danger still is great- est in western ii:-lurope. a glittering prize which "is still relatively weak and still stands open to Soviet con- quest."

But. hp went on wit sober con- fidence. if the North A antic pow- ers increase their strength and use

it wisely they have "no need to fear)" The External Affairs Minister

made these other points:

1. The fall of Western Europe would put North America "in a desperate position indeed." Russia then would have indust- rial resources rivalllng hhcse of the Western Hemisphere.

2. At the some time. he shares Prime Minister St. Laurents . View that the building up of North Atlantic strength will de- ter Soviet aggression in that part of the world.

3. A cease-fire in Korea would not remove the dangers of Com- munist aggvression. but would put the free world in a "strong- er position" to meet it.

4. The U. N. forces in Korea are neither "weak nor frighten- ed" and. in fact. are "getting stronger."

5. Canada, along with other delegations. is "determined to do everything we can to prevent a war with China. whether lim- ited or unlimited."

Mr. Pearson. speaking from per- sonal experience as a member of the U. N.'s oease-fire committee, re- viewed the stcps leading to the U. 8. resolution brandng Red China as an aggressor in Korea. That res- olution did not slam the door on subsequent negotiatl of a cease- fire. he said.

His policy statement came in the

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U. N. Offensive In Korea Grinds Ahead Half-Mile

TOKYO. Feb. 3 -(saturday)- (AP)-The United Nations offen- sive toward Seoul ground forward one-half mile Friday in the small- est day's advance of the nine-day- old Allied push.

A heavy fog and difficult ter- rain slowed the Allies more than the spotty Chinese and North Korean resistance along the 50- miie front, field dispatches said.

A tank-led spearhead pushed to undisclosed points north of Anyang. 8 1-2 miles south of Seoul. At 10 P. M. Friday two Chinese Red companies-possibly 400 to 500 men-counter-attacked at a. place 2 1-2 miles south of Anyang and seven miles north of Suwon. Un- less the Reds hit with greater force it seemed unlikely they could cause much damage.

Elsewhere along the Korean front, there was little contact. The Reds seemed to be pulling back from the Allied artillery and aer- ial attacks which had claimed more than 9,000 Communist casualties since the offensive be- gan Jan. 25.

LONDON, Feb. 2 -(Reuters) - Slr Charles B. Cochran. Britain's master showman. died because arthritis of the hips prevented his turning off 9. stream of scalding Water in his bath, a coroner's court found today. A verdict of accidental death was recorded on the 78-year-old producer, who died in hospital Wednesday from the

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