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ITSLAND TRANSPORTATION CLAIMS PRESSED AT OTTAWA

arnmission Report QnlNavyy Tabled-In Parliament

“ Mutinousw incidents ” Partially Blamed On

Coming Events

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"Dance K. o": o. ma. lotlris, l ‘fhursday. November 3rd

"Masquerade Dance, Lon‘ m"; Cali. November 2nd.

"lhow, “Blaze of Noon" lluniers River tonight. at 33o,

"Dance Whim Road H51] Thursday, NOV. 3. Cliff Lilly’; 01-. chestra.

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"Dance. Lens River Hall every Wvdlleldly. Good music. Door prize. ,

"The Baltic Starch Factory is lCCcptillB potatoes only by Appolnt. merit.

"Dance in St. Peter's Lggjqn Hail every ‘niesday night; 011g] Peters Orchestra -

"Dance. Crspeud Hall. Novcm. ber 3rd. Don Mesaecfls Orchestra. WIPIllti Women's Institute.

"Dance Mt. Stewart Legion Hall every Thursday night, music by Al Blanchard.

"Come to the L.O.B.A.. Chicken lilppcr in Bradaiibane H511, w“. iescfl. November 2nd.

"Chicken and Ham Supper in Wilt-shire Hall, Novembq- 1m}, in aid 0! W. I. First serving at 5.90,

1 ‘R3912’. vililfllldey. November . -_ nceniis, ..orphsnage Dance. Wheian Memorial Hall.

"New bllvinz Timothy seed, Reg- iltered. Cleaned or Uncleaned. Mc- Glililih and Boyle.

"Come to chicken and ham supper in Wiitshirs Hall on No- vember 2nd.

"Dance. in Johnston’; School. Thursday, Good music.

River November 3rd.

"Crushing Grain’ every day ex- Ceil! Tuesdays. Grinding and buy. 10i; buckwheat. Percy l-lowatt.

"lesion Dance. North Ruatico. ggrsdly. November 3rd. Refresh- is.

'_‘Dancc to McNcilYs Orchestra. i Billet linll. November 3rd. Ring- Wood Institute.

“Masquerade Dance in Tyrone Hali- L" 65. pOStpOned until Thlllsdily. Nov. 8. .

"WERE? meeting for all inter- llled at East Royalty Rink Wed- "Qidfiy. Nov. 2, 8 o‘clock,

"Chicken and Ham Supper in Kingston l-iall November 2nd. in aid oi Baptist’. church. supper at 5.30.

]"C0ms to l-lighfield Women's nstltute chicken and ham supper. will hot scallops, salad, etc.. at lscllace Rodd! Wednesday, Nov.

"Cafeteria Livestock and Poul- g; Feeds now being unloaded at ville Station. special prices ofl car. James G. McLeod. Hampshire.

"DI-hell! we?! Thineday. hind- Club. Travellers Rest. "my IAMnQQOILI-o Chappeli and his

d "Hot Chicken Supper original- $e2dveltiaed for Si. Andrew's Hail ""5". Nov. 2nd will be held‘

Lesion lien. m. Stewart.

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Dotty officers" $2211?‘ ‘""‘° ' °°0llffcd early this year,

m‘ 371N110"! report. taibled in can ‘lmmvlw by Defence liflnislcr ‘,0 d“! "id" the (miurussion had "n - mo. a prevalent opinion

' that more is an ‘artificial distance’

between officers and men not wihol- ly connected with the necessity of malllmlllllls the essential differ- ences in rank."

The commission reported "s. veil-y real and almost universal opinion

mvy was not sufficiently can“.

The report found "no justificat- ion “for the incidents but 551d there was justification for some

the dissatisfaction was founded."

Mr. Claxiton told the House 40 per cent of the COmfnlsslolfg :1 recommendations for improvement, have already been acted on or u; being imipleiirlentcd.

Hundreds Questioned

Th“; report was made after more the six months of questioning "hundreds" of officers and men and from study of their statements by Rear Admiral E. R. Mainguy, I... C. Audette and Leonard W. Brockington. They were named to probe the "incidents" but; hm mum Powers of recommendation.

The "incidents" involved. in all. some 100 men aboard the nil-ugh carrier Magnificent and the da- siroyers Athebasltan and Crescent.

The three "incidents" specifically investigated involved “sit-down strikes" in which a number of rat- ings refused to report for duties as ordered. In all cases. the men in. volved retired to their mess deck and in the incidents aboard the Athabaskan and the Crescent they locked the doors to their quarters.

Apart from locking the doors. there was no violence in any of the cases. In each case the men returned to duties after being vis- ited by a senior officer. No punish- ment resulted.

Thirty-two ratings were involved in the incident aboard the Mag- nificent, which occurred at Colon. at the eastern entrance to the Pan- ama Canal. last March 15. The Athaibaskan incident. which occurr- ed off Mexico last Jan. 38. involved 90 ratings. while the Crescent af- féir. at Nanklng March 17. involved

The commission said they were "technically ‘mutirues’ although apart from the barring of messdock doors in Anhsbaskan and Crescent nor was there of a hi oi-

no force was used. any open defiance ficer's order."

It said: "There was no justificat- ion and could be no justification for the mutinous incidents nor for any form of mass irasuboldlriation. ‘rhere was justification for sumo of the complaints On which part of the dissatisfaction was founded."

Other conclusions on the "in- eidents" by the mission:

1. Many of the complaints and the likelihood of some form of "trouble" were known to some petty officers and leading sea- men, whose clear duty it was to report such conditions promptly and fully. The reports were not.

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By NORMAN OIIBIENS

PLYMOUTH. England. Nov. 1- (OP) - The shell-scarred Ameth- yst came home to Plymouth Bound today, her 101 lonely days in the Yangtze forgotten amid the cheer- ing and shouting of proud Britcms. ships’ sirens announced her ar- rivai for miles and s In-ncastsr bomber flew overhead and dipped its wind! in salute.

The gallant sloop. flying the wluio nisign that Chinese 0cm- munist guns could not shoot down. was welcomed not only by great crowds gathered on the shore but by every water-borne craft within

sight. While the gallant

l Navy vessel was stills IlIeck-on tho misty horizon, a pie o steamer

put out from Plymouth taking a putty of sightlltfl to mitt the Amethyst st sea.

The first man to sight her in home waters was a coast guard on duty at Raine Head, at the eni- ranco to warning‘... m m crossing wa , w h are made famous, the sloql kept strict- es aha had main- lMufl-miio voyage

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UITAWA. Nov. 1 _(0p)' __ A three-man commission podgy mp0". ed evidence of general inc-ppm. ‘m "1 many officers. chiefs and aboard Canadian ‘imutinoug in.

among the men that the Canadian old

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May Be Early Break In U. S. Coal Slrllg

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 1-(AP)\. Chances of a quick break in the coal strike developed tonight as Pa"? hQDcs soared in steel.

Beaming Philip Murray told the entire steel industry o! the United Sh"?! l0 10in trail-blazing Bethle- hem Steel Company in settlement M U"? Pensions strike with his Un- itcd Steelworkers Union (C.I.O.)

Then John L. Lewis jumped into the ilicture by calling a war coun- cil of his United Mine Workers 11nd.) to consider coal-strike de- velopments. This dispute involves a new contract.

_Lewis summoned his policy com- mittee to meet next Monday in Chicago to consider all aspects of the mine shutdown, now 43 days

From Washington came hints by Cyrus Ching, Federal mediation chief, that he hopes to use the Bethlehem Steel settlement to force peace in both coal and steel. Ching threw fuel on the blaze of optimism over the strikes by predicting other steel settlements "pretty soon."

Favorable company reaction to the Bethlehem plan spurred hopes that both coal and steel walkouts soon will crumble and loosen the strangle-hold on American eco-

Ouilines ilealih Plan Progress

HALIFAX. Nov. 1 - (GP) _ Di’. C.B. Stewart of the Depart- ment of Preventive Medicine ~t Dalhousie University here today outlined medical progress mode in Nova Scotla since the inaugura- tion of the federal health plan.

Dr. Stewart told s, service club that about izfi-wooo is being made available to Nova Scotla by tho Federal Government for health improvement faculties. About $38,- 000 is directed to the provincial survey to find ways and means of improving health conditions. Since the national health plan came into effect. he said, aout 760 new hospital beds have been pro- vided ln Nova Scotia and 450 ad- ditional beds will be available in. the future.

Centres taking advantage of the health plan included Windsor. Liverpool, Lunenburz. 'l‘ruro, New Glasgow. Aniigonish and Sydney. (Dr. Stewart is s. native of Nor-

nomy.

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Increases 30 Percent

OTTAWA, Nov. l -—(OP) —Af- ter falling for two consecutive months. aulotnobile production shot up 30 per cent in Canada. during September. the Bureau of Statistics reported today. Factories shipped 30,804 motor vehicles, compared with 20.475 in August and 23.7 in September last year. Prod-uc ion for the Jfl-flililfy-Qflptt-IISIYDQT period ‘was 216.867 units. compared with 105,022. The total was made up of 21.514 passenger cars and 9,380 commercial vehicles.

Peanut-Growing Costs U.K. 572330.000

LONDON. Nov, 1 — (Reuters)- Britain's West African peanut- growing scheme, launched to pro- vide n new source of vegetable oils, has cost £23.3iI).000 ($72,230.- 000) to date, the annual report, issued today. showed. Political con- troversy, which has raged around the project rince it was token over by the Government's over- seas Food Corporation in April, 194d, is likely to be stimulated by the auditor's comment that the corporation has not- kept proper accounts. Compared with the 1948 plan oi the original sponsors - the United Africa Company _- to put 2,500,000 acres under cultivation and produce 400.000 tons of shelled peanuts or 160,000 tons of oil each year, the scheme produced only 2,160 tons of unsheiled nuts and 800 tons of sunflower seeds dur- ing the year reviewed.

Shell-Scarred Amethyst Glven Rousing Welcome

Officers and men of the Ameth- yst. were told today the had been awarded a medal wi special oiaep for their escape. ‘The King also is awarding the naval general service medal with a clam bear- ing the inscription “Ylflllle i940" to crows of other warships figur- ing in last July's‘ incident. end to RAJ‘. and army personnel who helped.

On the bridge of the sloop was Lt-Cmdr. 0.5. lfersns, who brought the ship the 140 miles down the Yangtze under heavy fire. lfil crew today comprised more than till oi‘- ficers and seamen. Cf these. three officers and 00 seamen were in the ship when she made her his- toric escape.

As he stood on the shell-scarred bridge, Kenna said: "It is hers to believe that this is. really the journeys end.

caption everywhere on the pass- age from the hr lest."

Ho has A complete mos-t on the Yangtse incident for the Admiralty and Foreign Office. It will prob- ably amount to MM words.

The Amethyst will be refitted

Automobile Production -

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Worst

Civil Air Disaster; Fighter Rams Airliner

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By ARTHUR. EDSON

FVASHINGTON, Nov; l,-- (AP) — While an airport tower. radio man frantically tried to keep them apart, an airliner and a. fighter piano rammed together today. and 55 persons probably were killed In the world's worst civil air disaster.

The crash occurred about 300 feet in the air, as an Eastem Air Lines DC-4 and a Bolivian fglhter plane came in at the some time for a landing at Washington's busy national airport.

Only one person is known to have survived.

He is Eric Rios Bridoux. 28. dir- ector of the Bolivian Air Force. He flew the military plane through a barrage of frantic radio wamlngs that the airliner was coming, too.

None of the 51 passenger? or the four crew members of the big air- liner. bound from Boston to New IOrIeans. are believed to be alive.

Twenty-nine bodies had been re- covered four hours after the crash.

The passenger plane tore into the bank of the Potomac River. The other bodies probably were thrown into the water.

On Passenger List

Among those aboard the airlin- er were:

Representative George J. Bates (Rep. Mass), 58, serving his sev- enth term as a member of Con- grass.

Helen Hokinson. whose cartoons of plump club women have de- lighted readers of the New York- er magazine.

Gardner W. Taylor, 60. presi- dent oi the First savings snd Loan Association of New York.

Michael J. Kennedy. 52. former New York Tammany Hail leader and o, member of Congress for two

.- The worst previous crash of o domestic airliner on a regular flight came May 30, 1001. Fifty- three died then. near Port. Deposit. Md. That, too. was an Eastern Air- liner. Story of Crash

.’l‘ho Civilian Aeronautics Admin- istration gave this account of the crash:

Bfidmlx was making n test flight in a P46. a twin-engined fighter plane recently purchased from the United States.

As he headed back for the field. he was told by airport tower of- ficials that he would be second to come down - after the airliner had landed. ‘

Bridoux was instructed to circle the field again. and than follow the airliner in.

But. said the'O.A.A-. Bridoux did not acknowledge the call, which was ropes .

Still he came on.

The frantic tower officials told him to pull up, but he either fall- ed to hear or to understand the

er. ‘

Bil plane and the airliner hurt- led down at a spot where the Pot- cmoo almost touches a highway.

The impact of the crash was so great that bodies were hurled more than 100 feet. Pieces of clothing hung from trees and bushes.

Cal-the river floated the body

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Large Portions Of Federal Grants Unvoted For P-.E.l.

OTTAWA, Nov. 1 -— (Speclalh- Details of governmental expendi- tures in Prince Edward Island for the year 1948-49, as listed in the Public Accounts tabled in the House of Commons this week, re- veal that in very few cases were the full allotted sums used. In many instances. only a fraction of the money voted by Parliament for projects in the Province, was actu- ally spent.

Striking example of failure to spend moneys voted by Federal authority is found in the vote of $100,000 for a public building at Charlottetown. Of the $100,000 only $250 was spent for purposes of this building in the past fiscal year. Not a cent was spent of the vote of $50,000 for a public build- ing at Surnmerslde.

Major proportion of Federal funds expended in Prince Edward Island_ in 1048-40 was for the Prince Edward Island car ferry and for its terminals at Borden and at Tormentlne. A sum of $4,- 147,000 was allotted for construc- tion and improvement of the term- inal facillties at these two rpin-ts. and $2,689,084 was spent during the year. This amount was paid to the Canadian National Raljways which carried out the work.

Car Ferry Account

Amount paid on account for the new ferry “Abegweit" was $467.- 898. Present estimate of the total cost of the ferry is listed as $7.- l00,000. It is noted that there were five temporary salaried employees being paid in 1948-49 from the

. vote for construction of the Abe-

gweit.‘

Annual operating deficit of the Prince Edward Island car ferry is set down in the accounts as $1.- 219380. Under the heading of capital expenditures for Prince Edward Island is an item of $8,- 330,745 for the Prince Edward Is- land railway.

Maintenance of Buildings

Maintenance and repairs of Do- minlon public buildings on Prince Edward island cost $81,037 during the year. This compares with $2,844,543 spent for maintenance of public buildings fol‘ the same per- iod in the province of Ontario. Rental paid for Government of- fice space in the Province was $7,- 560 paid to Stsrna Ltd. at Char- lottetown.

Chief expenditures for dredging in P. E. l. during the past year are listed as $183,817 for Wood Is- lands; $79,836 at Tignlsh; $34,802 at Montague; $11,400 at Charlotte-

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CLEVELAND. Nov. 1 -—~(AP) — The 0.1.0.. in an historic mlit be- tween lts left-and right-wing fact- ions. voted overwheimingiy today to bar Communists from its policy- making executive board.

After a. full day of debate. topped by an appeal from C.I.O. president Philip Murray for support, a. reso- lution amending the C.l’.O.'s oon- was adopted. Other amendments to authorize the exe- cutive board to expel Communist.- dominated unions were assured oi the same overwhelmilg vote.

The opposition, led by Harry Bridges of the longshorecnen and Ben Gold of the I-‘ur and Leather Workers, put up a feeble negative vote.

The biggest of the left-wing unions about to be cast out of tho C.I.O.—the United Electrical Workers-bolted the convention earlier in the day and invited the right-wing majorliy to finish the job of cutting off relations.

The union. with s membership of nearly 500,000, pulled its s-rnsn delegation off the floor. ith a bitter denunciation of C.I.O. lead- ership. it announced it was ing out its threat to withhold pet cnpita tax payments to the C I.0.

That was the first break in what. in expected to be the biggest rup- gurean the 14-year history of the

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At its September convention. the UJLW. voted to refuse to pay further dues to the parent C.I.0. imlesa raids on its membership by right-wing 0.1.0. unions were stwped. It oifued last Bundby in a special conference with Murray to pay up its recent delinquencies if raiding were halted. This offer was rejected.

The U.Il.W., in a statement an- nouncing its bolt. said C 1.0. lead- ers have shown “that the main business of the 0.1.0. convention

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CILF. Member lias Suggestion To Boosilrade

By IYARCY (YDONNILI.

OTTAWA. Nov. 1 —- (C?) — An Opposition member suggested i“ the Commons today that Canada take over part of India's sterling balance in the United Kingdom.

I-Iszen Armie (CCF - Assinib. ola) Bald India has i! fairly largo sterling balance in the United Kingdom. If Canada wok over part of it, the move would ease Britain's dollar problem and would contribute to an improvement of the living standards of the people in the sister Commonwealth of India,

He made the suggestion at the conclusion of s. speech during can. tinued debate on the 1940-50 bud- get. The speech was devoted large- ly to current world-trade prob- lems.

He suggested that Canada. enter into bilateral agreements with the United Kingdom for the pilrchaso of British cars. textiles and man- ufactured goods. Govemment rop- resentatlves, he said, travelled to Britain recently to discuss renewal of bilateral food contracts with the United Kingdom.

Finance Minister Abbott Md given mambo e a. lecture last year on the evils of bilateral trading. yet the Government was trying to maintain the bilateral food agree- ments with Britain, "even if they are for greatly reduced , ‘ ' ."

“Why should we expect Great Britain to sign bilateral agree- ments with us for the sale of our commodities in Great Britain i! we will nol: do exactly the same thing for the British and sign bli- ateral agreements with Great Brit- ain for the sale of British goods in Camila?" '

nude Minister Ilowe- said the

Government is waiting to hear from the United Kingdom Govern- ment on the question of the re- newal of food contracts. The Can- adian Government's views were recently placed before British rep- resentatives by Max Mackenzie, Deputy Minister of Trade, and JJ‘. Tassart. Deputy Minister of Agri- culture. who now have returned to Canada.

Russians Sociable, But Unreliable

MONTREAL. Nov. 1 — (C?) — The Russians arg "very sociable”. but if you have to do business with them. that's another matter, Field Marsha} Earl Wavell told news- paper men today. "In business. the Russians are unpunctugl, untruth- ftil and unreliable," he said. The field marshal arrived by air from the United Kingdom on Monday and will spend .,a week with the Governor-General snd Lady Alex-

C. I .0. Votes To Bar Reds From Policy-Making Posts

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