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Opposition

Urges

Govlt To Step Up Flow Of Immigrants

OTTAWA. April 21 v(CPi - The commons swung today into a iclbate on immigration and cm. v.clls'hlp and heard Opposition put. it's urge the Government to widen lhn quztlifications for newcomers and streamline immigration pro- Flidll'.'0.

The debate developed es mi. migration Minister Harris opened study of his departmental estim- aics with a stats-ment reporting ihe entry of 379.199 persons into Canada in the 1946-49 period. He gave no estimate for 1950.

The Government, he added. plans to stay with its post-war policy- iliat of ensuring the "car ful selec- tion and permanent set cm, of such numbers of immigrants as can advantageously be absorbed in the national economy."

Gcorge Drew. Progressive Con- servative leader. promptly asked for a clearer definition of that pol- icy and urged that overseas ex- amining offices be more closely knit to make things easier for pi-ospmtive immigrante lest they become discouraged.

M. J. Coldwell. C. C. F. leader, felt. along with some other mem- bers. that Canada. should admit more professionals, people versed in medicine, arts. music and the like. He conceded this would call for the co-c-perntlon of a good many domestic institutions.

Citizenship. too, niitercd the dc- biitc and John Diefcnbaker (PC- Lake Centre) repeated his pro- posui that Canada set up I. "Free- dom Traln"-as was done in the lliiltcd states-to carry the his- toric documents and stories of her past across the cmmtry on I new cnlsade of citizenship.

Other speakers included Douglas Harknesa (PC-Calgary East), Ross Tliatchcr (CCF-Moose Jaw) and Rev. Dan Mcfvor (L-Fort Wil- liam).

In the immigration debate, Mr. Drew said the Progressive Con- Iervniiva Party wanted to see husincss-lhcc methods used in the implementation of the Govern- nicnt's policy.

The ct was that the depart- mmt. w s "not encouraging immi- graiioii."

Tlwre were many in tile United Kingdom who wanted to come to

Coming Events

"Call 1906-J Evenings for Dry Wood Slabs.

"Mail your Films to Garnhum Photo Studio, Charlottetown.

"Buying pigs Monday at Fred- rrirfon. Knuti Jorgcuscn.

"Farmers now booking Clover Sceds Rush order. ML-Cvuigan dz Boyle.

"Garden seeds. Scnd for free catalogue. Arthur Vessey, York. P. E. I

"See Glngeagicrs ill lilt Had To Be You" at MacDonald Bros.. Tlieatre tonight, plus Short.

"Sccd Cleaning Plant now open for Grain and Timothy. John i.c:il'd. Crapuud.

"Dance. st. P9toi's Legion Hall cirry Tuesday night. 9.30 to 1.00 Cliff Peters Orchestra.

"Colt III: 1 id of lisileil PuIbyt:i-tan Cixiuiiich. Moore nl McLcod's. April 20th, 2 p.m.

"Rummage Sale. Trinity Ingle- side Group. today. 330. Market Building.

"The Annual Meeting of the Crapaud Hall Company. will b9 held in said Hall. Tuesday evening. April 25th. It 6 P. M. Brent Wood, Secretary.

"Rummage sale by P. E. I. Hos- pital Nurses Alumnae at Massey llarrls Building. Saturday. AP!” 22nd at 6 p. m.

"Notice-cleaning grain It the gcudet Farm. mooiramengngaoiiii

oindny, April 24 in ct ' lily until further notlch. Russell Boyce. Dombaw.

"Notice-All Box Taxes on the Klrlg-lion Telephone line should be mid before May let in order to receive discount. Edna! Nwlon. secretary.

"cans to Pownell Hall. Avril 5th for Farmers Debeting Dot!- mt. between cherry Voiivv ""1 Joinietura River. Winners enter anal: for island ChnmPi0n'hiP-

"N 1 i- cllwlnc Mi Glade; groin -3 Ilondln. Wed- nesduys, Thursdays Ind naturdnvl for remIInder of season. In D-

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iiii"sEi'?iTci3?j&E" Concerning Triesie Are Denounced

By John Scall

WASHINGTON. April 21 .. (AP)- state Secretary Dean Acheson today roundly de- nounced Russlu's charges that the United states is violating the Italian peace treaty by maintaining troops at Trieste,

Acheson told his press coll- ference the accusations are fl. combination of ”Who1Iy-false" statements and ”nonsense.” The

' ecretary's rejection of Thurs- day night's note from Moscow clearly foreshadowed similar emphatic tumdowns by France and Britain.

In a prepared statement, Acheson defended the right of Britain and the United States to keep troops in Trieste as "in complete conformity with the obligations of the Italian peace treaty."

He said Russia is trying "to disrupt efforts to achieve a solution" of the Trieste prob- lem by Italy and Yugoslavia.

Canada. but they faced difficult conditions. In London, for ex- ample. they had to go to various offices for their medical examin- ations. passports, steamship tic- kets and so forth. '

All of these functions should he brought under one roof in the various cities. not only in Britain but on the continent.

Mr. Drew said it was doubtful if for centuries so mriny special- ists had been torn loose from their own domestic moorings. They were ready to hrlnxz their special qualifications to nny country that was ready to accept them.

Mr. Coldwcli said the immi- grants of years ago had made I real contribution to Canlidn.

"Esliimo" Due Here This Week-end

The Government-owned 'M.V. Eskimo has left Halifax and will probably arrive in Charlottetown over the week-end. ice conditions permitting, it was learned from Mr. C. P. Reddall, general ship- ping manager last night.

The boat has been at Came in the Cause Straits ice for the past two days but was given the all- clear signal from the ice patrol yesterday to proceed to Plctou. Ice. piled up outside the harbour here. will likely prevent her from com- ing into Charlottetown today.

A full cargo has been bcoked and is ready for the lcskimo when she tics up at tho Rllllw-'0' WM”- To be put a.boardla1'c large iiunnir ities of potatoes. tiiriiilis. llrocmcs, canned goods, cemclrt and sonic cattle. she is to distribute them to Southern Newfoundland 1931"” such as pm-tune and Grand l5ank.'

EN ROUTE T0 ROME

MONTREAL. April 21 -.tCPl- A group of 131 persons sailed to- day aboard the Empress of Can- ada for Liverpool en route to Rome. The in-gut part of the group came .from the Mariiimes and numbered 74 l'ieT5""5- The ship, first to leave Montreal since the harbor opened this season. carried 825 passengers-

iifgi. School Students Stage Demonstration

'noaoN'ro. April 21 40?) - More than l.ooo iilsh school Ii"- dents. peeved at their for putting I crimp in a school election oampnisn. staged ii MIT- riotous demonstration outzide west- end Harbord,Oo1i08i5i9 in W-

Pollce were sent to msiiii-Bin order as the students ovorfiowed into the street in What they said was In effort to hold I "free. dem- ocratic meeting.”

By mid-afternoon teachers at- tempted to continue classemwbiat they iisci only I wiser-ceni iii ii '

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Chief gripe 0! mfimzipinvl T. Graham in halting speeches at an election oamptiln meeting lui night. He stowed iii! Ivmli" when the map! mnlm” "9 develop into I fit -fledged vaude-

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Labor "DD-ES for. Viciory In By-election

By Alan Harvey

LONDON. April 21 -(CF) - The possibility of ainborne rein- forcements for Parliament's next pitched battle (merged as B. talk- ing point today.

The theory was that the win r of a by-election in Scotland n xt Tuesday might be flown to West- minster in time to participate in a. crucial vote expected Wednesday.

Intriguing as the speculation Setmed. there was doubt that the result of the by-election would be announced in time to get the new member to the House of Commons.

The by-election is in Dumbarton West. Omdr. R. A. Allan, Gon- servatlve, who was beaten by only 613 in the Feb. 2! general election by A. S. McKinley, Labor, is op- posed this time by Thomas Steele, Labor. 'McKinlay died soon after his victory.

Allan, recovering from an ap- pendix, operation, has been cam-. paignlng from a hospital bed. His wife has been making speeches. .

Steele has been working on a 14- hours-axiay schedule.

Nobody dares predict the result, although the Liberal Mhnchestcr Guardian reported that the Tories are "soenting their first real kill " A Conservative victory clearly could have a. decisive influence on parliamentary skirmishes.

The general feeling up to now has been that the conservatives aren't too eager to force an early election. unless the issue is a really hot one.

Next divisions in the Commons are expected Wednesday. The is- sues will be the Government's new purchase tax on trucks and its in- creased levy on gasoline. announ- ced in last Tuesday's budget.

Barring some unexpected parlia- mentary pretext. defeat for Labor would almost certainly mean an- other clcction.

Labor's effective majority over all other parties in the Commons now stands at seven. This allows for two Irish Nationalist members who as a protest against partition are not taking their seats. and one Ulster Conservative whose eligibil- ity to sit has been questioned.

Both main parties have sick lists, but rival party managers are keep- ing the rrumibers secret. However, it is understood at least four or five Labor members may be absent next week.

In addition to the Dumberton by-election. there will be 5. vote May 2 in Brighousc. 3(orkshire, which formerly was 3. Labor seat.

Toughened Safely Rules For Ships

OTTAWA, April 21 - (CP) - Toughened safety rules have been laid down for passenger ships op- erating in Canadian waters, the Government announced today. as the result of Toronto's s.s. Noronlc fire disaster that took 119 lives last September.

shipping men on the west coast immediately contended the new regulations might force small pas- senger lines out of business be- cause of expense in installing safe- ty gr-ar. but a government official said this would not nessarily fol low.

Au order-in-count-ii passed, April 12 and made public today gives Transport Minister Chevrief -W5 the Board of Steamship lnspectitli latitude in allowing departures from the rules for existing vessel!-

The Minister also told the Out- mons. in tabling the new regula- tions, that ”care will be taken to

avoid the necessity of uuitailrnerit of services."

punctuoted by demands for the prlncipal's resignation was follow- ed by an unscheduled Iuembly in the school It which PriiicipIl Graham told the' students their outdoor meeting was "ill!!! -"

'm1 Principal said he would be willuig to meet I. delegation and see what they went.

Ron Biedei-man, ll. fourth-form student said: -

"we've been stmpt-eased by our teachers. We feel the Student council should represent the pup- iis. not the teachers. since the Ir- rlvll of Mr. Graham three years ago the trend has been towards suppression of denziocratio frie- dam...

The student Council elections. scheduled for today. were post- poned I week.

Expiuntng lut A nigiirs action. Mr. cirolium aid Ill he tried to do

was keep the campaign within the bounds of good taste.

SAINT JOHN, N.B.. April 21 - (CP) - A 24-hour downpour, coun- led with rising water of the Si. John River, crippled railway and highway tra fic between Saint John and Fr erlcton and in Cen- tral New Brunswick tonight. TraI.ks were flooded at some points and several washouts occurred.

Two Canadian Pacific Railway trains from Saint Joh for Mont- real were consolidated nd routed over the Canadian National Rail- ways linc via Moncton. A boat train from Halifax, which ordinar- ily would pass through Saint Jami enroute to Montreal. also was rout- ed via Moncton. The Saint John- Boston and Saint John-Fredericton were among railway services can- celled.

Six feet of water covered tnc rails in one section between Fred- ericton ancl Fredericton Junction. A bridge was Washed out at Bailey, south of the Junction. '

The Canadian National Railways reported two washouts on me Nashwaak sub-division bebweevi Newcastle and Fredericton. one

Attlee Summons Cabinet To Consider Dock Strike

Reorganization Plan Challenged

OTTAWA, April 21 - (cpl .. The Canadian National Railways' huge reorganization plan was challenged today by the Canadian Pacific Railway. but the National line defended it as not affecting the C.P.R. in any way.

Before the Royal Commission on Transportation. the C.P.R. renewed its expressions of fear that the proposed s1,000,000,000 capital re- vision plan of the C.N.R. would react against the privately-owned line by tending to depress freight- ratc levels below those needed by the Canadian Pacific.

It also brought in a United States investment banker - A. Northey Jones of Newtown. Conn. -who launched into I critical analysis of the C.N.R. proposals shortly before the Commission rose for the week-end.

On behalf of the C.N.R.. senior counsel Hugh O'Donnell told the Commission the other company's fears were groundless and that it would have plenty of protection from the Board of Transport Com- missioners, whose duty was to set freight rates "just and reason- able" for all the railways.

The C.N.R. proposal, placed be- fore the Commission last month by President Donald Gordon, is to have about s720,000.000 in Govern- ment-held obligations shifted from the interest-bearing to the non- interest class and to have the Government set up a 3300,000.000 capital fund for the company to use for corporate purposes.

Object of the scheme is to re- duce the C.N.R.'s fixed charges - now abnormally heavy at around 340,000,000 a year - to somewhere around 317,000,000 a year and bring it out of the condition of chronic peacetime deficits.

Pouliry Disease Outbreak in B. C. Under Control.

Ofr'I'AWA. Itpril 21 - (OP) - Agriculture Minister Gardiner lu- dicatcd in the Commons today that the ” i- of N t'- Disease which has infected 46,000 birds in British Columbia's Fraser Valley region is on the wane.

He told the Commons that indis- Itions "are that new cases are dim- inishing in number and import- ance." There wIs "every hope of keeping complete control" of the situation by quarantine Ind the slaughter of infected birds.

Princess iubctii Celebrates Iiri-lidey

VALI7I'rA. MIlta., April 21 -- (AP) - Princess Elizabeth ceit-'- rated her 24th birthday today in the company of her naval officer husband, Prince Philip.

Maltese gunners ashore and the ships of the flag-bedecked fleet. fired I 81-gun royal salute. It was I hIif-holidsy in this British Med- iterranean naval base. 1

occurred near Taymouth and the other four miles away near Pen- niac, where 35 feet of track lay uti- dcr three feet of water. There was similar trouble at Napadogan.

The C. N. R. night train from Fredericton to Newcastle was call- ceiled and the train from Newcas- tle went only as far as McGivnr-y

C. N. R. service also had to be suspended between Fredericton aiul Centrevllle. Rails along a half-mile stretch in the McGlnley area wcrc flooded to a depth of one foot by water resulting from ice jams In the river. -

Because of road washouts. post- al officials were preparing for me Dossibility of having mall flown from Saint Johii to Fredericton to- morrow lf weather permits.

Ice started to move in the St. John River at Fredericton last night and floes from upriver were running through that area tonight.

Traffic was resumed at a cau- tious D909 today over the Florence- ville bridge, one span of which was moved five feet by jammed ice 155; Tuesday.

LONDON. April 21-(Rcuiers)- Prime Minister Attlee tonight called R cabinet meeting to can. Eider the strike of 7,800 dock workers which has paralyzed half the great part of London.

Another meeting will be Monday.

Todnv nearly 2,000 strikers at- tended a public meeting which demanded a ballot to determine if their fellow-workers will back them up in the walkout, which stems from the expulsion of three men from the Transport and Gen- eral Workers Union.

Labor Minister lsaacs, who has labelled the strike as "clearly Communist-inspired," told the House of Commons foclziy that the Governmcnt will take care to see there is no loss of perishable foodstuffs in the cargoes held up.

Tile Labor Minister said no Perishable food is endangered this week-end. However. two of the 51 ships affccieri have meat car- goes totalling 7.000 tons.

Tonight's official figures showed 7.305 dockers on strike and 17.658 working. 41 ships idle. 10 others undermanncd and 54 working.

The strike bcgtin on Wednesday.

Charges iithilpoly In Cement industry

HALIFAX. April 21 - (CP) '- Industry Minister Harold Connolly told the Nova Scotia Legislature' today that "one big company" has monopolized the Canadian cement industry. He did not name the company.

”Whelher we like it or not or whether it is admitted or not. there is a cabal in this country in the manufacture of cement," he said in reply to a question whilc discussing the estimates of his department.

George Wilson (PC-Hants West) had asked if the Government had made any effort to establish a cement plant in the province.

Mr. Connolly said such a plant could be operated economically in Nova Scotia during a period when cement was in short supply but ”two studies . . . showed that any4 plant opened . . . would be put out of business once the demand for cement levelled off."

Gracie Fields Arrives In N. Y.

NEW YORK, April 21 - (AP) .. Gracie Fields, Britain's usually gay comedienne, arrived on the Queen Mary today and commented sadly that the good old songs don't sat- isfy the public any more. "People

e getting I bit too dirty." she said. she is soon to make I tour of Oanada.

Queen Mary Makes Fast Crossing

NEW YORK,. April 2l-fAPl- The Queen Mmy today completed her fastest post-war westbound voyage with ii time of four days, 14 hours and 5': rnitiui.es, hoisting her record of last June by ill minutes. April I0 she steamed 743 miles averaging 29.4! knots. Her average speed was 28.44 knots. Her pi-e-war record of three days, 21 hours and 45 minutes It a speedi of 80.00 is the world's fastest. . -

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By EDDY GILMORE

MOSCOW, April 21 -- (AP) - Russla brusqueiy rejected every demand of the United States today over its missing Baltic plane and repeated orders to airmen to shoot. down any resisting aircraft cauzh: over Soviet territory.

The Moscow Government in a note declared it was "clearly at- surd" that the United States dt-- manded compensation for a four- englned U. S. Navy Privatecr and its crew of 10 which disappeared April 8. '

Moscow claimed the American plane involved that day in an ex- change of fire was a "B-29" Fly- ing Fortress" which penetrated 13 miles into Soviet territory south of Lepayti. Latvia, while trying to "photograph Soviet defence instal- latlons.”

It repeated the assertions of the Soviet protest April 11 that B-23 ignored signals to land. fired o.i

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Soviet fighters and disappeared tu- ward the Baltic Sea when the So- viet fighters lired back.

Therefore, the note declared, thr; sovlet Government cannot accept. cvcn "for examination" the Amer- ican demands made three days ago. These demands included com- pensation. severe punishment of the responsible Soviet aviators, a. thorough Soviet investigation of the incident and categorical guar- antees against a recurrence.

The Soviet note was handed to us. Ambassador Alan G. Kiri: by Foreign Minister Andrei Vish- insky. It concluded by declaring the United States was trying to "cover up the illegal actions of certain of its subordinates who dis- graced themselves by grossly viti- lating the generally-recognized rule.-. of international law."

Congress Arlgered

(State Secretary Dean Acheson told a. press conference in Wash- ington the soviet charges that a B-29 invaded Soviet territory were "fictitious allegations" which the Russians knew were not true.

(The categorical rejection of the American demands angered mem- bers of Congress. The House of Representatives Democratic lead-

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Plan Early Operation To Separate Siamese Twins

TOFIELD. Alta.. April 21 - (CP)-Brenda and Beverley Town- send, five-month-old Siamese twins. in two weeks may be separ- ated by the first operation of its kind performed in Canada. Doct- ors are hopeful the operation will give the girls a chame for is nor- mal childhood.

Born Nov. 17 the twins are joined together from the third upper rib down to the navel. They are held together face to face.

Although their blue eyes fol- low any activity in their tiny hos- pital nursery and they wriggle. gurgle and squall as would any live-month-old baby, medical men agree that if life is to hold any haippinesscfor them the separation operation must. be performed.

The youthful parents. Mr. and

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LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y..' April 21 - (CP) - The United Nntlcns secretary General indicated 'cau- tlously today he hopes to lay some groundwork for ending the cold war during his trip to Europe and possibly Russia.

Tr-ygve Lie (azbove) told his filial "yd

weekly press conference before sail- ing tomorrow that he does not ex- pect any immediate results from his scheduled talks with European leaders.