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STUDY RED BID FOR RESUMPTION OF TRUCE TALKS

Eight Men Killed In Plane

Expect Renewed Defence Controversy in Jgimmons

OTTAWA, (GP) -- Parliamentary rontroversy over administration of Canada's vast department, of nat- ional defence will be revived in the Commons this week and may reach a higher pitch than ever.

The roughly s2.ooo.ooo,ooo that Defence Minister Claxton's depart- ment will spend in 1953-54. will come up for scrutiny by the Com- mons Tuesday. It will be the op- positions last major chance to re- new wide-ranging criticisms of de- partmental operations.

Indications are that the opposi- tion parties, led by George Drew's Progressive Conservatives, will make full use of it. There likely will be echoes of the Currie Report and a renewal of Progressive Con- servative charges of "waste and, inefficiency" in defence spending.'

Good Ammunition

Many Progressive Conservatives are said to feel that these charges are the best ammunition in what is generally expected to be an election year. Therefore. they can be expected to make the best of the opportunity afforded to probe into every phase of defence acti- vity during item-by-item scrutiny if the departmental estimates.

Works Minister Fournier, govem- ment House leader, told Mr. Drew at the close of Friday's sitting that the defence department estimates will be brought in Tuesday. ,

Mr. Drew noted that Defence Minister Claxton is due to leave late this week with External Af- .'airs Minister Pearson and Fin- ance Minister Abbott for a North Atlantic Treaty meeting in Paris.

Need Careful Scrutiny

He said no single department of government deserves "more care- ful scrutiny" than the defence de- partment and added that nothing is more important than that the responsible minister be present when the estimates are brought in.

The implication was that Mr. Drew and his party members are primed to renew their defence cri- ticisms on a bigger scale than be- fore. .

Furious Air Battles Fought Over Norlli Korea

SEOUL. (AP)-Sabre jets shot down seven Communist Migs and probably downed another in furi- lous air battles Sunday nearly eight miles up over North Korea, the 5th air force said.

At least one U. S. Sabre was shot. down but the pilot. Jet ace Capt. Joseph McConnell, bailed out over the Yellow Sea and was rescued by helicopter.

Air duels broke out when US. Tliunderjets flew within 10 miles of the Communist Mig base of Antung, Manchuria, late. Sunday and bombed a North Korean rail- .'oad yard.

Coming Events

10.

"Cleaning grain till May Arnold Beer.

"Try our Purina Finance plan

for chicks and hogs. Dillon and Spillett.

"Crapaud Disi.:ict Scarlet Chapter meets in Lorne, April

14.

"Don't miss the Emsrhld Dra- matic Club in New Glasgow Hail. Thursday evening, April 16th.

"Reserve April lath for Pantry Sale at 5. A. MacDonald's, by nrookfield women's Institute.

"Cerebral Palsy, Parent. Group will meet April 14th, 1.30 P. M. Y. M. 0. A. .

"Now open for cleaning grain and timothy. every day but Friday. in MacDonald. Covshead.

"In stock. Laurentisn turnip seed. manul seed. cod oil. oil cake. nah meal. and chick'atartor. Dillon ind Spillett.

"Crapaud-Victoria Board of Trade will meet at Crspaud. even- ing of April isth, at s o'clock. D. Hort. Secretary.

"All Mount Albion school taxes "Oil Dlld by April 20th, 1053. will b0 Dlzaad in for collection. By Order of the Triiatoor,

"lnoiai meeting Done 1.. 0. L. Tuna-y. April Nth, at ii P. Tmvorlant business. All L. 0. L. members are urged to attend.

licilF Flyer Downs Mlg

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Ari RCAF exchange pilot flying with the 17.8. air force in Korea, Flt.-Lieut. Grant H. Nichols of Drmden. 0nrt.. is credited with damaging a Communist MIG-15 over North Korea. Flying a Sabre jet, Nichols was among a group of pllom credited with shooting down two MIG's. probably destroying one, and damaging seven others.

Elected Directors of Transport Ass'n

Messrs. Ralph Jenkins and Keith MacKlnnon of Charlottetown were elected directors for P. E. island at the annual meeting of the Mar- itime Motor Transport Association held in Amherst,,N. S. on Friday and Saturday.

The meetings were held at Fort Cumberland Hotel and dealt with routine matters some of which touched on Canada wide object- ives. The guest speaker at the noon meeting on Saturday was Mr. G. M. Parke, President of the Canad- ian Aulomotive Transportation As- sociation. who came from Toronto to attend the sessions. The Hon. Babbitt Parlee. President of the Executive Council of the Province of New Brunswick, addressed the closing meeting on Saturday night.

Mr. B. Graham Rogers. Director of Transportation foi- P. 15:. Island also spoke briefly. Mr. Doug Mof- fait was re-elected President. Dele- gates from the Island in attend- ance, accompanied by their wives were: Messrs Ralph Jenkins, Gar- land Bowiiess and Keith MacKin- iron all of whom' returned home yesterday.

News in Brief

BELFAST, (AP) -- The largest single group of emigrants to leave Northern Ireland in 25 years-300 men and women-departed by special train Sunday for Cork where they will sail in the British liner Georgie for Canada. They are due in Halifax April 19.

LONDON. (Reuters) - Confer- ences on federating Britain's scat-E tered island colonies in the West- Indies open here Monday.

VICTORIA. (GP)-Young Prince Akihito of Japan is getting ac- quainted with Canada after his first plane flight and a welcome Sunday that included a Canadian Navy rciidiiloii of the Japanese anthem.

LAS VEGAS, NeV.. (AP)-- The fifth atomic blast of 1953, appar- ently less powerful than some be- fore, illuminated the pre-dawn desert sky Saturday as the United states government. continued its dramatic experiments with nuclear explosive power.

On Upswing

OTTAWA. (CF)-Divorce is on the upswing in Canada for the flriit time since 1047, the Bureau of Statistics reports.

In 1962 a trim of 5,562 couples warn divorced or sixlpor cent more than the 5&3 in 1951 but still considerably less than the record 8.198 in 1947. The 1938-41 average was 2.31!) divorce: a year.

Last year's rise followed suc-

M. cesslvr declines of 16 per cent in

1943. 14 nor cent in 1949. 10 per

cent in 1950 and four per rent in

Divorce Reported Again In Canada

Charter Flight By Prospectors Ends In Disaster

SEPT ILES, Que-., (CF)-Eight persons were killed whei.' their two-moter Beechcraft plane crash- ed Saturday on a mountainside near a lake five miles west of

Lac Manitou. about 60 miles northwest of Sept. lies.

Dead are:

Marcel Carbonneau, 31, of Levis, Qiie., pilot:

Jack Braiy, 40. Toronto pros- pector;

Eddy Corrivesu, La Tuque, Que., prospector;

VViliit-im Wright, 23. Lac Moisie, Que:

John Poiilin, 25, Lac Moisie;

Eniilc Gagne, 50. restaurant

operator of Sept. Ilcs;

Georges Regis, 20, and R. Vol- ant 23. for oh the Sept lies In- dian reservation.

The ski-equipped plane was the property of Ailcs du Nord, a Sept. lies air transport company. and had been chartered by the prospectors who were working in the rugged area south of the big iron ore mining development in Ungava on the Quebec-Labrador boundary.

Sept. lies, 300 miles east, Quebec City, is the terminal s. 5200,000,000 iron mining Ject in Ungava.

The crash occurred at 9:58 .a.m The plane was returning from a lonely lake where Wright and Poulin had been working for a

of of pro-

p Crash In Que-beef

Doctors Fear

MONTREAL. (OP) Doctors said Sunday night they have given up hope of saving the life of fl 23-year-old snake troupe ivoi'kci'. who was bitten earlier in the day by a water motcasin.

Dr. Harold Tetrault, medical superintendent of Montreal's st. Luke hospital, said he received a telephone call from Rockefeller In- stitute saying that there is no an- tidote serum in the northern Un- ited States for the bite.

The only source where it can be obtained, New York medical serv- ices told Dr. Tctrault, is from the snake farm in Florida. Doctors said the serum must be adminis- tered a short time after the bite and it was too late to make ar- rangenients with Florida.

Armand Couillard of Montreal. was bitten as he cleaned the snake pit at the Montreal show mart where an exhibition closed Satur- day night.

Doctors have been injecting rab- ies serum which they say is closest to the antidote - and giv- ing hourly blood transfusions to Couillard. They said he was suf- fering considerable" pain.

Couillard was bitten on the hand as he lifted the snakes' wat- ering trough from the pit. He fail- ed to notice the water moccasin curled at the bottom of the pit. The other snakes had been drlvenl into another enclosure before; Couillard began cleaning out their! quarters.

Couiiiai'd's hand and arm be-i

fishing club called ”l..es Mon- iagnes." The bodies were taken by heli-

copter to another plane and then taken aboard a plane and flown to Sept. Ilcs.

Bod Sforinworiwiilllgest Coast of Scotland

LONDON, (Reuters)-One of the Worst storms this year hit the west coast of Scotland Saturday sending ships scurrying for shelter and in- terrupting air services. Constguards reported winds of more than 100 miles an hour in some areas.

Roper; Reds Lift- Iron Curtain Slightly

LONDON. (Reuters) .- The Iron Curtain lifted a little higher Sat- urday to allow some Western broadcasts into Eastern Europe. Radio monitors here reported 12 to 15 Communist Jamming stations were operating at a time compar- ed with double that number a month ago. Western broadcasts to satellite countries were passing through the gaps at several points. Those t-o Czechoslovakia and Pol- and were completely free of Jam- ming. the monitor said.

gan swelling immediately and be-5 crime four times their normal size within an hour. i

Snake Bite

Will Cause M-anls Death

Seriously Injured When Thrown From Tractor

-Mr. i-Iric .VfacMurdo of Kelvin Grove has rushed to the Prince Countv Hospital on Saturday even- ing suffering from severe head and neck injuries sustained in an ac- cidcti; which took place at Bradal- lianc t'oi'nei' about 7.30 p.m.

Mr. .VlacMurdo was timing in ll'liCifll' from Cliarlottciown to Kensingtoii and while coming down the hill at the scene of the accident it is assumed that one of the brakes on his tractor became lock- cd and threw him headlong to the pavement. The tractor and the heavy load of farm machinery which was being towed behind ovcrturuecl at the edge of the pavement. and fell into the ditch at the side.

Dr. Auld of Kensington was summoned to the scene and the ill,liliT('i man was rushed to the Prince Coiinly llospital where. he

has since been in a semi-conscious, condition. Hospital authorities said? last night that lie was resting as

Quietly as could be cxpcctcd. The exact nature or cxicnt of his in-

ljuries could not. be ascertained but it. is understood that he is suffering

from a severe concussion.

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D3, may Shi

lDonaId Gordon iWed Satiir-(lay

MONTREAL, (CPI-Donald Gor- don, president of the Canadian National Railways. was wed Sat-

urday to Miss Norma Hobbs. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W, ll. Hobbs of Montreal. The wedding

took place in the Mclvllle Presby- terian chiirch. Rev. Charles Cochrane officiating.

Following a reception the bridal couple was scheduled to leave for New York where they will sail aboard the Queen Mary for the French Riviera.

They will reside in Montreal.

Canada Will

OfI'1"AWA. (OP) -- A colorful Canadian Army contingent of 408 officers and other ranks will call from Quebec City within the next month for tho, Coronation.

Details of the ma-kc-up of the group, which will be equally div- ided betwoen the active and re- serve army and represent every province, have been released by the army.

The group will be assembled at Valcartier, Qu.e., later this month. issud with kit and special dress uniforms, and embark from Que- bec in four ships. A small advance party sails on the Scythis April 26, with other groups leaving on the Columibia April 29, the Fran- conis May 1 and the Atlantic May 7.

Veterans Chosen

All are veterans of theatres of action. many having served both in the Second World War and the Korean campaign.

1951.

Thcro were increases in the number of divorce: granted in six provinces in .1052. and decreases in the other four.

In Quebec the number ro)se by seven per cent. to son from 23a; in New Brunswick by 28 per cent to 200 from 156: and in Nova Scotia by one per cent to 188 from 187. In Newfoundland the number dropped to three from four in 1951: in Prince Ed-

Army Coronadion Contingent

iiave Colorful

All ranks will wear the blue dress uniform, already coniipulisory for officers on state and social oc- casions, and now being made up for other ranks. This uniform con- sists of ii blue tunic with high, close-fittir.-:5 coilnr, iiilfi liluc trous- ers with .1 colored stripe down the

side to rioiiotc (ililET('llL army; corps. i VVai'i'aiii. ofliccis and senior i

uoii- l.mlIllSSiOllEd officers will add a touch nf color with crimson shoulder sasiics, while lower ranks will ll'Cill' oiack web belts, black boots and bin: : leather gloves. The word "C:iiiati:i" will be written in gold leaf below the shoulders of the uniforms, and the men will carry rifles with chrome-finished. old-style bayonots.

I-leailrireas will range from col- ored corps berets of the men to the blue forage caps of officers and the Kilmarnock boiinets on Glenga.rrys of highland units. Of- ficers will ivear gold shoulder cords and their sword scabbards Wit. be carried in gold sword slings. irnite gloves, a crimson waist sash, and gold epaulets with silver badges of rank will com- plete their uniforms.

As previously announced, two Victoria Cross winnein will head the reserve mntinrgent which uill line the streets near Canada House. Lt.-Col. Cecil Merritt, VC, of Vancouver and Lt.-Col, Pauz Triquet. VG. of Quebec City. will be commander and cecond-in- command respectively.

Platoon: From Germany

The activsi army contingent, which marches in the procession. will be Joined in England by pla- toons from the 27th Canadian in- fantry brigade nmv serving in

it Portion Of

Aifrom iidrtipe To Far East

WASHINGTON. IA?)

shift a substatitial share of if. 5 Far East.

Larger grants for threatened Indo-China

- State Secretary Dulles has told Congressl the Eisenhower administration mayl

aid from Western Europe to the

Communist- and For-

Hopes iiiiied Thai Settlement Can Be lgached

I (By George A. ltlrukrthiir

Coiicerted action by shippers andi

Mr;NSAN' ,Ap,g-I-hp p-"Md coixsignees .i: the four Maritime! Nations command today studied .P”Vmce5 agfimst me Purim” 01 in Communist bid for immediate increasing "Hem raig Wm um iresumption of full-scale truce Sioubwdly foimw the shippers. Cur” walks on the basis of Red ”con- fgftncft (ifs szlnghgsig b0nM Fr1::d5Dy r'vs.'ion5" which open I ih ' ' y I; ' ', mlfa mlunmry swapmof sifkxgn:1:i'v.teid,l Speiikllllg as vice-chaiimaii uniiiiil:-Ii prisoiiors lieginiiitigwg: Iii .MaIIUmes Tmnspurmuon Am.” 20. - 0llllTil..SlOl'l. t is to disouss and

develop what further action 15 to be taken to alleviate the increas- ing disadvantage under which Maritime business operates. It is in answer to the gi'.:win.g protests that the Commission has curring- ed a conference of Maritime ship- pens to be held in the Fort Cum- berland Hotel Friday, begirining at 9.30 am.

The convention, called in review the discrepancies ill present and ipropcsed freight rate increases, . S S . i'

Conimunist and Allied staff :f,',(,,,1,f;,,ass5,x,I,1,Q,,lrf ::?,ff,11,n,f; ficcrs were due to meet at 11 a.idw-gmenmlyy against Manama m.

Guarded hopes settled over the Allied camp that some settlement in the Korean truce negotiations - suspended since Oct. R-might be in sight. -, i ll appeared likely that the his: talks on over-all prisoner ox- chringe might be resumed while the ovrlimge of sick and wound- ed still is in progress.

Electing Tnilay

"F ””i" in P"i"m”"i0"l '0. Milly. dusiry and business. One aim of final l1;:li0(tnlCfltS on adniinisira-i me Ccmerence 15 to aid shwpe” iii” iivliiils 0i We Slfkeimde in preparing briefs on their own

woiiiiclcrl cxciian,-zc. lycr submisswn to l The Communists pl'0nli5('(i Sun--Ci

the authorities actual cases where it can be

iMaritime Shippers Preparing Uoint Protest Relhtes Boost

l'S

Heads Ontario Teaolie -1 1.

Dr.

Margaret

S. Mocready,

day to turn over the first of 600, lsirk and wounded Allied prison-ltion costs are making it more dif- .71; nexTt' liftggglay. la dweel: lirzljaiflcuit for them to conduct busin- l o ay. io incu e 21 cu n ;es51 the- t IO , isouth Koreans, 120 Americans, 20' n 0 1 pars O anada lBl'ilOlIS and 15 other hon-Kort-ans int-lutliug at least one Canadian. lit Commuprliist statement has men-l Rate increases amouiitiiig to 37 iioncd Canadians as helngyper cent in less than two years, amOl-1Z- the prisoners due for. re-,and 98 per cent in the last five patriatinn hui it did not lndlFHiElXt'?.l'S have niagnified the import- vvhethnr there is more than one, mice of rail charges as a factor in The Reds (lid not say what n.i-i, the economy of the Mzritimes, it

hown tha. increased transporta-

Huge increases

lionhlilir-s would be included in, has pointed out. The increases in the first group of 100 to he re-'; the post-war period have been, in patrialcd. all but a few instances, of a uni-

form percentage nature, and this n s meant - proportionately great- ,er levy on shippers and consign- mspiio Allied urging, the aeds',:m-r-m-Aa-j- would not ativance lilo date. .

The UN command also agrcerliTo to start homeward on the same;

day the first. of 5,800 Communists!

Rofiisn To Change Date

to he repatriated.

be delivered this week

fishing centres in the Province. The first of his talks, directed

lmainly to the lobstennen of the

Tuesday and would arrive in Kac- somz Tliiirsdziy in a niotnr convoy of 23 vcliivies. Then uill C0fTiP R long four-day ii'n'ii until the act- uai exchange, at Panmunjom on Monday.

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be given at Georgetown tonight.

Pcipiiig radio Sunday rvporleril

- - d . r . ' . '” e iizflnggdiiiiimine hfk,li1tstqute'i)rniI'i)i' iii. Special talks by Dr. it. C. wilder, Allied sick and wounded whu1ri' Atlantic Biological Station, St.- start. souiiiward from Norili A”d”w'5- N' B-- 5nd 3 member of Korean prison camp, at 5 aim the Fisheries Research Board, will

at various

Island, will be at Murray Harbour this afternoon and the second will

imosa are contemplated, Dullessaid. along with "perhaps a little more” in the Middle East. He. added that the li. S. contribulton to the milit- ary builclup of the North Atlantic. ' allies, to be considered this momi.lPI'0SIl9GtS in Paris. "could be considerablyl 'less" than now. i Advising against a "penny wise , ,, and pound foolish" policy in Indo-i :fi3Ys5:c";:dig'm,d Islam China. Dulles said ihat to pi-ovidci, , 'i U 1 1 b- fit more help to the French and theiri die D” C" ary Hg ' Vietnam allies over the next year or 18 months might. permit largc reductions later. Asserting a build-

don

tol

Formosa was ”vcry important" ',m,.n,

P.E,I. said

iary equipment to Formosa. have dav imp. lagged 7o per cent behind what' '

D ' M r h

a C northern. or colder. countries. oiviuuvi. mm" Production of butter and i-iiccso in Canada dur- iriz .'il.'ir: li iv.-"s higher thnny March. 1,":3'J, tho Bureau of Sing tics rcportrti Siiiirday. Margarine; production rlcvlinctl.

Butter output climbed 38 par

first. three months fo 1953 is 11,- 64?,000 pounds.

Margarine production was 8,- 302,000 pounds in March compar- cd with R.F.'l2,000 in March last. bringing the total for the first

be running our first industrial atomic plants in the next five or 10 years. probably closer to 10. "The future for atomic energy looks good..But the only way wr can find out whether it will be

ward Island to nine from 10.

(c??nTfr?iE'u'3rT'PEj 5 GT7?"

zsees A P.EC.iC.m'l'iiurist I

MONCTON, N.B., April 12 - the tourist season on this year notwith- stardiitg that the coronation will doubtless be an attraction for Eur- opean travei this summer, W. Gor- , ester, manager of the CNR up of Chinese Nationalist forces on Ch.l”l0m,,m,,n Hmel m chm.1o.',eg , izhen passing curb ngzrcssioii bvlllcd China. -he. lmnugh Mnncmn yesterday en, estimated that deliveries of mill- mum ,0 Bermuda on a mom hon.

"We. in the Maritimes. he said.

E:3sTof Aiomi Still Unknown Factor

cent in .lf'ii'rh over the same -----A

month last )('.'lT. Last. month 14,- OTTAWA, lCPi -- Science has 769.000 pmmrls were produced learned a lot nhoiit thr ninni but compared with 10,754,000 in it still docsiiit know ulieihrr it March. 1.052. bringing the total will be able in rnmpclrv commer- for tho fiisl three months of ci.-illy with coal for power pf'O(illt'-l 105.1 to .'l-L026000 pounds. iilon.