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International Scheme Effective Tonight, Expected To Relieve European Tension.

(A. l‘. by Guardian's Special Wire)

LONDON. April Ill-Command- ers of warship oi’ four nations re- ceivi-al instructions tonight for taking up a patml of the Spanish coast tomorrov. at midnight, the time set for inaugurating an inter- national plan to isolate the civil war.

Land observers also will take up their posts at that hour, bringing to a climax months of “hands-off Spain" negotlatlo

informed persons express-ed hopeo the scheme would prove a fore- runner to a. new era of internation- ul peace efforts.

About 60 warships from the nav- les of Great Britain. France, Ger- many and Italy will begin a check oi the entire coast line of Spain. The land observers, to be stationed it the French Portuguese and Gib- raltar Spanish borders, will total about 5(1). .

British Vice Admiral Geoffrey Blake, with the battle cruiser iiood, spent the night at La Ro- chelle, France, after talking with Sir Henry Chilton, British Am-

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That a number of fishermen who had been supplied with loans through the Fi"hermen's Loan Board were poachers, and had sec- ured the loans to equip themselves to fish lobsters illegally, was stated in evidence on Saturday at Alber- ton to the Royal Commission con- ducting an investigation into the illegal fishing of lobsters and smclts in 1936.

Evidence was also given to the effect that live lobsters fished on the North side of Prince Edward Island during the closed season last fall were transported across the Island into open territory to the south.

The Saturday session was again featured by evidence concerning the “tricks of the trade" method of poachers and those who handled lobsters illegally, revealed by those implicated, who, underthe pro-

lnurador to Spain, at Hendayc. To- morrow the Hood and, thoicmrer Shropohire will move in a patrol 7f the Basque coast. ‘

Rear Admiral Boehm, command- ing the German naval forces in. Spanish waters, was at Algiers waiting to start his nation's role in the sea patrol. French ships hover- ed off Spanish MOYQClO. and Ibiza. and Majorca in the Balearic Is- lands. Itnllzzn ships cruLed oil Eastern Spain.

"Neither land nor rea observers will be authorized to halt men or shipments bound for Spain but will notify all Governments respon- sible if any breachcs (of the ncu- trality pact) occur," on informed source said.

LONDON, April l'l—Wnr-tom E llutpe ngin slowly moves towards the trays uf pence. Tiicre arc many (lliilcultles to face. lilvrrmolzniilzi; arlnaments rcflcct thc ncrvoumcss 0f statesmen.

Yet those who recently regarded another European war as inevit- able now are content to lct gen- cral order" to mobilize lapse fur- thcr into the blukgroand.

The long-drawn struggle in Spain ncnrs n definite turn. in the road. After many delays British, Frcnch, Gcrmfln end Italian warshps will. ca midnight Monday. druw a ring of steel round Spnnlh waters.

ll. S. Legislature ls Prorogued

HALIFAX, April i8—(CP)-R'8ht of cmplcyccs to organize in trade lmzorls and to bargain colrctlvcly um. rccognzed by law in Nova 5r. tla tonight.

As the provincial lrgifluturc clos ed Saturday, L’cut. G vcrncr W. H. Covert assented to a bill giving 193ml status to trade unions in this Province. The measure was intro- duced by Opposition Lrnder C21. G. S. Harrington. and was later qunllfed by certain government a- monuments.

Schaeffer Galleries Get Famous ‘Painting

(C. P. by Guardian's Special Wire)

NEW YORK, April l’l—'I'he srle of Plero Di Coslmos famous paint- i"! "Vulcan and Eolu; as Teach- H's of Mankind“. to the National 551191’? of Canada at Ottawa was nmounced today by the Schaeffer Galleries. The Italian master's can- vas was for more than 100 years B Part of the noted collection of the Marquess of Lothlan at Dalkieth. Scotland.

The picture, painted between I490 and 1500. formerly was in the collection of the Marquess of Loth- len. Newbottle Abbey, Dalkeith. Scotland. and was brought to New Y°'k__l5§t___wlnier.

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teptlon of the Court,_franlcly ad- mitted their divorze operations.

Indications are t h a t t h o Commission will sit at Al- berton all this week a n d will probably move to O'Leary

or Summerside over next week- end. it being (be intention to con- clude the hearing of witnesses from the Alberton and 'I‘lgnish areas in "Alberton instead oi going to Tignlsh as had been planned.

Four more witnexes, bringing the total number heard since the Al- berton sitting commenced on Tues- day last to twenty-fix, were caFJed before the Commissioner, Mr. Jus- tice A. T. LeBlanc, of Mcncton, Saturday. while two perrons were recalled to give further testimony.

Osborne Lefurgey, local trader and former merchant, was the f.rst witness called by Commission Ccuxscl, lion. H. F. G. Bridges. Saturday morning. He admitted having purchased in the vicinity of twenty-five boxes of lob tors latt year. the majority having been bought after July. He told the Counsel he we: satkfled they were illegaly packed. The canned ‘Jib- stvrs purchased after July were sold to Arthur Clark, Alberton, the Portland Packing Compcny in Chrrlottetown, and Chester Mc- Carthy, Tlgnish.

Mr. Lefurgcy said he had no per- mit for the transportation of the ' tors which he delivered him- self. Oh four occasions during the fall sea on last year the witness said he or his trucks hauled live lobsters from the Tignish district on the North Side to Brae Har- bor on the South Side, or from illegal territory into legal terri- tory. The lobsters were sold to a buyer for Maritime Packers Lim- ltcd, and were on three occasions picked up at Tlgnlsh Run in the daytime. and transported r" ng the daytime while‘ the other 0c- casion was at night.

"How mflfiy lobsters did you transport from the North side to the South side?"

"I would say in the vicinity oi 3.000 pounds."

“Were you ever molest/ed by the officers?"

"No. I do not think they sus- pected me."

"who was the Maritime Packers buyer at Brae Harbour?"

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Evidence Bef$ Royal Com- mission Reveals Misuse Of Credit Advanced ' Through Provincial F ishermen’s Loan Board To F Illegally.

"I think his name was Maxwell or Maxfleld."

"Dldlhe know the lobsters you were delivering were illegally pack- ed?”

"I would say he did."

Mr. Iefurgey said in 1935 the bulk of canned lobsters he handled were illegally packed. and told counsel he had been buying small quantities :ince 1930. He pointed out that the average fisherman at Alberton South did not make en- ough money during the legal or open season. He stated the asser- tion that they would “starve" if they did not pooch in the fall was putting it pretty strong; but they would have a poor living if it was to be stopped. “Fishermen in Al- berton South are purely lobster fishermen; the are not equipped to fish any ot er kinds of fish."

He told counsel the illegal pack was inferior quality. that in 1934 thirty cares of lobsters he had landed were refused by the Health Board in London.

"Do you think some fishermen who received fishermens loans inst year used the loan to nN-ist them- selves to peach lobsters?"

"Yes. I have no doubt some did UIFB." g

The witntrs criticised the method of appointing temporary employees and raid that usually such an em- ployee had at some time been him- self a poacher, and remarked, “It is too much to expect a temporary

officer to go out and catch his friends whom he had himself poached with."

He felt that if an officer would go out and make a sincere effort to stamp out poaching. destroying a great quantity of gear and bring- ing about many convictions. he would be fired and possibly mob- bed ln addition.

“The fishermen hereabout want two seasons, six week; in the Spring and u month in the Fall. and if they secured that I feel it would blot out maybe 90 per cent of poaching," concluded the wit- ness.

The "econd witness of the day was Emerson Matthews, Alberton man, who operated a factory at Brae Harbor during the Fall sea-

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Gomedienne Found With Head Crushed

NEW YORK, April i8 — (CP)— Hcr skull crushed from hammer blcns, a night club comedienno who was to open a two weeks en- gagement in Toronto tomorrow. was found near death at a danc- ing school here today. She died soon after being found.

The girl. Julia Nussenbaum. who danced under the name of Tania Lee Lova, had in her handbag a contract under which the team of Tania and Marla. was to receive $110 a week from the Esquire Club at Toronto with the option of six weeks work. .

Two N. Y. Gunmen Held In Death Of Federal Agent

109mm. rm. APNl 1a - The bullets of tlwo New York gunmen he sousht to mp we dm m claimed the life of a young Fed- eral Agent just as his fellow G- mcn were clamping a 01.000 web of evidence about the spectacular gangsters today.

W. W. Baker. 2'1, the agent. died last night in a hospital here of four bullet wounds he suffered in his first major assignment. An emergency and at least two blood transfusions were futile.

The death of the lflht Ill shielded in such secrecy W "i! Federal Bureau of Investigation that it did not become publicly known until the body was removed w a funorll homi-

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In nearby Kansas City. Federal agents held Alfred Power and Rob- ert BllhlY- sortgsters accused of an 010.000 Katonah, N.Y.. bank rob- bery, to face what United States Attorney B. B. Alexander said would be a prompt indictment for murder. _

The two gangsters blasted their my out of a trap Friday in Top- eka’: downtown posioifioe. As Bak- er was cut down by bullets the re- turn flre of his fellow agents wounded Buhoy in the left wrist.

Homer Sylvoste , Nebraska Sher- ifLmd his deputy seized the kang- stcrl without a shot Friday night offer the New Yorkers lost their way through the streets of Platts- mouth, Nob. a little town of 8,700.

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Hepburn Terminates Negotiations When Strike Counsel Seeks Views Of Martin.

(OP. by Guardian's Special Wire)

TORONTO, April lit-The dead- lock in the Oshawa automobile workers’ strike appeared as far from solution as ever today after the sudden collapse yesterday of Premier Mitchell Hepburn?» at- tempt to bring representatives of General Motors and the strikers face to face around a conference table.

Proceedings were first seriously stalled in a. preliminary discussion of the status of the strikers’ two representatives and the exact basis

on which negotiations were colbe-

carried on, during which C. J. Cohen, Union counsel. telephoned Homer Martin, Intematlonal Un- ion President, from the Premier's office.

The situation blew up complete- ly after Cohen left the Premier to confer with C. H. Millard, Oshawa Union President. and Hugh Thomp- son, C.I.O. organizer. outside, and

then tried to telephone Mar-

ltln again from a vault of! the

Premier's waiting room.

Apprlscd by his secretary oi’ whnt they appeared to be doing, Premier Hepburn ran out of his office, through the waiting room crowded with press men. and t0 the partly-open door of the vault.

"Who are you phoning? Are you phoning Martin? he demand- ed. Cohen said they were. The Premier about turned, strode back, declaring, "Good afternoon, every- body. There arc going to be no negotiations by remote control here.”

Later in office, the Premier termed this “a complete double- cross," “just another Martin- Thompson set-up." He had made it clcar that he intended to deal only with employees of General Motors and "not the paid hire- llngs of John L. Lewis." he said. so he had no alternative but tn temilnote the proceedings.

He announced that he would not resume negotiations with any of those attending them. Instead, he would ask General Motors employ- ees to send men who actually represented the interests of the Canadian workcrs. They would not be misled or fooled. he said. and he could assure them General Motors Executive were prepared to sit in with them. The next move. he contended. was up to the Osh- awa automobile workers.

After the Premier had issued a statement on the break-of! of neg- otiatlons, J. L. Cohen, Union coun- sel, also made a detailed state- ment. He was asked pointedly by a newspaper man if the C.I.O. was not trying to control negotiations indirectly.

"Mr. Hepburn was aware I was talking to Mr. Martin and in no way dcmurred," said Cohen. “He. returned afterward (to his office)

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Fast Trip From. Sault St. Mario

Mr. TN. lliclvllllan, connect- ed with the mining industry at Sault Saint Marie, arrived at the bedside of his ill mother, Mrs. Jeremiah McMillan, AI- berry Plains, last night, after rushing by train to Moneton, N. 8., by plane to Charlotte- town and by an open gasoline engined railway trolley to Al- berry Plains.

Mr. McMillan arrived at Moncton int evening where he boarded I Canadian Airways piano which stood waiting with Pilot ll. S. Jones at the eon- trols and sped him to Upton Airport.

Dirt roads between here and Alberry Plains, turned into quagmire: by recent nin and melting snow, were impanahle to motor vehicles and Mr. Mo- Mlllan made the Ill-mile jour- ney on a gasoline driven trol- ley over the Murray Harbor railway to Vernon River. stew miles from Albem Plains.

Last night the condition of Mrs. McMillan, seriously ill for the past week, was reported uunmvd-Il

Youthful island Composer Acclaimed

MONTREAL. April lll-(CP) —A 15-year-old Prince Ed- ward Island composer. William Keith Rogers, was acclaimed by a music-loving audience here Saturday when two of his compositio were rendered by Paul de Marky at a. concert given by the distinguished Montreal pianist.

The pieces, "Ballad" and “Savage Waltz," were warmly applauded after they were played by Mr. de Marky and the youthful composer received an ovation lasting more than five minutes when he was call- ed to the stage by the pianist to take a bow.

William Keith Rogers is a son of Col. and Mrs. Keith Rogers 0.! Charlottetown. Still attending- school, the young musician made the trip to Montreal for the concert with Mrs. Rogers who is a leader in Prince Edward Island music circles.

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Push Forward On W i d e l y Scattered Fronts In Effort To Cut Rebel Lines.

(A. P. by Guardian's Special Wire)

MADRID. April lti~The Spanish Government today reported success for its armies as heavy fighting continued on the widely separated fronts of TcrucL. 150 miles east of the capital, and Cordoba. Province, an almost equal d‘ the south.

Still attacking vigorowly in its effort to reduce the Terue salient in the irrurgcnt lines, the Govern- ment concentrated large forces of infantry, artlllcijv. tanks and air- planes in the vicitlty of Celadas. 18 mils-s northwest of Teruel.

The Teruel bulge is the result of the insurgents’ intermittent efforts to break through to the sea be- tween Barcelona and Valencia and thereby separate those centres of Government power.

Seek To Sever Lines

If the Government can take Cel- atlas and drive from there a few miles further southward to the highway linking Teruel and Zara Goza, the Insurgents in the sal- ient would be cut ofi from their base. Government aircraft heav- lly rrmbarded enemy positions throw ‘out the Tcrucl area.

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Appropriate measures will bc taken by the next party congress in event the order should bc dis- regarded, it added. Pivert had been the only member to abstain from the unanimous vote when the resolution was adopted by committee.

The resolution reaffirmed the Socialists‘ complete confidence ln the government. The committee said that the question of u pos- sible lilllOll between the Socialist and Communist parties was solely within tile province of the unifi- cation committee.

PARIS, April l8—The National Council of the Socialist party to- day uphold Premier Blunfs policy

Route To View Pageantry.

LONDON, April 18-—(A.P)-In spite of it bclng a cold. bleak. sun- less Sunday morning. scares of thousands of Londoners lined th streets early today to witness a rehearsal of the procession in which the King and Qumn will prwced to their Corenafion May 12.

The court and police authorities who will be responsible for this Leature of ‘the festivities obtained a vague idea cf the crcwds they will have to control on the real Coronation day.

Beginning at 6:30 a.m. and carc- fully timed all the way. the pro-

cession, including the gilded coach ,

of state. pe-rambulated slowly over the coronation route to enable of- ficials to determine exactly how long the real thing will take. Londoners, who love a pageant. seized the only opportunity molly of them will got to see what the coronation spectacle will be like. left their beds esrlv to gaze on the show, in sp’te 19591100 U5

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Six Killed In Farm House Blast

MUSKEGON, Wis, April l8- (Alfl-Slx persons were killed and three critically injured tonight by an explosion which demolished the farm homo of John Masons. A neighbor said 50 pounds of Pyro- tol, used for blasting stumps, had been stored in the basement.

The force of the explosion scat- tered parts of the 2 1-2 storey frame house over an acre of ground.

The dead were Mrs. Mary Was- nk, 54, and four children, Ltottlc. 15; Hank, eight; and Jce, five. The body of a fifth, Raymond. three,‘ had not been found. Searchers said he could not bealive.

John Waszak, the father. was in the barn and escaped injury.

Three daughters, Louise. 17. E1- eanor, 14. and Helen. l2. were tak- en to the Waukesha municiPBi hospital in a critical condition.

Canadian Exports To 0.8. Increase

OTTAWA. April fll-tci-fi-The United States was Canada's best customer during March. taklns domestic exports worth 038,870,000 an increase of $10,600,000 or 37 per cent compared with March, 1930. the dominion bureau of statistics reported today.

Exports to the United Kingdom were worth $30,019,000. an increase o: $3,262,000 or 1i! per cent com! pared with March last year.

Canada's total domestic exports -

during March were valued at $80,- 327,000. a gain of 20 per cent ngalnst $73,445,000 the some month in 1930

Action around Madrid centred on the attempt to keep the Insurg- ent garrison of 3.000 in University City, on the capital's western

RADICAL GROUP R ULED ‘DISSOL VED Blum Pleads For

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Foreign Minister Delbos Outlines

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Endorsed.

PARIS. APPII l5_i—(M0"dfl.\')—-(CP-liavziQ-Dissolution of the “left revolutionary” group was ordered bv {he 50¢. ralist Party’s national council early today following a night-long meeting at which two cabinet members had urged the group's expulsion as an enemy 0f the party.

Premier Blum. last to speak before a special committee “'21s formed to study the question of discipline involved, maiden stirring plea for party unity; 'i‘hc disciplinary committee immediately went into session. Their resolution recommending immediate dissolution of Marceau Pivertls “left revolutionary" group was adopted by the full coun-

The motion pointing out that the disputed group had been ordered dissolved rather its members to abide by the council's decision. M

than expelled. called upon

0100.000 At Rothesay, New Brunswick

K‘. l". by Guardian's Special Wire,

ROTHESAY. N. B., April lB< Awakened late last night by a cat insistently scratching at her bed- room door. n maid who was tht sole occupant of the Walter C Allison home here escaped befolt. a spectaculnr- tire dtu-troyed thq

of non-intervention in the Spanish civil war and soundly rebuked the extremists vying of the party which has been agitating for d rcct as- sistance to the Madrid-Valencia

fringe. bottled up. All efforts of the Insurgcnts in the nearby Cosa dc Campo to pass food across the Mnnzanarcs river to the besieged garrison failed.

In Cordoba Province the Insur- gents attacked vigorously in an at- tempt to drive Government forces back from the mountain positions they have seized near the vital highway running from Cordoba City.