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OMMOMS ADOPTS EMERGENCY COMPENSATION BILL

Churchill Gets Vote 9! Confidence On Arm

Business Flourishes In

Fran.ce But Aversion To Taxes Threatens NATO i

By CARL HAR.TMAN

PARIS. March 5-(CP)-France is producing more wealth today thnii ever before but her parlia- iuent balks at increasing taxes to defend it.

Nor can Franco seem to find a mother strong enough to impose c-tlllrold on prices, credits and li1l'.IP5 needed to curb inflation. 'l'l:e franc is worth about is per cult. of its value at the 1914 lib- emtion.

Business is good. Production List year was about 10 per cent lllcllflr than in 1929, the best pre- nor year. Of the 42,730,000 men and women living in France only 13,000 were listed as unemployed on .lim. l.

Yet, the government is nearly run. of funds. Every day this year it spent about 1,000,000,000 francs rs2.800.000), more than the treas- ury has taken in.

The government pledged 12 div- isions instead of the original 14 at the Atlantic Treaty Council nw-ttiig in Lisbon last month.

when Premier Edgar Faure re- turned from Lisbon with a pro- posal to meet the expense by rais-

ing taxes -by 15-per-cent, instead '

of the 10 previously planned, iuombers of his own party helped throw him out of office. Since that. happened last Friday, France has been floundering without an alternative plan or a cabinet to pill Fnurc's tax boost across.

Keystone in Europe?

some call France the keystone o.' .l;Illl'0pe'S defence. (itl'.llI on her pledges, it could mt-an the end of N.A.T.0.

Eten a reduced French program would slow down N.A.T.O. Parlia- tient insists on keeping a bigger form than West Germany does in I unified European army. Every llrencii cut-down means a Ger- nan cut-down.

The French army is in a stale- znate with the Jlndo-Chinese Com- munists. Withdrawal there could men the rest. of southeast Asia 0 the Reds. Cost. to the average 1'l'ellCllmIll of preventing this was not at some 11.5 francs of every :00 he earns.

Britons are calculated to be oitviiuz nearly iii out of every E100. and the U. S. Taxpayer more than siB for every 3100.

The majority of the 625 depu- ties in the National Assembly are unwilling to increase taxes.

Reasons go beyond an unwill- lnrzness to pay taxes, although the French have a full measure of that universal feeling. some see no serious threat of a Russian invasion, others doubt whether it could be held off.

More Ships After Seals Thisjear

ST. .lOHN'S, Nfid.. March 5- :t'l')---Twenty-seven ships, sllglttly horn titan last year, will prowl 'lH- Arctic seal grounds this sea- UH.

ll" Vf'-U913. 12 from Newfound- l-"ml. 11 from Norway. three from Halifax and one from the French Mind of St. Pierre, will sail to- nmrrmv to be at the "front" when the season opens March 10 in the north shore of Newfound- ..1nqil and Labrador. lT9W members for the vessels, "lnlzlng up to 700 tons, signed on '”'ll.V. Their wane depends on the catch and may amount to as llliil'll as 3300 or as little as 570

l . . u”E"ek';. tonne of six to eight --&j.... MINIILS IDLE

( GLACE BAY. N.S.. March 5 - CP)m A shortage of coal cars, Muted by recent storms . today l”Piv Ill but four Dominion coal Elrgmpany mines idle. All pits are P eduled to work tomorrow.

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Program is Running Year Behind Schedule '

LONDON. Mar. 5-(CP)-Wln- ston Churchill's handling of re- armament won approval in the House of Commons 314-219 to- night over Labor Party opposition that was split by the absention of left-wing rebels. , Aneurin Bevan and 50 or so of his Labor followers, revolting against both Britainls arms pro- gram and the Labor Party lead- ership of Clement Attlee, sat. out the vote.

In an attempt to overthrow Prime Minister Churchill's Con- servative Government, the Labor Party filed a motion of no coli- fldence on grounds the govern- ment was moving too slowly in rearniament.

But. the split in Labor's ranks. combined with the normal Coti- scrvntive majority in the House. led to burial of the motion under an avalanche of votes.

Year Behind Schedule

Churchill himself said the arms program was running about ayear behind schedule, partly because of a lag in American aid.

The vote brought out into the open for the first time since the national election last October the bitter feud for control of the Labor Party between the 54-year- oid Bevan and Attlee, the mod- erate former prime minister.

Opening a debate on the pro- gram which the late Labor Gov- ernment. started in 1951 under a three-year time table. the Prime Minister hinted at disappointment that help from the United States has not been forthcoming more quickly.

He said the United States of- fered s81.'i.600,000 worth of mach- ine tools soon after the program began and delivery "is only Just beginning". He noted. that the United States recently allotted to

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P.E.I. Again leads In Grade A Hogs

Prince Edward Island led all Provinces in Canada in the per- centage of Grade A hogs marketed through inspected plants during the month at January. according to an official report received from the Department of Agriculture. The average for this Province was al- most M per cent higher than that for Canada as a whole.

The percentage figures for the Provinces were: P.E'.l. 48.9; N.S. 38.1; N.B. 33.1; Que. 21.9; Ont. 33.2: Man. 23.1: Sask. 26.0 Alta. 24.4; B.C. 27.0; Average 29.2.

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Sterling .Area's Dollar Reserves Al iigngerotaiow

LONDON, March 5 --(AP)- A qualified informant said today the sterling area's gold land dollar re- serves have slipped below 53.000.- 000.000-long regarded as the min- imum safety level.

There is some concern that in-, June 30 these reserves-the steri- ing area's capital for trade with the rest of the world-may sink as low as 51.600.000.000.

This would be only 52.30.000.000 more than the crisis level reached just. before devaluation of the pound in September, 1949. From that low point. of 81.350.000.000 the reserves had climbed almost to 04.000.000.000 by the middle of last year before the current decline started.

Gloomy as the British picture is. there are some counter-balancing omens. The informant said the drainage to the dollar area and to European countries still is going on. but at a much less alarming rate than at the close of last year.

Economists agree that the first half of this year is Britain's crit- cnl time. By the second half, the 'fu'.l effect of the austerity mea- ;sures undertaken by the govern- ment will have had time to make themselves felt.

Queen Picks June 5 As Official Birthday

LONDON. N-arch .5 --(Reuters) -The Queen decided yesterday to celebrate her "official" birthday this year on June 5-the day chosen by her father for his of- ficial birthday.

Hcr real birthday She will be'28 then. But in nam-

is April 21.

Cattle Toilegin

birthday in June to fit in with

holiday schedules throughout the REGINA. March 5 -(GP)-'iihe Comngonwcalth, fifth and final slaughter of cattle with foot-and-mouth disease will .orr:,uv,x, March 5 ...(op) L

Government officials said yester- day it is expected Canada will designate June 5 as the Queen's

take place tomorrow near McLean 40 miles from here, Federal vet- erinary officials said today.

Earlier it. had been stated that April 21-the Queen's birthday- would be made a statutory holiday.

caused by snow-blocked roads and difficulties in digging the grave through frost-hardened ground.

F r.en.ch-Speaking Senator Defends Ties With Crown

prove: very cleraly that freedom is the cornerstone of our Oom- monwcnlth in which all members are on is fooling of perfect equal-

OTTAWA. March 5 -(OP) - A French-speaking senator from Quebec today championed Can- ada's ties with the crown and said her "partnership in the Common- ii.y wealth is a guarantee of our Ho eulogized Prime Miriisier St. freedom. it is not a. form of dIs- Laurent for his efforts both to guised vassalage." achieve full Canadian autonomy

A constitutional expert. Senator and co-operation with other pow- L. M. ciouin (L-Quebec) struck an under the United Nations. In out at European misconceptions of a number of different ways Mr. Canada's relationship to the Unlt- st. Laurent had contributed to ed Kingdom and said the U. K. Canada! constitutional progress. has neither prc-eminence nor from endln appeals to the Privy suserainity over the independent Council in London to the appoint- members of the Commonwealth. merit. of a Canadian as governor- including Canada. General,

Seconding the Address in reply senator clouln hailed appoint- io the speech from the Throne, merit of Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey. Senator Gouin. speak g in French a college mate at oxford donors and nigllsh, said nadisns are ago, who instead of fulfilling his "anxious to remain forever faith- intention of being a professor of ful to our past. because it,is for us history made history himself.

a legacy of free institutions in- Referring to runarks by French herltsd from our forefathers." jurists about Canada's alleged

"But. our respect for traditlonis "vasulagI" under the U. 1!. Sins in no way opposed to progress. on ator Gouin said "It is time our the contrary evolution and trad- friends in lurope realised that our ition have been harmoniously eom- llnlu with the Oomsnonvvoultn no blood in the development of our not imply any bondage an vuut. constitution." - ago... ndecd the only tics which

lsnstor Oouln welcomed in- now bind together the various dlcatiom that Britain now regards members of the con-anonwaaith Canada not as o Dominion but as are purely moral.bomu..,wg an a resin and said this "further at least as fro: as any other peo- atqp on our road to independence pic on lcartli.” t --

Czechs Might Release Oatis For Steel Mill

'WA5l-IINGTON. liflzrch b-tAP)'the Second World War, but have -Communist Czechoslovakia has been prevented from taking deliv- hinted it might consider releasing cry on it. ever since the Commun- William N. Oatis, imprisoned Am- lsts came to power there.

erican newspaper men. in return

5 Caribbean Scout lamboree Opens

Have Terms

KINGSTON. Jamaica, March 5- (CP)-More than 1.600 Boy Scouts -including 50 from Canada- marched today in colorful open- ing ceremonies of the first Carib- bean Jamboree.

Governor Sir Hugh Foot, wei- coming the Scouts after the march past. said he believed "in

the good things the Scout move- , - in the Commons after the

I OTTAWA. March 5-(CPI-The Commons today adopted an em. ergency bill to compensate farm- ers for losses resulting from the outbreak of foot-and-mouth dis- ease in Southern Saskatthewan. The bill-it now goes to the Senate-was given third reading

for a sl7,000.000 steel mill.

But the State Department, in acknowledging this today. said no, actual offer has been made, andl that "disposition of the steel mllil is not and will not be connecterii

Officials said mechoslovakia HWM SUIMS 1011" . , 9111-! raised the steel mill question on a Thousand! Viewed the Parade m'e5'"”. C”"””''””"'” ""d C C-- number of occasions in mch B and km... A nmional msmay. F. Parties had attempted unsuc-l

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lOlhcr Scouts attending are from .the United Kingdom. Panama, .Cuba. United States, and British Caribbean colonies.

Site of the Jamboree is a 500-

way as to indicate it would like to tie in the mill with release of Oatis.

They added that each time this

lion increased and extended. l The legislation provides for

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with the Oatis case." The Czechs bought the mill the United States shortly afterlthe two issues together.

Makes Successful Emergency Flights To Rustico Harbour

In several daring emergency flights Mr. Elton Woodslde. known locally as the flying farm- er, piloted his single-engined

Fleet Can'uck aircraft into the ice- bound harbor of North Ruslico yesterday to evacuate four hos- pital rases, a newly born infant. two confinement cases and an- other girl suffering from an un- defined illness.

The air rescues were made he- cessary by the recent snowslorma which have completely blocked the road in from Hunter River. The only means of transportation

loccurrcd the U. S. told the Czechs. in flatly that it would not consider In

a ing June 5 as the day for cele- brations she followed a tradition established by King Edward VII

who decreed that British sov-

ereigns should have "official".

It is believed about 175 cattle. birthday, folowed her decision to- I50 swine and 70 sheep will be day to celebrate her "official" shot and buried. birthday on that date.

The total number of animals llowever. State Secretary Brad- slaughtered when this phase of icy said the cabinet has not. yet the fight. against the disease is acted on the matter. lie said the completed will be nearly 1.300. lgovcrnment has been waiting for

The final slaughter was posi- the Queen's wishes to bemme poned today because of delays known. l

- and southwestern Mains.

Eleanor

Mrs. Jaffrey Cook Make. a school teach-

REAPPEARS - or, showed tip unexpectedly at House Un-American Activities Committee hearings in Detroit. Af- ter being named a communist by a, former FBI agent. she had tem- porarllly disappeared.

Two Women lose Lives In Monlreaifire

MONTREAL. March 5 -- (GP)- Two women died early Wdliy 111 a fire that swept through a re- sidential atid business block at Guy and Sherbrooke Streets.

Several persons - the number variously placed from two to six -were still unreported early to- night butFireDcpartmcnt officials said they believe all escaped and that no bodies are in the ruins.

The womenvlctims,Mrs. George Perkins and Miss Marie Mahaffey, lived in apartments above the Montreal Repertory 'I'lieatre. the building in which the fire start.- ed.

Liverpool Teachers Get Salary Boost

LIVERPOOL. N.S.. March 5 - (09). Liverpool school teachersl today were granted salary in- creases of 3100 with a five per cent boost to become effective for

the 1952-53 term. Town officials said the boosts will mean an overall increase of

about 11 per cent in present salar- arics. Nttmber of teachers affected was not immediately available.

WINDSOR. N. March 5- (CP)-Windsor s. ol board to- night granted it! 29 teachers a 5200 annual salary increase. effec- tive from March 1. A spokesman for the teachers said he believed the offer would be accepted.

New England iias Heavy snow storm

BOSTON. Much I -- (AP) -- A northeast storm - the fourth in in days -- today dumped up to nine inches of snow in North- ern New England while southern sections got. a heavy downpour of sleet and rain.

Heaviest snow accumulation. the Weather Bureau said. was nine inches at Looonia, NJ-f.. when all schools were closed for the day become of transportation dif- flculties.

Pour to eight inches blanketed Vermont, Southern New Hampshire

other than by air is by and sleigh.

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remain as a bar to agreement... until you properly list. these per- sons as prisoners of war and grant them the rights of prison- ers of war."

the mining south Koreans have been pressed into the Red The Reds claimed they released them at the front.

Sang Oho. chief Communist sub- delegato on prisoner made

horse

trouble was experienced by in landing his small on the frozen harbour. After landing he helped load the patients and took off for the Charlottetown harbour where he

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is Convicted Of Manslaughter

MONTREAL. March 5 -(CF) - Martin Plepls, charged with mur- der in the shotgun slaying of Ant.- hony Miileris. was convicted of manslaughter today by a jury which deliberated three hours and 20 minutes. lie will be sentenced March 17.

The shooting occurred last New Year's eve at the nearby Ville Jacques Cartier home

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which offered no witnesses.

move Plepis from the home.

High-Level Decisions uce Deadlock

May End Tr

By DON HUTH

MUNSAN, Korea, March 6-- (Thursday)-tAP)'bifferences on; prisoner exchange and RliS.ElBll' participation as a neutral truce inspector pointed today toward a high-level decision to break the Korean armistice deadlock.

United Nations' command head- quarters would not conjecture on how the stalemate might be broken. Observers believed the problems were receiving a careful consideration in Washington and perhaps in Peiplng and Moscow.

Vice-Admiral Turner Joy, senior U. N. delegate, was in Tokyo wed- nesday and presumably briefed General Ridgway. supreme U. N. commander, on the latest devel- opments.

T r u c e negotiators scheduled more discussions in Panmunjom for if a.m. today (9 pm. EST Wednesday).

At Wednesday's session, the U. N. presented the. fourth list of Allied prisoners believed to be in Communist hands but not ack- nowledged by thc Reds. The list originally carried 174 names but one name was removed at the last moment. The names of four can- sdlans- ,... cubly the only can- adians listed as missing-were in- cluded.

Rear-Admiral R. E. Libby de- manded a "satisfactory account- ing" for these and some 00,000 more prisoners-mainly South Ko- reans-who the communists de- clare "do not exist."

Will lsr Agreement Libby warned the prisoners "will

The Antes contend that most. of army.

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acre strip of land made available

' the army and the individual camp sites are named after men famous in the development and

iiistory ol the Caribbean.

Those on the reviewing stand today included Maj. Gen. Dan Spry, deputy director of Scouts international .,Burenu

Western Hemisphere headquarters at

the makes his awn.

Plan Boost lnAFo:m Loans Interest

HALIFAX, lilmvh 5---tCP)--Le.:- islation to increase the rate of interest on provincial farm loans from three to 4 1l2 por cent was introduced in the Nova Scotia Legislature today. Agriculture Minister A. W. Mackenzie said the new rate is in line with the cost of money to the government.

Ice c;...... With Kick Turned Down

'hUill'llnlfS and crops are iin efforts to .ease. The compensation will apply ;0nl.V l0 farmers In the 50-square-

Boy;irlCd to change the legislation so fortlhat compensation would he has- whoged on the "economic value" of the Oujenttle destroyed

lion to farmers whose livestock. destroyed erradieaie the dis-'

mile quarantined-urea around lic- gina. I Tl"? Pmfzressive Conservatives:

H " rather than on the ynchulous fair-and-reasonable Provision proposed by the Gov. ernmcnt.

Out of Order

An amendment by John Dieien. baker (PC-Lake Centre) was nil- ed out of order last night on the grounds that it would involve the expenditure of public money. Only a member of the Govern- ment can sponsor legislation in- Vt7lVil1K the expenditure of money.

On third reading, Mr. Diefen. baker moved that the bill be re- ferred hack to the committee for reconsideration of his earlier am- endment. His motion was defeat- "d 130 '0 50. with the Progressive

will

Conservative. C. C. F. and social Credit members supported it. The

TIPTON. r:n'..T....i. March 5 -. , Ltherals opposed it.

ICP) -- Pictri Pilol's idea of mak-

ing ice cream with a kick in it was per” Writ!” (CC?-Melfort) put back in the deep freeze to- mild” "V" WWCCESSIUI attempts to extend the compensation to

night. , . Pioli. who runs a dairy and ice- ernam factory in this Stafford-

eovgr anyone in the quarantine area who may suffer loss as a re.

. . it of the outbreak. H s id shire town, had been experiment- 5” 9 " int: for four years to prodttce ice- ifggi f”g:le::0I:';”yd;'s'1tro:f:clle

cream spiked with cherry brandy, creme cle mentlie, betiedictlne. ap- ricot. brandy and several other liqueurs.

Finally he came up with s. prod- uct that called for one part. liqueur to eight parts ice cream.

Today he went before the board of licences to get a liqtlor permit.

UHW may stiffer other losses. liazen Argue tCCF-Assinibola) tried to open the way for 'the Government to provide feed and fodder for quarantined farms.

llagpiclter left

They turned him down cold. .

Eighteen churches and three m d breweries strongly opposed the ap- I plicatloti. , gkg