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Subacrhriuus Delivered $6.00, Mali $5.00; other Provinces 8c U. S. I100

ATLANTIC PACT COUNTRIES PREPARE GRAND TRATEGY

fioclcey Player Heldln "Death OF Quebec

Hungarian Communist Confesses To Treason

Says lie Plntted With Americans In

Crusade led By ilto.

midi" in“ Traffic Accident

HALFAX, Sept. 16 - (GP) - Five persons were injured tonight when an automobile operated by R1,. itfcGlasliing of Cape Tormen. title, N.B., crashed into 5 concrete snd steel bridBe rail guard at near- by Bedford.

McGlashlng and a passenger, Clinton Hoivatt of Bordon, P.E.I., were ndmittcd to Victoria General Hospital where attendants report- sd they were not seriously injured.

Three other occupants oi the car here admitted to navnl hospital, Officials declined to release their names or describe their injuries.

Coming Events

"Mail your Films to Garnhum Photo Studio, Charlottetown.

"Duo to arrive a car of Lime- lfonc st Suffolk. Borden Boswell.

"(lrinding grain ‘Tuesday and Friday, Milton .\Iill.s. 12¢ s my,

"Reserve oClfiibfil‘ 19th ior Bon- lhaw I~nited Church annual supper,

"1040 York Conceri ilvs nights. Opening Novembci" 2nd.

"Show at Bonsliaw tonight, at 9 o'clock Roy Rogers in "ilcldorado."

"Come to the regular dance in Bonshnw every Tuesday night.

"Come to Scvcn Mlle Bay Chic- ken Supper ‘filcsdnyi, Sept. 20. Games, etc. Suppcr 6 pm.

"Como to the Chicken and Ham Supper in Appin Road Thursday, September 22nd. in aid oi church. Supper served from 5w.

“Chicken Supper, Bingo and Dime. Kelly's Cross Hall, Monday, Sopienrber 19th. ‘

"Cardigan Hall. Annual cnluxén 511DD¢r and Dance, Tuesday. Sept. 20th. Music by Webster,

"Now buying ilmlthy seed. Reg- lsmcd. cleaned, or uncl anciLMc- Glllfllln 8s Boyle.

"Dance. Crapaud Hall. Monday. September 19th. McNeills Orch- cstra. Crspaud W. I.

"Chicken Supper and Dance, 10m Hall. Monday. September 19th. 511909? served at 6.

"Dance, Johnslon‘: River School, Thursday, September 22nd. Burke's Orchestra.

“Chicken Supper, Rose Valley

ilsili, Wednesday, September 21st. Sponsored by the W. M. S. and Ladies’ Aid. "Cape Traverse Hall, Monday "llllii. show "Forty Thieves" fes- lurinn William Boyd as "l-lopalong Cassidy,"

"Will be hauling cream every Wednesday io Wlltshire Factory. Vendors must have cream stands. Wm. l". Scoit.

"We will be buyin live fowl. chicken and capons. uesdsy. Sept. Wh- Get prices before selling. R. h Dickieson. New Glasgow.

"Conic to Chicken and Ham sllnpcr in Brockiield Hall. Sept. Ziid. In aid of Princetown Road United Church. Serving at 5.30.

“Old time Flddlrn Contest and

I1 Dancing in 3i. Peter's Legion Hall on September 21st. Send all Ontrlel to G. L. Sanderson, Sco- rctsry.

“Burma Pigs Monday, Frederic- ton. Paying $21.00 pair for good gill over 30 lbs each. Will buy any

lnds and aims. Will not be buying It any other points until following Wi- Knud Jorgsnscn.

, "Sn Iddio Dean in wlls wssi. 1h full technicolor. Showing. Mori- 41! at at. Theresa's. Tuesday. lriflesiown. Wednesday. Little Pond. ‘Phursday, Vernon River. ni- dlv. Elmira. Saturday. 8t. Charles.

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Anti-Soviet

3y ENDRE MARTON

BUDAPEST, Hungary, Sept. 16-" (AP) - Lsszlo Rajk, former Hun- garian police boss and No. 2 Com- munist. confessed fluently today to charges he plotted with Americans and others to smash Hunggry‘; Government 1n an anti-Soviet cru- sade led by Marshal Tito, Premier of Yugoslavia.

Pouring self-denunciation into a people's court microphone for four hours, the poker-faced, 40-year-old Rajk described the revolt plot as Dart of a sweeping plan by Tito "lo lflfld and organize an anti- Soviet movement in every people's democracy (Russian satellite)?

Rajk and seven others went on trisl for treason.

He declared Tito planned ,5 mil. itary invasion of Hungary, the in- citemcnt of border strife with Bul. garia, the liquidation of Greek Communist guerrilla forces and the incorporation of Albania into Yugoslavia.

He declared that Alexander Ran- kovic, Tim's Interior Minister and police chief oi Yugoslavia, told him of’ the Tito plan and said Ranke- vic promised: “When action starts, the United States will somehow paralyze the Soviet Union so the people's democracies will be unable t0 act."

Rajk named a former United States Minister to Hungary. Seiden Chapln, and two other Americans in the plot. He accused by name Yugoslav officials and others on trial as British and French spies.

(In Washington. Chapin de- nied any talks with Rajk about a plot to overthrow the regime and said Rajk was certainly a victim of Communist police pressure. Cilapin now is assign- ed to the United States State Department in Washington.)

Rujk said he got his first. orders as n. spy ior the United States in

1045 from Lt.-Col. George Kov- ach, the Hungarian-speaking mem- ber of the US. military mission sent to Hungary after the country was liberated from German con- troi. _He said Kovach had learned

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Motor Vehicles Boost Retail Soles

OTTAWA, Sept. 16 — (CP) - Heavy sales of motor vehicles boosted Canadian retail sales , in July five pen‘ cent higher than the figure for July lisst year, the Do- minion Bureau of Statistics report- ed today.

July sales were £664,000,000 and brought the total for the first seven months of the yesr to $4.- 213.000.000. compared with $3,936.- 000,000 in the same period lsst , Sales in July, 1948, were $630,000,000.

Motor vehicle dealers reported a 44-per-cent increase in sales.

All Provinces reported increased sales. the Bureau snid, and sl- most all trades showed higher dol- lar volume during the first seven months of’ the year.

s Escape From Deaih

S'side Man lias Narrow

Mk. Joseph (Dolphy) Arsenault. Ottawa. Street. Summersidc narrow- ly escaped death by electrocution last evening when he came in con- tact with the high tension wire leading from the light plant to the Summerslde Airport.

He had been digging s well on his property over which the line runs and had coupled together sev- eral lengths oi pipe which he had stood on end preparatory to lower- ing into the well. The pipe touch- ed the overhead line carrying 6.900 volts. He was instantly rendered unconscious and w-as discovered a short time later by Mr. Ernest Gaudet oi the light plant staff who drove him home where he later re- covered consciousness.

Mr. George Morrison, assistant engineer at the plant said last night Mr. Arsenault had escaped instant death due to the fact that the plpc was resting on the ground at the time oi contact. otherwise the full force of the voltage would have passed through his body killing lfnl instantly. Contact of (he pipe and the wire knocked out the circuit breaker at the plant and extin- guished the lights at the Airport as well as at Wellington, Miscouchc and O'Lcary for a. short time.

lvIr. Arsensult is the father of the late Ernest Arsenault. who. it will be recalled met death about two years ago when he came in

contact with a high tension wirc while working on the lines.—S.

New Scallop

South _0f W0

OTTAWA, Sept. 16 — (GP) Government fishermen have found a new bed of small - but succul- ent _ scallops in Northumberland Strait, between Prince Edward Is- land, and the mainland.

The Fisheries Department an- nounced today the bed was discov- ered by the Dells. May, u Digby, NS, scallop draggcr now under contract to the Fisheries Research Board.

The bed is three miles long, 1% miles wide and lies 61.5 miles south oi Wood Islands, PILL, at a depth of eight to 15 iathoms.

The Department said good com- merciial production is indicated oi the sea delicacies, now caught mainly in beds in the Bay 0i Fun-

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yThe scallops in the new bed were small and the iour-inch minimum size limit was being withdrawn in the area.

The Della May began operating in June under Dr. LEP. Chalsson in an exploration of scallop resources in the Southern Gulf of St. Law- rence. It found an average catch of from two to six bushels from a 10-minute haul in the new bed with a. standard six-gang Dlgby- type drag.

PAKISTAN'S POPULATION

Pakistan has s population of over 75.000000 and an ares. of about 330,000 square miles.

Gun-Toting Man Makes

Attempt To

ALLISTON, Ont, Sept. ik-ft?) —A hunt was on tonight for s B0- ycar-old shotgun-toting railway foreman who trsppedJour police-

_'°All interested in Marshileld Hall, come Monday. 19th, prepared to wort and clean inside.

"Just arrived. Car Iinverncls Screened Coal. lowest prices. P. J. Noy & Co.

"Bu: leaving Elmira 10 A. M. Wednesday, 21st, to Dundu Plough- tng Mltch

"Georgetown — Se: Milton-Rus- tico Parish announcements rc- gardlng Sunday service. Rural Dean.

"Como to Chieken Supper in Klnlrora Hall. Thursday. Sept. 22nd.

"Danes. Lomo Valley, Tuesday. Scptcuim- iith. Webster's Orch- sctn.

"Conic to the Bean Supper. Tryon Baptist Hall, September 21st. Sponsored ‘Ryon Women's In- atitule.

"Coming Attraction. Annual Innu- snd Chicken Supper. Si.

Mary's. lourls. September 21in and I“. . .

Hang Wife

men in their station house for more than an hour after allegedly

trying to hang his wife.

Police in this town, 42 miles north of Toronto, said Vincent Santoro. father oi five children.

early today tried to hang his wife, beat s. daughter on the head with s gun butt, then took up a position opposite the police station, point- ing the gun and defying foul: trap- ped policemen to come and get him. Ho fled when l0 Ontario Pro- vincial Police arrived from nearby Barrie, Ont.

Mrs. Santoro told police she and her husband had argued iut night about money. Later he entered their bedroom with g shotgun and a length o! rope. A daughter, Grace, i7, tried to intervene and was struck over the held with the gun butt. Another daughter. Thor- csa, 14, rsn to got help. Santoro scnt Grace and his wife to bring the girl back.

Instead, mother and daughter ran to a neighbor's house whore they telephoned police.

A iow minutes later, police got a call from the Alliston telephone operator. She said citizens had spotted a man lurking sroufid the station. .

One policeman opened the door. There was Santoro standing across the street. He raised the shotgun

and the policeman closed the door._ Statistics rspo

City Council Discusses Superannuation Scheme

Georgetown Seaman Fatally Injured

ST. CATHARINES. Ont, Sept. 10—(CiP) — Daniel Matheson, 57-year-old seaman from George- IOWH. P.E.I., died today at nearby Niagars-On-The Lake from an injury which police said he suffered aboard the freighter Charles Die’: night.

Provincial Police are investi- gating the accident. Its circum- stances are not known.

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Body Of Missing Crush Victim Found

QUEBEC, Sept. 16 — (CP) Body oi Henri-Paul Bouchard, missing victim of’ a plane crash that killed 23 at Sault au Cochon last Friday was reported today to have been recovered some 300 feet from the scene oi the ivreckage.

Word of discovery of the body was sent to Quebec by Pl-iillippe and Vlctor,Duclos, brothers who operate a sawmill near the spot at Cape Tourmente, 40 miles below Quebec, where the airliner crash- ed.

The other 22 bodies have been recovered and identified,

Bed Located 0d lslands_

Bandits Rob Monireal Royal Bank Branch

MONTREAL. Sept. 16 -(C P) - Two armed bandits walked into a

West-End branch of the Royal Bank of Canada. today. held up the staff and a dozen customers

and escaped with $4,000.

A bank employee, Leonard Kon- ings. was slightly injured when struck across the back of the neck with the butt oi a. revolver. He was treated by a neighborhood doctor and returned to work.

This was the second bank holdup in Montreal in the last three days. Wednesday two thugs stole $4.000 ‘from a branch of La Banque Can- adlcnm- Natlonale 1n the North End of’ the city.

There were approximately 12 people doing their business in the bank at Monkland Blv. and Flar- vsrcl Ave.. when the bandits enter- ed about an hour before noon. one of the men walked into the office of ihc manager, who was dlciating a lcttcr to his secretary, pointed a gun at the manager Wlllirm Hills,

and ordered him‘ into the bank proper. The gunman then ordered the

ban-k staff oi about 10 members to line up against the wall while his companion ordered the customers to do the same.

After rlfling several tellers cag- es. the men dashed to ilie street and escaped in an automobile.

ll. S. Sleel Unions. Companies To Meei

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 -- (AP) _ Tile Federal Government today called United States steel compan- ies and the 0.1.0. Steelworkers Union to s mediation meeting Monday.

Cyrus S. Ching, Federal Media- tion and Conciliation Service dir- ector, called on both sides in tho steel dispute to meet with govern- ment concillators.

Chin; said in a statement there is g "good possibility" that tho (allure of steel firms and the un- ion to begin bargaining on the ba- sis oi President Truman's fact- ilnding board report “springs not from h. ‘lsblc fundamental differences in views, but from the meaning o! words."

The steel industry and union have been disputing. since the board report was made public last Saturday, over what weight it should be given in negotiating a new contract.-

OYITAWA, Sept. i0 - (OP) - Schcduled l‘ " n air lines rc- ported an increase oi 21.0 per cont in total revenues ior March. i049. Expenses continued to climb and the operating deficit was higher than a year e rlier, the Bureau a

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Declaring that the proposed gup- crannuatlon bylaw for civic em- ployees was "unsound," Conn, m. win C. Johnstone asked the City Council last evening to go on rec. 0rd as informing citizens that the submitted scheme was "all we can siford and better than nothing."

In a lively discussion which in- volved Mayor B. Earle MacDonald, Coun. N.W. Lowther, chalrmgnof the Finance Committee, Conn, Al. ban Farmer and Recorder KM. Mflftlll. Coun. Johnstone quoted figures derived frcm Dominion Government annuity fables, show- ing that a male employee earning $100 per month would eventually accumulate a credit in the fund of $5,880 in the total period.

The proposed bylaw. slated for further committee dis- cussion. provides for a deduction of 5 percent from the salaries of employees. to be supplemented by all equivalent amount from the general funds of the City for sup- erannuation purposes. Ten years service is required to entitle any permanent employee over 25 years oi age to the benefits of the plan. which is proposed to lake effect as of Sept. 1, 1949, under ilie admin- istration of a Commission, acting without remuneration, ctimprlslng the Mayor. the members of the Finance Committee of the City Council. the City Clerk and one other representing the civic em- ployees. The plan is lniended t0 apply to permanent employees only.

Provision is made for the retire- ment of male employees at the age of sixty-five. and of females at SiXI-Y. "but any employee may con- tinue in service thereafter, if he or she so desire, for so long as the Commission shall approve, ii the City Council does not otherwise direct." :

Stresses Financial Burden

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"I don't want to balk a proper pension scheme for civic cmploy- ees," Coun. Johnstone said. "I'll go along and vote for it ii is made plain that we are here obligating future taxpayers to pay large amountsiof which we ourselves cannot pay our share.

"It will be lccessnxy," he said, "to have $8.380 to give the propos- ed pension of $60 per month for life. And this is computed only on the liie expectancy of the pension- er himself. However, in the propos-

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TORONTO, Sept. 16 -—CP) -- Kenneth Emond, his wife and their two daughters left here today for -Otta\va, en route to the Arctic to work among the Eskimos. Mr. Emond and his wife headed for Fort Cbimo on Ungava Bay. Mr. Emond, a wartime pilot. will serve as a welfare teacher. His wife will

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Tony Demers

In (Iusiody As Maierial Witness

MAGOG, Que, Sept. 16 -- (CP) i ~ Tony Demers, 32-year-old iorm- ‘, er National Hockey League player, i was taken into custody tonight nsi a material witness in the death of 1 Mrs. Anita Robert, 31, of Coati-i cook. Provincial Police, who question-i cd Demers for 2M hours, said he| told them of drinking with thei woman, of an argument and ofi striking her.

Mrs. Robert died in La. Provid- ence Hospital here this afternoon. Hospital authorities said she was unconscious when brought there and apparently had suffered a beating.

Dcmers was later taken into cus- today by Magog police. No charge has been laid against Demers and he will be kept in custody pending on inquest tomorrow morning. .

He made his home in nearby, Sherbrooke where for two seasons he has played senior hockey. Provincial officers Paul Coul-‘ ombe and Alfred Gagnier, who csme from Montreal headquarters to take over the case, said Dcmcrs told them this story:

He and Mrs. Robert left Coati- cook in his car last night and drank at several places in the Ma- gog district. An argument arose while they were driving toward Magog and he struck her,

They were outside the car and’ she refused to get back into it. Demers put her in the back scat. got in the front seat himself and fell asleep.

He awoke at daylight and saw she was unconscious. He drove to a friend's cottage on Lake Magog. Mrs. Robert had not regained ccn- sciousness by 9 AM. after efforts of Demers and his friend to revive her. They took her in Deniers’ oar to the hospital.

Police said Mrs. Robert, former- ly Anita LaBerge of Coaticook, was living with her parents and that, her husband is in Vancouver,

Dr, Jean-Marie Rousscl oi Mon- treal, Provincial medico-iegal ex- pert, was expected here to perform the autopsy.

Dr. Louis Gagnon, coroner from sherbrookc, will conduct the in- quest.

N. R. C. Looking For Cheaper Homes

OTTAWA, Sept. 16 --(CP)-The National Research Council is ex- perimenting with the idea of build- ing homes without basements. Dis- closure oi the experiments was contained in the annual report tabled in the Com-mans today. The council said it was toying with the idea of homes resting on con- crete slabs as a means of achieving

work as a nurse,

over-all building economy.

Outlook For

BY FORBES SHUDE Canadian Press Business Editor Paging some nice crisp weather. 'l‘hat‘s about all that is needed

to set business off on a busy fall- and on the law of averages we should get it.

Gloomy forecasts-of the earlier- year are fading for the time being at lcast. The American "recession" seems to have virtually halted. Britain has been given another breather in her dollar problem; Canadian building and develop- ment projects are holding up.

When we consider the various dire things that had been prophes- ied for late i949. the current news budget is something to cheer about. And when we consider that these dire predictions have been going on for about three years, we might add a tiger.

Why have things held up so well’! Probably because demand and

the means of meeting it have been greater thsn expected.

1n North America, increased population and higher standards of living have a great deal to do with it. In a wider sense. the recogni- ilon by western peoples of their dependence upon one another is a basic factor. and is. behind the great emergency measures which have been taken to keep trade going. Defence measures play their

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Demand forCsnsdfl raw mater- ials remains high, and has been a potent force in holding bsék the American "secession."

Business is, of course. going through re-adjustmcnts: competi- tion continues to increase; more promotion is required to sell goods.

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Business

made at the recent Washington conferences, the fall picture seems to be set in bright colors.

Chief remaining matter for im- mediate speculation is whether or not fhcrc will be currency de- valuaiions in Britain and Europe. Sir Stafford Cripps probably will supply much of the answer to this on Monday.