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MOSCOW, Feb. 20-The government newspaper Izves- tia asserted today that Russia has rejected Japanese sug- gestions for the establishment of a mixed commission to reestablish the frontier between Russia and Manchoukuo.

(A number of incidents have occurred in recent months among soldiers of- Japan, Russia, the Japanese-created

state of Manchoukuo, and t

he Russian-advised state of

Mongolia. In each case the fighting troops claimed their opponents had violated national boundaries).

The Isvestia statement was an official announcement. It stated that

Japanese suggestions that the front rmnecessary, ing that the bo treaties of Peiping and Mukden.

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lers in question be re-surveyed were undaries were clearly fixed by the the ‘

-proposa-l that

Japan and Manchoukuo withdraw White Russian agents whom it alleged

had been sent into Soviet territory

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(OP. By Guardian's Special Wire) (YITAWA, Feb. 20—-An order-in- zouncil will become operative March lgiving effect to drastic reductions in hozpitalization allowances for all var veterans other than privates. in the House of Commons today Pensions Minister Power informed C. Grant MacNeil (C.C.F. Vancou- ver North) the new rates would so spply. He also told the Vancouver member the government was con- sldering referring the order-in- councll to a parliamentary com- mittee which will be established to consider err-service mens affairs.

In general the order-in-council revises downward the basis of hos- pltaliaction allowances. The rates previously in force‘ were founded on army pay and all wances st the time of discharge; he new rates will be approximately the same as s 100 per cent disability pension. based on the rank oi the recipient st the time the disability was in- curred-lem about $30 a month. All ranks, with the exception of form-

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"Alden Mouse ouying live 11025 st Kcnsington Monday, I"eb_ 24; Everett Iiasiam, Emerald and Hun- ter River Tuesday morning. tSgd.) A. E. “fhltlopk, L-3022

"Attend cake sale at Holmans store Saturday afternoon. L-3020

"Doubleheader at Highiield to- llliiht, ‘llest Royalty vs. Si. Avnrcls, Silcrwood Tigers vs. Hlghfielrl Granltcs. First game starts a; 7.

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"Playoff game at Stanley Rink tonight. Ses View vs. Stanley. 1r not fine, Saturday night. Admis- sion i5 cents. L-3025

"institute dance, Belfast Hall, Monday, February 24th. Admission 35o Lunch free- If stormy, night

as spies and terrorists.

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Day - long Discussion In House Re Retir- ing Allowances For The Aged.

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

OTTAWA, Fob. 20—'I'he House of Commons tonight heard a day-long discussion on retiring allowances for the aged fizzle out on a Speak- er's ruling and turned its attention to Oriental immigration.

A resolution sponsored by A. A. Heaps (COP-Winnipeg North) ask- ing payment of monthly pensions io persons over the ago of 60 who were willing to retire from their jobs was ruled out of order by Speaker Casgraln. An objection by J. S. Woodsworth, 0.0.1". leader, precipitated a vote in which Lib- erals and Conservatives lined up to defeat the 0.0.1“. and Social Credit members 158-22.

The House then considered the resolution of Angus Maclnnis (CCF-Vancouver South) to exclude from this country "all persons be- longing to those groups to whom we do not grant the full rights and privileges of citizenship."

The debate developed into a dis- cussion oi whether Orientals, in- eluded in the proposal, should be allowed the franchise. Prime Min- islcr Mackenzie King rose to ask that the resolution be withdrawn or- voicd down, because. he claimed. exclusion oi nationals from other countries, particularly Japan, would be bound to create ill-feeling which would be reflected in markets for Canada's goods. Tm resolution was talked out,

The House also considered brief- ly the bill proposed by Thomas Reid (Lib. New Westminster) to reduce the domestic frellht rate on grain moved from the Prairies to the Pacific coast, but debate on the bill was adlourned early on a mo- tion o! Gordon Ross (Lib. Moose Jaw).

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Rejects Plan To End Border ITAL 0- GERMAN ALLIANCE IMMINENT

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Head of American Ex- pedltlon In Search Of Missing F l i e r Labels Report False.

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

GEORGETOWN, British Guiana Feb. 20-(0. P. Cable)~A bizarre story that Paul Rcdfern had been found in the Tumac Humac ‘Mountains oi Brazil was labelled as false tonight by Arthur J. Williams. American aviator in charge oi an expedition searching for Redfern, missing for eight years. -

The story by one, Alfred Harred. an alleged empmyee or the nutcr- nalicnal Boundary Comm, was re- leased s.mu1ra..eous.y today by the Parammibo "Banier" in Dutch uuiana and the Georgetown Dally Chronicle in British Guiana.

it said that Redferns plane crashed in the thick jungle dis- trict southwest oi a tributary of the Amazon and had been discov-. cred by Hatred and Williams.

“Publicity Hunter

According to Barred, whom Williams brands as a “publicity hunter" they talked with Redfern but. could not bring him back be-. cause of the threals of the sav- ages who worship the American as a "while god."

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ness. He was 89 years old.

senatorship he had held for years.

John A. MacDonald.

ing oi his wife two years a80-

"I do not know Haned and he most certainly did not accompany me on my recent search" Williams said simply tonight in giving em- ph-atic denials to the tale

Telling the actual story of his flight to the Canadian Press Wil- liams said vhat he took two Diu- kos (Surlnam Bush Negroes) with him to act as interpreters and a red Indian who had given the search expedition new valuable evidence.

Secure Information

"We made s. new contact with 10 new indian villages and collected a great desi of information and the most that was established is thr. Redfern did not land in that

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Spanish Soviet ls Predicted

(By If. E. Knoblsugh, Associated Press Staff Writer) (A. l’. B! Guardian's Spficial Wire)

MADRID, Feb. Zti-Socialist lead- ers, in the vanguard of the politic- ally victorious Liberals, predicted a Spanish Soviet tonight as cel- ebrating Radicuis tried to burn sev- eral churches.

One more man was killed in the disorders which, since the parlia- mentary elections Sunday, have brought death to a dozen persons and inJurles to scores. .

Attempts were made to burn churches and convents in Aiicanfe. Valencia, Seville, Barcelona, Palms. Del Rio and Villa Del Rio. Statues and paiiltings were destroyed.

The Socialist chiefs said the United leftists’ victory at the polls and the subsequent formation of a Leftist government was a stepping

stone to a Spanish Soviet.

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(By Guardian's specie Will) rams, Feb. 2o. - vlsorous de- fence of the Soviet Union as a bui- warlr of European Mo“ W" l!‘ pressed in the Chamber of Deputies today by former Premier Edouard Hen-lot, who endorsed ratification of the Franco-Soviet Mutual As- sistance Pact.

The attitude of the former pris- ldent. of the centrist Radical-Social- m party contrasted sharply with that of Jacques Dortot, a former French Communist D011! 1851M‘. who denounced the Soviet Vfliofl ll a subversive force with undeclared aims. The debate was adjourned

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French Chamber Heatedly Debates Franco-Soviet Pact

Since his retirement Mr_ continually against illness and

three occasions when he contract- ed colds, his life was despaired of. But each time ~he rallied valiant-

ly and was able to get up and

about among his fellow townsmon again. Yesterday however, he suc- condltion had

climbed after his become worse daily since he w

ordered to his bed one week ago.

He was the last; member of

family of five brothers and two

sisters.

The aged "fine gentleman." as he was known to the townsfolk and formers of the district, will be

greatly missed in the community.

Even until o. month ago he hnd driven about with horse and sleigh with a cheery salutatlon for every-

ne he met. Every member of i'll

the families "for miles around" he

knew and greeted by name.

Two sens, Roy, with whom he lived. and Harry D., former mom-V ber of the provincial legislature,

survive.

LATE HON. JOHN McLEAN

Pioneer business man of Bourls. P. E. 1., Hon. John McLean had a distinguished career as a politician. He was once described by a prom-

inent Jurisg as a man who ncv knew how to tell a lie. He lived be the oldest member of the Sc ate of Canada, from which he r

signed last year, and was succeed-

ed by I-icn. J. A. MacDonald.

From 1682 when he first was el-

ected by ucclamatlon to reprcse King's County in the

tcrcd the Senate. John McLean,

Conservative. oiiered himself to the electorate nine times. Twice he was elected by acclamation. twice SEVEII

he was defeated, once by votes and again by 5'1. Four tim

he was elected to the legislature and once to the House of Commons at Ottawa. Prom i912 to 1917 he

was a member-without portfolio

the Mathieson Provincial Govern-

ment.

John McLean was born Sept. 23,

1846, in Mount Herbert, the son

Donald McLean and Sarah (Currie) McLean, both of whom came out from Scotland to settle here. He knew well the chores of the farm- yard and experienced the sacrifices necessary to gain an education

those days.

THE LATE HON. JOEY MCLEAN

Hon. John McLean died at; Souris yesterday following a lingGing iii-

Eight months ago the same ill- ness had forced him to resign the

I-le was succeeded by Hon.

Death came to the aged ex-Sen- ator at the home of a. son, Roy, prominent; Souris merchant, with whom he had lived since the pass-

Hls physician and one of the two nurses who had cared for him for the past year were at the bedside. last July. McLean had battled almost

Provincial I/egislatilre until i915 when he cn-

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Final Effort To Wring Confession F r o m Bruno Hauptmann Fails. l l

(By Samuel Biackman, Associated Press Staff Writer) (A. P. By Guardian's Special Wire)

TRENTON, N. J.,‘ Feb. 20-Gov- ernor Hoffman said tonight the failure of Samuel Lelbowitz. New York attorney. to "get something" from Bruno Richard Hauptmann convinced him “more than ever" that the Lindbergh kidnapping case was unsolved.

The Governor, who on Jan. i6 gave Hauptmann a 80-day reprieve, said he did not plan another.

A futile attempt to wring a. death house confession from Bruno Richard Hauptmann by stamping on his mind the horror of death in the electric chair was made yes- terday, lt was disclosed today.

Through the eyes of Samuel Leibowitz, New York criminal law- yer. the condemned man "saw" the chair, six paces from cell no. 9. and just beyond the little door which leads to the execution chamber.

Hauptmann paled, the person who described the episode of the interview said, and his hands re- vealed his nervous state of mind. But scared as hi; obviously was, he did not. change the story he has told since his arrest, and in a short time he recovered his calm,

Leibowitz, who was hopeful of getting from Hauptmann “the whole» truth." questioned. him. on many things. He did not raise his voice. It was as if he was talking on the most indifferent subjects in the world.

His very casualnessl, the source said, had a curiously hynotlc effect on Hauptmann, and the prisoner frequently raised his voice.

The lawyer asked the guards to remove s. wire screen from the cell. This was done. Then Leibowltz, as- sured fhat Hauptmann could ob- serve more closely what he meant to do, movedto the door of the execution chamber.

He looked through a peep hole, bu); he did not open< the door. Hauptmann could not see the chair, but he knew Lelbowitzfls eyes were on it as it stood shrouded in a white cover, and he stared, Leib- 1 ewitz. without a note of agitation in his voice, asked the guard if that was the chair.

The guard said yes, and Haupt- mann grew ashen.

“He shivered and sighed and lost his voice momentarily, but no tears came to his eyes," the source said.

Leibowltz had another trick in his bag. but this, too, failed to shake Hauptmann. He tore several sheets of paper into small pieces

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Gomez Lands At Jamaica

(C. P. Cable By Guardian's Special Wire)

KINGSTON, Jamaica. Feb. 20- General F. M. Gomez. fleeing with his family from riot-tom Venezuela, was allowed to land here today af- ter being held up at the gmselank by authorities for several hours si- tcr his arrival on the motorship Georgie.

The brother oi the man who ruled Venezuela. as dictator-PIES- ident for a quarter-century all- nounced his lntbntion oi remain- ing here s. montlr before embark- ing -fcr England.

Since the death of President Gomez in December, strong oppo- sition to his government has arisen. Sixteen persons were killed by P0- llee bullets in disorders at Caracas last week.

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relatives.

Farmers Conclude Busy Sessions At Dairymen’s Meet

Interesting ATd-dresses At After- noon And Evening Sessions Of P. E. I. Dairymen’s Assn. Mr. W. N. Jenkins Re-elected President.

Prince Edward Island's three- day farmers’ parliament was brought to a. close here last night with the conclusion of the annual meeting of the Dairymen’s Amoc- lstion of the province.

Problems which croPDed up dur- ing the past year in all branches of agriculture were dealt with at annual meetings of six of the province's farming organizations. motions were made for agricul- ture's betterment in Prince Ed- ward Island and plans laid for i936 during the farmers week in Charlottetown-

At each of the six meetings the farmers of the province were ss- sured of the co-operation of the department of agriculture.

Mr. W. J. Gibson of Dunstaff- nage was appointed Honorary president of the Dairymen’s As- sociation at the closing session of the annual meeting last night. and Mr. W. N Jenkins of Bedeque was re-electcd president.

Mr. J. L. Clarke of New Glasgow was elected vice president and M: J. W. Boulter of Charlottetown was re-elected secretary treasurer

Directors of the association for 1938 are a: follows: . .

Kings: J. A. Dewar. John Mc- Leod.

Queens: W. J. Gibson. Clarke, Percy Simmonds.

Prince: Robert Doucette. W. N. Jenkins.

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‘The dairymerrs sessions opened in the afternoon when the pre- sident, Mr. W. N. Jenkins, gave an address, which was spoken of very highly by the dairymen, who con- Eratuiated the speaker on the great amount of valuable material it contained. The address appears in full on another page of this issue. Before proceeding with the main part of his address Mr. Jenkins rc- ferred in feeling terms to the death of Hon. W. M. Lea. "It shall indeed be hard to replace him and we shall miss his splendid contri- blltlDll to and keen interest in agri- culture," Mr. Jenkins said. He also referred to the passing of Mr. M. A. McLeod, edilor-in-chlef of the Maritime Farmer.

The Premier, the Hon. T. A- Campbell, spoke briefly to the delegates. He told them that the Prince Edward Island Govern- men's policy of economy would be curried out "by curtailment along the lines of paved roads rather than along agricultural lines."

Premier Campbell promised the delegates that "anything within reason" having to do with the agrn-ultural betterment of the Province “will meet with the keen synlpaihy and consideration" from his government.

The Minister of Agriculture also spoke briefly. He stresed the uecd for improvement in lhe fer- tiiity of the soil of the province by the application of lime and a system of mixed farming.

Mr. J. W. Boulter, secretary treasurer. read theflnnncial state- ment: showing the association to

be in better standing than ll: was at the last annual meeting. The surplus in the bank amounted to $210, he said. The auditors also gave their report.

Mr. W. L Brenton, dairy super- intendent, read hi5 report review- ing the industry for the past year. The report appears in full on an- other page.

The report; of the field promoter. W- 5- Q WflHI. was also read st the afternoon meeting and ap- pears at the end of this article.

EVENING SESSION

Prince Edward Islmd {armors are growing only about one third enough roots at the, present time lVLr. L. W. Roper, Federal Field Pro- moter, told the dairymen in a short address at the evening sesion.

He also suggested that the pro- vl-Ylolhl department of agriculture do something further in educating tne farmers in the growing of fodder corn. With good seed and properly prepared soil the prop is not bard to grow, he explained.

In his address Mr. Roper dealt with the bull loaning policy of the department. At present there are 64 bull loaning associations in the province. Six new ones are expecs- ed to be started this year.

Calf clubs are doing very well but are not established in as many places as he would like them to be. "Some sections are very backward in coming forward." he said.

Mr. J. A. Gillies, manager of the

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Central Powers Be- lieved Planning Alignment to Coun- terbalance British- French -Russian Front. '

(By Wade Werner, Associated. Press Foreign Staff)

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

BERLIN, Feb. 20-—'.l'he possibil- ity of an Italo-(A-rrnan rapproche- ment became the centre of interest for diplomats tonight as Ulrich Von Iiasseli, Germany's Ambassa- dor to Italy, left for Home after his second conference tn five days with ltelchsiuehm. Rifles‘. Belief was expressed in diplo- matic circles that Hitler and Prom- ior Mussolini were dlsousing. through'Von Bessel]. the possibil- ity of Italy taking reprlsala France by withdrawing as a guar- antor of the Incas-no Pact if cl sanctions were voted agllnfl Italy.

Von Basseli had flown hue after a conference with Fulvlo Suvich. Italian Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs. ‘

Ibetainstlenee

German officials declined to db- cuss the reasons for the Ambassa- dor's flying trips, and ignored re- ports from Italy that Hitler and Mussolini were seeking an agree- tnglent regarding tnde -‘ ‘ Aus-

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The Foreign Office was non» committal, In quarters close bu Hitler it was stated positively that the initiative for any rapproche- ment certainly did not come from him.

No‘ one denied, however, thM Ambassador Von Hassell was ex- tremely- busy with a series of con- ferences with high governmene of- ficiais.

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5, Arraigned in Conspiracy Case

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

HALIFAX, Feb. 20—Five of eight men summoned by R/oyal Canadian Mounted Police to answer chargm of conspiracy to smuggle liquor were arraigned in Halifax police court today and released on bail of $1,000 to appear again Fleb. 27.