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5T8. Orders Exports 0f Oil Cut Sharply

my The Associated Press)

WASHINGTON. Jan. 80 - The United States Government today ordered mom of oil and gaso- line sluhed sharply due to the "serious shortage" in the fUnited Qtates. '

The Commerce Department, ‘which has power to limit exports, announced:

1. An 10% per cent out in eo-csiled "quote" shipments to foreign countries. This reduces . the amount it will lat be ex- ported during the lfirst three months of this year by l.- 850000 barrels to 9.650.000.

2. Arrangements have been made to cut from 1,000,000 barrels to 100,000 barrels the amount of oil it was planned to ship from. the United States to Japan and Ryukyll Island!- The remainder will be secured from sources outside the Un- ited States-Jrom the Persian Gulf. Venezuela or elsewhere.

.' Clhldl Not Affected

(OTTAWA. Jan. 80—(CP)—A high Government official said Canada was not affected by cuts in exports of oil and gasoline from the United States announ- ced today at Washington. , . _ Noting that the isli-per-cen reductions apply to "quota" ship- ments to foreign countries, the informant declared Canada did not come under the quota system.

“We are not classed as s ‘for- eign country’ for purposes of im- portation of petroleum products from the United States.” he said. "We are still operating under the principle of the Hyde Park Anes- ment"-under17which the natural resources of Canada. and the Un- ited States were in some measure integrated‘.

Coming Events "Rimrnege S-a-l: Market hg today Si. 2.30 P. M.

"Store closed Monday. Feb. 2nd. stock taking. Mofluigan a Boyle.

"Souris Hospital visiting hours 2.30 to 3.30 P. IVL and ‘l to 8.30 P. M.

"Covehead vs. Milton at Milton Itink tonight. Skate after.

“Store closed Monday; Fob. 2nd. stock taking. MoGuigan do Boyle.

“Aulds Store, Harrington, will be closed Monday, February 2nd, for stock taking. '

Build-

" Hockey at Hunter River Sat- lfday nishi. Hunter River Royals vs. Charlottetown Bombers.

"Christian Chilron Pantry Sale, Moore d: hicloodb. Saturday, Jan- iisry 31st, 2.30 P. M.

"Hockey tonight New Glasgow. weather pennitting. South Ruatico- "~ HOW River. Skate after.

"The Annual Meeting of the Wiltshire Dairying 00.. will be held in North Wlltshire Hall, Monday,

{rbruarv 9th. st 2 P. M. Nelson 101'. Secretory.

"Booking orders for Island chicks; also. Swift's chicks. Get W? Prices before ordering else- where. R. L. Dickieson.

"Loading Hogs for Canada Peek- "! 144-. at Murray River. Monday, End February. Fodhla. Tuesday. 8r February. John a. Beck. ,

"All min-um in mum Com- Wlhity Hail. reserve February 12th msmerel meeting in North Milton

“Call at our store if interested h harness. Pflll,"btdod1i1li|l,f9l!il. bridles._ Good prices. Li!!! Ill!‘ Pit’ hocleytltlbll on han . LI.»- Diokielon.

“me salvation Army will hold

their annual rummage laeie I'd- gyh m. d ‘rhea dedrins to

contributions of clothing. etc, phat“ ‘

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Humble And Great Mourn Gandhi .

LONDON. Jan. 30 — (AP)

I-Iumbld men ‘and great around the world vxnourned tonight the assassination of Mohandas Gan- dhi, the 1mg Hindu peacemaker who was shot as he walked to prayer.

Authorlidtivg ‘British Govern- ment. officials with long experience in India ssld Gandhi's death re- moved the most powerful moder- ating influence in India.

Prime lvi-uistei‘ Atliae 0X11"!!!- ed Britain's official horas in l broadcast tonight.

"'I‘he'volce which pleaded for peace and brotherhood has been silenced, but l am certain hi: spirit will continue to animate his fellow countrymm." Mile! said, Calling Gnntlhi India's "greatest citlzcll". Atilee 581d "M seemed to belong to u different period of history."

The King scllt s message i0 Governor-General Viscount Mount‘ batten in New Dclhi: "Will You please convey to the people 0! i11- dla our sincere sympathy in the irreparable losa which they and indeed gnanlilfld have suffered."

Generalluimo Chinn! xii-ll: Q1 China expreavd a feeling "profound sorrow.‘

President Truman said Gandhi's sacrifice would inspire people the world over to work “with increased vigor toward the brotherhood and

peace which the Mahatma symbol-

ised." George Bernard Shaw, long- time admirer of Gandhi, said the

assassination "shows how - ous it is to betoo fwd"

Riots Follow Assassination 0f Great Leader

(By The Could-ion Press)

NEW DELI-II, Jan. S0—Moha.n- das K. Gandhi was killed tonight by an assassin who fired into the based chest of the man who led India to independence.

Police laid the 78-year-old Ms.- hatms. or great-smiled one, was killed for “political reasons" by a Hindu who was grabbed and beat- en almost before Gandhi slumped to the ground. The assassin stalked him as he was going to his evening prayer meeting.

The little preacher of non- vlolence, who is considered s. saint by nullions cfHindus and by many Moslems. had scarcely breathed his last when bloody rioting broke out in Bombay. '

-'I‘he assailant was identified as Nathuram Vinayak Gode, 36-year- old Maratha Hindu and an ex- treme advocate of communalimn, (government by local autonomy.)

Police spirited the prisoner a- way ooa secret place for ques- tioning. They said they were fear- ful that the people might lynch him and were taking no chances.

Security measures were enforced throughout India tonight and commanding officers of army units were ordered to be prepared to assist the civil authorities in the event of disorders.

People by the tens of thousands tonight crowded tdfthe doors of Birla. Palace, the millionaires home where Gandhi was staying and where he died.

Jawaharlal Nehru. Prime Minis- ter of India and Gandhi's "heir" in spiritual leadership of the Congress Party. sobbed as he urg- ed them to be quiet and promised them a view of the body on its white pallet.

Police unofficially attributed the Bombay disorders to "misappre- hension" about the identity of Gandhi's assailant.

Police said the killing was out cf political motives because some persons did not agree with Gan- dhi's preachings of non-violence.

Reports 0n Miik Supply For Gh’town.

Assurance that Charlottetown citizens are getting "much cleaner milk than’ formerly and buying same at a reasonable, price as compared with prices in mall)‘ other Canadian cities of the same population," is contained in the report of Dr. w. n. Carson. milk conmmera‘ representative on the Prince Edward Island Milk Con- trol Board. which was submitted at last night's annual meeting of the Olty Council.

The text of Dr. Carson's roPOFi follows:

“pm-mg the past. year food prices have sky-rocketed to un- expected heights, and in the wake of which have followed great ah- xiety and worry to the ordinefY wage earner. This increase is out of all proportion to the wage in- crease according to reliable stat- istics.

"In s ten month period up to Nov. 1st, 1947. the average week-if earnings in nine leading indus- tries of Canada, exclud‘ sgfi- cultureproee frcrn $35.09 to $37.71. an increase‘ of $2.62. In the some period the coat of living index rose from 120.8 to 148.0. an in-

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Coal Miners Extend

Contract

(ily The Canlillan Press)

GLADE BAY. N. 8.. Jan 10- Preeman Jenkins, president of District 2S United liline workers (0.011), announced tonitht that the contract with Dominion Siecl and coal Corporation will be ex- tended to reb. 2S. current eon- tfgcl, was to have expired at mid- night tomorrow.‘

Ilia announcement followed on‘

the heels of Donne's offer of a d0-

With Dosoo

m. Jenkins’ announcement and the Company offer resulted from narther wage negotiations here to- day.

The stocky, square-jawed die- trlct president addedi "Either one of the proposals mode our Umon by Company uaanagement is.. of course. understood as retro- active to Ieb. i. date at which mgneoutraet would normally e:- p e. '

no said the Joint-riot loud would meet ‘naedsy to make ar- rangements for a-Jeferendum of the membership on the prevents.

Thne was no comment b! W-

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MONOTON. Jan. s1- The ap- pointment of John Franklin nus;- as manager. (hnadisn National Telegrapha, Charlottetown, suc- ceeding James Merrill Murley, who is retiring, was announced here today by I-I. A. Marquis, sirpariu- tendent for all lines in the Atlan- tic Region. The changes are effec- tive on Monday, February 2nd.

Mr. Fraser. who brings more

than fort/y four years‘ experience in telegraph communication work to his new post, is a native of Charlottetown. I-Ie begun his long career as a messenger with the Anglo American Telegraph Com- pany in 1904 and in his spare time studied the Morse code. Ho became an operator at Summerslde two years later and shortly after re- turned to Charlottetown. In 1012' he held the same position with the Western Union Telegraph Com- pany. When the Canadian Nation- al ‘relegraphs took over the West- ern Unlon lines in 1929, Mr. Fraser was appointed repeater attendant. the position he held until his pre- sent promotion. Ending a career which began forty-five years ago as s messenger with Anglo-American, Mr. Murley is also a native of Charlottetown. Like Mr. Fraser, h learned the Morse code in off-d ty hours, and became operator in 1904. when the company was taken over by Western Union in 1912, Mr. Marley was appointed chief operator. He held this position until 102d when he was promoted to manager, the position he held following the in- cluaion of the lines into the Can- adian National Telegraph network in 1929 until now.

Will Nominate For Second Term

His Worship Mayor B. Earle MacDonald announced at the an. nual meeting last night of the City Council his intention tn ten- der his nomination as Mayor for the City of Charlottetown. If re- elected, it will be His Warships second term of office as Mayor.

No new business, beyond the granting of permission to the Can- adian National Telegraph. Com- pany to erect a neon light in front of their offices on Richmond Street, was accomplished lust

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Parliament iit-A-Glance

By The Canadian Press

Finance Minister Abbott said the Government's currency-con- servatlon progralm hag bolster-ed dollar reserves by $63,000,000 dur- ing the last month.

The Commons voted M to 70 - approval ln principle —- for the Government's import restriction policy. '

Rodney Ademson (PC - York West) predicted the Government would have to deprredeto the dol- lar before solving the deteriorating currency shortage.

Prime Minister Mackenzie King and other party leaders expressed regret at the assassination of Ms- haima Gandhi.

Trade Minister Howe said Can- ada would have adequate fuel-oil supplies for the rent of the winter.

External Affairs Minister St. Laurent said no definite represen- tations have been nude the

United States in connection with

Osmdlmn participation in time Mar-

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Mr. J. F. Fraser

Mr. J. M. Muriey

Island Member Gn Conservative Fisheries Gommitte

OITAWA, Jen. so-(Specian- At a Progressive Conservative party caucus today. W. Chester S. McLure, member for Queen's was named chairman of the newly- formeci party Fisheries Commit- tee, with authority to select mem- bers with whom he will work dur- ing the coming session.

The committee was set up, Op- position Leader John Bracken said, to stimulate interest in the fishing industry in Canada and to place before the Commons in oonoise form, views of the oppo- sition on Dominion Government fisheries policy.

Members of the committee arc: Mr. McLure; Major-Gen. G. R. Pearkas, V.C., M.P. for Nanalmc riding where experiments are now being made with the raising of lobsters imported two ‘ears ago from Prince Edward Is and; Col. A. .l. Brooks, M.P. for Royal. N. 3.: D. King I-Iasen, M.P. for Saint John-Albert, N.B.; Percy C. Black. M.P. for Cumberland, N.S.; Frank Stanfield. M.P. for Truro; John T. I-fsckett, KC. M.P. for Stanstead. Que; Prank Lennard. Mi P. for Wentworth, and T. B. Barrett, M. P. for Norfolk. Ont, who are con- cerned with Great Lakes Fisher- ies; C. C. Miller, M.P. _for Portage ,I..e Prairie, and Col. D. G Hark- ness. M.P. for Calgary East.

first slttinl of the ommittee will be held on February 6.

Speaking of the purposes of the fisheries committee, Mr. Mobure

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Many Fear All India May ‘ Be Set Aflame

(By I. M ‘obertl. In. Associated Pren News Analyst)

The senseless death of Gandhi, India's great spiritual and politi- cal leader, brings his country io a terrible hour.

The world. except the Commun- ists who will see their resulting chaos as a great opportunity, feu- ed' that all India might be set aflaine. ,

Western peoples find it hard to envision the place which Gandhi held among the Indian people. At one blow they have lost their Bztpu, the father, their Mahatma, the great-souled one, and their Gandhi-Ji, the most respected 011E.

World diplomats. already wor- ried by an India which has been teetering on the brink of a Hindu- Moslem war, were quick to give thanks that the little man's ass- assin was a Hindu like himself, rather than a Moslem. Which is, of course, an alleviating factor.- Had the situation been the other way round. India's millions un- doubtedly would have been at each others throats within l. nat- ter of hours.

Those students of India, how- ever, feared the assassination was a manifestation of a. situation that, in the long run, might p-ove equally bad—the growing ascen-

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Statement by Mayor MacDonald

Following is the text of Mayor B. Earle MacDonald's statement at last night's City Council meeting:

"Tonight is the occasion on which we report on the work of the year just ended. It is also the end of the two year term of office to which the citizens elected us. As many of us may seek re- election, whether or not our efforts have met with the approval of those whom we have represented will be ascertained on February the 11th. when the taxpayers of this City cast their ballots,

"The past two, years have seen many things undertaken and c0111- plcted, but there are things which are only in the process, which will have to b; carried out by the next Council.

"It is not our intention to re- view in detail the first year of this bssdministratlon. This wsl done one year ago. We will confine our re- ports tonight to the workings cf our several Committees for the year just closed. The previous year's reports are now in book form and are available to any taxpayer who ls interested in procurinfl one. .

"I know each Chairmen has pre- psred and will present for the

Continued on page 10

Legislature To Open 0n February 24

Subject to the approval of His Honour the Lieutenant Governor. the first session of the forty-sixth General Assembly of the Province will open on Tuesday. February 24. The date was decided on at a meeting yesterday of the Executive Council, and it is expected that the order will, be signed by His Honour today.

On this. the first legislative session after the general provin- cial electiun of December I1 last, Government members and sup- porters will number 24. oimosition members 6, as against 20-10 dur- ing the preceding session.

Pioneer 0f Aviation Dies

DAYTON, 0., Jan. 80-401’) --0rvilie Wright, 76, -co-in- ventor of the airplane, died to- night at 10:40 p.m. In Miami Volley Hoqiital.

The _ announcement wdl mode a. few minutes after tho aged pioneer of aviation died. It came from his personal phy- eician, Dr. A. B. Brower.

Dent resulted, said the Dou- tor. from a lung congestion and coronary arteriosclerosis.

BATHURST, N.B., Jan. 30 (OP) -- Mrs. Olive Gionet, oldest resident of New Brunawicku Glou- cester County. died today at here home in nearby Lower Osraquet. She was 1M.

New Regulations Re ("Eggs To Newfoundland

On and after March 1st next no eggs will be allowed to enter New- foundland which have not the name of the country of origin or the word “Emplre" or "Foreign" stamped in indelible characters on the shell.

The ebove information. of much

importance to Prince Edward Is- land exporters, was received yes- terday by Mr. WE. Agnew, Pro- vincial trade agent to Newfound- land. Mr. Agnew said the Newfound- land . gulutions mean that RE. Island egg exporters wishing to take advantage of that market will have to provide themselves with some form of stamping ma- chine which wzll stamp the word "llbnpire" on the shell of every egg going to the Newfoundland mar- ket. Should they fail to do so, all eggs not so stamped will be sub- ject to forfeiture. The cost '01’ stamping the eggs will be about on; cent a dozen.

The Newfoundland regulations with respect to the marking of eggs is not something new. Mr. Agnew laid. The Act prohibiting the im- portation of unmarked eggs was passed in 1909 but has been sus- pended each year since 1942. und- der regulation: numbered 1, 2, 3, and d.

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3) Wife 0f Ace Fighter bPllot Seeks Divorce otrrawa. Jan. so _ (d!)-

Diana Whittall Burling of West- mount. Que, and Vancouver. wife of George (Buzz) Beurling. Can- ada's no. l fighter pilot of the Second World War, has petitioned for divorce to terminate their marriage of November, 1044. The petition describes Mrs. Beurling us a stenogra-pher of Westmount and charges Beurling with adultery. One of the most decorated pilo‘s of the war, Beurling shot down 32

snerrvy planes.

(Dy The Censdien Press)

HAACIIJION. Bermuda. Jen. 80- A list issued tonight by British South American Airways indicates that as passengers and at: crew members were aboard the missing ‘mdor passenger aircraft believed to have plunged into the Atlantic early today northeast of hora on s trans-ocean flight to Ber-amide. Sir Arthur Oonilidball. Air Chief Marshal and R.A.!'.,horo of the North African campaign was one of the passengers. - _ Others included Iraset Iooob. who was on businesses assistant to the secretory of the British

zoLostrbVhon Plane Crashes In Atlantic

Treasury; Major and Mrs.’ A. 'r. aarweu of Scotland. and several (Xeehoslovakian. Swiss and state- less pea-sons. The rest. were Brit-

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The plane was piloted by Capt David Colby of Northwood. Mid- dlesex. Other crow members were Con. Brian Watson McMillan of AehfortLJent and two sir host- snes. Annie Marjorie ‘bynetis Clayton 1nd Shelagh‘ Nicholle.

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Civil Aviation said the big airliner

wee lost" The Minis-

y‘: said e public, iaouuy will be ld).

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lubeorlptlon Delivered $6.00. ‘ Mail 86.00, other Provinces l: U. l. 81.00.

CITY (TOUNCIL IMPORTS $61,486 DEBT REDUCTION

cancers Death Brings ‘India (To Horrible gear l New C.N.T. Appointment ' Qfficially Confirmed

Annual-n-li/Ieeting Held Last

N'g“ ht

A net debt reduction of tldlfll during the two years term of the present city Council. including a $61,487 reduction for the year end- lng Dec. 31. 1947. was shown in the reports submitted It last night's annual meeting of the Council. In citing the figures, Coun. W. It. DePLge. chairman of the Finance Conunittce, pointed out that SipQG December 1938 successive City Councils had re- duced the City's net. debt from 822471.815 to $1,805,091, l showing which he termed "truly remark- able." and one which had been brought about by a policy o1 the strictest economy,

The statement of revenue and expenditure showed a surplus for the past. year of $9,173..

Commending the Finance Ohslrd man's statemedt, His Worship Mayor MacDonald expressed the hope that future Councils would keep a similar economy policy in‘

mind. Finance Report

Following ls the report of tho Finance Committee, submitted by Coun. LePsge which was accom- panied by a detailed auditor's statement: _.

"As Chairman of Finance, it ll my duty on this occasion to reu port for the Finance Committee, and my report is. ss is the established custom, accompanied by!

(Continued on Page s Col. b) Shirley Temple ls 0f Daughter

SANTA MONICA, cam, Jen. so —-(Ad’)—Sl-ilrley Temple. who 110i’.

1o long sgo was g, famous movie, ~

child star. became a. mother today; while husband John Agar paced a waiting room, Shirley gave birth to s daughter.

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TORONTO. Jen. 30 -. (o?) q Minimum and maximum ternpeiv stures: Vancouver 37, 43; vlqtm-L. 27. 44; Edmonton 22, 36; Regina 9. 2G; Winnipeg 1. 1B; Toronto 12b. 5; UWIWB 19b. 4b. Montreal 16b, dbnQuebec 15b. 2; Saint John 9b. 5; Moncton llb, 10; Halifax d, 9; Charlottetown 2, l8; Sydney 10, 27: Yarmouth 2, 1i. B-beiow zero.