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Annual ~ Teachers Convention Opens Here Today

The annual colivention of the Prince Edward Island Teachers’ Federation commences this morn- ing at Prince of ‘Wales College with enrollment at 10 o'clock.

The report of the president. Mr. J. R. Murphy. Summerslde is sched- uled for 10.30 miter-which an ad- dress will be given by Dr. Bernice liiacNaughton, vice-president of the Canadian Teachers’ Federation on "The C.'.i‘.F.—What it stands for and what it might become."

Premier J. Walter Jones, Minis- ter of Education will address the convention at 11.30.

The afternoon sessions i , two periods in group instruction and Mr. B. C. Silver, Inspector oi Schools, Halifax, will give a period of music instruction.

In the evening, after a musical programme by the Notre Dame Girls’ Choir, directed by Sister Ste. Adolphe Marie, A.T.C.M., at 7.30, an address will be given by Dr. A. W. Trueman, president of the Univer- alty oi New Brunswick on the sub- yect “Language and Education."

Drs. Tiuemsn and MacNaughton arrived in the city last evening.

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WANKANER. India ~10?) -- Coal deposits sufficient to meet the needs‘ of the Saurashtra Union have been discovered in areas near here in the Union territory. Possibilities of obtaining petroleum are being investigated.

Coming Events

"Oil Cake Meal now $3.05 per bag.’ McGuigan d: Boyle.

"Mail your Minis to Caruhum Photo Studio. Charlottetown‘

"Cherry Valley grain cleaning plant now operating Tuesdays and Fridays.

"Dlnllo in Kelly's Orosi School, Riday, Arprll 22nd, Lottery drawn. Lunch served. , .

"Reserve Tuesday, April. 26 for Winsioe plays "Kitty" and "Saving Dad" at Milton Hall. '

"Farmers Co-operative seed cleaning plant oi Crapoud is now ready for business. John Leard. Secretary.

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"Action galore et MacDonald Bros. Theatre. tonight. Bee’ "Wreck of the Hesperus" plus Three Stooges Dlu; Superman,

“Jimmy Powers‘ Variety Concert will be in New Glasgow-Hall Wed- nesday night. April 30 It 8.30 in ahlldof the rink. Lunches will be so . - ‘ -

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WASHINGTON, April 10-40?)- The House of Representatives com- mittee on un-American activities said today that l‘ munls a .have engineered the Paris "peace" con-‘ ierance to stir atomic and other scientists to disobey their govern- ments. .

The Paris meeting, opening Wed- nesday, is one oi a number of such events inspired by Communists throughout the world “as part of a campaign against the North Atlan- tic defence pact," the committee said.

the Communists of striving to have American atomic secrets spilled to the Russians.

It called the Paris gathering a mobilization of scientists for "civil disobedience” against tree coun- tries.

"Ideological confusion" easily could "pass over into outright treason," the report declared, add- ing: "If the Communists could suc- ceed by playing upon the notorious political nalvete o! physical scien- tists. in inciting scientists to ‘strike’ against their own govern- ment, or sabotage, it would be a real achievement for the Soviet fatherland."

The committee said the scientific and cultural conference for world peace held In New York during March was aforcrunner of the Paris conference. _

It summarized the purpose o! the New York conference as follows:

1. To provide "a propagandist forum against the Marshall Plan, the North Atlantic de- fence pact, and American for- eign policy in gcnprai."

2. To promote support for the foreign policy oi.’ the Soviet Union.

3. To mobilize American in- tellectuais in the field of arts, science and letters behind this program "even to the point o! clvll disobedience against the American Government." I

4, To prepare the way for the Paris world peace congress "with similar aims in view on a ‘ world scale and under similar »C rnmunlst auspices."

5. To discredit American cul- ture and "to extol the virtues of Soviet culture."

On atom secrets, the committee declared:

‘The? (the Communists) would like nothing better than a repeti- tion in _the United States oi the cases of the Canadian atomic scien- tists, Raymond Boyer and Allan

secrets to the Soviet 'milltary in- teiligence. ,. ." _ (Boyer, an explosives expert, was sentenced in 1947 to two years im- prisonment on charges arising out oi the Russian espionage ring in Canada. His appeal against the sen- tence was" turned down last No- vember. Dr. Alan Nunn May, who allegedly gave information on atomic research to a Russi n while in Canada, was sentenced in lson- don in 1946 to 10 years in prison.)

Yhe political theatre of Newfound- and was expected to “be enlivened tlill week with the oi more Drew. national leader of the Progressive‘ Conservatives. on a speaking tour.

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Labrador outpost of Hebron, some 860 miles north of Goose Bay, is "definitely waning." an R. C. A. F. doctor said tonight.

The doctor, Sqdn. Ldr. J. Kettles. returned to Goose Bay air base with two sick Eskimos. R. C. A. F. Search and Rescue here reported.

The doctor, with four medical orderiies. made a mercytrlp to- day to l-Iebron following an urgent appeal for help from Mrs. Margaret Grubb, wife of a Moravian mission- ary at the predominantly-Eskimo village.

Sqdn. Ldr. Kettles said he ‘- ft further trips to the com- munity would not be necessary. "Considerable" supplies of medicine, including penicillin, were left at Hebron.

One ‘Million Communists Poised F or, River Crossing

Predicts federal i, Election July

CALGARY. Aprll.,18 — (CE) — The Calgary Albertan in a. front page story ‘today said reporters unveiling with Prime ‘Minister St. Laurent on his current western tour. predicted that a Federal general election would be held around July 27. .

The newspaper did not disclose the identity oi any o! the reporters making the prediction.

The Prime Minister ‘said Satur- day that no definite date has been

set for the election.

Inquest Held Into Death ' Of Three P. Island Men

Monclon Airport Being Ignored?

MONCTON. N. 3., April 13 — ivPi-Moncion airport is destined lo become the Wallflower of East- ern Canadian fields in the near future. it was reliably reported here over the weekend.

Forthcoming plan; of high gov» will push Monatnn further out of the trans- Atlaniic sir travel picture and give proierance‘ to rival fields at Syd- ney, Montreal and Goose Bay with the main nmbasis placed on the big Newfoundland Gander base. it was believed.

With trans-oceanic sir travel on the increase the Gander base has been designated the rnaln Carma-zl- ian field on the eastern seaboard for international carriers. Altern- ate fields, it was reported, will be authorized at Sydney, Goose‘ Bay and Mpntreal-Joavlng little for the big city field but dcmesiic air car- riers, non-scheduled carriers and club operations.

Relegation ‘o! ‘the Monctcn port to s. relatively minor status would probably mean termination of air- field customs and immigration facilities with a resultant incon- venience to large transports and smaller comtnerclal and private aircraft. it was said.

Says Evacuation Of London Was Near

LONDON, April IS-(CPL-Few people realize how nearly London came to being evacuated during the flying-bomb attacks in the last year oi the war. Sir Aylmer Fire- brace, chief oi fire staiLIor Bri- tain from 1941 to 1947, says in his book "Fire Service Memories."

He says the “gigantic operation" was avoldedwhen Allied armies over ran the continental launching sites of the bombs.

difficulties and called on England for aid in thy early 30s. -

Premier Sinallwood. the confed- ersig loader who was called upon io_iorln an, interim government until a legislature was elected. is considered almost oertain to head the Liberal ranks. However, tlsere

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CHIPMAN, N.B., April 18 —(CP) -— The deaths o! three East Saint John mm. formerly cf Wellington, P.E.I.. resulted from carbon mon- oxide pcisoning. a coroner's Jury decided tonighp No blame was et- tachcd to anyone. ~

Joseph Gsliam. 23, his brother. John Peter Gallant. 20. cousin. Joseph Ralph. Deeitochts. were found dead April 3 in a oar near Union Settlement. They had

left Saint John- for s week-ensi-Mie- .

it ioiriends in the ONPIHI" t"! and decided to sleep in the car be- fore resuming the mp home.

remrt from Dr. R. A. H. Mackeen, provincial pathologist. said that blood tests for carbon monoxide poisoning were “strongly positive". _

R.C.M.P. Corp. 11.. l‘. McCsbc said the car windows were closed and the exhaust pipe broken. The ignition and heater were on but the engine had stopped running, ‘ ‘

Norman Boyd, Chipmsn. who had driven a short distance in the car. testified he had noticed strong gasoline fumes and hscl wamed the trio against sleeping in the car.

Another witness, Blair Stiiiweli. of Union settlement. sszd the men had loll. his home about 1.30 am. that day.

The inquest was held before Harry Orchard, coroner. in the Union settlement school.

Actress And — Shampoo Makers In l.egal__Ballle

NEW JIORK. April 1B - (AP) _ The makers of Prell shampoo saldioday actress Tallulah Bank- head has only herself to blame if John Q. Public thinks of her when he hears of "Tallulah the Tube” in a shampoo radio .1111!"-

The Proctor and Gamble Soap Company said this in answer to a 81,000,000 damage suit Miss Bank- head has ‘started over the. Troll shampoo Jingla- .

Her lawyer has claimed the singing commercial. which calls a mm of ghgmpuo ."'i‘aliulah." "uses the actress‘ name in an "offensive and humiliating" manner.

But Proctor and Gamble. through '

its lawverssaiv‘. Miss Bankhead. by starting the suit "and b! subsequent Unterviews with the press. has sought to identify her-

self in the nulslir-fs mind with Tallulah the 'i"ube." The answer added that "If

has been no ------ pending a party convention here‘ late this month. -

Snsailwood said he doesn't eon- sider it likely Prime Minister Ht. Iausont will attend thg conven-

pgn tion.

Although 0.0!. workers have visited the ltlsnd. there h! been no strong indieatlon=.t.ii_st the third party will contest the provincial election, expected late in May or early June. '

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press conference tonight and court- esy sails on Ilieutensnt-Governor Si: Albert J. Walsh and other. oi- ficials tomorrow. Ho will-then st-

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N NG, April i9 —— (Tues- day) - (AP) — Communist troops 1.000.000 strong, were poised today to storm across the Yangtze River tomorrow. when the dealine for surrender of the Chinise Goyem- mcnt expires. .

Nationalist military leaders made no pretence that they could pre- vent it, although some sort oi fight is almost certain.

Acting President Li Tsung-Jen was reported to h_ave appealed for an xtension oi the deadline, but this gloomy capital had small hopes.

The prevaiiiing opinion uvas that the Rod demand. including free

places. left no room for argument.

Government officials admitted privately that. stripped of a few face-saving frills. the Red terms were total surrender. They could see no prospect but amalgamation oi Nationalist troops into the Communist army. creation oi a so- called "coalition" government, and their own gradual but complete ouster from power.

There was a report that an emissary had been sent to Shlkaw. South of Shanghai. t6 ask the ouinion of the "retired" President Chiang Kai-Shek.

Another report circulated that lang already has decided to order withdrawal oi. the entire Shanghai-Nanking garrison south- ward. I-le_ co d do it. for these 300.000 troops ars commanded ‘by Gen, Tang En-Bo. loyal to Chiang and no backer oi’ Li's peace efforts of the last three months;

It is no secreifin Nanidng that ‘Chiang favors sacrificing the Yangtze line for a stronger last- ditch deience in the south.

Tang's men are believed sure to put some kind oi opposition to the Red's Yangtze crossings, whether Nsnklng yields or not/They then are expected to fall back on Shanghai. whence some would be shipped to Formosa. and others would march south for a later stand.

It is in the island of Formosa, where most of the Nationalist air force and most of its- gold and silver now are located, that final Nationalist resistance is anticipat- ed."

Soils From Halifax

HALIFAX. April 18 --(CP>- .- Mfiflflfld by a crew oi Seafarers‘ In- ternstiosisl Union members. the Mlshter Bimprlnct sailed from "ll-NIX Wlflsht. destination wran- pounced,

The S.I.U. men boarded the sun- prlnce today in mid-stream without incident. The fully loaded vessel. owned by Saguensy Terminals of Montreal. was believed en route to the British West ‘Indies.

‘Keel of 65.000-Ton Aircraft Carrier Laid

NEWPORT NEWS. Va., April 1s —(4A.'P)-'i'he keel of the world's largest sis-craft curler - large cuoisgh to handle bombers capable of carrying atom bombs - was laid

Noloeronony attended start oi work on the d5.000-ton super flat-

Sl. Laurent Makes. Comment Al Regina

REGINA. April 18 - (CF) In this stronghold of the C. C. l". Prime Minister St. Laurent indicat- ed today that the Liberal Party would seek no formal coalition with any other party if the next election makes it: the biggest group in the Commons but fails to give it s clear majority.

I-Is told 'a press conference he knew of no "courtship" between the Liberals and the C. C. F. and, faced by reporters with the possi- bilities oi minority rule. he added:

"We would have to discharge the responsibilities of government until the l-Iouse of Commons show- ed we did not have its confidence . . .if no other party has a majority the Liberals wouldn't take". the responsibility of stepping out and recommending that a ther party form a government." 4

Somewhat iacetlously. he said the Liberals would have no object- ion to absorption of either C. C. F. or Progressive Conservative sup- port — as long as they accepted Label-oi policies.

The Prime Minister's one-day siege oi the Saskatchewan capital also saw him champion the Atlantic Pact again in an address before 500 men at. a luncheon sponsored by the Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs.

At the press conference the Prime Minister insisted that no decision has been made about an election date and said it would have to be made by the cabinet as a. whole.

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British Columbia's election day — it was announced the day he left the Province — and said "it is not a necessary jiOllélllSloii" that this

would mean postponement of federal polling to the fail. Narrows Speculation Narrowing speculation, he said

it would be impossible to call a. federal vote before June 15 and

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CUAYAQUIL. Ecuador. April 18 -- (Reuters) - Most of the b9 passengers of the ship Fsraon were drowned or were burned to death‘ today when she caught fire out- side thrlicuadorisn port of Bolivar. Most of the passengers had come from Peru.

WASHINGTON. April l8 - ‘(APJ —- American oiiiclais look for Soviet Russia to come up almost any day with a firm proposal to lift the Berlin blockade which they are convinced is more painful to the Soviet bloc than to the West.

MONTREAL. April 18 - iCPl - Police tonight announced patrols in the strike-troubled Montreal harbor have been increased as a precaution against possible clashes between members of rival unions.

CHURCHILL. Mann April 1B — (CP). — General health conditions are good and food is plentiful in Canada's northiand, members of a four-man Eastern Arctic patrol said today after a 5,000-miie aerial inspection tour of Eskimo settle- ments.

Widow of Hanged Gunman Becomes Mother of Triplets

MDNTREAL. April 18 —(C P) - Mrs. N091 Cioutler. widow of the gunman hanged herelastrnonth for

the murder oi__two Montreal police-f

men. and the tnplets born to herl Easter day are all doing fine. her. doctor siad tonight. ‘ .

Dr. Gtrard Ducharme. one of flvel physicians present at the nmltipie

lh, said the health of the three flldren. a girl and two boys. ls "very good."

Despite pleas for s stay of exe- cution bocause oi-Mrs. Clout-ions pregnancy. Cloutier was _ executed March, 11. Hospital authorities de- termined by x-rays two weeks after Cioutierls execution that the a2-

year-old woman would have triplets. '

smallest of the babies at 3 1-2‘ pounds is the girl. Her brothers weighed four pounds. three W110“- ami four pounds, seven ounces at birth.

lnvestigationSeeks Cause Of 22.Deaths~From Smog

DONORA. Pa., April 18—(AP)-—A trial by smoke began here today —in an attempt to solve the riddle oi a smog blamed for 22 deaths lust iail. '

1t’s a four-day test which United States public health service tech- nlclans are undertaking ‘to dupli- cate industrial conditions which prevailed during last October's tragedy.

Then low-lying smoke and fog blended in a pail so thick it could be tasted. People died gasping in that smothering atmospheric blan- ket. Hundreds of others became ill. - Some people feared the test was merely inviting the ghostly killer back. But these fears were ground- less. The investigators said there was no danger. They will end the test at the first sign of a dupli- cation of last year's smoke and fog conditions. .

The first day oi the test was cold and shnwery. There was a strong west wind blowing. which, ironi- caily. carried the thick industrial smoke across the Monongahela River to’ neighboring Webster.

top. which has been the centre of s. hot controversy between the’ United States navy snd the a-ir. force. |

The air force regards the 5186,0001 carrier. which will be named the United States. as an invasion of the field of long-range strategic bomb- ing. a field to which the air force claims exclusive rights.

The navy denies and contends its planes of 1902 should have cor- roqsondlngiy up-to-tha-ns-i n u t e seagoiog sirstrlps to to from.