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' CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1954

15 KILLED WHEN BUS COLLIDES WITH HEAVY

Fear Molotov Plan For fermany Unacceptable

J ap Trade Pact Denounced By U. K. Textile Industry

LONDON, (AP)-British textile industry leaders Sunday denoun- ced the government's decision to allow Japanese goods into British and colonial markets for the first time since before the war.

"The whole thing is despicable," aaid Sir John Grey, head of the

Cotton Spinners and Manufac- turers' Association. "Empire preference disappears

under this new agreement. Once again we have been sold down the river."

Rayon magnate Cyril Lord said: "The government must. have gone completely haywire. This will hit everybody in Britain. It is tragic."

Sir Raynioncl Street, chairman of the British Cotton Board, said the agreement "is bound to he received with the greatest anxiety in cotton circles."

Fear Competition

Laiii-asliiro cotton men. although they have full order books at the moment, fear that a return to the Japanese "shilling shirt" of the 19303 will cut a large slice out of their traditional colonial and Commonwealth market.

Pottery and toy-making industry chiefs nlso protested the pact.

W. F. lVentwnrth, a director of the British Pottery Manufacturers Association, said the agreement "provokes deep resentment" in the pottery towns of the indus- trial Midlands.

Lord Bear:-rbrnok's Sunday Ex- press reports "mounting anger over the black pact" and prints quotes from industry leaders and members of Parliament condemn- ing the agreement as”. blow to British trade.

The mass-circulation News. organ of the co-operative movement in Britain. frontpaged reports of a "revolt" by Conser- vative party legislators over the agreement.

"There class row in the mom this week over the pact," it says.

Reynolds News says the goods Japan will export "are precisely those which Japan 'dumped' in Britain and the colonies before the. war to the detriment of em-

Reynolds

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SWEET SIXTEEN Princeaa Beatrix of The Nether- lands is all smiles about her ap- proaching birthday. The popular

Crown

daughter of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard was 16 on Jan. 31.

Furs Lost In MonlreaLfire

MioN'IB4liAL. (OP)-Thousands of dollars in furs were destroyed Saturday when firs wrecked the two upper floors of a three-storey bu on St. Francis st. in Montreal's business district.

Nearly I50 flraman fought the blaze with a dozen streams of water. smokesndv grater damaged other fur astabiislnnents nearby.

Cause of the fire was unknown.

LUMBER MILL BURN!

B'I'll. OBCILE DE MASHAM. Que., (CP)-Fire early Sunday de- stroyed a 350,000 lumber mill, one of the main industries in this vii- lage 22 miles north of Ottawa. cause of the blaze has not been determined. The large wooden llrllcivure. owned by the brothers Paul find Gustave Dufour. housed a grist. mill. planing mill. saw mill. machine shops and furniture

ployment in this country."

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Expect Federal Estimates Within Next Two Weeks

OTTAWA. (GP) - The govern- ment's estiiiiated expenditures for the 1954-55 fiscal year and the budget are among the only major items of government legislation to be placed before the Commons.

The estimates, which give de- tails of spending by government departments, are expected to be tabled this week or early next week by Finance Minister Abbott. The finance minister returned to Ottawa last Friday from the Commonwealth finance ministers conference in Australia. Before he left. Ottawa last December Mr. Abbott said he planned to table the estimates immediately after arriving in the capital.

Mr. Abbott's return also engen- dered speculation on the date the budget would be placed before Parliament. He brought down the I953-54 budget last year on Feb. 19 but it is expected that it will be later this year.

other legislation still to be in- troduced by the government is Health Minister Martin's bill to my pensions to disabled Cana- dians on a 50-50 basis with the provinces. It is expected that this pension will amount to M0 a month and will be granted on a

Coming Events

"Card Party at Dunataffnaga School tonight, Feb. 1st.

W'Card party-irPi-Newton School Monday night. February let.

”Camival in Souris Rank. Wed- nesday, February 8rd. cash prizes. Judging at 9 p. In. state after.

”Marshfi4-id Presbyterian Church. The showing of the film "The Hidden Heart" for Monday, Feb. fat, is cancelled.

"Meeting of the rate payer-a of Orapaud Village service Act will be half in the Crapeud creamm office on Tuuday, Feb. 2 at 2 pm.

"Roam at North aim nine

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means test basis.

Besides the legislation outlined in the throne speech, the govern- ment ia expected to introduce a bill to merge the departments of trade and commerce and defence production. The new department ll expected to be called trade and production.

The government has not stated whether legislation will be sub- mitted to Parliament to extend the Emergency Powers Act for an- other year. Tne act, renewed last year, expires May 1.

The bulk of the government's legislative program for the ses- sion now is before the House and most of it st.Ul remains to be ap- proved. During the 20 days the House has been in session only a handful of bills have been passed.

The Commons order paper now includes 17 items of government legislation. The most important are the mixed Criminal Code, new housing legislation and bills to extend emergency gold-mln- ing assistance for another year and to raise member's indemni- ties.

(By ti-uni nrneoo)

ROME. (AP) - Crisis-ridden Italy dumped her third govern- ment in six monthes Saturday.

Premier Amintore Fanfani's 11- day old Christian Democrat cab- inet fell when the chamber of deputies voted 303-to-N0 against him on the confidence motion.

Parties of the right and left joined in the opposition. His downfall had been forecast since Fanfnni presented his pro-Went. anti-Communist program of social reform to Parliament four days a o. lranfanl hastened to President Luigi Elnaudi to submit his res- ignation. I-fa conferred 90 minutes with the 79-year-old President.

The presidential secretary an-

. iiounced linsuoi has asked Fan-

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Lillie Hope for Unification Of Germany

(By Arthur Gavahonl

BERLIN, (AP)-Russia's V. M. Molotov was ready today with a plan for divided Germany's future which left Western diplomats al- most in despair.

Judging from a preview of the plan given Saturday night by the Soviet-backed East German gov- ernment, the Big Three represent- atives doubted they would be able to end the division of this shat- tered land by any agreement with the Soviet Union in the foresee- able future.

Molotov has promised to submit. his plan to the British, American and French foreign ministers soon after they head into the second and probably clecisive-week of their conference today.

The Big Four will meet for the first time in the Russian sector of this divided city, amid (llFfllfllifl',.Z rumors that Communists and anil- Communists might take to the

streets in violent demonstrations to jar the talks. A Red committee "for rebuild-

lnlz East Berlin" called on all citizens to take part in a recon- struction day program lvednesdny "to show forcefully to the world

that the German people are against the EDC (European armyl." Communist newspapers

claimed VVestcrn "sabotage organ- 'zations" plan to incite riots in the Soviet sector this week.

Meet In Soviet Embassy

The ministers will assemble in the massive granite-grey Soviet embassy on Unier Den Lindon where Hitler's legions used to march. The first week's sessions were held in the Allied control authority building in the Ameri- .Can . sector and the .,tltird.. weeks will be held there too.

The Communist plan is Russia's answer to Western proposals for restoring unity, independence and freedom to Germany in a final peace. These proposals, submitted Friday by Britain's Anthony Eden, were immediately assailed hy Moi- otov. who demanded that a future all-German government renounce economic, political and military

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Mother Loses Life Seeking children

Nfld., (CP) - A seeking to

ST. JOHN'S, distraught mother guide her children home safely through a blinding snow storm Friday lost her way and appar- ently froze to death.

Mrs. Harvey Roberts of Roddick- ton, in the nortlieast Newfound- land district of White Bay, set out to meet her children when they were overdue from school.

They arrived safely, unaware that their mother had been look- ing for them. A search party found Mrs: ltobertsl body Satur- day.

c.no,STii;v7?o?r Jet. One Man Lost

Pal-:sQUr.' ISLE, iuioni-, (CPL- The canopy blow off an P-89 jet. fighter flying 20.000 feet, over Preque isle Saturday. The pilot landed safely but his radar ob- server was lost.

The Presque Isle Air Force base

information office said the radar observer apparently bailed out. His body was found in a field five miles southeast of Presque Isle.

"All indications pointed to the fact that his parachute failed to open."

It wasnt until the pilot landed

that he discovered his observer was missing.

Crisis-Ridden Italy Dumps Fanfani Govlt

inet-powerless to act on any important legislation-while the president seeks ii new premier.

A switch of just 22 votes would have given Fanfani the green light.

Communists, Pietro Nenni'fi fel- low-travelling Socialists, Moderate Socialists of Giuseppe Saragat, neo-fascists and monarchlats gang- ed up against Fanfani.

The 46-year-old premier. young- est since Benito Mussolini. re- ceived only the votes of his own Christian Democrat party and five from the Republicans.

The Liberals-12 of whose 14 deputies were in the cablnet-ab- stained.

The noconfidence vote was pre- ceded by several days of sharp, sometimes vicious outbursts, in which various political forces at- tacked--.ranfani'a governnientc ,

Premium On Canadian Dollar Climbing Again

By Arthur Marllma

'N'Ew YORK, (AP) - Can-ada's currency is climbinig again. Not only is Canada's dollar worth more than the United States dol- lar at the foreign exchange count- er, but the premium has been rising steadily since the first of the year.

Last week Canada's dollar ad- vanced to more than a three-cent bonus when matched with an American bill. It's the highest premium since mid-December of 1953. some financial experts won- der if it will soon challenge the record of 10-1 11-32 cents, set Aug. 13, 1952.

What's behind the rise in the value of the Canadian dollar? Basically, its due to the huge and growing influx of l'. S. capital into Canadian industry, New York financial circles say.

Many U. S. companies have set

Record Year

up subsidiaries in Canada. Espec- ially since the start of the Korean war, U. 5. oil and mining concerns have wanted to ensure a ready supply of raw materials in the northern hemisphere. Other fields of U. S. investment include wood and pulp industries, food proces- sing and autos. J ust recently, Ford Motor Co. or Canada, be- gan a 870,000,000 expansion pro- gram.

U. S. institutions diversify their investments by purchasing Cana- dian securities.

Tourists I'1owlng

Besides the investment flowing north. American touristsl are crossing Canada's borders inl record numbers. They take with them plenty of American money.

Another factor has been the sale of Canadian municipal bonds

capital,

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Maritime Central Airways

Two Men Missing 0n tlueliec Flight Safe

ST. FELIOLEN, Que.. (CPJ-Two men lost Wednesday on a. flight from St. Felicien, Que., to Lake Nitchequon. 325 miles north of this Lake St. John town, were re- Pfmrd eels

Officials at ers of the ski-equipped Beaver aircraft, said the plane was loca- ted Saturday on Lake William, 280 miles north of here.

They identified the two men as pilot H. C. Hicks, 33, Montreal, and aircraft engineer L. Moore, 23, of Ottawa. .

The single-engined aircraft. took off Wednesday morning to fly sup- plies rrorth for other company air- craft. It also carried spare parts for a Boreal single-engined Husky Faircliild foi'ced to land at. Lake Nitchequoii a week ago while on a cargo flight to Fort. Chimo, 300 miles north of the lake.

Officials said the pilot of the Beaver was flying under visual regulations charting his course by landmarks on the route.

lnslrdc?Anri Sludeni Killed in Plane Crash

MOSSLEIGI-f, Alf.a.. (OPt-An instructor and II. student. pilot were killed Saturday when their Har- vard plane collided in the air with anotlrar training plane and crashed.

The victims were identified as PO. Harry James Mclntosh, the iristrucf.oi', and PO. Ramon Valtles, the student, both of the R..C.A.F. They were from Calgary.

The pilot of the other plane, acting Po. .1. s. Whiting of Jo- iiarinesburg, South Africa, crash landed his I-farvarci and walked away from the wreckage. Whiting, a student, is a member of the RAF.

The planes were believed flying at about 4,000 feet. altitude in clear weather on a routine forma- tion flight when the collision oc- curred.

Lost In Woods. Shared Bear's Den

R-EXTON. N. 3-. (CP)-Patrick Whnlen. near collapse while lost in deep woods, shared a bear's winter den until found by a search

party. caught in a heavy snowstorm while taking a shortcut home

tiirouah the woods. Whslen crawl-

ed into the den of the hibernating

Error. The bear didn't even notice in.

I-Iavelock Robinson, a veteran woodsman out with other search- ers, entered the den and brought Whalen out.

VESSEL BOABDED

HONG KONG. (Reuters) T A small British freighter, the 979- fon I-fydralock. was intercepted Sunday by an unidentified vessel off the Chinese port of Amoy. about E miles northeast of here. A boarding party made a routine search and then permitted the ship to continue, a British nave

source said. 4- .

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Maritiiiie Cuiitixil Airways an- nounced this week that. it has posed another record year in 195.3 with figures for pnsseiigev and charter traffic at new l1lg'l'l levels.

The Company during 1953 car- ried 65,000 passengers and 4,245 tons of goods over llDpl'OXlfIla.U)lY 3,000,000 miles. The ton lhileage figure increased from 1.310.690 ton-miles in 1952 to 1,539,818. ton- miles in 1953.

,Maritime, Central Air-

tion of being Canada's largest in- dependent air freight operator. Fla- ures for 1933 will probably en- cirle the company to retain bhis position, From a total revenue position the Maritime company milked third with Trans Canada Air Lines and Canadian Pacific Air Lines leading the field.

Maintaining 21 heavy aircraft. including DC-3's, PBY Canao Am- phibians, and Bi'i.st.ol 170 Freight- ers. the company operates tl'is'oiigii- out the Atlantic Provinces, New- foundland. Labrador and bile Mag- dalen Islands. At present. it has the largrxst fleet of heavy aircraft; in Canada available exclusively for charter operations. Maritime Cen- tzal Airways which has extensive maintenance facilities at. Char- lottetown, P. E. 1., Moricton, N.H., and Goose Bay, Labrador. has grown in just ten years to one of Canada's largest commercial air lines.

Killed-gPWliile Walking On Track

TORONTO, iCPi-Percy Saul- nier, 26. was killed sundav when struck by a passenzer train while ivalkirig on the tracks at suburb- an Port Credit.

Saulnier came here from Nova Scclia, about nine months ago. He ivoi-ked for a time with a. firm iiistailing television aeriau but later book a job as zi construction company laborer.

Australians Flock Into

Sydneypfo We

SYDNEY, Australia, (Reuteral-- Excited Australians flocked into Sydney Sunday night and choked all mm-emeiit in the heart of this city. where Queen Elizabeth will open her tlwo-month Aualxalian tour on Wednesday.

Buses bringing visitors from outlying areas had to drqs their passengers in the city ouitlrta, as the jammed city centre took on a camlval iitmoqihere.

Queen Elizabeth had ht laat view of New zaaiand from the decks of the royal liner Gothic Bunday morning as the veuel put

out into the Tasman sea from steop-sided Milford Sound. Later she and the Duke of

Edinburgh attended Sunday aer-4 vices conducted by Capt. David Altclll.S0h. the Oothlc'a master.

sou Rough

Weather experts forecast that

the royal liner would run into "rather rough sou” from a cy- clone moving south across the

Tasman see, but would min the worst part of the atom.

Officials here were worried about the effects of the weather on the aniduoualy-rehearsed wel- coming ceresnonlu for an Queen's arrival Wednndly.

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fire Folio-w-s Collision Wesl Of Threefvers

By MEL MORRIS Canadian Prue Staff Writer YAMAOHJIGI-ITE, Que., (CP)-F'if- teen persons were killed late Sat- urday when a Provincial Trans- port bua burst into flames after colliding with an auto-transport, near this town 15 miles west of

Trois-Rivieres.

Ten persons survived, including the drivers of both Vehicles.

Brother Marcel, one of six Roman Catholic brothers from, nearby Poin-te au Lac, travelling: in a second bus a short. distance behind the ill-fated vehicle. braved the flames to draw two of the pamengers to safety. Many of the victims were pin-I nod in their seats and enveloped, in flames. Others died as ilIP)'l tried to batter their way through the emergency door, locked shut by the transport resting against the side of the bus. The dead in- cluded one child. who was hurled free of the bus butdied in a snow- bank beside the road.

Hard To Iden llfy

A number of the victims werei burned beyond recognition. Onlyll one could be removed from the, bus at the scene of the wreck. The others were pried out. with iron bars after the bus Was towed to the morgue in Trois-Rivieres.

An inquest was opened imme- diately to identify the victims, but those who filed through the mar- gue could name only nine of the dead from the charred flesh and skeletons removed from the bus. Police said it might be days be- fore all victims are identiified.

Of the survivors, only the two drivers were considered in serious condition. Hospital officials said Henri Bruneau, Ville I..a.Salle. Que.. the driver of the bus, had both legs fractured and may be suffer-

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LIVEIREOOL, N. 5., (OP) - A baby tornado lashed the nmrby summer resort of White Point Beach Saturday night and dazed

residents reported it hurled big roofing beams a foot. into the ground.

No casualties were reported but several persons told of narrow escapes.

Wallace Weiitzell, caretaker of the resorts boat. house, said the gale woke him tip. Two ceiling raf'.ei-s over his head viere split aiongr the middle as the houler passed over his cabin, he said.

The t'.i'l.ster lasted about one m.iiute and cut a 300-foot wide path.

A bani containing hay and fish-

ing gear was demolished. Owner Ambi-ose Verge reported he found roofing bcziiiis cnibedded in the groiiiid.

The lf)l'lI:iLl0 stove in the front of the boailiouse and warped its roof girders.

Inrige bouldr-rs used to anchor (flilllll'.P)' covers us-re l)iLCllEd sev- eral feet. An unknown number of cabins lost their roofs. The gale flattened i2 huge trees and brought hydro lines down over a wide area.

One Kii7eEiiii' Edmonton Fire

EDMONTON. was killed and several other per- sons were injured, some seriously. vi-lien fire broke out Sunday in a downtown store and spread to np.-irtment above.

Firemen anti police carried five l'i2Cf)llsCi0iis tennants to the street. William J. Mahoney, 84. died be- fore he could be rescued.

Fire Marshall Jack Booiih said

Atomic Power

TULSA, Okla., (AP) Power piantn usinlg atomic energy may be competing favorably in the next 10 years with those burning- oil, a widely known petroleum executive predicts.

”I-Iowever," said Dean A. Mc- Gee, ”for the foreseeable future atomic power will supplement and not. replace oil and gas uses." McGee, whose statement was made in a report to the mid-con-, tinent regional meeting of fuel American Association of Petroleum, Geologists, is executive vice-prcsi- dent of Kerr-McGee Oil .Iudus- tries, Inc.

He explained there are estimates a pound of uranium produces the same amount of energy as 200,000 gallons of fuel oil.

"There is plenty of evidence that uranium will be sufficiently abund- ant in the world to be used as fuel," he said in the report. pub- lished by the Independent Petrol- eum Association of America Mag- asine.

McGee urged the geologists aid the search for uranium.

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gis 'ilf1 be applied to exploration for uranium." he said. "Much of the structural and stratigraphic data that we have accumulated over the years could be very use- ful lli selecting areas in which to search for uranium."