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CHARLOTTETOWN. CANADA, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1951

U. N. FORCES STEP UP ADVANCES ALONG KOREAN FRONT

38 Marodied 0n Sialled Train Since Fdday

(Canadian Press)

A hnwling blizzard blew itself after claiming the lives 0! Ilx persons in Alberta in a devastat- mg two-day sweep across the Western l"'11h'Ae5-

L.-misc storm victims are ROY Cosion. about 14. of Bentley and Mrs. Polly Taylor of Telfordviile. Cnsion was smothered Saturday when a snowbank in which he ms playing collapsed and buried

him.

M”, Taylor, n reccnt arrival pom England, was found frozen ,0 damn near Teifordville Friday night. She was on her way to rim a neighbor but apparently roilapsed due to the dew "WW and blinding wind.

Meanwhile, R.c.M.P. headquart- era in Edmonton said Sunday "iii nine perscins previously reported musing between Bassano and Makopeaee in Southern Alberta have turned up unharmed at Bas- ssno. There are now no further re- ports of mlsslnl D91"-Wm 1" M” hurts.

Train Stalled

But 33 persons in still marootied on a Canadian National R.sllway8 train at Oven. Alta. They have been stranded there since Friday and latest reports said snow plows are still bucking 15-foob snowdrlfl-I in an effort to reach the train-

snarled communication line! have made direct contact with the tiny eommu ”, northeast of cal- gaiy lmposible and repcrw on "19 rgscug operations are meagre. It is

& up are living in the train'a "baggage car and are notin on! immediate danger.

The dead baby is Shlfon END of Trochu. Alta. Her body was re- covered from (he wreckage of 3 small cabin struck by an avlllfwhe oi snow. !LO.M.P.. officials esti- mated that more than 200 will of mow crushed the log hut.

The baby's 26-year-old mother managed to free harlelf from the wreckage but was unable to reach her child. she started off for help but enlinpacd at a nearby mine nhero she was found the ngllogllng morning by a passer-by. a. CD was flown to hsopltal at Trochu where she is reported suffering from shock and ex l'0- MT- Riep was stranded when the storm muck while he was on a shopping trip.

other Victims

Other victims of the storm to data include Thomas Irvin and Mr and Mrs. Miles Pitspatrlek. Irvin. a 00-year old-hospital eciiralcscent. was found froaen to death behind a Oalgsry billboard. Mr. and Mrs. Fitzpatrick perished near Benton. 200 miles northeas of Calgary. as they attempted to main their home during the height i if the blizzard.

Coming Events

"Mail your Films to Garnhum Photo studio. Charlottetown.

"Garden Seeds! send for free "lalocue. Arthur Vesey. York.

"Loading Hogs for Canada

Packers Ltd, at Watervalo. Wed-

ggzilnv uniil train lime. Eddie fl.

'fEdueational rum in Aisori-y Plains School. March Blst. Sale of

out in Eastern Manitoba Sunday .

believed. however. that the strInd--

Deails Toll Reaches Six In Western Blizzard

, Saturday morning. March 11.

Hill! Mass. : a

Post Office Depi. To Cosi here i

UITAWA. March l8-(CP)-De- spite the layoff of 1.200 mail carri- ers. it will cost an estimated 07.- 000000 more to run Canada's Post Office Department in the 1051-52 fiscal year than in the me just ending.

The comparative figures in the estimates tabled in the Commons by Finance Mllnlstor Abbott are 807543.000 for this fiscal year and 094330.000 for next.

Main reason for the increase. officials said Saturday. is that the Tlllwlys will get 25.3 per cent intro for carrying the mail. Pay increasearfor 20.000 employees will

t also help wipe out the s3.5oo,ooo

to be saved by laying off employ- ees and cutting deliveries.

Plcfou Men. Have Narrow Escape

STEEP CREEK. N. 8.. March ills- (OP) -- Victor Nicolle. N. and An- drew'I.eBlsnc. 28. both of Plctou. narrowly escaped Saturday when their truck caught fire and plunged over a bridge. :

!..eBlanc jumped from the flam- ing vehicle. Nicolle. the driver. was carried over a 50-foot cliff into the Strait of Canso.

Nicolle received several minor cuts and his companion is in hos- pital with a broken leg. Cause of the fire is unknown.

l Members of the Benevolent Irlah leelotyi yen muslspllod i!oelety'd Chief Marshal. Leo bowling. at the Whelan Hall. on Grafton street and arrived at St...Duristan'a Basilica at 10 o'clock for solemn

one of the largest St. Patrick's Day parades in recent years is shown above as It marches! eastward on Iliehmond Street in Charlottetown on

by the.

Headed by the hand of the EB. I. Regiment (I'M: Reece). the par- ade paused to lay a wreath at the War Memorial where the "Last Post"

Will Re - Open Issue Of

Potato Price

Si 00.000 Fire Ai Moncion

MONCPON. N. 3.. March 18 - (OP) - Loss was esiinmted at 3100.000 after fire destroyed Budds Garage here today. The loss in. cluded 12 cars. parts. ouher slack and tools.

Flames spread to the adjoining: Budd residence but fire damage was confined to the attic. with smoke and,water damage else- where in the building.

The fire. of unknown cause. was believed to have started in the re- palr section of the iiwo-storey wooden garage. Two alarms were sounded. One fireman suffering exhaustion was taken to hospital.

U.S. Army Goods In Korean Black Market

PUSAN. Korea. March 18 - (AP) - Korean police and United Slates military authorities seized 10 truckloads of American army goodis in a raid on the black market sccl- . ion of Pusan Saturday. The con- fiscated items included canned food. military clothing. cigarels. beer and sleeping bags.

cakes and candy. '

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h 'S0c and hear the kids per- Yllll in the Amateur Cavalcade. 1190: Theatre. Montague. Thurs- ."Y March 22nd at 0 p.m. Spon- ”"d by Home and school Ame alien. Admission 35c. V

lo"Miention Farmers in Reusing- D" "N do Areas. C "i '0 Pr-iday Ming holiday y. .13." 1,. hug. Mira for Canada Packers Ltd.. muwednt-d-v. am:-noon. --and M gdly till ll. AM You are at- M" yolur hogswith us not 3"" mg c”e.s!d.:'y evening. no-

b;'Mi(.-nilen farmers in Iiresdalu In:f- Fredericton, Hunter River GMM-w wlltslrlre areas: Due to

Frlflrgbelog a holiday we M. ch; ii: up. b0I0'f0f Can.

"”l9l'lhIn on ' on -Yeas

;'fed to list in mg

Dog-ii. Ilunur xiv??? "ml eii. rrodorieiaa and New win-

Palristan Gambles On , Hugeg Irrigation Project

p ly Harry Mitchell itAnAcuI. March is -- (neut- I) - Can a is-sore plot of desert

d be turned into a paying farm

a few Here? The Pakistan ovemment is gambling 000.000.- rupees (0M.000.000) that it an. , -Irhe Government plans to de- velop 1.000000 acres of uncultivat- wuiee in the barren Thai area West Rmlab. "'l;hi:k"vnt graft sparsely-popula rt s 4

The Thai Develovrnent Author-

. not in to develop the area and

I elrefugees. pi-waste 0- de” and boost for y

mi people who flocked into

irlatsn 0-osnlndis when the sub-

qontlndlst was partitioned in l017.

Each family will be offered l5

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Wm 0! land. on condition that "'97 um to buy the land after five years: they will be allowed so years to pay.

Before each eolonist moves in. the parched land will be broken for him and water courses and ir. rigation channels will be dug with midlllliry. Where possible some of the ground will be cultivated and lawn by local tenants. .- i in addition. the settler will be given a loan. Nvlylble during thr years. to our seed. mile

alfldnltural mwjlndntl.

Government planners are com fldent hut th0.qcbs-sne will event- lilll! BNGIVIG Iimylna proposition.

gglplcwgalo-:ip;rccmreNrnea

They envisage acres of comm.

rva! sounded by bugler Frank Smith.

At the Baslllclvthe oolebrant of I). 1).. with Rev. David James Kelly. Rev. - Er sermon. -

Following Mass. 1 . parade returned to Whelan Memorial Hall where

a number of guests gn hcred with

caslon. President .1. .I. Connolly presided over the function which had

been arranged by Wilfred Smith.

Support

Before Gardiner T oday

Mr. D. A. MacDonald. chairman of fihc Provincial Potato Market- ing Board, will outline plans for assiotan-ce on a potato livestock feed program and for a subsidy on potato containers at a meeting in Otiawa this morning of members of the P. E. I.-N. B. potato boards wrth Agricultural Minister Gard- incr.

The representatives will re-open the whole question of price sup- port. One of the chief matters to be discussed will likely be that program outlined last wecik, it -was learned.

The livestock feed program will Cltll. for the payment of a subsidy on the feeding of potatoes to farm animals. A subsidy on containers or bag: will be asked for in view of the recent increase in iihc price of jute.

Mr. 'MhoDonald will represent the Island Board and Mr George Ma.cLeod the New Brunswick Po- tato Board They will be accom- panied by Hon. A. C. Taylor. Min- ister of Agrlculiure for New Brunswick. The meeting is sched-

wheat and other food grains Ivmistirl from the dusty sands. r

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uled to be held this morning at ten o'clock. '

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Boston by Prowler

SAINT JOHN. N.B.. March 18 - (CP) -- The serious condition of Miss Margaret MacDonald. 70, sev- erely benten by a prowler in her bedroom early Saturday. was report- ed unchanged tonight.

Charles Felix Francis. 31. a Mal- iseet Indian from the Tobique Res- ervation near Perth. N. 3.. was un- der arrest on a charge of "being found in a dwelling place by night. with intent to steal." He had ar- rived here Fnday after working at a lumber camp near Welsford.

After her admission to hospital. the elderly spinsicr suffered a heart attack. Her injuries inciuded:black- enefd eyes. a facial cut and bruises on the head and body.

The anault occurred when she awoke. law the prowlar and scream- ed. The alnllant fled down a fire leaps outside the third-floor room of atlei-main street house. Francis. elad'oaly in underwear. was ar-

he said he had .undresssd in the other ouildinl. apparently with -the in-

cTsgue acting as Deacon. Sub-Deacon was Rev. cie Cuban. 0. S. C. delivered an appropriate

of assistance for the starch factory :

the Mass was Rev. Patrick McMahon.

B. I. S. members to celebrate the oc- - Meyers Studio.

Local Mon Given One-Year In Jail

HALIFAX. March 18 - (GP)- James Burns of Charlottetown was sentenced to one year in city prison when he appeared in police court Saturday for sentence on A charge of theft of a truck. Burhs previously pleaded guilty of the charge.

l Hug Diamond Found

JOHANNESBURG. March 18 - (Reutcrs) - A blue-white diamond about the size of ll. golf ball has bzen found in a South African diamond mine. Its value is estimat-

Narrow -(lap Towards 38th a Parallel

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By Robert Bunsen TOKYO. March 10 - (Monday) - (AP) - Allied forces stepped up their advance along a 70-mile front in Central Korea Sunday. narrmvirug the gap toward the 38th

parallel as Chinese Communist rear-guard resistance suddenly slackened.

Evidence mounted that the Chi- nese may be abandoning Chun- chon. the last major Red strong- -hold in South Korea.

Correspondent William C. Bar- nard. in a dispatch passed through rigid censorship. said "it appear- ed the town (Chunehon) had been deserted by both military and civilian inhabitants." Chunohon. only eight miles south of the 38th parallel. has been used as a funnellin-g point for Chinese forces 'moving into battle lines along the Central Korean front.

HONG KONG. March 18-(Rem ters) - Five Canadian Roman Catholic nuns, who have devoted their lives to caring for Chinese orphans. are under arrest await- ing trial by Communist authorities In Canton.

Hong Kong's pro-Communist newspapers iodayfcntursd lengthy reports on the nuns. They were not named. .

The reports said the nuns will be charged with neglecting or- phans ln "their care at the or- phanage attaehed to the convent of the Immaculate Conception at Canton in South China.

(The newspaper in an article

early this month criticized the work of the nuns). Experts long connected with

welfare work in China said here that lhe ihnrges are "utterly fan- lastic."

Communisi newspapers said io-

It has served as headquarters for the main Chinese higih command since Jan. 1, when the Reds surg- ed through United Nations lines in a massive New Year": of- fepsive.

The Chinese "retreated at a fast

pulled out of hills and ridges nor-lihweol of Allied-held Heng- chon. captured by Americans three days ago. Hongchon is 55 miles northeast of Seoul.

M. U. 5. Eighth Army headquart- ers. correspondent Leif Erickson said that all along the 70-mile central front the main Commun- ist forces were making a fast but well-organized withdrawal.

The Reds were not routed. nor had they been driven back in a major battle with the steadily-ad- vancing Eighth Army. Only rel- atively smlll enemy rear-guard forces have opposed the current drive.

In Lt.-Geri. Matthew Rid.gcway's determined war of attrition. how- ever, the Eighth Army estimates the Reds have suffered more than 177.000 casualties from Jan. 25 through last Saturday. The Sat.- urday figure alone was put at about 5.050. ,

The Chinese nevertheless have large forces intact. Correspondenit Erickson said army men believed they were capable of making a firm stand on a major counier-at-

mit themselves.

Report Soldiers In. Korea Need Socks

TORONTO. March 18 -- (OP) - The Ladies" Auxiliary of the Prin- cess Pa-trlcla's Canadian Light In- fantry Service Club Saturday launched a drive to collect 500 pounds of wool for socks for Cana- dian soldiers sewing in Korea. Soldiers in letters home have slai- ed that their feet are the hardest parts of their bodies to keep warm.

(:11 at 3225.000.

auxiliary officials said.

By JULIAN JACOBSON

LONDON. March is -. (AP) jThe War Office today opened its ilntelllgcnce flies to show what it isnld is the "best available informa- .tion" on life in the Soviet and :Chinese Communist armed forces.

Although the report described

conditions as far below Western standards. it said morale in both armies is relatively high because the Russian or Chinese man in im- iform still is better off than the folks he left at home. The intelli- gzc-nee notes showed: i Political control -. a dominant feature of both forms: down to the lowest level. The Soviet forces are "completely permeated by two vast internal informer networks" -. one run by the Communist Party. the other by the Ministry of state See- urity whose members even spy on each other. "Nearly all ranks live in fear of denunciation."

Chinese political commissioners are placed in all larger units, and all decisions of the commanders. except in operations. are subject to their approval. I

.PIy and food -. a Soviet private gets about 24 cents a day. although s. major-general in occupied Europe gets about 019.600 a year. out of which he must make a so-called volunta 3 contribution to the state loan of one or two months pay a year. Rstions are "poor. discipline is harsh and troops receive very little leave.”

The Chinese soldier's pay is about 3 Gent! a month. but he is sup- Dosed to get a plot of land in his home vulage. He has a meagre ra- tion of vegetables. rice and flour. There is no regular furlough sys-

tem. . Olin -- hunts and phina are each believed to have about 0,000,000

;B,e1ipev'e Russian, Chinese Armies Total 8. Million

has 2.800.000 men in 175 divisions. The Chinese army has about 2.500.- 000 men in 80 armies. Both count- ries have other millions in. the navy, air force and internal security units.

Equipment -- the Russian army's equipment. including "very great. numbers indeed of excellent tanks and artillery" is "simple, robust and reliable."

Chinese equipment is adequate but of various origins. mostly Jop- anese. American or locally produc- ed. More and more Russian equip- ment is becoming available.

pace" Sunday. Barnard said. They i

took any time they chose to com- .

day that the "Chinese Pcopl'.-'s Relief Association"- government sponsored-had taken over the

nuns' orphanage March 5. The ':Vdate of their arrest, was not men- itioned.

' The reports alleged the mortal- ity rate at the orphanage had been more than 90 per cent.

A prominent Hong Kong church ileader said today that the (charges were l'thc usual lying icommunlst propaganda" put out Etc support the case for taking 'over the orphanages.

He said mortality rates at Chin- iesc orphanages were often high ibecause many of the children lcame into them as babies aband- ioned in the streets. near deazh from malnutrition and beyond medical care.

The Communist papers said the nuns would be "suitably punish- ed” if convicted by the "-people's court" in Canton where they will be tried. '

One paper. the Communist Takungapo, published a cartoonof a nun standing in the doorway of an orphanage accepting babies and throwing them nnto si pile of infant corpses behind her.

Another report claimed lhat 36. 000 children had died at the in- slltution since it was founded 18 years ago.

Names Given

MONTREAL. March 13 - (GP) m The Mother House of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception to- night issued a list of names of five nuns arrested by Chinese Com- munist authorlties. v

The mine were:

Sister St. Alphonse du Redemp- tur (Antoinnette Couvretie, St. Dor- othee. Que.)

sister Marie Germain (Germaine Gravelle, st. Faustln. Que.)

Sister St. Germain (Ymelda. La- ferrlere, Port Route, Que.)

Sister Ste. Foy (Elizabeth Le-

Two Killed In Toronto Accident

TORONTO, March 18 -(GP) - Two persons were killed and one critically injured Friday night when an automobile in which they were riding collided head-on with a truck on a hilltop curve here. Killed were Mrs. Evelyn "Cook. 64, real estate dealer, of Newcastle, 0ni.. and George Stone. 34. of Newtonvllle. Ont. Mrs. Linda Stone. 64. Stone-'s mother. suffered a skull fracture.

Hugegr. Patrick's Parade In New York

NEW YORK. March i8 - (CP) - Almost 100.000 wearers of lhe green, including a lot of other peo- ple besides the Irish, paraded Sat- urday along New York”s Fifth Ave- nue to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Mayor Vincent R. Impeliitteri re- viewed the marchers.

Small Loans

OTTAWA. March 18 -(GP) - The growing need for a small loaf: to tide them over an economic hump has swelled the ranks of Canadians making use of finan- cing companies.

More Canadians stormed their doors last year than at any time in history. The amount of money they borrowed was at an all-time high.

The story is told in an Insur- ance Department annual sum- mary. disclosing ihe business done in the last five years by the four finance companies and so money lenders licensed to make small loans up to 0000. ' '

All of then. together. dished out 8119.000.000 in small loans in 1050 to 500.51 persons. This was 020000.000 higher than the 090.- ooo.ooo in l0& and double the 850000.00) in 1040.

tsntion of obtaining different gar- ments. ' p I - a '

msaundersrmsi'I1'iellusslauarmy

In Canada

Reach All- Time High

from 490.144 in 1940 and 361,070 in 1016.

Profits soared. Total net profit increased to s2.o32.ooo on small- loan business in 1900. the highest ever. it had swept from 32,130,000 in 1940 and tripled from the 09!).- 000 in 1940.

Among the booming four fin- ance companies lending in 1000 totalled 0l06.0ll).000 to 021.701 small-loan accouni. last year.

Profits of the fen:-companies in- creased to an all-time him of 82,- so1.ooo in uric. They compared with 81.9&'!.oOo in IOU. Tilly were more than three tlmu the sup,- I77 in 1946.

The 56 money lenders slim do so well. Accounts in IE0 Ioiolled 01.903 and money hand. totalled 0i3.54&0il). Profits of the 36 mon- gyllendcrs declined to tlllblo in loan from 0197.10? in 1010 and

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Fantastic Charges Against Canadian Nuns In China A

mire. Bols du Febvre. Que.)

sister st. Isidore (Germain Tan- guay, Nofway, N.H.)

A spokesman for the Mother House said a letter arrived today informing the order that the five nuns were arrested March 5 by the Communists.