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CHARLOTTETOWN. -CANADA," TUESDAY, MARCH

ST. LAURENT CONFIRMS FEDERAL

New .Weapon May BeyAnswe'r To Sub TI-treat Power Commission Bill In

Committee In

The limit fommal division of the present session of the Legislature was called yesterday on a motion by Major John A. MacDonald, Third Kings, when the House sit- ting as a committee of the whole gave second reading to an Act to Amend the Power Commission

Act.

The division was called by the chairman Mr. William Acorn, First Kings, when Major J. A. MacDonald moved at the term of office of members of the com- mission be reduce” from the six years listed in the amendment to four years. The suggee.::i change was defeated 18 to five l a stand- ing vote.

During a" long discussion of the amendment which was .finally agreed to in committee Mr. R. R. Bell, Leader of the Opposition, said it was obvious '”;t there was an intention to set up a power com- mluion. He had previously asked if there were such a commission or if it was proposed to appoint one. He maintained th' if a commission is appointed it should be absolute-

Legislature”

Premier Jones. as promoter of the amendment, stated that any such commision would have full charge of electrification in the Province. The bill under discussion also provides that no electric plant operated by a municipality within its own borders may be expropriat- ed by the Power Commission.

Under the provisions of the amendment an absentee owner oi a power plant whose expropria- tion is sought and whose owner cannot be located a notice ,of ser- vice may be "-ued by a Justice of the Supreme Court, rather than a Judge of the County Court as formerly.

Coroner's Bill

Hon. W. E. Darby, Attorney General, is the promoter of an amendment to the Coronet-'s Act designed to effect a change -in the presently paid fees. He said in answer to a question that though the new fees were slightly higher he believed ti-at it would cost the Province no more in the end as at present there might be a tendency

ly non-politicail.

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U.S. Rushes Sabre

Jets From

England

To German Zone

WUESBADEN, Germany. (AP)- The US. Air Force rushed some fast new F-86 Sabre . jet fighters from England to Germany Monday as an answer to Communist at- tacks which have brought down an

Amercan fighter and a British bomber. The Air Force said last week.

after two Soviet-designed MiG-15 fighters of the Czechoslovak Air Force had shot down a U. S. Thunderjet. that 25 Sabres would be sent to Germany from the United States "very soon."

The announcement Monday said "a number" of Sabres. newer and

Coming Events

"Racing on New Glasgow River Wednesday afternoon.

"Victoria Rink tonight. Kelly's Ctrsoae Redwings va. Shamrock Rock- ! .

"Try our Purina Finance plan for feeding your hogs and poultry. Dillon 8: Spiilett.

"Card party, Stanley Bridge lfhooi. Tuesday, March 17th. sponsored by W. I.

"Unloading oar Quaker Four and Feeds. March 17th. and l ifli. W. L. Delaney. Kenslngton.

"See Bobby Breen in "Fisher- man's Wharf”. Tracadie Hall to- lliilhi. 8 o'clock.

"See llazelbrook B. Y. P. U. pre- sent Minstrel Show in Pownal Hall, Friday. March 20th.

"Social evening. North Gran- ville Hall. March 19th.. Sponsored by Y. P. U.

"Flmm. ask about the Shin pain Feed Finance Plan. For part .culars contact your local reed mill

"Dance. Forest Hill nan, Tues- ggy; March 11th. 'rumer'a orch-

, "Chem valley-Y.r.U. comm. Mil-view Hall, Wednesday. March

13- nsored . Y. P. by Q1-well Vernon

"Race O'Keeffe Lake. wed- "eldlr. March llth. If any com- Mtiilon please attend. If not fine races held Saturday.

"Variety concert, Tuesday night

Pith. two one-act plays and

nther nuniberl. Kelly's cross School Hall. Admission soc and sec.

T"H0ckey at North River fink

ueldnv. March 17. Covehead

:"l115a0f:MifI.,M'i:ntague in the "see- 0

mm mmrme ate C game. Game

"In stock-oiiica s . am. 0" euro. Peed Molasses. ed on. "It! fish Meal. 0 gal. milk cans. on And coal burner stoves; Dillon at Sniiiett. . ..

"The Emerald Dramatic Club ffxiiil present their three act play lie Irish Dream Girl" in liner- i.aidtie?illclIIAtl.IrIIc: (E:”:ry.pIIcd m a Rolnnd.shnn. Curtain 0:80. Ad-

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faster than the F-84 Thunderjets stationed in Germany, had been brought in from the lllst fighter- bomber wing stationed in England.

Apparently the Air Force decid- ed it would not wait for the Sabres to arrive from the U. S.

Embarrassing to Yanks, It was embarrassing to the Americans that neither the des-

troyed Thunderjet nor its compan- ion got in a single shot in the at- tack by two MiGs near Regene- burg in the American zone last Tuesday. The Sabre has proved a match for the MiG in Korea.

The Thunderjet pilot parachuted safely. but two days later seven British airmen were killed in I Lincoln bomber that was attacked by two soviet MiGs near the East German border.

The number of Sabres brought

But it was presumed to be one or two squadrons-25 to 50 planes.

Besides the Sabres due soon from the United States. Canada also is sending a wing of Sabres to Ger- many to bolster NATO's European air force.

C.N.R. To Survey labor,lle.lJions

OTTAWA. (OP)-Concerned over "recurring crises” in rail wage negotiations, the Canadian National Railways has launched a "broad survey” into its labor relations.

The government-owned company, employing about 130,000 persons, said Monday in its 1952 report to Parliament that a condition of re- curring crises is "detrimental to the best interests of employer and employee alike, and highly undes- irable from the standpoint of the general public.”

Behind the C.N.R.. move was the costly general rail strike of Aug- ust, 1050, a. recent strike threat by the Brotherhood oi Railroad Train- men, that could. e crippled the service. and strike threats raised by C.N.R. hotel employees in the past several months.

in from England was not revealed;

Briiish Hear Details From First Seal-ord

LONDON. (OP)-A deadly new British anti-submarine in o r t a r which Royal Navy men believe will destroy almost every submar- ine coming within range has been tried out in Canada and the Unit- ed States.

Details of the new weapon were given in the House of Commons Monday by J. P. L Thomas. first lord of the admiralty, during a debate on the navy estimates.

The mortar is aimed automatic- ally by electronic controls after picking up the noise of submerged submarine on echo-sounding ap- paratus.

"A 1 m o s t instantaneously," it sends out a shower of bombs which fall around the target area and explode under water.

Installed on Vessel

The mortar has been installed in Britain's latest anti-submarine vusel I-f.M.S. Rocket.

"Two three-barreiled anti-sub- marine mortars are linked to an asdic echo-sounding set with an improved electronic fire-control system.

"The mortars fire a pattern of large projectiles with a high de- gree of accuracy and the projec- tilm can be set auto" '"'iy to exp ode at any ...-n depth. They have tails like bombs and their ahility to find the target is great- er.

Subs Have Little Chance

"Submarines have little chance of escaping destruction once they are within range."

The weapon has been tried out by Canada and the United States, Thomas said. and had "given those countries much food for thought and confirmed the faith which we ourselvu place in this new equip- ment."

,He did not state whether the Canadian or U.S. navies plan to adopt the moi-tars themselves.

Use By Cannda Likely

OTTAWA. (CP) - Canada is likely to arm her n'v anti-sub- marine escort vessels with a dead- ly new British anti-suib mortar which was euloglzed Monday in the Commons at Westminster.

The new weapon was demon- strated in Canada and the U. S. in recent months by the warship l-f.M.S. Rocket and favorably im- pressed Canadian officers. The likelihood is that orders will be placed for numbers of the mortar.

ilueen.Mary Had Less llcsiful Day

LONDON, (GP)-Queen Mary. ill with a gastric disorder. had a

"less restful day," it' was an- nounced Monday night at her home, Marlborough House. The Queen, who is 85. is confined to bed. No Increase In I

C.N.R. Pensions

OTTAWA. (CP) -The govt: ll-

ment is not considering increasing pensions to former Canadian Na- tional Rallways employees receiv- ing only the basic pension of 325 a month,'rran.sport Minister chev- rier said Monday in the ,Commons in answer to a question. I There are 3.300 pensioners get- tlng the basic amount.

Small C.N.R. Declared No

OTTAWA. (GP)-The recapitul- ited Canadian National Railways. with the help of,a book-keeping shuf-fie. cent up in 1002 with a tiny surplus. its first in seven years and its first peacetime one since 1030. . The surplus of 0142.821 for the 32.000.000.000 system was described aalneither "adequate nor satisfac- tory" by president Donald Gordon in Q letter accompanying the ON R. annual report tabled in the Ootmnona Monday by Transport Minister-.0hevrier. .

Record Reveals K The 105! accounts showed record

Surplus

t Adequate

100,000 was shifted from the bal- ance sheet and credited against operating expemeI..It represented the-amoi-tiiiatlou od OJNB. defence projects in the United states and had been curled in the balance sheet for several years until the reokkeeping. transfer last year

with the C.N.R. accounts. Mr chevrier tabled the 1052 report of Canadian National West Indies Steamshipa. showing an operating profit of 3:20.270 but in income de" ” of 083W.

Revenues were 07.409174. aignlalt

ezpensu .004. in "ii, operating deficit of 881. 70 and an overall deficit of

rile Commons referred both a. parts to its Ienlcnal committee

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Maynard Sanderson, age 06, of Miidgellwas killed yesterday morn- ing when he fell from a load of rails which he was taking home when his team of horses ran away. The accident occurred about l0.30 am. Mr. Oswald Mcliwen, a neighbour, who was employed in an adjoining field, saw the run- away horses. and managed to catch them.

He then retraced the road and found Mr. Sanderson already dead. He notified Mr. Aidius MacKenzie of Morell who called the coroner, Dr. Arnold Burden of St. Peters, and the R.C.M.P.

A jury was impanelled including Mr. J. Maolienzie as foreman, and

Midgell Farmer Killed In Accident Yesterday .

Marshall Petefs, George Bowley. Daniel Dingwell. and Gordon Hooper. The body, after being viewed by the jury, was taken to the Macbean Funeral Home,Char- lottetown, for an autopsy. The in- quest will be held Thursday,March 19th at 7.30 pm. at Marie school.

The deceased is survived by his widow, the former Pearl Sander- son, and a daughter. Eileen. of the staff of Dingwell and Rossiter, Morell. Also surviving are two sis- ters, Mrs. Bessie Docherty and Mrs. Annie Yeo. both in the U.S., and three brothers. Gordon at St. Peters, Harry at.Morell. and Jack in Charlottetown.

Funeral arrangements were not

Harold Webster. Everett Webster,

completed last night.

Conferences In

No change In Status Of Canadian Jets

OTTAWA. (CP)-Air Force head- quarters said Monday there has been as yet no suggestion that Canada's F86E Sabre jet fighter wing in England should be moved to the continent in line with the movement Monday of United States Sabre jets to Germany from Eng- land.

Canada now has a three-squad- ron wing of Sabres in France and England and a. third on 'route to Germany. All are earmarked for NATO roles which means eo'fa'r that they are not engaged in bar- der patrols.

u. N. nei1Et"e"s Haggle Over Lie's Succissor

UNTFED NATIONS. N.Y., (GP) -Canada's L.B. Pearson and Car- los Romulo, chief Philippine UN delegate, are the front-runners in the hotly-contested race for the -340.000 per year tax-free job held by Secretary-General Trygve Lie of the United Nations.

Romulo has the strong backing of the United States but neither Pearson nor Romulo were elected last week on the first ballot taken by the security council.

There will be another turn. per- haps next Thursday. and the US. delegation let it be known today thatRomulo will remain its choice. Pearson appears to he the U. S. second choice. The Big Five will meet Wednesday to see what can be done about an agreement.

The strong American position for Romulo bids fair to collide with equally strong Russian oppo- sition. Worried delegates are pre- dicting that nothing will be done at this session of the general as- sembly to replace Lie.

If no successor is agreed upon, Lie will remain here indefinitely.

Big Housing E Proiecl Planned For Trenton

TRENTON. N. 5., (CP)- Three cltizena' groups are planning build a housing project here which on completion will be the largest in Pictou county. Mayor Logan an- nounced Monday.

Two-thirds of this industrial town's working force lives in out- lying districts and towns. The pro- ject would alleviate the commut- ing" problem and bring workers closer to their jobs.

The group: plan to form 1. oo- operativa housing organisation. and the homes will be financed by pro- vincial government loans. Town council has assured street. sewerage and water facilities.

-Details of the project were not released.

Nantucket Lightship Moved To New Stead

NANTIEKIT. Mass. tAiP)-Af- for N0 years at the old stand. the Nantucket llghtlhlp win in I new position Monday-15 miles east of its previous location. The Cont Guard said the change was made to serve shipping better by keep- ing vessels clear of shoals and place tiuim directly on the Great

Circle route to Europe.

w ruled Monday.

Tito .Arrives For Series Of

Greatwiiritain

LONDON. (AP)-President Tito of Yugoslavia, the first head of a Communist state to visit Britain, arrived by ship Monday for talks bearing vitally on Western defence plans in the Balkans.

Resplendent in naval uniform and gold braid. the smiling Red ruler was greeted by the Duke of Edinburgh. Prime Minister Chur- chill and Foreign Secretary Eden.

immediately Tito was surround- ed by swarms of police-many wearing bullet-proof vests. scot- land Yard imposed security pre- cautions without recent parallel in Britain. .

Tito told his welcomers that he hoped his five-day visit "will greatly contribute to the further strengthening of the friendship, mutual understanding and collab- oration between our two nations."

variety Of Subjects

Among subjects expected to be discussed in 'rito's talks here are Balkan defence. economic aid. Trieste and Yugoslaviais relations with Italy and the Vatican, and possibly even the matter of a for- mal pact of a political, economic or military nature.

British officials also are inter- ested in Tito's evaluation of the impact of Joseph Stalin's death an

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life Sentence For. Murder

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP)- A mild-mannered Sunday school teacher who terrorized community with a series of housebreaks was sentenced to life imprisonment Monday for the slaying of a acad- ing couple last November.

Murdock MacDonald. 28. of Bos- ton waa sentenced after the state accepted his, plea of guilty to sec- ond degree murder in the shooting of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Porter Nov. ii.

The middle-aged

Porters were

McDonald while he was robbing their home.

shot to death after they surprised ”

17, 1953

ELECTION THI

Says Colilesi Will Come In few Months

OTTAWA. (OP)-Prime Miinister t. Laurent said Monday the rec- ord of his Liberal Government will be placed before the Canadian people "within the next few months," thus practically ensuring a federal election this year.

Mr. St. Laurent made this brief reference to an election-his strongest forecast to date-after George Drew, Progressive Conser- vative leader, reiterated opposition charges of government waste, ex- travagance and inefficiency.

Mr.tl)rew said the govern-ment should consent to an investigation of its administration. It should ad- mit there had been waste and ex- travagance as evidenced by the Currie report and give assurance that corrective steps were being taken.

Mr. st. Laurent, speaking during the budget debate, said the gov- ernment is not going to bolster the "insufficiency" of the opposition argument by agreeing it has been doing an inefficient job, that it has been wasteful or extravagant.

"We are going to submit. within the next few months, that matter to the Canadian electorate." the Prime Minister said amid cheers by Liberal members, "and the honorable gentleman will have ev- ery opportunity of expressing their views about our administration.

Proud Of Job

"We think we have done a pret- ty good job. There are low people who are not in the official opposition who also think we have done a pretty good job.

"Some of them do not happen to be Canadiant axpayers .but some of them do happen to be Canadian taxpayers. while we may be very conceited we have the con- ceit that the kind of job we have been doing is the kind of job we can go out to our fellow Canadian citizens and attempt to justify."

The exchange ,bet.ween,the Prime Minister and Mr. Drew brought the

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Si. Laureni Refuses To Produce lleporls

OTTAWA. (OP)-Prime Minister St. Laurent Monday condrmed the existence of two reports concei'n- ing the delence- department.sought for weeks by the Opposition, but indicated they wont be made pub- lic.

He was accused by George Drew, Progressive Conservative leader, of enunciating a "new concept of responsible government" in his statement and of indicating anew that the' government intends to give just as little information as possible to Parliament.

The reports have been popping in and out of Commons and de- fence committee discussions for weeks since the sensational Currie report on the Army works services was tabled. opposition motions to have them tabled have been re- jected by the Liberal majority.

Report Identified Mr. St. Laurent identified them

i. A report made to Defence

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O'l:'1'AiWA. (GP)-A man who confesses to murder can be con- victed on that confession alone, the Supreme court of Canada

There is no law, it added, which say: that a. jury must be caution- ed by the judge of the "danger" of convicting solely on the basis of the confession when there is no corroborating evidence.

one majority judgment rejecting the seven! of Juries Kelsey. at, of Welland, 0irt.. sentenced to hanged April 14 for the slaying of a Wellandtexi-driver. Sam Delib- catch,

The taxi-driver's body. stabbed and beathn. was found Dec. 11. I040. on a lonely road on Welland's outskirts. Kelsey. was picked up two years later -when a friend to whom he allegedly confessed the crime tipped police. .

Kelsey. in a writtdi confession to police which he later retracted, involved his brother, Lloyd, in the crime of murder and taxi theft. Lloyd was tried and acquitted, but Junta was convicted.

Jamel Maloney of Toronto. de- fence counsel. appealed to the supreme court on the grounds that the trial judge erred in law on two points. one involved the confusion. In. Maitmey claimed

he also allegedly failed to empha-

It made the ruling in a six-to-i

Murde-r Conviction Legal On Confession Alone

size sufficiently to the jury the theory of the defence that Kelsey deliberately lied because of a mor- bid desire for notoriety.

Six of the seven bencheis hear- ing the appeal decided that Kelsey had been given it fair trial.

In his dissenting judgment. Mr. Justice J. R. Cartwright said he conceded that the defence theory of one". lieve the judge had presented it to the Jury

Kelsey, he sugges given a new trial.

But he said he did not be-

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Police found Mrs. Mlchaud, 46. Prairie: beaten to death. Her husband was

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Yesterday in the Legislature Mr. W.F. A. Stewart, chairman of the select standing committee to in- quire into the application of the" Canadian National Railway for a bus franchise in Prince Edward Island, tabled the committee's re- port recommending that theiRail- way application be turned down. He also tabled a transcript of the evidence and arguments taken at the hearings. which were held last June in Charlottetown, George-,- town and Summerside. '