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Salvage Tug ? taught In Ice

HALIFAX, March 2 —(CP)—'l‘l1¢ salvage lug Grenadier struggledto tear ilerself free 01f Ln ice-pack tonight while the freighter the had come to rescue limped lwlY over the horizon under 1m- own steam. '

A message from the skipper of the sea-going tug said he had arrived within sight of the 1,900- ton Stuart Prince. whose distress call had sent the Grenadier speed- 111g out of Louisburg,‘ 215.. toward st. Pierre and Mlquelon at dawn today, but the Grenadier was fast in the ice.

Meanwhile, e Stuart Prince's

crew had made temporary to her englpes and she was Elfin‘ more than four knots for Bt. John's, Nfld. The United States Coast. Guard cutter Dexter, which had altered course to go to the aid of the freighter, was still standing by.

First word of the freightefls trouble was received early today when she reported engine trouble in ill!‘ vicinity of St/Pierre and Miqnclon. off the South coast 0f Neufoundland.

Premier Mcllalr llas No ilomment

FREDERICTON, ‘March 2-(6?) -Premicr John B. McNair said tonight he had no comment to make on the suggestion made in the Prince Edward Island Legis- lalirrc yesterday that a joint Maritime rcfcumatory to house convlciad offenders with less than two year sentence; be established.

Roderic A. Large: Prince Erl- ward island Attomcy-Genersl. also suggested alvlaritfmc cmutof alp- pe-‘ll which woulidtrevelto provin- cial capitals to hear cues as re- milled.

Premier MCNllf holds the At- torncy-Geileralu post in New Brunswvick.

Coming Events

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"Meadowbani: W. I. Pan

Rogers Hardware, March __.

"Grinding Grain Thursdays‘ ‘only. Len MacDonald. New Dom- hiorl.

"Cornwall. York Point Institute, Pantry Sale at Rogers Friday afternoon. , '

"Cornwall Rink Basket Social and Corlcert. Monday, March 15th. ladies with gaskets free.

"Playoff game at Milton to- llislii. East Royalty u. ltdiiiton. Admission 26 cents.

“There will be a horse race at west River Bridge on Thursday. March 5. l

“Hockey East Royalty rink m- nigln, Geywwn Rovers vs. Dun- "Wnflse. Skate after.

\ “Unloading Wednesday and “lilffidiy oar doubis-ocreend coal. James P. Callaghan.

Ietvlugker tonilht at. M1811 u fi Bkate after. "'2 _- ~

"Hilhfield Presbyterian’ (Ihuroh Ilfluv ule qt Holman’: may. March b, zoo-p, m,

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Says Russian Attack 0n The ll. S. Possible

waarrmovon. Mnrcli z ,- (AH-Wlilhm C. Bullitt, for- mer United States Almbamador to Blush, laid today that “an attack on our country by over- whelming‘ muses of Stalin- driven slaves" h ponible.

vmlnc 8100-0004700 m muc- ary supplies for China, be told the House Foreign ‘Affairs Committee, which la consider- ‘fng State Socrotrry Marshall's request for $610,000,000 in nun- mllltary help to the Chhng Kai-Shel: Government:

“If our Gwenimeut should permit the Communists to take over China. it would have fail- ed to bar the way to attaolrou our country by uvza helmlug muses of Stalin-driven slaves."

In a. reference to the Marshall program for Europa-n recov- ery,_Bullltt added: “We cannot successfully oppose Communist conquest of the world by op- posing Communism in Europe on“):

150,000 Skins 0o 0n Auction

MONTREAL, March 2 -- (OP) -More than 160.000 skins went 0n suction today before fur buy- ers from Canada, Britain, the United States. Mexico and South America in the Canadian Fur Auction Sales Company building.

The skins crme from all parts of Northern ‘Canada and Alaska. Mont popular furs among the out-ottovln early buyers appeared to be ranch mink. ermine, beaver and muekrst. Canadian dealers were taking more Alaska seal, mink and beaver.

Canadian squirrel skins were the most numerous, 50.170 sched-

Next came 80.076 music-at. 28.16! ranch mink, 10.390 ermine, 12.057 raccoon, 11.001 red fox, 0.014 wild mink, 5M’? low-grade rhink. 5.783 beaver and 1.990 Alaska seal.

Even the slrunkha popular fel- low with the fur buyers, was well represented with 3.400 llrinv. There were smaller quantities of white fox, wolf, fcnber wolf, blue fox. cross fox, lynx, lynx cat. ‘marten, fisher, Otter and miscel- laneous lure. _

Auction ‘officials expected it would be more than a week be- fore the whole stock ia cle ‘ out.

All goods exported 041m Cen- sds to the United States must, be paid for in Amerlcan- funds, but British buyers are able to pur- chase in Canadian fund: obtained through chartered bunks.

uled to go on the auction‘ block. ing

Eng.i n.eert ,KiPlled When Maritime Express Derailed

Si‘. ANDRE. Que. March 2- (CP)-Arthur Boucher, N-year- old engineer of Riviera du Loup, Que. died tonight in I derailment of,the Canadian National Railways Maritime Express when it ran through an open switch spproacn~ in: the. isolated St. Andre station, five miles from this Kamouraska ‘County village. .

Boucher was ‘ _pped in the cab of his engine as it left the track and rolled over along with the tender and baggage car of the crack Halifax-Montreal train. Four passenger coaches also were derailed but remained upright.

Fireman Charles Brilliant, 46, of Riviere du Loup. wentpver witn the engine but. scrambled out of its cab uninjured. There were no injured among the passengers al- though they were severely shak- en up. -

The Express. due at. St. Andre at 11:30 s.m., was derailed sev. eral hundred yards short ofthe station where it was to have switched onto a siding from the

‘main line. First reports said time

switch f- tioned too slowly for the Express.

From Riviera du Loup, 1'! miles to the east, the C.N.R. sent. a res- cue train and wrecking crew. A second wrecking crew was sent from Levis where the Montreal- traln was due at 1:20 p.111.

Cormpany officials said cause 1f ti: accident. was being investigat-

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Passengers subsequently trans- ferred to other coaches and tho Depress was remade at the scene, then continued ite journey, The train was due to arrive at Levis at 7 pm.

10 Killed In Belgian Air l.lne Plane trash

LMVDON. Marrh b-(AP) -A Sober-la Belgian Air Lines plane crashed in flames at London Air- port tonight. First reports said l8 persons wevekilled.

The plane radioed shortly be- fore the crash;

“May make emergency land-

Three persons were removed: alive from the blazing wreckage of the DC-S. Rescue crews at- tempted to get near enough to the plane to remove other possible survivors. '

The plane had flown from‘ Brus- sels to London and crashed at e end of a runway.

Department Store Sales llp In January

OTTAWA. March 2 — (C?) -- Dollar volume of department store sales in Canada was 17 per cent higher in January than in January, i947. thoBurelu of Statistics re- ported today. The Bureau's unad- justed index of sales on the base INS-SB equals 100, stood It 102.8 compared with 100.1 a year ago.

Iy uriiunnsox moons. v.7... March a -,(CF)-‘- Illusion acceptance of a United Staten proposal that the an trait powers try tcwclve‘ tho "Palatine problem war-given to the ‘United Net-ions Secuflty Coun-

‘ell today in a toneruaslon disrupt-

ed a shouting woman demon- ntrat r. qltafn declared that she could not participate in the pro- poled- big-power consultations. Andrei A. Orcmyko, Bulb's Do- puty_l\lll.ll‘n_ minim», told in; n- pevnr council considering the gravest tune, et to face the un- ited Nations. his country op- omd untrue a focusloommiiioa of Great Britain. the United States.

Russia ‘Accepts U. S. yllroposal Re Palestine

prdpocai made a meet ago at the opening of the crucial Palestine debate that a Bil live committee neck to Delve‘ the problem. He told the ‘delegates that the Unltod States supports the lvleinof the U11...“- nembly, approVGd last Nob. N. for

partition of the Holy lnnd~into P“

Jewish and Arab states/but that it mun be done by peaceful means. A UN. comlviilliorrhld naked the council ‘to establish - an interna- tional srmylc enforce partition. Austin was just ending his speech with a declaration that the cannon must act if it found that a threat to the peace existed when a woman shouted from the section of the council chamber reserved ‘for nib public: “What. kind of action?” tLN. luandr spotted the dunon- fllator n n black-haired woman Jltlrinl a purple shawl and asked her to be quiet. She continued talk- ingand-Jolm Cevgreve of the U31. aoeurity fines platted to escort her out of SI chamber. ltie remind. Ill American.

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llope Mulch‘ Dwelling ls r _ Total Loss

The two-storey residence of W. Hope Mutch at Keppoch was de~ strayed by fire last night. Neigh~ bors helped save most of the fur- niture but were powerless to stop the fire which began on the roof. Loss was estimated unofficially a’ approximately $12,000. It was be- lieved to be partially covered p1 insurance.

The blaze was discovered shout 1o o'clock andlhad not gained s great deal of headway at the time The only water available was from a domestic system in the house and when it became evident the large dwelling could not be saved efforts were concentrated on removing the furniture.

Three hours after the outbreak began showers of sparks were still rising from the ruins and neigh- " bors planned to scene all night in case the fire spread to a large barn some l0 yards away. Ten head of cattle in addition to feed and equipment were in the barn. Lacking water, itlwas feared the barn would bl: lost should a spark set it on fire. However, it was believed the bar: was not in any great danger.

Mr. and__Mrs. Mutch and their

son planned to spend the nigh‘. with neighbors. The road from Charloitclo-vvn

to the Mutch property is open for motor traffic only over part thc distance and no call was sent to the Charlottetown Fire Depart- ment for assistance. Residents oi lihc city over to the iirc said tnr. road was open for cars only as us". as the fish hatchery. ,

and a number of calls were re- ceived nt the Guardian office ask- ing about the fire.

all. B. Legislature Opened Yesterday

FREDERICLIMN. March 2 -(CP) q-The traditional l5-gun salute boctned out over Parliament Square today as the fourth sessicn of New Brunswick} 40th Legislature was officially opened by Lieutenant- Gov:rnol' DJ... blacLai-eui.

Aftn- tile ‘lilirone Speech had been moved by L-C. 9Y5"?- 41-‘- Wes-‘g-tnoriand) and ’ seconded b7 Kulgh S. Baikam (ll-Charlotte) the House kaadjouéned on‘ mctiogogf Hugh Mac y r0815!" , ' servative Oppbsitlon leader. who will cipen the Speech debate t0- tnorrowt‘

The Throne Speech, -the fourth read by Lieutenant-Governor Mae- Laren, predicted change! 1n '1“ Wonkmens Ccmpensation Act and ‘improvements in the public 88r- vice. ‘ . stressing development of the Provinces industries. thB SW96! noted fonznation of new Plants W process raw materials and the possibilities of a. major chemical development. to utilize native re- sources. l

Prior to his entry to the As- sembly Chan-bet _the Lieutenant- Governor inspected- i110 ‘WI-Pd °l honor qf "A" company of the Carlmi sonkd tgorkahgegiment (R. A.) to 6 ‘ 9-

zmiediateiy after reading of the ‘Throne Spgeoha larxeutler Joli: B. M Nair. lea er H Goverfrunent force in the iii-rest House. introduced" a bill, maln- mmn; the right of the House to deal with public business first. Mr. Dyan. in moving the WNW Speech. reviewed u» rev-lumen" record and ufllflfléhdtd labor Ind management for their ‘"0110 ‘fl- istlens" in 411817119"-

Agrictilture was "stitl- theplost important industry alth" hope not the but plyfil , “'7' ed continuation of the forestry m‘ tment camnaim in 911"" fire; and laid the greatest need of the educational system wol I

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‘nut the Jones Government had acted in "a legal and proper mm ner‘ in taking over the strike- bound Canada Packers Ltd. plant in Charlottetown last September was maintained in the Legislature on Monday evening by Hon, p, L large. Attorney General, in g HD8960 on the Draft Address.

Authority for the Government's Brit-ion. Mr. Large said, was the Agricultural Products Marketing Act. passed in the Provincial Leg- islature in 1940. ‘

“I submit." Mr. Large said. “that within the confines, of section g

f this Act, subsections l and f,

here is power for the action Jl taking over the control and man- agement of the plant which the Government took in this case,

_This Act defines Jnatural prn- diwis’ i" "Willi"! any product ov agriculture. etc, and any article or food or drink wholly or partly manufactured or derived from any’ such product.’ The’ pol-pg" md m.

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l 1n the Legislature yesterday Mr,

1'11.» Iifathieson gave notice u“; he will sci; the leader of the Gov- ernnienlfto answer the following QUCSllOnl;

l. Table all correspondence Ind communications which h,“ pa.“ between the Goverrment and / or any member of the Government and Canada Packers Limited since the first day of September, 1947.

3. Does an emergency in refer ence to the primary 1101111681‘! of hose and pork prflducts in this Province. due to the mm of Lo- cal 282, United Packlnghouse Workers of Armerica still exist? If so. state clearly the mu Jnd Cir- cumstances relied upon by the Government as constituting such

sldered now to exist, when did it cease? .

8. What is the Government's pol- icy and intention in reference to continuing control of said plant?

4. Did the Honourable Horace Wright, Minister without Portfolio. actually take over the care, control

(Continued on Page 13 Col. 2)

mo. Foiled In Bank Hold-up

IIANGE GARDEN. 9110-. Mlfcll 2 —— (CP) — Provincial Police to- day wounded one of two youths during an attempted hold-up of a branch of the Bonqua Canadienne Nationals in this Montmorency County parish on the Besupre coast. Bank manager Mrs. Herve Badard collapsed from shock after the gun- lay.

B. V no. 20-year-old resident of a Boaupre coast parish, was shot through the right lung by one of four police hidden in the bank af- ter he had fiouted an order to throw down his gun. Instead Ves- ina- allegedly turned his revolver on the polietman. .

The second bandit. identified u P.E.,Cduchon, also o! a Beaupro cmtvlilage, uusvhalmlelf ever the prone» lguvo . begging forgiveness for living prompted him to take part in the gtlck-up. e wounded youth wit‘ taken to mital in Quebec.

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Farm Products Manketin Act Cited As Authority For Gov’t Strike Action

tentoftheAotlastatedinsub- section 1, is to provide ‘for the control and regulation in any o: all respects of the transportation. packing, storage and marketing of natural products within the Prov- ince’, etc. while subsection 2 pro- vides that ‘the Lieutenant-Gov- ernor-in-Council may from time to time establish. amend and re- voke schemes for the control and regulation within the Province nf the transportation, packing, stor "age and marketing of any nature. products’, etc."

Mt. Large said the particular marketing scheme provided for by the Act had later been declared ultra vlres. because it interfered with inter-provincial trade. He cited Judgments of Justices Arsen ault and Saunders, however, to show that it was not contended that the Act was ultra vires the Legislature as applied to matters of purely provincial trade. Its lip-- plication to the present case, he

Will Ask Premier -For Information Regarding Plant Control

uriergency. If no emergency is ccnq

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l lFumes Overcome

Ottawa Firentiell’

Noxious times overcame nine fire- men battling a three-hour blaze which today set off a series of ex- plosions in the Si. Vincent DB P8111 Hospital for housing 200 aged and incurable.

Believed caused by a short cir- cuit in the hospital lighting sys- tem the blaze destroyed lighting. heating and telephone facilities and set cff a series of explosions which shattered basement windows.

As relatives of patients gathered anxiously about the hospital, Fire Chief Grliy Burnett described the fire as the most startling and dif- ficult in his experience, '

He said that had it been allowed to develop. it probably would have been one of the worst in the hist- ory of Ottawa,

First cargo 0f British Steel Leaves For llussla

IDNDON. March 2 -- (AP) —A Board of Trade spokesman said today that the first cargo 0f Brit- ish steel for Russia under the Ang- lc-Soviet trade pact was loaded over the week-end and 4s sched- uled to sail early this week from Bristol.

The cargo of 1,500 tons of light rails is being carried in the Rus- sian cargo ship "Selenga "

Earlier the unilt Daily Worker reported t the first two Russian ships to ‘bring grain to Britain depaited without ‘ " led

OTTAWA, March 2 -- (C?) — ,

Lt-Gen. James A. Van Fleet, U. S. A. is in Athens to take over com-mend of the U. S. Military Mission advising the Greek army in their flight. against Communist guerrilla forces. He replaces Maj.- Geri. William G. Livesay.

Two B. 0. Liberals Leave Gomliions Ghamber In Protest

OTTAWA. March B—ICP)— Two British Columbia Liberal members of the Commons tn- nlght left the green b ‘

LETTER

[Oppositibfln

Sries llouse Held Bonteinpi

By Douglas How

OTTAWA. March 2 —(0P'>-’-Th\ Commons heard Prime lvlilistfl Mackenzie King say today 10ml "ua-ltll the very eve of theJqpan-n eae attack. Iuch information as I received from the British author- ities was to the effect that an earl! attack upon Hong Kong was not anticipated."

Then, turbulent and strident, ll listened to Progressive Conservat- ive-ories that. the House had bee! ‘lheid in contempt” and “outraged! by the Government's refusel- tl table a letter that had already been published in the press.

It‘ was the letter written by Premier Drew of Ontario in 1943 to take sharp issue with the findo

TORONTO. March t (GP)- Premier Drew of Ontario suit! tonlglt that "in seeking» to convey the impression that he was unaware of the threat o! early war in the Pacific prior to the departure of the Hung Kong force In October, 194i." Prime Minister Mackenzie King "is simply piling false-

hood ou falsehood."

' The Premier was comment- ing in s statement on Mr. King's denial in the House of Commons at Ottawa today that either he "or the Canad- fan government knew before the sailing of the Canadian Hung Kong expedition in 1941, that war was imminent in the Pacific.

after angrily claiming’ that Speaker Gaspard Fauteux was not enforcing the rule against reading of speeches.

The members '.— George Cruickehank, member for-J-‘ns- er Valley, and James Sinclair, member for Vancouver North -left after Dr. Fautcux threatened to name them un- less they ceased interruptions while .1. I. Hamel (BF-St. Mlurice-Lsl-‘leohel was deliv- ering a speech in ‘French.

Mr. Sinclair started the scene when he naked Dr. Fau- teux when he was going to enforce the rule against the reading of speeches in the Commons. The Speaker drew Mr. Hamel‘: attention to the fact that it was against the rules to rend a speech.

Mr. Hamel went on speaking extemporsneoully for s time. but. then consulted his text when quoting 1mm. or newl- psper extracts. -

Report B. 0. ls Sonsidering Sales Tax i

VIOIORXA, March ll - (CP) — Paced with the most serious fin- ancial problems since depression days. the British Columbia Legis- lature opened today with reports current that the Government is considering 3 three-per-cent sales tax.

_'1‘he Speech from the Throne. read by Liam/Governor Charles A. Banks. mentioned no new taxation, but observers interpreted the text

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WAKNMON. March S-(AP) —JOli!i L. Lewis has the soft coal industry on edge again.

The coal producers are wonder- ing today whether the president cl the United Mine Workers find.) means to turn his pension divpuh into a full-blown contract. showdovvp around April 1.

l! he does. he must give me operatmr-"snd the federal and state conciliation services-w days notice some time this week.