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Subscriptions Delivered 86.00, MaU 55.00; other Provinces 4| U. B. 87,00

U. S. SPY PROBT WITNESS IS CHARGED WITH PERJURY

MCNAUGHTON STRESSES NEED o|= ATOMIC c

Bans On Personal Purchases From U. S.

Relaxed After Jan. 1

5a Killed n Plane Brash

BARRANQUILLA. Colombia, Dec. is _ (AP) - Larisa Airlines said tonight one of its passenger planes crashed this morning about 26 miles west of Bogota and all 30 persons aboard were killed.

The plane, a DC-3, was en route from Bogota to Barranquilla. The two-engine plane carried a crew oi four and 26 pasengers. Col. Luis l‘. Pinto was the pilot and A1- ioliso Calvo the co-piiot. Two siewarcicsscs were aboard.

The plane crashed within five mlntltes after the takeoff. a mem- ber of the Civil Aviation Board at Bogota said.

The dead included two British euzlneers connected with the Shell Petroleum Company in Bogota. Their names were 81"“ B! A~ Q Buchan and E. Howey.

All other passengers, including otcnt. women and one infant, were apparently Colombians.

“TNDSOR. England — tCPi — Berkshire County Council are to pay 2d. lfour cents) weekly pnck- et-moiley to two year old.a in their flirt‘.

Coming Events

"PM Hfil Christmas Concert, Fri- day, [let-caliber 17th.

"REg'l.al' dance Coles‘ Work- shop, New London. Friday rugnt.

"l illiotmili Concert, Marshfleld blflllrltl}. December 20th. anvs Road School Concert. l‘I“-(l'rl_\, December twenty-first.

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"lflig Creek School Concert. hiesclal. December 21st.

"Christmas Concert, Springfield, Lot 6T. Wednesday", December 22nd.

"won't forget Ebenezer School Concert, December 17th, at 8.15.

"Sunday SChOOI Christmas COH- cer", llighfield United Church, Fri- day, Dccornber 11th. B o'clock.

"ltcserve Tuesday night, Decem- ber 11st. for Brackley Christmas School Concert. t

"lluilstaifnage (Ihvistmas Con- ? ', hlarshncld Hall, December lTlll ll i‘. M.

"ltcscrve Friday night. Doc, 17 for Si lgnatius School concert in .\l'\_\lll'lil Hull.

"Salvation Army Christmas Con- P!" Wednesday, December 22nd, 8

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"North River Hall, Wednesday. ltcrn-iiber 22nd, Warren Grove Sfhflci Concert. -

"Christmas Concert, Pleasant gm“ H111. Wednesday, December 2nd.

"Fr-no to Christmas Concert in About" Village School, Wednesday. Dtccmber 22nd.

"Dance. in. Stewart tonight. Thursday. Eastern Rhythm Boys’ Orchestra.

"Tonight for your Dancing Pleasure come to Islanders Country

Club. ‘Travellers Rest. Special IiliBit‘. "Christmas Concert, Baldwin's

“Md School. Wednesday, Decem- Nr 22nd.

"Annual Meeting Victoria Bmlfih No. 21, Canadian Legion

W1 be held at I P. M. Thuréday.

Dkmtber 16th.

“Attention! Buying dressed Poultry Hidly, December 17th. m’?! 3 to b P. M. Weighing Ind "will! will be dons by Mr. Mac- Qulrrle of Canada Packers. n. a.

"Rod do Sons, Vernon River.

‘ "Chili's Valley Junior Farmers Plmnts "Shara tho Wealth". Uigg lthool Hall, n-lday. December l-mi. goonsorod by Ulgg. Kinroaa Junior

nmers. ' "I" Stock. Coleman Oil Heaters. “ffli Heaters. electric and gaso- nke‘ driven washing " , oil- . bran. shorts. W. I. Bowman.

(By The Canadian Pres!)

OTTAWA, Dec. l5—-A woe! 100 late for the Christmas rush, the Government today set Jan. 1 u the date for relaxation of bans on personal purchases brought back to Canada. from the United States and simultaneously opened the way again for import of many foods and manufactured goods.

Finance Minister Abbott trounced:

1. Returning Canadians able to bring back home, to the usual regulations, "incid- ental personal purchases valued at not more than $100 provided they have been ou.t of Canada not less than 4B hours."

2. Import now will be allowed of fresh and canned meats. poul- try and game. eggs, yeast, prepar- ed cereal foods, peanut butter, condensed milk, beans, peas, hon- ey, nuts in the shell, cigars and cigarettes, and other foods. ‘Ilhis took all foods other than fies-h and processed fruits off thrpro- llibl-ted list and the Minister said those would go by next July.

On Quota Basis

8. A large list. of goods are lak- cn off the banned llSt and placed on a quota bis-sis. including bath-

ill-

will be subject

tubs and other iron or steel plumbing fixtures. stoves, furnac- es, other cooking and heating

equipment, furniture of all kinds end dressed furs and manufact- ures of fur.

The relaxations affected the November, 1947, restrictions WillCh were set in force in view of what was then considered a "danger- ous" shortage in official reserves of U. S, dollars and gold. Im- provement in that position made thle changes possible. the Minister or! d.

Government officials said the Government still would allow only $100 in LZS. funds to any Canad- lnn visiting the U, S. and that the $100 in personal purchases would naturally have to come out of

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Priceflontrols Urged 0n tlttawa

OTTAWA, Dec. 15 —tCP) -'1\v0 of Canada's leading labor organi- zations today proposed the estab- lishment of price-control bodies which would check on increased prices to the consumer.

The proposals were put forward independently by the Trades and Labor Congress and the Canadian and Catholic Confederation of Lab- or in briefs submitted to the Prices Orin-mission.

Appearing first, the T.L.C. pro- posed that the Federal Government should appoint a prices control board. 1t. would rule on price in- creases before they became effect- ive.

The Canadian and Catholic Con- federation of Labor followed the T. 1..C. on the witness stand and sud- gested that the Federal and Pro- vlncial Governments should create price arbitration courts.

These would serve two functions. the Orgrliization said. They could Judge i e grounds on which specific increases in the price of basic com- modlties were proposed and they could also investigate price abuses generally.

Salary Boost Given After

ilauous Huddle

Business l’; Passes Second Beading In Olty Council.

A special meeting of the City Council last night gave second reading to a proposed business tax and then went into a caucus huddle to discuss the granting of the city employees’ request for a salary increase. When the latter subject came up the Pres-s was excluded and was later informed that a monthly increase of ten dollars, retroactive as from July ist and to continue as long as the cost. of living remains at its pre- sent tevel, had been granted all employees who were members of the Employees Municipal Associa- tion.

It. was learned that a first reso- lution asking for an increase of S15 per month was defeated with Couns. Doyle, O'Donnell and Hol- lrind supporting the resolution. One Councillor is said to have voted against both resolutions.

The business tax, which will come up for third reading at the next regular Council meeting on Jan. 10, will affect the proprietors of many businesses. trades, and professions in the City, including

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Heavy Local

‘Local Reaction To Margarine Judgment

llighPricesForButter, Margarine In Nfld.

ST. JOHN'S, Nfld.. Dec. 15 — lCP) - Newfoundlanders are pay- lng heavily for butter and butter aubatltuutcs. latest retail figures showed here today.

For butter most; of it im- ported from Canada residents have watched prices spiral upward from 48 cents before the war to $1.10 a pound in most stores to- day.

Two grades of margarine are manufactured. one for table‘ pur- poses and the other for cooking. High grade margarine is sold at g ceiling price of 39 cents and second grade for 34 cents.

Margarine production in 1047 a- mounted to 100,000 pounds valued at $2,750,000. During the Second World War, margarine - scarce because of cocoanut oil shortages — sold for 42 cents. Before the

war premier grades brought 28 cents. Residents say there is little

difference in taste between marg- arine and butter and higher con- sumption of the former is at- tributed to economic rather than palatable reasons.

Butterine. a third butter sub- stitute. retails for 39 cents a pound.

Demand For

Qualified Breeding§ows

Madame Ghiang Fails In Quest

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 — (AP) — Madame Chlang Kai-Slick has failed thus far in her quest for all-out United States backing for her husband's regime in Chins. Robert. Lnvctt, Undersecretary of State. indicated today.

The United States, he said at a press conference, is sticking to the policy laid down by Congress last session, under which limited aid has beerr given to Generalisslmo Chiangb nationalist regime.

Congress voted 8125000000 for military aid and $275,000,000 for economic aid.

Urge Chllng To Quit

NANKING. Dec. lo —- (C?) President Chlang Kai-Shekks closest friends asked him today to quit and let others try to negotiate peace with China's Communists. it was learned reliably.

The suggestion that China's vet- eran leader step down - at least temporarily - came as separate peace talks were reported in North China, where Peiplng is in peril of falling to the Reds.

The situation on both the North China and Nanlalng fronts is desperate. Apparently the men who have stood by Ohiang for tin decades decided the hour calls for desperate measu ca.

Chiang was said to be studying the suggestion. He gave no sigh that he will yield control.

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Flash Fire In Toronto Claims Lives Of Four

TORONTO. Dec. lB-(Cri-A flash flre snuffed out four lives in a midtown Toronto rooming house today.

Eight others in the three-storey. brick house on Central McGill Street, escaped-two with injuries -as the blaae swept from the basement and gutted the bUildlllI in half an hour.

It was the most lethal fire here since five died in the Avonn-lore Hotel blime in 1040.

Trapped and burned to death today were Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Steele, about 00, John Henderson. 02. and Pearl Bingham. 42.

Rowena Davina, 20-year-old wait- ress, leaped from p shattered window on the second floor and was taken to hospital suffering severe shock.

Amelia Baxter, SB, stood perched

on a third-storey windowslll for

minutes before firemen reached her with an extension ladder.

Four persons-Mrs. Annie Val- entine, ‘10, the landlady, her son John, 33, his wife Dorothy and their lB-month-old baby-made it safely out the back door.

Hairy Russell, 33, slipped down a dralnpipe‘ from the second floor.

Rosario Gauthier waited pat-- iently for firemen in his second- floor room and was rescued.

The remaining four in the house couldn't. make it. Steele could have. But he went

back into the smoke-choked house for his wife. He was found dead in a chair. his nose pressed against the partially-open window.

His wife, was found on the bed.

Firemen still were trying tonight- to establish cause of the blue. They aaid they believed it might have started in rubbish near the

furnace.

For the first time in the history of svvlne production in the Pro- vince, the local demand for qual- ified sows is greater than the sup- lliy. Mr. H, W. Clay. senior live stock fieldman, Dominion Depart- ment of Agriculture, stated yester- day.

"We have been striving for that objective for the pa-st l0 years,’

Mr. Clay said, "and its attain- ment has involved a great. many headaches and heartaches, Now,

we are forced to turn down car- load orders from various parts of

Central anu Western Canada and}

the United States because our own commercial swine breeders have at last seen the light of day and are now taking all the pure bred sows our ‘key’ breeders have to cell."

Mr. Clay said there are two reasons for this unprecedented de- mand from island commercial hog breeders for lugtb quality sows from which to produce their own stock. One, and probably the most important, was that those Island commercial hog ralsers had sud- denly tvakened to the fact that if

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News In Brief g

LONDON, Dec. 1b (C?) Viscount Jowitt- lord Chancellor. today said in the House of Lords that the government's decision not. to regard Eire citizens as foreign- ers was in accord with the advice of three dominions - Canada. Australia and New Zealand.

KENTVILLE, N. 5.. Dec. ill — 1GP) The Nova Scotia. Fruit Growers Association was told to- day ihere was little hope of ever

re-galnlng unrestricted use of tinited Kingdom markets for Annapolis Valley apples.

PARIS. Dec. 1o - (OP) —

Russia today vetoed Ceylons bid for United Nations membership for the second time and the Secur- ity Council agaln postponed action on Israel's application. This was the 29th time the Soviet Union had used her big power privilege to block a majority decision in the council.

NOT SNOW, NOT RAIN

NEW YORK, Dec. 15—-fAPi-1't looked like snow, it felt. like snow and it. stuck to the roofs of piers along the waterfront like snow, but it. wasn't snow. The stuff fall- lng today is graupel, the Weather Bureau insisted. "Graupel," re- peated an official of the bureau "That's the international designa- tion for this stuff that's a mixture of frozen rain and sleet and stuff

mat looks like snow."

That it is too early yet to offer an opinion regarding the full lm- pact of the Supreme Court decis- lon on the sale and manufacture of oleomargarlne in Canada was the view expressed by Hon. W. F. A. Stewart, Provincial Minister of Agriculture, and Mr. W.R. Shaw, Deputy Minister.

Mr. Shaw stated, however, ills opinion that. if margarine were manufactured in the Provinces of highest urban population and coll- sutnption, or in Nova Scotia (Prince Edward islands natural mnrkett, then it would very directly affect the price which would be received by the butter producers of this Province.

Furthermore, Mr. Shaw said, the materials which will enter into the manufacture of margarine will be provided chiefly from sources and labour outside of Canada, and con- sequently will not materially enrich either our farmers or laborers.

"The dairy industry cannot be other than adversely affected" Mr, Shaw added. "Dairying not oulvf provides strength to the economic stability of agriculture but per-l forms an important and outstand- ing service in the retention of soil fertility and in the conservation 1f soil health. Any factors nr infill- ences that weaken the dairy in- dustry will have. a widespread m- fltlence in weakening the whole position of agricultural production and through it the economic stabil- ity of the whole country.

Any economic advantages that TRY bl’. experienced in securing a lower price spread in times of but- ter scarcity. be pointed out. may del/PIQD contrary complications which will ultimately place the consumer in a less favourable pris- ltiml."

"I look forward." he slated. "with very grave concern tn the filture n!‘ dairring in Canada as a resin: of the decision just. Hflflflllhrpd, and dependent as we are in thl: pm... ince m1 agriculture, no area in Canada stands to lose more."

Reports Russia Building Battleships, Submarines

STOCKHOLM, Der‘. 15 tRr-uievsl —-The Swedish nnvnl publication Marlnkalendcrn in ay says Russia is building 45000- on battleships and also submarines fitted with thc "schnorkel" underwater breathing device for her Baltic flcr-t.

The "schnorkel" tube, a Dutch in- vention used on U-boats inwards the end of the war. enables sub- marines to stay submerged for long periods.

Says was. Destruction Is Alternative

OTTAWA, Dec. 15 —- lCP) — Universal control of atomic de- Yi-‘lillimfllt was held out today by Gen. A. G. L. McNaughton as the only alternative to the danger nf nnrld destruction.

The Canadian permanent dele- Zale to the United Nations Secur- ity Council told correspondents the alternative to universal control of the atom was "too terrible to contemplate." *

Co-operatlon of Russia on it con-

i-"Ol D1511 Will be sought this year

in a high-level conference of the five major powers and Canada, he said.

Gen. McNaughton has represent-

ed Canada on the long-drawn out rllorls of the U. N. Atomic Com. mission which has sought. so far in vain to work out. a control plan acceptable to Russia. Now, he said. the Commission has arrived at a formula which satisfies n11 its members except Russia and has the approval of 46 of the U. N member nations.

Gen. McNaughton also discugggd the recent agreement among Can- ada, the United Kingdom and the United States on a standard screw thread.

1f such standardization had been leached before the war, he said. experts estimated there would have been a saving of "billions of

the United States.

The General said deliberations in the Atomic Commission of the U. N. had not. been delayed by the adherence of the Rnlssian dele- gate to his own country's plan n-bich calls for destruction of mnmlc bomb stocks and outlaw of its use in warfare but denies the right of international inspect- lon. So far. he said. the Commission has been trying to work out. g formula for control that would be completely satisfactory to lllfllfilili‘ Mid hc believed the one adopted by the General Assembly was the best that could be WTlltBXl.

"1 think we can take it from the vote in the U. N. that the con- science of t.he world endorses it." llc- 881d,

For that. reason he believed the Soviet Government now would come around to the majority opin-

ion and co-operate in universal control accompanied by enforce- able safeguards.

ERITH, Kent, England -- (C?)

~- Rev. G1... Bennett, Erith‘s vicar, will conduct Christmas services in local public houses.

By Norman Cllllhrlis

IJDNDUN, Dec. l5 -—\CP,\ - lin- der the great crystal chandelier in the stately gold music roonl at Buckingham Palace, Prince Clint‘- les of Edinburgh, fOUY-WQGK-Old

son of Princess Elizabeth and the

Duke of Edinburgh, christened by the Canterbury, Most Fisher. '

The blue-eyed Prince. wearing a robe of honiton lace made for Queen Victoria, behaved well throughout the customary (‘lulrch of England baptismal ceremony attended only by members of the royal family and a few close friends.

Princess Margaret, in a clear melodious voice. announced the baby's name—Cbarles Philip Arthur George-in response to the Arch- bishop's question. then handed her nephew to him.

totiay uns Archbishop of Rev. Geoffrey

Young Prince Charles gurgled happily but made no protest. as the Archbishop baptized him in

water from the River Jordan. The font, of silver gilt, also was made for Queen Victoria and was used at the christening of all her des- cendants born in Britain.

Once during the service, which lasted a half-hour, the young Prince gave a short, sharp shout which caused quite a bit. of mer- riment.

Just before the service began. the King, in morning clothes and showing no sign of his dog trouble, and the Queen in a dress and hat. of flame red, led members of the royal family and guests into the lofty, bow-shaped room with its 1B tall columns of-deep blue scaglola contrasting with the ivory white and gold of the walls and ceilings.

The Prince was carried ln the arms _of his nurse. Sister Helen Rowe, wearing a blue and white

uniform.

‘Prince Charles Christened At Private Ceremony

.-\ reference book gives these i'n- terpretatioils of the baby's names,

Charles: Strong, mailly, noble- spirited.

Philip: Lover of horses.

Arthur: High, noble.

George; Land-holder, husband- man.

Before the ceremony the child who some day may be king of Eng- land received a ration book. His name was enrolled in the tattered red registration book of Westmin- ster borough. And a national sav- ings certificate for l0 shillings 1S2) was bought in his name to give him a good start in life.

‘The ration book entitles him to extra milk, concentrated orange juice and cod liver oil, the same as any other baby of the realm.

Evidence

ff lSecret Nurtlen Bomb Sight Stolen i

tBy The Associated Press) NEW YORK. Dec. 15 — Alger l-Lss, former State Departmcnt ‘ofiw was indicted by a federal

trand JHTV torilznt 0n tnvo collnll Q '01 perjury P" , H135 is on leave from a 520.000- lZ/f ‘Va-year job as head of the Car- q liege Endowment for Internation- ,' n1 Peace. '-' Bow rilnraes alletzed that De". l5, 1948, i-llsa "did unlawfully ‘knowingly and wilfully” commit lperjury before the grand jlsry here.

, The grand jury, which has been invesiitlarlitz espionage in the Goverrmr-ir, sazd 1t found untrue ‘Has’ delta; that he gave secret stale Department papers to Whit- taker Chanlbers.

The temlmony in which His:

OFFERS PROTE, l, perjured lllmseni’, says the indict-

y (Tl0\ Mnent, concerns his denial that t O ,h_ __, . _ _ ellher he 0r his wife Priscllit 05c; c‘ Bgflélllgflscggnyalggggdrgé r turned over any documents of the m! u S‘ Nan}; weswm Pacmclstate Department or any other Government organization to

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