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WASHINGTON. Jan. 10-tAP)- Defence secretary George C. Marsh-

immediate compulsory military ser- vice

year. .

The proposal to draft at 18 in- stead of present induction age of 19, and a companion plan to extend

questioning from members of a Senate armed services sub-commit- iee. -

Marshall and Assistant Secretary Anna Rosenberg, his chief man- power aide, stood by their original formula. however. Questioning by Senator Leverett Saltoiistall (Rep Mass.) brought. out that the actual "take" of is-year-olds this wouldibe 550.000. iounting 15.000 who would be in varioua'military schooling programs and thousands of others in uniform but taking special military courses in school.

Many of the committeemen have indicated they favor training for all, but the compulsory require- ment for actual service in the armed forces is something else.

Secretary Marshall advanced the

needs for fighting manpower now future safety of the U.s.

Maralialrs Program

lie emphasised that he .was talk- ing about a permanent program an about actual service in the , fad States armed foreesi.

.. . d '-Ml.)-sh ii, the "Aiy:&ivi' wou d w.;''.': like uiis:

1. Young men reaching 13 would become liable for service if phy- sically and mentally fit. (now they only have to register at that age.)

2. only about 450,000 of the esti- mated 1,(Xl0,o00 reachi-ng is would be actually inducted the first year, partly because that is all the serv- ice could handle properly.

3. Students usually would be de- ferred to graduate from high school or finish a college year.

I. Tihose called would get a min- imum of four months training be- fore they go into regular service.

5. For the first

sciences and other needed special- ties, but they would get their four months basic training first and

News In. Brief ,

WASHINGTON. Jan. 10 - fAPi - The final decision on whether and when to withdraw from Karen liss yet to be made. It apparently

' will depend on the power shown by

, Chinese and Korean Communist forces in one cr more battles yet to be fought.

OTTAWA. Jan. lo - (CP)-Ken- ncth Harris, Canada's steel-admim istrotor, slid" today there is little chance of getting more steel for new civilian production until the whole steel situation in Canada is reviewed.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 10 - (APi - Announced American combat casualties in Korea rose to 42.713 May. This was an increase of 2,537 since the Defence Department's last iirr-ricus weekly report. The new Infill includes 6.247 killed in action, 1'-".306 wounded and 7,160 missing lll Ictiori, p

-SHlllR8BO0RlIl. Que. Jan. 10 - iCP) - Obldition of 38-year-old Mrs. melon Beauregard. alleged by police to have administered poison 10 her four children and to herself, is unchanged. hospital authorities said today. They added the woman M11 is on the seriously-ill list.

Coming Events

i -jg "Mail your Films to Garnhum new studio. Charlottetown. VS. ' i . W "Carl Ptriy It ltanlay School , rldim Jon. 1:. Proceed: for rink.

"Auction and Dance. Millvie-w ,Iali, Friday, January 13th.

. "Kmiiora 1-lall. Friday. January Rig. 5:0 "The Life of: Stephen 61'. .

,"ei1ov. llersii Community Hall, his only. ..phew mm

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r !come is eroicineiai and card i and sole of lunch boxes in lillltld I-fall Friday. Jan. 12th. , I .IQl Jillil ll

all today urged Congress to pass

legislation starting with - a draft of 450,000 18-year-olds this

the service period from the current ill months to 27, brought sharp,

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college under -

plan as the best way to meet urgent

and to provide guardians for the

three years of the plan, 75,000 a year would be deferred for study in medicine, the I

would "owe as months service." .

U. S. Defence Secretary Asks Drafting Of 450,000 18-Year-Olds This Year ,

Sinclair Lewis Promineni ll. S. Novelislllies

By FRANK BIIUTTO .

ROME. Jan. 10 - (AP) - Sin- clair Lcvivis. who made a fortune writing realistic novels about main street, U.S.A., died in Rome today from a weakened heart af- vier a bout with bronchial pneu- monia...Hc was

The lanky, rcd-haired a-uthnr came last year to spend his last days in Rome, where he wrote his -':”"T'T Nobel prize-win- ning "Baibbil" and met his sec- ond wlfe, Doro- thy -Thompson, . the correspon- dent and column- ist. Except for hos- attendants

came Suffering from a chronic -heart ailment, he was taken iii with penumopia

t --?-1? enumonia crisis, Sinai-if U!" E... , the strain proved .too muchtfor his heart. . 'A.native of sduk Centre.,a.littie town of 3,000 in Minoesoti, Lewis wrote 32 books. mogt of them best- sellers, and nearly all of them a challenging picture of the culture. morals and provincial pattern of the small mid-western U.S. town. ills most famous, ”Maln Street," published in 1920, made him a cele- ifrity overnight. "Baibbit", pub- lished in 1922, won him the 1930 N el Prize and added a new word to - he dictionary. Webster's says it is a word to describe in a dero- gatory sense a person who "con- forms to the respectable material- ism in his class.”

Great Social I-llsiorlan

Many a sharply-dratwn character in Leiwisls books was picked out by millions of readers as a iriie-io- life person of their own expe;i- ence. And Gopher Prairie and Zeriiih, the village and small city in "Main Street" and "Babbit," were real enough to be on is map.

"Arrovwsmith", "Elmer Gantry," "Dodsworlih", "it Can't Happen Here", ”Kin.giJblood Royal". iCass .

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Moll Deliveries May Be Cur To Onegbaily

OTTAWA, Jan. 10 - (CP) -The postman may bring your mail only once instead of twice a day as a result of Government economy plan- ning. .

A Post Office Department offic- ial sald tcday the question of re- ducing house-to-house deliveries of mail from two to one a day is un- der consideration. The reduction. if it is enforced, will not affect deliv- eries to business concerns.

Ponder Ways 0 0f Bringing End To Korean War

DONDON, Jan. 10 -(CP) - Cunmonwealth Prime Ministers came out today in favor of West- ern talks with Russia as they pondered ways of ending the Kor- can war.

Britain and India were said to want Communist china admitted lo the United Nations as part of the settlement.

Both countries apparently are ready to help negotiate a cease- fire in Korea by going some of the way toward meeting Red China's demands for U. N. mmiibership and the return of strategic For- mosa. Foreign secretary Bevin of Britain was said to have told the Prime Ministers that Red China's admission to the U. N. would help end the Korean war.

The nine-country group also were said to have agreed East- West talks should be held to set- tle the quarrels 'of the cold war. But they laid down two broad con- dltions:

1. The West should freely enter talks with Russia under no threat of force.

2. The big power: should carefully work out a wide agenda to ensure that positive results come out of the parley. Both Britain and India seemed

agreed tonight a successful Kor- ean cease-fire depends on Red China entering the U. N.: the big powers reaffirming the 1943 Cairo declaration which promised return of Formosa to China: a timetable withdrawal of all foreign troops from Korea: a seat for Red China on any U. N. comirilssion auigned to restore Korea politically and econonnicalhr. -

Ixnodzn Red Chinese. conditions for a settlement include .1). N. 439951005011 o?.ttie-Pebiag- regime.

tlidriiwal o all foreign troops from Korea; withdrawal of the U.

8. Seventh Fleet from around Formosa. Britain and India are believed

quietly sounding out the American

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Population Hiis l4.000.000 Mark

0'I'IlAW.A. Jan. 10 - (CP) - Canada's population has hit the 14,000,000 maidc. nearly double the figure at the start of the First World War.

Governrnent officials confirmed today that the: figure has been reached. It compares with these others:

The 7,200,000 people in Canada in the 1011 census, last before the First World War.

The 11,500,000 - 2,500,000 less than now - Canada had in the 1941 census, after the start of the Second World War.

The figure of l5,000,000 Cana- dians by 1990. of 14,800,000 by 1971 predicted by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics in ms. 5

The 1940 prediction, on the basis of facls then available. was that the Canadian population, barring future wars. immigration "and other unvprediclavble events," would reach a maximum of 15,000,000 around 1990 and thereafter de- cline slowly.

This prophesy of eventual de- cline. still valid, is based on knowledge that a general decline in both fertility and mortality has set in over the past 100 years in

the Western nations.

SYDNEY. NS.. Jan. L0 - (CF) -Top labor leaders met here rio- day to urge expansion of Nova Scoiia's steel industry to m it competition from Central Cam .1 and to fill defence demands.

A committee was appointed ' - exert every effort and explore al

of Nova Scotia xpanded to me the mounting d and for steel well as to cope with the hay

unemployment situation exist in this Province." . President Ed.-Corbett of the 4.-

000-man Sydney local of Uni ed Steel Workers of America fC.I C.C.L.) said "anyone-whris a all

well oljlie steel shortages an -hardships caused by such ages." ,

President Freeman Jeni: s the i4,000-member distrieti lied lilioe Workers. said long as "tliTn are no plans for a widespread oi aa- panaien in this Province a must insist with all the power command that plans he .i-nmedi-

avenues to have the steel industryl

hall. Melt Ilssda to msatjoix grewlnl

Expansion Of Nova Scotia' Steel Industry Urged

need." .

James Nicholson. regional steel union director. and Oram. Nova Scotla Federation of Labor president. spoke in much the same vein.

Speakers referred to the propos- ed 845.000.0000 expansion program

nnounced by the Steel Company of Canadd at Hamilton and de- clared the Maritiinas are "lagging behind" while 1 Central Canada paves the way for a more pros- perous future. , The , ographical positibii of Nova lootia was favor-

, e for an expanded and diversi-

led steel industry, with ore. coal andimaispower in plentiful supply nearhyi

Committees were appointed to study the matter alid, ordered to meet again Jan. II.

A resolution aimed at the Fed- eral ,a ll Proviiselal Governments stresse "the dead for a ptul ex- pansion .: and the import- ance of sue a promo, being started in his Pi-eviaaa. -, it re- ferred with "an to state- ments by federal Oovemmmi spokesmen that steal supplies are low at 5 till: of niaia

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Coirnmonweiallih Heads Favor. Talks With 0 Russia

9-year-old James Bruce (right), victim of Monday's drowning tra- gedy at Desable. His father, Mr. James Bruce (above). a veteran of the Second World War. made heroic efforts to save the boy's

Tragedy Strikes ilesalile Family

life.

OITAWA. Jan. l0-(CP)- The Federal Government expects that its 1960-51 contributions to the construction of the Trans-Canada Highway will total more than 310.003.0119 Resources Minister Winters saidtodsy in.an interview. 17'rhe, Egvarnsnent ' will, " ay,l;g.lf or the - approximately ' 3001100 in contract comnii-tments in the

Provinces. so far, the Provinces have received only 8800.050. but the balance of their claims are expected before the 'end of the

current fiscal year next March 311.

Mr. Winters said the claims are paid as they are submitted by the Provinces.

The 320,000,000 in contract com- mitments so far made by the Pro- vinces, is, broken down as follows:

Ontario: 37,105,000; British Col- umbia. s'.i,5'7-1-200; Newfoundland, 32.501000: Alberta. 32,308,000: New Brunswick, 51,576,000: Saskatchew- an, s1.369,000; Manitoba.'0i.l95.C00; Prince Edward Island, s580,000.

Last spring, Parliament voted s2o,ooo,ooo to cover Federal .con- tributions to the highway in, the current fiscal year. That full am- ount wlll not be needed.

Mr. Winters said that the esti- mates c.f his Department have not yet been studied finally by the Treasury Board. As a result it is not known whether there will be zi vote for, 19:23-52.

The Peder ai Government, he said. has made clear to the Provinces the necessity of confining projects to essentials. If the Provinces take the stand that the highway is es- sential, the Government will have to consider their claims for furth- er payments, .

Under a 1949 statute and agree- ments signed last. year. the Feder- al Government undertook to pay half the cost of a. s300,0(ll,0C0 two- lane, hard-surface highway stretching from St. John's, Nfld., to Victoria, and taking in Prince Edward Island. All Provinces ex- cept Nova Scotia and Quebec sign- ed agreements to participate joint- ly in the seven-year project with the Federal Government.

Mr. Winters suggested the Pro- vinces must consider the immediate

light of an anticipated manpower shortage due to the stepped-up de- fence program.

Truman To Ask Pay-As-You-Go Tax Policy

WASHINGTON. Jan. l0-(APl- President Truman wants taxes raised high enough to balance the budget during the costly United states rearnianient program.

Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder gave notice of 'l'runian'a deep-dip tax plans at a press con- ference today.

Although he gave no figures, the program if enacted may mean an increase of nearly so per, cent over the present level. which is designed to bring a record Or more into Government vaults.

It also may mean av Federal sales tax, perhaps levied at the minu- faeturors level.

Snyder said '.n'umah will officially lay dorm his pay-as-you-go policy to congress in his economic mess- age Friday and his budget message

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iirx.rtance.,of the highway in the.

Ottawa Reveals S580,000 In Trans-Canada Highway Contracts Let In P. E. I.

Efforts Fail To Recover Body Of -

Dragging operations to locate the body of nine year old James Bruce, who drowned near his De- Sable home Monday afternoon, were continued throughout the day yesterday without success.

About ten men headed by R. C. M. P. Constables George MacKlnnon and Grant Macbean conducted the operations. Large amounts of ice were broken to allow the boats to move across the area.

The men will continue their ef- forts today to find the body of the boy who drowned while smelt fish- ing with his father James . Bruce. The mishap occurred when the raft on which the two were fishing was upset by the strong current.

May (Ilia-ll-enge U. N. Supremacy . in Korean Air

- soo riunJ,7oo Tanks

Reported Ready To B o e It Up Ground Force.

By If-obert Eunson

TOKYO, Jan. 11 -(Thursday)- (AP)-A tank-powered force of parka-clad U. 3. soldiers battled back into strategic Wonju in Cent- ral Korea Wednesday.

The Reds, however, massed pow- erful forces for a new offensive that may challenge Allied air sup- l'9mBCY for the first time in the war.

U. S. Eighth Anny intelli- gence reports said a Commun- ist ground force of up to 280.- 000 men was building up along the from. It was back up by

500 Chinese Red planes and

200 North Korean tanks.

About 105.000 of these were massed in the Seoul sector.

MacArthur said the Red force

was spread out in depth across Korea and could mount an offens- ive at several places at the same time.

He listed the Red strength along the front at 21 Chinese and six North Korean infantry divisions,a Mongolian cavalry division and a

ldivision of Chinese artillery.

The Reds apparently were build- ing up for at least two main drives, one straight at Chunglu in Central Korea and on south to- ward the old Allied Pusan perimeter, and the other down the Seoul-Osan-Taejon highway. some 80 miles to the west of Chungju.

Intelligence sources said the Red planes were available at any time for use across the 150-mile, peninsula-wide front.

The planes have never been used in combat. If they Kc into action in strength, it will be the first

direct challenge to the Allied air srm in the more than six months of fighting.

Intelligence said the planes probably were located at base: in Manchurla. The tanks were muss. cd near Seoul. Presumably the planes as well as the tanks were Russian-built.

Wonlu Empty of Rods

The American column that bai- iled back into the key road and rail centre of Wonju through

small arms and mortar fire found it empty of Rods.

The Reds threw in counter-ab lacks but a report from Eighth Army headquarters at 3:55 a. rn. (1:55 p. in. Wednesday, EST) said

1 For Korean

By NORMAN ALTSTEDTER

NEW YORK. Jan. 10 - (OP) - Renewrd hope for a negotiated set- tlement of the Korean war was unkeci today by informed United Nations quarters with the current strong stand by U.N. forces.

These sources said Communist China might decide that the cost of driving the Allies out of Korea would be too high. and instead, ac- rept U. N. bids for a cease-fire and negotiations.

The hope was slight but some Western Powers - with Canada prominent among them - wished to make every effort to settle the Korean conflict peacefully and at the same time stand by the U.N. anti-aggression principles.

I I Committee Meets Today

The (lo-member political commit- tee of the U.N.'s General Assem- bly was scheduled to meet tomor- row to receive the principles for a cease-fire being formulated by the three-man U.N. cease-fire com- mittee -- L. B. Pearson. Canada's External Affairs Minister, sir Ben- egal Rim of India, and Nasrolish Entezam of Iran.

But less than 2.4 hours before the political committee was to meet. there was no certainty that the principles would be forthcoming.

The three-man committee was finding extreme difficulty in word- ing their proposal so that Com- munist Chlna would be oonviricui of their honest efforts and at the same time keep the formula clear of charges of appeasement

The problem also was to frame the principles so they would re- ceive the widest support in the United.Nations.

Nelim is Key Man

Prime Minister Nehru of India - now attending the' conference cf Commonwealth Prime Ministers in London -was rogardedas thekey man iiilisse effort. 1!: date. India has gene or than any othn country au g the U.N. action in Korea. towards acceptance of

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S-light Renewed Hope

Settlement

for negotiations.

Cables have been exchanged al- most hourly in the last few days between New York and London seeking a fonnula for principles of cease-fire. The principles proposed are roughly these:

1. Cease-fire in Korea.

2. Agreement with Communist China on U. N. supervision of free elections in Korea.

3. Step-by-step, withdrawal of all non-Korean forces from Korea.

4. Conferences among the big powers including Communist China -- on all outstanding Asian problems.

so far, Communist China

has

given no indication she is ready to ,

negotiate except. on her own terms -. withdrawal of United States pro- tectlon of Formosa and entry into the U.N.

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REDS PREPARENEW. DRIVE AS YANKS RETAKE WONJU

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

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lisbserlpnons delivered moo: Mall 86.00

other Provinces and U.B.A. 58.00 .

Buyers Keen

Will Discuss civil Defence Plans iiere

Major-General P. P. Worthing-

ton. B., (above), Canada's civil defence co-ordinator, ar- rived in Charlottetown yester- day nnd will meet with mem-

bers of the Provincial Government, the Premier and his Cabinet, and the Provincial Civil Defence Plan- ning Committee under Lt. Col. P. S. Fielglin-g at meetings this morn- ing and afternoon.

General Worthington met with officials of New Brunswick in Fred- ericton yesterday, and arrived here by R.C.A.F. plane on special in- vitation of the P.E.I. government. The meetings today win be for the

purpose of discussing civil defence matters as they affect this Prov- ince.

General Worthington visited this Province in 194'! for the same pur- pose when he met with. Premier Jones and Brigadier W. W. Reid His visit at that time lasted only a few hours.

He is known to all Canadian soldiers of World War II as a con- sistent exponent of the indispen- sabilily of tanks in modern war- fare. General Worthingtoi'i headed the Canadian delegation to wash- ington, D.C.. late last November to discuss joint Canadian-U..S.. de- fence co-operation.

He will leave by I'v.G.A.F'. plane after the meetings today to return to Ottawa.

Nooili-is-Due This Week-end In Korea