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MONDAY. FEBRUARY 25, 1952

My never-falling friends are they with whom I convene day by day.

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Morning Dally Founded 1381. the Guardian. Flu Canto.

(3. ANNOUNCES NEW SCHOLARSHIPS & BURSARIES

NATO Approves History's Largest Peace-Time Buildup Awards Ma-(l(TPosgible By

Peace Negotiators Face 'Plan To -Ciisi Old And New Problems

Traffic Vlclims Reach Gispe

GASPE. Que.. Feb. 34 -(CP)- Twenty persons-most. of them haggard and unshaven-received warm welcomes from relatives and friends when they arrived here last night after being stranded four days in the lonely village of St. Therese.

They were part of the 38 pas- gengern or a train sncwbound at six. Therese Monday night, in a rllzzard which Paralyzed traffic in the c.aspe Peninsula for nearly a week. ' ' .

The seven-car Canadian Nation- al Railways train was on its reg- ular mo-mile run between camp- bciiton. N.B.. and Glspe when it stalled.

No one was hurt when it ran into snowdrlits to to 1.2 feet in bright, After several vain attempts

to push through, the crew of the diesel-powered train decided to wait for help.

The six-man crew and passeng- ere dismantled car seats for beds and all mavedilnto the express and baggage care while heat was piped in from the locomotive.

Becomes World's lih lei Ace

TOKYO, Feb. 2-i-(Reuters) - Major T. Whisner of the United States Air Force became the world's seventh jet ace Saturday when he down his fifth Mig.

Coming Events

"Seeds! Send for free catalogue. Arthur Vesey, York.

"Dance cancelled Fort Augustus l-lall Monday, night.

"Reserve March 13th for Var- MY Concert in Hampton Hall.

"Dance. St. Andrews school. Monday night, February 5th. Good music. Lunches.

"Hockey at Sandy's tonight. Sandys Ramblers vs. East Roy-

alty. Skate after.

f'llockey match, Long River to- milhi. Long River vs. Breadal- bnne. If not fine. first fine night.

"Lot 65 Hall. Monday. Feb. 5111. bean supper, card party and dance.

"Carnival in Sourls Rink Wed- Mldly. February 27th. Judging It 9 om. skating till 10:30. Cash prizes. p

"Card Party, sumrnerileld Hall. 'N06-dill. February nth. sponsored by Credit. Union.

"Another ear of Old Sydney coal "nbliiihk Monday and Tuesday. McLean Bros. North Wllisblre.

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"Pre-Lenten Dance on Monday

at south Rustlca. Music by the

Ohulottetonisns. (No dance this Friday.)

"Hockey Stanley Bridge rink to- hlsht. second game of semi-finals. g'"lhlm'l Road vs. Cavendish.

nme time Q RM. -

M"H0Ck0y. North River rink M030”. Feb. 25th. Glasgow Road aple Leafs vs. Covehead Red

Wings. Game time 8:15. Skate after.

1 "'-''m' Snapshots that will not u”'- ml" your Films and Nega- "3 to Oarnhllsn Photo studios. Chsllotbetmm, "Dance. St. Peters Legion Hall, gfidlv nisns, rota-uary mm. m5 week will be the last Dance Easter Monday night. "L955"!!! 1108! for Canada S"”i"' l-Mo all day Tuesday at .d"'::"h3:;l:le.mF'an:ers are salic- ur. Wu." Cains on to t a

"Leading hogs at Albany Mon- g:v. Feb. am. If not-my. first My roads are n. Please bring

1' 10 stati ,or arrange to

suck at highway. .7. George

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"Colleeting i-iov ior Canada gggkeru us. each Tuesday at lllud and Carleton, when z”! Ire impassable farmers are nhl to deliver Mute our trucks u 0'! I6. and oarleton, up until "'14- Tuesday. under the ' minsoment as last year.

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MUNSAN. Korea. Feb. 2'! - (Monday) -- (AP) - Korean arm. istice negotiators - with virtually all minor issues settled -- today confront two old major roadblocks and a stubborn new one which bar the path to truce in a war entering its 20th month.

Staff officers. who took over when delegations and suh-commit- tees failed to make progress. have erased most minor,....al7lems. in weeks of give-and-take bargaining.

They meet again today at 11 A.M.. (9 P. M. E. S. '1'. Sunday) at Panmunjom but appear about. ready to turn the truce talks back to a higher level. -

The top negotiators settle these issues:

1. Voluntary repatriation of pris- oners.

. 2. Rebuilding of military airfleids in North Korea during a. truce.

3. Red nomination of Russia as a neutral observer of truce condi- tions.

The repatriation issue - the Al- lles want all prisoners to have a free choice on- whether they shall 80 back to the other side - ls clouded by new Communist charges that the Allies are slaughtering Red prisoners.

The accusations grew out of bloody Communist rioting last Monday in the U.N. command pris- oner camp on Koje Island off south Korea. .The Eighth Army disclosed that 75 Korean civilian prisoners were killed and 139 were wounded when they attacked their guards. us. troops who put down the outbreak. suffered one dead and 39 wounded.

Communist negotiators at Pan- muniom ' and the' official Com- munist radlos at Pyongyang and Pelplng have pounced on ths'.pris- on riot for its propaganda value.

Although last Monday's riot was the only report throughout the war of any sizeablc casualties involving prisoners held by the Allies. the Pyongyang radio alleged that "17.- can prisoners were slain last year."

The makeup of the neutral ob- servers has blossomed into a major issue which apparently will have to be handled by top negotiators. The Allies refused Communist nomina- tion of Russia as one of the "neu- tral" observers.

Blue Monday is lot As Bad As Believed

IQNDON - (CP) - Research shows that well-known "Monday- morning feeling" may not be as unpleasant as the expression in- dlcates.

In fact, there are people who genuinely like Mondays. samp- plings of opinion taken by can- vassers show that such characters include persons really interested in their job or working on their own. Others who welcome Mon- day are those who see too much of the family at week-ends and have little real rest.

For most women, however. Mon- day ls still a bug-bear. it means wash-day, cold food, post-week- end irritability and the prospect of a full week of the same old chores.

The public-opinion surveys al- so show: Tuesday is slightly bet- ter because Monday is over. Wed. nesday is unpopular because itis mid-week, and Sunday but of all.

one housewife said she picked Sunday because that is the day

hubby does the nappies.

still must

More Than S300.000.iiQ0.000 ,

' nxseou. Feb. 24 -cow- The Atlantic countries Saturday night committed themselves to a master plan (or the biggest peacetime mil- ltary buildup in history.

The plan calls for an Allied de- fence wall of between 4.5 and 50 divisions to be stretched this year across Europe. i

This is to be raised to double that number oi men in arms by the and of 1964.

The plan will cost more than S300.000.000.000 but the ministers attending the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's ninth coun- cil session adopted it unanimously as an investment in security from Communist attack.

(Reuters news agency said the Canadian Government has agreed to seek parliamentary approval for an increase of si00,000,00(i for her mutual aid program of 5225.- 000,000.)

The plan was adopted virtually without debate, and with little comment.

Its adoption leaves the N.A.T.O. council with only two major prob- lime to handle before the minis- ters leave for home Monday.

They still have to agree on where. when and how to pay for

muhlcations that will support their armies. ranging all the way from the Bosphorus to the Arctic. Informed officials reported the U.a. has decided to press in the interval for the removal of prac- tically all the wraps remaining on west German war industries.

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Federal Aid For ' Polio. Centre is Undertaken

OTTAWA. Feb. 25 -'llhc Pbderal Government has undertaken to meet part. of the cost of technical equipment for the polio centre at the provincial sanatorlum. Char- lottetown, P. E. 1. Federal Health Minister Paul Martin said here today. ,

When the Provincial Health De- parlment moved its headquarters from the sanaiorlum to the centre of the city, part. of the space vacated was converted into a treatment centre for children with polio. The Federal grant will assist in providing equipment to be used in the rehabilitation of the young patients being cared for there. ,

During the past year more.thnn 33,700 have been spent on addit- ional equipment for Prince Ed- ward Island's tuberculosis conuol program. Mr. Martin said. This has already been oi substantial as- sistance in obtaining more accur- ate and speedier diagnosis of tub- erculosls.

Queen Goesfo Windsorpliaslle

LONDON. Feb. 24-(AF).-,-Irhc Queen went to Windsor Saturday to join her mother and sister at the Royal Lodge on the castle grounds where her father was buried last week. The 25-year-old Queen was accompanied by her husband. the Duke oi Edinburgh. on the 20-mile trip to Windsor. The Queen Motherland Princess Margaret went there inst night.

'Cl-IATHAM, N. B., Feb. 24- (CP) - The dramatic story of Marie Mazeroilo had a happy ending today when the elght-yaar- old girl, suffering a ruptured appendix. was airlifted from the snowbolsnd village of Point Sapin and underwent an successful oper- ation here.

Her condition was reported inv- orsblo tonight. with every indica- tion of recovery. Capt. James Gil- bert. sarmy doctor who paracilutod into the northern New Bruns- wick fishing village last Saturday.

said hs,was "well pleased" with"

the outcome.

An R.C.A.P. helicopter which arrived here yesterday from Greenwood. N. S.. went to Point snpin It 9 am. today. Lending was made vvlthou difficulty near iha Roman Cathlc church there. An hour later Who ailing child

I

Successful Operation On. Eight-Year-Old Girl

at Chalhnm after an air force am- bulance waltlng at the R. C. A. F. station here had completed the last stage of the mercy trip.

Dr. Percy Losier”per-formed the operation this afternoon. It was officially termed successful.

Flt. Lt. R. H. Ritchie, Edmon- ton. flew the helicopter to Point Snpln and return, a total distance of 60 miles. with him were Capt. Gilbert and Cpl. Thomas Roycraft. Edmonton, of the l'f..C.A.F. para- rescuo unit at G. onwocd. The corporal had parnchuted with Capt. Gilbert on Thursday.

Arrangements for today's alr- llft were made yesterday when the helicopter dropped down at the village for its crew to Iurvoy thomgltuatlon. On their return trip Saturday the airmen performed

zanother mercy mission by bring-

ing Phllorne Carroll. 16. to hos- pital here nor treatment of a car ailment,”

EAIGON. Indo-China. Feb. 24 -- (AP) - French authorities an- nounced tonight that they pulled out of Boa Blnh. key highway point on the Black River they once vowed they would never give up to Indo-China's Communists.

They also withdrew their forces strung along colonial route No. 6. main supply channel to Hos Blnh. and thus cut the French defence perimeter around Hanoi from 500 in 375 miles. In all. about 20,000 French and Vlet Nam soldiers made the retreat. in which about 170 were reported wounded.

Gen. Raoul Salim. commander oi the French union forces. told re- porters today battle-ruined Hoa Binh, which lies only 40 miles southwest of Hanoi, is no longer of any strategic importance to the French.

Salan said this is partly because of the Communist-led Vietmlnh succeeded in building roads to the west of Hon Blnh, over which they are receiving increasing amounts of war supplies from Red China.

The general said all French un- ion troops now are messed in the Red River delta. The French are determined to hold the delta as a beachhead until they can launch a big-scale offensive against the Reds. he added.

Even though the French have i i. ! . g,:;”8:”ba5;?i'vg:;1:ac:5, 3:1 d 123::-' written off Hoa Bmh as unlmport.

ant. its loss is bound to have a widespread psychological effect am- pm: the Indo-Chinese. It further points up the fact that the mom- ent of decision in Asia's second biggest war is yet far away.

The fall of the strategic town gives the Vietmlnh an excellent. propaganda weapon and a chance to shout victory. Abandonment by the French of the network of de- fencer along route 6 and Hoa 'Binh opens the way for ti possible big Vietmlnh push on Hanoi itself.

The evacuation of Hoa Binh was the first big French withdrawal since they quit Langson, north of Hanoi. near the Chinese frontier. in November. 1950.

The French took I-lca Blnh in n mid-November offensive but since then there have been constant Vietmlnh attacks on the garrison there and along the road.

Number of Me And Women Almost Equal in ,P.E.l.

are almost

Men and women equal, so far as numbers are con- cerned, in this Province. The re- cently completed census reveals hot there are 50,218 men and 48,- 211 women. The only county show- ing more women than men is Queens where there are 42,751 people. 21,246 men and 21,608 women.

Kings County has 9.529 men and 8,414 women, while Prince county has 19,444 men and 18,291 women. Quebec is the only province in Canada whlchshows more women than men, and even there the dis- taif advantage is only slight with approximately 11,000 more women than men in a total population of over four million. .

French Retreat Before Indo-Ghinai

s Reds

Canada Requires More Technicians Says Si. Laurent

QUEBEC, Feb. 24 -(OP) - Prime Minister St. Laurent. said Saturday night Canada's economic development required more and better technicians then ever before and put it up to Canadian unl- versities to produce them.

Mr. st. Laurent spoke at the closing banquet of a three-day convention of Laval University's Alumni Association. The meeting inaugurated centenary celebrations of the French-language university.

"we need more engineers. geologists. chemists, economists. sociologists. scientific researchers and laboratory specialists who can create and apply new processes to bring out t.he.fuIi value of the enomious resources at our dispos- al." said the Prime Minister.

”It is the universities which will continue to produce these special- ists. and it is important that the universities do this and thus con- tribute to the material develop- ment of our social environment.

"But the legitimate pursuit of a higher standard of living must not make us forget that material goods are not an end in them- selves-, that they must be only means to preserve and consolidate our true civilization. . ."

in its 100 years. Mr. St. Laurent said, Laval had always understood its role and fulfilled it with a de- votlon that "makes all of us old boys proud."

Minor.-Accidents Over Week-End

Seven automobiles and one pay- iuader were involved in tour minor accidents during the -week-end. Onc accident occurred at the cor- nrr of Prince and Richmond streets when two cars. collided causing minor damage to both. Another accident happened on the corner of Grafton and Prince streets when, two automobiles col- lldcd also causing minor damage In both vehicles. The third acci- dent lnvolving tvvo automobiles occurred on Kent street. when a can parked on Kent was hit by an- other praceedlng west on the same street, the damage was slight to both automobiles. A car travelling west on Grafton Street was side- swiped by a payloader moving east on the same str et. sustained slight amuse.

N. B. School lost In Fire

WOODSTOCK. N. B-. Feb. 24 - (OP) -Loss estimated at s25o.ooo oocun-ed tonight when fire de- stroyed the southampton Region- al School 27 miles from Woodstock.

Ofillclais said the four-year-old building had cost 5150.000 andwas valued at 3250.000 at current prices.

I

wssnmorou. Feb. 24.75:?

--If Korean truce talks break down, what happens then? The possibiii that such a

collapse might lead simply to a prolonged stalemate in the war is being considered by United States strategists.

Therevare signs that President Truman's advisers are opposed to the U. 8. taking any initiative to hit Communist chino directly in an effort to break such .a stale- mate.

The dominant feeling in the Joint Chiefs-of-Staff and Nat- ional Security council is report- ed to be that the U. B. should ex- tend the war" beyond Korea only if it is compelled to do so by ag- gressive ,Dhineao actions.

The air force has long been counted on as the fighting -arm which would carry the burden of such an air-sea war but it is understood that air force, leaders are among those who have, ad- vised against it i it can be avoid- Three 1 incl arguments are being Kdvanoed in support of

this attitude: ,

1. Tllrpreeent 00-wing air force has been to retal- fate smelly ualost nus-is if

Says Air Force Against Spreading Korean War

ground forces in Western Europe. It does not have more than just enough planes to do these loos. if it had to expand its opera- tions in the Far East it would have to divert planes from these cseential purposes.

2. China is a junior partner in the' communist 'bloc. Russia is the centre of power there just as the U. 8. is the centre of power for the free nations. Action against China. therefore, could not be decisive.

3. In terms of the results which could be obtained. a. limited war on Red China now would be ll. costly one in U. 8. planes and personnel and perhaps naval craft as well. ' -

The U. 3. government has bee examining (or several weeks the possible of action which it might follow in the event that the truce negotiations go sour.

one of the big problems which officials..say they cannot measure is what public reaction would be in the event of a tnioe collapee. In both the stain and defence de- partments some officials believe that the demand for action di- rectly sealant china. quitrapart from the strategic questions.

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would be almost overwhelming. '

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ility Man Made Full Professor At ll.ll.ll.

FREDERICTON, Fob. 23-Dr. A.

W. Trucman. president of the University of New Brunswick. an- nounced loday that Associate Pro- fessor of lllslory W. Stewart MacNutt. Inbovc), whose home is in Clmrioltclown. P. E. l.. has heen promoted to the rank of full professor.

Prof. MacNult. joined the U. N. B. faculty as an assistant profes- sor in 19-16, and was raised to an associate rank in 1950. He holds .1 B. A. dcgrce from- Dalhousle University and an M. A. from King's College. London.

The announcement was made following the recent winter meet- ing of the University of New Brunswlczk senate, the governing body of the institution. Seven other promotions of faculty mem- bers were announced at the

iliil.Enn.'" Sewicesliormal

ST. JOHN'S. Nf1d., Feb. 24 - (CF) - Train services returned to normal acrowt. this storm-swept is- land today when the first two ex- press trains since last Tuesday en- tercd the Canadian National term- inus here.

It was a four-day delay for the first express, and the centre of the trouble was the gaff topsails. high. barren country which had tied up rail traffic for much longer periods in the past.

Storms delayed the t.ra.ln's de- parture from the west coast term- inus of Port Aux Basques Tuesday. It. reached I-Iumbermouth Wednes- day. started east again Thursday. and spent all day Friday at Kitty's Brook.

Coal Shortage In Europe A

GENEVA. Feb. 24 -(AP) -The United Nations economic commis- sion for Europe predicted today the aphievemcnt of Western Eur- ope's industrial development plans will be hindered by an ever-grow- ing shortage of coal.

A commission report on the Eur-

'opean coal situation urged vigor-

ous government action both to discourage the wasteful use of high-grade coal and to accelerate coal production. If the western governments fail to tackle the problem effectively, the commiss- ion said. they will face the al- ternative of a drastic lowering of production targets or an annual drain of s600.000.000 by 1956 for purchases of United states coal.

(YITAWA, Feb. 24 -(C?) - Air Marshal list-old (Gus) Edwards. C.B.. 59, wartime chief of the R. C. A. P. overseas and one of the top men in the history of the ser- vice. died Saturday night.

Word reaching air force head- quarters said the air marshal. who retired in 1944 and has been in ill- health for several years, died at acotsdaie. Arlz.. in his sleep.

Tile colorful veteran of nearly 25 years' service with the R. C. A. F. had been living at St. sauveur Des Monte. Que. and, went to Ariaona several months-agend -- - His widow, also in Arizona. will decide whether he will be accord- ed a military funeral. i One of the service's all-time top-noichers. he joined in 1920 when it was still known as the Canadian air force. with some i first

world war flying experience.

S. College were College over the week-end. Ten oil

government

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