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Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew

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CANADA MAY SHIP SURPLUS BEEF T0 KORE

Longlsland Railroad Tied Up By Strike

Former Polish Countess Knifed To Death After Strange Career As Spy

LONDON, June 16 - (AP) - A lovely former Polish countess who survived a fantastic career as "a British spy in the Second World War was knifed to death early ....m--m.AC-.

Coming Events

"Reserve Wednesday. July 10th for Kelly's Cross picnic.

"Dance, Morell. Thursday. Mod- ern, oldtlme. Burns Orchestra.

"Dance. Vernon Hall. Wednes- day, June 18. Millview Orchestra.

--ounce. Forest Hill Hall,.Wed- nesday, June 18.

--nundy's Drive-In Theatre, shows Tuesday and Friday's 9 pm.

"Dance, Kozy Hall, (own. Wednesday, June 18

-"Dance, I-lowe's Hall, Brackley

Beach, Friday, June 20. .,.m.

"Come to thexdance in Sham- rock school, Friday, June 20th. Good music.

George-

"Plcnlc. Immaculate Conception rhurch grounds, Wellington, July Oih.

"Regular dance Wlnsloe Station 3:-All Tuesday, June 11. Charlotte- iunians Orchestra.

"Mail your films and nega- lives to Gamhum studios. Chu- lottetcvrn. -

"Lobster supper, games, dance, ete.. North Rustlco, Wednesday. June 18. Supper at 5 o'clock.

"Show. Bradalbane, Tuesday. Western "Fighting Redhead". Technicolor.

"Dance, st. Charles Hall, every Thursday. 9.30 to 1. Chaisscn's or- chestra.

"Come in and talk over, our Purina Finance Plan. for your chicks and hogs. Dillon & Spillett.

"Graduation Dance, St. Mary's Parish Hall, Scuris, Wednesday, June is. Canteen service. '

"Beginning June 18 our store will be closed vlednesday after- noons. Ben Cousins. .,

See Jack Carson in "Good Hum- or Msn" at MacDonald Bros. Thea- tre tonight.

"District convention at Mt. Ber- liert Orphanage Thursday. June 19. afternoon and evening meet- mgs. Public welcome.

"A special meeting of Abegweit R.B.P. will be held in Kingston Thursday night, June 19. All mem- bers urged to attend.

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"Variety concert by Murray llarbour Pastoral Charge at Little Sands, June 1'1: Murray River 18; Murray Harbour 10 at 8.30 p.m.

"W. I. District Convention. Stanley Bridge Hall. June 18, 2 pm. 3.30 p.m. Public invited. W. ll. Shaw guest speaker.

"Campbell's show Canoe Cove

Wednesday. June 18th, "The glhidte Tower", starring Glen or.

"Barn dance. Regular dance at Fsnner Stewart's. Breckley Beach starting Tuesday night. Good gpuzgicjocanteen. Bus leaving I. M.

"Hunter River Hall. Tuesday. June 17. three act comedy drama. "Eyes of Love", presented by South Ruatlco Dramatic Club. Curtrlin 8:30. Good specialties.

"Remember -- Women's Pro- gressive Conservative Association of Charlottetown and Royall; meet- Ins tonight: Mcliure uuding. Walthen Oaudet, G. O..- guest Sneaker.

"Pcultrymen: Make more pro- fit Buy Raynor-'s White ughorn oullefs. 4 months old or ready-to- ily. Remember, horns lay Tore eggs 'on less fee . Raynor's chick 1-iatchery. Mount Herbert.

"West Queens Women's In- ;!ii-ute District convention at rederlcton Hail Friday aftemocn. dune 20 at o'clock. Dimiay - Antiques". Guest speakers.

"Seven Mlle ay hell. wk nes- day. June dlan River "MI0 Cl prleaglnti tnlelr wn ng pay 30. Sale; of

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today in a West Side hotel.

Police claimed a quick confes- sion from a porter employed in a Pall Mall political club. No mo- tive for the slaying was disclosed.

Countess Skarbek, 3'7, onetime beauty contest queen in Warsaw, matched wits with the Gestapo in occupied Europe for five war years.

Twice captured by Nazi agents, she escaped to carry on as a sabo- teur and fighter in the French Maquis.

She was honored with the George Medal for valor and was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire. France award- ed her the Croix de Guerre.

Recently she had been employ- ed as a stewardess on the liner Winchester Castle.

lleard screams

Fellow guests at the Bhelbourne 1-Iotel heard her screaming "Get him off mel" shortly after mid- night. They found her dead with a. knife wound in her chest.

Police arrested Dennis G. Mul- downey, 41, porter at the Reform Club, a liberal political organiza- tion. Muldowney was arraigned on a murder charge and jailed pend- ing a hearing July 1.

Chief Inspector George Jennings said Muldowney told the officers when arrested:

"I killed her. Let's get away from here and get it over quickly."

Countess Sharbek volunteered for the British secret service soon after the fall of her native Po- land. Sent to Hungary to make contact with underground groups in the occupied areas, she was credited with tablishing an oil- cape-.routcg,for' hundreds of Allied soldiers trapped by the sudden fall of France.

Pied to Turkey

After her second escape from the Gestapo she fled to Turkey. She trained as a parachutist and was dropped into. France to work with the Maquis underground fighters. The countess kept in touch with the British secret service by ru- dio and directed a widespread pro- gram of sabotage.

She fought with the Italian partisans during the late stages of the European campaign in Northern Italy.

In 1947 she became a British citizen and adopted the name Christine Granville, one oi the aliases she had used as a spy.

N. B. GIRL DROWNED

FREDERICTON, June 15-(CP) -Dragging operations ccnimenccd today in anieffcrt to locate the body of Gloria Duplessis. 19, drowned last night while swim- ming with several companions in the Magaguadavic ltiver. No de- cision has yet been made on an inquest.

"Dance at Gordon Lodge every Friday night. Music by Robichaud

"Dance every Friday night. South Rustico hall. Music by the Charlotteatonians.

"Covehead picnic. Wednesday. July 30 on St. Eugene'a parish grounds.

"Regular dance tonight. Win- sloe Station Hall. Charlottetonlans Orchestra. Canteen.

"All taxes due St. Ann's school, Lot 22, must be settled with the Iecretary not later than June 21. By order of trustees.

"Farmers, ask about the shun Gain Feed Finance Plan. For part- iculars contact your local feed mill

"Dancing Stanley Bridge Rink Hall every Tuesday night. Music by Munroe'e Orchestra. 9 to 1.

"The 'Y.P. . players of Mt. Stewart. will present "M'Liss, My Western Mine" in Tracadie 1-fall. June 18, 0.30 p.m.

"Enjoy a tau h at Winsloe Road Ball tonight w on Winsloe Play- ers present the final performance of their humerous plays "courtin"' and "Married At sunrise" with added specialties. Sale of cake and ice cream.

"Arriving this week carload round barley and oats. also pure arley meal. Oarload Pioneer feeds. csrlcad Asphalt shin les. Special low prices. R. L. Dic le- sob, New Glasgow.

"The district convention. com- prising the Women's Institutes of Mount Stewart, Cherry Hill, Head Plsquid West. Pis-

glt test. Augustus, st. Pat- 's rend. Olen Roy. Ten Mile House and Penn k. will be held in Mount Stewart Legion Hall,

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Thousands Of Commuters Fail To Get To Work f

NEW YORK. June 16-(AP)- Employees of the Long Island Railroad. huslest passenger line in the United States. went on strike today, stranding 150,000 commuters who jammed them- selves onto highways, buses and subways.

Thousands never got to work at all-unwilling to buck the frightening confusion of bumper- to-bumper highways, overloaded buses and rush-hour subways jam-packed beyond capacity.

Other thousands grimly elbowed their way to work, their passage heightening the perpetual tarfflc jam of New York City.

The surprise strike of motor- men nnd engineers started at 4 am. when most of the city was asleep.

Few commuters. who make up most of the bankrupt rallroad's round-trip total of 300,000 fares a day, were aware they were stranded until they showed up at L.l.R.R. stations. They found them empiy.

Federal mediators were trying to iron out the dispute ever work ng conditions under a new national railroad agreement of last May 23. Wages were not an issue. The union said it feared the elimination of many jobs.

The L.I.R.R. asked that Prcsl-, advised of thel "wholly;

dent Truman he strike, which it branded unauthorized. a clear violation of the National Railway Labor Act."

The L.I.R.R. fans out from Pennsylvania Station and from Brooklyn, the main link for the hundreds of thousands of people who live on Long Island but work or shop in New York City.

It .operates 600 trains a day. some of them as far as Montauk Point on the eastern tip of the Island 125 miles from New York.

iieporis Atom Power Plant Being Constructed

SARNIA, Ont, une is ..(cp)m Carl 0. Nickle, ogresslve Con. servatlve member of parliament for Calgary west. said in an inter. view today he has learned that North America's first atomic pow. er plant is under construction in the state of Michigan, about 300 miles from this border city.

Mr. Nickle, here , for an address to a. service club, said the Ameri. C3" Plant is being built by a pri- V359” C0mP3-nil at "tremendous cost and -will be used to supply DOWBF W 11 large U.S. chemical company.

He said the plant would use ur- anium 235 as a source of heat to transform water into steam. The atomic power plant was scheduled to be complete and in operation by I118 end of the year. ,

on its completion, is similar plant would be constructed by the Mine Company in the heart of the Texas gas field.

Queens-Shclburne Likely To Disappear

O'I'I'AWA. June 16 -(OP)-The Nova Scotia constituency of Queens-shelburne, established in

1947, likely will be dropped in the new readjustment of represent- ation in the commons.

A report submiird today to the commons committee on redistribu- tion recommended elimination of the constituency, now represented by Donald smith a Liberal.

OTTAWA, June 16 -(OP)-The commons agricultural committee today voted 28 to 9 to end an in- vestigatlon into the foot-and- mouth disease outbreak and pre- sent a report to the commons.

Social Credit members voted with the Liberals to support the motion sponsored by J .1. I-letland (L-Humboldt). The C.C.F. and Progressive Conservatives voted against it.

A 0.0.1”. amendment, sponsored by Percy Wright (Melfort), to call further witnesses. was defeated 20 to 9. The c.c.r'. obtained sup- port from the Progressive Conserv- atives. Liberals and social credit members opposed it.

The voting means an end to the

Commons Committee To End Cattle Disease Probe

parliamentary investigation that was started more than two months 380.

A sub-committee is expected to begin work almost immediately on a draft report. it will be examined at an open session of the commit- tee before it is tabled in the house.

C.C.F. and Progressive Con- servative members charged there were indications of "gross negli- gence" in the Agricultural Depart- ment reflecied in a. delay in diag- nosing the disease in South Sask- atchewan.

The charged also that the gov- ernment was atiempting to "choke" off further investigation by refusing to call further witnes- ses.

Farm improvement Loans This Year

OTTAWA. June 16 -(CP)-- In the first four months of this year. loans of 526,084,000 have been made under the Farm Improve- ment Loans Act the government informed the commons today.

Replying to questions from w.J. Browne (PC-St. John's East), it said in a return that 23,525 loans were made during the period. The government partly guarantees the loans for improving farm proper- ties.

Loans by provinces in the first four mgnths of the year with the number in brackets:

British Columbia 3631.01!) (590); Alberta, 57,352,000 (6.490): Sask- atchewan. 39,162, 000(8.092); Man- itoba, s3,1'l7.000 (3,064): Ontario, 50.800000 (3,153); Quebec, 51.305- 000 (1,125); New Brunswick. 3106.- 000 060); Nobva Scotia. 3167.000 ('160): Prince Edward Island, salo- 000 (319); Newfoundland. 31,000 (0).

For the period between April 1, 1051, and April 30, 1952, the gov- ernment reported. there were 89.- 681 loans totalling sl01,6-18,000.

N. S. Dispute With Federal Gov'i Argued

HALIFAX. June 16-(CP)- 01,400,000 dispute between the Federal Government and Nova Scotia was argued here today be- fore a special three-man nrbiial tribunal. No decision was given at the end of the four-hour hear- ing.

The argument concerns the manner of calculating the amount the Federal Governemnt will pay Nova Scotia as compensation for vacating the direct taxation field.

The agreement is based on in formula which include the provin- clnl population. the population of

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Canada and the gross national product.

Ottawa contends that payments made prior to the 1951. census.

based on an estimate. are sub- lect to final calculation on the basis of census information now available.

It was discovered by federal officials that the Nova Scotia

pgpulation had been overestimat- D .

Father And 6 Children Burned To Death In Ont.

NORTH BAY. Ont., June is .. (OP)--Fred Thibeault, 40, died to- day with six of his nine children when fire swept his tarpaper-cow ersd home in suburban Widdifield township.

His wife Judy, so. was severely

injured when she fell or jumped

from an upstairs window. Two children thrown to safety from the

second-floor bedrooms, Lee. 'I. and Lorna 9 were admitted io hospital.

Dead besides the father are: Gerpld Thibeaull, id: Rene, 10; Lynn, '1, a twin of Lee: John. 5:

Patrick. 4; and Elizabeth. 2 1-2.

Firemen said ,the father died with a child in each arm. Another son, Marvin, is. left

for work shortly before me fire broke out.

Ne. hbors criticized an arrange- pumlmlon

North Bay firemen can be sum- moned. They said more than half an hour elapsed from the time the fire was noticed until the city rm. men reached the blaze just north of the city's northern limits.

Said Hector Lalande, who lives acrou the road from the Thibsauit home:

"I'hey'd still be alive if we could have got the firemen right away. When we first looked across the street. the bottom storey was on fire but the top storey wasn't even oucbed. The roof had fallen in by the time firemen got here."

The father was employed on an air station construction project as a power-shovel operator.

rlremsn said who dashed back into the house after her moth hurled her out of the window. Men

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Island Participation In

Farm Improvement Loans Noted In Annual Report

I The great efforts being made by Canadian farmers to improve their farms generally is reflected

in the 085,000,000 borrowed by them under the Farm Improve- ment Loans Act. This figure

showing the total borrowings for last year is contained in a re- port tabled in Parliament by Hon. D. C. Abbott.

Farmers of Prince Edward Is- land. 1,271 of them, borrowed 51.- 144.295.31 last year and in com- mon with farmers of all other parts of Canada used most of the money to purchase equipment. They bought 1.293 implements valued at 1,049,964. Of these 476 were trucks, 516 tractors, 12 com- bines, 17 ihreshers and 270 mis- celianeous.

Although the majority of the money was spent in that way a total of 66 borrowers used 557,- 38035 on buildings of various types. There were 54.070 spent on three new houses; S29,4l0.35 spent on repairs and alterations by 45 borrowers; and a further nmount of 523,800 was spent by 18 bor- rowers on utility buildings.

Since the F. I. L. A. plan was put into operation seven years ago there have been 2,306 Island farmers obtaining money under lt. They borrowed a total of S2,- 023,569.5Ci. That they are becom- ing increasingly conscious of the operation of the Act is shown by the fact that borrowings last year were up 88.991; over the year 195O when 706 borrowers received 3i605,5i8.-15.

The money, whic his handled by the banks with a Government guarantee. was loaned to Island- ers by ali five banks operating here. Although over Canada as :1 whole the Royal Bank was the heaviest lender. in this Province it was the Canadian Bank of Commerce which gave 560 borrow- ers a total of 5503.239.

Next in line was the Bank of Nova Scotla which supplied 489 borrowers with 3427.995. They were followed by the Royal Bank of Canada with 180 individuals and 3174.565; the Bank of Mont- real with 41 and 337.866 and the

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Russia Revives lend-lease Negotiations

WASHINGTON, June 16---(AP) -Russia revived long-dormant lend-lease negotiations with the United States today in one of a series of new Soviet diplomatic moves. 1

At the unexpected request of Moscow. officials of the two gov- ernmenfs arranged a conference today to resume negotiations for settlement of Russia's 311.000.000.- 000 Second World War lend-lease account.

Negotiations have dragged out. for more than five years. and have been deadlocked since last August.

Russia took the initiative in asking for the new talks. without indicating what she might pro- pose.

The last Soviet lend-lease offer. under discussion when talks end- ed 10 months ago. was to pay &'!00,000.000 for a final settlement of the U. S. claim for arms and other equipment supplied. The U. S., asking reimbursement only for civilian type goods left over on V.1'-Day, has held out for. 3800.-

000.000.

The U. 8. also has been press- ing Moscow. thus far in vain. to return 0'13 ships turned over to the Tussisna in the lend-lease program. As a way out of the

deadlock, the U. S. has proposed lntesnetioulg a-l'bl't.l'AUOjs W

-Washington together after decid-

Ciaxion-Tgo Seek Agreement Al Washington

OTTAWA, June 16-(CF)-Cam ads is looking towards the Kor- ean front as a possible market for surplus beef.

Defence Minister Claxton. stricken Saturday by the drawn- ing of his 22-year-old younger son, flew to Washington today for a round of talks with United States defence officials and an effort to get Canadian beef flow- ing to Korea.

Mr. and Mrs.

Claxlon flew to

ing that the best way to meet the shock of the death of their son was to carry on with original

plans. The talks are slated to -cover small-arms standardization and

the situation in Korea and Eur- ope as well as the meat situa- tion. .'

Canadian farms are producing more beef than Canadians can absorb with the United States market closed because of the foot-and-mouth outbreak.

The Government hopes to sell much of the surplus to the U. S. army for use in Korea. The Buy- American Act may prevent the U. S. from purchasing Canadian meat for American troops but it is thought some arrangements can be made to get it used at least for non-American troops.

Canada now pays the U. S. so much a day to feed 8,000 Can- adisn troops in the Far East. The U. S. provides the food. Canada does it this way to prevent the tremendous cost of establishing her own supply pipeline.

However. she may bl able to strike a bargain to cut costs by paying for them through beef shipments.

HaIin.TsirlE To Be Continued

HALIFAX, June 16--(CF)-Two striking construction workers were charged with causing pro- periy damage in nearby Dart- mouth ionight after a rock-throw- ing incident during which win- dows of a car were smashed.

Officials of the 5,000 striking workers, meanwhile. announced that a compromise wage offer has been rejected and that the three- week strike will continue.

Richard Gionet and Henry Eddy. both of Wesipahl. N. S., were placed in Dartmouth lockup after charges of causing property dam-

age had been laid against them.

U. S. Orders 24-Hour Watch For Intruder Planes Starting July 14

WASHINGTON. June 16-(AP) -Orders went out from the De- fence Departmcnt today to watch the border skies 24 hours a day starting July 14.

Hundreds of thousands of civil- ian defence workers are ready to man their airplane-spotting sta- tions on an around-the-clock basisi next month to look for possible intruder planes.

A vigilant chain of volunteer ground observers will go on duty in 27 states, stretching north along the coast from North Caro- lina to the Canadian border and thence west to the Pacific coast and south to San Diego.

This is "Operation Skywatch", first scheduled to start May 17 but postponed until July 14 to al- low civilian defence leaders to or- ganize their forces.

Maj.-Gen. Frederic H. Snith. Jr. deputy director of the Air Defence Command. told a press confer- ence the 24-hour guard is essen- tial because ”The Soviets have had the capability for some time to

attack us."

Gen. Nathan F. Twining. acthg chief of staff for the Air Force added this comment:

"Our intelligence people estimate that the Russians can launch to- day more than 400 TU--is (four- engined bombers) carrying enough atom and conventional type bombs to hit all our metropolitan indus- trial target areas."