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2 Warehouses a At Mt. Stewart Are Destroyed

Fire yesterday morning destroy- sd two potato warehouses t Mount Stewart owned byMr. Russ ll Clark Mina. The fire of undetermlne Origin began about- 7.16.

The arrival at 8.10 of six men from the Charlottetown Fire De-

rtmcnt with a u r contri- Bated neatly to . lark being able to lava a large part of the l cars of potatoes which were ston- ed tn the warehouses. The pota- toes carried no insurance.

fire but the two hose which the city firemen ran from a stream 1400 feet distant from the burning buildings enabled the firemen to throw thousands of allons of the buildings. Th enabled men with trucks to continue taking hundreds of bogs of potatoes out of the buildings while the fire was si.ill raging. The salvage continuing last nig t. . _ Mr. Clark eigpreased his apprecia- tlon to the City firemen for their lglendld effort. They returned to t e City shortly before one o'clock yesterday afternoon.

Ontario Man ls Beaten To Death

STRATHROY Ont... Feb. 1D - (Cfil-Jchn (Jack) Orrange, so, was found beaten to dost-h early W flay outside the horns of Cpl. Har- 101E010". 30. a Canadian army jeep Bl‘ V81‘.

Police said tonight they were holding Short for questioning but poi ahafzgelwtifi been laid. Ha is o s » esex Count ail at London. Ont y J

Short/s relatives aaid Short told them he thought Orrange was a

beeping torn of whom Mrs. Short ll gom i "tvro-- or. three tunes in tha five yearg Short w” ovsrseas. ho t o“ u. _ rranst. w spec m of

life in nearby Watiord. came to Blflt-hroy more than a year ago and was employed by l-he town.

Short. ho has been stationed in london. Ont. at headquarters of Military mom masher one. "re- turned in Canada from overseas tacit‘: May. lle ICI‘ arrested early

ell‘ idth ovcssa evflbeellfleédéioweo-

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were i ' ‘stated he had deep cuts under both eyes and imprint to have died almost in-

Coming Events

"Bones in ormaobrs mas Hall lwes. Feb. iii. n not fine. Thurs- “Y- a-ri-ia-ai

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BUlTER RATION IS SI_._ASHED T0 4‘ OUNCES WEEKLY

Chungking Political Meeting Ends In Riot

Stresses lleed OiSeoond Ferry

,, At Wood Islands

W.M. MZIODOTIBH of

actors mea ng ‘ Northunubeoland

Ferries L .

inn”: “rtttfbl “b: scout-day ne or

gvbning. Mr ‘were!!! told a

of Nowthumbuiand Ferries would be taxed to their utmost durine the coming season. the “Prince

year, Mr. MacDonald said. The “Sankaty" which was um printed from Northumberland

_ crnmant

i id said.

tasteless as a ferry in her present condition. Used dur the vrar years as a mine-layer o the coast of Newfoundland it was nec-

essary to strip her her s stru before ting her to naval service. "Sammy"- is

now at Sivgncy but la not service- able to Company until the superstructure is restored. Mr. MacDonald said. i Iolrovesaents Neoecaasq faaxss iftha a...» ab...» M” 22%’. Wood Island . film’ mute. w. MacDonald-said were (Continued on Page s Col. '1)

Russians Dar Trade With Eastern Europe

“WASHINGTON, Feb. 0 -. (AP) —(A.P)--A House of ‘,. tlvaa committee has drafted a tan- tatlie report which says Russia has. e polltico-ecohomic arran- gsm, ts that bar other nations from‘ extending the: trade with Eastern European countries. The report. drawn by the Com- mittee on Post-War Economic Policy and Plan . ls bting re- vised prior to pub cation. Several members of the committee toured Bumps last year. Inits Present form. as made a- yalinbls to reporters by committee asserts‘

"H k . olossgwcv ityoadags Milton. ozlbfllte’ l-‘;°".‘.".‘.$".‘.i.?: gugmrgoviet ....'.“.‘.;‘£. U5- Bkata after. 2-1i-li jotting economic and itical ad-

"Supper and Auction Sale sea.- vmltg’: sulllstanlfilefgextaensigi of “W H811. Tuesday Feb. l2. if not :31“ . lateral trading impos- llno. first fine aight- f 3-1141 sibio" with Eastern Quopean V ""0000. Annual meeting Btsn- M: d m hrouah o. l" Brides Dairying oomoany m “t t°uv re on ed that “l, m z pm _ 2414i The ena e P u?! I

' "—-" ““"“.l"“‘°i“l its “M” n" 00A“ - the us. ons n c . - sold’ on ‘ton-- n.'1.i..'“.;“."t§$..‘.2.'f.%.§2.“ti.“i.‘;

a ‘Tone. M aw. ii lin f Feeds, 3,’ a. removed by thooovgéttlsyciawaéroog:

begzfiyrden Seeds. All the latest and ca‘ larieties. Send for free 1946 0i osue. Arthur Vessey. York.

“Basket Social and dance Bon-

aw H ll Fe . a“ "i; no “a. Ladies ‘Kit: 3-l3"“i~..’.“a' Riufibsvw 12-15? "Pia Social and Dance i St, §§§1lf§r'a lsggooi Lot m. 993a...» -Fo new‘ ti: " 3-11-11.

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i- forces of u live on the country.

‘Funeral Of Admiral Jones On Tuesday

,‘ b. l0 - C. m s, hslvnqgiiflethief of the o.“ ‘n Cathedral acre

ti“ all in.’ thee-admiral Ions- ‘dle in taw I P1140?- gggqn , . BIVIW W," cowl. the service at t e church ova; Chaplain De oi! White 73h ofgc ate a Bill Con: tel-y a er mm I to ssaaq-pys gpartyoflomess. _.._....-_..._._.

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SPINCB MOOIA GRIND, Feb. to ... (AP)- A mass meeting of all political parties called to celebra the su China's recent uni conference broke in a riot to- in which seven persona were n. ured seriously. Blackjaclsa were wielded and

ltcnea flew It the height of the tlo

uproar, which the Democratic Lea- sue .. ’ was touched off by government secret service man.» Indignaizlon ran high the league, witch called an emergency meeting of. its former delegates to the unity conference to discuss the outbreak. The lea ue, a coali- ggn ‘of “tmtnority ements, is as bird patty. o pose politically to both the Comrgunlnts

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aliagud that trou- ble broke out when the meeting moved to elect a chairman. 1t said the secret sundae men r-i- tempted 0o bulldosa the assembly into electing a member of the Kuomintang -- the government

By this account, the secret ser- vice movad in on the delegates zith blackjacks and the fighting

nan.

A Communist account o! the in- :id.ent said three prominent Intel- seetuals were unong the serious! ‘ tired. named the .hree as Kuo Ado-Jo, prominent wrr-er. Shih Fu-Liang. celebrated schdlar, and Li Hung-Tu, a leading membe of the Democratic Lea ‘h

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gue. Epidesit was available immediate-

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No Kuomlntang version of

Independence Move?

Cl-IUNCKING. Feb. 10 -(.\Pr -- The World Daily News of Chum:- king said today "Ihstern Inner Mongolia" had reclaimed its in- dependence of Ch na and had chosen a Mongolian, Iraduate of the Rus- sia!) , , ~ l¢ld~ 1n "rt a

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Out Effective March, April

Butter Prod I Ii - tlsusd ‘lgtlolgellissyu

OdTAWA, Feb. 1o _ (0p)_¢u. adds domestic butter ration, faced by a continuing decline in produc- s v raises" ~ "a n, e a as e ch and Aural from six to fob‘: 0.1.1.. a person a week, Finance Minister lls ey announced tonight.

Attributing the movs to a “tam. porary emergency", he sald d let- ed reserve stocks, lower writer

ion combined to make it neces y "if consumers are to~be able to obtain. butter for their valid cou- pens.

Continuing a founraonths de- cline, butter output during Jan- uary went down to 9,640,000 pounds, a 15.6 per cent decline from the January. 1946. total of 11,021.40: pounds. The six ounces ration h een established, a cut from seven only recently in anticipation such a slump.

The Prices Board recently re- stricted supplies to quota users, finch as restaurants and institu- O

m. Mr. Ilsle said the reduction will be effects by making one coupon come due every two weeks instead of three coupons every four weeks. Coupons will become -valid March ‘l and 2i and April 4 and 18. The Minister said that for a time the government had hoped it might be possible to avoid the cut by stiPDlementing domestic butter supplies with lrnportations through the dairy products bo d, but it now was "quite apparen that the current world shortage of butter and other edible fats meant that outside supplies could be obtained at this time only at the expense of others who were already in a much worse position than our- selves."

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as held n. 16 an unspecified location at which t e independence of Eastern Mongols was woclairnad. There was no substantiation of this report.

The area embraced in this ae- count was not given. Inner Mon- golia’s easternmost Province is Chahar, where Chinese Communists sra stronglv entrenched.

Ohahar lies between Manchurts and Outer Mongolia, which has declared its independence end has been a ' ’ b7 r l“

rsomur all»: A: Anironll"

ANTXGONISH NS, Feb. 0 - (CP)—The partly-frozen bo y of William A. MscKa 20. of Truro. N.S., was found at s bottom of a 25 foot bank near here Saturday. Be served four earl overseas dur- 2 the war wi h the Royal Can- ad Navy.

A coroner's Jury was empanelled and adjourned until next Standby.

Floods In Great Britain Suhsiding

LONDON. Feb. I) -- (OP: - Floods in many parts of Britain were subsidin today after caus- ing considerabe damage.

identa returned to their homes in a number of towns and villages after being forced to leave Saturday when rain-swollen riv- era overflowadl their banks. a so was slowly drain-

ing from thousands if acres of a cult ll land in lbs land and ch had been t ad into

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iiitary leave bbata $.15 from

tlasontinesst were suspended Bat-

Highway and rail

badl hampered by the coda. was

a normal.

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b’ ar Arrive At llallfax

‘HALIFAX, Feb. lo - (OP) - Operation Daddy” began today as the 35.0"l'l-ton liner Maurctanla til-Prod quietly‘ into a Halifax berth. carrying 948 of the more than 48.000 dependants of Can- adian service men scheduled to arr.ve in Canada during the next few months.

Absence of “ “ crowds and fanfare created a contrast former voyages of Maure-

t which carried troopl on her last trip to Halifax. A few hus- bands were on hand to greet the wives and children. but most fam- ily reunions will have to wait for a

f

their destinations across the coun- try. ‘of and sound trucks the pier was lined with parambulstors and trunk!-

The Mauretuiia sailed from Liv- erpool last Tuesday and passen- gers with active children to uard found the vovase a trifle 8- But others enjoyed "every mom- ent of the Voyage" as one of the brides said.

A few of the women found than‘ husbands waiting for them,’ and

six, Nova Scotls and Prince Ed- ward Island, dieeiobarked from the ship this afternoon. One train left _for Ontario car-wins army brides, and two others will leave tomor- row. one of army dependants and also gther with s nixed Broup s- ar .

Russian Elections Were lield Sunday

"was" W Stalin l! DOW-fill _(the 0

production and increased consump- “m

0g by the Dominion Government, was

aw days until Jae arrivals reach mm

those destined for military dstrict u

... ION-DON, b. French proposal to post ti of a

' Stalin Announces New 5-Year Plan

Economy Only P. E. I. Remedy Says Premier

mud at the Dominion-l

Dias.

Province! Conference not being able to come to an definite con. ciusion on Dornnion-Provtxicial ncial arrangements. Premier J. Walter Jones arrived back in

City Saturday evening. Nothing remains for the various en of the Provincial Government tn do but to embark upon a. policy f the strictest econ- omy." Premier ones said last night Asked if the sum of $2,000,000 as recently mentioned as being the annual grant offered the Province

oorroot. the Premier replied “the reporters were only guessing. Any- wafiyr, that would scarcely build the 3 81mm Bridle." he added. Queried about the possibility of the Conference ending in the Con- Mwtlon Climbers in Charlotte- or £3033; was Jihawr" "lhfifi Ottawa. but the signing of an og- reement could well be held here "No place in Canada could have “l0” Niilifbbriatie setting," he

Ohurehllls On lllslt To President Truman

WASHINGTON. Feb. 10 - (AP) --Wlnstlon Churchill arrived in Wastiintton ti: afternoon for a bfld vlllt with President ‘Truman.

almlflfld ~09 1n a black overcoat and muffins onia loos cigar. Mr.

. . ---*a.t‘.'r1re~ stabbed from his pane. ‘shlvered in sub-freezing Washington temper- Blllre. then smiled and waved his hut at a cheering crowd of about

His ‘plane. flying from Miami, new out of my and threatening ciggtds and landed in a flurry of I .

Fuel Shortage Becoming Acute In ll. Y. Oity

NEW YORK, Feb. 10 - (AP)- New Yorkers suffered tonight from fuel restrictions even more severe than in wartime. a result of a tug-

‘s , while other millions in Philadel is faced the prospect of a transi tieup.

Mayor William 0"Dwyer feared a

lble " idamic of respiratory illness an disease" and ' re rigid rationing of New York's fuel e lies

e

nears of Health said there WIS

rieede as a hos-pita

If the fuel shortage were not re- evcd. the Boas-d predicted, there would be "discomfort. distress and suffering and an increase in ill- ness and deaths, particularly ani- ongdihfants, the infirm and the age '

While measur

.v es were be pressed, 400 commercial tugs, whi the overnmient had seized,

lay idle in e harbor, and 44 gov-

the com- of con-

walk of Plsllade his tran- sit workers, set for 12:0 AM. to- s ood "M, Th mosport

, . e wen... flown (crop is seeking a B-cesits hourly wage increase and a score of other benefits for 9&5 ienrsployecs of the Philadelphia

Imports . . Meanwhile i .0100‘; workers kept owl‘? from tlltfidjfsltlltgl bor a dimutes.

Fe 10 -- (AP) - A

ne selec-

rmanent si e for the

had Nat one until next septesn- ber was defeated by a tie 10 to

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Iy TOM WILLIAMS LONDON. Feb. 1o - (AP) - the

corny, announced Saturday ntght a new five-year plan for Soviet Russia and htupcridmls production goals “to guarantee our country against any eventality."

Ba ctesl, too, that Soviet mien could “not only catch I]? with but surpass those abroad."

e dld not “mention ‘ ‘ re- search spcoi y.

Premier Stalin said the new five year plum-Russia's fourth includ- ng the one interrupted by German invasion in 1941-—'WOl1ld be inaug-

and "for the further bgdyin

ura d soon,

future” set goals for steel .pig iron, coal and oil production close to the output of thel Ugited States.

a. re-eec on speech broad- cast by bl)».- Mosoow radio. the Sov- iet leader promised that "soon ra- tioning wil end". and that the Russian worker's standard of liv- in! would be raised.

The war was “the inevitalble re- sult of the development qf the world economic and political force-s on the basis of monopoly capital- ism." Premier Stalin asserted.

He called for an industrial out- lmt of 50,000,000 tons of pig iron a Year. 60,000,000 tons cf steel, 500,» 000.000 tons of coal, and 00,000,000 tons of Oil.

When these goals are reached. “only then can we consider our country guaranteed against any

eventuality; he said. ('I‘he s woman's yearbook of

(Continued on Page 5 Col. 5)

Oanadlan Maples To Shade Wsr- Cemeteries

_.'I‘C>RON'I‘O , 1-,. _._ wil goon be ‘shading cemeteries overseas rnhere Canadian i buried.

John A. Carroll, secretary ‘of the Ontario Agricultural Society, said he had been informed by the Isn- Derial War Graves Conmrssion that a shipment of seedlings sent over two years rags by the ggglgty had reached a height of five to six feet and were ready to be planted in cemeteries at Brook- vrood, Harrowgate, Chutes, Bath, Cambridge and Oxford where Canadian service personnel are buried.

servicemen are

Belgium Dancer ' Grosses Atlantic To Marry Veteran

ALO, N.Y. Feb. l0 -— (AP)

BUTT‘ (1 -.An attractive 81-year-old Belgian

dancer who worked in the under-

ground was reunited at a meeting this

n Erie County jail Saturday with the dapper, married French-Cana- dian war veteran for whom she crossed the ocean as a stowaway.

George Langlois, 3?. of Klrklarsi Lake, 0nt., was permitted by Unit- ed States immigration officials to visit Mrs. Marcel Philippe being held on a charge of illegal entrv.

Mrs. Philippe was apprehended here when she tried to cross the border into Canada without the necessary papers.

Immigration inspectors have . ted her as saying she stowed away on a troop ship at Antwerp and took advantage of the crowd and confusion to Wlllk off the ves- sel when it docked at New York Cifirabout Jan. .

. Langiols, who arrived Friday night but was required to wait un- til Saturday to visit Mrs. Philippe, has ap lied to Canadian immigra- tion o ficials for a six-month per- mit for the dancer. United States authorities said they would release er if the permit were granted. Asked if he intended to marry her Langlols said:

"Ch, yea. l wouldn't have come all the way down here if she hadn't meant something to me." Hunt, Canadian immigra- tion insfisector in charge at Mia- izars Fa s Ont, quoted Mr. Lang- lols, a gold mine employee, as say- ing he was married, but had ap- plied for divorce.

in Mr. Hunt said the entry apollca- shifts

tlon for the dancer had been for- warded to the Canadian immigra- tian head office at Ottawa and that compaction might be taken on it thla week.

IDNDON, Feb. i0 -- (CP Cable) -.Illght hundred RQAJ‘. ground crew personnel at Down Ampney air transport station in Gloucu- tcrahira prepared tonight to re- sumswor tomorrow, ending a alt- down strike they bafan last Thursday over repatrist on griev- ances. A slmil r foubday strike of another l RCAJ‘. round crew at Odlham air station in Hampshire ended Saturday.

TTBBIJC. Feb. l0 - (CD-Arm- an Vlau, industrial commissioner of ebec City; announced _

that Quebec as renewed its cf- forts to have this city named as

t h d Arte f the fififlhlaaefl “ " ‘I

The Muskox

"Flaw-designed by members of force Muskcx and drawn by Ptc. Irene E. Mulltn is

circular in shape It will be worn by the moving force itself as well as members of the three services participating in the exercise. Etn- g all. three services the three-toned patch - pale blue. silvery-white and black. shows a naval vessel. aircraft and igloo (in which the moving force lives much of the time) against stark white mountains of the barren Arctic

where “Escercise Muskgx" is tak- ing place. — (Can Army Photo).

One Striking Engineer At San Returns

One of the three striking en- gineers at the Provincial Sans.- torium went back to work over the week-end The mass have been demanding higher wages because o: the heavier cuties which they claim the extensions to the Sana.- tcriuzn . havalmncaed upon uhem. The matter will come up this week for consideration by the Board of Commissioners for the Sanatoriiun. Col G. E Full, chair- man cf the Commission. is at pra- sent absent from the Province.

No inconvenience has been suf- fered by the more than one hun- dred patients of the institution since the walkout of the engineers. The Department of Public Works immediately sent two of its men to the Sanatcrium and no loss of heat or any other convenience was sérffered by the patients or the s aff.