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THREE-WAY BALKAN DEFENCE PACT TO

Government To End 2-Week Freeze On Bu-tier

Awarded l. 0. D. E. Overseas w"”'”5"l”l5 "ad

Scholars.

Dr. Albert Sinclair. 2'1-year-old non of Mrs. Sinclair and the late Mr. Peter Sinclai.r,rM.P.. h.as'been awarded the Prince Edward Island I.o.D.E. overseas scholarship of some which is said to be the larg- est provincial scholarship awarded in this province.

This announcement was made last evening by Mrs. Thane A. Campbell, provincial secretary of the imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (I.O.D.E.) who said that four excellent ap-

p1icatlons.all with very close quali- '

flcatlons, were considered in mak- ing the selection.

Dr. Sinclair is presently doing post graduate work at the Van- couver General Hospital in Van- eouver. B. C.

He will use his e2.ooo scholar- ship to do post graduate work in medicine at the University of London. England. He will be leav- ing Canada for England in Sep- tember of this year.

Dr. Sinclair is a. graduate of Prince of Walescollege, Charlotte- town, and received his medical degree from Dalhouaie University in Halifax. His father, the late Mr. Peter Sinclair was s. member of the cabinet of the Provincial Legislature and later was Liberal member for Queen's County in the House of Commons.

This valuable I.OJ).E. overseas scholarship is awarded yearly by the l.O.DlE. to a student in each Canadian province.

Mrs. Campbell will be announ- ring the 1954-56 scholarship in September of this year and will then accept applcations of stu- ients from Prince Edward Island who have done. or are doing post rraduate won: in any of the Can- irllan universities. -

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Been Pleading For Supplies

OTTAWA. (OP) - The two-week freeze on sales of government but- ter is being lifted. enddng the sup- ply war between Agriculture Min- ister Gardiner and the commercial trade

An official said Saturday that beginning this week. the agricul- ture departrnent will once again fill orders for emergency supplies of butter in areas where an au- thentic shortage ls found to exist.

A spokesman for the commercial dairy industry said this arrange- ment will be satisfactory. provid- ing all emergency demands are met.

For days the trade has been ham- mering on the government's door. pleading with Mr. Gardiner to re- lease some of the 30,000,000-pound butter stockpile.

Wholesalers Protest

Letters, telegrams and telephone calls have poured into the depart- ment. with wholesalers forecasting 0. price boost and a butter short- age in some centres resulting in rationing by the industry unless the government unlocked the door on its supplies.

Prime Minister st. Laurent,

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A fund to be known as the National Kinsmen European Flood Relief Fund for aiding flood vic- tims in England. Holland and Del- gium has been set. up by the Na.- tional Kinomen Association at a special meeting held in Charlotte- town over the weekend, it was

announced yesterday by Mr. A.

Wounded Men Charge

Pilfering At

TOR-ONTO. (OP) Thirteen wounded Korea veterans arriving home on furlough said Saturday vcholesals pllferlng of wounded Canadian veterans' equipment is going on at Mcchord field near Tacoma. Wash.

They said officials at the United States Air Force base told them a theft ring is in operation.

Three of the veterans testified in court at Tacoma Friday at the trial of s. U. S. airman charged with theft. one of them was Cpl. 9. E. Hilton of Weatmouht North.

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Gin. George Burl-is of London. Ont. said 16 oi the 19 Canadians who arrived at Tacoma Jan. 81 had all or part of their equipment stolen after it was checked in at Mochord Field. some of it was re- ggggggggggjggjgg

Coming Events

"Seeds! Send for Free Catalogue. Arthur Vesey, York.

"Come to show in Fredericton hall Tuesday. Feb. 10th at 8 p.m.

"Dance Corran Ban Hall. Mon- day. February 9th. Music by Char- lottetonlans. Hall heated.

"Valentine Dance, Grandview Hall. Thursday. February 12. Lunches.

"Dancing for young and old at Ul9m0l' School, Friday, February lath. Good music.

"Come to the ham and scallop supper, Victoria Hall. Wednesday. Feb. 11th. Sponsored by the Vic- toria W. 1.

"Card Party-,'vSV-e.bster's' Corner School. Tuesday, February loth. Prizes, Blankets.

H”l-lockoy Dance. Lorne Valley, luesday. February 10th. If stormy. next night.

"Notice.--The Annual Meeting Pl the Tryon Farmers Institute will lie held in North Tryon School.

Vednesday. Nbruary ilth. at 3.80. Iixtggasghool. Fred A. land. sec- f' . -

H"Auctlon and Dance. Vernon Aall. Wednesday. February iith.

150 closing dance. Monday. Feb- ruary lath.-

Ef'Annusi Holy Name Box Social,

m'1"l0- Dance. etc. st. James

w"1'0h. Town Hall. Georgetown, edmldly. February eleventh.

can I I erictody Mona” u Fr” gull over 40 lbs each. Will also ":1 Imallercnes. Knud forgon-

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U. S. Base

covered after the U. S. airman was arrested. he said.

At Tacoma, Col. K. P. Farrell, acting commanding officer oi the military air transport service de- tachment oi Moohord, said he doubted that a gang was in oper- ation at the base.

ll. C. M. P. Train For Trip To Coronation

Cpl. Lionel Strong, of the Souris Detachment of the R. C. M. P., and Constable Raymond Stunden, of the City staff are presently in training at Rockcllfie, Ontario. preparing to participate with 33 other officers and men oi the service in e Coronation next June of Queen Elizabeth.

The training being done at present includes refresher courses in equitation and troop drill, as well as training for the famous Musical Ride oi the Mounties.

The contingent is being trained by Staff Sgt. C. W. Anderson. who is the riding master at N Division. and Sgt. R. R. VanPatten, riding master at Depot Division, Regina. In command when they go over- seas will be Assistant Commis- sioner D. L. MoGibbon, Officer Commanding F Division at Re- gina. and he will have as his sec- ond in command Inspector R. J. Belec. Montreal.

FOUR ASPHYXIATED MONTREAL. (GP) - A family of four was asphyxisted and seven others were overcome Saturday by gas fumes which leaked into ii block of houses in suburban

Kinsmen Establish Flood Relief Fund

Russians Order East Germans

To H alt Exodus Of Refugees

BERLIN. (AP)-The Emit Ger- man Communist purge, forcing a mass flight of refugees to the West. shows some signs of boom- eransiniz. A new crop of East Germans who fled to West Berlin brought these reports:

1. The Russians have order- ed the German Communist re- gime to put a halt to the exodus, which West Berlin Mayor Ernst Renter calls I. "colossal peacetime tragedy."

2. Twenty-four border police have been arrested for helping Soviet Zone residents escape.

3. workmen have started

erectng new barricades on the frontier between the Soviet zone and the Soviet sector of Berlin to plug the big leak. The actions came at the end of a week in which 8,560 East Ger- mans reported to West Berlin refugee centres. The pace impelled Router to forecast a February to- tal of 30.000. There were more than 25,000 in January.

Mixed Russian Reaction

The Russian reaction is describ- ed as one of mixed embarrassment and annoyance. In the first place the- refugee flood has fastened sympathetic world opinion on the plight of Soviet zone Germans, liicluding Jews. Second. the al- ready wobbly Communist economy is being hit hard by the flight of

walthen Gaudet, dent.

The Fund will be ridmiiiistcrcd here by the National Treasurer. i.. i. -.iic..1i'. and in England iliroitgh the National Association of Rouiid Tables with which the National Kinsmen Association associated in the World Council of Young MI:n's Service clubs. ”

"in setting up this Fund," Mr. Gaudet stated last night, ”Klns- men in Canada are remembering that during the Manitoba floods of 1960 when the Kinsmen organ- isation set up a Manitoba Fund and raised close to 3100.000, which was forwarded for relief work in Manitoba from the Klnsimenclubs, the Round Tables Association. un- solicited, raised over s75,(l)0 for this purpose."

Wires were sent out last night on behalf of the National Kinsmen Executive calling on the 285 clubs in the Kinsmen Association to sponsor special fund-raising activ- ities in connection with the Fund and to send in contributions on a voluntary basis. The executive was in contact with the National President of the Round Tables in England and he has accepted the task of administering the Fund in England.

Arrangements were made last night to forward 55.003 immedi- aiely, President Gaudet stated.

Ginger Rogers Weds Fourth Husband

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP)- Ginger Rogers and her handsome young French bridegroom. Jacques Bergerac. are honeymooning at this sunny resort after a surprise wedding ceremony in the chambers of a municipal judge Saturday night. '

For her fourth husband the 41- yenls-old film star chose a Paris lawyer who is it years her junior. They met in France last summer.

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SOIL-SAVING DRIVE

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE. Man. (OP)-Agrlculturists meeting here recommended that the Portage la Prairie fair board sponsor a "save the soil" campaign in this district The aim is to encourage farmers to follow proper crop rotation practices and other methods of combattiog erosion. -

Average density of salt in the oceans is about 3.5 parts of salt per

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thoiland of water.

,A.MFrliRDAM, (AP) - Dutch government engineers believe they can complete i. porary repairs to Holland's vast network of dikes in time for the next flood tide: on no. la. - .

But the longer task, winning back l!romthsNorthsea.thea.reIsit has grabbed. will never end.

Permanent repairs to dikes shat- tered in the Jan. .;'. hurricane wlu merge in a land reclamation pro- gramthsinsveroeuesln lasso- lond. Much of Holland built - quite literally-out of the ocean. Queen Juliana led the people of the Netherlands ir a. day of prayer

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and mourning Sunder for 1,372 of

Dutch Expect Dikes Can Stop Next Spring Tide

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she mid in a. broadcast to a still- ed nation that men of the free world had responded to the fierce tidu with I. mighty tide of Christ- ion charity.

Repairs and clean-up work also continued in Britain and Belgium. The unofficial count of dead in the three countries from the floods rue to 1.945. including 540 in Brit- ain and 28 in nelgium.

The trek use to slimy. evil-Inel- it

ling, mud-covered home: was un- derweylnpartsofthelifngllsheut coast although tmountnda of once- fertlle sores ranained under water.

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expciiciiced farmers and technic- ns.

Dulles Completes . Tour of Europe

LUXEMBOURG, (AP) - John Foster Dulles ended his swing through seven Western European states Sunday with a warning they

must unite or be engulfed in war.

Climaxing his nine-day foreign policy survey which began a week ago Saturday in Rome, the U. S. state secretary urged Schuman Plan officials to push on to great- er unificatlon if they want to main- tain world peace.

Dulles. with mutual security ad- ministrator Harold Stassen and other officials, took off from Lux- embourg alrport for Washington. where he said he would report di- rectly to President Eisenhower when he arrives Monday.

Burglars Spend 14 Hours Blasling Safes In London

LONDON, (Reuters)-Six masked men broke into the offce of the Royal Bank of Canada and the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada. spent iii hours blasting open safes with gelignite charges. and finally left. unnoticed with lea than 121.000.

They got in the building simply by ringing the night bell at. the massive front doors. rushing the night watchman and tying him up. floor after hour they blasted awn trying to reach the main vaul of the burglar-proof Royal Bank. but none of the milling thousands outside in Trafalgar Square heard a sound. Policemen patrolled the area. continuously. The relief watchman arrived soon after the break-in and rang the bell. The gang let him in. pounced on him and put him with his partner.

Elaborate Precautions

Elaborate precautions had been taken to prevent the sound of the explosions from carrying. 'l'he.v packed gelignite in lengths ,of rubber tubing and inserted them into holes drilled into sale doors. They plied stocks of old papers around? the vault area and put more paper against the windows to deaden the sound.

The gang had confidence enough to stop for ii mesi. Detectives found remains of sandwiches and tea dress in two cups.

A news boyy. selling papers in Trafalgar Square. had the first inkling of the robbery. He heard shouting from a second-storey window and saw a watchman yelling for police.

The bank is on the ground floor of ogmdg House, a seven-storey building just oi'f Trafalgar Square. on one of Londonls most travelled thoroughfares.

It is still not established what time the gang left. but it was all- parently through the front door.

More min 33,500,000 worth or wire fencing is sold in Canada every year.

Phenomenal Rainslorm In Marilimes

HALIFAX. (C?) - The weather man says clear. weath- er will follow the ”phenomenal r a i n s to r m" which pelted Nova Scotia, Southern New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island during the week-end.

The storm, which left a snow- covered countryside bare. centred over Southwestern Nova Scotla where 3.72 inches fell in Yarmouth and 3.35 at Liverpool.

More than 2 1-2 inches fell in Halifax. where gutters became sluices and a-suburban restaur- ant was surrounded by a 10- foot wall of water. Saint John received 2.06 inches.

Charlottetown and Summer- slde had 1.37.

Newly-Form-ed French Gov'l Runs lnlo Trtuilile

By Preston Grover

PARIS, (AP)-The newly-formed government of Premier Rene May- or has already run into difficulty, not yet serious. but weakening.

To give certain business interests representation, May . appointed Andre Boutemy as m nister of pub- lic health. It seems to have been a mistake, for Boutemy wasbrought under attack by the Communists, who were supported by some soc- ialists. .

Boulemy was a Vichy official un- der Marshal Phillppe Petaln. There is least bitterness now be- tween those who held themselves aloof from public life during the German occupation and those who got mixed up in it. But not all bit- terness has disappeared.

Mayer is evidently trying to per-

suade Boutemy to resign before his position in the government is brought up for debate Feb. 17. If only the Communists were in- volved. Mayer could ignore lt. .But he needs Socialist votes to get the six-nation European Army Treaty ratified.

DROWNED AT HALIFAX

DAR'I'MOU'FH, N.S., (OF) - William Colford. 47, drowned Sat- urd-ay when a huge chain snapped while a tanker was being hauled on a repair slip, hurling him into Hal- ifax harbor. He is survived by his widow and two daughters.

OTTAWA, (OP) -The Currie episode, seemingly unmatched in its talent for new surprises. enters another phase this week. This one could have its moments too.

Less than a. week ago Parlia- ment Hlll was awaiting the op- pearnnce of George Currie, author of the controversial Currie report. and the anticipation was that his testimony before the Commons d e fe n c e expenditures committee could well last two or three weeks. It didn't. it lasted two meetings.

New Phase Tuesday

From there the 28-min commit- tee hearb into a new phase Tues- day. one that is scheduled to deal with reports by the Defence De- partment's own auditors about fr! regularities in the Works services from 1950 to 1962.

Those reports prompted one of the strong parts 0 the Currie re- port. Mr. Currie. n dealing with irregularities at Camp Petawawa and their causes. said "lt must be said that internal warnings had not been lacking in the Depart- ment of National Defence."

Mr. Currie buttressed this by including an appendix showing a breakdown of the chief audtor's reports on accounting irregularities in -various -works detachments- materiais wtained or work started without authorisation. unauthor- ized issues of stores and materials and so on.

opposition wants Details ,

0;, members want copies of those

reports brought before

the committee and have passed

Yugoslavia: Turkey. Greece Closing liamks

BELGRADE, tluuters)-A three- way Balkan defence pact will be signed soon. Foreign Minister Ste- plhan stephanopouios of Greece said Saturday.

The signatories will be Commun- ist Yugoslavia. the Republic of Tur- key and Greece, n constitutional monarchy, These three ancient en- armies have recently been closing ranks and exchanging missions on the military and diplomatic levels.

Will Reinforce Atlantic Pact

Btephanopmrios. winding up talks wi't-h Marsihal Tito and his govern- ment, said the Balkan dcfenice al- liance will "reinforce the dedenmve oower of the Atlantic Pact." It will ”not conflict" with Greece or Tur- key's commitments in the Atlantic P?ct. he said.

The main significance of a Bai- kan pact is that it will shore up NATO's southeastern flank and counter-balance the increasing war potential being pumped into the Iron Curtain satellites by Russia.

Til.o's Views Changing

It 9"" "rows how Ti-to's views have '””-n changing with the char .- ” tuation. Even until re-

cent” "-0 had said "that while he was wirling to co-operate with Greece and Turkey, he would prefer not to join a formal treaty,

stephanopouilos was "very sells- fied" with his talks here.

"After this we shall go on to something more positive and pre- else." Steplhanopoulos said. when asked what the third stage would

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Italy. feuding with Yugoslavia over the international hotsoot of Trieste, has been kent informed about the progress of the talks. he said.

s-...:ii.;n Painfully injured

Master Dale 1ltlacLeod. three- year-oirl son of Mr. and Mrs. Wal- lace MacLeod. Duke Street, Sum- merside. received a painful injury on Friday afternoon when the high chair in which he was sit- ting tipped forward towards the stove. His mother. in an attempt to prevent him from falling on the stove. barely managed to reach the chair and put it aside. The chair and occupant fell at an angle. missed the stove. but in the fall the young lad somehow came in contact with a nail which entered his neck under the chin. inflicting a nasty throat wound.

Hewas rushed to the Medical Center for first aid and on the

arrival of his father from the airport he was taken to the Prince County Hospital where several stitches were taken. It

was learned over-Ihe week end that his c nriition was satisfactory and all 'ish the young lad n speedy recovery from the effects of his accident.-S.

Currie Report Enters Another Phase This Week

this word along to government representativesfon the committee.

Present plans are for Elgin Arm- strong. assistant deputy minister 'of defence and the department's financial expert, to appear Tues- day to testify on this phase of the situation.

In addtion. there are signs that the Progressive Conservative mem- bers mtend to renew their de- mands that Mr. cuurrie make a 'wider inquiry into the whole De- fence Department.

They asked no questions of Mr. Currie in the committee but later issued a statement saying his re- port was not changed in hny re- spect by Liberal questioning and that what is needed now is to clean up "the mess" and get Mr. Currie moving on a big inquiry.

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Dept. of us.

EIDMUNDSON. N. B., (OP)m'1'he provincial cabinet will be asked Tuesday to ratify what would be the first agreement between a New Brunswick government department and an international union.

Hon. E. J. Fournier, chairman of the New Brunswick Electric Power Commission, said here Sunday night he will recommend cabinet approval of a one-year contract between the commission and its workers in seven locals of the in- ternational Brotherhood of Elec- trical Workers, TLC-AFL.

"No Strike” Clause A ”no strike" clause and a 40- hour week are among the term; o1 the agreement. which has been approved by the commission and representatives of the seven locals. Mr, Fournier said. He added the employees' work week will be shortened from the present 44 hours without reduction in take-

HARTLAND. N. B.-Effective Monday the New Brunswick Po- tato Manketingnoard. will institute a minimum price level for potato growers which it hopes will be instrumental in establishing a"fair marketing return."

The proposal. which has been under consideration for the pr-It several weeks was officially ap- proved Friday and announced by H. L. Day. Hartiand. N.B.. board manager. '

The minimum prices set are as follows: For tablestock potatoes- 32.75 per barrel (105 pounds); Canadian Grade I. graded stock, 53 per barrel (fob shlmingpointa).