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SearchBeginsIIor Missing 80-foot" Motor Vessel

l1 ZLIFAX, Jan- Iin -tCP> —.\n gn-und-sca search began tcday for

1 80-foot mrtor vessel Atlantic ' ~, missiti’; since Sunday v." th firc men ab ard. - \"*'=cl was n11 a IOO-milc

t, u It‘ f m ilalifttx to Livcrpoui, . c lill. Hnlllnx Saturday l was title at Liverpool Sunday :1 The ship. recently purchas- mi by thc Hudson's Bay Cuwpatiy hr we in Ftbfilléin WBtlCFS, was to twe conditioned at Liverpool for far- y-pvth operations.

An R.C A.l-‘. Lztnt-astrr soured tht- area for two hours today. Scterul siltps sat out item Liver- p-‘ol i0 10in in the hunt. They con- tzntted to-sealch tonight.

Capt. Albert C. Lloyd. skipper if the Atlantic Salvage. was mas- lf-r of another lludsotrs Bay com- pany vessel, the Rupert's Land. lzoav tied up at Halifax. The chlcf officer was idflltlfied only as R1050 and attother crew mc-rnbcr as Wil- lt=_ a Newfollndlztiidcr. Names of the other two were not. immediate- ly available.

The Atlan-tic Salvage was used for lightbefin-g service ln ilalifax during the war. She was to pcr- form s. similar function in the north in harbors which vharvcs.

Kidnapping Case In Ontario

CALEDONIA, Ont. Jan. 30 — (CP)»Po1ice Chief William Stntts said t\vo ' young brothers were snatched from thcir play today by a woman who fled with them in s green automobile.

lie said the boys, Pat. and Nike, 3 and 2, have been living at tho homo of tilcir grandfather, A. M, Rice, a bank manager here.

Crown Attorney Harrison Arrcll laid the children have been living with their paternal grandparents since their parents were separat- rd.

“There is not a legal atlon," he added.

A few minutes after tho child- rrn disappeared, the tlrnnflmvihel‘ told police she received a tclc- phone call from a woman who claimed to be their motilcr, Mrs. Gwendolyn Rice of Niagara Falls. The woman ssid she had tnkrn the children and would care for them. - _-

Caledonia is about 15 mllflfi south of Hamilton.

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Coming Events

"Mali your Films to Garnhum Photo Studio. Charlottetown

"Show st Bradalbane tonight at R30. Songs by Jim Austin.

"Progressive auction card Pally Pownal Hall, Tuesday, Jan. 31st.

“Hockey match, Sea View rink tonight, Malpsque vs. SM VWW-

"Action galore at MacDonald Bros Theatre tionight. See "Blflflk Arrow". Starring Louis Hayward.

"Store closed all day Wednes- day, Fbbnuary lat. for Stock-datum!- Moouigan k Boyieu

"Our 1950 Seed catalotwc it now ready. Send for free copy. Arthur Vgggy, York, P. E. Island.

\ "Dance Murnsgbatfs WAN- house. Dot-ugh, Thurs-day, l-‘ebru- Iy 21d. If not. fine. Friday.

"Hockey Graham's Road to- night, Bradalbans vs. Stanley Bridge,

"Hockey match LonK Riv" Rink tonight. French River v!- Long River,

"Hockey at New Glasgow rink hnight between New Ginssflw god Glugo. Road. Game start! .30.

, ""um go sale, Salvation Army, Frtisy, Feb. 3. 8 p.m. Do- nations requested. Please DIM"

‘worm River Rink Hockey . February 1st. Momrdhs vs. Oamnll Meteors. Gems time 6.3). Ilene alien. "Hockey tonight. North Rus- Ioo rink, South Rustico Booze"

w. North Rustico Leslmmirfl- 0mg starts at 8.30. Skate alter.

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U. S. Defence Secreiar

U. S. Telephone Strike

' Scheduled For Feb. 8;

May Involve 300,000

Airmen Visit li.N. Heatiguarlers

LAKE SUCCESS. N.Y., Jan, 30 -— _(CP) — A BFOup o! R.C.A.F'. navigators who came to Lake Success today to look at gyrosoopes stayed to tour the United Nations headquarters.

The 13 members of s specialist navigation course, on g country. wide tour of United states Al; Force bases and instrument fact- ories, vlsited the sperry Gyroscope

plant. which leases 3 p511 o; up huildiltg to the U. N. Sqdn. Ldr. W.L. Gillespie of

Toronto is loader of the course which has its headquarters at Summerside, P. E. I.

The group, which parked its two Lancaster bombers at nearby Wriglht Field, have visited United States bases in California. and Florida. The navigators return to Summcrside Saturday.

Hope Fades For 42 Missing _ Aboard _Pl_ane

WHITEHORSE, Y. T.. Jan. 30- (CP) - Tho $500.000-n-day air search ground on tonight. for 42 men, an expectant mother and her two-year-oid son misslngwith a United States Air Force trans- port plane.

A new threat-sub-zero temper- atures~ralsed its head. For the first time since the search bcllan

last Thursday doubts were ex- prcsscd thpt. there will be any SUFVIVOTS.

While 57 planes droned’ over

000 square‘ miles of rugged tim- her-land, temperatures dipped be- low zero for the first time since the plnno was lost on a flight from Anchorage, Alaska to Great Falls, Mont.

With fog, snow and sleet black- ing out the "most probable” search area 40 miles south oi’ here, United States army troops fanned out. into the heavy tim- ber. In the area of Carcross where a loud explosion was reported last Thursday, troops commanded by Col. F. S. Bowen dropped all preparations for exercise Sweet Briar to search the area.

Missouri Skipper Gets ‘Help’ From Army

HAMPTON, Va.. Jan. 30 --tCP> - Capt. W.D. Brown, skipper of the grounded Missouri, will get another "implement" to free his United States battleship from s Chesapeake Bay mud flat.

Seven former army men. all workers on a Government project near here, have forwarded him a small paddle with the note:

"We hear you are up the creek without one. So \ve are sending this one with kindest regards and an invitation to stop by B08905 Lodge for a few brews."

Rogers Lodge, it was explained is a house which the seven rent. and where they "batch" together.

UNIONS LIOALIIID

Unions and strikes were not recognized as legal in Canada un- til 1872.

WASHINGTON. Jan. so —tAP) l-A strike in thc Belt Telephone System across thc United Slates was signalled today to begin wed. 115M163! Fob. B, with 100,000 mcm- bcrs of the Communications Work-

ers Association (C.I.O.) called ou . Union officials said that more

than 200,000 other mtmtbers of the same union are eiopected f0 db- serve pictlcet lines and thus support the walkout over wages, hours. alp- prenticeship nlles and pensions

Contracts delay the striking of this latter groulp untiitl about March 1

The strike ‘is set u, begin at e a. m. local time. Joseph A. Bcirne, union president, told reporters, it. will go forward utiless the Govem- ment or the company acts to avoid it. He staid every affected telephone exchange in the United States will be picketcd.

Sixty-five per cent of C.W.A. members are women operator; and clerical employees.

If the strike actually takes place. union strategy aims at. a. flood of telephone calls in hope of jam- ming the dial service. Beime has suggested that the 0.1.0. urge its members to make lots of calls 1f necessary. Philip Murray, C I.O. president pledged "whatever help you may require" tvtthout specify- ing the nature of cooperation to be extended.

The union promised, however, to maintain emergency telephone scr- vicc. Deir-ne said he waste to this effect to Leroy Wilson, president. of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, parent of the Bell System. . _.. -. .

Beirnc sa-id that "by use of spcci lal numbers which would not be affected by any rush on telephone lines, service will he maintained for doctors, nurses, fire, police and other telephone needs in special

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In five out of the six European countries he visited recently, there is a "trend away from govern- ment ownership or control of in- dustry," Phiiip D. Reed, chairman of the board of General Electric Comtpany, New York, told a meet- ing of the board of trade in T0- ronto. Mr. Reed, also president of the International Chamber of Commerce, said this observation was made after visits to England, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt. “I came away from every country except England (where the government is too firmly com- mitted, to change), with a very definite impression that the trend ls away from government 0on- trol," he said.

PLANE GATCHES FIRE

BOSTON, Jan. 30-—(AP)—More than 30 passengers were hastily evacuated from an Eastern Air- lines Constellation today when fire broke out. in the landing gear as the Plane gvas _about. to sate-t m»: »'l'h¢-.lifififi?~"'stid-'down~ a rope to the ground and a few reported friction burns. The fire, confined to the right landing wheels and hydraulic fluid, was extinguished by the airport fire

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OTTAWA, Jan. 30 —- (Ct?) Railway wage scales, were attack-- ed by three Western grain organ- izations today in a counter-move to the Canadian Pacific Railways attempt to wipe out the West's low. statutory freight. rates on grain.

Suggesting that the railways‘ payrolls are too heavy, they said in a. brief to the Royal Commis- SlOn on Transportation that. rail wages and salaries should be "re- examined" before any attempt is made to boost the grain rates.

The brief was filed jointly by UIIC Manitoba Pool Elevators, Sas- katchewan co-operatire producers and the Alberta W-hcat Pool, pro- duccr-ovned grain era-operatives with a membership of 185,000 growers in the Prairie region.

1t was the latest move in a de- veloping fight. over the fate of the "Crow's Nest Pass" grain rates. sub-normal toils set by statute for the movement of grain and grain products in the West.

The. controversy was touched off before the Commission last: year by thc Canadian Pacific Railway. which contends it: loses between $18,000,000 and $17,000,000 a year on the special rates. The C. RR. asked that they be wiped off the

statute books and placed with oth-

‘Urge ‘Completion 0t 60-Mile Rail Line In N. S.

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railway befllln in 1027 has beofl seized again as a measure to 111M rising unemployment in the eastern shore arm of Non 800th.-

‘lhe railway as planned would run from Sumytinae in Liam!!!) tug Picwu County to

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For three years work pavmdfid on the line, which would give Guya- borotigh a omnectJnE 11113 Wm‘ the O.N.R.. terminus at Sunflylbrlé-

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llvdr rink, Hampshire Bulldog! the woods. concrete 531's erecktueg W. tl-lunter River Bhur-Gslns. affirm “all ‘Thaw-am T’

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bad mommies to abandon such a owievt- .

In Antlgonish during the week- end, delsgatoa mm boards of trade and other county organis- ations decided to pniss for - tlon of work on the line. A ‘ut- ion to that effect will be sent 0o the Illhsderal Govenxmm.

Michael Dwyer. Mayor of New Glasgow. said that when the Don't- inlon had l imputation of 5,010,000 the Government "was progressive enough to tmdertalse building of the railroad from coast to coast and wlth a grpatcr populd‘ and many times the revenue, it ailould be able to complete the Ginsbur- ough railroad."

He said that. at. present $00,000 was being paid out’ monthly in Nova Scotia in unemployment in- airmen. "Why 1M put some of

mm men to work and complete t& railway?" h! aild»

Suggest Railways Cut Wages Before Asking Boost In Grain Rates

er rates in the hands of the Board of Transport Commissioners.

Up to now. the Government- owned Canadian National Rail- ways, whose stake in the grain trade is comparable to that: of the C.P.R., has taken a neutral attitude on the Crow's Nest ques- tion before the Commission.

The grain co-operatives’ brief made public today said recurring demands for wage increases and shorter hours - which the rail- ways had “not seen fit to resist." - had brought a divergence be- tween the railway wage level and the general income level on the Prairies.

The railways had a duty to see that their wage level was "fairly related" to that of those who paid the freight, The Western farmer was not satisfied that. duty had been fulfilled.

Past wage increases had been made the basis "I Wpplications for higher freight rates.

(Wage increases were largely re- sponsible for applications which brought the railways freight-rate increases of zl-pcr-ccnt and eight". pcr cent in the last two years. On Thursday, the Board of Transport Commissioners is to re-open hear- ings on the latest rate case. in which the railways had asked for a SO-per-cent hoist. Currently, the companies are negotiating with employees on rate demands tn- voivlng around $80,000,000 a year)

Elderly Caretaker On Starvation Diet

KIRKLAND LAKE. Ont, Jan. 80 — (C?) -— The elderly care- taker of an abandoned gold mine was brought to hospital yesterday after living for more than a month on two boxes of breakfast cereal and a gallon of ketchup. Thomas Bush, 67, found in his shack on nearby Goodfiah Lake, was so weak he was unable to stand. Policc brought him to Kirkland Lake on a lied. l-le told hoqiital attendants the ill effects of the unusual quantities of ket- chup he ate prevented him from going for help.

QUEBEC’! nlsr MAUI The first nognan Catholic mus in the Province of Quebec was

Bui lialficr Of long-Range Attack Stressed

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 -—(AP) —Defence Secretary Louis John- son cautioned tonight that an at- tack on the United States “could come from thc opposite hemis- phere without warning and with unpredictable fury."

Although warning in his first annual report that Russia now has the secret of atomic explosives Johnson expressed belief that the prospect of war is diminishing.

The military strength of the United States, he said, has much to do with discouraging a venture into a shooting war by an aggres- sor power.

Johnson said there has been unification of ‘separate lines of governmental activity in tho form- ulation and conduct of foreign policy through the National Scc- urity Council.

Johtnson's report covers thc tis- cal year which ended last June 30 and contains the reports of the three armed services .

On the North Atlantic military assistance program and broad strategy to implement it, here are some of the things Johnson had to say:

1. He does “not foresee im- mediate and spectacular re- suits upon the establishment of the (Atlantic) pact organ- ization or upon implementation of this year's aid programs. The organization only produces results as it gains experience and fosters mutual under- standing among its members."

2. t‘Should Western Europe be over-run by a hostile power an: should its vast industrial n nnowsr...» n this the . ETdQdwII: ‘those of ell an ag-

gressor, the United States would stand isolated,in a dangerous- ly insecure position . . . the United States must be able to hold the lines of collective defence of the North Atlantic area during the time that. would be required for the United States to mobilize. equip, train, and transport our own troops across thc Atlan- tic Ocean."

The reports gave some hints of how matters are going in the northern bastion, Alaska, and the whole Arctic defence perimeter.

Matthews gave brief glimpses of some new plans for the sea ser- vices in thc Arctic zone. beyond which lies Russia. He spoke of an LSD (landing ship, dock) be- ing equipped for polar work, and said it i capable of launching “substantial numbers of amphibi- ous craft in sutbtfreezing areas."

The Air Secretary's report said the year's activity was high- lighted "by further developments of the capacity to conduct long- rangc bombing operations and disclosed the air force is experi- menting with aerial refueliing of three fighter planes at one time

y Sees Prospect: OF War Dimming

from a single tanker plane.

U. K. Conservatives Ask Unions For Support

LONDON, Jan. 30 — (CP) ~- Winston Churchill's Conservatives appealed tonight to trade union- ists —— the Labor Party's back- bone — for support in the Feb. 23 parliamentary elections.

Sir David Maxwell -Fy~fe, a Con- servative ieader in the House of Commons, made the appeal in a political broadcast.

Labor would lose of the Government as partial arbitrator.

Ha also bid further for union support in saying that powers of a joint industry-labor advisory committee should be increased.

In another political speech, Anthony Eden, former Foreign Secretary and now the No. 2 Con- servative, charged present tax rates are much too high for Bri- iain'.s good. He called for lower taxes.

Attorney-General Sir Hartley shawcross, speaking for the Gov-

the services an im-

ernment, said the Conservatives are offering "paradise —- .for plutocrat and proflteer." For

othcrs. Sir Hartley said, the Con- servatives promise "pie in the

Britain's Roman Catholics mean- while were told to find out can- didates‘ views on education before voting in the election.

Bernard Cardinal Griffin, Arch- bishop of Westminster and rank- ing Roman Catholic prelate in Britain, gave those instructions st a school rally.

The rChurcb claims Roman Catholic schools are endangered

celebrated on June 8i. Ml.

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[Will Seek Extension Of Wheat P001 Powers

Search Plane ls Overga

WHITEHOUSE. Y.'I‘., Jan. 30 -- (CP) — A United States plane engaged in the search for a missing C-5-l with 44 persons aboard is three hours ovrr- due from today's search.

The plane was one of 57 engaged in the moss aerial hunt for a transport missing since latst Thursday. lt was last heard from by a sistrr ship searching in thc Watson Lake area, 220 miles east of here.

A communications search was ordered by search head- quarters at Northwest Air Command in Edtnonton.

The C-47 took off for the day's search operation at. 11.07 a.m. CST. At about 7 p.m. CST, it called thc search base here from a point about 90 miles due north of Watson Lake.

Main search headquarters at l-Idttnonton said there was no indication of how many crew members were aboard the overdue pianc.

“Lillie Blockade" 0f Berlin Lifted

BERLIN. Jan. 30 —(APJ —-Rus- sia’s"1ittlc blockade“ of Western truck traffic to Berlin was lifted today and trucks moved normally for the first trne since- Ja-n. 22.

Shippers, waited until tomorrow to see whether v f Russians would agta bottleneck (‘XHnllIi|llI._nlS f ca at Hclilnstedt, 100 tnilcs vn B lin. as mysteriously as th ‘ dropp- ed them today. ~

Traffic reaching the barriers to- night averagcd only five or six trucks an hour and were cleared by the Russian guards. Tomorrow, however. a normal volume of 20 to R0 trucks is eanpccted to roach thc barrier and it then will be seen whether the soviet go-slow tactics have definitely ended.

The Russians gave no eonplantation for the new leniency after playing an erratic game of delay and. in- duigen-ce.

UNUSUAL ACCIDENTS

LONDON, Jan. 3tl—(APi —— A train hit Dr. William Rossltorfls car at Portsmouth today and car- ried it 120 yards along the truck. l-le crawled out with a bruise on one foot.

A baby buggy pushed by a mo- ther in a hurry, knocked Miss Maud Coleman down in London and broke her right. leg.

Two sheep dogs named Magic and Mystic collidcd during a romp at: Forclcombc and dropped dead with broken necks,

dcr which the Church must guar- antee largo sums for reorganiza- tion oi‘ education and extension of facilities.

"It is intolerable," the Cardinal declared, "that \vc should bc re- garded as obstacles to progress ll education simply because we re- fuse to accept a death sentence for our schools.“

"Press the justice of our claim to the candidates at the forthcom- ing election . . . we want. them to

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By PIERRE DUBOIS

NIAGARA FALLS, Ont., Jan. 30 ,-- (C?) — Western wheat-pool ol- ficiais said today tilcy will go Llll out for extension of the Cilnndtnt] Wheat Board's powr-rs wmtroiiiti", the salc of whcat.

Mall $5.00; ' criptlons Delivered $6.00.

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ilearingswBegin Before Supreme Court of “Canada

By MEL SUFRIN

OTTAWA. Jan. 30 — (OP) - The Federll Government contend- ed before the Supreme Court today that. rent; controls are constitution- ally valid because they are in the intercsts of "peace, order and good government.”

The argument. was offered by RP. Varcoc, Deputy Minister of

J. H. Wesson of Regina. presid- cnt of thc itldliOfi-memhcr Sn. t..- chewaa Co-Opcra-tit c Plfifllifflrs‘ Ltd., so‘ a rcwolutitln to this t-l-l fcct. will it» tiiscttsscti (luring tit»-