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DEMANDS FISCAL AUTONOMY FOR PROVINCES

lBig Strikes Threaten

,Winnipeg Police Have Tough Crime To Solve

Plane In Difficulty, Makes Safe Landing

Considerable interest was arous- ed Saturday morning by tho ap- pearance over the City of a lane which appeared to be in di cult- les of’ some kind as it continued to circle the City and surrounding area for over an hour. Later, it was disclosed that the plane, the property of Maritime Centrul Air- ways and piloted by Don Jamicson, one of the Company's most expor- lenoed airmen, had taken of‘! from the local airport for Summerside and Moncton when the pilot dis- covered one of the wheels would not drop its full length, u condit- ion which would make for a dang- erous landing.

Circling about the home airport for an hour and a half, during Which time Pilot Jamicson suc- ceeded ln getting the wheel almost dow.n to its proper distance from the under-carriage, he finally made a safe landing. There were seven passengers aboard.

The City Fire De artrnent with the umper and spr nklez‘ were in read ness at the landing field 1n case of emergency.

Scythia Booked At Halifax Saturday

(B The Couldlan Press) p’ AXa Jan. B-hlllght lroo trains rolls out of Halifax, Sat-

urday. carrying ’3.A44 Canadian overseas veterans to their homes after they disémbarked from the 19,761-ton liner Scythla.

The big froopshl-p steamed into thei harbor from Liverpool after a smooth, seven-day crossing. She

ut in at St. John's, Nfld., to land

'1 Nawfougdland veterans, 22 war, brides an ll children. There were 44 civilian passengers aboard her also when the ship docked at Halifax.

The next group scheduled to arrive at Halifax comprises 500 passengers aboard the Lady Nel- son, due Jan. l1.

Ships Make Port After Bomb Scare

HARLESTON, 5.0.. Jan. 6 — ( ) - The Liberty ship Henry D. ‘Thoreau. which nine days ago sen-t out a distress call after her cargo or bombs became loosened while she was 420 miles off the Azores Islands. but into Charleston har- bor today.

He: master. Capt. 5.0. Briggs, said shoring 1n the Thoreau‘: No. 2 hold became loosened between decks. threatening to plunge sev- eral hundred ions of hlzh explosive thong-be about 12 feet into the lower

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The Thoreau left Nuples. Dec 16.

mentation bombs. which Briggs said were particularly susceptible to shocks and jars.

Coming Events

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WINNIPH}. Jain. 6 -- (UP) — Challenlrfid by one 0f the most

filing crimes in Winnipeg's his- tory -- the shooting of 13~yea.r-old Roy Ewan McGregor early yester- day — the police have thrown all t city-wide

heir resources into a search for the slayer.

The schoolboy was found shot to death in a Fort Rouge district coal and wood yard. ‘a short distance from his Clark St. home. He had been shot twice. tluougb the head and in the stomach. A trail of blood for more than 60 yards led to the goal-bin where workers found his

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Mayor Comet Coulter announced a reward of $500 for information leading to the arrest of the slayer.

Since the boy's clothes were dis- arranlzcd when the body was dis- covered. medlcai officials are in- vestigating the ‘Possibility he had been the victim of a sex pervert. giswvet there i; no confirmation of

A preliminary inquest will open tomorrow Meanwhile scores of people in the neighborhood have been questioned by police.

Slim Summerville Dies At Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD. Jan. B -- (AP)- Gwrko J. (Slim) Slunmerville, 51. ope of Hollywood's top comics and character actors. died last night at his khome after suffering two

stro es. He had appeared in few pictures recently.

he wanted out of the movies was "lust enough to cover expensm and lei. me ket in some fishing."

Slim. born‘ Somerville. came to Ios Angeles when he was 18.

Edgar Kennedy. a boxer playing bit Darts in Mack Sennett/s "Key- stone Koo" comedies liked the srmallng kid and got him a Job with Ssnnett.

Cigar Firm Allowed To Increase Prices

OTTAWA, Jan. 6 -- (CP) —To enable Qontinued production of low-priced cigars, the-Excise De- partment and the Prices Board have permitted a Montreal cigar- making firm to increase the price of one of their cheaper lines from three cents each to two for seven cents.

Officials explained that the firm (Benson and Hedges, Ltd.) had experienced difficulty manufactur- ing the line at the prevailing price due to the high cost of the raw tobacco. grown in Canada, ‘and that the price increase was per- mitted to enable them to continue production of the cheaper brand without financial loss.

Woman Bandit Holds lip Toronto Store

TORONTO. Jan. 6 — (GP) — A blond, revolver - flourishing woman entered a Pendrith Avenue grocery store in West-Central Tor- onto Saturday and escaped with $40 in bills obtained at gunpoint from lll-year-old Helen Zweigmsn. Police said the woman, aged about

, inted the revolver at Miss Zwelgman and demanded money after first asking for a tin of BDIB-hetti.

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Million To iluit Work Next Week

NEW YORK. Jan. 6 — (AP) —- Three strikes and more than 1.000.- 000 workers out — that will be the picture in the United States next week unless walkouts scheduled by time: big C.I O unions are averted.

Additional. work stcpuflxes threat- ened but for which no definite time has been setflwould hike the pres- ent total of idle in labor disputes from approximately 400,000 to near the 2.000.000 mark.

These are the walkouts scheduled for next week:

Jan. 14-700000 0.1.0. United Steelworkers .

Jan. 15 - 200.000 CI O. Elect- rical Workers

Jan l6 - 200.000 C I.O Pack- inghouse Workers.

There is the additional threat that 135.000 American Federation of Labor meat cutters will join the Congress of Industrial Organiza- tions in the packinghoilse strike. The National Federation of Tele- phone Worioers (Ind) is seeking authorization for a strike call to

260.000 telephone workers across the country. The C I. Farm Foulnment and Metal Workers

llnlcn is expected to announce to- morrow a data for 30.000 employees of 11 International Harvester Com- pany plants 1n the midwest to leave their lobs.

The Brotherhood of Railroad ‘rrainmen postpon-ed a. Scheduled walkout on the St Louis-San Francisco and the St Francisco and Texas Railroads. commonly known as the Frisco

Ines. after President. Truman created an emergencv fact-finding board to investigate the union's grievances Twelve grievances, not including wages and hours. are in- volved

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CHUNGKING. Jan. 0—-(APl- Gc-n. Chou En-Lai, chief of the Communist zlolcgatlon to Chung. king, predicted confidently today that a cease-fire order halting China's civil strife would be ord- ered before next Thursday's 0mm. mi! of the United Nations confer- ence.

JERUSALEM, Jan. 6—(Houte:‘s) _-British and Palestine authorit- ies Saturday night lifted tho cur- few in force here since Jewish outbreaks of violence Dec. 27.

TORONTO, Jan. 6—(CP) -- Do- termination to continue the six- week-old union security strike at Brown's Bread Ltd._ until n union agreement. is won “'11s reiterated by a meeting of the striking driv- ers and inside workers today.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6—(AP)— The United States cndcd today its last vestige of participation in tho inint Soilihr-ast Asia Command. leaving all future operations in that area to Britain.

VATICAN CITY. Jan. 6-—(APl— Pope Pius Saturday issued an en- cyclical lcttcr appealing for-aid for homeless children and \var or- phans. The letter, addressed to all Roman Catholic Bishops. said there are up to 1900.000 children who lack the necessities of life and are suffering from cold, hun- ger and disease.

Navigation Cl0s—es On St. Lawrence

QUEBEC, Jan. 6 — (GP) The navigation season on the Si. Lawrence River closed Saturday with the arrival here of the schoon- er Gaspesla. accompanied by the Government icebroaker NB. Mc- Lean. The schooner completed her last trip from the Gulf of Si. Law-

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xenco and will not return to sea until next spring.

‘News Agency Protests To U.- S. State Dept.

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MANILA. Jan. 8 - (AP) —-Mil- itary police today broke up a crowd of several thousand angry Amer- ican soldiers who were marching on the commanding generals heed- ouarters ln protest against the Was- Department's announced slowdown in demobilization

Olhlcl‘ informal mass meetings of soldiers quickly formed at separ- ated Points in Manila. The men Were “Tam-l by soldier speakers to Bil/end 11 general protest gatherins Monday night at the City Hall.

_Half a dozen groups published mlmcczranhed pamphlets attacking ‘the War Department and Armv

brass hats and urging soldiers to complain to Congressional Commit- ors due here soon on various invest- IRBUVB missions.

‘Going homo" has developed in- to a service-wide psychosis, a sort of_monlal epidemic that is threat- ening to turn the remnants of what five months ago was the world's most powerful army into a,stranded mob.

Last August there probably was "vi a mover in the world that could haw- stood up to the strenrzth of the United Slates Army. To- day, in its present mood, what is left of4that Army would have a tough gob kicking over an aborig- inal tribe on the Warpath.

Military morale is evaporating in a mmsmu of suspicion. belly- achos and returning self-interest.

The enemies that the United States Army was created to dos- troy have been destroyed. The Army now is fighting itself like a flea-mad watchdog biting its own ta l.

Evon though the mass-protest parades and meetings have been orderly, the situation is Axerlous.

against their commnn ers.

The crux of the situation is the American civilian soldiers‘ horror of being made- o. slicker, and that is precisely what he thinks is hap- pening to him.

Most servicemen now frankly fool that. they have done their zlutv to their country and that no military danger now confronts it. Thry arc chiefly nnrlrv ilcCuuSe they fccl (but. they have been duped by false promises instead of bciug loid the facts.

Corn Broom Prices

To Be Advanced OTTAWA. Jan. 6 - (CP) — Scarce and precious corn brooms

are gcing to be more expensive as a rcsuit of the removal of an im- port subsidy 0n broom com. i119 Prices Board said today.

Increases will be approximately 3a cents on s1 brooms and about 42 cents for the larger $1.50 kind.

RylllOVdl of the subsidy was des- cribed as being in line with Gov- ernment policy of eliminating sub- sidies as soon ns possible and the price increase will offset the ad- ditional cost of bloom corn to ma- nufacturers. v

Spend Almost Month 0n Crippled Ship

HALIFAX. Jan, 6 - (OP) Nine passengers \vho spent almost a month at sea. on the crippled 7.0234011 steamship Belman ‘Sailor arrived here late today aboard the steamship Fbrt Townshend‘ from St John's. Nfld

The Belgian Sailor soiled from her port of mkistfy. Antwvfl). Dec 8 and vfnen she was three days out a storm smashed her rudder. For 13 dnys the vessel drifted about, the Atlantic: an unnamed Sw ship took the crippled craft in tow for 20 hours but heavy seas mapped

Again time Belgian Sailor drifted. 150 miles off her course. before a United States Coast Gum-d cutter took her in bow. Heavy weather

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their life belts fastened in place. Supplies were running very low

when the tug Kiowa. picked 18> the

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her in to St. John's. when the passengers were transferred to the llbrt Wwnsbend to complete their

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Yank Soldiers Protest War Department Ruling

Lieut-Governor To Visit Boston

His Honour, Lieutenant-Gover- nor J. A. Bernard and Mrs. Ber- nard left this morning for Boston. During his visit, the Governor will be a guest s eaker at the Canad- ian Club. expects to be back in the Province on Jan. l9. Dur- i118 his absence, Chief Justice Thane A. Campbell will be the Administrator of the Province, The Chief Justice will take the oath of Administrator in the Council Chambers this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The oath will be nclmin- istered by Mr. Justice A. E. Ar- senault.

ll. C. A. F. Plane 0n Mercy Flight

HALIFAX. Jan. ll-Supplics drop- ped successfullv within 100 yards of the troop transport John M. Nloorehead, 800 miles east of New York by a plane of the Eastern Air Command composite squadron at Dartmouth, N.S., were used im- mediately today and s soldier stricken with peritonitis aboard the steamship was responding favor- ably to treatment.

The trooper. due at New York Wednesday, sent a. message Sat- medlcal supplies _ "ldltl'“fl'ifi” . on a. mercy mission. The base re ported seas were too rough for the aircraft to land and fly the soldier to hospital so the supplies were dropped. A message was received from the Mooreheads skipper later that the patient was improved.

Raw Sill-c Shipment Arrives From Orient

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 6 -— The first raw silk shipment to come to North America from the Orient since outbreak of the Pac-

ific war arrived here Saturday aboard the freighter President Grant. The shipment was more than 000 bales.

Boost Selling 0n Canned Chicken

OTTAWA. Jan. 6 — (CP) —In~ crease in the ceiling price of can- ned poultry was announced Satur- dav by the Prices Board The an- noimcement said the adjustmznt was being made because generally higher prices had prevailed on poultrv used for canning since meat rationing was reimposed last September.

The new order. which becomes effective Jan 7. will result in an increase to consumers of between nine and 11 cents a pound for most of the products affected, such as iellled chicken. The rise will not. however. affect consumer prices until products sold by propesors or wholsesalers after Jan. 7 reach retail stores.

Increases for other types o-f can nod poultrv will varv according to quality and there also will be some variations in the seven zones into which Canada is divided.

Nfld. Priest Loses Life In Accident

Si‘. JOHN'S. Nfld. Jan. 6 --(CP Oablei -- Slipping off the edge of a highway, Rev. Father Kent. parish priest of Fox Harbor. Nfld. fell over s. cliff and drowned in the seq Saturday. He was en route to Bell Island to visit relatives when the accident occu Ills body was recovered.

STALIN I8 _ DOODLER

MIAIMI, Fla. Jan. 6 — (AP) - Russiirs Premier stalin is a dood- ler, Senator Claude Pa per (Dem- Ils.) disclosed here. tor Pen- per said he spent an hour with Premier Stalin at " recently. and led"

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La Cuardia Cots Sl0,474 Pension

NEW YORK, Jan. 8—An annual pension of $ 0.474 for former Mayor F. H. La Guurdia—who will become a radio commentator at an estimated $100,000 a yeur-—was announced Saturday lry his succes- sor, Mayor Wiiiiam O‘Dwyc1‘.

In the event of La Guardla’s death, his, wife would receive a cush payment of’ $10,000 and $10,- 081 annually during her lifetime.

During a long career in public office the former Mayor paid a- bout $77,128 into the city pension fund, or neari half the anlolmt he now is eligible for.

llnionism Spreads To British House

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Asking 40-Hour Week And\Pay Boost. ‘

By JAMES McCOOK

LONDON Jnu. 6—(CP Cable)- British M.P.'s are discussing the possibility of forming a new org- anization lo ho cuiind the Mem- hors of Parliament Self-Protection ‘Trude Union, Haydon Davies, Labor member of Parliament for Si. Panvrns and industrial corres- pondent of the London Star, writes in n story carried by the news- paper. .

Buck-bs-nchcrs, Mr. Davies says. are considering asking for a 40- llfllll‘ won-k, n living wage and pay- ment of overtime. His story adds that members are over-worked in the House by duties from 10:30 a.m. to midnight and have no rest at weekends because their constit- uents and correspondence take all their lime.

When the Labor Government look office lust summer, it warned privata party members they might. expect hnrd work with a mass of legislation covering nationalization and other phases of the Labor program to he implemented.

Forty-one bills were presented and 20 were passed through all stages to become law.

The hard-working members o.n all sides of the House had to fam- iliarize themselves with diverse subjects such as the Brelton Woods Monetary Agreement, the suspfinslfm of civil defence, regis- lors of electors and jurors, b00291 proposals, building materials and housing, health, continuation of war-time regulations nnd_war da- mage valuations. Bank oi’ England nationalization. rent control, Scot- tish wutct‘ power projects and the extension of trunk roads.

L0Ol~'.llllY""7ll\f‘ll(l_ tho membcrscau sec no sign of relief as the 1051b‘ lntivo mill keeps lzrindlflil-

Tornadoes Cause Heavy Loss In Texas; 29 Deaths

uaooapocurzs. Tex. Jan. 6- (AP) - Property d-antaac 1mm im- nadocs that ripped tnroullh ihll East Texas ares. was estimated un- officially today in excess o! $1.600.- 000 while deaths from the storm

rose to 29

Fmu- additional deaths were re- ported today after the high winds struck Friday night. kilurins lum- dmds of others and ieavlnfl at least 740 families homelem. Approximately 106 persons 1n the rm area remained in 110610081- Natlonnl Red Cross disaster work- ers and State Guard members were on the scene aiding storm victims. The hardest hit areas \:re Noc- agdodhs and Nacogdochcs. County, where 10 are dead. Palestine. about 60 miles from here and Anderson County. l4 dead: Clawaon and An- gelina County, 3 dead; 8t. Paul- Shilo, 2 dead

CIVILIAN AGAIN

BAN PEDRO. Calif. Jon. s — (AW-Actor Jackie Cooper became a civilian in Saturday after 20 nlonths in t Nev . the 28-year-old sc r lsyed the drums with on 0Nli$al in 400

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T0 , Jan. 6-—'1'he Prov- ince of Ontario tonight demanded fiscal autonomy for the nation's nine provinces. It expressed out- right opposltion to complete sur- render to the Dominion Govern- ment of Provincial powers to tax personal and corporation income and estates in return for fixed grants-ln-aid based on population.

Of tour Provinces which have made formal counter proposals to those put for- ward by the Federal Govern- ment at the dominion-provin- cial conference last August, Ontario is the only one which has stated definitely that it wants a share in the in - come and corporation tax fields and that it wants ex- clusive rights on succession duties and other taxes within its boundaries.