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The grinding up of ice has re- sulted in an improvement in con- ditions in coastal waters reported chief officer Angus Brown of the Department of Transport following a 1:200 mile aerial ice survey yes- ierilny. ’ Chief Officer Brown noted that the steamer track from the at. Lawrence was open past Bird Rock in the Gulf. There still remains 50 miles of ice before the track is open to the sea. Conditions in the Strait, he re- ported. were good especially from Charlottetown to the Western end. signs of loosening up in the East- ern area on the_Island side were evident. The ice around Cape Bre- ton particularly Sydney was well packed. During the seven and one half hour trip he sarw one sealer. He re- ported that the saurei had docked lit the Magdalen's Saturday but did not see it on his flight. He stated that the wind during the past few days had not been so good for clearing ice. However, with ii good Northerly breeze the ground up ice would move quickly. Next flight is scheduled for Tuesday morning.

Radio Bingo Decision Today

OTTAWA, March 26 --(CP) - The CBC Board of Governors is expected to on Monday its decision on whether bingo games will be banned from the air waves. A: a public meeting Saturday, the Board heard thi-Llast of-.:epre-i sentntions’ oh’ the question. K. G. Mavtiieson, representing the Lions cinii of Canada, urged the board not to ban the game.

Earlier. the Board heard rep- resirntatioru for and against I ban on the game. played along the same lines as an -ordinary bingo gtime.. various chmh organizat- ions, describing bingo as the "kindergarten of gambling", urged that the game be banned. service cizibs and some radio stations urg- ed that existing regulations be left. unchanged.

N. 5. Makes More On Amusement Taxes

HALIFAX. March 26--(CP)——-The Novn Scotla Treasury took in $331,901 in amusement taxes in in-iii. the Provincial Board of Cen- «or: annual report made public nvr-r the wcekendreveals. Re- ‘Wills exceeded the 1948 figure by $144,038.

increased attendances were re- nnrtc-d at theatres. baseball. and lint-key games nnd home racing. The revenue boostwas attributed to the Halifax bicentennry cele- iu-ntions and two clrcuses which toured the Province during the

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"wail vour Films to Garnhum P ‘to studio, Charlottetown.

“Cornwall osassst ‘ht. March 28th.

"Horse race at Stanley. Monday. l\ii'Il'(‘h 27th. Last race this season.

"Garden 8 ds. Sand for free giltélogue. A thur Vessey. York, » .1.

"Loading I-logs every Tuesday

afternoon until fiirt111e'r notice at

girnon Station. signed Walter ane.

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ting of Vernon River Co the Association 1-id-. will be old in Vernon River Hall. Monday, April 3rd. 8 P. M. u|———¢-

“Come to Variety Concert and Pie Social in usyfiold Hall. Tue!- dly evening. March '$th. Sale of

me mldo candy. Proceeds in aid 0! ball. If not fine. following llllht. Ladies with pics free.

"Doublehead at North River Rink tonight uth rt nosnbisrs VI. Covshsad Rod nga. Hamp- Ihlre Bulldola Vs. Nine Mile Creek uiidoacrs. First game no sharp. Ito after. “Receiving hogs every Tuesday "I an at Albany ti-um binned.

U. K. Reds Seek To Aid Malayan Rebels

LONDON. March 27 —(Monday) —(AP)—-The British Communist Party appealed today to‘ dock and transport workers to refuse to load arms and supplies for British troops fighting Communist-led Euletrriilas Malaya.

was e party's first open gg. tempt to interfere with the ship. ments. ‘

At the same time the statement issued from Communist Party headquarters urged -‘an a_i1-oug sustained demand throughout the f°|lYii-i'y 90 390:1 the war in Me- aya."

Anti-Communist‘ Arthur Deakin, secretary of the Transport and general Workers Union, said he is sure the dock workers will reject the appeal. He said the Commun- ist statement is proof that British Reds "are concerned only with carrying out the policy of the Sov- iet Union."

The Communist appeal which threw the party's support to the Malayan insurgents against the British Government also said:

“There is not the slightest doubt that the war in Malaya which the Government has for two years been misrepresenting to the British people as an ‘anti-bandit‘ drive in war of major dimensions against a well-organized and determined liberation movement of the Malayan people.

"By its decision to extend the anti-liberation wars in Asia with America and other imperialist powers the British Government has plunged this country along the dangerous road to a. major world conflict."

SINGAPORE. March 26——(CP)— The Malayan Government today announced that Communist guer- rillas killed 21 Government troops and police in an ambush.

The communique said 11 other members of Government security force were missing and four were wounded. Five bandits were known .to have been killed in the four- hour battle in .Kelaritan State, 300 miles north bf here.

The communique added a band of 250 guerrillas attacked the Gov- ernment forces—troops from the regiment of Malays and police jungle squaiis—as they were re- turning from a patrol.

U. N. B. Wins Drama A_i_v_ard

SAINT JOHN, N, 13., March 28— (CP)—The Dramatic Society of the University of New Brunswick, after its Saturday night presenta- tion of Clifford Odcts‘ Golden Boy, was awarded the Lieutenant- Governor D. MacLaren prize for first place in the New Bruns- wick Regional Drnma Festival.

Adjudicator Maxwell Wray also announced that John Farmer and Mrs. Ella Murray had won the awards for best actor and actress. Mr. Farmer was the old shepherd in the Mount Allison University entry of Shakespeakds As You Like it. Mrs. Murray performed with the Anglln Players of St. Stephen in Patrick Hamilton's Angel Street.

Referring to the other entry in the three-day festival. John Pat- rick‘: The Hasty Heart, Mr. Wray said that it there had been an award for set it would have been \von by the Theatre Guild of Saint John.

Whether or not a New Bruns- wick group will compefe in the Dominion Festival at Calgary has yet to be decided. Fifty plays were entered in 13 regional fes- tivals and \ only eight will be selected as entries for the Do- minion final event. Mr. Wroy left

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U. S. Officials Ponder Russian Plans For_[leet

WASHINGTON, Mafch 26——(AP) -—Why are the Russians building up a big navy. as many reliable reports show they are doing?

To invade the United States?

No. say some well-informed of- ficials.

A landing on the U. S. coast has a low priority in the Russian military scheme. these men say. although it's probably featured in the final chapter of their military book.

Foremost in the Soviets’ strate- gic plan. they say. is control of the Mediterranean and all the shores of that sea. With that they could protect the southern flank of a Red army sweeping across Europe. They could supply that army.

Another reason Russia wants a strong navy. say the officials. is that it has learned a lot from the ‘experience of the Germans.

The Germans learned that any country that means to seize Eur- ope and hold it also must take Britain. lest Britain once again become the stepping stone Europe. This calls for a stronx fleet to conquer or starve out the United Kingdom.

The Russians are said to have doubled their ship-building ca- pacity since 1940.

Jane's “Fighting Ships". author- itative manual of the world’: nav- ies, reported in December that the Russians were building three ultra-modern» battleships. equipped to fire radio-controlled rockets and aerial torpedoes. Two more may now be in the yards.

The Russians plan to complete 750 to 1.000 submarines by 1951. says Jane's. The manual adds they now have 360, many with long range and high under-water speed. Latest types were developed from the German‘ super-submarines which were ready during the last days of the war.

Hope To on Man Protection from Raciation

WASHINGTON. March 26 — (AP) — The navy has high hopes that research with a colony of mice may point the way to giving man some protection against. atomic radiation.

Navy scientists reported Satur- day they already have achieved some such protection in mice by injecting a complex chemical in- to the animals before exposing them to radiation.

But they emphasized t at it is “very, very doubtful" tat this particular chemical would be ap- plicable to man.

The immediate importance of the research, they said, is that it suggests that protection may be possible in men as well as mice. The big job now is to detennine mice produced its beneficial ef- fect.

Once that is determined. it may then be possible to utilize other substances that would be ap- plicaible to man. or to modify the mouse-protector in such a way that it could be used in man. The chemical is called “gluta- thione." It is made up of three of the amino acids which help build protein. The substance occurs naturally in a mou.se's or a man’: tiuues. But the navy scientists infected much more than is nor- mally present in a mouso's tis- sues.

The need for extremely high doses is one reason why the scien-

today for Toronto to continue his adjudication tour.

tisis 'do not believe this chemical would be applicable to man.

Thousands See Queen Mary’s Carpet At Ottawa

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O'l'i‘AWA. March as —- (GP) — Buafut spot in town today was the National Gallery when Queen Mary's carpet went. on view for the first time in Canada.

'l'houu.bdI of persons jammed the entrance of the gauery. moving slowly in single filo through this front room where the rug — flank- ed by Mounties and under brilliant flooditghis — hangs amid Canadian plintinga.

Outside the queue strotohod four-deep as far as the entrance to the museum. at the other and of the block-long building. I

Men, women and children gaped at the elaborate piece of crafts- manship. It brought homo to than

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Measuring 10 fact, two inches. by six foot 034 inches, the carpet is done in needle-point and con: nine years to complete. It is made up of in panels each with A dif- ferent floral design and embodying 1,000,000 stitches in us colors. Queen Mary‘: signature has been worked at the bottom lot 11 panels and on the lath is hidden in the pattern. ‘

in a brief address prior to the unveiling Prime Minister Louis 3t. uurent said Queen Mary’: purpose in giving this nastorpicco to her country should be an inspiration to all. It was a magnificent gesture.

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March 26 — (OP)—'I‘he United States, its stockpiles bulging with surplus

potatoes, wants to cut down the quantity of imports of Canadian tubers.

The American Government an- nounced Saturday it is seeking readjustment of tariffs .to pre- vent Canadian potatoes from ent- ering the U.S. at ‘‘bargain'' tariff rates during the next. crop year.

The Government has been tak- ing large losses by buying up big amounts of home-grown potatoes to support prices while Canadian exporters have made a. profitable business of shipping potatoes to American market.

The state Department said it has asked % foreign countries which have tariff agreements with the U.S. to change sections deal- ing with potatoes in line with re- duced American planting next year.

But, even if the changes are made, foreign ccuntries will be able to ship up to 1.000.000 bushels into the U. S. at 37 1-2 cents duty 9. 100 pounds and as much as they want after that at double the 37 i-2-cent duty.

However, the American action would prevent; Canada or any other country from shipping 15.- 000.0D0 bushels of table potatoes into the United States at the bar- gain 37 1-2—cent rato—os might be the case if the change were not made.

Blinding Dust Storm |n_K_ansas

KANSAS crrrv. March 28 (AP) — A blinding dust storm swept Kansas today, causing at least four deaths in highway payc-

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crop lands. Reports from any sections told of

' uncounted highway collisions and

pile-ups as the dirt laden clouds rolled across highways and rural roads. some communities were en-

‘ tirely cut off from highway traffic

as officials sought to block off the most dangerous routes.

The storm started Saturday ‘in Texas and Oklahoma, and rolled northeastward through Kansas on 11,40-mile wind. Farther west, high winds also buffeted Colorado and Wyoming and blizzard conditions prevailed in some sections.

The extent of crop damage could not be determined. An agronomist at Kansas state University said wheat probably would escape with- out much harm but newly-planted oats might be lost. No accurate cs- timate is expected to be available until later‘ this week.

Humeiin in Neo—d Of New Pied Piper

H-AMELIN. Germany, March 26 — (AP) -— The city fathers of I-Iamelin are looking for another Pied Piper.

The town. site of many grain mills, is infested with rats and mice. some officials claim Hameli-.1 has more rats per capita than any other city in Germany.

Rodent extermination is being carried out by the latest scientific methods, but health authorities say no decrease in the rat population is noticeable.

According to ancient legend. 3 Pied Piper appeared in Hameliii one day in the year 1284 and of- fered to rid the city of its than current rat pllgue. He was hired and walked through Hamelin toot- ling his flute. All the rats and mice followed him and were drowned in the River Weser.

But, the legend says. the town refused to play the piper his agreed reward, so he piped all I-lamelin's children .. numbering 130 — out of the city in the same way and all were lost, except two -— one blind, the other lame. Every summer the fairy tale is re-enacted here.

Huge Fire Rages In Bllizani '

PORT FRANCE, ont., March so _. (OP) — A fire of major propor- tions raged tonight in the business district of International Falls, Minn.. I few hundred yards across the Rainy River ‘rom here.

Residents could see huge billows of black smoke and tongues of flames leaping slcyward throuaii rifts in thwbilnard which has re- duced general visibility almost to acre.

The fire was aided by ab-mlio- an-hour winds which swirled I surprise snowstorm through the area, blocking streets and roaiis and making telephone communic-

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Awarded Medal

F. W. Jackson, M.D., D.P.H., director of health insurance stud- tea in the Federal Department of National Health and Welfare (above), has been awarded the 1950 gold medal of the Profession- al Institute of the Civil Service

for his outstanding contributions to Canadian health and welfare services.

The presentation. made by Pres- iident G. E. B. Sinclair at the Ilunchcon climaxing the Institute's i30th annual meeting on Saturday honored Dr. Jackson for his act- ivlties and achievements in Man- itoba's Deputy Minister of Health and Public Welfare for 17 years and as the Federal Government‘: director of health insurance studies for the past year and a hplf. In the latter capacity he has admin- istered‘ Ca-n'sdd's "33!-inliiioii-a1yea‘r National Health Program for the development and cxtemion of health services. .

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Gets Box Back From Bottom Of Ocean

LONDON, March 26 — (Reuters) ._ A British sailor has recovered a tin box of personal belongings which had been on the bed of the Arctic Ocean slnc: his ship struck a mine there in 1941. The box was dredged up by chance in the net of a British trawler. .

Among the article: in the box; was a wrist watch, now beyond re- pair. but the sailor — Petty officer Arthur Hollands. of Keynsham, Somerset —— was glad to recover a black-cat mascot.

Hollands lost the box when the destroyer Achates struck a mine off the coast of Iceland. when the box was found, the Admiralty traced him by two documents in it which

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By John Tracy

MONTREAL. March 26 —’ (CP) — The Bank_of Canah bad a moving day during the week—end and safely transferred almost $800,000,000 through barred and guarded downtown streets.

Eighty-three truckloads of cur- rency and securities were moved under the eyes of 140 armed men from the old quarters of the Crown-owned bank's Montreal branch to its new building, a dis- tance of three blocks. The only untoward incident occurred when a motorist blundercd into the re- stricted area and was escorted to a police station for questioning.

The money transfer, believed the largest in Canada since the, bank's main branch in Ottawa; moved 12 years ago, was planned three months in dvance. It was kept secret until it began at 2:49 p.m., AST. Saturday.

The police cleared St. James Street. in the centre of the finan- cial district. and re-routed all traffic as an armored truck back- ed -up to the door of the bank's old bran'ch at the corner of St. James and St. Francois Xavier Streets.

While civilian guards with sub- machine guns watched. $i0,000,000 was loaded into the truck and it drove off. conveyed by two police squad cars. a motorcycle officer and another armored truck in case of a breakdown.

That was re.-pea-ted every six minutes until i2:32 am. Sunday when R. C. M. P. officers with a walkle-talkie tuned to the police- radio band stepped down from their post in the new bank build- ing on Victoria Square and re- ported the job finished.

“We kept the thing secret be- cause of the public interest and for the protection of human lives," I banlk offi ial said. “To think of

tastic but two months ago the million-dollar hi-jacking of the Br-inks Ex-press Company-in Bos- ton seemed fanztastic too. The money was insured but we were worried about men’s lives."

The bank picked’ a strategic time for the move. From noon Saturday, when financial oftfices close, until Monday morning St. James Street is an echoing can-yon with only a few passers-by and the odd taxi.

KILLED BY‘ ELEPHANT

SARASOTA, Fla., March 5 — (AP) Five-year-old flldward Schooley was trampled to death today by a circus elephant. Police said the child was feeding peanuts to the elephants at circus winter quarters when an old female named "Dolly" snaked her trunk under the guard chain, grabbed Edward around the waist, threw him to the ground and stepped on

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By ALAN HARVEY

LONDON, March 26 -— tC-P) Too much food may prove alinost as embai-assing to British planners as too little.

After 10 years of fretting ovcr shortages. Britain has entered a period of improved supply. The ra- suit may be changes in a ration- and-subsidy system which has be- come almost a. part of the national character.

The stocks are laid to be the greatest since pre-war days —- too much food not in the literal sense, but perhaps too much to continue the rationing system as it now stands.

"In almost every respect." says Food Minister Maurice Webb. "the country is passing from a phase in which most commodities were scarce into one — not of abund- ance. but where conditions are eas- fer." Webb ought to be enchanted at the prospect. He is. but he also has this big problem in his first month at the Food Ministry:

More food means larger rations. Larger rations will mean a bigger bill or subsidies on such basic foods as butter and milk. subsid- ies now total i:403.000.0D0 ($1.441.- 500.000) is year and sir Stafford Cripps. Chancellor of «The Exche- quer. says they just ciin‘t. go any higher.

subsidies. defence and social ser- vices aro the three largest source: of Government expenditure. The Government is trying to keep -all three as low as possible to keep inflation from getting worse than it is already.

fMounting Food Stocks May Worry U. K. Gov’t

creases resulting from increased‘ rations must be borne by produc.-rsl or consumers. Either -way, it would be a choice laden with painful pol- itical implications.