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"Hands Of " Czechoslovakia Hitler Warned By . Hodza

(By The Associated Press FRAHA. Oscchoslovskimldarl Wanda“ w h" hm WW9." the Pre-

it-Premier Milan Ilodsa tolda- -- ° w“;

cheering Chamber of Deputies mier declared. "but with things M they are today we inust let it be known

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Judges Further Ex- press Opinion Social Credit Act Uncon- stitutional. . EDMONTON, Mar. l-(CP)

today t h a t Czechoslovakian

borders are "absolutely un- m,’ 1 w“°h°'b1°"' confronts us with‘ ale ‘taxi This was the answer of the slty of dcfen ourselves we

war-created re ublic to mo“ raised by Re uchrer Hit- ler's influence in Austria and German Field Marshal Goer-

will resist with: ouratrength." Abstpincrs from the cheering $3.12.‘ S?“ "lit. %°“" . a pro- a - 831311882‘: Si!‘ protection for uties of German descent. en m- bo-tdersy M“ lit-it were Me others acclaimed its Honda said Czechoslovakia lid. ° "h" u” "““°‘1.,:‘,};‘ if gziirllindiscuss problems with 600.000 racial Germans-never, ' Y °ii I under any circumstances, would

mluzfeg?!“ bdchaeuseagfearll: "l" equality" but he sworeahe permit outside interference n. verse rulings on legislation, JleuldmieiniiLheigsrl/erqisigy domestic gene. 2:-=r:::.:.~',~::;.2,u.::::; A r:"::.'"...:::.?";:ss'r.:"r.:; “mm”? Exltesse“

_ Disappointment

Alberta Legislature late today. Mr. Duggan was still speak- ing when the l-lousc adiourued

until Mouday afternoon. BY I. F. IANDERSON

(GP. By Guardian's S lal Wire) EDMONTON. Mar b-Poa- sibility that Supreme Court

Judgments adverse to Alberta references may .ina.ly go to the

BUNFERENBE

Canadian Press Still Writer

OTTAWA, March 4 ~10?) Privy Council was under con- _'1~rw sect-l (more gum“ or sideration here tonight. Premier William Ablevrzsartodof mill wirillégflrglutlf hi)“: “bu” w" ‘mum’ l ‘y Minister Mackenzi King was

to he in legal danger as a re-

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Assassination Of Stalin Said Planned In Sensa-

tional Disclosures

In Trial.

MOSCOW. March 4-01.?) —A letter in secret hi" ‘ i ink

(C. P. by Guardian's Special Wire) err. man's um, March 4 —-(OPCable)—1"ifteen hundred i men drunk tonight to “bloody . decks and many of them" as the battle fleet o! Newfound- land's annual scaling armada prepared to sail on another great adventure. Six of the famous old “wood- en walls” ecartred and pitted veterans of the hunt, strained at their moorings in anticl- pwtion of the m and cere- n-y thattrad tlon hasbound ‘round the departure. one al- ready has sailed from 8t. John's. two from Port Aux

Basques on the west coast.

JoyTinged With Sorrow Marks Sailing Of Sealing Armada

The old-timers may say the romance of by-gone om! is lacking; that steam, as and the airplane have robbed the hunt of its color and legend. But Ncwfoundlanders today still fight for a ‘i on the ice" and the rtun-‘ ity oi daily riskinf the lives.

A ‘band may p aY 0n the pier tomorrow as the sealers move out through the bottle-

. whistles of other vessels in

the harbor may blow and salutes may be fired but many e. one ashore is sad in the knowledge few have been the years tragedy has not overtaken the fleet. l

brought the names of two recalled Soviet ambassadors today into the great web of conspiracies confess- ed by the 2i defendants in cow's greatest treason trial

Plotters alread executed were linked with D. . Bogomoloif, for- mer envoy to China, who was re- called for unexplained reasons from Nanking last September, and Dr. Constantino Yournefl’, who was called homo from Berlin and sings has been rumored under ar- res .

The two ambassadors were nam- ed by Christian Rakovsky, one of

e going to refer the judgments to the Privy Council regardless oi the Supreme Court decisions," said Premier Aberhurt when

suit of decisions of the Sup-

reme Court of Canada. in unanimous _ _, , six ruled today

_O(I"I‘AWA, March 4 --(OP)_. Tnree men close to the Conserv-

and lieutenant-governors to reserve assent to bills.

Coin outside the terms of the re erenoe, Chief Justice Duff and Justice ll. B. Davis passed an o infon theAlbcrta

and a delegate from Manitoba, convened the committee to which the most interest was attached. It will report on policy and on the proposal to hold a national con-

i xts.

eMr. Aberhart expressed disap- pointment over the adverse de- cisions.

Social Credi Act. the key- vention. '-"~—'-'--~ stone in the l: lativc efforts l-ion. Earl Dawson, member of ' of the ‘Allcrh t Iiovernment the House of commons for Yuk “(to eetrblish a new financial south. taken .i to, the Bennett _ .. , system in the province, was c t a » ‘of "National" unconstitutional. Revenue shortly for the 1985 nerel election. convened the

This phase .of the Chief Justice's ecLsion was nsldered the most importentd allfbccauee of the legal d cast on the whole

oiltbt it 800st Credit plans of the Aber-

It? commltttee on organization. The question of party finances was up before a committee led by Hon. Msurl Dupre. a Quebec dele- gate w o was solicitor-Generally: the Bennett cabinet. thGogdon graydon. member of c ouse Commons for Peel, - English secretary of the conference, In EXplOSIOII. said tonight there was no mention _.___.. of the party leadership either by (A.P. By Guardian's Special Wire) m. Bennett or anybody else ct NEW Yong, Mg“), FEW q. the opening session. Georges neon. slons described by witnesses as victor in the recent Argenteull by- "sounding like an earthquake" de- electicn, was named French sec- strayed a brewery building irti upper‘- a ear

reiary. Manhattan ted took Registration for the conference

totalled I36, incudirtig most of the arty members of e Commons

and Senate. ‘Yhero were

KILLS THREE

15 Others Are Injured

hart Government.

One interpretation placed on it Isa that it Jecluded establish- ment of a- Social Credit financial tilt/em in anv Canadian province because of lack of legal control over two fields, banlvng and trade and commerce, hold by the Dom- inion under the British North A- merica Act.

Here are some of’ the comments of the other judges relating the Social Credit Act:

Judge Patrick Kerwin and Judge

gaggqrvockat: ,,M exggVlgLmn o! he crowded neighborhood.

Hundreds of stores and apart-

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re re- f. b il i in ‘i o. many (Continued on page u. Col. o ;=;}§;"g,$,,,{;°g;,, Qfi‘, cpflfilvfi rdlgxdks iveileniesrt Quiiiiii” windows m, “n”; a-mupL and debris we; stachwn abolg. h Senator Arthur Meishen. Cou- an???‘ gag“, thglllffuu ‘$61.5; servative leader in the Upper cmmed by lmlmm u; ca“ dust m

House. was expectedto join in to- morrow's 533510118. Mr. Bennett opened the confer- ence today with a short address, the nature of which was not made public. gathering, in the rail- way comm tta: rcom of the House of Commons. is closed to pres". and public.

Four provincial party leaders are attending. 'I‘hey were J. G. Diefervbeker of Saskatchewan, Dr.

the boiler rooms Brewery by an eectric spark from a welding machine.

District Attomey ‘Thomas E. Dewey ordered an invesJgatlon.

The known dead:

Gustave Pieper. 57; Daniel Jones, 16, Walter Prevour, 26. All appar- cd to have lost their lives in a little lunch room adJolnlng the brewery, whllfih was smashed by the falling wa .

CCMING {Vftlll

"Skate Victghra lsmk tonight. L-BZB-l-IB-fl-‘ilil-But-tf.

"Carnival at French River rink tonight. 11-603.

"Huskies vs. Maple Iieafs, Mil- ton rink tonight, skate after. 1:506.

1."i?;°'°°1“ m" m“? “Em” m” gfwgl“ lghmchgligl‘ ohlllzimgl Boost Shown In

in .ca ves every tic! HY- ""5 Manitoba and’ Hon Earl Rowe

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3 I‘ m ‘a M 2 ° " H. °.-l”_°l-_._" Lt“...- °?___¥i‘-_-‘*‘l°¢..9.£-92"‘"‘°1";l Tax Collections

“Hock fi 1r t N Glas w l _____ “milit- iiupeiiiii: in. govern-so (mmumwd °“ Pm 11' C“ 3) (c. r. b Guardian's Spcrlai Wire) ‘r505 I b t MldfgaAhllrligl . March ii-Qxgteléeguc "'_“_- 11 BnUOllnC O fl ..;.'.l'~;zr.r.t"skv.grrs.‘caller °° "a- "s a” t- tr“ stud-y fro". “f. a l’ O C m0“ u. Bea Vew lvlhple Iieaisy L-rm. Spring Opera IOIIS Algflfifiioélglstoolkeb. 28' $38‘ Ea; CDIHPBT w

T-‘T tailed 13,133,040 (By The Canadian Press) wpfigoftggg THREE RIVERS, Que, Mord: l m 1935.31 —'I‘he Government iccbreaker Lady Customs-excise revenue totalled Grey started spring operation-I W- $201,190,165, increase of sseasansz;

“Hoe ey it Mershfield iblllfllt, (we; the some period

off gsglxilll-gkgatldmalltlegllchfon’

.,._...__ "Poul prices are high. We day in the St. Lawrence River 0P- income tax $116,543,775, increase “M 1"" quantity. Shin or iuin matte here. The ship opened e $17,000,052. Customs-excise receipt". m! chicken or fowl to R0 channel three miles west oi the in detail were as follows: Excise ling 0c. rsars-s-ao- Ii. town. taxes $168,019,017, increase assoc.- ..“ —-——- - The NB. McLean. moat power- 174; customs duties e85, 08.143. in- ‘h! “l-"lul “I B M!!! VI. Wllli- ful of the Governme t's icebreak- crease 810,939,880, excise duties m‘: A“ 3901'“. lltliilrc rink W- ing fleet, arrived today from Que- , .830, increase .873. V! l~ First a in final ulaipiil- bec and will work tomorrow in the sundrv collections 8727.170, increase m” "W. is ma. M- channel with the Lady Grey. $01.05

‘Winston c ma; Lcmu ~°““.-..i:“-.;..s"si’sr' m?’ "°""°<>h- . L-B a-s-ii

“Hock. mamtorla Mood‘ m‘: flue: came of intermcdia '

M ntaeue anions.

_ Book Club vs “Misti? .433

u m O , m. 11% by.

"Buying if? hols. Alden afoasei

Amendment Would Widen Scope Of Pensions’ Bill

the war ve us assistance oom-

mlsaion. Add cost to the coun-

is o:timated at about $2,000,- a e r.

Theyblll bruise within the scone th the surviyvir:

ufiifalh tfitPatthl. Th‘? "in; u» Pensions isms-term our to Veterans Allow-

within its acoi” use of "eoonomgc

con ice in a war th . v The amendments would "ll-g: gflliwwodfi ‘wit’ “th-"iiiwdiilc "l" r2". ,.:. throw “rs l m ed grim from g that cocci-engros-

em tad. no war veterans allowance board, now com alter B. Woods, chairman. o. u Car- michael and Ool. . .0. rucau. more

ssed “Jvlviinm cognition.-

a within of

i” m°§.“i'ri'e'iii9'ei3°°r'er iwfl m"; m“ under l. I985 amend- Illll to such veterans who had

u. f es. 1t received "mm a a “al forum noose mem-

t . ai. pprov i at 3,171 veterans bosom:

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judges of the court ative Leader Bennett were _ i that three iberta. bills relat- named at the opening session iififii‘ 30E; §§§’,‘,’§§f“‘,§,§‘°§§§fi- ‘ lug lilo crcdt regulation. bank today of the two-day national 10m; l taiia and newspaper con- Conservative conference to head Although the Album; cabinet, irol. were unconstitutional. the three committees named to met today, the judgments, dc- ll! 140M011. they agreed the consider and report on the major hvered earlier by the Su rerue Dominion retained wer to nutter-s before the conference. Court of Canada in 0 tawa, disallow provincial egislztion Hon. J, l... Bowman. a former were given no official consider- Speaker of the House of Commons ation pending arrival of the

the defendants and himself once the Soviet Ambasador to France.

The mysterious letter. addressed to Yourneff and signed by Greg- ory Platiakoff. a. former vice- commisar of heavy industry who

‘ was executed as a consplratonsald

a certain government would - proach Rakovsky. It also naili- ceted Bogomolofl.

Aims Colnclded

Rakovsky said he already had first an important public figure in Japan and they had agreed "our aims and those of a certain gov- ernment coincide." '

Another sensational disclosure

was of a plan to seize the Krem- lin and kill Joseph Stalin and other Russia leaders in May, 108'!- Miktall N. khachevsky, brilliant ¢ Red Army Marshal who has been ‘ executed, was pictured as the ring- leader. In conspiracies to dismembe the Soviet Union and build a capital- ist state on the ashes of the Bov- lot. the defendants told of, plots to enlist the aid of Germany, Japan. Great Britain, Italy and Poland.

They accused Piutlakofl and Ad- miral Vladimir R. Orlofl’, both of whom died as traitors; Marshal Jan Garmanlk. who committed suicide shortly before Tukhactev- sky was shot, and Leon Bedoff. Leon ’l‘rotsky's son, who died in Paris last. month.

The confession of Faysulle Knud- jaiefl‘, once president of the Uubek Soviet Republic and admitted lead- er of a separatist movement, div- ulged unsuccessful attempts to invoke British aid to separate middle Asia from the Soviet Un- ion through armed revolt.

Japan Proposes

TOKYO, March 4-—(AP)—Fol'- elgn Minister mun Hlrota ursed world naval reduction by abolition of all capital warships today in n. renewed bid for friendship with the United States.

“A3 lopg as we each other," Hirota told a parlia- mentary budget commltee. "1 6m confident there will be no trouble between Japan and the United States."

The Foreign Minister told the committee "we are doing our best to promote friendship t rough an exchange of messages with Secre- tary Hull (Cordell Hull, ,United Ste es Secretary of State)’

5am that Japan "would wel- come the opportunity to discuss the question of naval reduction with the powers. Ii such aggr- tunity appears, the Japanese - ernmeut will repose the total ab- olition of cap tal ships."

Hlrotah bid for frlendshi durinil 0. bitter quarrel parliamentary leaders an e government that created tension ill ‘Tokyo.

Investigate Fire At Fort Niagara

came tween d th

FORT NIAGARA. N. v2. March 4_(Ali)-—Aiimitlcldaribla Wildfire?‘ VCS Q8 l’l " qukyrh“ which "tglgaghllt tthll hlstor rrnY W. 5W!- ed one ‘com m; bar-rack and

Thirteen soldiers and volunteer firemen, were treated at the hospital for frost-bite, coll re from smoke burns or iniuriasmnu out»? debris. Lieut. Col. Reginald Duca. medical officer, said none was seriously hurt.

N. B. Throne Speech

IRIDERIUION 21.3.. a techs...“ ":2: struts... . sure on . - islon. the address in reply to the

m the Throne.

H. A. Porter (Lib, Saint .1

City) would! the address e- . cleared the way for

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Naval Reduction]

Debate Concluded

Provincialoiecretary-Treasurer bring down his ms

Land Annuities i Major Problem‘

(C. P. b Guardian's Special Wirvl LONDON, March iv-The land annuities problem loomed as the chief difficulty tonight as Great Britain and Eire sought comprehensive trade agreement. . Wth the question of parti- l tion op arenily in the back- ause no progress can be made on it, talks today cen- tred on trade, They will con- tinue tomorrow, it was de- cided, and be resumed iomor» \ l

row.

The cost of pensions to form- er members of the Royal Irish Constabulary, disbanded in 1922 after the act of Parliament that created the Irish Free State-now ElTB-flfld other matters connects-i with the fin- ancial dispute from which re- sulted the tariff war which be- gan in i932 are also understood

be a hindrance to progress.

fanciful, litfil notion

Sir Samuel Hoare Ex- plains British Aim.

LONDON. March 4—-Great Bri- tain will not “submit to D6008 any prlre," Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare assured a Chelsea. Conservative meeting tonight. "The Government have no in- tention of supporting any peace that i; not peace with honor," he sold. The difference in the cabinet re- in the resignation of An- tho Eden as Floreigu Secretary- whic he regretted-was one of de- tail and not principle. Si! 3fliiil1¢l

asserted. Admitting 0. prowlrig reeling o! in Briian arising from the realization of the horrors of mod- ern warfare, s! Samuel said the horrors did not mean "We will sub- mit to peace at any price.”

"Our great, rearmament nrc- gram shows we are d8lEYml‘“_"'l to make our defences secure a." we will not submit to dictation from any quarter of the world," he con- ti d. ’

xlglshe Government's efforts to- ward reconciliation of Europe were taken deliberately and consciously. We know the risks and we realize the possibilit of failure. But if we fail I am stlll convinced no other course was open to us," Sir Sam- uel declared.

Doubts Effective Deal With ll Duce

CHICAGO, March 4 -(AP)—— Graham Hutton, assistant editor of the London Economist and on apglitical and economic

s today it was “highly

if Neville Chamberluins “minus Anthony en- and that means a minus sign in m-can accomplish of effective deal with

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"if the Tory old guard in Britain, that the masks have been dropped. actively old and abet Italy's designs in order to wean

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lENlllEllER BUNFIN T0 PRISUN DAMP

By LOUIS P. LOCHNER Associated Press Foreign Stall’ BERLIN, March 4-—(AP)—Rev.

Martin Nlemoeller, rallying point of Protestant opposition Nazi efforts to dominate the church, has been sent to a concentration camp by the German secret police despite his being set free y ti- court.

Hi5 wife collapsed when told to- day her husband had been sent to the Sachsenhausen, Saxony, camp. His six children and friends des- pajred of seeing him free again when the full significance of his

detention at Sachsenhausen down- ed on them.

In tllrat tcargp of apoultogbioi) men .BIB..SB. ti E 1195-3‘? . milli- bers o the International Bible Students Association and others who have run afoul of the Nazi regime for reasons of conscience.

The Gestapo, the secret police, is claimed on good authority to be determined none of these would ever be released unless they pro- mise to change their attitude of op siticn.

iecrnellcfs past gives little hope that he is likely to come a- round to the point of view of the Gestapo which has sole discretion as to how long he is to be held in “protective custody."

Nlemoeller, after seven months in prison, was brought to trial and Wednesday was sentenced to seven months in jail and fined $800 for attacking leaders of the state and using the pulpit im roperly.

The fine was pal and the court

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Sunny Skies Return As Devastaé tion From Five Day Storm

Is Determined.

_ LDS ANGELES, March 4—(CP)—S0ggy southern Cal" rfornia raked mud and debris under sunny skies today to determine the life and property losses in live days of rain- storm and flood.

_ Death and damage figures fluctuated with the falter- mg of communication lines. It seemed the toll might be

dollars.

_ A recheck of casualties late in the day showed 74 bod- ies found, 56 of which were identified. Others reported missing aggregated 124. Many sections remained isolated but large areas were slowly shaking off the storm paraly- sis.

Orange County zippcurcd to be the scene 0f the greatest floods. The mad Santa Ana river, breaking over wide areas, was reported to have caused 60 deaths. Thirty bod- ies were found. In Los Angeles County 30 bodies were reported recovered, 23 of them identified. Thirty other-g

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Unconfirmed Reports Have Aroused In- terest In Western Sections.‘

A report that gas and oil have been discovered on farms inPi-ince County has aroused considerable interest in many communities in the western part of the province.

Although definite information was lacking, it was seid that en- gineers from Pennsylvania who vis- ited the western port of Prince ‘ Edward Island. struck oil on the Two little communities east of 1 farm of Frank Myers, Mimlnlgash. Shiite Anti. the villages of Atwood‘ Later, the engineers were re- and lira Jolie, were completely l ported to have visited Plusville and washed out. Homes. business Diem» the cattle farm of Mdx Gallant es, and even huge oil tanks were was investigated. A fire at the swept away. The villages were oc- rear of the farm, which started cupled chiefly by Mexican laborers inst, summer. kept burning until