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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA. MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1950

N. B. FLOOD DAMAGE MAY EXCEED ONE Mi

Nationalists Are Driven From Hainan Island

Conservatives Out

To Defeat Gov"t This

By Fraser Wighton

LONDON April 28 -(Relltcrs)- rile fate of the Labor Government balances on a. razor edge this week -with Winston Churchill's Con- servatives In the Closely-balanced House of Commons out for the kill in Wednesday's crucial votes on the budget.

simultaneously. the administrat- ion, formed two months ago, is menaccd by crisis among its in- dustriait following. More than 5,- l)00.000 trade union-ists are on rec.

nrd against the official wage freeu. The Government plans an im-

mediate general election if defeat- ed in the critical voles Wednesday on the budget resolutions. Main issues are the increase of nine pence (about 12 cents) In the tax on gasoline. raisin-,3 the price tn three shillings (about 4'7 cents) a gallon. and the new 33 1-3 per- cent purchase tax on commelclal road vehicles.

But the Government believes it will beat the Conservatlvei-- even with a. sick list of probably 10 members. Political observers gen- erally consider that the odds fav- or the Government to pull through.

Labor's effective majority over all other parties in the 6254.-at House of Commons is seven. This takes into account two Irish Nat- ionalist members who have yet to take their soats (they are protest- ing the partition of Ireland) and one Ulster conservative whose eligibility to sit has betn question- ed

If the Government can last out this week. it may have a breath- ing space in which to grapple with

'the mounting industrial unrut against the refusal of the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer. Sir Staf- ford orlpps. to make bigger bud- get concessions.

Significantly, Conservatives today published an add'tional list of chiefs of parliamentary party com- mittces.

The list might prove to be a rough forecast of some of the Conservative administration if a sudden election brought Winston Churchill back as Prime Minister.

Coming Events

"Mail your Films to Gal-nhum Photo Studio. Charlottetown.

"Show, Morell. every Tuesday. Friday, Saturday. Show starts 8.30

"Cleaning Grain up to May loth. John A. Glllis. Flat River.

"Community Film Show. Hamp- ton Hall,, April 25th. 8 P. M.

"Partners now booking Clover Seeds. Rush order. Mcciulgan dc Boyle.

"Garden seeds. send for free catalogue. Arthur Vessey. York, P. E. 1.

"Dance. St. Peter's Legion Hall every Tuesday night. 9.30 to 1.00. Cliff Peters Orchestra.

"Notice to shareholders: Cherry Valley Cooperative annual meet- ing..Aprll 28th. at 8 pm. Cherry Valley Hall.

"Attention---Come to North River rink tonight and enjoy the final skate of the season. Skating I to 10. Good music.

"Notice--cleaning grain at the Gaudet Farm. o mmencing on Monday. April 24th and each Mon- day until further notice. Russell Boyce. Bonshaw.

"Booking orders for Tlinothy. Clover and Turnip Seed. Also wanted large quantity good quality &:d oats. clai-k's ma: service,

"A meeting of the property holders of East Royalty school. will be held in Heart: Community Hull. East Royalty on Tuesday. April 88th. to dilcuu school mat-

tors.

"Como to Pownall Hall. April will for runners Debating con- test. between cherry Valley and -i 'I River. winners cntor finale ft: Island Championship.

"Now, open for clipping and cloning Grain -. Mondays. wed- Iuthys. Thursdays and Saturdayl for remainder of season. In Maononald. oovchud.

"I mu II in Run- llr bin: :l:In's imltuic 0'9

performance in the u

their playg and concert milldos includinglaiih lwoonfv.

aagymim April H of

Labor Week

U. S. Developing New Weapons

WASHINGTON, April 2.: - (AP) - Defence Secretary Louis Johnson said Saturday that the United Slates has spcedcd up de- velopment of new weapons more terrible than any the world has ever seen.

Johnson declared a belief that

the United States leads in fash- ioning a variety of new arms that "may mean the difference between victory and defeat in war." . In his semi-annual report. the Secretary said the country's atomic arsenal is "no lorlger a small number of bombs oi a sin- gle type and size."

He also said that the trimmed- d0Wn filming forces of the United States are proficient and. are getting "equipment superior to that of any other nation."

He disclosed that Russia's atomic explosion last Sepiember. coming far earlier than had been expected. had stepped up Am. erican development of new war tools that "surpass in destruc- tive power any arms previously known." He did not explain the nature of these weapons.

Threaten To -Bum -Viia.ge-- P

KRESTOVA, B. C., April 23 - (CP) -- Fanatic Sons of Freedom Doukhobors threatened to burn the whole village of Krestova to- night as they danced and chanted around the ruins of homes they had already put to the torch.

Provincial Police arrested 14 more of the fire raiders today in an effort to stem the rising Lido of religious hysieria that is on- vcloping the ramshackle village of

1.000. Arrested were 13 women and one man. Police circulated among the

nude and semi-nude demonstrators waiting for the thrcatenedt fire- purge.

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520.000 Fire Ar Sydney Saturday

SYDNEY. N 5.. April 23 - (CP) - The pop of buistlng bottles could be heard for hours in a burning bottling company plant in the city's north end Sat- urday night.

The two-storey Suns-hine Com- pany. owned by Harold and Abe Sadofslryg was gutted with damage estimated at 820,000. A more ser- ious outbreak was avoided when flames failed to touch 10 cylinder! of liquefied carbon and employees rolled 12 drums of turpentine from the building.

Czech Cars

MON'rRii:AL. April 23 - (OPI- Tho president of a. Montreal fi.'m dealing in foreign-made cars charg- ed yesterday that ii shipment of 100 Czech-constructed skoda and Tel- raplane automobiles consigned to him last week had been sabotaged en route from Rotterdam to Mon- tieal.

Randall Cotton. president of Etabllssement Cotton. lno.. claim- ed nine of the cars had been tot- ally mined and more than 30 oth- are badly damaged. He said nearly all the vehicles had been stripped of all removable fixtures and es- timated his comDnny'l loose! would amount to 026,000.

"This is more than carelessness on the part. of the shipper". oott-rr. said in 'a signed statement. releas- ed to the press. "It is nothing more than a deliberate attempt to keep csochcolovaklan can out of Can- ada. '

He said he had been "expecting this kind of tmubie" since he first undertook to bring tho,cI.rI into

11 Canada a year and I half ago.

"Via were the first to import the akoda inodoi." he stated. "but there on two other aunt: in the field. at this time." no did not identify

an.

'octtcn said his coiillcnmont ar- rived in Holland froin,PDlil0 1!! perfect condition and was ioadsd aboard two vessels owned by the

cakes. Latllos with calm In aid of Hunter River lic-

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Admii oilin- Afier Former Viciory Claims

YULIN. Hainan lailnd. April 23 - (AP) - Chlang Kai-Shel: today handed over half of what remains of Nationalist China to the Coni- munists. He ordered total evacua- tion of this invaded island.

One navy landing craft from Formosa and three commercial vessels are standing by in this port on the south coast to carry out top civilian and military officials.

Five Nationalist armies. totalling 125,000 men, are to be left to the hands of the approaching Reds un- less some way can be devised at this late hour to evacuate them also.

The evacuation of top officials is .expected to begin Monday. and lit is estimated the Chinese Com- imunists will control all of this is- land of 13.500 square miles in from four days to a week.

With it will go a rich repository of natural resources. Ham-an holds an estimated 3.500.000 tons of iron ore and valuable coal and petrol- eum deposits.

TAIPEI. Formosa, April & - (AP) - The Communists evident- ly took unopposed possession of the I-Ialnan Island capital of Hui- how today.

Nationalist fears were uncon- cealed that the Reds would win the whole 13.500-square-mile island in due course.

(The independent Hong Kong paper Sing Tao Min Pao said too Reds peacefully entered I-Ioihow at dawn and shops already were re- opening.)

Stanley Rich. Associated Press correspondent who flew out of Hoihcw to the Human south coast on the last plane iato.Baturd'Iy, said the Nationalist air force, army and civil administrators hat: left I-lolhow. At the time he left. the Reds were only three miles away.

Rich said the Red invasion force was estimated at 10,000 to 15.000 men, opposing about 00.000 Nation- alist troops, of whom many had

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By II. R. How

HALIFAX, April 23 - (CP) - The "high liner" of the Lunch- burg fishing fleet is dead.

Captain Guy Tanner, 53. drown- ed here Saturday when he fell be- tween his schooner Francies Ger- aldinc and a wharf as he was about to step aboard the vessel.

It was a strange end for the 260-pound skipper who first went to sea at the age of 10. in 1943 he spent 16 hours in chlil Atlantic walers clinging to an car with I broken arm after his vessel was cui. in two by a blacked-out con- voy ship.

He was one of the iron-breed school who man the fishing fleei's wooden ships. in 1947 he earned

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Reports Shipment Of

Sabotage-d

the wanstado.

The ships docked at Saint John. N. B. In his statement. Cotton Mid his firm has already sent invest- igators to the Maritime port "to trace the origin of the trouble."

"The shipping companies involv- ed aro all responsible organization; and there is no doubt in my mind that this is the planned work of a group of people who are interested in protecting their own interests by destroying mine." cotton churni-

Meanwhile. shipping Limited of Montreal. agents in Canada for the Orange Line. said they were in- vestigating the incident.

W. H. Barkas of the compam'o import department said the va- l-.lcles.wsre damaged on arrival at Saint John.

"We have no idea how tho dam- age occurred." he said. "but we will make I thorough investigation."

The incident occurred at I time when the Federal oovomlnent was receiving demands from both Can- adian and United Kingdom man- ufacturers to halt the influx of Czech cars into this country. but year only lid models were imported but some 1.000 are OXPNNG ""3

ear. . . ,3. C. it. P. officials declined to comment pending mastication.

"so for as we know." I polio! official said. "there has bun no complaint filed by the company

and no action can be taken until

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engineers are

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fonsive lines on SAARE ISLAND.

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The Newsmap above shows strategic location of Rusias new Baltic

bastion as a defence for Leningrad. . .11 Navy patrol plane vanished recently. following an encounter Wldl Soviet fighter planes. The ussaypmtestetl that the pl;-nel violate the Soviet frontier", and admitted it was fired on by R8 P 8095-

Highway Agreement To Be Signed Today

(By D'arcy O'Donnell)

OTTAWA. April 2Z)-(CP)- A time-worn dream of a hard-sur- faced highway stretching from one coast of Canada to the other will edge a notch closer to reality Monday.

Then. the Federal Government

tiHigh Liner” Of Fishing Fleet Drowned At VVharf

gH the title "high liner" for landing

the largest salt fish catch of the year at Lunenburg and retained it until his death. It netted him a case of whisky contributed by the Lunemburg Master Mariners' As- scciation and the Frances Gor- aldlne's life buoy was given a place of honor at the fishing port's fisheries exhibition.

Capt. Tanner will be buried at the small fishing village of Blue Rocks. near Lunenburg on the shores of the Atlantic. it was there he was born and from where he first headed out to sea in a 40- foot boat with his father.

A month ago the fisher folk of Blue Rocks buried another skipper, Captain Hasiam Knickle. He with 10 others drowned when the schooner Gertrude De Costa col- llded wllh the freighter Island Connector in Halifax -harbor.

Capt. Tanner saw the Nova Sco- lia dory fishing fleet at its peak of 105 vessels after the First World War. Later he saw it shrink to less than 30 vessels, as trawlers and draggers gradually invaded the fishing banks. To him the disap- pearance of the rival Gloucester. Mass. dory-carrying schooner fleet meant much. '

Held fished out of Gloucester in I one-main .dory in his youth. In the late" 30's he was one of the Lunenburg skippers who manned ihe famed racing schooner Blue- nose when she raced against Glou- cester'a pride. Gertrude L. The- baud. off the New England port for the international Trophy.

Some fishermen said "CIp'n Guy" was a driver. He was. When fishing was good the "high liner" worked 18 hours a day in I dory, paying out and hauling in hand lines on the banks. Either hia men kept pace or they wont ashore and elsewhere for another chance. He admitted that in re- cent years it was difficult to find men willing to go dory fishing.

The family tradition will be carried on by the akipper's col- lege-educaled son Gerald. Dur- ing his three years apprenticeship he and the "old mIn" ofien argued about navigation.

"He felt his way." said Gerald. Capt. Tanner used his direction finder for a radio. could tell where he wu on 125-mile-long St. Pierre Bank. oiif the Capo Breton'ccaat. by the depth of water under him.

"But the old man knew where Lina lid: were." admitted Gerald.

Secondary d Ifon so lines around KRON- STADT include cousi- ui bniicviei, infdnfry. armor, field artillery, lighter and bomber

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RUSSIA'S BALTIC IASTION: The Soviet Union has turned her three vesiommosi re ublics- ESTONIA, LATVIA an LITHU- ANIA-into vcsf military bases, refugees from the Baltic states report. From LENINGRAD to the Polish border, the area is re- pcvicdiy filled with in I I i in r y comps, olviieitis I i I in under- ground iidnquvs, radar stations and V hoses.

it was off Latvia that a U. S.

and tho Provinces will sign 50" mill agreements to undertake Con- struction of a S300.000.000 1W0-18119 paved higllway stretching from St. John's in Newfoundland in VIC- toria in British Columbia and tak- ing in Prince Edward Island. .

Tht: signing ceremony has beenV set for 1 P.M.. AST. and all Pro-1 vinccs have indicated they will be represented.

Each agreement will have attached lo it a mill) Sh0W' ing the route the highway will follow in each Provlnc . The combined agreements wil show for the first time the over-all route of the highway- The Federal Government left. up

to the Province-s'ihe Chbice 0f U10 route and ihc announcement of the llnc it would follow. It laid down only one specification and that was that the road follow "ihc shorlcst pruciical east-west route ncross Canada and ihrnuizh each of the Provinces. consistent with the needs of the provinces and Canada as ii whole."-

lt now isipossiblc to travel the 4.200 miles between Halifax and Vancouver by road on Canadian soil. but only some 60 per cent of the mileage is paved and much of the paving is of low standard.

The signing of the agreements will culminate negotiations carried on by the Dominion and the Pro- vinces -during the inst two g3”PliT5- Legislation wns passed at the last session of Parliament RHih0TiZ- ing the Federal Government in pay half lilo cost of the hlilhway- or ahnul sl50,fl0().00(). Each of the Provinces passed conlplcmcnt.-lry; legislation through their rcspcc-, iivn Lcgislaillros this year.

Plans call for work to start this spring and in he comivitilvd 0V9l' a seven-year pt-rlod. Federal par- ticipation is dependent on particl- pniion by all Provinces.

More Food Taken Off liafionod List in U. K.

LONDON. April 23 - (AP) - The Food Ministry Saturday freed canned meats. canned milk and canned beans from rationing. These products have been dis- lrlbuicd under a point system. Each person received 24 points a month. The number of points needed to buy I given product de- pended on its scarcity. Cookies. dried fruit. syrup. rice. table jel- lies. mlncemeat and some kinds of imported canned fish and fruits remain under the point system.

TIOUBLID BY WHALES

KIRKWALL, 'Orkney Islands. April 23 -- (AP) -- There were almost as many whales as people Saturday on the little Orkney is- land of Stronsay. off the coast of Scotland. And the people were getting worried. The whales-100 or so-were washed up on the sandy banks of Stronsay by an

unusually high early morning tide.--1-mm; human stacks, They

The Sironaay islanders. mostly farmers. expressed concern that the carcasses might bring disease.

Bridgesfiioads And Railways Are Hartihii

Four Bridges Destroyed

Germany. Taegllche charged the plotting "more prcvocatory flights" over the Baltic "the Americans seem to have the criminal idea that the . has been

the earth will

By W o r s r Fresher Conditions For Many Years.

SAINT JOHN, N. 13., April 23- (CP)-Destructive flood waters

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Considers Hiiisborough Bridgepis No. 1 Problem

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OTTAWA. April 23 - (Special) - Premier Walter Jones confessed here today that the Hilisborough Bridge is the No. 1 problem for Prince Edward island as far as he is concerned. In Montreal last week he discussed the problem with Donald

dent, but admitted that no defin-

Wjlre recoding in many 3-7935 Of lie decision or agreement had new Brunswick tonight after been mached. spreading havoc which may cost Asked ig hcdiswssed the pgsgj-

31,00,000 or more. Bridges. railway lines and roads suffered the great- est damage.

A deluge of rain Thursday and Friday coincided with ice breakups tn rivers to create the worst freshct conditions in years as snow. still deep in the woods, melted rapidly. Most of the damage occurred Fri- caused' solely by rain water which had no

day and Saturday-some chance to drain normally. The toll included

the oromocto River near

Bonaventure River in the

highways. Rail Service Rf'St0l'Pd The Canadian

vice tomorrow except the sub-division at Zealand.

a mile of track was

and Canadian National were functioning. The C. N. R. restored its Fred

ericton-Centrcvllle line and hoped to repair washouts near MlcNamee in time to resume the Fredericton- Newcastle service tomorrow. C. N.

Saint John. Woodstock was

R. traffic between Fredericton and

operating again hilt five feet 0 water covered the St. sub-division bellton and St. Leonard.

C. N. R. officials were enrouteto inspect the Bonaventure River site in Gaspe where a three-span steel bridge fell prey to the freshet. It

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Russians Conduct Purge in Baltic

BERLIN. April 23 -(AP) -The

Russians are waging a purge in the Baltic republics coastal defence secrets in the gen- eral area where they claim a Unit- ed States plane attempted to make

photographs, the official American

newspaper here reported today.

Neue Zcltung. published by the Division of the United States High Commiss- ion's Office, said its information came

Information Services

from Baltic

Sweden.

refugees in

The newspaper quoted them as saying the Russians

fear a fifth column of Baltic nationalists along

the strategic coastline where Rus- sia is reported to have submarine pens and rocket-launching sites.

newspaper in Rundlvchau. is

The soviet army United States area It declared

tra nsformod American lake."

To Develop

By Howard W. Blakcslee Associated Press Science Edlior BOSTON. April 23 -1 AP) --You

can expect more and more new diseases, Whether they will sweep like former epidemics on medical science and ending of ooverty and hunger. they come from was made clear by some of the United States' leading phys- icians here at int week's meet- of

depend

What they are and where

in; of the American College Physicians.

The diseases are oming birds, bugs and 'bther animals They probably have existed

ands of years.

They have attacked man in the past, but went unnoticed because attacks isolated. In these sporadic forays.

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people were fewer and

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two bridges over the Toblque River at Plaster Rock and Arthurette. one across Fred- ericton and another spanning the Gaspe area of Quebec. as well as scores of washouis along railway lines and