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Duke of Windsor Dn Visit To King

IDNDON, April 4 — (AP) - The Duke of Windsor tonight visit- ed his ailing brother, King George, at Buckingham Palace.

The Duke drove from Marl- borough House, home of his 8i- year-old mother, Queen Mary, and entered the Palace gates virtually pnnoticed by passers-by.

Ho was immediately shown into apartment. Palace sources said he "remained some time."

The 54-year-old former king ar- rived in England several hours earlier after crossing the channel in a gale. It was his first trip home since King George fell ill last November with a circulation ailment in his legs.

I-lis Duchess is expected to follow him here from Paris this week- end.

Canada's largest ianker Launched

CHESTER, Pa“, April 4 — (OP) -- The "supertanker" Imperial Alberta, Canada's largest oil tak- er, was launched here today after being christened by Mrs. E. C. Manning, wife of the premier of Alberta.

The MJIOO-ton ship was built st a cost of $5,250,000. The hull will be outfitted immediately and the ship is due to join the fleet of the Imperial ou ship ing Com- pany Limited late in sy.

The tanker has a capacity of 228,000 barrels (T980000 Imperial gallons) - enough to‘fiil a train of tank carb 10 miles long. The ship is 628 feet long, with an 82- ‘A-foot beam and 42-lS-foot depth.

Turbines developing 12,500 horse- power enable top speed of 16 knots. The Imperial Alberta is fitted with all modern navigation aids, including radar, gyrocompass, direction finder and fstholneter.

The ship will be commanded by Capt. E. P‘. Ssrty of La Have, N. S. The crew oi 46 will be quarter- ed in cabins, with not more than two men to a cabiii, and bathroom for every four. r "

ls Given Five-Year ' Suspended Sentence

MADOC, Ont., April 4 - (CP) — Allan ‘mrncliffe, 29, today was given a five-year suspended sent- ence and the‘ five children he abandoned in a backwoods shack were made wards of the children's Aid Society.

Turnciiffs told Magistrate .7. I... Lloyd he is going to look for work and try to get~th children back.

The children, sl under seven years, were found undernourished and dressed in filthy rags, in s. shack near Bancroft, ‘I5 miles north of Beileviile. They had been looked after by their uncle while Mrs. Turncilffe was giving birth as sixth child in Bellevllle Hospi-

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By JOHN RODERICK TmlRAN, April 4 - (AP) _—A military informant said today s Russian regiment, supported by tanks and armored cars, made a new foray into Azerbaijan prov- ince and attacked an Iranian post. Iranian troops replied to the Soviet fire and an "important battle" ensued last ‘Thursday and Friday, the source said. The Iran- ian government was believed w have handled Russia a stiff note of protest. There has been no of- ficial a... merit as yet con- cerning the matter. ,,

The informant gave this account

of the fighting in AzcrhaiJan province: Soviet troops crossed the bor- den Aniline Ardebiil district near the Cushion Sea last Thursday and fired on the Iranian outpost at Qanii Boulaq. A battalion of Iran. Ian W009! fired back. The fight- ing lasted until Friday.

Two Iranians were killed and e “considerable number" wounded. The number of Soviet casualties was not known.

The incident was the sixth this

year.

Last fall the Russians establish- ed border poets on Iranian i". l1")?! around Qanli Boulaq, but withdrew after a prvtggt w; made.

Last week's clash in Azerbaijan Pml/llwe W" regarded as the most serious attack on Iran since the filhting in the same province 21,5 Wits ago. The earlier struggle 15911109911 when the so-cailed De- mocratic Party, friendly to the Soviet Union. temporarily trans- ferred the province info‘ an auto- nomous state, ' ‘ MWbBUB-ll llfwirlce is in ex- trema northwestern Iran. From p military standpoint it has import- ant strategic value because it bor- ders on Turkey as well as the Q)- viet Union. ,

Charged As Being‘ liabitual , Criminal

SAINT JOHN, N. 8., April 4 _ (CP) - Believed the first case of its kind in the Maritimes, a habitual ci-iminal charge gggjngi; Frederick Martin, 44, Saint John, was heard today in county court. He pleaded innocent before Judge ‘7- 5- Billy. who reserved decision until April 18.

Martin had pleaded guilty earlier in the court session to charges "B1118 from s recent series of robberi and was sentenced to is? yea s in Dorchester Penitenti-

Under an amendment to the criminal code, a man may be sentenced to prison for an in. definite period if the court finds he is of criminal habits one mode of life. He may be indicte on r charge of being a habitual criminal

victed of crimes, and sentenced to at least five years imp.‘ nment each time, since reaching thongs of l8 -

Judge Barry granted a motion by the crown for an inquiry to de- termine if such was the case with Martin. Four witnesses were cali- ed by the crown attorney. None testified for the defence.

EDINBURGH -— (CP) — IO“- land‘s vast peat bogs may soon become a great new reservoir of power for industry and transport- ation. Research now indicates that

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By Mel Saffrin (Canadian Press Staff writer) QrrAwA, A-Pril ‘4 - (OP)

‘Timed to begin on the birthday cf the late Jack Miner, beloved Canadian naturalist, national wild- life‘ week will be observed in Can- ada April 10-10 this year, it was announced today.

Annual observance of the week was established in i947 by' Act of Parliament. Designed as s tri- bute to Jack Miner who devoted his life to wildlife conservttion at hlis Kingsviile, Ont... sanctuary, the bill was piloted througlh. the House of Commons by John R. MacNicol, Progressive Conservative MP. for Toronto-Davenport.

Prime ‘Minister St. Laurent to- day called on Canadians to take the Olliflrlunity during that week of honoring the memory of Jack mner and ofensuring that the benefits derived from Canada's wildlife resources will be passed on in even greater abundance to those who come after us.

"our country has been bounti- dully endowed with wildlife re- sources." Mr. St. Laurent said in the statement. "It is the duty of those of us who are now alive to safeguard and preserve them for future generations of Canadians."

Mr. MscNicol. in an interview, said national wildlife week has two objectives. .

One was to provide a period each year in which to "inculcate in the hearts and minds of the rising generation the value to the nation‘ of conserving wildlife gen- erslly and the folly of needless destruction of our birds. wild fowl and forest and water animals.‘

The other was to give Canadians an opportunity to pay tribute "to the self-sacrificinif life of Am- erica's greatest naturalist."

ifostov Placed llnder Arlest

5011A, April 4 — (Rec rs) — Trajcho Kostbv, viccrllrfilll l‘ 5nd chairman of the BlllBlflflll will‘ mlttee for economic and financial questions, has been ousted from both posts and placed under ar- rest. the Bulgarian official ‘new: agency reported tonight.

Kostov's arrest, first reported on Belgrade radio last Thursday. was ordered st a plenal’! ltfllvn 0! the central cm-nmittee of the Bui- garian Commruuiist Party March 26 and 2'7, said a communique in Robotnlchesko Delo, the party's official newspaper.

The committee discussed the political errors he had committed and “his errors in relation to the party," the communique said.

Thp session also decidéd to ex- clude Kostav from membership of the Politburo.

Solidly Behind Seaman's Strike

LJVERTPOOL. Emgisnd, April 4- (Reuters) A strike committee member said today that the strike of crews of Canadian ships will spread to Manchester tomorrow when the ‘Llfll-ton Lake Chilli- week is due to dock there.

He said the mensrc "solidly be- hind",the strike. wliisil was called in support of that ordered by the Canadian Solomon's Union March 31 after shipowners signed with a rival union.

Two Canadian ships in Liver- pool. the Seaboard Ranger and the Royston Grange, the Beaver- brae in London and the Guifside at Avonmouth are affected by the

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MOSCOW. April 4 - (AP) Pravda said today plans were s- foot to- turn ' Western mropcs military system into a branch of the United States Army under the Atlantic pact.

The Communist party newspaper devoted its major attention to the treaty. In a long international re- vifl! the paper also said the Unit- ed lilies state department was being. converted to a [feat de- gree into an arm of the United States general staff for American- iaatien of Western Europe's armies.

The paper reported that a special assistant in the state de- partment wouid‘_be in charge of a huge new military lend-lease

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Issues In. Soviet Note I Dodged,‘ Says Pravda

American foreign policy," Iarvda said. '

"This problem it to be tackled by the state department.”

Pravda said the statement let- urday of the 12 foreign ministers assembled in Washington to sign the treaty dodged the straight- forward issues rsiled ll! the Russian note on the pact.

The statement declared the sl- liance was purely defensive against aggression and within the United Nations charm. The Itussian note to the seven original qaonsors" of the pact charged it was aggressive ih intent and was directed‘ against the Soviet Union.

(The note also was sent to Nor- way, Denmark and Italy Monday.)

Pravda also said Anglo-Ameri- can plans were itud for c at- ing a "Pacific Oosan loo"

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Russians Out With Another Protest Note

LONDON, April 5—(Tuesday)—~ (CP)-—Russill has protested tn the United States and Britain that re- cent changea in the western Ger- man frontier break their agree- ment with her, Tass said today. Tsss, the official Russian news agency, said in a broadcast Mos- cow dispatch tiiet Russian ambassa- dor; in Washington, London and Paris had delivered the protest note to the respective foreign min- istries.

The note, as quoted by Tess, said the frontier changes violate a "do- xlaration on the position of Ger- many" of Juno 5, 1945. Russia said this provides that German bound- ary changes "may be effected only by joint decision of the govern- ments of the U.S.S.R., United Stat-

es, Great Britain andFranee." The Netherlands obtains 25 square -miles and Belgium 1T

square miles of German territory under a plan announced by the western military governments late last month.

Mill Employee Killed

LIVIRPOOI-s Nd, April 4 — (OP) - Jamie Good. t0, was kill- sd today in an accident at the

guest will be held tccnomw.

No details of the accident were immediately available, but it was beliovtd Good was earuht in heavy machinery as tho factory.

Moncron Club Gets "l" citing

MONCTON N. B., April 4-—(CP) --Moncf.on Flying Club has been granted a federal operator's certi- flcafe classifying it as a "B" class school. it wamlearned today. One of the oldest ih the Msrltimes, the club is the only one among 40 in

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OTTAWA. April 4 - (CP) Fisheries Minister Mayhew. with- out details, said today "there is every reason to hope that some- thing will be done" to allow the British Columbia canned salmon industry to sell a “good portion" of its surplus to Britain in this}

year. ,

He told Howard Green (PC- Vancouver South) that negotiat- ions have been going on with

Britain for months and that three departments of the Federal Gov- ernment. Fisheries, Trade and Finance, are interested‘ in the mat- ter. Mr. Green had warned that the industry's market situation was such that e "disaster" could re-

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Drew Asks For Information Re Service Forces

" OTTAWA, April 4 —(GP) - Gsojrge Drew, Proglessive Corner- vatlve leader, said tonight in the Commons that information about the strength of Canada's anmed forces should not be kept front Parliament.

Speaking during study of supple- mentary-estimates of the defence department, MI. Drew recalled how on March 1'! Defence Minister Claxton had declined to give 1n- fol-mation on the number of para- chutists trained in Canada.

The minister had stated that it was not in the public interest tn make such information available and suggested that it might help those who had‘ other than a friend- ly interest in Canada.

Mr. Drew said that one of the reasons why the free nations of the world went through agony and were very nearly enslaved was be- cause statesmen had accepted ans- wers that information about the trttwopg was not in the public inter- es .

People had been deceived about the condition and strength of the anmed forces. In the name of sec- recy parliament and the public were denied essential facts.

m‘. Drew said that the Defence Department was one of the largest spenders of public money. Its ect- ivities should be subjected to close scrutiny.

There might be cases where a thing was of such great sem-ecy it should not be made public. But those eases must be few. Secrecy should be invoked only when something was not of wide luicw- ledge and might slve ‘information that would be useful to other than

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Return True Bill Against Carr

OTTAWA, April 4 -~ rCP) - A true bill was returned today by a grand jury against Sam Carr. paving the way for his trial to- morrow on a charge of conspiracy to obtain a forged passport for e Soviet spy.

The 43-year-old former IADOT“. Progressive Party organiser will appear before county judge A.G. McDougail and a jury. His ease is expected to rake ‘up most of thc week.

The true bill was returned after an indictment against him was handed to the grand jury for de- liberation today at the opening of the general sessions before coun- ty judge McDougall.

Igor Gouzenko, former Russian Embassy cipher clerk who helped Canada, break the spy ring, came out of hiding for two hours of questioning by the grand jury be- fore the u-ue bill was returned against Carr.

HAMILTON, Aiprii 4 —iGP) — Mrs. Hannah Noah, 31-year-old Indian. today was sentenced to two years less a day in reformawry on a manslaughter charge. She was accused of killing her brother-in- inw by hitting him over the head with a. beer-bottle at a New Year's

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Eskimo Girl Suffers Serious Face Injuries

OTTAWA. April 4 (C?) A little Eskimo glri - her face! terribly mangled and torn - will be taken tomorrow on a i,000-mile trip from Port Harrison in far Northern Quebec to Toronto where she will undergotreatmsnt at the Sick Children's Hospital.

Anne, a seven-year-old girl, was seriously injured March 25 when set upon by savage dogs in a tiny Eskimo encampment 50 miles north of Port Harrison on the shores of

Hudson Bay.

Another Eskimo child, l6- morith-oid Aupeloo, was also at- tacked by the dogs but face

wounds have been, treated and do not require hospital treatment.

Dr. B. H. Harper, who flew from Moose Factory, Ont, to Port Harri- son last Thursday. advised the Federal Department oft Health in Ottawa today that it would be necessary to remove Anna to hospi- tai

Dr. Harper is expected tn fly with Anna to Moose Factory, 500 miles south of Port Harrison on the tip of James Bay. From there

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Is ‘Shield Against Aggression Says President Truman

WASHINGTON, Amil 4 -(@l—i Anlid solemn diplomatic pageants-y, 12 North Atlantic countries today signed a treaty designed to confront any Russian aggression with I united defence.

After hearing President Truman

hail it as a "shield against eg- gresslon." the foreign ministers stepped up one by one to put their names to the historic, IMO-word. pact. ' Previously they, like the dent, had proclaimed to Russia m6 all the world that their only pur- pose is peace and security.

But several of them added bilmt warnings lo any country con- templating violence. Britain's for-

eign minister, Ernest Bevin. de- clared:

“Our peoples do not want war and do not glorify wax, but they

will not shrink from it if aggression is threatened."

Promise of Greater- Security

L. B. Pearson, Canadian external affairs minister, said the pact giv- es “the promise of greater security and stability than we possess to< day " And he urged that the treaty s prcmise be converted into perform» ance lest it “remain no more than yet another expression od high hilt unattalned ideals."

State secretary Dean Achesflll drew on the bible. "For those wild set their feet upon the path of e8- gressiorn,” he said. "it (the pact) il s warning that. if it must needsbo that offences come. then woe until mm, by wmm the offence cement."

Many members of the Senat which must approve the treat with s. two-thirds vote bcforo M. ca go into effect, witnessed the sign.-

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Preddcnt Truman spoke each of the vial-ting foreign , us -a.nd Secretary Acheson stepped forward on the rlcsrbedeclred plet-

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LAKE SUCCESS, N’.Y., April 4-_. ("Pb-Atlantic pact signatories will 515F153! their solid backing of the United Nations by attending the opening oi‘ the neral assembly to- g Meadow.

Foreign policy leaders of Britain, the United States, France and Canada, who signed the treaty to- day 1n Washington. plan by their p. sence to present s. strong front against Russian charges that the pact violates the U.N. chartu.

‘Foreign Serxetery Bevin of Brit- ain. previously scheduled to re. turn home directly after the sign- ins. change-d his mind and will attend the assenrbiy opening. Among the 12 signers of the his- toric pact. only the foreign minist- ers of Italy and Portugal, countries barred from U.I\". membership by Russian vetoes, are not expected here tomorrow.

Canada. will be represented by L. B. Pearson, external affairs min- ister. He heads a 10-man delegation in the assembly, a continuation of the three-month session in Paris last fail.

Andrei Gromyko, Russia‘: top deputy foreign minister and head of the Soviet delegation to the assembly, was in seclusion today as he has been since ar- riving from Moscow lest Wed- nesday. Delegation sources ex- pressed belief he was preparing