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B. C. General Election Called For June 15

V1 TORIA, B. C., April IT-(CP) --Pr ier on Johnson has made it plain that free enterprise versus socialism will be the no. 1 issue in British Columbia's June 15 provin- cial election.

The 58-year-old head of B. C.'s seven-year-old Coalition Govern-

Comlng Events "oil Cake MIC-how's“: per

sag. lloGuigan dz Boyle.

"Mali your Pllml to Garnhum Photo Studio, Charlottetown.

"Show Morel], every Tuesday and Friday. Show starts 8.30 o'clock.

"Dance and Card Party, Trac- adie Ball, Monday. April 10th.

"Cleaning Grain month of April only. Walter MaiieihYork.

"Dance in Miilvicw Hail Easter Monday night.

"lropkfieid grain cleaning plant now operating. We clean and clip your- grain.

‘nines, at. Peter's Legion Hall, lasts;- Monday. Cliff Peters’ Orch- estra. Canteen services.

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"Dance, Mt. Stmrt Legion Hail Eastdr Monday, 1 Rollie Mac- Kensieu Orcbutij. ,p ‘

‘t. "..';-li'm‘~ui;"ian= eat, fresh stock ldooreb and Jspalaopeiot.‘ 12.1.. Dioklason.‘

' "Cherry valley grain cleaning plant new operating Tuesdays and

Fridays. ‘ .

"Dance at the Gordon Lodio Monday night, April 18th. dancing from 9 till L '

"Come to the "Norboro Play" in Srsdalbane Hall, Mont-la, night. April 1

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"Dance in Rustico Hall, ltustico. Easter Monday night. Good music, refreshments.

"New Wiltshire District Scarlet Chapter Brookfield Hall Tuesday. 19th, -

"Tonight-Easter Pageant "Chol- gelligeuof the Cross", Salvation Amiy

"Reserve Tuesday, April 26 for Winsioe plays "Kitty" and "Saving Dad" at Milton Hail.

"Public speaking contest spon- sored by Junior Farmers, Cornwall '.~lall, April 19.‘

"Farmers Co-operative seed cleaning plant of Crapaud is now ready for business. John Leard, Secretary. '

"Kelly's Cross Dramatic Club’

will present their play in Kelly's Cross flail, Easter Monday night. Curtain 8.30. Dance after.

"l-lear Donald MacLean. C.C.l~‘. Federal candidate in Freetown Hail. Monday, April 18, 1949, at 8 ll. m.

"Soejcven Mile Say players present their play "Masquerade" Li} hltinkca loll. Instr Roads!

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"New. bearing elm.- seed.

P! our prices will save you money Rush your orders. Hac- 9 S Boyle.

"Jimmy Powers‘ Variety Concert Will lie. in New, Glasgow Hall Wad- "Ihir. night, April so at aao in Llilldolithe rillk. Lunches will be

.;.‘C30rIl ' “farmers. . n ’ n on ao- loust aieknesavgd resdheonai-

wSMl for further announce-

."hssrve Tuesday, April It'll. for

“rt la Orepauo ma, in aid of ll Jonson-ed by- omens d“

ed surrounding ammuni-

ment of Liberals and Progressive Conservdtives made his election call Saturday, He promptly added to the announcement:

"If British Columbia is to con-s tinue to prosper we feel that such can only be accomplished where the‘ people are assured of a contin- uance of the principles of free en- terpriae."

Finance Minister Herbert Ans- combe, chief of the Provincial Pro- gressive Conservatives, subscribed to Mr. Johnson's declaration.

In a joint statement, the party leaders said: "It is felt that there should be a clarification of the fu- ture administration in the Prov- ince."

Fear o‘! the C. C. F. and its so- ciaiistic program led to the birth of the Coalition in 1941, under the leadership of former Premier John Hart. , Harold Winch, leader of the C. C. F" has accepted the challenge.

"The C.C.F, is all set for a win- ning election campaign," he said at the annual party, convention Vancouver. “We have our election

question but that the swing is to the C.C.F.”

Mr. Johnson dissolu- tion of the 21st Legislature, fixed the election date, and said nomin- ation day would be May 25.

He has been leader of the Lib- eral Party and Premier for 1.6 months, and was elected on the re- tirement of Mr. Hart, now Speaker of the Legislature.

At dissolution, the Coalition had 86 members in the dB-member

_ Housey-Zl Llberalsand- 15 Pro-

gressive Conservatives. The C. C}. e ast election was Oct. 25, 1945.

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machinery all in order. There's no

BiiiltW-‘ps Chinese Messrs. Baker 6f Cullen‘ eicompe Cabinet Members

Reds Noi Taking B Orders from. USSR

_By James n. White

Associated Brass News Analyst

Are the P“ Communists tak- ing orders from Moscow?

‘Iihis is the question people have asked me more often than any other since I returned from a foru- month visit to China. 1 asked it often myself while I was there.

The answer-except from Nank- iing officials anxious for more Unit-

ed Slates aid-invariably was "no." '

I was told that no report of Rus- sian aid. advice or direction to the Chinese Reds has ever been verified

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Record Trout For Openinglay?

Sgt. DJ. Heath of Summers“ detachment R.CM.P. pulled in a big on, on Saturday owning in the form of a rainbow trout ‘that weighed eight pounds two ounces. One of the largest trout ever’ to be caught in 2h, area. it was taken at Scales Pond, Freetown, on Sat- urday morning, the first day oi tlhe fishing season. Sgt. Heath was using bait at the time and he played it about ten minutes before Ila-riding it.

Despite inclement weather. there was quite an exodus of local fish- ermen from Charlottetown on Sai- urday for the oponingof the trout-

aseaz>risir= catches were report- ed, with a 3% pourider reported

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Seamen Aboard Ship Ar_e___Bealen

MONTREAL. Avril 1r _(c r) - Poiice aafd today that 15 mism- bors of the Seafarers’ Intemat- ionai Union (A. F. L.) were at- tacked in their bunks aboard the cargo - ‘liner Beaverburn in an Easter Sunday outbreak of violence on the strike-bound Mont- real waterfront.

Seven required treatment in hospital. Others‘, loss seriously irr- Jured. were sible to remain aboard the Canadian Pacific Steamships vessel. Six of the men token to hoqiibai are from Vancouver.

The 5.1.11. men were hired in Vancouver and were aboard the Beaverburn as a passenger-crew bound for Great Britain to bring back a Canadian ship that is strike- bound there. Their attackers were not identified.

Police said the outbreak was started by about a score of men,

o boarded the ship and worked

ir way to the butt-its of the S.1.U. crew who were beaten while still asleep. Once awakened, they re- taiiiated in a fiat-swinging battle that last some 20 minutes.

Members of the Beaverbsirnb British crew were not attacked and we’: no par-t in the battle, police sa

Beery Dies

av cans assassins . B1181, Caiif., April 1'! - (AP) -— Wallace Scary, tbs

arteries’. lovable rascal with i110 gravelly’. voice and squash-like fltlllflll dead.

- slurp-a t6 his living-room Ho‘: about i0 o'clock rrlday night and died mostly alter from a heart d t of iaeny months’ tion. was 0d. The funeral will

ay at Forest lawn

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Credit Union League ' Essay Contest Winners ~

Robert Croken Summcirfieid. Simeon Farmer, Kinkora._and Mil- dred Joan Mullen. Gienaiadale. were first prize winners in their respective grades lit the essay cun- test sponsored by the Prince Ed- ward Island Credit Union League, in which there was keen- com- petition from students from all parts of the Province.

Over 120 applications were re- ceived in the contest and prizes totalling 0155 were given to suc- cessful contestants.

Following is the complete list of prize winners:

Group i (Grades VII and V111) - "Why I should belong to a Cerdi Union." (Not more than 500

words:

1st Prize ($25.00) - Mildred Joan Mullen — (Grade V11) Gienaiadaie.

2nd Prize (815.00) - Anna Mac- Intyre — (Grade VIII) Charlotte- town.

3rd Prize ($5.00) — Bernadette Pineau (Grade VII) South Rustico.

Honorable Mention - Christeiie MacKenzie, Little Pond; Helene Nicholson, St. Augustine.

Group II (Grades IX and X) — "The Role of the Credit Union in the deveipoment of Community Welfare." (Not more than 1000

words): 1st Prise (scam) — Simeon

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Movie Actor Wallace Suddenly

_____i___.__..____.. most successful movie combina- tions. H’ won an Academy All!“ (o; "Th; champ" in 1081. Ha was voted by exhibitors one o! the top l0 box-office attractions from m2 through 1N6. and min in i040.

leery, a Kansas city poiiosmarvs son, in youth was an engine wiser in a railroad roundhouss, an ele- phant handler kl circusss. l!!! l" ala-a-week singer in a Broadwa! chorus. After a short career I! I dirt-track racing driver he made his film debut in 1m with the gun” company in Ohiclso. His oorrugatld. bomb 1m WI h" fortme. .

n; estimated that his victims earned 86041110000 W‘ 334'" “out, He appeared in more than m0 fires. eountins earl! on! I04 two-rosters.

At hem‘! side. when be iiiod were his: divorced wife. Mfl- m" ' ; his anther. Will:

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lady-was married ‘Manson from i010 to

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ibreign Currencies

Seen Possible

mrw YORK. Aipril 1'1 - (A?) - Eventual devaluation of foreign currencies is seen in Wail Street s; a possibiiityerssuiting from the pressure of declining prices in i-ho United States. ' ~

The sensitive New York market for foreign money has _been un- settled several times recently by rumors of devaluation of mlivl’ currencies abroad and by 0111101411" ed reports of an impending chandc in the United States price of s36 an ounce for monetary gold. All of these waves have passed without. materially altering the basic exchange rates between the American dollar and other curren- cies, which are fixed by internat- ional agreement administered by the International Monetary Fund.

The British pound sterling is officially valued at about 4.03. but you can buy various other kinds of sterling at prices as low as 81.00.

The big pressure on foreign rrcncy is the slowly sottllrifl "V01 of American prices which makes it more difficult day by day for other countries to sell their hill"!- priced wares in this country in competition with American goods.

they can't aeii here, they can't get American dollars to buy here. That kind, of stagnation in international trails puts the squeeze on foreign money. Devaiuation is me quick way out. Somemuthorities think it is the only way out. You can. of course. raise a storm of argument on that point. ‘Mean- while everyone is watching Britain.

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Au eyes are on the pound sterling which once was the ruler .of the value of the world's monies. niadoiiartookthstopseatasa result of the depression and the last war. But ndw starting is tryi- ing a comeback along a hard and rocky road. u Britain is forced to devalue the. bound against the dollar. many other mater currencies are sure b0 follow. -

The value-of sterling depends on the health of British business. lflfl the health oi’ business depends to a major degree on tha increase in their volume of exports pra-ticuiariy to countries that can pay in dollars. -

1f American prises decline. British

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i-lon. C. Cleveland Baker, Fourth District of Prince, and Hon. Eugene P. Cullen. Third District of Queen's, were sworn in on Satur- lay as non-portfolio members of he Provincial Government, replac- ing Messrs. Horace iii/right, now chairman of the Workmenb Com- pensation Board, and John A. Campbell, farm supervisor at the Infirmary at Beach Grove, whose appointment to their present posi- tions was announced last week.

Big Planes Could Operate From Bases a

B)’ e

WASHINGTON, April i7 —(AP) -—-'I‘cip_Unlted States Air Force men think that planes which they now have tested could bring about, from United States airfields. the‘ surrender of an enemy almost any- l where in the world.

They don't say it could be done‘ tomorrow. There aren't enough.

Hon‘. Mr. Baker, farmer and fox breeder, resides at Kensington. l-le ‘was first elected to the Legisla- i ture in the general election of 1935, ,and re-elected in 1939. Defeated by ‘Mr. Heath Strong in the following general election of 1943, he was re- turned four years later along with Mr. Wright whom he now replaces in the cabinet. Mr. Baker is a na- tive of Margate, where he was born in 1886. _ i Speaker of the Legislature dur- ing the past two sessions, Hon. M". Cullen has been prominent in‘ti'e dairy industry for some years. He was born at Hope River in 1905, and now resides in Charlottetown. He has represented Third Queen's

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‘into aerial tanloer refueling planes.

planes. But planes exist which air

force men think could load cu‘ American fields. do ‘round-the- clocir bombing (providing there

was enough of thorn) and return to American fields.

Three planes are involved: The 13-36. the 3-50 and the 13-29. Some of the 13-29:: have been converted

1f the air force is right. the United states could rely on air- fieids in North America.

‘Iihe air force thinks it has about. 500 borrlbers which could get into combat almost immediately, each able to reach out 4,000 miles, drop its bcimibs and return in one of the 57 bases in the United States and Canada which could take planes of

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MONCTON. N. 3., April 17- (CPl-Four residents of Saint John had an almost miraculous escape from death tonight when their car left the main highway five miles west of Mnnciorl and plunged down a 75-foot. embankment.

Fred Robirhaud, a passenger in the car, is in hospital for treatment but his condition was not regarded as serious.

Charles Walker. driver of the car, and two other occupants. Miss Gertrude Robinson and Miss Emma Barlow, were not injured. '

The accident occurred while the car was approaching Mono- ton on a straight stretch of road. It sheared off two tele- phone poles before plunging over the embankment and com- ing to a halt a few feet from the muddy waters of the Petit- codiac River.

News In Brief

BERLIN, April 1'1 - (AP) — Germans in the Russian occupa- iion zone, are putting pressure on the Russians to lift the Berlin

blockade, it was reported auth- oritatively today.

NANKING, April 1'1 -— (AP) - 'l'he Communists tonight gave the Chinese Government. uni-ii Aiiril b0 - three days hence - to s18“ surren/ar terms. The pensliy for refusal was not publicly slated, but obviously was a threat to in- vade South China.

CAPEDOWN. April 1'7 — (Reu- ters) - A government commission which investigated last Januarys riots in Durban between native Africans and East Indians warn- ed today that the natives may again attack the Indians "to square} (heir account." 1n the iwn day! 017, race rioting, 14/1 were killed and; 1,087 injured. l

WAfl-HNGION‘. Aipfii 1'1 i iCF) -— Dean Acheson. seerflaryt of state, is reported ready to tell Congress that the United States should be prepared to send arms to Western tin-ops for ‘many years.”

SQANTON. Pa. April" 11 - iori -.Jobn lloloarw 4i. died Satitndl! from eating 28 aspirin tablets with the belief they were salted peanuts. Hospital authorities quoted him as saying before he died that he found a bottle on a tabla and thought it contained peanuts. when he discovered his error, there were two left of the bottle of II. A blood test showed he had been drinking.

aaoota. Suffolk, Ingland -- (C?) - Because of siuoected boi- iutiosa. the bltllinl 9001 l! u" liver Wayne! here ma! have to

Many Attend Churches ' ForEasterSunday Services

Four iiave Close t

.of Christian Arabs worshipped

mas non Asrntm rsaaars~

(By ThfCanadlan Prods)

The Christian world celebrated the resurrection Sunday in its churches and passed the lighter hours of Easter Day under gen- erally sunny skies.

At Windsor, England, warm wea- ther brought out the King, who is recuperating from a leg ailment. He and the Queen, with Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edin- burgh, went to Easter services at the royal chapel.

1n London dandies sported feii hats in bright Easter-egg colors and embroidered ‘waistcoats. _

1n Nazareth. Israel, thousands

while others demonstrated under Communist flags.

Jerusalem's holy places accessible only to official persons and religious dignitaries. Arrange- ments under the Israel-Trans- Jordian anriistice allowing free ac- cdss to the holy places have yet to be worked out.

1n New York th. biggest crowd in memory — 1,800,000 persons, po- lice said -- jammed Fifth Avenue and nearby streets for the annual fashion parade.

Much of the United States had good weather for the day, but a Chicago forecaster who predicted "cloudy and slightly warmer" saw rain failing. mixed with snow.

In‘ an Easter broadcast from Washington Seiden Chopin. Un- ited Slates Minister to Hungary who was asked by that country to leave, said Communist-dosriinatcd countries are fostering “a new sec-

ular religion of the state . .. to absorb the churches." In Washington President and

Mrs, Truman and their daughter

Margaret went i0 two church services. With Mrs. Truman and hiargarci, who are Episcopalians,

the President went. lo a holy com-i, munion service at 8 am. at St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church. s block from the White House. Tihen the Trumans attended 9:30 a.m. service at the First Baptist‘ Church. ‘The President is a Bap‘

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Village Has Narrow Landslide

Escape In

BALMON BEACH. Wash. April 1'!—,An earthquake-loosened cliff gave this little colony a breath- taking brush with disaster Satan'- day.

A threat of another possibly dis-

glide continued to hang over the semiement of 10a homes. six miles from downtown Tacoma.

A side of a cliff broke loose and roared past the community at 2:05 am. PST Saturday. It hit Puget Sound so hard it kicked up an estimated eight-foot "tidal wave" to wreck near-by small boats and waterfront installations.

There was only a 20-yard gap between the and house of the fish- ing and beach settlement and the edge of the tremendous slide. which was close to 1N0 fem. across. The roaring cliffside mead pro-dawn

be slossd this amour.

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Poor Laureate John Minefield ls Ill

BURGDTB. Brock, Abingdon, Berkshire, April 1'! - (AP) -John Mssefieid, the poet laureate, was reports; today to be seriously iii at his heme here. Be is ‘i0.

Masefield recently suffered attack of influence. and complic-

l ations followed.

Ireland Celebrates Birth of lepublic

DUBLIN. April 18 - (Moridayil — (CP) — The thundering of can- non. Jubilant singing in the streets. and a few tears marked the birth today of the independent republic of Ireland.

Prnmptiy on night Sunday celebrated the pendence they years ago. i

Irish soldiers fired artillery andl rifles, searchlights pierced the mid- ' night blackness and green, white) and orange flags fluttered in the light Easter night air.

1n 36 of Ireland's 32 counties Irishmen sang and shouted to each other "na pobiacht abu," the Gaelic words for "up the republic."

In the storied streets of Dublin happy men, women and children mulled and pushed. shouted and sang. Estimates of the throng were between 40,000 and 70.000.

All the pomp and pageantry the country could muster went into the proclamation that Ireland and its 3,500,000 population were no longer a vaguely-defined part of the British Commonwealth.

But. the six northern counties remain apart of the United King- dom. Even therb the independence spirit ‘ bubbled lover; At Cari-ick- more inroads" clubs‘ Sunday night to- break tgs-"a crowd of S00 young men celebrating the birth of the republic. Several were hurt. Such demonstrations had been banned in Northern Ireland.

the stroke of mid-l Irishman formally regaining of inde- lost to Britain ‘I80

Nova Scorio Pioneer Woman Dies "At 102

YARMOUTH, N. 5., April 17- (CP)»Funeral services were heiri here Saturday for Mrs. Milly J. Duncanson. oldest resident of Yar- mouth County. She died Thursday at 102.

Mrs. Duncanson was the daugh- ter of William White, who died at 104, Her grandfather lived to be

A pioneer of the county on Nova . Scotia's south shore, Mrs. Duncan- son built her nwn home in the wild- erness when- she was 30. While at that job, she feii through the part- iy constructed flooring. Her skirt caught on a naifand she hung sua- pended for two days until a neigh- bor found her.