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BIG THREE, RUSSIA AGREE ON CONFERENCE FORMULA

Puzzling Note Iniecled Into PoWs Question

Begin Probe

Of Sabotage

Angle In Jetliner crash

LONDON. (AP) A special investigation began Saturday into theories that sabotage felled I. British Co-met jz-vtllncr which car- ried 35 persons to death off Elba int Sunday.

The British Overseas Airways corporation. owners of the plane. ulmkreed the action wlbh a report that in week-long investigation has shown no evidence of structural weakness in its seven other Comets. grounded as a pfecauton.

"me possibility of sabotage can- not be overlooked," said a state- ment issued by BOOA chairman 512- Miles Thomas. "and special security Investigators are being sent to points along the route to the Far East".

At the some time Thomas an- nounced the BOAC will put some Comets back into the air Monday for training flights. No passengers will be carried until nil jet planes in the company's fleet have been fully inspected.

The admimlty announced Sun- day four warrfhips will try to raise the Comet, Admiral Earl Mount- batten. commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean, will co- ordinate aalvage efforts to be carried out by llhe frigate Wrangler. the Sur- say. a small ship employed for laying marker buoys, the salvage veesol Sen salbor and the boom dedence vessel Banhill.

Underwater television is being prepared to be fiovwn to Malta or Italy for use in operation.

The posslbilityof a bomb in one luggagc hold appeared one of the things to be studied in the Comet crash. The BOAC said earlier last week the plum: carrir.-d a little more than 100 pounds of freight. M Well as bnfrgage and mail, and

it planned be check this extra cargo in case some "unauthor- ized object" was smiugled aboard. The main wreck of the Comet has been spotted on the sea. bed in 400 feet of water, but has not been recovered.

Agents went to work on the

saibomge angle in Beirut. Lebanon. The Lebanese civil aviation direct- torale announced that the BOAC has asked for similar studies at all other point: touched by the Come'(. on its last run from Singa- pore. Rangkok, Rangoon. Karachi, Bah- ren and Rome were other points touchedby tihe eight-mile-a-minute era t.

Plunger! info See

it plunged into me Tyrrhenlarl sea boftwoen Elba, Napoleon's ls- iand of exile, and the Isle of Monte- cristo 40 minutes after leaving Rome for London.

Talk or possible sabotage grow here after Thursday's crash of I Fhiilpvpinos airliner Cloudmaster in Rome's outskirts that killed lli. That plane. like the Comet, came down Just 7'6 hours after making a stop at Beirut. In each case wit- nesses told of explosions - in the Air from the Cornet and on the ground from the Cloudmaeter.

El-ba's chief surgeon said rihe vic- tims recovered from the (xmirvt had been killed by concussl I and were already dead when they hi: the water.

BOAC pilot Jimmy Peters, who flew a Comet into London from Tokyo for the safety dheckup. said he had heard rumors in Beirut that Britain's military intelligence was looking into both crashes.

Look For More Variety In House Debates This Week

(YITAWA. (CF) - The Com- mons probably will get more var- iety into its debates this week in contrast to a rather lean four days since members returned from the Christmas holiday.

Only three full-dress debates marked the four-day sifting last week. Tuesday was spent debat- ing the merits of corporal and capital punishment: toll bridges to Montreal occupied Wednesday; and Thursday and Friday saw a sur- tsined fight over the government's plan to boost postal rules 1 cent an ounce.

However, this week promises something different. Monday's pri- vate member day - missed last week-brings up two resolutions concerning the Income Tax Act.

Stanley Knowles. CCF member for Winnipeg North Centre, ll sponsoring a suggestion that the act be changed to remove or limits- tion on the amount of medical expenses that can be deducted from income tax. At present, only sums above three per cent of the taxable income may be deducted

Criminal Code Tuesday This likely will keep members occupied Monday. Detailed study. clause by clause. of the bulky re-

Coming Events

"Card party. Long River. Mon- day, January l8l-h.

"Card party Dunstaflnage school tonight 8:15.

"Ewing pigs daily. Paying No.00 pair good pigs over owenty-live hounds. Willard Prowae.

"Show "Bonza Goes To Coi- leso". North Ruslico tonight, 8 o'clock.

"Dance in new ball Mt. ltyon. Monday night. January 18th. Pruer onheeu-a. bunches Ierved,

"Hockey at North River rink Monday. Jan. l8. Glasgow Road Maple Leafs vs. Cnvehead Flyers. Game lime 8:30. Skate afier.

"The annual meeting of New Wlluhlre Scarlet Chapter will be held at King William Lodge. Kingston, Tuesday Jan. 19th at 8 ll-m.

"Reserve Thursday, Jan. 21 for berm supper in Mr. Stewart Lol- lnn Hall. sponsored by Ml. Stew- "! W. I.

"Juli arrived hog concentrate

: Dairy concentrate S4-95: Royal chick starter 30.60; scratch feed with corn 13.05; bone meal I545; barley meal 3315: Cfucll "ml 34.40. Also special prices on flour. At lteysi Feed Service

vision of the Criminal (3:14: is ex- pected to be started Tuesday. On

housing legislation wilibe oellede and an external affairs debate may ba arranged for late in the week as a result of Prime Minister St. Laurent! remark last Friday that the government hopes to launch one this week.

when the Senate assembles Tuesday night. a member of the Upper Chamber will take his seat while holding a portfolio in the government. something which has not happened for 33 years.

During the Christmas recess. Senator W. Ross Macdonald, 62. government leader in the Upper Chamber. was named solicitor- genersl. As government lender in the Upper Chamber he has been a member of the cabinet without portfolio. He becomes tme first senator since I-Ion. Gideon Robert- son. labor minister from 1919 to 1920, and again in 1930, to hold A cabinet portfolio while a. member of the Upper Chamber.

NO MORE CANDY

MILAN. Italy. mieuleinl-Italian childy manufacturers cut off their supplies to-stores in 29 Italian cit.- ies Sunday in protest against "crippling" taxes imposed by local authorities. Milan. Rome, Genoa. Pisa and 25 olher cities were al- fccled.

subsequent days, the government's 3!

india Toifalie Final Decision 0n Release Dale

By William C. Barnard

PANMUNJOM, (AP)-An Indian spokesman's comment touched off speculation today that there might be a change in a decision to turn back disputed war prisoners to the Red and Allied commands Wednes- day-ahead oi Saturday's dead- line.

The spokesman told a reporter Sunday night that Lt.-Gen. K. S. Thimayya ”wilIi make A final re- port. on whether Mir prisoners will be returned on Jan. 20 to the two commands" once he has received the Reds official reaction.

Last Thursday. Gen. Thlmeyya informed both commands he had decided on his own as chairman of the Neutral Nations Repatria- tion Commission to give back the controversial prisoners Wednesday and said if either side freed them it. would violate the armistice.

Later the Indian command said the decision would be carried out regardless of whether either side wanted the prisoners.

Saturday th UN command re- plied it would take back more than 22,000 Chinese and North Koreans from an anti-Red camp but definit- cly would free them as civilians Jan. 23.

Await Bed Reply

The Communist side. which Win” the prisoners detained indefinite- ly during efforts to woo iiiem home, has been mow in making any official reply on whether it is

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Soii-Drink Firm Fined '

QUEBEC. (GP) - A soft-d-rink manufacturing firm Saturday was ordered to pay Paul-Emile Be- langer 68,329 damages for internal injuries suffered when he drank from a bottle containing a piece of

ass. Belanger had sued the Coca cola Company Limited for 340,000 claim- ing permanent partial disability following the accident May 2, 1848. Mr. Justice Oscar Boulanger said although the company takes every precaution it remains re- sponsible for the contents.

Fleece Brewery 0f 12.000jases

MONTREAL, (CP)-Charges arc cxpcclbrl in be laid fnday against

ringleader: of A delivery racket which allegedly fieecr-ri a brew- r-ry of 525.000 through theft of

12,000 cases of beer, detectives said Sunday night.

Del. Sgls. Vincent O'Neil and Emmett Hayes said "at least five of the nine employees and six truckers who look part in the looting will definitely be charg- ed." Police have rt-rrovcrcd nearly half of the beer which they said was stolen from Dow Brewery Limilcd during the last six months. They said the beer was supplied by "checkers" who were mild 51 a case and truck drivers who sold each case for 3.1 in the Easlern Townships and other parts nf Quebec Province

By James F. King

LONDON, (AP) -- The Krem- lin widened its purge in the trou- biuome republic of Geortts Sun- my uid pointedly warned that a similar fete might lie ahead for the nationalist-minded Ukraine.

Latest to come under the an in Georgia is Villnn zodelava. lint deputy premier of the Black See birth site of Joseph Stalin and Lavrenty P. Berle. the police car who was executed as a traitor. A broadcast from the Georgian capital of Tbilisi (Tillie) merely said zodolavs has been "relieved of his duties and that M. I. Ruch- IVI has been given his job. But it appeared to be the last chapter in the purge that began in Georgia slur Stalin's death and was step- ped up with Berle! downfall. At the some time the Ukraine's new premier. Nlklfor Kslohenko. warned against "ammo: W boll" gcols nationalists to break down and dcstra! the inalienable H!!! of the Ukrainian sud Russian peo- mun Kalchenkois appointment as PI"

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Kremlin Widens Purge In Troublesome Georgia

along with two other major chan- ges in the government of the Ukraine, breadba&ct of the Soviet Union. Bis statement. carried by Moscow radio. combined a plea for unity with an implied warning for those who do not comply. "The great achievement: of friendship between the great peo- ple of Rubia no the Ukraine brilliantly and convincingly un- mask the anti-national nature of bourgeois nationalistic distortion in the Ukraine's historic unifica- tion with Russia." Ktldicnko wrote. - The latest changes in Georgia and the Ukraine followed reports that Premier Georgi Msienkov had made I personal tour of the re- publics to see how thingo were going. There was no hint wheth- er his visit had any connection with the dukeupa. It was Il-' ” who launched the M1110 in Georgia and inten- sified it in the showdown with Safe. Boris was accused of try- ing to fuctoeu his power in Geot-

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MaoGillivray personally rescued iwo of seven persons trapped when fire gutted a watenfront tenement build-ing Sunday, leaving 28 persons homeless.

The other five, trapped on an ice-coated second-storey ledge, were carried to safety by firemen.

MnoGillivrsy found Earl Mac- Kinnon, 25, and 14-year-old Von-

nie Dempsey unconscious while searching one of the smoke-filled rooms.

"I knew the fellow was alive be-

HALIFAX, (OP)-Fire chief FredAl

Seven PersonsiRescued yd From Halifax Tenement

cause he was still twitching about," 'sald MaoGillivray. "but the glrlwas Acompieiely still. They were over- come by smoke."

Both are recovering in hospital, along with James Prest. 30, who collapsed after making I. trip buk info the building to rescue his box- er dog, Muxlow.

seven-year-nld Bruce Thornhiil broke his leg in a fall while escap-

ling. Damage was estimated sf. sis,- 000. The building was insured.

Cause of the fire was unknown.

Rene Coty

By Harvey Hudson

PARIS, (AP)-France installed Rene Coly Saturday as president of the republic for a seven-year term with I giant show that was an artistic success but failed to amuse much public enthusiasm.

Almost all the capital's dignitar- ies turned out for me brief cere- mony at the Elysee Palace and for a reception at the Paris city hall.

During the day Cory made five separate trips through the city in an open our. From a thin line of spectators gathered along the routes came a few cries of ”Vive Coty” and "Vive le President." There was no massed cheering.

A '11-year-old Independent Re- publican lawyer and statesman .c1octed by Parliament Dec. 23,Coty

succeeds Socialist Vincent Auriol. 69, as the flgurchead chief of slate.

In a short speech upon assum- ing the presidency. Cory praised

rlol as the director of "a int- i rial renaissance."

"'If the work is not yet com- pleted." he said, "a magnificent ei- fort at least has been made. To continue the effort. I am counting on our ardent and courageous youth."

Many Urgent Tasks

Auriol. in his farewell, said many urgem asks lie ahead.

For Cow. the day marked a transition from the tranquil life of a small-town lawyer and senator to I busy I'0lllllle of official ap-

pearances, state receptions and private audlemm with the na- tion's poillical, iudicrll and mil-

itary leaders.

Cory never has owned a car. Now he will have at. his disposal some 10 cars from the prssidcntial moi;.:i' park. Mrs. Cory. who used to like to do some of the marketing her- self and prepared the meals at home when the cock was sick or .awa.x, now will have a staff of 22 persons In direct. -

icails Rlionference At Sydney Successful

Pakistan, Minister Abbolt or Canrlda said lirro Sunday the Commonwealth finance ministers coi1.fel'cncc in Sydney was one of the most satisfactory in the last two years.

Abbott. who arrived here for a two-day informal visit as the guest of Governor-General Ghuiam Mo- hnmmed. said. "'i'i1c position has improved a great deal."

He said sterling is sfromzcr and it is becoming pogibis to do away with many restrictions. Everyone at the conference was much more optimistic than at earlier confer- ences, he added.

Si. laureni M-alies Announcement On Salaries flan:

OTTAWA. (OP)-Oanadrc armv of law-makers, holding their pay line steady in me face of the big IIOOWIT llmurge in living costs, WI! loan be getting an indemnity boost totalling more than 01.500,- ooo a year.

Ending speculation on the mnvr' Prime Minister St. Laurent gave notice Saturday he will at Perils. merit to raise members' allow- ance: in the 102-seat Senate and 205 - seat Commons by an un- specified amount.

He said also. in his Commons order paper notice. he will ask for boosts for all cabinet min- lsters. P; tion leader Drew, senate government leader Mac- donsld. smote Opposition leader Ralg. as well as speakers of both chambers and the commons Dep- uty speaker.

Meanwhile, it was learned the

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lialicious Damage On DepoLShip

LONDON, (AP) -The admiralty reported Saturday there has been "malicious dam.age' aboard the submarine depot ship Montclare- the sixth such occurence abroad a Royal Navy warship since last summer.

An admiralty spokesman said the damage on the Montciai-e includ- ed ',the breaking of a number of gauge glasses, copper pipes and a thermometer." Investigations under way.

The 19,600-ton Montciare is a for- mer Canadian Pacific liner. other recent cases of damage on naval vessels were on the carriers War- rior. Indeialigable, Eagle; the des- troyer Barfleur the antl-submar- ine frigate Rocket.

Avalanche Victims buried

SGHRUNS. Atisiria, iRceutcrsi Five thousand black-gnrbed mountain folk buried their dead from last weeks avalanche dis- aster in pouring rain here Sunday as lashing storms began to die down elsewhere in Europe. Bearded mountaineers wept

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common graves at the base Bartlioiomuebersz mountain where the fatal avnlanclieis path was still marked by it grim scar gof brown earth on the white moun- talnside.

Latest casunitv figures for stricken Grosse Walser valley gave

missing. raising tne avalanche death toll to 122 for all Austria.

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Ten Day;5f Biiier Wrangiing Come Toind

Bl!lR.l..IN, (cry a The Western

Big 'Ilhree and Russia agreeed Sun-

day nlght. after 10 days of wrang- ling, on a formula for holding a four-power conference on German unity and an Austrian independ- ence l.i'ei1LV.rThe agreement, reach- ed after hot arguments that had to be referred to the respective capitals for adjudication, guaran-l teed opening of the parley in Ber- lin on Jan. 26

Identical communiques issued by each of the four powers after, more than 50 hours of delibera-2 tinns disclosed that both the East and West made concessions.

The Russians had demanded that half the meetings be held in: their sector of the quartered city.l 'Il'.ie Western powers had wan-led three-fourths of the talks to be; held in the former Allied Control Authority building in the Anier-I icim sector. The Americans. French, and Brillsh regard this as the only truly neuirai ground in Berlin.

As finally settled, the Russians: get a third of the meetings in their sector during the first three' weeks.

Turn About

The agreement provides that the first lveekls talks will be held in the ACA buiidlrz, lbs second vreekl at the Soviei high l'.'0mmlSSi0ll'.?I”5 residence in East Berlin, and the? third week back at. ACA. There-1 after, the progress of the talks will determine the meeting site. i

The compromise was dictated byl Foreign Secretary Eden, State; Secretary Dulles and Foreign Min-i ister Biriauii. All three are ex-i pected here Friday for a pre- parley mceiing on Wesicrn stra- tegy. Soviet Foreign Minister V M. Moloiov is expected to arrive Saturday or Sunday,

The four - power communique throughout referred to the Soviet cm-baasy as ”fhe residence of the U. S. S. R. high commissioner in Germany." indicating the dual role of the Soviet High Commissioner Vladimir Set-mconov, who also is Soviet ambassador to East Ger- many.

The Allied Control Authority building was referred to tl1i'oug-h- out as "the building formerly used as the headquarters -of the

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Allied Control Council."

This was understood to indicate that the Weston. powers were at pains to cinpimsim that their agreement to the Soviet embamy as a meeting place did not mean any implied recognition of mic

the ACA building as a ”four-power building."

THEATRE KEN

TOKYO. rReuf.cisl - A 20-second tremor shook thc lhcairn where Crown Prince Aki- ihe British movie "Conquest of Evcre.st." Sat- urday night.

Factories Ar

By RON EVANS Canadian Press Staff Writer

the curtains on its atomic energy

falls of rim-c gr:-at factories pm- ducmg atomic fllcl for peacetime 11503.

The story of Britain's pioneer achievement in bringing the atom to industry is told in a loo-page booklet. "Britain's Atomic FIC- mrles." Heavily larded with photo- graphs and diagrams, it outlines the growth of the infant industry in seven years under the ministry of supply.

Much information given is fresh from the secret list after declass- lficstlon conferences among can- sds, the United Kingdom and the United States. Supply Minister Duncan Ssndys says in A fore- word:

"It is right, that the world should be iold how fissile mater- ial is being produced in Britain and of the remarkable factories and plants. designed and erected to carry out these strange proces- ses." .

Britain's atomic production pro- gram started in 1945 when 12 men and women -- only one of whom knew anything at All about atomic energy-moved into headquarters offices at Risloy. a. tiny hamlet in southwest Lnnceshlre. The first task was to give these pioneer: an intensive study course in nu- clear physics and within a few weeks they began drawing plans for construction of the three fec- wries.

in some cases the group was forced to dawn A plant without

production program in release dc-.

Details Of U. K. Atomic e Revealed

LONDON, (CF! -- The Briii.iil.,,.,.. ,e,,..,.,,, ....,,,.s government Snturdny pulled blifkrach was completed uilhln lfll'('f?

knowing pi'eclseiy uhal it was t-n house. Yet, although the plants construct,

in A or four works of the iargct darrxi

Early in 1946 a sile was selected at Springfield.-r. i.ancnshll'e and will) 2': years the first uramuml metal rods were turned out. Sinccr thnn, say the book, ”many llinu-l sands, of these rods have been, pioduced at Sprlnfzlielda. ,

work began on in second factory, to produce the more powerful

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