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KING GEORGE TO TAKE VACATION CRUISE

Truman-Churchill Probe Materials Shortage

Communists

In Weird

Stalling Tactics; Act Like Silly Schoolgirls

(By Don lluth)

MUNSAN. Korea, Jun. 8- 4Tuesday)-(AP)- The Commun- ists. in weird stalling tactics at the Korean armistice talks Mon- rt.-iy. "acted like schoolgirls who had a secret and weren't telling their friends," a United Nations command spokesman said.

A few hours later. in Paris, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky declared the Panmum- Jon negotiations had reached a deadlock and urged a high-level 1!. N., Security Council meeting to try to break it.

Allied delegates at this forward camp had no comment on the connection between Vishlnsky's move and the Communist tactics at the truck talks. but it appear- ed that Red delegates were mak- ing sure there would be no pro- cress while Vishinsky made his pitch.

The gyrations of the Reds Mon- day nevertheless amazed Allied officials. Further meetings were scheduled at 11 a.m., today (9 p.m. EST, Monday).

No progress was made at the separate sessions Monday on pris- oner-exchange and armistice sup- ervision.

The Red sub-delegates, Chinese Maj.-Gen. Hsleh Fang and Kor- can Colonel Chang Chun San. read a mag ' they passed back and forth. They chuckled. giggled. snlckered and guffawed with their interpreters while Air Force Maj.-Gen. Howard M. Turner. Ai- lied negotiator, was speaking.

Vice-Admiral C. Turner Joy, senior U. N. command delegate, issued a- statement declaring;

"With each passing day there In less and less reason to think the Communists really want a stable armistice. T

"Certainly. no one can accuse them of being in a hurry to demonstrate good faith."

.'BrilI- Gen. William P. Nuckois. United Nations spokesman, com- mented:

"There has' been a complete change in the Communist atti- tude. I can recall no situation that is comparable to the situa- tiion that we find ourselves in to- my...

British Bus Driver To Stand Trial

Cal-l'.A'Ili-TAM. England. Jan. '1 - (Routers) - The driver of the bus which plowed into a march- ing col n of sea cadets hers recently. iliing 24. was ordered today to stand trial on charges of dangerous driving. John Samson. 57. pleaded not guilty and was released on bail. ran into the back of a column of 50 youths marching down a poor- 13'-lighted street to a boxing match.

Coming Events "Skating tonight. Hunter River Rink. from 8 to 10.

"Dance. Fort Augustus Wednesday, January 9th.

Hall

"Box Social and dance, Morell Ilall, Friday, Jan. 11.

"Card party at Summerfield Srediti Union Hall, Wednesday, an. .

"C.C.F. broadcast over CFCY tonight at 8.25..Speaker Douglas MacFariane.. T

"our Store will be closed Janu- lry 9th. for stock taking. Parker canfisld. C- paud.

'3!"a.rmers, ask about - the Shul- Gain reed Finance Plan. For part- iculars contact your local feed mill.

"Come "in and talk over our Purina finance plan for feeding your hogs and poultry. Dillon at spnlen.

”8katirfg North River rink Wednesday, Jan. 0, 7.45 to 9.45 Hockey game Winsioo and North River follows. - A

"For Snapshots that will not fade mail your nuns and Nags tires to Carnbom Photo Studios Charlottetown. .

"Meeting of maps River credit Union. Tuesday. January sth. spee- mnsskors from League in attend-

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Toronlo Gels Along Wilhoul Slreel Cars

i TORONTO, Jan. '7 - (CP) - Torontonisna settled down today to life without a street-ear. But another, more serious crisis - a gas strike - loomed.

"As Toronto's 700,000 residents and 600.000 others in adjoining municipalities "dug in" for the duration of the transit strike, they were faced by the possibil- ity of a walkout of some 700 gas workers. A gas strike would af- fect 260.000 homes and 7.000 in- dustrial and commercial firms.

But Canada's second largest city found today that it could ex- ist without the familiar red-and- yellow street-cars and buses. the operators of which walked out last Friday in a wage dispute with the Toronto Transportation Commission. The working pop- ulation got to work - on the whole, smoothly and with little disruption of normal routine - and got home again. too.

Motorists Take Over

Motorists out in three times the usual number picked up pas- sengers on prc-arranged schedules or in hit-and-miss hitch-hiking and brought them to work in the downtown”ai1a." '

Civic and police oiificials ap- pealed to business and industry to stagger hours of business to enable them to cope with the great increase in motor traiffic. Inspector Vernon Page said big department stores could operate from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., for in- stance. to spread the rush-hour traffic over a longer period.

Police today clamped a ban on anything longer than one-hour parking in the downtown area. They plan to introduce by Thurs- day "reversible lanes" for traffic and to extend emergency meas- ures Prohibiting left-hand turns at important intersections.

The dispute meanwhile remained deadlocked. T.T.C. officials said l'-Trill: unless the men agree to ar- bltml-ion. the strike may last "many, many weeks."

Probe Fire Thai Took Sag lives

Mass. Jan. '1 - (AP)-Authorities tonight investi- gated reports of three explosions in the u.ooo.ooo fire that claimed seven lives and destroyed a Ive. storey brick apartment-business block.

Police quoted one of the rescued occupants as saying she heard at least two explosions. others said they heard three blasts.

Fire officials said a search of the smoking debris for the dead will not be started until tomorrow because of the danger of collapsing walls--all that remains of the structure.

The fire..whioh spouted flames as. high as 100 feet visible several miles distant, also injured 15 per- sons. 13 seriously enough to be held at hospital.

Fourteen persons were believed to have perished at first but sev- en were located later.

- meeting it. They

High-llanlting Committee To Study Problem

By John Bull

WASJHIENCYFON. Jan. 7 -(AP)- President Truman and Prime Min- ister Churchill today tackled the West's critical raw materials shortage in their first formal re- view of world problem,

The leaders were reported to have reached tentative agreement on a need for streamlining the exe- cutive machlnery which guides the 12-nation North Atlantic defence pact.

Churchill, sporting his gold- topped cane, and the President. dressed in a grey double-breasted suit, talked for one hour and 40 minutes in their initial formal meeting in the White House cab- inet room.

A dmen of their highest ranking military and civilian advisers joined in the morning session, a detailed review of the West's far- flung rearmament problems.

Aides said afterward the meet- ing was marked by "complete eordiality and understanding" but that the talk was frank and direct.

A second talk was set for late afternoon with prospects that specific military problems would be discussed, including possibly atomic energy and Britain's cam- paign to get its new rifle adopted as standard equipment by 'Wt.-stern armies.

The late hour of 5 p, m. presum- ably was set to give Churchill time for his customary afternoon nap.

Set Up Committee

In an effort to spur the West's rearmament drive, the President and the '77-year old Churchill

named a high ranking .committ.ee

of specialists to seek ways of in- creasing raw materials supplies needed by British and American industry.

Charles E. Wilson, American mobilization chief, was selected to head the American group. Lord Cherweli, Britain's paymaster- general, was appointed to head the British side.

A White House statement said nothing about the specific raw materials toibe discussed, But in- formed officias said afterward that high on the list were:

1. Steel-Britain urgently seeks

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Britain Suffers Record Dollar loss in Iijonlhs

IJDNDON. Jan. 7 -(Reuters) .. The treasury disclosed tonight that Britain plunged s9o4,ooo,ooo deep. er into the red during the last three months of 1951-the biggest dollar loss ever recorded..

The losses-meaning Britain spent that many more United States dollars than she earned - put the country and the whole sterling currency area in the deep- est financial hole yet.

The bills were paid from the national reserves-slashing them by almost a third in only three months. s

New to keep that reserve. now standing at 52.335.000.000. from running dry is the country's No. 1 financial problem,

A team of almost 50 financial experts from the Treasury and from the various Commonwealth countries tomorrow will get down to studying ways and means of will lay the groundwork for a full-scale con- ference of Commonwealth Finance

Ministers due to open Jan. 15.

German Question Leads

To Riots In

JTTIIRUSALEM. Jan. 7 -(Reutw era)-Police flooded roads with gasoline and made walls of fire here tonight to keep back 10.000 Jews marching on the Knesset (parliament) shouting: "No truce with Hitler's heirs."

A debate in parliament on Israel's claim to reparations from Germany for the death of 5.000.- 000 Jews under the Nazis was broken up by angry demonstrators who stoned their way through police col-dons around the Knes- set.

The mob. supporters of former terrorist leader Menachern Bei- gsn'a Freedom Party. was pro- testing a plan by Prime Minister Dsvid Ion ciurion's coalition gov- ernment on direct negotiations

west German Covnnmont. thousand of Balsam men through the outer police smashed parliament

biota cordon and

Jerusalem

windows, Gas-masked police, threw them back choking from tear-gas fumes. '

Inside the legislature. misty with tear gas. Beigin himself and Ben Gurion shouted at each other through the uproar. their words punctuated by wailing police cars. clanging ambulances. five engine sirens and the tinkie of breaking glass.

Balgin, sworn in Just today as a Knesset member, yelled at the Premier:

"The son of s. murdered victim never should sit with the murder- or in order to obtain blood money. ' "Did you receive the consent of 0.000.000 dead Jews for the return of five per cent of their property!"

Ben Gurion had put Nani loot from Jews at 00.000.000.000. but Israel doroonds s1soo.ooo.ooo in German reparations--a quarter of Ben Gurion'a flggurg.

By JACK LAYDEN

Mayor of Sept Ilos. Qua. as told to the Canadian Press. SEPT ILES, Que.. Jan. 7

(CP) - Disaster. in the form of r.'t.ging flames, struck Sept Iles to- night. caused damage estimated at &1.000.000 but at 11.45 P. M. E S.T. the flames were under control.

There were no caaualties.'

One family is homeless.

Fire damage was confined large- iy to the large garage of the Que- bec-Newfoundland Equipment Com- pany, the Town Hall, and a. new Sept lies department store.

Bulldozers definitely saved Sept

Ties. , For n time it was feared this jumping-off place for the Ungava. iron ore development. some 275 miles northeast of Quebec City, was doomed.

But the bulldozers, working in 15-below zero weather which meant pumps could not be worked from the frozen bay. smashed inflam- mable portions of buildings out of the way of the flames and then pied 17-fool: snow banks around burning remains.

The fire is believed to have started in the gutted garage. This

Bulldozers Save Sept Iles From Destruction By Fire; Heavy Loss

occurred during a temporary pow- er shortage in this town of some '1

The city Hall remains came under the -battering ram of the bulldozers first in the effort to sioetrack the flames. The Quebec- Newfoundland Equipment and Supply store, completed only a few months ago, was destroyed.

some people attempted to get their personal belongings out of their homes. crouching down in the snow-filled streets as they made their way to their dwellings trying to escape the heat.

some people crawled along the main street, inching ahead on their stomaches to reach their homes.

Telephone lines to Sept Iles were jammed with calls and there was a delay of anything up to half an hour in calls from Quebec and Montreal.

Sept Iles is one of the oldest towns ln'North America.

Jacques Cartier noted its bay in 1535. Three hundred years ago the first Jesuit missionaries in Can- ada arrived in Sept lies.

The fire started about 7.30 p. m.

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Beauly Case "

MIAMI, Fla.. Jan. '1 -- (AP) - A new development "which may change our whole concept" of the strange disappearance of Canadian beauty i-Iughuette Lemay was reported today by Deputy Sheriff James Barker.

Barker. heading the search for the 21-year-old Mon-Lreal woman in the far-flung Florida keys where she vanished Friday night. declined to reveal the nature of the development.

"Premature publicity might hamper the investigation." he said. "It might be 24 hours be- fore matters come to a head."

Mrs. Lemay, member of a well- known Montreal French Canadian family and recently a semi-flnal- ist in a Montreal beauty contest, disappeared as her husband. George Lemay. 26-year-old real estate man, fished from a bridge on the overseas highway.

Barker said he checked today on reports that the Lemays had been seen Friday night with a blond man in a tavern on the Overseas Highway in the keys but "that turned out to be ex- roneous."

The short, stocky Lemay was reported near collapse as the search by land. sea and air cover- ed the keys and extended west- ward over the Tamlaml Trail.

Two hunters and a Miami house- wife htwe reported they saw a young woman answering Mrs. Le- may's description on the Tamiaml Trail. which runs from Miami through the Everglades to the Florida west coast. '

But highway patrolman cover- ed the trail and said they found no trace of Mrs. Lcmay.

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Gltla Saves , Three Citlhrett

NEWCASTLE. N. 3.. Jan. 7- (CP)-A 10-year-old girl raved three other children in her fam- iiy ;aftor fire broke out while they slept Sunday evening in their home at Maple Glen. seven miles from Newcastle. The parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Jardine, returned from a church service at nearby Chatham to find only embers where'the house had been. When the young heroine awak- ened and went to the kitchen for water, the room was in flames. She had enough presence of mind to close the door. Then breaking a window. she aroused the other children ranging from two to eight years old and led them through the window.

All were in night attire. The

four children set. out for the nearest neighbor's, home, two miles away. A taxi driver met

them on route, took them to shelter and gave an alarm but nothing could be done to save the burning house.

One of the children suffered frost-bitten feet. Two others of the family were away at the time.

Pleven Cabinet Tossed Out On Budget Issue

Hini At New til.iiea""dt In Missing

PARIS. Jan. 7- (Reuters) - Rene Ricven, weary of keeping together a bickering government and repudiated by the legislature. today resigned after five month's as head of the coalition govern- ment.

The National Assembly defeat- ed the administration 341 to 243 in a confidence vote. It refused to accept Pieven's economy plans for the state-run railroads and social security scheme. on which he had staked his government's survival.

The Socialists, lukewarm sup- porters of his government though not members of it, turned the scales by refusing to support Pleven.

President Vincent Auriol nmv must seek a premier acceptable to the deeply-divided assembly.

Pleven was beaten on the first of eight scheduled confidence votes. The decisive vole came on a clause in the government's bud- get bill giving it power to make economies in the railroads to stop the 1952 deficit exceeding last year's.

Without these economics the government estimated the deficit would rise by a quarter to S280.- 000.000.

Pleven's coalition. formed Aug. 11. 1951, was France's 15th gov- ernment slnce the war.

Yields Huge

(Associated Press correspond- ents at five strategic points in Southeast Asia teamed to produce the following survey. first of its

kind, into the Red Chinese over- seas extortion racket. By Fred Ilampaon I-KONG KONG, Jan. '1 -(AP)-

The Chinese communist. extortion racket, leveled at millions of Chin- ese living overseas, is still yielding millions of dollars. despite its world-wide exposure.

Chinese merchants and trades- men scattered in , ,. i com- munlties throughout Southeast Asia probably are the chief finan- cial victims, an Associated Press survey indicated today.

The Reds force Chinese living at home to write relatives abroad for money under threat of dispos- session of their property and even death for the writer if payments aren't made.

Overseas Chinese call it "extor- tion". The Reds call-it "patriotic contributions" to the motherland.

(loos Through Hang Kong

Most of the money goes through Hong Kong on its way to Red China's coffers-hungry for for- eign exchange. There are no limit- ations on remittances into China from this British crown colony. Many countries prohibit sending money directly to China. but there is no such ban on funds sent to Hong Kong.

Associated Press comllsvondsnts have questioned Chinese through- out.SoutheaIt Asia. Most of them

TO SOUTH AFRICA

Trip Will-ll-e Made Aboard H.M.S. Vanguard

LONDON. Jan. 7 - (AP) - The King will cruise to South Africa. this spring, Buckingham Palace announced today. The visit is de- signed to improve his health. but it also may be intended to cultiv- sic closer relations with South Af- zica.

The palace said Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret will accom- pany the King on the trip in March and April. The exact date the cruise will begin and the itin- erary still are indefinite.

The royal family will travel aboard the 42 500-ton battleship Vanguard which took them to South Africa in 1947.

Prime Minister Daniel Malan will be host to the royal party at his country home in Southern Na-tal.

Vishinsky Says Truce Talks Are Deadlocked; Suggests U.N. Meeting

PARIS. Jan. 7 - (OP) -- Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky today told the United Nations that military truce talks in Korea are deadlocked and urged a special top-level meeting of the Security Council to help bring peace.

Britain and the United States qu:ckly rejected the suggestion as '1 move which would mean delay and complications for the military (lLSCllSSl0115.

Instead, the U.S.. Britain. France and Brazil submitted, an amend- ment to the Soviet proposal. It de- letes the reference to Korea and urges in its place a special Secur- ity Council meeting to ease world tensions when the time and sit- uation is right for such a meet- mg.

Vlshinsky's description of the Panmunjom talks as deadlock- ed raised fears here that Kor- ean peace is not as close as had been expected. There was speculation of possible renew- ed stiff fighting in Korea. Vishinsky. however, denied that

the council meeting he suggested would hinder military talks. I-is said they would be aimed at aiding in solving the Korean problem. U.S. delegate Benjamin Cohen and Britain's Minister of State. selwyn Lloyd, rejected the idea. Cullen said Vishinsky's proposal was an attempt to "confuse, im- pair and delay" negotiations in the field, and "U.N. soldiers are not dying in Korea to return the fate of that country to the Soviet

teto" (in the Security Council).

Came As Surprise

Selection of South Africa-some- what: rcstive member of the Brit- ish Commonwealth-as the royal destination came as a surprise.

Previously there had been pub- lished speculation in London that the cruise would belcarried out in the Caribbean with a few shore excursions.

The crown is the unifying prin- ciple in the British Commonwealth system. Some sentiment to separ- ate South Africa from the crown exists in the troubled union.

South Africa's segregation polic- ies also have involved the union in argument with India. another member of the Commonwealth.

Doctors Suggest Cruise

The King's physicians suggested the cruise in hope that sunshine and sea air would speed his recov- cry from the dangerous operation he underwent in September for re- moval of .311 or part of a. lung. . --

The Monarch is still far from well. His subjects at home and abroad noted with concern how weak his voice sounded in his re- corded Christmas broadcast.

Princess Elizabeth and her hus- band, the Duke of Edinburgh. will be touring Australia and New Zea- lsnd at the same time.

Pioneeretl Telephone in The Maritime:

HAL-IFAX. Jan. 7 -(CP) -John A. MacKinnon. 67. telephone pioneer in Prince Edward Is- land and Nova Scotia. died at his home here yesterday.

Retired plant general manager of Maritime Telegraph and Tele- phone Company, he served the company for nearly 45 years in many parts of-the eastern prov- inces.

Among survivors daughters: Jean. wife of Dave Mclntosh. Canadian Press news editor at Vancouver; and Mona. married in Calgary. Funeral will