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Relaxing OF ‘Export: Controls On Lumber Announced

Death Of Former - Fire Department Chief T. Raniahan

Move Reficcts Satisfactory Supply Situation

OTTAWA, Aug. 29 -— (CP) _. Ifstioi-t controls on lumber, rigid- 1t maintained since i940 because vi tiic housing and building shori- iige, will be relaxed starting Sept. 6. the Trade Department announ. red today.

Lumber products which form. erly could be shipped out of the country only on a quota basis will be able to leave'Canada in any quantity on application for a Trade Department permit.

The permit idea, said the De- parlmcnt, is to guard against the possibility that the products may at some time be needed to meet Canadian requirements.

The Department said removal of export quotas on lumber re- flects the satisfactory supply situa. tinn existing today. lt is the first mayor change in lumber export policy since the end of the second world war.

The relaxation move applies to most lumber items including iiooring, miilwork, window sash and doors. Notice of relaxation has been mailed from Regional Timber Control offices to Can- ada's 8.000 lumber companies.

n19 Dwartment said it had re- ceived splendid co-operation from the industry while the con- trols were applied.

"We are assured that this co- operation will continue and that the industry will keep on supply- ing all Canadian requirements for housing and other purposes."

Coming Events Phttfihgtifdi: gliirrsiotttztowc:

"Dance Orwell l-iali. Friday, 5cm. 2nd, Millviaw Orchestra.

“Dance Ions East School Tues- day, Aug. 30.

"Reserve August 31st for Cami. val and Chicken Supper gt got-gen,

"union Dance. Belfast Hall, Wednesday. 31st August.

"Barri Dance at. Tom Curranh. Si. Theresa's. Wednesday, August 31st.

"Dance every Friday night at the Gordon Lodge. Good music. Dancing from 9 tlil 1.

n "Show at Bredalbene tonight, Son of Rusty" with "Ted Donald- son . Dance after show.

"Dance, Cori-an Ban Hall Wed- Mldfly. Aug. list. Melody Boys Orchestra.

"Regular Dance at Burlington Bill. Tuesday. August 30th. Hickey Bros. Orchestra.

"Given Air Dance in Kinrosa on Tim-aisle)’. August 30th. Refresh- “lPIl .

"Chicken Supper. Tracadie Rail. iloéiday, September 5th. Dance l‘.

"Dance Friday, Sept. l. at Ellis BroenpCentrai Royalty. Music by Don Messer and his islanders.

"Rlsular lbsnos at the "Sea BMW". Victoria. each Wednes- dfly- Dancing i! till 1.

"Bum. roint so Indus laaeoi. Wednesday. August 81st. his oi Lunches. loo Cream. Drinks.

"Don't miss the open air dance It iiunterRiver Rink every Tues- day night. Dancing ii-nni a till 12.30. Canteen service.

Grower t 3W5. J. G. Maclnod. Hamp-

"Oar oi cafeteria lie; $0 lrrive. Protein 16%. a Fibre 1%. Ill e.

"Don't mlsa open air dance Cornwall Rink grounds. Tuesday. If not dno, Wednesday.

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- August Nth. in Garth Hooper iioid. come and brig the furni II not fine. Wedmsday. Allllllt 31st.

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Troops. Air Power Massed Against Rebels

LA PAZ. Aug. 29 - (AP) Bolivian air force bombers today attacked rebel airfield installa- tions of nationalist revolutionaries defying a surrender-or-die ulti- matum.

The bombers made their sec- ond raid in 24 hours at Cochamba and their first at Santa Cruz.

Two thousand commandos un- der Geri. Ovidio Quiroga encir- cled Cochamba, a city of 90,000, in readiness to attack if the re- bels still refused tn surrender af- ter the second bombing.

Results of the new raids were not made known immediately. The air force dropped 140 bombs yesterday and reported burning one rebel plane on the ground.

Other revolutionaries were re- ported in control of the centre of the city of Potosi.

Casualties over the country are believed to be numerous but thus far the governmet has announ- ced only the dcat of a National policeman.

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QUEBEC. Aug. 29 -—(CP) .4- ‘Porest and bush fires along the St. Lawrence South Shore during the last two weeks have caused damages estimated at 3.000.000 a. provincial government forestry engineer said today.

The statement was made by

Roch Delisle. Quebec forestry en- gineer. Estimate of losses through fire did not include damage to soil, loss of work hours and tho amount of money spent to fight the bush fires. '

Mr. Delisle estimated damage to standing timber at $1.h00,000 while damage to private’ property stood at approximately 5500.000.

Mr. Delisleh report on the forest fire situation of the past two weeks on the st. Lawrence South Shore extended from Vcrcheres County. about 30 miles north of Montreal. to Laurier station in Lot- biniere County about 40 miles south oi Quebec.

~Mr. Delisle said fires had raged over a distance of 115 miles. 7A) miles in depth on each side o! the Sir Wilfred Laurier Boulevard. main south shore highway between. Montreal and Quebec.

Army Suturing lose

OTTAWA. Aug. '29 - (CP) — Guns henceforth will boon-i at St. John's, Nfld.. whenever artillery salutes are fired at army saluting bases to mark ceremonial - occas- ions or special anniversaries.

The city becomes the army's 12th such base. It rates a saluting base. defence authorities said. because it now is a provincial capital.

Salutes are fired at provincial capitals. at Ottawa and Vancouv- er. to mark anniversaries or apa- cial occasions set by proclamation.

Soviets Determined To Liquidate Tito

BERLIN. Aug. 29 -_tA1=) _ Western intelligence agents rc- ceived reports today that the Sov- iet Government is resolved to use any measure short of war to liquidate Marshal Tito of Yugo- slavla.

The reports. originating with Germans friendly with Russian of- ficials in eastern Germany. said an BilBmPli Will be made to dispose of the defiant Marshal within six months.

The information cast douibt on speculation that Russia may lead her satellites in a direct attack on Yugoslavia. A Cominform-inspired revolt within Yugoslavia or a. plot to assassinate the Yugoslav leader were described as the more likely methods. ‘

The roportd coincided with an aninnuni-mient at Sofia. that the economic council of mutual assist- ance, a group of seven east Ehimp-

ean countries organized last Jan-i uary to counter the Marshall Plan.

had taken "necessary decisions" at a. meeting in the Bulgarian capital.

The council includes Russia, Bul- garia. Albania. Hungary. Poland. Romania. and Czechoslovakia, all of which are engaged in a cam- paign of economic pressure against their former Cominform sister, Yugoslavia.

Belgrade dispatches. meanwhile. said Yugoslavs show no outward signs o! ivnrry over the possibility of a shooting war.

The Balkan cold war of nerves apparently has Yugoslavia. less up- set than most. of the rest of the world. Possibly this is because the Yugoslav pres ‘has not printed most of the rumors circulating else- whore.

Yugoslav spokesmen either den- led or rtlreated as “only rumors" ro-

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TRUMAN PLEDGES U.S. AID IN BRITISH CRISIS

The death occurred at his home.

~59 Queen Street. yesterday oi one

of Chsrlottetowrfs best known citi- zens in the person of Mr, Thomas Ranahan, retired Chief of the Fire Department. i-ie had been ill only a short time.

The late Chief Ranahan was born in Burr, County Cork. Ireland. BB years ago and caane to this country when a young boy. He was a machinist by trade and was for many years in the employ of Bnroe Stewart and Company Ltd.. until his retirement in 1930.

_The deceased entered the Char- loifiietoivri-vl-‘ire Department in the

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Mr. A. B. Cosh Honoured

Pipes-were skirling at “Sandy's" last night and Auld Scotland was praised in song and dance at the testimonial dinner given in hon- our of Mr. Allen B." Cosh. retir- ing Chief Assessor, Income Tax Division, Department of National Revenue, by the members of the Dominion income Tax. Charlotte- town Staff Association. The pre- sident. Mr. Victor L. Shaw, pre- sided.

Some hundred members of the staff and err-members and their ladies and friends joined in pre- senting Mr. Cosh with a hand- some brown Gladstone bag bear» ing his initials in gold lettering. The presentation was made by Mr. Orion Johnston. Mrs. Cosh was presented with a bouquet of red roses by Miss Lillian Kays.

Mr. Reg. W. MacLean will fol- low Mr. Cosh as Chief Assessor at the Charlottetown office.

Prior to the presentation Mr. Shaw welcomed the company to the festivities and the address was read by Mr. J. W. Dixon, di- rector of the Island Income Tax Division. A certificate. in ac- knowlcdgeinent of thirty years meritorious service in the De- partment was read by Mr. Show on behalf of the l-ion. Dr. J. J‘. McCann. Minister of National

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"A Meeting of shareholders and others interested of P. It. I. Plow- ing Match and Agricultural Farm Association. will be held in hail.

flridgetown. Monday. September 5th. at 0 P. M. Albert Acorn, Oardllln. R.- R. l.

"Public meeting at Afton l-laii. Friday, Sept. 2 at 8.30 p.m. Hear W. R. Shaw who will speak on general marketing problems and other speakers from tho Cantrai

armers Co-operative Association

td. of Charlottetown who will in- form the meeting of their plans to establish a co-operative in Char- lottetown. '

"Choice American Number Two Yellow Corn for November ship- mans is t attractive in price. (has thou d bushels to o car. Also assorted oars of whole and ballad graim and bulk oats. barley and wheat, but no bran. shorts oi‘ niiddlinga int assorted oars with The Atiaa Grain

Expect 1949 Tourist Trade To Break All Records

OTTAWA, Aug‘. I0 —(OP) - Osnadirs i949 tourist trade is ex- pected toLbreak ail records. n. Leo Doian, director of the Canadian ‘rravel Bureau. said todayfi -

He made the ictfon as the Bureau oi 8t cs carna out with revised figures showing Canada did an unprecedented tourist busi- ness isst year.

Month by month records are be- ing shattered. the government dir- actor ism in an interview. niiiur of United States travellers is oon- tiriuing to swell.

On a rough bapls. said Mr. Doian. Oensda should be able to get about $300,000,000 in A “' dollars through tourist trade this year.

ma: would be about 10 pea- csnt P!

more than the industry 0d iaat your when it listed its fingers and counted 0270000000 in re- cai from U. . tourist oustomuu. e gain last year was 12 par cent-d iittis higher that the sn- p0ct0d no increase-over the receipts of flfl.000.000. -

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Takes Dewdrh Plunge From Basilica Dome

VATICAN CITY, Aug. 29 - (AP) — A fashionably dressed young man hurtlcd 170 feet to his death today from the walkway

around thc inner dome of St. Peter's Basilica. He landed near tho gold-en-

crusted hlgh altar before praying pilgrims. '

A Vatican informant said the man was identified from papers as Luigi Calafati, 2B, of Rome.

The Basilica was reconsecrated tonight behind closed doors some four hours after the death leap. in keeping with custom involving desecration of holy places.

Msgr. Leone Gromicr. canon 0f the Altar of St. Peter's. perform- ed the ceremony of liturgical re- conciliation.

St. Peter's will be reopened to the faithful tomorrow.

A dcspondent Italian lawyer committed suicide in a leap from the inner dome last Nov. 17.

“0verwhelmed" By Reception

ST. JOHN'S. Nfld.. Aug. 3 - tiCPl-The Governor-General takes his tree-planting seriously.

Marking the official visit to Cari- aria's new province. Viscount Alex- andcr planted a beech free today in Bowl-trig Park. this capital's recreational centre. .

The Governor-General wasn't sat- is led to drop the formal ahoveiiut o earth. He discarded his coat. vigorously replaced the dirt Mound the roots and for good measure stamped it in place.

Viscount and Visoountam Abs- andsr were welcomed officially on the steps of the House of Asasnialy

‘Premier Joseph Smailwood.

e Governor-General seidho was "overwhelmed" by his reception in Newfoundlan‘.

After meeting 0 provincial civic loaders in Bannemisn beside the Legislative Building, the vice-regal party drove through filg-‘bedeoked streets splllnd by evegkgreen arenas to loosing

parts visited the Merchant Seamed: Iliapihi and the joint services building when Newfoundland recruits are taking basic tratui

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Premier Jones Replies To Federation Charges ‘* Re Teachers’ '

"If the Ottawa’ officials of the Canadian Teachers’ Federation have any complaint as to the pre- sent scole of teachers salaries in this Province, they should address it to the school trustees and not to this Government which is pay- ing more, in proportionio overall provincial expenditure on educa- tion, than any other Provincial Government in Canada." declared Premier J. Walter Jones in an in- torview yesterday. ‘

The Premier was commenting on a Canadian Press despatch, pub- lished in today's. issue. in which he was accused of "making light" of ‘ ‘r s‘ problems in this Prov- ince. He denied this charge em- phatically.

"I feel pretty comfortable with regard to what we have done for education in this Province," Pre- mier Jones said. The present sal- ary increase was Worked out with the Federation prior to the Domin- ion - Provincial Conference at Ottawa and it was on this basis that the financial agreement was negotiated in 1947, for n five years period. "Until we get a new deal from Ottawa we cannot make a further increase in teachers‘ sal- aries." he declared.

The Premier said he did not

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New Iineasiness Follows In Wake

0f Red Thrust t. .-._.l wsgggqir» .~ CANTON, Aug. 29-—(AP)—— A

Communist thrust 170 miles north of Canton sent new uneasiness through this Chinese Nationalist capital today.

The national defence ministry said the Reds had reached the outskirts of Jucheng,‘ 40 miles east of the Canton railway and 45 miles north of Kukong, key point on the railway.

The Reds’ nearest approach to Canton was 140 miles northeast. in the vicinity of Kiennun. The threat to Kukong and the railway could

‘cut off the capital's contact with

the Nationalist Hengyang. 265 miles Canton.

North of Hengyang. the Com- munists continued their unexplain- ed withdrawals. The defence min- lstry reported the Red 40th army. formerly at Changsha, 100 miles north, had pulled back 50 miles northwest towards Yiyang, with the Nationalists at their heels. The Red 39th army, for the second time in a week, had abandoned Anhwa, 90 miles west of Changsha.

To loin Ranks 0f Daily Papers

MONCTON. N.B.. Aug. 29 — (OFF-successively published as a woekly- semi-weekly and tri-weekiy in its d1 year career iJEvangeiine. French language newspaper Pill)- lished in Moncton. will 10in the ranks of New Brunswick dailies next month.

Editorial officials said tonight that the transition from the pres- ent. tri-weekly status would take place on Sop. 12. Additional equip- ment and staff have been secured. it was stated Ultvangeiino was first published 6i years ago ln wgytmouth, NZS. The pubiising of- fice was moved to Moncton st the turn of the century. A art-weekly publishing schedule has been maintained for the past 11 months. The , iication servos the Acadian population of the Maritime Prov- Incas.

full Report is Sought 0n Riot _

NEW YORK. Aug. I0 — (AP —Ciovernor Thomas Dewey call- ed today for a iuii report on the Paul Robeson concert riot.

The Governor's request went to Westcherter County officials af- ter backers of Robeson. Negro singer and left-wing publicist. charged that police failed to pre- vent the Paekskiii, N.Y.. disorder Saturday night.

The _Civil Rights Congress, meanwhile. said a delegation may be named at a rally tomorrow night to take a further protest to President Truman.

The Congress. listed by the Un- ited States Justice Department as subversive. was a sponsor of

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) OTTAWA, Aug. 29—(CP)-Pi-em. icr J. Walter Jones of Prince Ed- ward Island has provoked a fresh protest from the Canadian Teach- ers Federation by accusing them 0f "hflwling" for more even while their demands were being met.

Cflrreiilondcnce between Premier Jones, who is also Minister of Ed- ucation, and George G. Crockery. Secretary-Treasurer of the Feder- ation was made public today,

It began Aug. 12 when the Fed- eration Conference in Ottawa gem a letter to Mr. Jones protesting reports of a speech in which he W85 alleged to have made light of teachers’ problems.

Mr. Jones was reported to have said teachers work only five hours l! day. 100 days ii year and should supplement their earnings by other work.

Premier Jones replied briefly Aug. 19 and said his speech had been "reported incorrectly."

HQWEVH". he added, demands

made by teachers and embodied in a submission to the Dominion- Provincial Conference in 1945 had been fully implemented, and more. by 1947. “Immediately afterward the Fed- eration begen howling for more Blilwllgh it was a five year plan and proposed by themselves." he wrote.

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To this the Federation. Aug. N. retorted that the speech reports 0n which they based their protest were from "our Vice-President and other responsible officers who wdere in your audience." bud edd- e : .

"We Yere surprised that you Wfluld surges: that the demands made hy the teachers. . . . in 1945. even if fully implemented, would meet to any reasonable degree the demands brought about by condi- tions in 1949." The teachers are asking for an increase in the maximum salary to $1.200 for second-class and $1.750 for first-class.

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Hon. Hugues Lupolnfu New Solicitor-General

lion. Edouard Biniret Ia Postmaster-General -

Important cabinet resignations that took place lust: week have caused many new changes in Fed- eral Government. Ernest Bertrand. who quit as Postmaster-General to become u Judge of the Court of‘ ' King's" Bench, Montreal, was suc- ceeded by one of the brightest of the younger M.P.’s, Edouard Bin- fret, a son of the Chief Justice of Canada. Joseph Jean left the Soli- eitor-Generafs post to become a Judge of the ‘Superior Court, Montreal, and is succeeded by Hugues Lapolnte, son of Canada's former Minister of Justice, the late Rt. Hon. Ernest Lispointe.

British Flagship To Visit Montreal

MONTREAL, Aug. Z9 (GP) — H.M.S. Glasgow. flagsha of the Royal Navy's American and West Indies squadron. will arrive here next Monday for a week-long visit to Montreal.

Top naval and army officials here will tum _out to welcome the 0.l00-ton heavy cruiser when she sails up the St. Lawrence River from Quebec where she docked last Friday.

Vice-Admiral RV. Symorids-Tay- lor. 0.13.. DEC. will be aboard the Glasgow. ii-ei- skipper is Capt. c.i... Firth, DB.0., who also is chief of staff to Vice-Admiral Symonds- Taylor.

A iii-man guard of honor and full brass band from H.M.O.S. Donnncons. Montreal's naval shore establishment, will greet the Brit- iah visitors.

Fate Of Many In Flood Area Still Unknown

By ANTHONY WBITLOCK (Canadian Press C...- Jndent) -SYDN.EY, Australia, Aug. M - (GP) — The official toll in New South Wales’ disastrous flood stands today atseven dead and

two missing, but the fate of many -

small farmers in the washed-out river flats may not. be known for days.

The town of Kempsey, hit by a raging, 25-foot wall of water, was the centre of a ZOO-square mile area submerged by the rompaging| floods. |

As the waters reccdedhrcscuers, in boats reported huge stock lossesJ

“On rescue patrol." one man said. "I saw uncountable numbers of dead dairy and beef cattle be- ing swept downstream. caught up in fences or lying awa-sh on the flooded verandahs of homesteads where they had taken refuge."

Further inland. other floods drowned more than 10.000 sheep. washed out hundreds of acres of wheat. tore away miids of fencing.

In all. thousands nf persons have been rendered homeless. and

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