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WORK TO REPAIR PROVINCE-WIDE MHAVOC

Maior Eimands OI Rail Unions lMei: By Arbii:rai:orlWill liequlraiays T0 Restore Full Service

New Wage Increase Of 3 Cents Granted; 5-Day Week To Begin In June

By JOHN LeBLANC o'I'rAWA, Dec. 10 - (CP) Canadian rail workers wrested an- other 513,000,000-a-year wage in- grease from the railroads today.

Laying down binding contract terms under the legislation that ended last August's paralyzing rail ,sll'lli0. Mr. Justice R.L. Keflock gave most of the 124,000 strikers:

1. A further thr,ee-cents-air hour increase on tcp of a four- cent increase they got lzict Sept.

1. It is retroactive to that date.

2. The five-day. 40-hour week. without loss of pay from the pre- sent 48 hours. effective next June 1 - three months ahead of the date the railways had of- fered to put it in.

But the Supreme Court of Can- ada Justice, acting as final arbitra- tor in the dispute. refused the short -week and the new three-cent Increase to 2.700 hotel and water transport employees of the rail- days.

He restricted the smaller group

Coming Events

"Mall vour Films to Garnhun-i Photo Studio. Charlottetown.

"Christmas Concert and Dance. Green Bay School, December 20th.

"Christmas Concert. Victoria, llall, December 22nd.

"Kingston Schodl Concert, 1)cc- eniber 20th.

"stanchel School Concert. Dec- ember 20th.

"St. Theresa's School Concert. Thursday. December 21st.

"Christmas Concert. Hall. December 21st.

Mt. Albion

"New Haven School, Christmas Concert tonight.

"Christmas Conceri. Flat River Hall, Thursday. December 21st.

"Christmas concert. Pownai Hall. Decr.-niber 20. 8 pm.

"Bonshaw School Concert. Fri- day, December 22nd.

"Arzyle Shore School Concert. Thursday. December 21st. "Christmas Concert. Orwell

Cove llall. December 22nd.

”Dunstafi'nB.ge School Concert, Marsh-field Hall. Thursday. Decem- ber 21st at 8:15 PM.

"Hog producers: Look i.lli'0i.ii'.'il today's Coming Events for Swift's live ads.

"Miliview Christmas concert. Dcccmber nod. Curtain 8:15.

"Will not be buying timothy seed after December 20:11. Me- Gingan dc Boyle.

"Cleaning and Buying Timothy seed up until December 22nd. John Leard. Crapaud.

"Christmas Concert and Dance, Kelly's Cross Hall. Thursday, Dec- ember lust. Curtain 3.30.

"Christmas Concert and Dance, Brookvale school, Friday. Decem- ber zznd.

"Reserve December 20th for Mayfleld Christmas Concert. Sale of candy. If not line. following mihi.

"Loading hogs at Kenllngion Ind Summerslde all day today. Wednesday, December 20th. For particulars contact Oliver Camp- bell. Swift Canadian Co. Limited.

"Loadiniz hols all Wednesday, December iiunicr River. For "”"lH('l Gordon Mnthcson. Canadian Co. Limited.

day today. 20th. at particulars Swifly

"Loading hogs at Albany all 'l-13' today, Wednesday. December

th. For particulars contact .1. G90I'8e MacKay. Albany. Swift Canadian Co. Limited.

"Loading hogs at Charlotte- town all day, today, Wedncsdriy "pd Thursday morning until 11.00 ;ll'l10Ck. Swift Canadian Co. Lim-

e .

"Santa's postponed visit to Mo- ”" at 12.30 to 1.30-pm. and to 5"urla 2.30 until 4.00 on Friday afternoon. Watch for his arrival "1 Paul's Sound Car.

1 "Loading hogs Thursday morn- l.'l'l until noon at: Wlitahlre.

llnter River. Emerald. Klnkora Albany. Contact your local miner. Swift Canadian Co. Lim-

..L.......?..mL...D. to the statutory four-cent increase which all the strikers EM at who end of the walkout. Tllcy get this in a one-ycar contract dating from last Sept. 1. The other employees. who also wanted one-year contracts are bound by the arbitrator to mo. year agreements from that date.

All are in the non-opcrniiii: group .- those who do not act-.i:ill,v run the trains.

Separate Negotiations

The running trades are in sep- aruic negotiations for uage iii- crcascs. These have been suspended during the Kellock lnquii',v, but they are to be resumed sliortfy. and the arbitrator observed today it was expected liis fiiidiiizs woulrl have a bearing on them.

Three men named as a UN As- sembly committee to seek a. truce in the Korean fighting are. from left: Canada's Forc'1:zn Affairs

On the railways' estimates. the workers' gains will cost soniethiiig over s1oo.oo0.ooo a year. They cs- timato the 40-hour week :1: co:-ting 380,000,000: the first four-cent in- crease another 511000.000. and thel final three-cent award abnut V3,-'. 000.000. l

However. the i7 unions engaged in the l 1-2-year dispuie have challenged ihese figures as exag- geraicd. The arbitrator made no estimate.

Union leaders today hailed the Keliock findingzs as a "Slt'.)5i1lf1- iial vindication" of their case, , though they expressed regret that the hotel-water employees had not been included in the main sotllemcnl.

Frank ll. Hall of Montreal. ne-

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NORIVAY PLANN . G

OSLO - ICP) - Provisions are being made to evacuate about 45 per cent of the population in lar- ger Norwegian cities in any future war. Classes in be evacuated are mothers with infants, children up to 14. some teachers, and the sick: and agcri.

ggjm... "Irislilown school concert post- poned to Dec. 22nd.

"Cliell.on's Christmas Conccrlrl December 20th. '

"Warren Grove Clirisinias Con- ceri, North River Hall. Friday” December 22nd.

"Rennlels Road School Con- cert, Wednesday. December 20th.

"Reserve December '.20th for Anglo Rustico Christmas Concert.

"South Milton Christmas Con- cert, Dec. 21st.

' "Klnitora Chiristmas Concert. Thursday. December 21st at 8 PM.

North

"Christmas Concert. Becleque. December 20th.

"Come to SOP Loni Riv-or school concert -VVedncsi;ll1.V "lgj" at 8 sharp. Admission 39 and -.00.

"Regular Dance in Burliigton Dance Hall tonight (Wednesday) Door prlae. Good music.

"Wheatiey River Christmas Concert in Wheatiey River Hail. Wednesday. December 20th.

"Re-niember Marshiield Christ- ma, concert, Wednesday. Dcceni- ber 20th.

"Collecting Hoizs for Swift Canadian Co. Contact K. MEC- Donald. Brookneld.

eoxjlhneld United Sunday School Concert. Wednosda.V- Deb

ember mm, m Winsioe Station Hail. "Pnrkdnlo school Christmas

concert, junior concert. December 20th: senior. December 21st.

"Reserve December 20th for Sprlngfinlrl Christmas Concert- Startlng at ii P. M. Sale of candy-

"Lucky and his Eastern Riiytlim Boys. Samnyalde Ballroom tolfinht

"Christmas Concert in Clinton Hail. December 20th.

"Collecting Hogs by truck for Canada Packers every Thursday beginning November 16 Phone 2'1- 121 Hunter River Exchange. D. L Macboweii.

"Will be loading hogs at tho following points each Thursday. Elmer Wlgmore. Bradalbone. unto 11.30 A. M. Borden Bagnall. Hunter River. until noon. Bummerslde until 1.30 P. M and Konstngion until 3 P. M. MocEwen and Cums:

"We will not be receiving any livestock at. our pens, Railway Wharf after 11 o'cock Thursday

ornlng. December 21st. un'tli

esday. December 26th. swift

Canadian Company Limited.

Ii. ii.mAsse-miiiy Peace Committee

Mlnlsier Lester Pearson. Assembly

President Nasrollcih Entezam of. Irflll. ar.':i Sir Beiiegai Rau oil India. '1'hcy' were named after the!

Potato C

Prices Announced

Winnipeg Fur Prices Strengthen

WINNIPEG. Dec. 19 -(CF; - lliern bidding by New York. Chi- cago and Montreal buyers yester- day boosted prices over early De- cember fur marks as s55o,co3 worth of mink, squirrel and ermine polls were offered. Fine northern wild mink reached a top of 347.50 with standard ranch mink hitting a 527.50 peak.

Western giant ermine sold as hlgli as 54.65 with shortails most in demand.

Squirrel demand was excellent.

prices practically double last son?! that date, and mm m,.th,,r Ordered ljected that demand and ii

son's opening, with better quality Alberta selling from 86 to 00 cents a pell. Manitoba ranged 76-84 and Ontario 74-T8 cents. .

Sees Danger Of War Within Week

CONCORD, N. H.. Dec. 19 - (AP)-A Russian attack, touching off a world war within a week. fnow has become a probability," in the opinion of ,United States Rear Admiral Miles R. Browning.

Browning is New Hampshire's civil defence director and during the Second World War served as chief of staff to Admiral William F. Halsey. "

He invited reporters to a confer- ence yesterday afternoon and opened it by stating "there is no occasion for and no sense in panic."

Then he said "the people of the llr.-itcd States must be alerted to the fact that the peril in which we stand today will become immeas-

urably more imminent and threatening by the end of this week."

"If Christmas comes and goes," he said. "men we can maybe get through uiiill next September" without a soviet advance.

Eisenhower Named To Command In Europe

ily Carter L. Davidson

BRUSSELS, Belgium. Dcc. ism (AP) - The Atlantic-Pact Colin- liIlCS,l0Clil,V unanimously approved creation of an international army W kefifi Peace in Europe by strength. and made Gen. Dwight D. Eiscnhmvcr the commander.

The 12 Pact ministers agreed on a plan in intcgraic West German troops in the force of 1,000,000 men which they expect to have ready by the end of 1953.

Canada is represented at the talks by Defence Minister Brooke Ciaxton.

They also decided to set up an international defence production board to gear the munitions in- dustrics of the 12 nations includ- ing Canada into a co-ordinated

machine. American sources said this agency, too. probably will be

headed by an American. William L. Bali. Sr.. 65, of Philadelphia. Bait was deputy director of the U. S. War Procluctlon Board dur- ing the Second world War. Now he is chief of the Economic Co- operation Adminisia-ation'a mission to Britain. a post he will retain. Truman announced Eisenhower's appointment loday and likened the position to that which Gen. Doug- lu MacArthur hold; in the For

HARTLAND. NB.. Dec. 19-(CPI.- The New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island Potato Marketing Boards yesterday announced the establisliment of minimum prices at which potatoes may be purclinseci from the producers in each of the two Provinces.

H. L. Day. manager of the New Brunswick Potato Markekting Board. said that at the joint meeting held in Moncon last week-end it was unanimously agreed by the two boards that joint action should be taken. It was decided to establish minimum prices,,,,, announced to all licensees of he boards yes- terday axid to be effective from midnight tonight.

The board order in New Brunswick .provldes that after midnight on

the minimum prices at which pot- atoes may be bought. from produc- ers shall be 51.25 per 165 pounds of Irish Cobbler or Sebago certified seed potatoes and 31.11 per 165 pounds of Katalidln, Green Mount- ain or other varieties of certified seed potatoes.

These prices are for bulk graded stock. F. O. 8., shipping points

The table stock price was estab- lished at 31 per 165 pounds of bulk graded potatoes. F. O B. New Brunswick shipping points, or 85 cents per 165 pounds at the grader.

The order issued today also pro- vldcs that on and after midnight Tuesday. no dealer or other per- son shall sell or market potatoes on consignment or ship potatoes withlii or from New Brunswick for salr on consignment.

The Prince Edward Island Board order provides that the minimum price of Irish Cobbler or Sebogo certified seed potatoes shall be 45 ,cenis per bushel; Kntahdln and 'Grcen Mountain certified seed 4-0 cents per bushel and the table stock 45 cents per '15 pounds. All of these prices must he paid and) quoted to producers in respect to; bulk graded slack delivered by tlic' producer at P. E. 1'. shipping polnts.l

The Island board has also issued an order prohibiting the consign- ln,r:, of potatoes with or from the Province.

New Brunswick. ed

assembly voted 52 to S to approve an Asian-Arab plan for a cease- fire.

Lillie H... For Cease Fire In ,Korea Fighting

l By Francis W. Carpcnir-r I LAKE SUCCESS. N. Y.. Dec.

-(AP)-Communist Cliuia's Wu gllsiu-Cliuan lvlastcrl United Nat- iions cease-fire efforts today as 1”tricka:;v and a plot” in fai'nwell l.sialFf1l0l1l; before lonvlng the U N.

for home. But he wished the Am- Icrlcan people a "Merry Christmas

and a Happy New Year" with a . rare smilo.

i "We believe tlial only by striviii: ilfnr the cessation cf the u':'.r may .wc obtain 8' real ccasr--fire.-." Wu isald iri"his statement .-it Ichr-wild i Airport.

l The Chinese Criiiiiiiiinkls are, insisting on their own terms; if) cnd lthe fighting but the U. N. has re-, as set up ;n three-man committee to try .work out. a cease-lire agreement.

Little hope is held that this coni-

lmlttce will be successful. 1

A three-niziii U. N. comniitleea

,SB8klIlg to work out n cease-fire. will continue its efforts despite the two strong statements from Wu: 'and no word from Pciping. Gen. Wu was suiilliig as he arriv-3

at Idlweild Airport with his: delegation and 2.500 pounds ofj liaggage-American radios. bnoks.i electrical appliances and the likt-.' He paid 51,621.39 for excess bag- gage. handing airport officials two SL003 bills or the amount.

Sir Beiiegal N. Rail, Iiiciiiin mem-l bcr of tho cease-flrc commlttec.T talked with Wu this nmrnln: andf then met the other members for) nearly an hour. A U. N. Spokesmanl said no all”'?Cli from Pelping liadl been received and the committeel is considering what furtiicr steps' can be taken. I

The U. N Assembly and the pol- itical committee are in recess pend- ing result of the cease-flrc talks. e

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News In Brief ;

HANNOVER. (ici'niuliy. Der. ill-. (AP)-Dr. Kurt Scliuniaclicv. West German socialist icaclcr. clung to- rrlght to his opposition to Gcrninn; rcarmanient.

O'l'FAll'.l. Doc. 19 - (GIN - Trade Minister Howe Isaizl ioda.V lhc Govermiiciit. as ycl. has madcl no decision in follow iiic llnitcdt stains nclimi Fiilllllg lnr n volunl-5 nry price "fi'cczr-" on all goods andl 5f'1'Vl0CS. l

F.:i.si. Tho General is on indef- inite leave of absence as president of Columbia. University.

Truman also announced that ad- ditional American troops will be scnt to Europe as soon as possible to join the Eisenhower command. The expectation here was lhat at least five full U. S. divisions will be in Europe within ll ycar.

Eisenhower will come in Europe around Jan. 1 to take command of what. now is largely a paper army -the equivalent of about 10 di- visions in Germany and Austria. Allied intelligence sources said icccntly these divisions were faced by 33 Soviet divisions.

The 60-year-old five-star Gen- eral who directed the United Na- tions victory in 1945 from Supreme Headquarters. Allied Expedition- ary Force. will create another in- tcrnailonal staff at Supreme Head- quarters. Allied Powers ln Europe.

His new headquarters may be at Versailles. 10 miles southeast of Paris. where the peace treaty of the First World War was written and where he had his headquarters in the later phases of the Second World War.

In St. Louis. the General. an- nounced his chief of staff will be Lt.-Gen. Alfred M. Gruenihcr, U. S. army dcpuiy for plans and op eralions.

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ll'ITH CANADA'S DESTROYI-IRS i OFF KOREA, Dec. 19 - (CPD -' The Christmas malls have arriv.-d for Canad:i's three Korea destroy- ers, now in the midst of their long- cst sustalncd patrol since they came, under United Natlciis command flxcl months ago. y BRUSSELS. Bnicium. im. 19 .3 (AP: ... The Big 'l'lll'Nl Wesl.cr1i. Il'O1Tl2l1 Ministers cam final an-1 proval tonight. to replics crmdltioii-, ally accepting a Snvicl bid for a! new Big Four meeting. a highly-:, placed source said. 1

WASHINGTON. lloc. 10 -(AP) --The Truman adiniiiistration to- day called for a voluntary ”free1.e" on prices across the llnitcd States and warned that cvndcrs will face mandatory conlrois "at. the earliest

feasible lime." Officials said a1 wage fornrula-designed to re-: strain "excessive" pay boosts . .1

will be used "as soon as possible." inn squadron will be flown to the

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OSLO - (OP) -The Bible now

is being translated into Norwegian Chatham. N. 8.. is to be com- train in the U. K. during 1951 and pleied in two years. will provide a is expected to take part with the free Bible in Braille for Norway's R. A. F. in exercises on the con-

Brallle. The project,

blind population.

,Mnm-ton company's office and us-

lialmn stores dole-d out sleeping

Allies Continue To Hold Reds From Beachhead

TOKYO. Dec. 19-(AP)--United. Nations naval. air and ground? firepower today held off persisting Communist. attacks on the Allied liunrznnm port bcachhead in norllir-asl Korea.

Warships slammed at. 37 con- ceniraiions of Chinese and North KCFCIIII Comniunists swarming against the receding Allied shore- llm- Sll'Ill,

Booniinc out an answer to one

dislrcss Call. the naval big guns blaslcri and dispersed a coiumnl of allacking Reds with heavy

casualties I-iuimcd. ,v and marine airmen pound-l

oil -- iicri troop concentrations. wzlliin a 60-mile radius of llung-, lliiili. They claimed they killed 01”

wuunrlcd S00 Communists.

A Mini of 25.000 Rods were pressing against the Allied lines on the coastal plain and another W.".0fi'i or more were reported mvuriiiinrz flown from the mom-.. ltains. l

On the ground. 3rd Division; troops fizliliniz Out of frozen fox-. holes hurled back four Com-mun-p ist attacks Monday night and be- -forn rl:i,vliglii Tucs(i.1,v. l

A 10th Corps spokesman said, the Rods attacked in darkness 'Wli.l1 fanalical fury.

At no point on the dwindling (lPlPi'lCC' are around Hungnam port L--the last Allied position of any

consequence in North Korea-y -wcrc Ilia Reds able to break through.

in Scoul. the South Korean So-l cinl Affairs Ministry announced -piuns for removing all civilians from tho capital in safety zones.

This indicated that Allied fight- ing forces would make a stand for -tho Clipllni city.

The Wt-stern Korean front was' quiet. The -i,J.N.x Eighth Army was 'l1fJf'lVl"'dll'E(ll. Goiflact with the en- emy Tuesday.

Suspect -Clnwhdoncton Safecracking Held

MONTREAL, Dec. 19-- (CPi- - Frrincis Gziulreau. 29. wanted in Monclon. N. B.. on a charge of

s:ifccr.'i(-king was deiained today in Montreal police cells and will he turned over to Moncion auth- nriiins tomorrow.

Polirc said Gautrcau was arrest- orl ,vosicrday by Del-Sgis. Leo Murray und Buster Crighion wiio arrested him five years ago on a similar charge.

Police said Gautreau was one of three men who broke into a

varied with a large amount of

.iiig winter storm

money. One man was arrested in Halifax and another at Monclon.

Telephone and electric light

sections of the highway could not

and power linemen. somc of them”be opened west of Sunimerside as

working unlntcrruptedly for over thirty-six hours. redoublcd their efforts yesterday to restore coni- munlcalions throughout tho Island which worn completely disrupted M000-"l.V niziil. in the most aging storm here for ,vL-zirs.

File crews succc-cdcd in restor- ing phone and light connections to the o.-islcrn section-of the Province last evening. But west of Charlollcloivn the men were faced with numerous broken poles and tangled wiry and the length of lime in Wlli('ll com- niunicritlons xvouirl br- restored could not be estimated.

All 'iiO.'il'lS in the Province were,

blocked with C Dcpzirliiic-lit Snow plows main iil:iiway,:

snow. repor I ed Mr.

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tho roads were open. Tiin plows ciicountorcd ll1Plr heaviest snow around Norboro.

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CVessIels Lost

broken poles were down on the road making it impossible for the rplmvs lo pass through.

The storm hit lierivinst in thr- western suction of Hit! Provinr-.

r. D. hi. Gass. manager of the Island 'i':'lcpiinnr- Conipany. rc- portcrl than 8.1 poles wore down in the eight mile stretch b'- iwcen Kenslngtnn and Rand'- Cornor. 38 more poles between Road's Corner and Borden inw- down. ho rcporlcrl.

lVircs warp sir-awn alonz Hir- roads in llflill cast and west of Charlottetown. A niotorist from rcporlr-d he had considershlo difficully .n travcllin: to lllP City due in ill"

lifford Silcrrcn of flip Provinclalllg-n u-irn:

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Severe Storm In Maritimes

HALIFAX. Dec. 19 fCPi -- Thrce vessels were dashed ashore and abandoned off Canada's east

coast today as the tallcncl of a how!- out

blew itself over the Atlantic.

Two other ships battled their way to safety and a third edged away from the jagged rccks of! Cape Breton to await a tug.

On land. communications were slowly bcin: brought hack to nor- mal after being thrown into a jumb- led mass-of tangled wires when the storm first stnick the Mari- iimes last night.