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Attlee Announces

New Austerity Plan

Coming Events

"Masquerade Dance, Ions Hull. "luwlsy. October 25th.

"Masquersde Dance. Ions Hall, pnsYPIIIIBC until Friday night.

I "Farmer-s, Bedoque Flour Mills 1| now grinding wheat.

"Dance. K. of O. Hall, Courts, Thursday, October 27th.

"Now buying Timothy Seed, Reg- istcred. Cleaned or Uncleaned. Mc- Guigsn and Boyle.

"Dance in Fort Augustus Hall. October 26. Lunches. Sponsored by Junior Farmers.

"Masquerade dance Grandvlew hail Thursday, Oct. 27. Cliff Lilly's Orchestra, 1

"Fredericton W. M. S. chicken slipper in Fredericton Hall, Tues- day, October 25.

"The Annual Meeting Belfast Hall Co.. will be held in the Belfast mil on Saturday. October 29th, 1049,

"l-iot Chicken Supper. Tracadic Hail, Wednesday. November 16th. Dance after.

"Bazaar. High Tea. Bingo. etc, St. James Church, Georgetown, Wednesday, October 26ml

"Show. "It Started With Eve" at Bradalbane tonight at 8.30. Dance sttvr show.

"Auction Sale tomorrow. Oct. tfiih. Goo. Henry Robertson's. May- fieid. E. C. Bell. Auctioneer.

"Dance every Friday night at

the Gordon Lodge. Good music. Dancing from 9 till 1. "Masquerade Dnnce. Mliiview

Hail. Wednesday. October 26th. Prizes for best costumes. ' _

"Rollo Bay Hull, Bazaar, chick- en supper, bingo, etc, Nov. 7, 8, 9. Don't miss it

"Masquerade Dance in ‘rracadle Hail. Wednesday. October 26th. Orchestra Melody Boys.

"Annual meeting of Stanley Bridge Horse Racing Club, Tiles- <l.~i_\-, 0m. :25, 8.30 p.m. Stanley Bridge Hiill. ‘ I

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“Come to the chicken and ham supper in Ebenezer School, Friday evening. Oct. 28. First. serving H'- fi I'm. Admission 75c and 500cm?!-

“Amos P. Gallant. South Rus- iii-o buying chicken and fowl ovcry dny, \Viil pay straight lllilllPSif market price for well-lin- lSliNf chicken. Write 0i‘ 191°"?-

"To arrive another cor of r6111 good ironl. Full stock Pioneer feeds on liiind, concentrate dnlry rniion. we. R. L. Dlckieson, New Glos- gong

"Special masquerade dance at East Royalty Rink Tuesday. Oct- 25, Music by Eastern Rytlim Burs. Hall heated. Bus leaves bus stand 10 o'clock.

"Regular Dance. East Royalty Rink Hell. Tuesday. October 25th. Easiei-n Rhythm Boys. Dancing 9-30 :0 12a Ins lesving I. ll. - it 0.00.

"Fun galofe at MacDonald Bros. ‘theatre. Mt. Stewart, tonight. See Blondie and Dogwood in "Blondies in llie Dough" plus Stooge Omit-dy-

“Come to Hunter River Unlltd Church Chicken Supper and Baz- "r In Church bssement. Thursday- October 21th.

"Reserve Wednesday. October

By ALAN HARVEY

LONDON. Oct. u - (c?) - Prime Minister Attica made it “Black Monday" for Britons today by announcing s £%0,000,000' (5868000000) austerity plan which effects every government depsrt- ment snd reaches into all walks of life.

in cool. measured tones, Attlee said they may be Britain's "last opportunity" of restoring herself l! s great trading country.

A "standing room only" House of Commons listened undemonstra- tively as Attlec reeled of! his Chillilll cflllllflluvof economies. These included a 230,000,000 re- duction in defence expenditures and a sharp cut in imports from dollar countries, including Can- ada.

Attiee said the Government's move to tighten the purse strings leaves the “main structure" of socialism’: welfare state undis- turbed. But he announced that theflfree" health service is be- ing modified.

a Charge For Health Service.

From now on, everybody, ex- cept old-age pensioners, will have t0 Pfly up to one shilling for each prescription obtained under the Health Service. The saving to

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Farmer Wounds Nine Persons. Then Kills Himself

WATERFORD, Mich, Oct. 24- (AP)—A farmer went berserk here tonight and shot and wounded nine persons in two tnverns before killing himself.

Deputy Sheriff Donald O, Men- zies identified the mnn as Joe Runyon, 45, who lived-alone on o nearby farm.

The farmer came to the village and blazed away without warning with a Iii-gauge shotgun.

Nine persons were taken to a hospital in Pontiac.

Waterford is a village (pop. 450) six miles northwest of Pontiac. The sheriff's office and Pontiac police dispatched a large force of officers in cruisers to the village. First reports said the man shot up two taverns. '

Witnesses gave this account of

‘ the shooting:

Shortly efore 8:30 p.m. an it- inerant 45- ear-old farm hand ap- peared at Stan's Tavern. in the heart of Waterford. He shot down five customers as ha blasted through Hvindows.

While screams of the wounded roused the villager the man raced across the street to the Waterford Hotel.

Mounting to the wide veranda, he ran to the widows "of the ho- tel’; bar. Shaving the barrel of his gun through the glass he fired two shots in succession.

The man then turned the gun on himself and fired into his ab- domen. ’

A fleet of six ambulances rush-

illlllions In Axis Property Still Under Canadian Control

OTTAWA, Oct. 24—(Speciai) — Pending decision u to legel own- whip. property to the value of more then 100 million dollars form- erly owned by German and Axis nationals is still held under the control of the Canadian Secretary of State in his official capacity of custodian of enemy property,

This was reveale here today in "Ply to a question asked on the House of Commons order paper by W. Chester S. McLure, Pro- gressive Conservative member- for Queen's, i

Value of the property seized during World War II over which the custodian still ‘has control is $99,136,201 and that: in World Wnr I 31.908563, the official reply set down. The custodian pays annual rent of $37586, most of which is for office space in the Victoria Building on Wellington Street, Ottawa, and has a staff of 141 employees. Its annual pay-roll the Secretary of State informed Mr. McLure, is $429,330.

Purpose behind his question, Mr. McLure explained to the Guardian ‘this afternoon is part of u search he is conducting to find if there are many hundred unnecessary civil servants and hundreds of un- necessary government jobs in this cnpltnl city. He has been informed that such is the‘ case and is check- ing up in an official way on the accuracy of the information.

"We have an excellent Federal

civil service." Mr, McLur-e snid. “Sometimes however, the question is asked. have we too much of it? When we read that in France some months ago \a government flood reclamation office was found to be still paying salaries of offl- clals- despite the fact that the work of the agency had been clos- ed out in 1910, it mhkes us think of how our own business is being run." ' The property seized from Axis ownership und now under super- vision by the custodian of enemy property includes all sorts of real property, and goods sold by Ger- many and Italy in Canada but not paid for as of the outbreak of World War I1. It even included a“ complete circus owned by Ger- mans nnd seized in New Bruns- wick in 1940. The circus has now been liquidated.

Local Mun On Air Ass'n Executive

ST. JOVITE. Que, Oct. 24 — (C?) - RC. Cottereil. Montreal. of Trans-Canada Air Lines. W85 re-elected president of the Air In- duatries and Transport Association of its annual convention here to- da .

g1‘. Burke, of Charlottetown. REL, and TP Fox. Edmonton. were named vice-presidents.

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SAINT JOHN. N. B. Oct. 24- (CP)-—At an inquest tonight into the death of Raymond J. Hebert. 19, the lury found "a degree of ceielessness" by Sheldon Elliott, 18, and I commended that his hunting licence be cancelled for five years. The hunting fatality occurred Saturday at Lepreau

ed the wounded to hospitals.

when Elliott shot Hebert.

By mvmo o.’ WBYNOT GREENWOOD. NS, Oct. 24 -— (CP) ~—— Fine weather, a truck's headlights and ,two hard-working flight engineers helped an RCA‘. F, Lancaster complete a 0.600- mile mercy mission within the Arctic Circle without a hitch. Sleep-eyed snd tired, Sqnd. Ldr. W. A. G. McLeish. commanding

26th for Chicken snd l-Ism SuDP°Y_ in Umg River I-Isll, Serving from- ! until 9,

“Chicken Supper in Wlnlloe Road Hail. Wednasdly. October 911th. Sponsored by Nomi and south Winsloe W. I. First litilnl 5.30.

"Meet of theH-ate yers of Flverdslemgchool mltrfctmwill be held in the school on Tuesdsy. October 25th, st s o'clock. By order 0t Trustees. Dsnlsl Msckinnon. lccretsry. ‘ -

"Muqumue ounce. Kelly‘! Cross B! . Thursday. October 21!!‘-

odern s d old time dsnclns. Good ""1!"- vrises for, best costumes. door prise.

"York snd Vicinity: Tickets for

the forthcoming concert on sslc

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officer of 108 Search and Rescue Squadron, described the flight to- day. shortly efter he brought the big plane back to its Greenwood base. _

The mission started Saturday morning as the plane took off to fly to Resolute Bey, on Corn- wallis Island, to bring s seriously injured msn to hospital.

First stop was Iroblsher pn Baffin Island, where MeLelsh had to bone up on-Arcllc conditions to time his errivsl st Resolute dur- lng the 4 1-2 hours of northern daylight.

That meant the Lancaster lied to leave Frobislier ln darkness, during a howling wind. Whenthe airstrip flares were lit they were blown out. The Lancaster final- ly got airborne with l truck's hood- lights the only runway markers.

Once st Resolute. 1.0M miles due north cf _Chureblli, Iss1.

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R-C.A.F. Completes Long Mercy Flight To Arctic

the engines had had, to be kept Wmmem monltom i

running as the two engineers worked to load some 20 drums of gasoline, a tickilsh job in freez- ing temperatures.

The man they hed originally planned to take sbosrd. Duncan McCallum. had died. His body was flown to Montreal. Also tsken aboard was A. Belenger, suffering n stomach illness. -

The return flight to Greenwood was made via Winnipeg snd Mon- tresi.

All told. the Hamilton. Ont, mercy pilot snd his crew lied been awsy from the bsse 44 l-2 hours. more thsn half of it in the sir. On the return trip they flew m hours with only three brief landings to bresk the monotony.

Today. McLeish couldn't sleep. "But it's great to be able to re- lax," he said.

He gave his crew most ofllhe credit for the flawless flight. With navigation difficult and wssther conditions severe. everyone‘ hsd to work fast snd perfectly. he ssid.

It was the longest mercy flight for McLeish snd as fer is Sssrfi and Rescue officers here know the longest in Csnsds. Anflt vns

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United Notions Day - October 34 - was celebrated this year by delegates and staff members o: the U.N. with a cornerstone cere- mony for the world organization's

permanent headquarters (above). now under construction at New

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News In Brief

TORONTO, Oct, 24—-(CP)—-Sam- uel Bronfman of Montreal tocluy was re-eiected president of the Canadian Jewish Congress for a iwwyear term. He has already served as head of the Canadian Jewish Community for 10 years.

OTTAWA, Oct. 24— (CP)-—'1'hc Canadian National R a i 1 w a y s doesn't think this is the time to begin standardizing the gauge of Newfoundland rnllroads with those of the rest of Canada. Width of Newfoundland railways is nar- rower than in the other nine Prov- tnces.

OTTAWA, Oct. 24 — (CP) - Trnnsport Minister Chevrler said tonight that Canada's shipping in- dustry is in a "serious" position in many respects. The Government was considering a number of pos- sible plans to cope with the crisis that had developed in recent months.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24-(AP)- A Russian flotilla has left the Block Sou port of Odessa to hunt for whales and do scientific re- search in the Antarctic. The de- parture. of the Russian ships was announced by radio Moscow in a

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—(AP)—- Industry sources said here tonight that peace talks involving United States Steel and Federal mediators have apparently accomplished no- thing. They seld they have been informed the Government has sus- pended the talks for the time be- ing.

Cttevia Woman Driver Finds Missing link

WUITAWA. Oct. 2t -— (OP) —-It wasn't s vitel port of the mech- snlsm of Mrs. Fred BPWM‘! brand-new csr. But she didn't know thst so when she heard the cionglhg noise. she asked s pass- ing garbage collector if that n13 steel disk hsd dropped off the car. "It sure did. lady." was the strsight-fsced reply.

She put the disk in the trunk. drove home snd sadly told her husbsnd.

"But the cor seemed to work even sfter the thins fell off." she sold hopefully. ~

Mr. Browne rushed out to have look. then suggested thst his wife take the manhole cover hack

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York City. Principal participants in the ceremony - marking U.N.“; fourth "birthday" _ were Presid- ent Harry S. Truman of the United States (uppc-r right insert) and U.N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie (lower right insert).

Weapons

By Nonnan Altstcdter

NEW YORK, Oct. 24 —tCP) - Prcsident Truman today pledged United States support of any Unit- ed Notions plan for prohibiting use of atomic wea/pons willch is more effective than the one now back- ed by the Western Powers.

“To assure that atomic energy will be devoted to man's welfare and not to his destruction is n continuing challenge to all nations and all peoples." Truman said in his first foreign-policy speech since Sept. 23, when he announced evidence of an atomic explosion in Russia.

He spoke at an unprecedented open-air meeting of the U.N. Gen- cral Assembly, where Secretary- General 'l‘rygve Lie laid the cor- nerstone of the U.N.‘s new head- quarters.

18,000 Attend

Some 16.000 persons. including the 59 U.N. delegations. sat listen- iilg to Truman in chill autumn sun- shine at the flag-draped dead end of 42nd Street in Manhattan beside the rising U.N. secretariat build- ng.

The crowd applauded ivher. Tru- man shook hands with Foreign Minister Vishinsky of Russia before the ceremony began at noon. k

Vlshinsky. who did no‘. make an address, sat on thi- speaker's plat- form along with six other vice- presldents of the Assembly snd the other speakers-Warren R. Austin of the United States. chairman of the headquarters advisory commit» tee; Mayor William O'Dwyer of

New York City; 11nd Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New Yorlr State.

Truman noted that in 1945 Prime Minister Attlee of Britain. Mac- kenzie King, then Prime Minister of Canada. and himself had agreed tthot the atomic problem should be referred to the U.N.

Truman sold the U.N. Atomic Energy Commission has developed a control plan approved by the General Assembly lost year. He. added-

"This is s good plan. Ii. is a plan thin. cm work snd more important it is the only plan so far develop- ed that would meet the technical requirements of control that would make prohibition of atomic wea- pons effective and st the some time promote the peaceful develop- ment of atomic energy on e co-op- erative basis.”

The majority-approved plan has been rejected by Russia and the rest of the Soviet bloc as a. scheme by which the United States would conlmi the world's atomic energy. -

New Debate Expected

Debate on the control problem is slstbd to flare snow in the As- sembly this week. when Vishlnsky’: proposal for outlswing atomic wes-

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[India's Prime Minister Gives Views Al Ottawa

By DOUGLAS HOW

OTTAWA, Oct. 34 —- (CP) -- Pandit Nehru said today there can be no lasting peace while Asia faces "obstructed freedon. and dire poverty" and he asked Canada. to help extend the world's horizons of liberty and plenty.

India's Prime Minister, unloos-

lng his views liberally in an ad- dress to a packed Commons cham- ber and at s press conference, de- picted India as s country of 340.- 000,000 people where the worst in- ternal strife ls over and where Western capital need fear no dis- crimination. "i Specifically. he said, India wants 1,000,000 tons o! wheat, mo- chinery and technical know-how and she promises foreign invest- ment e, fair and equal opportunity. I A receptive Ottawa took to its heart this small, brilliant rebel- statesman who spent more than eight years in jails in India's fight for independence. Hundreds of people crowded the corridors of Parliament to see him. A Com- mons chamber thick with dignit- aries applalldbd him.

Prime Minister St. Laurent in- troduced liim as a “most disting- uished leader of that great por- tion of mankind which constitutes the population of India." Hts ZLOOO-ivord address was made part of the permanent records of the House.

Tonight he was the guest of Mr. snd Mrs. St. Laurent at o. state dinner. climax of the first of two days here,

He had these things to say about a variety of topics:

Asia.‘

i Asia is rensscent in the twilight

of imperialism. But her unsettle-l state should not. be regarded "as s. result or as port of an ideolog- ical conflict." It arose from "ob- structed freedom and dire pover- ty." Their remedy lay in the ec- celeratlon of freedom and the re- moval of want. Given that. Asia "will ‘become n. powerful factor in stability and peace." Denied that.

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Fisheries Loon Beard Act Planned In Nfld.

ST. JOHN'S. Nfidi. Oct. 24—~ (CPi-A Fisheries Loan Board Act was given first reading in the Newfoundland Legislature today.

Introduced by Fisheries Minister William Keough, the bill calls for Federal subsidies and a portion of the Provinces surplus to Assist

rflshermen.

The measure would give the board "wide powers" to assist fishermen, ctr-operative societies and fishing companies in prepar- ing equipment for spring oper- utlonl.

No estimates in connection with the act were given.

First Snowfall Of‘ Season At Quebec

QUEBEC. Oct. 24 —-(CP) -Light xriow began falling on this old cap- itei city shortly before noon today. the first this fail.

Profile residents shivered a bit today from the first cold snap of the season. Temperiutures dropped below freezing throughout the reg- ion with Yorkton, 5115's.. the cold- est spot at eight a/bove.

P. E. I. Best Says Mr. ll. ll. Bell After 3.000 Mile Trip

After a 3,000 mile trip through the agricultural areas of four Pro- vinces and four States of the Am- erlcan Union, Mr. R. R. Bell, M. L. A., told n Guardian represen- tative yesterday that he was more convinced than ever that there is no Province or State that can compare with Prince Edward Is- land.

"I am also convinced." he add- ed, "that our prosperity depends on our ability to overcome our insular position, to gel: markets available to producers ln other

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more conveniently situated dis- tricts."

Mr. Bell. who is president of the P, E. I. Shorthorn Breeders As- sociation, returned Saturday even- ing from a two weeks‘ motor trip through Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Ontario, Que- bec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotla, combining business with

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Conservative And C.C.F. Standings Are Unchanged

OTTAWA. Oct. 24 —(CP) —II‘he Lberals today retained four and. lost three seats in eight Federal by-clectioiis.

The Government. still with an in Parlia- ment. retained Montreal Iouricr. Montreal Mercier, Gatineau (Que- bee) and New Westminster (British Columbia).

Kamouraska (Quebec). and Ros- tigouchhlvlsciawaska (New Bruns- wick) switched from Liberal t0 In- dependent Liberal ranks. Montreal Jacques Cartier switched 1mm. Liberal to Independent. However. the Independent Liberals and the Independent candidates said during their campaigns that they support- ed the government.

The Progressive Conservatives retained Toronto Greenwood.

First By-Electlcns

The by-eleotlons were the first called by the Government since the general election June 2T.

Standing in the Commons:

Liberals 190; Progressive Con- servatives 41; C.C F. 13; Social Credit 10; Independent five; In- dependent Liberal three; total 202.

After the general election. the standing was:

Liberals 193; Progreslve 0on- servatives 41; C.C.F. 13; Social Credit 10; Independent four; lb- dependent Liberal one; total 202.

In New Wosimlnster. William

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The Maritime Electric Company presented a brief and three wit- nesses were heard and cross- examined, in yesterday's opening proceedings before the Public Utilities Commission to establish an “earning base" for the com- puny. Another witness for the company will be heard today and it. is expected that evidence may be completed this evening. Coun- sels’ arguments will follow.