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iilllLl0N - DOLLAR an; n QUEBEC Town YESTERDAY

olzowmo CRITICISM or asvurs PALESTINE

Itates Boost On Fish

Shipments Serious Blow To P. E. Island Industry

ldand Minister ls iiuestSpeaker

QUFBEC, Jan. 16 (CF) —- Acndlnlll in Prince Edward Island an» m widely dispersed that con- (acts between them are unfort- unately too rare, Hon. J.W. Ar- st-xzmlt, minister without portfo- llll ,.: the PEI. Cabinet, said here Sat-inlay‘.

Sp-‘nkillg at a dinner given by Acarizan students of Laval Univ- cifill)‘, he paid tribute to the work

blow to the Island's fishing indus-

cost in transportation \vill have to

est hit, Mr. Burhoe said. The price

The imposition of a 40~per-cent increase in express rates en all fresh-fish shipments by the Cana- dian railways will prove a serious

try. Mr. S. I-i. Burhoe. president of the Prince Edward Island Fisher- ies Federation, said last night. The 40-per-cent increase on ex- press rates on fish will mean, Mr. Burhoe said, that this increased

he borne by the fishermen since there is no way in which the ad- ditional expense can be handed on to the consumer.

Under present conditions, the lobster fisherman will be the hard-

of his equipment is continually rising and now that the price re- ceived by him for his catch will he reduced by the express-rate in- crease. he will be facing a most serious situation.

Smelt shippers, Mr. Burhoe said,

done by the St. Thomas Aquinas Scclcty of P511. toward preserva- lion of French customs and tra- nmnu on the island. -

Mr Arscnault said the French way of life had been instrumental

in the introduction of popular

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u If e ped n ‘Hmkthprmg their fish to the American markets

by truck and it may well he that consideration will be given next year to moving the Island fresh- lobsler shipments by truck and by air. ' Mr. Burhoe said the Island lob- stcppack last season was aproxl- mately two million pounds, or 2U.- 000 cases, with about one million pounds bclng shipped fresh by ex-

th» hands of Acadians in PEI.

Blames Worn Out Pipe For Big Fire

HALIFAX, Jan. 16 — (GP) — FY955- Flre Marshal S. S. Wright. o: Oyster fishermen and shippers Nova semi; satm-dny blamed a will also be heavily hit. Mr. Bur-

hoe said, since it is unlikely that the Montreal market would in- crcnsc their quotations sufficient- ly high to make up for tho addi- tional express costs which the. 1s- lund shippers will now have to pay.

Mr. John B. Myrick. ‘lignish, one of the directors and a former pre- sident of the P. E. Island Fisher-l ies Federation, said last, night that the 40-pcr-ccnt express rate in- crcasc which will apply after Feb. 14 next, on all express shipments of fresh fish, will be n big blow to ihr- industry.

The increase, Mr. Myrlck said. will nnt have muchw-ffect on the Island's cod and mackerel fisher- ies. since few of those fish are now shipped out of the Province hy ex- press. It will mean, however. that certain studies which the Feder- ation has been giving to reviving fresh cod and mackerel shipments may now have to be abandoned.

"W01" (“ll Smvke pipe in a col- lapsed condition" for a-$250,(|00 tn- which heavily damaged lhe (‘anode Permanent Trust and .\‘."Y'Ysnge Corporation building licrc early Thursday

The blaze in the three-storey" brick structure was subdued by two-non after a 10-hour battle. hi addition to Canada Perman- rnl, several offices on the sec- crxri and third floors of the bull-i- -l‘-‘-' ‘Vere badly damaged. Several firemen were temporarily over- come by smoke.

Coming ' Events

"Crokinole Party in Mt. Albion Hell. January 18th. '

"Reserve ‘Thursday. February

M“ l” m“ v“1°“““° T"- roaouro vourus KILLED

"Annual Meeting of Afton Hall, Wednesday night. January 19th.

l BRAMPTON. Out.. Jan. l6 - ltCPi -- Two Toronto youths were ‘killed and another seriously injured

"Snow-Morell, B P. M. cverv g t . |»,,-,,_ _ . ,_ * g urday night when the auto- ginlllaal only’ Good Plum” Goo“ mobile in which they were riding

' ' __ was in collision with a train at a

..\ . N , w. _ level crossing near here. Dead

“mum mew“ o! a“ m are Kenneth Bowers, 1B, and

slun- District Scarlet Chapter Bur-

ton Lodge room. Milton, Jan. 18 l7-

Warren Cook. . -—-—-——-——-——— PRINCE CHARLES‘ WEIGHT LONDON, Jan. 16——(CP)——Prince Charles of Edinburgh. nine weeks old today, weighs just over ‘i0 pounds. This is two pqunds. 10 oun- ccs more than his birth weight of

“Dance and Cards, Millvicw linll, Monday. January 17th. Linn-hag,

"Jimmie Power's Variety Con- r-sll. St. Catherine's Hall, Wednes-

clude Britain. Canada, Netherlands. New Zealnnd. China and India. Membership nllght. he hcld open for Indo-China- Indonesia and Malaya if nud

(‘=0 night. Lunchcs sold for good

muse. seven pounds, six ounces.

"Benefit Dance,- Mt. Stewart. January 1'!th. Music by 17th Reece, Band. Proceeds in aid of burned out. Veteran.

"Hurrah! Skating tonight. Como curl meet your friends at Hunter lgvernGood ice. Skating from 8 to

By Campbell Wlfll DURBAN, south Africa. Jan. 16

"Bingo. Dance, etc. auspices _(AP, m“ nouns today 2:13’ Nm" society’ “Wm Han‘ spread to towns and rural areas lgltggemvm‘ Tuesduy’ Jammy,’ around this city, scene of bloody

' fighting between Indians and

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African natives for four days.

"Co n l k t l ht. l "fl luring: bolt-flay dirhcglice. gas‘: elgegurbzn wursllgg me rlouns f _ s e v0 e a . e (or Meeting all teams interested The fir“, mum n! hem” by

ln forming league. If unfit. Tues-

(‘fly mum the police list/ed 85 dead. one was

a European and "the rest. were Indians and natives. There were B70 Indians and natives injured. of whom 558 were in hospitals. Bodies still were being brought into the city.

Police said it was hard to get

“Don't miss the opening game h! Merchant's League. Hunter Riv- " versus Hope River at Hunter River Rink, Jan. 18. Game starts at 3 lt-m. Skate after.

"Southport and Aiexan’ u. casualty ftgums because much o! A meeting will be hilt! in Boiithport the fighting took place in open- Schooi, January 17th, a country near Durban. The Cato

Monday. P- M. to discuss matters of interest to all. Speakers from Charlottetown “"111 address this meeting. Blgned Mich Kennedy. Guy Judson.

Manor ares, where thousands of uativesnlnd Indians live ln shacks. was the scene of particularly bit- ler rioting.

Estimates of the total death toll have ranged from 100 to as hign as 500. Because of the difficulty in locating families of the dead. police decided to have every corpse photographed. >

Damage was estimated at $1.- 000,000.

Many cases were reported of Indian women raped and mutilat-

“The annual meeting of Four Branch Farmers Institute will be held in North Carleton School Mflnday evening. January 17th. All "PU-fibers and those interested are "quested to attend. ‘If weather un- "veunble. meeting will be and first fill night. John were. Sec- retary,

establish stable , governments.

Race‘ R In Durban, Flares Elsewhere

Empire Strategy and Mineral Wealth Dolor Pineal"; plan"

Mediterranean Sea

Tel Avfv is only 48 heart

Cyprus and to Aqebo.

sailing time from Britain's greet base at Melts when lie! strong Meditev- _ reason Fleet has been alerted. Some units were dispatched to

Tripoli

Lively Debate Expected In Parliament

(By Glen Williams!

Weather Record Set In Montreal

yesterday and Toronto had its

POLICYla Baffin.

l Destroyed In Doatieook

COATICOOK. Que, JCT» ~F1re roared

Jan, 1t! - Lhrough the

(my The Canadian Pressl ‘Duane . e .10“ 0f [his E s... a c. astem ' ' - Bight buildings but taking no Lives.

liar to Suez Canal.

Negev Dmrl is protective bor- Under its sands lie rich deposits of oil, cop- per, chrome, magnesium and sulphur. American drilling crews, working for British firms, sunk test wells south of Gaze before Palestine fighting broke out.

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-- itory aid in co aggression. When

to Egypt at Rafa, ’_ British threatened Egyptian-aid

Map above shows how location of P sources. plus potential mineral wealth of the Negev desert,

tine war.

old

of potential

rials. nesium, pli

R.C.A.E. MakesF-ilrst

Trans - Clanada Flight

(lovers Distance Vancouver To Halifax in Eight

llours, 32 Minutes.

Consider lintl-Dommunlst Pact in 'fhe_i-'_ar East

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LONDON, Jan.

A regional pact to ward off Com- munist expansion East may be move in the cold war with Russia. it. was reliably reported Saturday.

the Far western

in

tltc next

Although there is no- official

confirmation, the plan apparently has _progressed to the consultations between possible mem- bers.

point of

These, at the outset, might in- the United States.

Australia, France. The

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ed by Zulu mobs. The Indians were infuriated by these r8110?“ and cried for vengeance.

King Cyprian of the Zulus pleaded with his native subjects to stop the fighting.

"It is my earnest wish that the

trouble should be settled in s peaceful way." he said.

Chanting ancient battle cries, Zulus have been on an orgy of

killing, arson, loot. and rape since the rioting started. Police said 25,000 Indians have been driven from their homes here and where- abouts u! hundreds of them is unknown. The rioting broke out, after a native boy was injured in a fight with an Indian peddler.

Reinforced troops, striving to stem the spread of rioting, open- ed fire with light. machine-guns and rifles today at the town of New Germany, about 1B miles from Durban. killing four African blacks.

The white population at. Pine- vllle. 1'1 miles from here. was bar- ricaded in homes and hotels. Tele- phone reports told of a "serious" situation there, but Zulu warriors cue, telephone lines to the town and there ‘was no further word.

Trouble also spread to Pieter- msritsburg, Hotel's capital. dur-

ing Saturday night.

OTTAWA, Jan. 16 — (OP) —In oxygen masks, a 15-man R. C. A. 1-‘. crew flew a four-engine North Star transport plane into Halifax early Saturday at the end of what the Air Force claimed to be the first non-stop coast-to-coast Light in Canadian aviation his- tury. They took off from Vancouver at 10:44 p, m., AST. l-‘ridayutlew 2785 miles in eight hours and 32 minutes and landed at Halifax an 7:16 a.m., AST. Their time — they hit a top of 375 m. p. h.. averaged 345 and made no special effort at. speed automatically becomes a record. The cross-country record in the united Statcs, from Los Angeles to New York. is four hours and ‘.26 minutes at average of 580.9 m p. h. It was set Jan. 26, 1546, by a jet-propelled P-BO. The distance flown was 2,453 miles.

In Dec. 11, 1945 a U. S. Boeing 13-29 Superforlress, an air-line type plane, flew 2,457 miles

at an average of 450 m. p h, 'I‘ho R.CA.F. fliers and ate at Halifax.

and crew belong. The flight was made to

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King Abdulloh invokes i948 treaty with Britain, oskin .- London for nid. A Britis

force is dispatched to Aqoba, on Palestine’: border.

LONDON. Jan. 16—(AP)—Criti- eism o! Foreign Secretary Bevin's Palestine policy mounted today among Labor, Liberal and Conser- vative members of Parliament.

Questions listed for next. Wed.- .ncsday's session of the House of lCommons indicated the Foreign Secretary will be under strong at- tack.

Raymond Blackburn, Labor, said ‘he will demand a public investi- lgaiion into the death of Pilot Of- .ficcr David Crossley Tattersfleld. lone of the five R. A. F. pilots shot down a week ago Friday o\'er the lIsraeli-Egyptian battle arca.

l The question may open a bitter

Adobe, tmy Red Sso port, lies ostn e vital British land routes in Middle East. From it a road leads north to Damascus, by-possing Tolestine. If on enemy should capture the Sues Canal, road would be o lifeline for transporting oil. Aqcbo is also hub of

Desert to Meccomhicll is new of high

strategic value to British. If Trans- Jordon loses Aqaba, the country be.

Control of N ev control of Re

and militarily critical mate Sec is rich in mag-

mides an

alcstine in re latlon to Great. Britain's strategic lifelinea and oil are factors in developments in the Pales-

from Los Angcles to New York in five l hours, 27 minutes and 19 seconds,

unmasked then flew lnorth of this Capital.

of the experimental and proving establishment. to which the plane

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tvpe which has been in RCA F. use for months. But. crew mem-

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pilgrims’ roodmcross the Sinai

comls land-lacked.

key to Sea, source _ ‘ wealth

as ham, bro- lash.

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India Making Bill For Leadership lDf All Asia

By Willium Phipps Associated Press Staff Writer India is making her biggest bid for leadership of all Asia wit-h the Allahabad conference on lndnnesis

More than that, this predcmln- antly-l-llndu dominion is putting her best foot forward with Lb.-

Moslem world at the meeting that opens Thursday.

India's move could hardly have been timed better. Much of Asia is heaving restlessly in the cross-cu:- rents of Nationalism. Ccmmu war and rebellion.

Japan, the dominant Asiatic pow- er of the prewar era, has been sterilized in international affairs. and will remain so while the Unit- ed States occupation continues.

China, which loomed as Asia:

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Nationalist Morale Bagging In China

l RANKING. Jan. 16- (APi Chin- csr.» Nationalist troops abandoned thrlr Pengpu outpost. to the Rctls today. retreating 78 mllcs to a thinly-manned line only 30 miles

leisurely back to their Rockcllfle Peogpumad been Olllflallkerl for airport base outside Ottawa n month. but its abandonment. which contains the headquarters without a fight was a sharp reflec-

tion of sagging government morale. There was no indication that. the Communists had yet moved ln.

At the same time. the Commun- ists were credibly reported to have

nut tests of fuel consumpzion. "Ninth," and other {Reels 01 sci a deadline of less than three the cannda_made Norm sum a days for surrender of Pelping, be-

sieged metropolis of the north.

t. into Communist hands.

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Fall of Tientsin was reported on Saturday. Nanklng sources estimat- ed 50.000 Government troops fell

liamcnlar_y' questions for the de- bate on Palestine. A. V. Harvey. Conservative, and formerly an R. A. F. commodore, said he wanted lo know the exact instructions giv- en the fighter patrols before they vrcrc sent into the battle zone.

W. T. Scott-Elliott, Labor, said he intends to ask Bevin whether he knows how many aircraft have bccn supplied to Israel by Czecho-

(Continued on Page 5 Col. a»

Forecasts But ln Brltaln’s Meziliatlon

LONDON, Jan. l6 —— (AP) -- Britain's meat ration may be cut one-sixth by the end of February largely because of slow deliveries from the_Argentine, the Star rc- porterl Saturday. Ivfmxstry of Fxtod declined to speculate m. ration

a possible cut in the

OTTAWA, Jan. 16 —(CP) —The Federal hy-electlon in Quebec's Nicolet-Yauiaska constituency has aroused keen interest in the Cap- ital's political circles since the Progressive Conservatives an- nounced their decision to enter the Feb. 7 contest.

The lay-election will mark the party's first test of strength in t Quebec since George Drew was

lOctober. It will be the party's third lbid for a sent in Quebec since the ,l945 general election when only one "Progressive Conservative member lfrom the Province was elected to the Commons. l Progressive Conservative eandl dates ran in 1946 by-electlons l". lPontiac and Richelieu-Verchercs ,bul. some times placed third in Ithrce-ilvay- contests. The party did ‘not enter the 1947 bv-elertion tn lMoittr-eal Cartier or the recent by- lelcction in Laval - Two Mountains

Report Middle East Peace Talks Extended

Israeli army today released four of » 15 villages it has been holding in- side Lebanon and Lebanese forces moved out of one village in north- western Galilee.

source reported that Israel. already discussing armistice Lebanon and similar talks with Trans-Jordan.

(AP) 74, poet, and literary figure, died Friday night, Santa Cruz. works -—l"Llterature and Insurgency.“ "Pro- each Briton now gets one shillings Icessionals." "War Flames," "Trail! (20 cents) worth of meat a week. lEnd." and “Pioneer-s."

Much Interest In Federal By-election In Quebec

.__ .____-_-__-_-__ Liberals continuously from 1921 on.

months ago necessitated election, won Nicolet for the Liber- als in 1930 and then ‘was returned for the combined ridings 1940 and 1945.

constituency, vatives hope that; they may be able.

Liberals after Rt. Hon. former Finance and ister, had held it for 22 years. ,

official

The ccnflagrauon destroyed five

warmut l" 100 3""! " i‘ mild lstore= a hotel a Roman Catholic :22. ‘l.'.‘..°“.t:il1.‘“3....““.°.'.’:; a ' ;I)amagc was estimated at from

istubildeildn almost as suddenly as l$75909n m $1_0O0‘(,00_ The! mercury rust to 4B in l The m? began at 8 am" and - ~ ’ - .st1l was hurtling 1n the ruins to- Mohlreal. while Toronto re- lnlghv. although ll. had been brought

corded a reading of 52. Windsor. 0nt.. also reported a record l for that dale with a temperat- ure of 55.

(Jooler air is expected to sweep down from the north and l temperatures in Ontario and Quebec will drop slowly during Monday. A freezing rain which pelted down ln most districts

lpalrlizxmenbtary argument o\'er Brl- Saturday mght and Sunday Wm o: taln's action in sending armed air change h, snow which “jm b” a‘ reconnaissance patrols along Is- ' raers frmmer‘ ‘ accompanied hy strong winds. Two other members listed par-

TEL AVIV, Jan. 16 —(AP|—Thc a

h The action cacne as a reliable

with begun

terms Egypt, has

POI-IT DIES SANTA FE.. N._M., Jan. l6 __ — John Curtis Underwood.

at his ranch near N. M. Among his

ivere "The Iron Muse."

Lucien Dubois, whose death afew tihe by-f

in 1935.

Despite the Liberal hold on the l Progressive Conser- 1

o repeat, their recent feat in Nova 1

Paul A. Tra-han. 40, a Nicoletl

Liberal candidate, but.

In that. general election,

swept through storage hind these buildings and caught to the St. John the Evangelist Rom-in Catholic Church the burning block. The church and

fl i l 'nl 11d

lawyer, has been nominated as the h5g2; lbva me Romulus Manseau a Nicolet Coun- wqamer .011“? - -

w {armer has arlnounced that h’: valid Lllllll zmdnlgnt Monday. will run as an Independent Luberui. l A somewhat similar situation arose lmm (n.9,. southwestern in 1.04:», but lvlr. Trahan then was ‘la and somber“ New

m" Indepemlfl“ Llbeml “andldal” lSundnv afternoon. ln the evening Mr‘ llrcczing ram was falling in Princs Dmmls polled T973 Wt“ Mr‘ Tra‘ lEdWillTl Island and Northern Nova

under control.

Firemen from Msgog and Sher-

lbrooke, 30 and 20 miles sway re- spectively, helped local firemen to fight the spectacular blaze.

Starting in the hotel on Child

Istreet the fire spread to the Regent: variety store on one

hotel and two hardware pharmacy and restaurant

side of the

stores, s. on the

her. There were tenements above

l the stores,

Farmed b_v a stiff breeze the flames