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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1947

Covers Prince Edward Island. "_Like the Dew

Troops Crack Down 0n Nazi Underground

11 Men Trapped Dn Greenland Ice Cap

By BEV B. YOUNG

NEW YORK. Feb. N —- (AP) _,4 (3-54 rescue plane, carrying survival equlpmlllll. llll 1N0! radio contact with ll army atr-

. force filers trapped in the track-

lcls wastes of the Arctic after their 11-29 bomber crash-landed in northwestern Greenland, the Army Transport Command an- nounced tonight.

The big army rescue plane es- tabilshrd communications with ihg rnarooned flier; shortly offer It; arrival nt Sondreskon Fjord, Greenland. after a non-stop flight from Wesoover Held, Mass.

A.T.C. headquarter, in tw York said the radio esll irom the downed plane urged that fuel. preferably coal, be dropped to the ll survivors who had endured the bitter cold of the wind-swept Ice up since their plane crashed Fil- thy while on a photographic mis- slnn.

Declares Japan ‘Misunderstood’

701010. Feb. 24-—(Mondsy)— Japan was portrayed as a "mis- unticrstood" nation and ex-Prcm- irr l-lidcki Tojo nncl the 25 other wartime lenders on trial were de- picted as patriots. in the opening defence arguments before the international war crimes court today. -

Thcre were stonmy preliminar- its to tllo defence presentation.

Chi-f Justicc Sir William Webb railed "gross contempt" a pre- mature publication this morning of the defence points in the army uctvspaprr Pacific Stars and Stripcs. United Press correspon- 0PM Arnold Brnrzlcman. called be- foro the cout-Lsald the newspaper had disregarded the time of re- iem on tho United Press story it used. The court ordered the editor of the paper to appear i-Wr in zivc his explanation.

Capt. Chnt-lcs B. Taylor arrived shortly to explain the premature rcicasc was “due to error." and Sir William dismissed him with a warning.

MercyPlane Crash a Killed 1D Persons

SAN DIEGO, Calif. Feb. 23* liPh-A t-nast guard "mercy" sca- lnifllll‘ ~ashed near Tijuana. Mes" Sfttttrtluy night killing l0 of the l? persons nbonrd.

The dcad iticludcd the patient

r uttom tltc mission was made- n MFR t‘l\'l|ll1ll fisherman. Galic lettvttt of San Diego.

Ail thc other dead and itijurcd tvrre Coast Guard personnel.

Coming Events

"Movies at Borden to-night. "To arrive. Seed oats. Book. llcGulgnn g, Boym

T""@rw raw. Stanley Bridge. uesday, Feb. 25th at. 1.30 sharp.

"mfltllley vs. Winaioe. Milton fink tonight,

d "Hunter River Farmers loading “glam! hora February 28th. Book. cmllflln A Boyle.

"Rmiflll Hogs at Crapsud for Clnada Packers Ltd. every Tuesday until ti. A. M. R. N. Dawson.

"We now have in stock Seed W‘. Barter; Buckwheat. Wheat and Field Pea-l. All number one Im- Wlltd Seed. your require- “lfnle now. Wholesale and retail "llifax Seed 00.. Lid. ‘f2 Queen.

Pickers Ltd. M Fm Rollo any. reruns Iri gs, Bey 3073a... °“““‘ Dhnm ' . v . ooom nunflnl .‘" {lcklen at Atben W 0Q till S. fllfiflld B101! AM n ootoek‘. a "I men pet-inn. not A. o. Mn. or C. C. Green.

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BYRIOHARDKABIBOHKE-

BERLIN. m». 23—(A.P)—Brit.lsl1 and American troops cracked down today on a widespread Nazi un- derground movement which claim- ed possession of a secret bacter- iological weapon to turn against the occupying powers. A former colonel in the German army sec- tion that worked on war-with- germs projects was among the ‘hundreds’ seized.

.It was the biggest push against the underground since the war ended, and the first on a bizonal scale. '

Authorities said they had not learned definitely whether the ggotlp actually possessed a bac- teriological weapon. LL-Gcn. Luc- ius D. Clay reported that. Ameri- can authorities did not consider the movement “particularly dan- gerous". while a British spokes- man said it was "silly and pre- tentious" but could not be allowed to spread.

Moving swiftly over ice-glazed roads and in a snowstorm. sol- diers and intelligence agents pick- ed up a number of former high ranking officers in the S.S. (Elite Guard) and other Nnzi suspects in their zone but said most of the raids were in British Germ- any. There authorities said hun- dreds of persons were scizcd by ‘thousands’ of Allied troops in vthat was described as “operation selection board." Wllh Brfvil-S continuing, they disclosed no spe- cific totals.

British officials said the move- ment had tentacles in the Soviet and French zones. and that its aims included restoration of Gor- man militarism and a Nazi clic- tatorship “ln order to lead the nations of nut-ope air-inst RM- sis." The Russians and French were kept informed of the pro- gress of the raids.

Well-known American Authoress Dies At 81

PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 23—(APt —-.Mrs. Grace Livingstone Hill, Si. one of the most. prolific of ntcdcrn American authors. died today in her suburban Swurthtnorc ltotne.

Mrs. j-Iill, whose 80th book was partially completed. had been confined to her room by a recent illness. Her 70th volume, "Where .'I‘u'o W-Jys Meet.“ was published inst. month.

Of her writing she once said: "I feel that there is enough sad- ness and sorrow in the world. So I try to end all my books as teau- tifully as possible, since that is God's way-and titc best, way."

A spokesman for J. B. Lipplncntt and 00.. Mrs. Hill's publishers. said lit-rt ticspI-ic trtlvaltccd ago and hcr illness site had been writ- ing two boo-ks a year" recently. and estimated that total sales of nil her novels, 76 of which hat‘ been reprinted, exceed 3,000,000 coptcs.

Born in Wateriown, NFL. April 16, 1865, Mrs. Hill was the daugh- ter oi Rev. Charles M. and Mar- (:15 Livingstone. author of love stories about the American Civil War.

Dispute Claim 0f Western Lawyer's lie Freight Rates

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OTTAWA, Feb. %-(Bpg¢1u)_ Memberrof Parliament from the Maritime Provinces this week-end viewed with apprehension the claims advanced by western law- Yem that western freight rates were higher than those paid in the 88st. u the freight; rates tn- quiry continued before the Board of Transport Commissions o.

The railways are seeking an in- crease of 30 per cent in general ifs!!!" rates to bolster their rev- enues by 055000.000 annually. ‘

Members from Nova Bcotia and Prince Edward Island branded the westerners’ claims es “insid- ious" and “ineccurate" and saw in the legal manoeuvres an at- tempt on the part of British Coi- umbla and the Prairies to profit at the expense of the Provinces on the east coast. The Maritime delegation to Parliament was un- animous in its view that present Maritime freight rates be not tampered with unless for purposes of a downward revision.

Mr. Douglas Ornaments

James Lester Douglas, Liberal member for Queen's sold that s 30 per cent increase in freight ratcs in the Maritime; would have

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To Work Dut Designs For Small llouses

MONTREAL. Feb. 23- (GP)- Mai-Gcn. Hugh A. Young, wrcc- president of the Government-own- ed Central Mortgage and Housilli! Corporation, announced last night that the Corporation will work with a committee of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada tcnvurtl production of designs for smnil houncs as an aid in easing the housing shortagc.

May-Gen. Young said some '10 per cent of housing needs are in the category of medium and low bracket income. and "today it is most difficult for one with a gross income of $150 a month or less to rent. o-r finance the provision of g, suitable 110mb."

tn ills address prepared for de- livery before the 40th annual con- vctition of the institute. Mai-Gen. Young said there ore two ap- proaches to the housing problem.

"One is public housing with its subsicii-zatiott and rental reduction funds. The other. . . is the provis- ion of a house at a cost which o. low income bracket. can meet. In our present clay economy of free enterprise I feel that. with in- genuity and imagination, using new llllilOFiUlS and new methods of design. a suitable house at low cost can be made available."

He appealed for the type of house thatgcan be "constructed with regard to the fundamental principle c-f sound architecture. sound community planning and proper zoning." The "greatest pos- sible number of small houses" should be "designed by architects

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By Ed Creagh

LONDON, Feb. 23 —-LAP)-—Tha sun came out in England today for the first time in three weeks. but after a long. red-eyed glance at the countryside it went back into hibernation.

Squinting. blinking Englishmen were so astonished by the spect- acle that hundreds of them called newape, Lo ask if the record period of 22 sunteas days had mllv ended.

For a few minlltts it was a full- trength, orange-groves MI! blim- ng-suit kind of a sun. brllhl enough to strike golden sparks frcm the atop 3t. Paul's Cathedral and cast a deticae network of shadows on the frveh "W" ""5"" Westminster Abbey. .

"Mt-ta 007i ° ' might sehobl ehiltiu out oltbetr oooools 01.60am and mufflers. It turns nunlnaldl. mh with ~ 1

tor, into the 111W"!

“m. ‘t’ ma!“ on 00f P115.‘ and

d HUM e mustn't let silly 001W"- _ on wee a slllht ti!!! 1001!.

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‘ no of coal remand»

22 Sunless Daysnln England Have Ended

cast ts frost and probably more snow all over the country tonight, and gal stocks are dangerously low. Unless house-holders exam,» the greatest econcmy—"

The Government Saturday orqq. ed gas companies to slash coal consumption 10 per cent for 10 weeks and nnounced that restrict- ions on use of gas tn lwmes dailies to mote on electricity may b9 om. ered this week.

Some gas plants may be closed, it was amounced. as a result o} re- newed bltuards which have block- ed coat supplies to the plants and threaten a breakdown of the gas industry.

On the continent o! Etaropeetnra was a ietup in the cold weather Saturday. Temperaiurls role sever- al dqreee above fr: in Paris sndlahtdhsseohh ttoattu Riviera.

Barometer: indicated warmer weather for Scandinavia when a strong east wind swept labdisb and Norwegian ports clear of lseso that fishermen put to sea fa the first time in two Vi.

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etostna of 2o paper mills eomioyhg 12,000 persona.

Russia Dffers Jobs To German Atomic Experts

(B! The Aloclated Press)

GOETTINGEN, Ggrmgny, Feb. till-Dr. Werner llelsen. b911, foremost German atonnlc wlentht. disclosed that Rus- ‘sla had made a standing offer of 6,000 rubles u month to lint‘ German atomic expert who would engage in rgggnrqh for the Soviet Government.

The Nobel prize winner in physics for 1932 said three Germans were known to have accepted the offer, equivalent 01 $500 monthly at the dip- lomatle exchange rate. Heisenberg observed that the productllin of atom bombs "is no longer a problem of solencc in any country but snproblem of englnoerlnl."

lie sold Germany possessed a uranium pile in the last phase of tho war and that American agents spirited it. away from the territory that was to be occupied by France.

"Germany's uranium pile. which I was building up to create energy for machines and not for bombs, was locat- ed at Haigerloeh, 40 miles south of Stuttgart," Heisen- berg said in an interview.

"It consisted of two tons of uranium. two tons of heavy water, and 10 tons of graph- ite. As the world now knows. the explosive, plutonium, is produced in such a uranium pile."

11.13. - P.E.l.‘Drama Festival April 21 -22-

lib-INT JOHN. N.B. l-‘eb. £3 — tCP) ~ The New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island reglotlsl drama festival will be held heft‘

ham. secretary qt the festival com-

mittee. anmuutteci Saturday. Fil- more Sedler. actor-prcducer of Kmwltozr, Que. will be the ad- indicator.

Mamh 8 is the closing date for receiving entries. The winning etn- try will represent the two Pmvln‘ ciao 1n the Dmnlnicn Festival at 101140.011. Ont. in MM!-

Secs New Lake Arealn Antarctic Important Find

LITTLE AMERICA. Feb. 23 — Roar Admiral Richard E. Byrd 51d Saturday that the newlydl- covered unfrozen lskc are. on the Antarctic continental rim. inland from the Shackleton shelf. should be one of the most important areas in the world foraclentlficjn- vestigation and mlgtht contain coal and mineral ores. lhByrtdmangnltls aélvisers bglieved

a r on tbbed “ unger Outs.” is a "retreating-glacier" ares. ‘they compare it to the Tay- lor Glacier in the vicinity of Mo- Murdo Sound. 1.320 miles north- east of the newly discovered lake area.

"It ‘h a tremademtaly lmpgtcgt area c nvel solent a . one of themost. hnportant in the entire world because you'd be like- iy to find fossils there and there is an indication of the presence of boat," Byrd said,

April 2i and 22. lVl-lss Muriel D9112

Si: acres of land along the railway track. opposite the Char. lottetown Experimental Station have been acquired by the Mat- thcws-Wciis Company, Ltd. as n site for their plant for the hand- ilng of cucumbers, it was learned over the week-end from Mr. W. E» WBUS, l member of the firm. He said that the property had a frontage of 700 fcct along flu‘ railway track and that there would be space for four freight cars on a siding.

Negotiations for purchase were

carried on through the Provin- cial Department of Reconstruc- tion. Construction of a building and of large tanks for the storage of cucumbers would bcgin as soon as weather conditions permitted. probnblv by mid-May. Mr. Woli< said. The contract for the work has not been let but it was lent-n- od that tho Charlottetown firm of L. M. Poole & Co. is bidding.

Contracts Signed

Contracts have been signed with P. E. I. farmers for tho growing of 660 acres this your. it was au- nounccd. No further cotttracts

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Box lair Squeeze Felt All Across Canada Today

(Canadian Press]

Canada's box my squeeze was being felt from tho Atlantic. to thc Pacific coast today tMottdnyt wt‘- imtsly ltandicupping iumhcr. non.»- print. grain. pottittgv- anti otlu-r in- dustries. with no hope of immod- Eute relief. In fact from Dlinuil ozrnc the grim prcdiction: “The situation will rezuain tight for 5011.0 time to come.“

Poultry raiscrs in British Cni- umbia faced n feed shortage us (lid central points. Ontario Agriculture Minister T. L. Kctmccly sax.‘ at Toronto Saturday that ii‘ were not tnccle available tu- fced grains from the Prul-i a Sllflfifltle of 750.000 hogs could d-.- veiop in rommittitcnts to Britain.

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Soviet if]. Celebrates 29th Anniversary

By EDDY GILMORE

Moscow. Fleb. to _‘ tAl-‘x Guided by Prime Minister Stalin's order of the clay - phrased 1101'- haps in the most pacific tonc of any since the start of the vvnr — the Soviet nrmy iCCii-ly celebrated its 29th anniversary.

Stalin artnomiced that. the Rus-

sian people had succesfttlly ful- filled the first year of the five-year plan and that the "Soviet army l5 fulfilling tho tasks, cf combat training placed bcfrue it in con- ditions of peace." ' "It also is obliged to advance and gain new higher suocwes in com- bat and political trsltnittg." he said. "The cause of strcngthenti-tig peace. the cattse of securing secur- ity -- our country demands this from us."

Stalin nude no mention of "eu- emiee." nor did he stress vtllllm‘ qr give any indication that he felt the USSR. was livi-ng in a 11091110 world. ,

I-Ie made no mention of atomic weapons. dieannaunent 0r "capital- istic enclrclenwt-t." and 8W9 0°

purely nationalistic interpretation of the Soviet Union's position in the world today.

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By ROBERT/ EUNSON

PARIS. Fob. 23 - (AP) _ The threat of n general strike grew tn ,France today as 1.300.000 Govern. metnt workers and 50.000 mum-S declared they would wall; of: their Jobs unless they received salary increases.

In Paris coal was stoves and no FTench language newspapers were being published ADPWXlmutely 2.000 printers and 1.000 gasolinestatlcn- attendant: remained idle in their strike for

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Sharp Cold Wave in Western Canada

tBy '.l‘he Canadian Press)

A sharp cold wave in Manitoba and Saskatchewan coincided with dm-pphig tctn-pettaturc; 1,-3- Norm. ""11 01110110 and recur-blizzard cordititn; in itnrts of Southcm Cn- tario turd Qucbc-c over the ‘W861i- 0rd

“iliic main Oral-arm highways were kcpz opcou heavy s-trotw storms moving c.1..»t.u rd from Lake flinch sicwcci traffic and blocked some EOtFJtIl-dlfy routes.

A Canadian National Railways passcrtge: train from Palmerston to Kmcmzline was begged down in heavy drifts and 12 hours late touching its terminus.

Almos six lllCh€s of tnaw fell in the 'I‘a;ror.~l0 district. whipped into huge drifts 1n tome sections. Etunotrtcu and Calgary temper- nitures did not g0 bzlcw eight and 13 above zc-‘ro respectively, but it was 32 below ill. ihc worst lu Prince Albert. 99. lrclcnv at. Saskatoon and ‘.36 hcicnv nt Regina. Northern Orr- iario potting generally were at zero or a couple of points below.

It was eight above at Mcutreal. which had blizzgrd ccnditlz. for a time Saturday.

Unemployment Picture In llalltax Crows Worse

(By The (‘anadiun Press;

HALIPXAX. Fob. 23 -—Thc un- zmploytncttt picttuc was growing stcudliy worse in this city of V7.- 000 as if. W. Lea. co-ordinator of public projects for the Recon- struction Dcpartmcnt. wound up (its mrcsiigatiott of tho situation during thc work-cud.

National Employment officials announced that still more jobless workers had been added to the 3,500 already out of work and a tuass layoff of more titan 1.500 from H. MC. Dockyard still was

_ ssiictitllrd hcforc March Ill.

Mr. Lon. calls-d to the city at the rcqttcst of the Provincial Gov- ernmcnt. said he would mcet to- morrow with Provincial Govern- ment rcprcscttialivcs.

SKYSCRAPERS FOR. MOSCOW

MOSCOW. Feb. ZIi-tlitcuterfl- Plans to build eight. skyscrapers i'n Moscow have hccn approved by Printc Minister Stalin and missed by the Council or Ministcrs. it has been disclosed in Soviet budget discussions. The projected build- ings will range from l6 to ‘n2 storeys in height. and will be built in‘the near future.

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MINERS SEE OTTAWA, nosco SILENT PA

Threat 0f General ‘Strike Hangs Over ‘France

Land Now Acquired And. Workers Are Construction Plans Ready Demanding For New Cucumber Plant Wage Boosts

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CHARGE FIVE ‘FRAMPLE. SLASH. GAG. ROB MAN

Three mcn and two women were charged with robbery with

violence in Tl mid. 0111.. utter George Brody. 57. vcrs oitlillvd with a itunttttg kniic, gaggcd

with his ttndcrwcai- and trample-d in his own ironic by a quintet who robbed him of S47 and watch. Shown arr two 0f the group. who were rt-nuindcd. Mikc Swalik nf Toronto and I-lclcn “Margit.” Wil- liams.

Lift Power Ban‘ in Midlands

LONDON. Feb. Zi-(Mondayi —tAI")~Thc Gtncrnmcni. cun- firlent ll was strccos-tfully‘ rc- stocitint: Illf‘ country's‘ danzcr- oust-c dcpictcd coal piles. lift- cd the hvo-weeks-oid electric power ban in thc rich indus- trial Midlands oarly today. sending nt-urly 1.000.000 men laat-k l-n work.

Powerhousc switches releas- ing vital electrical current. to industrial plants in the “id- laudn were thrown just "flu." midnight. exactly two weeks after tho Govcrumcnt tie- crcctl the most drastic orn- numic shutdown in ihc coun- try's history. cxt-ept for the short-lived general strike of 1926.

Thr- tuial power embargo lnr industrial use was dropped in eight lndusl-tgv-pnckcd Mid- lnrttls t-tumtles, but power still was withhold from 30 tiiht‘? counties and shirt-s in London and nrcas In northwest nntl aouihEast England.

Chief 0f Arab Army?

JERUSALEM. toot-t. 1:1 -tAPt--l Fnvvvi el Kutlcii. cutinucd “gonn- ztltssinto“ of ilto Arnh rcvoit "Ii i036. urtivvd \t1l(‘\| ‘t‘if‘(ii_\' ill in» Mititllc End Saturday t: fist-i. prqtupiittg n Btttislt inquiry into reports that. he uas on route to

join the cxiled lvfttfti for Bllpoilli- ment as chief of .1 new Arab nrmy.

Kaukji and his \\'ii(‘ \\'(‘t't: abonftl p t-ntntttcrvial aircraft Whirit tr‘- fuelled at. the L-yddn AlFIiPid in PllOllmv on n tlrght ftnm Europe to Cairn. Ofltctnls said nu "in- VPSIIQBIIOYI was proceeding" as to why he was permitted to inure Palestine, where an $8.000 price

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BY WARCY (YDONNELL

OTTAWA. Feb. 23 — (CP) — A few members of Illg House of Com- motns are talking of the possibility of a federal general election this sum-mo aftcr Parliament com- pletes the sossional program drawn up for this year,

The talk is not confined to any party and Government officials have given no indication then- is anything more than speculation behind the election forecasts.

One Liberal member told LheCan- adian Press today that a high Gov- ernment official he indicated to him that Prime M Later Macken- zie King is not happy over the un- comfortable Government postttontn the Commons.