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WillAffed 60,000 Revised CS Pension Bill Ready for House exasxxs iyncb. The ImtmL Tht last ha' been crossed nd the last "1" dotted in the revision of the Civil Service Superannuation Act which will ihortly be presented to Parliament to allow from 30,000 to 60,000 temporary civil servants to become eligible for pension. More thin 10,000 are working in Ottawa offices and. the measure has provoked the Greatest interest in years in the public service. Tear Wsltinf reeled.

There will be a waiting period lor one year before an applicant Is admitted to the new act which has been eompletatv re-wrltten completing a task of some years. Thousands of temporary employes will be placed a on the same scale as the prr-msnent 1 regarding pension. This will mesn contributing two percent of salary for each year ol service up to 35 years. At present temporary Gov-eminent employe pay into a Retirement Fund which only gives them then- money bsck with interest when they step out of the service. i.

Thmiuiut af temnorarv em- ployea link up membership in the Superannuauon Aerwiin permanency but informed sources said admission Into the set gsve them only the same protection tor a pension as the permanent employe. In -ether words they remain temporaries. until their statu la otherwise changed. Contributors to the Superan- nustlon Act contributing to the set up to five years will have t'aelr money returned with in-tret if they leave the service. After five years' contribution they become eligible for superannuation under requirements of the Beae'lts Widows.

There be benefits to widows and children of deceased civil servant in that the mother may got up to to percent. of her late husband's pension if the has four children or more; At present her superannuation benefits hsve been 79 percent, for three, four or five children. Admission Is not altered for prevailing rates employes which are two years' service for ex-servicemen and five years' service for civilian. Veteran in the publie service who served in Canada in World War II mar count that service on their Veterans of World Wsr I may count 1021 as the end of World War I Instead of 1911 a the end of World Wsr I In computing their pensions. Employes of Crown companies Id agencies like the Bank ofj Canada.

Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, CBC and others are not affected as they hsve their own pension plsni. Egypt iir Barter Pact With Russia, Bulgaria, Poland CAJBO, March 10 Oeuteri) Egypt today signed a barter agreement with Russia, Bulgaria and Poland for exchange of Egyptian cotton In return' -tor tdns bfwhtst from the; three countries." The sgreement was signed by Dr. Sabry Egyptian! minister for supply and by the commercial counsellors of the Russia thJuliaris uapd Polish legations In Cairo. The bartered goods win be carried la Russlsn ships. SOOrd LcfS Contract For Street Patching HI IS.

a.i .1 wvnuui 17 "rl urc" mooiw agnail miaing plant and lor the Spring patching of Ottawa's street. O'Leery's Limited was the successful bidder for the patch- in joo at a cost, to the. city, of March 10. Britain's for some JO.000 squsrejeim SecreUry Anthony Eden feet ef asphalt patching. A Mont- will probably outline me-cmin-real firm entered the Imreatltry's views on Korea to the UN tender toe the mobile mixing.

ptkw Loses Arm Torn By Lion at Simcoe Hill lelt arm was amputated at the elbow early today after an attack by a 250-pound African lionesa which has attacked humans -three times previously. The Crown Attorney and police are consulting whether any action will be taken. The animal mangled Hill's arm from the shoulder to the wrist last night after he reached into her cage, i Witnesses said Hill stopped at a local hotel with his truck. In a cage In the back were two lions. They said HiU react-" into tha cage and said "Cmon Then Hill yelled: "She's got me!" Andy Adam of Toronto opened the csb-of the truck and grabbed jalr of pliers, handing them' to Hill.

One of the lions knocked the pliers out of Hill's hand before he could use them. "We started bashing the outside of Is said Adams, Hill managed to wrench bis arm free and taken to hospital by police. The lions were -impounded Mao Says Soviet Pad Bsnav suapibo. MOSCOW, March 10 (UP) Chines Communist leader Mao Te-Tung said today that the Chinese-Soviet Communist, front was Mso, in a statement published by the Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda, ssid Chines) and 'Soviet Communists were bound together In a "front of friendship and lavtaelble Friendship. He said this friendship was "indestructible" and generated forces that "are unlimited.

Inexhaustible and genuinely Moscow foreign observers said Mao's statement appeared to be Red China's recognition jf new Soviet-Premier Malenkov as head of the international Communist movement The statement was piibllahed In yesterday's Pelplng Peoples Dally and printed-today In Pravda. Moscow newspapers sis pub; Itshed a message from lib Chi Minn, leader of the Indo-Chinese Communist rebels, ssying -we solemnly vow to follow the path ef Mara and Engel. Lenin and Statin, and to struggle decisively tor unity and -Independence of our country and tor peace democracy and Ho expressed regret that "due to the great distance" ha could not at tend Stalin's funeral. The Chinese lesder warned that because of their friendship the soviet ana tmnese communist were "not afraid of any lmnerlalist aggression." "Any Imperialist aggression will be crushed by us; all base nrovocations will end In col- Mso' said. New Envoy to China.

Mao's statement coincided with the Russian appointment of a new ambassador to Communist China. American educated deouty foreign minister Vassilvevtch Kuznetsov nsmed to replace Alexander Semenovica Psnyushkin. The to the United State, will be transferred to "other so announcement said. Concluded on Faga t. Cel.

Retired Colonel Ordered Home LONDON, March IS 7 A man said to be a retired Ca 'Invincible 'dlllonally dlschsrged tody Inlparty caucus, that he not only that he be Snipped back to! idea of a pre-Coronation elee-Canada as soon as Ition, but hss Just about decided tie was laentinea as toi. win- U. pleaded guilty to obtaining gio! by false pretence from a Ken VL" jr: amount from an optician. EDEN TO SPEAK. UNITED NATIONS.

NY. General Assembly tomorrow, an 1 araa saia waaj-. v. It was the second time the three-year-old lionets had at tacked Hill. She mauled him last year, tore the leg of a Vanessa, woman In an other attack and later hurt an eight-yesr-old- girl at Leth.

bridge, Alta. Last June the lioness es caped from its cage at a mid way sideshow and attacked Judith Woolf. daughter of Harvey Woolf of Cardston. Alta. The father grabbed the lioncaa by the ears and began beating It off but the girl suffered a broken shoulder blade and lacerations.

Eleven men tore the lioness from Mrs. Herman Smith, 43, of Vanessa after it attacked her in a Brantford "office in February. Hill had the animal on a leash at the time. Mrs. Smith suffered leg wounda that required 10 stitches.

Hill, who keeps several lions in Winter quarters at a farm near Simcoe, was brought into court following the Brantford attack. He was fined 1100 and 2J costs for failing to take responsible pre cautions with- a wild animal in a public place. FINAL FLASHES KINGSTON, March II. CP A spectacular fire ripped through a two-storey building on Princes street during the boo a-' hour, rusk causing heavy damage to two dry goods sorea and tying up traffic for mora than two hours. 'v MONTREAL.

March 10. CP) The Royal Bank oi Canada branch at Greene and St Catherine streets in adjacent Westmount was reported to have been held up today and about 11,501 token. WINNIPEG, March It. 4CPV The Manitoba Government has tha Federal Government "immediately" to suspend the Board of Transport Commissioners' order authorising a seven percent, increase on freight rates, Nopal, March 1. (Reuters) Nina ef the 13 members of Britain's Mount Everest expedition left hero today on a 176-mile trek to their base camp at Namche Bazar.

DETROIT, March 10. (TP) Alex J. Groesbeck, Tt, who served as Michigan's governor from 1121 to 127, died today. Queen Mary Slightly Improved LONDON. March 10.

Wt Queen Mary, confined to her bed for two weeks by gastric trouble, again showed a slight Improvement today. Late News Snort Stocks ifttl EdlMioim PRICE 5 CENTS OTTAWA, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1933. 1 88lh YEAR 77 ON PAGE 4 editlea by carrier It Mat weekly. rm La vara U'U mm 1 buiiauii, Marcn to. WToerU oon have to spend the New reports of widespread who, 4 hotplul.

He unrest In nehborlng; Russlsn-jeitlnultei WCTeMed out-domlnated Bulgaria resched ISee Election Off Until Sprihg bf 754 ar aicaaao sackson. Tk aaanaL Liberal Members of Parliament todsy had become con- vinced. en the basis of Prime lMinister SL Laurent's frank and pui on ine nauonai vow nrl. 'k He ha. bluntly told hi fol- 'lowen that alter hi return tK.

raroMlian. Mrs. 8L Laurent has her heart Mt on two Laurent has her heart set on two months' holidays which he waa frank to admit he could use and enjoy at their Summer home in St. Patrick, Quebec. Then he hedged a bit, stressing, that he till-'Ws "boss" in the family, and "if necesssry' Mrs.

St. Laurent could vacaUoo wttoout nun. Attack Made In U.S. Zone O'Clatk saiu. Strnca.

WASHINGTON, Msrth 10. -4 W) United States today ordered "tha strongest possible protest" sent to Communiat Czechoslovakia over the shooting down of an American jet fighter. I o'Ctock (tua Strrtc. WISEBADEN, Germany, March 10. (ff Two Soviet-made MIG-15 jet fighters coming from Czechoslovakia, today attacked and shot down an American F-84 jet fighter plane about 10 Inside the American zone of Germany, VS.

Air headquarters announced. The pilot bailed out and landed without injury. The Air Force announcement said the attack occurred in perfectly clear weather near Bavarian town of Regensburg at 11 s.m. (5 s.m. EST) todsy.

Two American lets were operating from Puerstenfeld-bruck sir bsse on routine petrol "well within the U.S. tone" when the two MIGs appeared at an. altitude of 12.000 feet from the Czech side of the border snd immediately made a firing pass st one of the two American planes. The announcement added: "The MIO scored a hit on the wing, tank and stabilizer of the F-84 causing It to crash seconds after the pilot had balled out" The pilot was Identified as Lieut. Warren Brown.

He was flying with Lieut. Donald C. Smith, in a second F-84, from Fueratenfeldbruck. The Soviet fighters disappear ed, presumably in the direction of Communist-ruled Czecho slovakia. Ban Smoking In Classes At Carleton I OXlKk CStttM Srrlt.

Carleton College President Dr. M. M. MacOdrnm has requested students to stop smoking in the class rooms. The action came after SO students petitioned thst smoking be banned because it ws a distracting and Irritating hsblt for the non-smokers.

A further petition signed by 14J students asked thst permission for smoking be left up to the Individual professor. I Prosperity Budget For Ontario "TORONTO, March 10 (Special) An operating aur. plus of many millions, the largrt in the province's history, special asslstsnce to municipalities universities snd hospitals and additions to the highway reserve fund are snticipsted In the Ontario budget to be brought down on Thursdsy. ninin simsnn 111' -m. a jlm i Yugoslavia today.

Six weeks or two months of holidays would take the Summer into late August, but the currents paralysis of Parliament's sessional tmsiness complicate any schedule, In relation to an Answering pressure for pre-Coronation election by the Quebec Liberals, the Prim Minister pointed "out thst Psrlisment had been In session since November, snd "not one" departmental estimate had passed the Commons. The House bsd disposed only of the Throne Speech debate, still wss bogged down in Budget discussion; sno If the plug of dissolution wis pulled on Psrlisment, money for Government operstions could be secured only by going to the, Governor General with warrants. (Tan to 'ST. LAURENT rage It, Cel. .) i ZlZC; KaV 'iZj fchti Js "1-1' A NAME OF FAME Three of HMCS Athsbasksn's crew set up a klsbie float identifying the Canadian destroyer minutes sfter she srrived In Tokyo on a recent visit.

Left to right sre Ordinary Seaman James Graham, Boy of 1 6 Ontario Budget ToGiNewAld To Hospitals March 10. (Special) A new system of capital grants for out-patient departments in hospitals will be announced in the Ontario budget Thursdsy, it was learned here today. The grants will be based on an entirely new system and will total nearly a million and a half dollars. They will be rated at $1,000 for every three hundred square feet of out-patient space in new hospitals, and will be retroactive to any hospitals which have already been built Regulations have not been drafted yet but out-patients department will Include examination, treatment, emergency operating and recovery rooms. They will also cover any part of a laboratory or an X-ray room used by the out-patient departments, Confirm News.

Health Minister Dr. Msc-Kinnon Phillips in confirming the news said they were a start on, floor apace grants. The next step he said might be the taking in of laundry and heating and other services In hospitals. The principle is to save labor and beds in hospitals. Patients mill, UlnMtM mwA Bfvl- rooms would mesn one bed in tour and perhaps one in three could be freed for chronic patients.

Maintenance grants ef 10 cents per patient per treatment started, the The minister had accepted the new principle arid would "go along with FEEL. "VERT UNSAFE. TEL AVIV, Israel. March 10. (Reuters) A party et Jewish immigrants from Poland told reporters here today that the situation of Jews In Poland "approaches especially since Russia broke off relations with Israel.

They said the 000 Jews remsining In Poland ft It "very Inside The Honored LONDON. March 10 V-A timid, alight lad of 16 led glittering line of admirals, gen erals and air force officers who passed, before the Queen today at sn investiture in Buckingham Palace. Jack Bamford, an apprentice miner from Giltbrook, received from tha Queen's hand the George Cross Britain's highest civilian decoration for bravery. Saved Two He was honored for rescuing his two-brothers, Brian, (, and Roy, 4, from blazing home last October. that seized him yesterday by a.

Judge who his arrival in this shy; South Africa's Justice Chief rr. Page 3 CCEA Give Gorman Ultimatum on Light Page 3 DCRA Makes Match Longer, Tougher Page 10 Duke of Edinburgh Consort on Crusade Page 12 Tha Cruet Seax Page 13 For and About Women Paget 11. 14, 15 Liberal Detest Waste. Probe Motion Paga 17 Sport Start on Page Market (4)'; Radio (26); Comic (27) Ottawa; Able Seaman Richard Montreal, and Petty Officer Edward Aubrey. Victoria.

This was the first visit of the Athsbaiksn to the Japanese capital, although she is on her third tour of duty In the Korean war theatre. 'Nlttocul Detent Plwito I boy was equal to the occasion lnjclrcumstancea Charge sgauut the Palace. He shook hands with the Queen and when she asked him If he was recovered now, he replied: "I am all right. Your Majesty." He also told the Queen he planned to return to his Job in the mine after skin grafting operations. Burns Suffered In the rescue have not fully healed yet.

Later, hemmed in by an admiring crowd and scores of photographers on the pavement outside the Palace, the shy hero gave one of his infrequent smiles as he fingered the purple box holding his George Cross. He is the youngest person ever to win the award. The investiture was held In the Palace's white and gold state ballroom. The Queen stood on a dais before two thrones of state. On duty around bar were members of" the Yeoman of-the Guard in their scarlet and gold tudor uniform.

It Decorated. The Queen decorated 50 officers and men for gallantry in Malaya and Korea. Among others to receive hon ors wss Miss Diana Wynyard, the actress, who was msde a Commander of the Order of the British Empire; Lord Barb ion of Tara, a pioneer British pilot, received the Knight Grand Cross, Order of the British Empire, for bis years of service to civil aviation Vice-Admlral William Mc-Brld40Uw3aaBml-ot the upply and secretariat branch at the Admiralty, was made a Knight Commander of the Bath. Sir Kenneth Blacsurne, gov ernor of the Leeward Islands, became a Knight Commander of SL Michael and SL George, EXPECT REJECTION. TEHRAN, hen, March 10 (Reuters) Prime Minister Mo- h.T.

k. i. bh to turn down th. Ut BrttUh proposal for settling Ji Anglo- source here said todsy. Journal Today by Queen lined $150 for Buying Baby For His Wife TORONTO, March 10 (BUP) Jack Shinder, of Brooklyn, NT.

who tried to buy his wife fined described him as a "victim of nis win tuna, were witnarawn at the Crown's request. Shinder attorney, Louis Her man, said he would raise the money-byl p.m. and Shinder went bsck to Jsil until then. After he is relessed, they said, they intend to go home as fast ss they can. Magistrate S.

C. Gullen, the prosecution and the defence 111 agreed that the 19-year-old Brooklyn couple only Wanted a baby for themselves and were innocent victims" of a bables- or-export racket police believed had been operating between Toronto and New York City lor the last' two yesrs. The only witness at the bear ing. Detective Sergeant Bernard Simmons, said he did not believe the Shinder were connected with the ring. The Judge turned down a request for a suspended sentence, laying Ontario's laws against making a false statement on a birth certificate could not' be violated, but he did not impose the maximum sentence of 1300 or six months In Jail, or both.

Shinder plesded guilty, to the charge of making the falae statement. His wife pleaded innocent COMIC DICnONABY. Secret: Anything a woman doesn't know. -(CnrrrisM. less.

ami tWEfcfHER MONTREAL, March 10. 3 Dominion Weather Office report: -Ottawa Region: Sunny today; Wednesday sunny with increasing cloudiness in the a little warmer Wednesday; winds northwesterly 14 today. light southwesterly Wednesday JiKl JUUltlWUHUI n1 hlh Wedne. 10. Sum of Sunny and Svnontis: Aoart from some cloudiness in Eaitemj.

TttrtmUt Quebec, kleaare clear through- out the province this IA severe, storm moved op -thei leastern seaboard last mgni. giv i 'Murder InlheRitz Stirs London, Blonde Englishwoman' And Eccentric French Baron Dead LONDON, March 10. (Reuters) Scotland Yard experts today studied a crumpled note written in French as a possible clue to the murder of a beautiful blonde Englishwoman in room 223 of London's plush Ritz Hotel. The tully-clothed body et 30year-old Eileen Hill, a retired policeman's daughter, was found yesterday on the pinl sstin bedcover of the room. Her throat was slashed.

At the foot of the bed in the clegs nt bedroom, wealthy, 'eccentric French Baron Pierre do Laitre was lying dead with his suspenders tangled around hi neck. Find Note. The crumpled note lay beside the bodies. Managers of the 140-room hotel sought to prevent any scandal from blackening the Bltz's reputation. The hotel staff was sworn to secrecy.

welters, stewards and ben- bops assured the fashionsble guests last night that there ml nothing wrong despite the pres ence of police snd newspaper men, none ol the guests knew of the' double tragedy nntil newspaper headlines told them this morning about "the murder si the Police were apparently working on the theory that tt wa a case of murder and suicide. They did not immediately Indicate the contents of the note. Tha couple had arrived kit -week-end and registered as man and wife with a Paris address. J- Today the girl's father. Arthur Hill, told reporter hit daughter ws always a secretive He said he had never beard of the Frenchman before.

To the villagers of Plecbetel in Brittany, the 40-year-old Baron waa well-known. They said today be had been sees often at hla eaatle in Pleehatel month ago with a tali. blonde Englishwoman. There was a local scsndsl lit November, 1041, when the Baron, also tall and blond, on the eve of his wedding to a French woman, chased her and her father from the castle ground with a rifle. He tired but no one was hurt.

Next sbout 600 guests arrived at the castle for the wedding ceremony but were told It wouldn't take place. Nevertheless, he entertained them to a lavish "wedding Three months later, he married the women. She divorced him a few months later and Is now reported living in the south of -P- Bsd Large Means. Madam Laitre, the Baron' mother, refused to comment in Paris today. A family friend ssid: 'The reasons for this drama sre a' complete mystery to me.

Pierre led a happy, carefree life. He hsd large mean at his disposal." Madame De Lalttre'a house- keeper said an attractive blonde Englishwoman called at the Uiouse three Weeks sgo snd saked for the Baron. She said the woman returned a few days later with bruises on her fsoe. "Monsieur Pierre appeared to be In an over-excited state during the days preceding hi lsst trip 4o England she morning hd cam to ask me whether there were any letters for him, but there never arere any." FORECAST air from Northern Quebec surged southwards and several place reported below zero reading. Tempmtares.

Last night's low and yestef-dsy's high: Vancouver 44, tt; Victoria 44, Edmonton IS, SO; Calgary li. Yellow knife iTb, Ssskatoon at. 44; Reglna Winnipeg J4. tl; PL Churchill Ub, 12b; Port Arthur mu oltawi sere, tt; Montreal X. 20; Hslifsa 14.

3i ttmtn is itrt above tim a tm. Ta win mm si tm ivcti. 1 1 big gale force wind reaching 10 mile, per hour in part of Nw-I: foundUnd. but this storm is noWj7. New York 12, 40.

moving off toward Greenland Thm Jttm ml Owiiiwm.i-e at rami and will not affect eur forecast regions. -Temperatures last night went well below theaessonsl norma 1 throughout the province ss cold it.

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