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wo 6 El HE SINGLE C- COPY 3 1 TWENTY PAGES REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1947 VOL. XLIII. No. 81 tfl Strike cripples U.S. telephones WASHINGTON, April 7 (AP).

A strike by an estimated 340,000 workers Monday crippled the United States telephone system alter union leaders spurned a dramatic last-minute government plea for a 48-hour postponement. The walkout began in eastern cities and spread progressively across the country as clocks ticked off the 6 a.m. deadline in each time zone. The tie-up first of its kind in American history was complete when west coast workers left their jobs. Some employees halted work a few minutes in advance of the general signal and in many cities picket lines were promptly were ij ji.

T'-T'-v; V'W 0 6 i 0 i 2 -year lease called for OTTAWA, April 7 (CP). Finance Minister Abbott announced Monday a maximum increase of 10 percent in rental ceilings on self-contained housing accommodation provided the landlord is prepared to enter into a renewal lease for a minimum term of two years. He also announced that hotel accommodation becomes control-free immediately. The increase allowed in housing accommodation would become effective upon the expiration of the present lease. If the tenant refuses the proffered two-year renewal lease he may be required Ic vacate at the end of his present lease.

In such a case, the landlord may put the 10 percent increase into effect in renting to another tenant. If the landlord is not prepared to offer his tenant the two-year renewal lease, the tenant may remain in occupancy after the expiration of his current lease as a tenant from month to month at the previous rental ceiling and will continue at the thrown around telephone company properties. Despite rejection of the postponement plea, the government kept up its efforts to end the dispute. A negotiating session involving long distance setup of the Bell system broke up here at 8 ajn. MS.T.) after 23 1 2 hours continuous meeting.

But conciliator William Margolis said the group only recessed for a half hour to eat. "Were keeping right at it, Margolis told a reporter. Were plugging hard. A long lines agreement a year ago provided the basis for a settlement for the entire system. The Mines closed In safety strike WASHINGTON, April 7 (B UP).

A "safety strike the nations coal fields Monday dealt another blow at the steel industry, already under short rations from a one-week "memorial work stoppage called by John L. Lewis. Reports from mining areas indicated that members of the Unit- ed Mme others (A-i government seemed to be concen- h-H rft titled arrv trating on the long-lines phase solidly. Lewis had issued any, mvolving directly the Am- formal new stake order but heriejM Tclephfnc and JTelegraph Bell System parent firm, and the American Union of Telephone Workers, NJ.T.W. affiliate.

Separate talks affecting 33,000 southwestern Bell Telephone workers down ended at midnight. It was -A-erc scheduled to resume at 1 pun. jniQf --j) 4 40 Ac. HOCKEY LINEUP STARTS EARLY Reginans have an acute case of jockey fever in spite of spring sunshine. General ticket sale for Tuesdays Moose Jaw-Bran-don playoff doesnt open until 7:30 tonight, but sharp at noon three boys took up their posts outside the Queen City Gardens office on Hamilton street and started the lineup.

They said they would do it in shifts, three others relieving them during the afternoon. Gardens officials reported an unprecedented demand for tickets with hundreds of fans coming from Brandon and Moose Jaw. 0, called as a mourning period for the 111 miners killed in a mine (MJS.T.) at the labor department. Some telephone workers halted blast at Centralia, 111- In Ohio wort a few minutes in advance where 13,000 of Lewis 400,000 soft 0f the general signal and picket coal union members are employed, the pits were empty. Thomas price, secretary of Ohios district six.

said he didnt believe any of our miners are going back to work until their mines have been inspected and re-inspected. lines appeared in many cities. Seek $12 Boost They were striking in support of demands for $12 a week pay boost, plus nine other contract revisions, Toll calls, information and local PEACETIME MANOEUVERS: Paratroopers jump from their flying boxcars ouer Fort Benning. during a combined Army air and ground forces tactical demonstration. Army officers from all parts of the country came to study the manoeuvers.

That war about the situation; operator service were the first to throughout the soft coal districts' feel the effegjs of the strike, ex of Pennsylvania, West Virginia cept where supervisory and other and other areas. In Illinois. mem-j non-union personnel were able to bers of the rival progressive mine carry the load. ONTARIO FLOODS TAKE 5 LIVES Damaae feared in millions of dollars when rivers rise same time to enjoy protection from eviction. The tenant has 30 days in which to make up his mind whether or not he wants to accept the landlords offer.

If he does not accept the offer, it acts as a notice to vacate at the end of the lease subject to provincial law. If the tenant accepts, the two-year renewal lease may be terminated by the tenant at any time on 30 days notice but is binding on the landlord for the full two-year term. (For local reaction to the increase in rent ceilings, see page three.) Mr. Abbott said the two-year renewal lease and the 10 percent increase will not apply to housing accommodation built since Jan. 1, f944, and this includes dwellings created by structural conversion or reconstruction since that date, because the rentals of such dwellings have been fixed at higher levels related to costs of labor and materials.

Present regulations of the prices board specifically provided that the rentals of all housing accommodations built and completed since Jan. 1, 1944, shall be fixed at an amount which in the opinion of the rental appraiser or of the court of rentals appeals, will yield a fair return based on prevailing costs of land, labor and materials. May Add Increase In the cases of houses that have not previously been rented and have not a fixed maximum rental, the rental appraiser will add the 10 percent increase when setting rentals. In such cases, the landlord will not be required to offer the tenant the two-year renewal lease but rather the landlord and the tenant can agree on a lease for any term. The new changes also provide for an extra 10 percent increase in rentals in cases where the tenant is sub-letting three or more rooms in other words, operating the accommodation, as a rooming house.

To obtain this extra 10 percent, the landlord must apply to the rentals appraiser for this adjustment in rental before offering his tenant the two-year lease. The order also permits the cor- Rooms to go up TORONTO, April 7 (CP). Ralph 'J. Haffey, managing director of. the Hotel association of Canada, said costs of hotel accommodation in Toronto probably will be increased by 10 to 15 percent as a result of dropping of such controls announced in, Ottawa Monday by Finance Minister Abbott.

Across the Dominion he said the increase probably would be 12 percent. Says Tenants Favored OTTAWA, April 7 (CP). Wf J. Leclair, president of the Property Owners Associatiorrof Canada, commented Monday that the newly-announced 10-percent increase in rentals ceilings was satisfactory as far as it goes." However, he added, we should have liked to have seen some arrangement made whereby a house owner could recover his property if required for his own uses. He said the new regulations appeared to favor the tenant more than the landlord and owners but added that the Property Owners association never had atked that controls be removed entirely.

New Wage Demands? MONTREAL, April 7 (CP). Clarence Rosenhek, honorary legal adviser of the Montreal Teri-ants Association, charged in a statement Monday that the 10 percent rental increase of self-contained housing accommodation will hit the vast majority of tenants much harder than the government thinks" and will spark new industrial wage demands and new economic dislocations. Mr. Rosenhek said those responsible for the increase will find that the consumer and the worker will not take it on the chin with the good grace he has taken other price increases. It may take a little time to have its full effect, but this may well be the straw' that broke the camels back, Mr.

Rosenhek said. Dial system were not affected. Completely automatic, they presumably could operate for a long period without maintenance work. It was Joseph A. Beime.

president of fhe Independent National Federation of Telephone Workers workers union were continuing to work, but the were out Whether the next move in the dispute would come from the government or the union was uncertain. Government officials were in a ticklish position. They couldn't inches. Other towns, including Dresden where the water in the business section was 10 feet deep, made similar reports. An additional death was reriver, water covered the business) ported Monday from Collingwood, section two feet deep with thejwhere nine year old Gordon flood peak still to come.

I Eccles of that town slipped off a At Wallaceburg, once reported, bridge into the flood-swollen three-quarters under" water, the Underwood creek, situation eased with the Syden-1 The city of London, believed the dropping about 181 worst was over, but not before LONDON, April 7 (CP). Five deaths and damage running into possibly millions of dollars was the toll of Ontarios severe Easter floods as hundreds of residents in the western part of the province were evacuated from their inundated homes. Heaviest loss was in towns along the swollen Sydenham river rampag-ing 4,000 during Cross dozens of a disastrous already-flooded order the miners into pits which! announced at 5:53 asnthat the union and the goverment on- sider unsafe. But there was no' A -last-mmute appeal by Labor th SeCretary Schwellenbach, who question that re-nspection of the ha(i leaded lor a 48hour post- mmes would require months. CIent of the stake, was left unanswered by the policy committee, summoned from bed to hear the secretarys request.

NO INTERRUPTION FOR PRESS. RADIO NEW YORK, April 7 (AP). The start of the telephone strike across the United States Monday Truman emphatic WASHINGTON. April in Kent county and the Thames which forced Londoners from their homes the weekend, gave Red workers heavy work in communities and poised threat to President Trumans Isolated from the rest of the province because all main highways were flooded, Chatham Monday became a community of river watchers as the stream, 16 feet, nine inches above normal, neared the record height of the worst flood ever to hit here in April, 1937. The crest of the flood is expected Tuesday morning and 4,000 persons had hastily evacuated homes in the low-lying western part of the city Saturday night as the Thames reached, its height.

The water came within inches of the tops of breakwaters before the crest tore downstream past the city. These were the flood deaths Sunday: Mrs. Jeanette Mack, 65, and Mrs. Margaret Rulett, 64, swept off a make-shift wooden pathway into the swollen Oshawa creek; William Oldridge, 78, drowned in one foot of water his London home after suffering a heart attack; Willis Bowers, 50, who fell from a punt into the flood waters at Wallaceburg. The whole province had suffered one of the heaviest springtime blows since the great floods of 1937.

Heavy rains of Friday and Saturday were followed by winds of gale force that lashed flood waters into high waves Sunday. There was snow at several points and as much as five inches of snow at the lakehead. Thousands of acres were under water in the counties of Kent, Essex, Middlesex, Lambton, Elgin and Perth. Heavy loss was suffered in potato crops, washed away in floods around Sarnia and other western Ontario cities. Onion fields and many acres of other products were destroyed.

Family Evacuated OTTAWA, April 7 (CP). One family in the nearby town of Eastview was evacuated by rowboat Sunday night and others prepared to evacuate as flood waters covered nine square blocks to a depth of two feet from the swollen Rideau river and elsewhere a number of highways were inundated and a bridge washed out. The village of Embrun, 25 miles southeast of here, was split intc two isolated sections when the rampaging Castor river swept away the 55-year-old steel bridge which spans the stream in the centre of the village. De Gaulle makes hid for power STRASBOURG, France April 7 (AP). Gen.

Charles De Gaulle called on the French people Monday to organize themselves into what would amount to a political party supporting him and his ideas. He said this would prevent a dictatorship, anarchy or overthrow of the independence of the state. It was the former provisional presidents frankest bid for return to political power and came a day after he had declared that, should a new tyranny menace the world, the United States and France will stand together in opposing it. (See also, De Gaulle Still page 13.) De Gaulle told a crowd of 60,000 massed in front of the city hall that he believed the new constitution should be revised to provide for a strong executive. His speech Sunday was at a ceremony honoring American war dead.

Some observers interpreted De Gaulles address as an allusion to Communism and an indication that he would work to tie France closely to the western powers in the event he returns to active politics. Saturday reiterated and widened his declaration of a month, ago that the United States would send money and personnel to fight totalitarian influences in free countries abroad. The president declared the United States must adopt a policy of aiding free nations to maintain their freedom and of keeping the country militarily strong for that purpose. His unequivocal address to Washingtons annual Jefferson day dinner made clear the presidents view that the United Na tions Is mans hope of putting out and keeping out the fires of war for all time. ing the press and radio, An official of the long lines department of the American Telephone and Telegraph company said such wires were set up for continuous operation and theres virtually nothing we have to do to maintain them.

It would be many months before the system would fall apart. However union spokesmen pre dieted that because of the walkout of maintenance workers the com-! municatlons services would feel the impact of the strike in less than a week. Saskatchewan See RENT CEILINGS Page 9 40 injured in 'wreck COLUMBIA CITY, April 7 But. he added, in supporting! the United Nations we must, when necessary, supplement its activi-j calls cut off We must act in time ahead of distance time to stamp out the smoulder- n. Vk.mHia rMtv iniurine at least 40 ing beginnings of any conflict that communication between SaSkat-mbia City, injuring 40; may threaten to spread over the with a few exceptions, was cut off by noon Monday by the tele- (AP).

The Pennsylvania railroads Gotham Limited train, carrying more than 300 passengers, was wrecked early Monday at a street crossing in South Col- Rounding out his second year in Persons. An Indiana state trooper at the! scene said no one was killed Triplets born 57 hours apart LIVERPOOL, N.S., April 7 (CP). Triplets born here last week, two of them 57 hours apart, were reported doing well after what attendants described as delivery rare in medical history. The first child, a daughter weighing five pounds, was born to Mrs. Allan Freeman at 8:45 p.m.

Wednesday night in a Liverpool nursing The second child, another daughter weighing six pounds, was born at 530 a.m. Saturday, and 15 minutes later a third girl arrived weighing 5 Vi pounds. The attending surgeon reported that the mother was also doing well. REGINA PIONEER DIES SUNDAY James Balfour, K.C., prominent ters, Joan and Lois, of Regina pioneer, barrister, and and Mrs. Stuart Steiner, formerly office, the president spoke with a worker stake south of the No major decisions for Moscow parley Saskatche telephones border, according to wan department of officials.

Around 11 a.m. some switchboards in North Dakota accepted calls originating in Saskatchewan and other American centres ac- confidence and bluntness that prompted old Democrats to declare at once that he would be the unanimous choice of the party for re-election in 1943. On March 12 the president requested congressional authority to help with money and personnel eepted calls around 9 am. How- outright and none of the injured appeared in critical condition, although three or four were seriously hurt. There were no Canadians among the injured.

Arthur Jackson, Columbia city policeman, said he was approaching the crossing in a cruiser car as the train approached and I saw a burst of flame shoot from the locomotive. Then the engine nosed over. K. E. Berkins of Fort Wayne, the brakeman, said the train apparently just jumped the track.

State police reported there were 15 cars in the train and 13 were derailed. The locomotive remained upright. The train was en route from Chicago to New York via the Greek and Turkish government resistance to Communism. BRITONS HOLIDAY LONDON, April 7. Warm sunshine Monday saved Britains Easter holidays, drawing crowds of holidaymakers to resorts and sporting fixtures all over the country.

as the strike developed, all calls were being refused. There are an average of 40 long distance calls daily to the United States originating in Saskatchewan. The total for last year was 12,000. MOSCOW, April 7 (CP). The foreign ministers conference here will probably wind up within about 10 days without agreement on the key German questions of reparations and economic unity ancUthe ministers, will likely have to meet again in London in July to continue the struggle to bridge the division between east and west.

Some decisions are expected to be made this week but they will be unimportant ones, and until disputes are settled on economic unity and reparations work on drafting the German peace settle- twice mayor of Regina, died Sunday evening at his home in the Balfour apartments, at the age of 80. He had suffered a stroke Saturday. Besides his wife, he leaves four Thousand of refugees seen for Dominion WINNIPEG, April 7 (CP). Arthur Anderson. Winnipeg manager of the Swedish-American steamship line, said Monday that thousands refugees from inside Germany will be coming to Canada this summer if the Canadian government allots sufficient inspection teams to the work of making medical tests and issuing visas.

HUGE CARILLON NIAGARA FALLS, April 7. Valued at more than $30,000 55 giant bells arrived here Monday from the United Kingdom. 'River of woe back again Britain gets down to the job ment cannot get properly under way. After a steady, encouraging start, the conference faltered at the end of the third week when the ministers got to grips with basic problems and prospects for agreement here deteriorated rapidly after that. Now the conference can practically be written off so far as important decisions are concerned although some delegates dont rule out a dramatic llth-hour in-1 tervention by Prime Minister i Stalin, possibly in a Kremlin in- terview with State Secretary Marshall whom he has not yet seen, which might salvage some-think constructive out of these weeks of comparatively fruitless work.

But without a marked change jn the Russian attitude, failure cannot be averted here and Germany will remain as divided as ever, which also means the east-wrest division in Europe will harden still more. Britain and the United States have made earnest efforts here to obtain I Soviet adhesion to a common policy for Germany. Foreign Secretary Bevins blueprint for Germany offered by far the most constructive plan and while Russia is in agreement on some points she cannot accept the fundamental British American premise that vanquished Germany should cease to be a burden on the victorious powders. The Russians believe Germany is a territory to be exploited, primarily for the benefit of Russia as a country which suffered from Mary Louise Balfour, of San Francisco. Funeral service will be hei i Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in Knox United church.

Rev. J. P. C. Fraser officiating.

Born in Mount Forest, in 1867, Mr. Balfour came to what was then Assiniboia, North West Territories in 1883. He settled first on the present site of Regina, but after a short time moved on to Calgary, During the Riel rebellion he drove a transport from Edmonton to Fort Victoria. In 1885 he returned to his first home in the west, the Regina distrit. and homesteaded at Lumsden.

Taking up school teaching, he taught the first school established west of Lumsden, taught at Battleford for a short time, then returned again to Regina. He studied law with Messrs. Scott and Hamilton, at that time the most prominent law firm in Regina. Although not the oldest barrister practising in Saskatchewan, Mr. Balfour had the honor of being the longest on the Roll, having been admitted as an Advocate of the Law Society of the.

North West Territories in 1895. He opened an office in Regina in 1895 and went into partnership with the late John Secord, Q.C., which continued until Mr. Se-cords death. Later he was in partnership with Wi M. Martin, now LONDON, April 7 (AP).

Englands river of wbe, a stream that appears mysteriously and just as mysteriously disappears, is flowing again for the first time in nine years to the terror of superstitious folk who believe the rivers appearance is a warning of disaster. Sometimes known as the Cater-ham woe water and sometimes simply as Croydon Bourne, the river last coursed through the Caferham valley near London in 1938 just before a typhoid epidemic claimed 43 lives in the region. Earlier appearances were recorded during the great plague of 1665 and during the First Great War, when each of the streams three rebirths preceded Allied military reverses. But L. V.

Gprdon, Caterham urban council surveyor, Monday discounted the supernatural belief about the woe water, and said it was merely the result of unusually heavy rainfall. balance the countrys accounts was uncertain. Final reports for the fiscal year ending March 31 were encouraging, showing expenditures below the revenue above estimates. The ordinary deficit was 569,000,000 ($2,276,000,000) against an anticipated deficit of 940,000,000. This, however, did not include below-the-line spending of 511,000,000 for excess profit tax refunds, post-war credit and war damage payments, and temporary housing.

The governments 1946-47 total ordinary spending was revenue was 3,341,000,000. Income was swollen some by proceeds from sale of surplus stores anj by surpluses from government trading. tional allocation of 100,000 tons a week to industry. As industry has been operating on about one-third of the coal available last year, the addition will represent an increase of about 13 percent. In the mrkets, at Thursdays close, prices were generally firm.

British govern-8 ment stocks continued recovery from the downward plunge of two weeks ago Chancellor Hugh Daltons cheap-money policy appeared to be holding up well. Prices were rising nearly all along the front. Increases were posted last week by the government for copper, lead, tin and cocoa. Budget guessing continued active. Dalton remained cagey.

Whether he would attempt to LONDON, April 7 (AP). Britains business men took their traditional Easter holiday this weekend with a little more cheer than appeared possible less than a week ago. The country appeared to be getting down to the hard job of repairing the damage done by the February coal crisis. Markets steadied and a sort of calm set in as the government prepared its budget for the April 15 reopening of parliament. Most encouraging news came from the coal front.

A drive for more miners was showing sustained success and production had passed the mark. The government reacted immediately to this development by announcing an addi Weather Light winds and generally clear skies will result in slightly higher temperatures tomorrow. Milder. Light winds. Low tonight and high Tuesday 20 and 40.

Ktiu: Clear and ir.hder. Winds light increasing to south at 13 m.ph. tomorrow afternoon. Low tonight and high Tuesday 20 and 44. i Prince Albert: Not much change in temperature.

Low tonight 20. High Tues-(Uv 40. Swift Ctrrrst: Wanner. Low tonight 23. High Tuesday 43.

Lethbridge: Wanner. Low tonight 33 High Tuesday 55. Idmsntan: Wanner. Low tonight 30. Yigh Tuesday 33.

Max. Min. Precip. Regina 31 Moose Jaw 36 Saskatoon 41 Prince Albert 24 North Battleford 40 Swift Current Kstevan Yorkton Winnipeg 3i Port Arthur 32 Edmonton Calgary Toronto ms JAMES BALFOUR sons, Arthur, of Toronto, and James William and Reginald all of Regina; a daughter, Mary, of Washington, D.C.; four grandsons, Alan, James Craig and Gordon Balfour, all of, Regina; and three grand-daugh- See JAMES BALFOUR page 9 See NO MAJOR Page 9 i i i I.