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I McGAV N'S 1 1 Todoy'i Second Front Page For tomorrow's oti. VANCOUVER, B.C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1953 Soviet Secret Police Crackdown On Berlin Order Travel THE VANCOUVER PROVINCE rumen ctpppp rowps down i DBcDnnDnafl THE Mews By WARREN BALDWIN from Th Vancouver Pruvlmt Ottawa Burrau I "3 I Ijj OTTAWA The House of Common is experiencing a war a I 2 V. of nerves that may have it t' Vi effect on progress of buhinc5s A TV until the last day that it would 4 VT7 51 be practical for the Prime Mini- -f, i A. 3 1 I i ter to dissolve the House and ,4 w. hSJ L-T-; M't Isolation' Move Is Aimed At Stream of Refugees BERLIN After March 15 all Soviet-sector Germans will have to obtain special passes from the Communist regime in order to cross into West Berlin.

The crack-down on intra-city travel has been ordered by the secret police, partly to stem the exodus of refugees and also to impress a feeling of "isolation" on beleaguered Berlin. vide for an election the lj i- -Jp 5 ruddle of May this deadline d.LrV date would be about March 11. I 1 i i Pfl 'f 1 f' ri 19 in i ia Mil i- i a VICE-ADMIRAL E. R. Mainguy (left), chief of Canadian naval staff, talks with West on his arrival at headquarters of the First British Commonwealth Division in Korea.

RCN chief made complete tour of area. GOING, GOING and pone, a second after this picture was taken, was the top r0 feet of the steeple on St. Olaf'p Church in Minneapolis. It was razed by wreckers after a $250,000 fire had putted the church. Steeple still stood after blaze, but it threatened to fall unexpectedly by itself, so was pulled down.

DEFENDS LADY MOUNTBATTEN Nehru Boils at Red's Charge Throne Shaky Baudouin Centre Of Battle BRUSSELS-(Reiiters) The Belgian Government weathered a shouting, name-calling attack hy anti-royalists in the Chamber of Deputies today with a vote of confidence in the renewed political turmoil over the monarchy. Premier Jean van Houtte won 107-to-95 vote in a confidence test in which defeat would have meant resignation for his Catholic Party administration. BRINGS RESPITE The victory brought respite at least temporarily in the political warfare rising under a throne already the shakiest in Europe. Today's debate opened in pandemonium. The Socialists had demanded the immediate debate on the government's handling of the current "affaire Baudouin." The fight is over a newpaper story carried by the biggest paper in France, France-Soir, in which the 22-year-old King was cutting short a Riviera vacation because of "scandalous" attacks at home.

SOCIALISTS MAD The Socialists were rapping him at the time on the grounds he should have stayed home during the Belgian flood disaster. Van Houtte denied the interview. The paper replied with a picture of Baudoin talking to its reporter and a photostat of his copy. The original protest over Bau-douin's southern excursion the government insists it was to I help him recuperate from an 1 anacK oi nu simmerea aown after Baudouin came home. But the newspaper story on his reasons for returning set them humming again.

PLANE LANDS ON TOP OF ANOTHER AT AIRPORT TORONTO A light plane landed on top of another light aircraft at Toronto's island airport today. Neither pilot was injured. Canada Income Tax Said World's Lowest Parliamentary Aide Denies Budget Favors 'Rich Man' Canfldlan Press OTTAWA Jean Lesage, parliamentary assistant to Finance Minister Abbott, says Canadian income tax rates are the lowest in the world. He was replying Wednesday in the Commons to charges by opposition groups that Mr. Abbott had presented Canadians with a "rich man's budget" for 1953-54.

"lie" and from Prime Minister Nehru in Parliament today. "It's a falsehood. It's a lie. It's an insinuation of the vilest type," Nehru shouted at Red NEW DELHI (AP) A Communist charge that Lady Mount-batten is visiting India to bring the country into the Western-proposed Middle East Defence Organization brought shouts of ACROSS CANADA By way of preparation, the Red Gestapo slammed special controls on the elevated traffic into the main East sector station on Friedrichstrasfe Wednesday TRAINS STOPPED For several hours trains in both directions were stopped and passengers checked, but through train service was resumed later Snipping the elevated service in four-power Berlin would seriously hamper movements of more than 400,000 Germans wio cross the Soviet sector border in both direction4 daily. The United States high commissioner, B.

Conant, sfid the Allies are ready to insist on "free circulation" of Belin's entire population. The special-pass system wou'd cut sharply into the refugee flow. TAKE ADVANTAGE Most of the East zone Ger mans reach West Berlin by com ing first through the East sector of the cit; and taking advantage ot the leakiness of the sector frontier. Meantime, a Berlin rumor sped the rounds today that the Russians are planning a new coup to regain the political initiative in Germany. Diplomatic quarters buzzed with talk that the Russians contemplate: (1,) Announcement around fnid-May that they would withdraw their troops from Germany June 1.

(2) Demands from Moscow that Germany be reunited from the Rhine to the Oder-Neisse. ONE HARD FACT" The cocktail circuit which passed the report around came up with one hard fact, diplomats said Moscow has already assigned Gen. Sergei Shtemenko to organize the withdrawal of the 300,000 Red Army troops and assignment of quarters and equipment to the East German "people's police." As the diplomats see it, the Russian game would be catch the Western powers off base by a lightning move. They calculate the Germans, once the Russians have physically left their soil, would be something less than friendly to any Allied troops who remained. At that point, both West and East Germany would be highly susceptible to unity.

The executive committee decided in principle to establish an official party weekly to compete for readers with The Tribune. Trade unions will be asked to help finance the proposed weekly. Also condemned by the partv executive roup were 18 allegedly Communist-led organizations ranging from the World Federation of Trad" Unions to the World Federation of Scientific Workers. Bevan, himself a member of the Labor party's executive committee, now is on a tour of India where he has called for a "third force" midway between the U.S. and Russia.

Rabies Moving South, Nov Near U.S. Border LETHBRIDGE Rabies has been found in two southern Alberta towns, Dr. Robert Connell, animal pathologist at the veterinary research laboratory here, reported. The virus was found in the heads of two dogs, one from Picture Butte, 15 miles north of Lethbridpe, and the other from Burdett, 65 miles east of here and 60 miles parliamentary leader Puchal-apalli Sundarayya. Speaking in the Council of States, parliament's upper chamber, Sundarayya charged Lady Mountbatten was in the country either to enlist India for MEDO or to get India not to oppose Pakistan's joining the organization.

CONVALESCING Lady Mountbatten, whose husband, Admiral Earl Mountbatten was Britain's last viceroy and first governor-general in India, has frequently- visited the country. She has been here since early this month. It was officially announced on her arrival that she had come to recover from an illness in Malta. As independent ers sought to quiet Nehru's supporters and those of the Communist leader, the prime minister declared: "I CANNOT ALLOW "I have to maintain the decorum not only of this house and this government, but also of the whole nation. I cannot allow such insinuation to go on." Sundarayya made his charge after Nehru told a questioner that India has not been approached to join MEDO and has no official information that Pakistan has received such an invitation.

would spend approximately $720 on goods subject to sales tax. "Reduction of 2 percent would at best benefit the taxpayer with $14.40 a year, that is to say, a little more than 41. month." Some had suggested that income tax exemptions be increased to $1500 from $1000 for single and to $3000 from $2000 for married persons. Such a move would mean a loss to the treasury of $425,000,000. "I do not believe I have to comment on the situation to show that at this time it was surely impossible to increase the exemption said Mr.

Lesage. For the next two weeks, in others words, the spring elec- tion jitters are likely to con-: tinue with both sides watching the other like a pair of circling prizefighters. Possibility? of a spring elec- tion are now extremely remote but Liberals and Conservatives refuse to give tip their respective hopes and fears. Humors 1 Ivintf Rumors got around Wednesday 'that the Senate, which has temporarily run out of business had been alerted to stand by for dissolution. This was laigely dissipated when Senate Leader Wishart Robertson announced that it would adjourn today until March 17.

The announcement failed to dispel rumors completely, however, because Mr. Robertson seemed to lay some emphasis on the fact that ths Senators could be called back at any time. A good section of Liberal rank and file has been urging 'the spring election for some time and the budget has done nothing to change their feelings. It is reported, however, that Prime Minister St. Laurent has resisted all pressure.

The only 'encouragement he is said to have given is that he would con- gider it if he could lay the responsibility for calling a pre- Coronation election on the Con-t servatives. Not only does he feel himself that an election before the Coro- nation would be improper but he is convinced that Canadians generally would resent it. Cautious, Cagey Whether they realize this or Inot Conservatives are being ex-I tremely cautious and cagey. They frankly don't want the election until the fall and in 52 l- days of debate have been ex- tremely careful not to throw down the gauntlet. This is a "marked contrast to the pre-election session of 1949.

Within three days of the open-T ing in 1949 the Conservatives had presented the traditional election challenge with a want i of confidence motion which told the governor-general his ad-' visors had lost the confidence 5 of the House of Commons. It was voted down by the then tslim government majority but -the budget motion hurled it in again even- in stronger form, regretting that "Your Excellency's advisors no longer pos- sess the confidence of the coun- try" The budget motion this year has been worded deliberately to avoid any challenge of this kind which might be snapped up by the government. In spite of the Currie report debates and the vigorous attack that the op- position is now making on the emergency powers bill, there is not the hint of a suggestion that the government should re-. sign. A Little Ulilder In fact as March 11 comes rearer the opposition seems to grow a little milder.

At the I same time they are using delay-J ing tactics on things like the emergency powers bill which might provide ai election issue. 5 Without deliberately filibusters' ing any measure which might give the government an excuse to jump, they may see that as i little business as possibte is completed including the budget debate within the next two I weeks. If the government did decide to move, it might then be open to the charge of rush-ing into election before parlia- ment had approved the fiscal 'measures or voted supply. But after March 11 things may be different :U.S. Arrests Union's "i Film Actress SILVER CITY.

NM-(AP)- Rosura Revueltas. Mexican actress starring in a movie being "made by the International Union of Mine. Mill and Smelter Workers, was arrested by immi- gration officials Wednesday Miss Revueltas has the lead 'i in "Salt of the Earth." the movie being filmed the Communist- led union with the co-operatinn ef several Hollywood artist -WM nv rerusra io wn en-; -jfressional investigators if they! 5 were Communists. Morris Wright, editor of the mine-mill newspaper The Union. aid immigration gave Miss nevuenas ine cnoire of leaving the.

U.S. voluntarily or being placed undT arrest He said the off.cials declared there were no subversive fac- tors Involved in the arrest, merely a violation of immigra- regulations. i i i U.K. Labor Party Tries To Achieve Harmony LONDON (Reuters) Leaders of Britain's Labor party have ordered the party's leftist and rightist factions to quit shouting at each other. In a major effort to re-establish, party harmony, the party executive committee censured: 1.

Aneurin Sevan's- leftist I West Berlin Police Capture Three Red Spies BERLIN (INS) West German police today announced the uncovering of a Berlin espionage ring and the arrest of three persons accused of spying for Communist Czechoslovakia. The arrests reportedly were made with the co-operation of the U.S. intelligence. One of the three alleged spies reportedly confessed to delivering to the Soviet sector liaison office information on Allied troop movements and installations in West Germany, shipping in the North Sea and West German border guards. King to Return Power to People KATMANDU.

Napal (AP) King Tribhuvana, who took over personal rule over this Himalayan country six months ago, will hand powers back to a popular government headed bv his former crime minister. P. Koirala. by mid-March. The decision fololwed proposals to merge the three leading Nepalese parties under the leadership of Koirala, a moderate politically.

Mr. Lesage, member for the Quebec constituency of Mont-magny-lTskt, said Canadian income tax rates are the lowest in the world and exemptions are the highest, despite the fart Canada had "one of the best systems of social security in the world." Through taxation and social security, the government was taking money from those who had it and giving it to those in need. BACK TO 1949 With the reductions announced in the budget Feb. 19, Canadian taxes would return to 1949 rates for everyone except large corporations. The large corporations would continue to pay more.

"Is that a rich man's budget?" asked Mr. Lesage. He referred to the speech Tuesdav by J. M. Macdonnell, chief financial critic for the Progressive Conservative opposition.

CONTRADICTORY Mr. Macdonnell had said that the budget was framed as a "vote catcher for the mass of the electorate," said Mr. Lesage. In the "same breath" Mr. Macdonnell had said the tax reductions would go only to a small select group.

The opposition critic had succeeded in "contradicting himself utterly." Mr. Macdonnell had said 75 percent of Canadian wage earners would receive little or no benefit from income tax reductions. Mr. Lesage replied that 40 percent of wage earners already pay no income tax and could be given no relief from that tax. Both Mr.

Macdonnell and M. J. Coldwell. CCF leader, had suggested that the 10 percent sales tax be reduced to ease the burden on low-income groups. LITTLE BENEFIT "Persons in anv income group spend about 30 percent of their income on goods which are subject to sales tax." said Mr.

Lesage. "This means that the tax-oayer with an income of $2400 of court marriages of old. The children of such matches may be supervised by a governess They attend special schools with hand-picked teachers. Attractive wives whose minds are on clothes and amusements are considered likely to endanger a man's career. The ideal wife of a high functionary, from the party's viewpoint, is one who makes few claims on his time, or.

as a working wife, serves as her husband's assistant The intellectual elite occupy small but comfortable two or three-room apartments not much hy western standards but at least offering the great Soviet prize cf houting privacy. What Soviet bureaucrats call "the rule on wives" does not apply to women of these families. They can seek more modish couture and patroriie modern cosmetic shops. from the U.S. border, The Burdett case is the farthest south rabies has been reported since the outbreak befian in northern Alberta last summer.

CHILDREN Rl'RNKD TO DEATH IN ELAZE MONTREAL Three small children burned to death despite their mother's efforts to rescue them when fire destroyed their small, wooden, lh-storey home on the south shore of the St. Lawrence near here. PACKER CRUSHED UNDER BEETS LOAD WINNIPEG Joseph Soko-loski, 45, of Ladvwood, 25 miles northeast of Winnipeg, fell from a 12-foot hopper at the suburban Mose Spur packing plant Wednesday and was crushed to death beneath a pile of sugar beets. FLOOD AID SENT TO EUROPE TORONTO The Canadian National European Flood Relief Committee has given about S750.000 worth of relief to the flood victims of Britain and the Netherlands. 48 FLEE AS ROOF FALLS ON FACTORY EDMONTON Forty eight workers ran ior saiety today as the roof of a newly-built printing plant here coljapsed.

UNDERWATER DWELLERS BECOME TV STARS Man-eating sharks, devilfish and other marine monsters are becoming television stars, thanks to the British Admiralty and are rapidly replacing wrestlers, boxers and judo artists in thriller video shows. This innovation was recently introduced into the entertainment industry when HMS Reclaim lowered its cameras 100 feet into the sea 16 miles off Portsmouth, and spectators in that naval base could view on the screen the strange submarine life especially illuminated by powerful lamps, which ere lowered together with the cameras. ''Hungary's I till Mm RoH III III VIENNA AP) A Vienna newsraper averted tfdav that Hungary's deputy premier, Erno oero, t.ie hoviet satellites number f-o Communist, is "seriously ill" and may be in the process of being purged. Like 30 other top Communists reported to have fallen victim to the Soviet bloc's anti-Semitic drive, Gero is a Jew. AROUND THE WORLD 8 LANGUAGES SPOKEN WITHIN 15 MILES Switzerland, where four languages German, French, Italian and Romance ar spoken within only 15,940 miles of territory, isn't the most polyglot region in the world.

That record belongs to a region in Afghanistan, where Prof. Georg Morgenstierne, of Oslo University, has counted eight different languages within a radius of barely 15 miles. One of those idioms is an antiquated form of Sanscrit such 8S was in vogue around 2000 B.C. SILENT ''WINSTON" WINS COURT CASE Winston, a part-bulldog mongrel, won a court case at Chis-wich, England. A neighbor accused Winston of barking too mucti and appealed to the court for an injunction.

The judge and everyone else tried to make Winston bark. Winston only panted. The case was dismissed. HAND-CARVED BOAT TO BEAR ROYAL GIFTS A hand-carved 35-foot Sicilian fishing boat will sail to London with a cargo of Coronation gifts for the Queen and other members of Britain's Royal Family. Churchill Counters Scots Query Neatly LONDON Reuters Winston Churchill Wednesday defused an explosive Scots question asking tun to have the Queen named Elizabeth I of Scotland instead of Elizabeth II.

Scottish Labor member Emrys Huehes, referring to strong feeling in Scotland which recently caused nationalists there to blow up postal pillar box asked. "Will you not try to do something to remove this strong resentment?" The prime minister replied, "I shall be glad to hear from Mr. Hughes if he put i question in the piL4f box." MYTH OF CLASSLESS SOCIETY EXPOSED French Co-Eds Face Furious, 'Dowdy1 Girls READING, England (Reuters) Three beautiful Paris coeds will face the blazing fuy of Reading University women students when they arrive here Friday upon the invitation of the university's male students. The men announced Wednesday they invited the French beauties to lead col-legiat" festivities Saturday because their own girls aren't glamorojs enough Blonde Janet Farnham. 19, said: "We are discussing what to do to show the men how strongly we feel about it." Men students said, "just in case," burly escorts will be provided for the.

Paris lovelies. hanule the elite more gently than the west handles its rich men. A boss earning 15 times as much as a worker pays only 5 percent more tax. The Soviet rich can invest at 3 to 5 percent tax free in state banks, but, fearing purges or sudden devaluation as in 1947, few trust the banks. Instead they buy houses, furs and other luxury goods.

The survey goes on: Prime symbol of status In Soviet society is the dacha, or country villa. Members of the presidium and top government officials maintain theirs in Serebrynany Bor (Silver Forest), 30 miles southeast of Moscow, near the village of Tarasovka. -Here the dachi are large and sumptuously furnished. The route cut is heavily ic-arded, wit'a control points Soviet IPartr IBosscs Illical I Kaiik Conscious group for sending "brain trus'" teams up and down the country to spread their anti-rearmament program. 2.

Sir William Lawther miners' union leader, for blunt attacks on Bevan featured in Conservative newspapers. 3. The Daily Herald, Labor party newspaper, for "unnecessarily offensive" references to Bevan and his supporters. Chief targets were the "brain trust" teams organized by th Bevanite weekly Tribune. The teams, in defiance of party orders, have been stumping Britain for public questionrand-ao swer sessions ever since Bevan's row with party leaders over the cost of rearmament and US foreign policy.

at short intervals. The entire aiea is officially designated as a "forbidden zone." In other compounds, near the Serebrynany area and along the banks of the Moskva River, lesse. members of the elite nave their dachi, where their wives and children mingle and they themselves find occasional respite from the heavy chores of office. Top Soviet officials have few days off, not even an assured Sunday. Pressure of this kind is responsible for the early death of many hieh Soviet officials, even though special attention is given to their health.

Ministers have full-time private doctors who a-corn-pany them everywhere. Those just below in the hierarchy share a physician among five or six families. All elite homes have radios. Snecla! to The Province LONDON The way the men who run Russia live exposes the myth of a classless society in which all signs of rank and wealth were to be obliterated. That is the conclusion to be drawn from a new survey of the latest Russian five-year plan.

Fifty thousand party bosses, service officers, and favored artists and intellectuals make with their families a total of 200.000 Soviet aristocrats who are more class conscious than any s'Kiahtes in the western world. Many are rouble millionaires for they are allowed to keep their wealth and also pass it on to their children. In fact money, next to fear. has become the chief incen- tive in Soviet life. Even Stalin's inccma tax rr.sa many have small 6-Li.

screen Soviet TV sets as well. Since the war the children have had cameras, bicycles and sometimes motorcycles, even motorcars, many of which were picked up in Germany. Servants in such homes are employees of the government office or factory directed by the official. In such rank-conscious society, quite naturally, families Und to associate with others of the same status, and seek "good matches' for their children. Caes ef "unequal marriages" are becoming increasingly rare.

And such marriages as that of Stalin's son Vassily to the daughter cf Marshal Timoshenko, and of Stalin himself to Kaganovich sister, though not publicly celebrated cr even announced, do fact take on thejaspect.