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MONTH KAL SATURDAY JANUARY 2 9 1919 TOMOBBOW SUN BIRRS ISO SETS Ufl Government Defended By Prime Minister Refutes Drew Britain West Europe Allies Recognize Israel Joins Husband an Ice Winter Down in Texas Too Jthcr States Expected to Mrs Carr Detained for Deportation Joins Uuslmnd On Ellis Island Aflcr Arrest Opposition Leader Charges Want of Confidence in Regime By Richard Haviland j' I tar Stall Cmwirfint OTTAWA Jan 29 The Government was well and atrongly defended by Prime Minister Louis St Laurent in the House of Commons last night after Hon George Drew Opposition leader wound up a two-hour-and-five-minute address by declaring want of confidence in the Government and moving a motion to that if feet After the preliminary skirmishes of the first two days of the session the political battle in the House of Commons became seriously joined as the two chief protagonists led off in the traditional Throne Speech debate Because Mr St Laurent was unable to finish his address owing to lack of time he held over most of the major points until the session on Monday next Mr Drew's chief point of attack was the refusal of the Federal Government to reconvene the Dominion-Provincial Conference By this refusal he charged "the Dominion Government is not only threatening 'national unity but making im- Complete rrporli tf tkt iprrckn tf tkt Primt Mitiiltr and tkt Lttitr tf tkt OppatU-Mss fill kt ftuti ptgei fttr tnd fiv All over Canada and the United States the winter to date has been characterized by glassy road surfaces and consequent treacherous traffic conditions And the weatherman warns that Quebec ia in for a taste of the freezing conditions which have obtained In the West and Ontario during the lait few days As far south as Texas the winter storms have raged even to halting rail traffic Workmen here attempt with poles to push telegraph poles heavily weighted with ice away from train tracks near Dallas Traffic over the line waa brought to a standstill until the poles and llnea could be cleared from the right-of-way Two days of sleet and freezing rain caused extensive damage in this area to power and communication lines Europe Council to Have Cabinet and Parliament Details Will Be Worked Out by Permanent Commission of Western Union LONDON Jan 29 (AP) A new and historic of Europe" with a fledgling Cabinet and an advisory Parliament emerged today as a major factor in the poet-war world The foreign ministers of the five democracies of the Western European Union announced agreement yesterday te act up the council Authoritative sources said headquarters will be In Strasbourg France The five countries reaching theg ting Jewish Hopes For UN Seal Brightened ONDON Jan (AP) Britain Belgium and le Netherlands announced to ay they had given do facto limited) recognition to th Government of Jsrael Their separate announce menta were made after th oreign Ministers of the Brussels alliance stated yesterday ley had come to a joint decision to tender recognition to te eight-month-old provisional ewish regime France and Luxembourg are the other members of tha alliance France already had announced her recognition London Statement The Brillsh announcement today said Government in the United Kingdom to accord de facto recognition to the Government of hope to arrange with that Government for early exchange of Prera Association's diplomatic correspondent uid the recognition took effect from 11 am today The British statement indicated frontiers would have to bo defined by the United Nations The announcement from Th Hague uid Dr A Nederbragt Consul-general in Jeruulem had been appointed the Netherlands' representative with the Israel Government De facto recognition Is acknowledgement that an operating government is in existence It a grade below do jure that a Government la legally constituted Britain's action ending a long dotay after tha United States ten! awed de tacto recognition at th ISTt 7 the Government proclaimed Its existence came as an anti-climax Aetitm Foreseen It wu foreshadowed Wednesday when Prime Minister Attlee tali the House of Common that Britain accepted recognition in principle and that she would act aa she had consulted with her Dominions and her allies in the Western European union His statement followed a debate in which Foreign Secretary Bevin waa severely criticized for hia Palestine policy in the end after recognition had been promised the Government won what amounted to a vote of confidence on the luue by the margin of 90 votea with many Labor members abstaining and Conservatives and Liberal joining in the opposing bloc Australia one of the Dominion! and Switzerland also announced their recognition of the Jewish Mate yesterday Canada the senior Dominion hu already done so New Zealand Norway Sweden Denmark and Iceland are preparing to take similar action soon St Give Recognition With all the Brussels powers ht the line-up 29 states nave now decided to recognize the Jewish state Another British Dominion India indicated today however that she does not Intend to follow suit A spokesman in New Delhi uid India hu no plane to recognize Israel and that there wu much opposition In India to any such action India always opposed partition of Palestine Limton temporary London representative at Israel made a date to see Bevin at the Foreign Office later today to receive official word of Britain's action Cyril Marriott British consul at Half! was instructed to convey the news to Mnshe Shertok Israel Foreign Minister recognition brought Israel within sight of eariv membership In the United Nation! Only China among the five powers that have a veto In the Security Council hu yet to grant recognition bid for membership wu turned down by the Security Council Inst December when she failed to get the necessary seven vote! Features Tkt Mlewiai in ill a pays It: bains Story Iriags frsblmi CrMiwsri Pauli tmlb DU Tkit Mf si Twrt Nanking Now Under Threat Of Guns Li Government Warned not to Flee NANKING Jan 39 (AP) Communist gunners today planted artillery on the north bank of tha Yangtze east of Nanking and ominously warned this chaotic capital: If tha Government wants to show its sincerity for pence It will not move But it was too late A careful check failed to locate a single tlonalist Cabinet Member in Nanking All were admittedly gone except a few whose skeletonized offices reported them But their offices refused to say where they had gone Hopes for peaee within the pre dlctable future faded almost to the vanishing point The latest Communist demand that the Government remain in Nanking was telephoned from Red-controlled Peiping by acting President LI Tsung-jenl special representative Commenting on the demand an informed Chinese source observed: Tsung-Jen may find some way out but we Chinese cannot imagine what it will This source added that the demand places an impossible position and ostensibly means there will be no Guns In Place The Communist artillery emplacements are situated so they can shell river rail and highway traffic to Shanghai China's industrial and commercial centre 150 miles to the south With the Reds hardly five miles north of Nanking and across the Yangtze this half-abandoned capital all but forgot that today was China's New Year usually i occasion for celebration Nervous Chinese thought the Reds had begun to shell Nanking when some hardy citizens said farewell to the "Year of the by firing the traditional firework Many expected Gen Chen Yi's Communist army to mark the the first day of Year of the by entering Pukow Bee Page Six German Workers Sentenced to Jail BOCHUM Germany Jan (AP) Six German workers who disobeyed a British order to dismantle the Bochumer Verein steelworks were sentenced to two months imprisonment by a British court here yesterday One was acquitted NEW YORK Jan 29 Mrs Julia Carr British-born wife of Sam Carr named aa one of the leaders of the Canadian spy ring yesterday joined her husband at the United States immigration detention centre on Ellis Island It was emphasized that Mrs Carr Is not sought in connection with the Canadian spy investigations but was served with a warrant charging she had overstayed her visit to the United States Carr was arrested Thursday by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation He is wanted in Canada on charges In connection with the spy Investigations including a breach of the official secrets act FBI agents here said only that he was being held for Complication Appear Canadian authorities have said that unless Carr Is deported they will take extradition proceedings to get him- back to Canada to face the spy charges But a complication appeared In the cards The New York Herald Tribune reported today In a Washington dispatch that the Justice Department has to grant the request by the House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities to question Cam Committee members say Carr may have Information in connection with the current investigation of Communist spying in the United States It was still uncertain this morning as to when Carr and his wife would be deported Lari night an Immigration agent said it was to assume they would be hold on Ellis Island hi New York harbor over the week-end Carr's arrest came after he had been missing for almost three years since the tlmd the Canadian Government announced the investigation into Russian spying activities in the Dominion Mrs Carr had lived in Toronto from that time until a few weeks ago Rented Apartment Then she and her husband giving their names as and Mrs Jack rented an apartment near Central Park In Manhattan Thursday the FBI arrested Carr in the apartment but they did not reveal how they had tracked him down He had been reported living in Cuba and Mexico since his disappearance In Canyla The day of Csrn arrest Mrs Carr waa questioned by the FBI and then released But yesterday the FBL turned her over to im migration authorities BI offdals said Mrs Carr had entered the United States without papers In December through Rouses Point NY just south of Montreal Mrs Carr was born in Cheetham Lancashire England in 1906 lame year her husband was born aa Schmil Kogan in Russia She came Sep MRS Pago Bevin Drafts Economic Plan US Aid Sought In Areas LONDON Jan 29 (AP) Foreign Secretary Bevin has ordered bis own plans for economic development of "backward in the East and Africa a Govern-men source reported today The informant said British representatives in the Middle and Far East have been asked for advice and suggestions Bevin's action Indicates Britain's desire for a shou I der-tosh ouider British-Ameriran approach to President Truman's newly-announced policy to improve living standards in the under-developed areas Truman's "bold new program" announced in his inaugural address has been warmly received by Bevin and his advisers British officials say privately they would like the United States to back a mld-Eastern version of the European Recovery Program The British leaders themselves already have blue-printed development program for Iran Iraq Egypt and the Sudan But Britain's lack of resources and political uncertainties in the Middle East have stymied progress A Foreign Office spokesman said British advisers have worked out several development program for the Middle East Among these he said were: A seven-year $240000000 irrigation agricultural and social service program for Iran which still awaits approval of the Iran Parliament Big irrigation schemes on the Tigris ana Euphrates Rivers in Iraq which would double the 601 JO 000-acre cultivated ares in that country The Iraqi Parliament has approved the smaller of the on the Tigris An extensive irrigation program In Egypt and the Sudan halted by al rained Brltlsh-Egyptian relations over Egypt's claim of sovereignty ever the Sudan MRS SAM CARR who was arrested In New York yesterday on a deportation warrant and sent to Ellis Island for detention with her husband Dutch May Ignore UN Oil Indonesia Security Council Approves Program lin II in BATAVIA Java Jan IS Indonesian Republicans charged today Netherlands officials arrested two of their press officers and possibly many other Republicans in direct drfiiuiee of the latest United Nations orders LAKE SUCCESS NY Jan 39 (BUP) The Netherlands threatened today to ignore key portions of tha new United Nations plan for bringing peace and eventual freedom to the Dutch East Indies Dutch authorities at the UN said their Government would carry out only those parts of the peace blue-print that a re "compatible" with their responsibilities and interests in the rich colonies Indonesian spokesmen countered with a fist charge that the Dutch were preparing to defy the Security Council order while paying service to the UN The Indonesians said they would not be able to guarantee compliance on their side until the Dutch freed imprisoned leaders of the Republic ana let them function once more as government The possibility of defisnee or failure of its new program left the Security Council In a state of confusion It was doubtful that a majority would approve any early forceful action to make either side co-operate Plan Approved night votes calls plan approved last after a series of doe for: 1 Immediate cessation of fighting by the Dutch Army and the Indonesian guerrillas In Indonesia 2 Proclamation of an Interim federal government for ail the East Indies by March IS 8 Free elections for a United 8tatea of Indonesia Parliament by Oct 1 4 Transfer of sovereignty to a dominion-type United states Indonesia by July 1 1950 8 Strengthening the weak UN Good Offices Commlsion for hereafter to be known ms the UN Commission for Indonesia to permit it to gradual military and political withdrawal! bv the Dutch colonizers of Indonesia 6 Immediate freeing of imprisoned Indonesian leaders and the return to Indonesia of the area of Jogjakarta capital at the Indonesian republic Dutch Claims' Van Royen Dutch representative and his aides at ON maintained that the Security Council has no right to demand such of the Dutch While he declined to say flatly that Holland will ignore those peace plan it dislikes indicated that the Dutch Government still hoped to prevent UN intereference in what it calls its internal affairs Dutch spokesmen made clear that Holland wants to develop i way table US of Indonesia in its own ws ig 1 and on the basis of negotiations with Indonesians of its own choosing difficulty in getting parrots and other wild life these days fame has spread meanwhile Many Munich residents are now visiting the Zoo to coax Into saying Hitler Believing that Is a case of arrested development Herzner pointed out that she is only two years old He explained that the parrot must have spent her formative years raised by a die-hard Nazi Obviously never personally experienced at first hand the propaganda of th Hitler regime Herzner Is now organizing the re-education of the parrot It ii expected to lsst at least two years Faced with the fact that the parrot's adolescence had'been politically maladjusted Herzner is attempting to teach "Laura' to screech "Hell Hitler tic Is ka put" possible any solution oi constitutional The Opposition Leader also launched a brief but virulent attack on the Government's legislative program outlined in the Speech from the Throne read by the Governor-General at Wednesday's opening of Parliament From beginning to end he declared this statement of the Government's Intentions was marked by the absence of any positive evidence of what it intended to do either in the field of health or of social security lit the eduction of taxation or in meeting the very urgent problem of housing that existed at the present time -BLAMES OTTAWA FOB FAILURE OF CONFERENCE But the main part of his address was devoted to reviewing the events leading up to the Dom-InlontProvinda) conference of 1943-46 and defending his own attitude as Premier of Ontario then and since The failure of the Dominion-Provincial conference he laid directly at the doortof the Federal Government and stated that now neither the Dominion nor the Provincial Governments know wftere the border line is between many of their waa declared the Opposition leader in moving his want-of -confidence motion neither the House nor the people of Canada had any right to have confidence in the Mr Drew was given a prolonged round of applause from his supporters as ha took hia seat which waa more than equalled when Mr Bt Laurent rose to reply PRIME MINISTER CHIDES DREW ON REMARKS The Prime Minister began on a light note gently chiding Mr Drew on the length of bis remarks on Dominion-Provincial relations Ho added that he would have something to say on the subject himself on another occasion out felt he would be keeping more closely to the traditions of the Hoase if he were to deal with some of the matters dealt with in the Speech from the Throne This was a dir at Mr Drew's charge earlier In the day that the Prime blister was seeking to break traditlorf by interrupting the Throne Speech debate to deal with the Newfoundland legislation He stated however that there were many things Mr Drew had said about Dominion-Provincial latlona and the constitution of Canada and its principles with wlhch he was In DREW DEFENDS ONTARIO STAND Mr Drew In dealing with Dominion-Provincial relations declared that it waa false" that Ontario has refused to share its favorable financial position with other provinces Ontario had in fail urged the setting up of a national adjustment fund which had been a key point- in tnd RoweU-Sirols recommendations In no way had Ontario made the continuance of the conference difficult The conference he said had broken up with the understanding that It would meet again Instead the Government had put its own proposals before Parliament without consulting the provinces It was a case of no discussion but here is what you get" DREW CHECKS FRANKNESS OF TWO MINISTERS Mr Drew stated that the over centralization of power in the Dominion Government had conse- quences which could not be ignored He referred to a statement handed to the press earlier in the week by Hon Robert Winters Minister of Reconstruction wnich read: "Getting votes is obviously not a matter of handouts or tumbling over ourselves to outsociallze the Socialists The recent by-election in Digby Annapolis Kings highlighted the point More was done for this constituency by way of direct financial beneficence than probably any other constituents in Canada and you know what Such a frank admission could not be passed over lightly declared the Opposition leader nor could the remark of the Minister' of Finance who referred to the financial assistance given to the Bee Fate agreement after months at discussion on some form at European unity are Britain France Belgium the Netherlands and Luxembourg They said other European countries will be asked to help set up mod the council One informed source said the first invitation will go to Italy Indicating Italy will Join reign Minister Carlo Sforza said: "European union is born and Italy will be one of the founding One Parliament Is Aim The "Council of win consist of a committee oi ministers from the member statu which will meet in secret and an advisory assembly composed of representatives from uch country The Assembly expected to pave the way ultimately for a single parliament to represent all tbs European democracies will meet in public Details are to be worked out by the Permanent Commission of the five power of the Western European Union set up under the Brussels Pact of March 17 1948 The of is a step toward a long-time goal of some European statesmen: A united Europe with member states eventually erasing geographical boundariu and other existing barriers However an authoritative source in dose touch with the ministers Indicated that any surrendering of national sovereignty to the new council would have to be a gradual process Favored by Top Wuhington officials hailed the agreement a step toward the goal of developing a new iiwer centre in Europe already livided sharply Into a Russian-hncked Eastern Bloc and a United Slates-backed Wutern group They said promotion of European unity has been a major objective of American policy as embodied 1 the Marshall Plan and the proposed North Atlantic Security Alliance This picture emerged from what Informed sources uid about the two bodies which will make up the of The Committee" will be a kind of cabinet with See EUROPE GOUNCIL-Page 3 I Mindszenty Trial Feb 3 Hungary Complete Indictment on Cardinal BUDAPEST Jan 29 The trial of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty Primate of Hungary who is charged with treason will open here Feb 3 The People's Court prosecutor announced today A brief communique uid that the prosecutor now hu "completed the indictment of Mindszenty and his accomplices and the People's Court will begin Mindszenty1! trial on Feb 3" The announcement did not uy whether any "accomplices" would bs tried with Mindszenty A Christmas week-end communique announcing arrest of the Primate uid that about 13 others had been arrested in connection with the case against him He is charged with plotting the ultimate return of the Hapsburg monarchy to power in Hungary It wu alleged that he conferred with Francis Cardinal Spellman and others during a trip to the United States regarding his plana The Cardinal also was alleged to have engaged in espionage in behalf of foreign powers The Government recently Issued a pamphlet which contained reported confeuion by the Cardinal Prayers to Said For Cardinal at Quebec QUEBEC Jan 29 (CP) Prayers will be offered In all churches in the Roman Catholic diocese of Quebec tomorrow for Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary Church-goers will also pray for other clerics and laymen imprisoned became of their religious bellefa Soviet Still Silent on POWs Held Ml i Moscow Admiti They Are Holding Gernians Washington: jn 39 (Bu Russia has rebuffed efforts of the United States' and France to find out how many German war priaonere are' still held in the Soviet Union" But Moscow admitted some prisoners still were Soviets This was revealed lnS note handed to the American embassy last Monday The note was In reply to a demand by thr three western powers for information bn war prisoners who were to have been returned to their homeland by Dec 31 under a blg-four agreement On Jan 3 after the year-end deadline the three western powers requested the information In Monday's note the Soviet Foreign office Ignored the three-power demands for information on the number of prisoners in Russia how many had died in confinement and when the rest of some 445000 would bf returned Diplomatic officials said Moscow tried to blame the three Western powers for failure to work out satisfactory 'repatriation agreement and held that Russia was not bound by the Dec 31 deadline But the note stated that German pria- Id be returned to their homeland this year an admission that prisoners were still held by the Soviets There was speculation' in official quarters that Moscow had not made public the note because of possible embarrassment In the Kremlin caused by the Western inquiries on the German prisoners Some of them are reported working in mines in 1 Czechoslovakia which supply uranium ores to Russia Fishing Ship To Be Released US Dragjier Had Been Seized for Violating I -aw OTTAWA Jan 29 (CP) Canada is releasing the United States fishing vessel Araho for fishing illegally within three miles of the Nova Scotia coast Overlooking a technical violation of the law the Government announced last night It is freeing the vessel after five seizure because the infraction was unintentional Investigation has disclosed that the vessel was operating in the territorial waters because her direction-finding gear was out of order After this was established Hon Robert Mayhew' Fisheries Minister said yesterday hia department which seized the Araho would not object If the Justice Department wanted to order the release Hon Stuart Carson Justice Minister a few hours later Hid his department had ordered Immo-diate steps to release the ship The Araho a scallop dragger was taken Into custody Jan 24 by the Fisheries Patrol vessel Cygnus near Digby NS She has been detained since then in Digby "It now has been established" the Fisheries Minister uid "that the direction-finding apparatus of the American vessel was taulty and that the vessel went off course Into Canadian waters" Munich Democrat Plans Re-education of Nasi Parrot (Special He recalled however that "Laura" to The Star and NY Herald Trl- cost the equivalent of 40 dollars buns Attendants of 'ighl Also that German zoos have Land Sea and Air Traffic Crippled by British Fogs the Munich Zoo are attempting to de-Nazify a two-year-old parrot This latest addition to the Munich aviary has a limited vocabulary mainly consisting of repeated Hitlers" a parrot of dubious antecedents arrived at the Zoo three weeks ago She was purchased for $40 from a private owner in Hamburg For the first week sat morosely on her perch in a large cage making -unintelligible small talk in her own quiet fasHIon Two weeks ago however to the am Erise of her attendant Joachim lerzner she began repeatedly screeching Hitler" Ores began ng slonally she would vary her mono logue with or In German For 40 years a convinced Social Democrat and anti-Nazi Herzntr took umbrags at this development rtyslv Mini Mlnriif pts: Ink Iwlias Ckwtk bes seat asoiosssa MilHMMliklll sjjitiiitiKeii Duty In Utiiy EAliriil HmscIiI Dm blhp hit km )gt Mydf SJ Hliiiiilliyiiyil slteMa MIIMMIIIIIM bnNiai u4 Damn Mi Disynsn Rkkirtf MwfM SkIjI m4 hrWMi Sparl Dm Imta HlllMlM Wilt 6'Nnn "Turt lb MT kr Akfo Nikon 9 WnIMi ZMI-2MD 31-12)1 Wun'i (M Dm i II o' tslisii a If the wont In living menu suburban Wood Green busl like small boys brandShing fluh-light! earned pocket money guiding trucks and automobile! Some tried holding handkerchiefs before vehicle headlights to guide them but soon gave that up One car ended up on the sidewalk Drivers left their trucks In aide streets and asked strangers for overnight lodging Firemen In one London district ran in front of tha firs engine to find a fire About 150 buses were stranded on the fringes of Epping Forest Ail lights were on but no paaun-gers were left In them The Air Ministry had little solace Forecasters uid Britons could look for the foggiest weekend sines last November's bleak "blackout" ory In usineu- LONDON Jan (CP)-Fog today tightened its grip on Britain disorganizing road rail sea and air traffic Ships were fog bound off Southampton and ferry services between Southampton and the Isle of Wight were suspended There were SO scheduled aircraft movements out of London airport yesterday but only 10 planes including one from Canada arrived or departed The fog wu densest In the northern part of the country In such large industrial cities as Birmingham Leeds and Manchester Meteorological authorities blamed light north winds which carried smoke from the factories Residents in North and Eut London described the rolling vapor L- I 1 -r-yjy-.