Sherbrooke daily record, 18 novembre 1949, vendredi 18 novembre 1949

[" 1949\t\tNOVEMBER\t\t\t1949\t S\tM\tT\tW\tT\tF\tS \t\t1\t2\t3\t4\t5 6\t7\t8\t9\t10\t11\t12 13\t14\t15\tIS\t17\t18\t19 20\t21\t22\t23\t24\t25\t26 27\t28\t29\t30\t\t\t Sbecbcooke Dailij TEecocd Established 1 897.PRICE: 5 CENTS THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18.1949.WEATHER COOLER Cloudy with scattered \u2022nowflurries clearing this evening, Saturday clear becoming cloudy in the afternoon.Cooler tonight and Saturday.Light winds.Low tonight and high Saturday at Sherbrooke 23 and 82.Temperatures yesterdays Maximum 40, minimum 29.A year ago: Maximum 49, minimum 28.Fifty-Third Year World News In Brief Ottawa, Nov.18.\u2014®\u2014Prime Minister St.Laurent announced today in the Commons that there is no foundation for rumors of a pending visit to Canada and the United States by Princess Margaret Rose.He said the government has not yet considered the question of inviting the Princess to visit Canada.* * # Yokosuka, Japan, N'ov.18 (JP)\u2014All 27 patrol type frigates loaned to Russia under w'artime lendlease have been returned to the United States navy, it was announced today.The vessels, which displace 1,430 tons and have an overall length of 304 feet, were returned here in groups of nine.The last arrived this week.* * * Halifax, Nov.18.\u2014(CP) \u2014 A murder and suicide in the Annapolis Valley village of Victory was reported by R.C.M.P.today.Police said Myron R.Selig, 37, and Mrs.Irene E.Morrow, 24, both of Victory, were found dead in Mrs.Morrow\u2019» automobile last night.Police were called by farmer George Scragg who said he heard a car horn, then a woman\u2019s scream and two shots.* * * Washington, Nov.18.\u2014 (AP) \u2014-The Economic Co-operation administration announced yesterday that Grtat Britain soon will buy about $4,000,000 worth of apples from American suppliers.The recovery agency said it has earmarked $2,000,000 in Marshall-Plan funds to help finance the purchases.It was understood that the remain-ing sum will come through agriculture department subsidy payments to the fruit growers.* * * Ottawa, Nov.18.\u2014(CP)\u2014 The Newfoundland government has applied for an order to wipe out the new province\u2019s freight-rate structure and substitute one based on rates in the Maritimes.The government, in an application filed with the board of transport commissioners, charged the present rates are \u201cdiscriminatory\u201d against Newfoundland and do not comply with the terms of Canada-Newfoundland union.« * * Washington, Nov.18.-(Æ3) \u2014Diplomats from the 12 Atlantic pact countries meet today to consider secret plans drafted by their military chiefs to defend the western world.State Secretary Dean Ache-son was to preside over the meeting \u2014 the first working session of the pact council since the countries formally banded together in a defence alliance last April 4.* * » Washington, Nov.18\u2014(/P)\u2014 The Shah of Iran said last night that his country, which has stood firm under post-war pressure from Russia, is determined to maintain its 3,000-year-old independence \u201cagainst all threats from whatever source arising, at whatever cost.\u201d The youthful ruler visiting the United States, told state secretary Dean Acheson that \u201cin the United States we have a great and powerful friend.\u201d Canada Will Be Represented At Commonwealth Meeting In Ceylon Next January -,-\u2022* A-Weapons Produced At Albuquerque Thar She Blows ! (Editors Note: The following story on one of the least-publicized atomic installations in the United States was written for the Associated Press by Rick Raphael of the Albuquerque, N.M., Journal).Bv RICK RAPHAEL Cabinet Minister Will Be Canadian Delegate at Foreign Policy Discussions\u2014Chinese Recognition May Be Discussed.Ottawa, Nov.18 \u2014\t\u2014 Canada will participate in an important Commonwealth policy-making conference in Ceylon next January.External Affairs Minister Pearson announced in the Commons last night that a Cabinet Minister will represent Canada at foreign policy discussions on Pacific and Far Eastern matters as well as \"external affairs of general interest.\u201d Two, big matters which will come up for discussion are possible recognition of the communist Chinese government and Albuquerque, N.M., No\\.18\u2014|t^e qUest;on Qf drafting a peace treaty for Japan.(TP)\u2014A high United States atomic! H\tr .\tr\t,\t.\t.\t, *\tliming of the conference suggested that recognition or the new government in China would not occur before then.\"It may be,\u201d said Mr.Pearson in completing a two-day debate on Canadian foreign policy, \"that we shall he in a slightly better position to unveil that (Chinese) picture after the conversations that we shall have in Colombo, Ceylon.\u201d Mr.Pearson said he could not name the Canadian delegate to the Ceylon conference.Mr.Pearson\u2019s address wound up*\u2019 -\u2014\u2014- discussions by more than a score of energy official said today \u2018we are no longer experimenting\u201d with atomic weapons at Sandia laboratories of the atomic energy commission\u2014\u201cwe are producing them \u201d Rear-Admiral George P.Kra-ker told for the first time some of what goes on in the top-level atomic installation.Kraker is field manager of the A.EC.Working with the armed forces special weapons project, the Sandia laboratories no longer are engaged in research and academic development, Kraker said.That is left to other atomic energy projects.Application is the theme at Sandia.This application goeâ into the \u201cgadgets\u201d being produced at the laboratories.\u201cGadget\u201d is the nickname the workers apply to the still-secret weapons being developed.These are being studied and learned for combat use by handpicked men of the armed forces, who share Sandia base with the laboratories.Formerly operated by scientists of the University of California, the laboratories recently went under the management of the Sandia corporation, a subsidiary of western electric.Behind high steel fences, skilled technicians and engineers have replaced the scientists who produced the world's first atomic bomb.How do these men react to their tasks of producing some of the world's most deadly weapons?\u201cTo the majority of our people here,\u201d Kraker said, \u201cthis is just another skilled industrial job.\u201d There is no tension, no air of foreboding, no feeling of impending danger at Sandia.\u201cWe have no need for fear,\u201d Kraker said, \u201cfor there is a minimum of danger involved in our operation.Every possible safety precaution has been taken and our people know it.\u201d Use T-H Act If Necessary Seamen\u2019s Meeting Ends In Fight New York, Nov.18\u2014 (/P) \u2014 \u201cPlenty of blood\u201d was threatened today by revolting left-wingers of the strife-torn C.I.O.National Martime Union, who came off second best in a free-swinging general membership meeting last night.Big Joe Curran himself used an iron hand trying to quell the rebellion and stop the brawls between right and left-wing factions of his members.But there was no peace in sight members which took Parliament on: 'j\tQ mi\t11 ?an extended foreign-policy tour of] XX IXlllCXl I ?y HI.the world.George Drew, Progressive Conservative leader, said that the world situation was clear now and becoming clearer all the time.It involved the fundamental differences between Russia and its Communist-dominated satellites and the west-1 Washington, Nov.IS.\u2014 (VP) \u2014 ern democracies.\tI President Truman\u2019s statement that Mr.Drew intimated that sane-jhe will use the Taft-Hartley labor tions should be applied against law in the United States coal dis-Russia until she agreed to give the pute if there\u2019s an emergency people under her domination the jbrought a cry from one-operator to-opportunity of choosing their own'day that there already is one.form of government._\tI Truman took his stand at his Mr.Drew emphasized the need]press conference late yesterday; for reaching the Russian people asjhe would not say whether he thinks a step toward restoring under-;an emergency would come with an-stan-ddng between the east and west.|other walkout of the miners No/ Mr.Pearson agreed that greatjSOth, That is the end of the pres-strides in maintaining peace would lent working period decreed by be made if the west could transmit jpresident John L.Lewis, of the to the people of the Communist:United Mine Workers, countries the earnest hope for un-j Joseph E.Moody, president of derstanding and agreement.\tth