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TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1948 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE AGE FIVE Trucker Held In Backwoods Double Death Riviere Du Loup, Que. July 6-- Maurice Lebel, 32-year-old back- woods truck driver, was scheduled o be arraigned here today on #8 arge of murder in the Dominion Pay double killing of Louis Philippe Breton and Wilfred Dumais. Lieut. Martin Healey of the prov- incial police said after the inquest that Lebel would be arraigned be- fore Judge Alexandre Michaud on a charge of murder. A coroner's jury Monday night found Lebel "criminally responsible' for the slaying, which took place 10 miles from here on a deserted dirt road. Witnesses at the hearing testified that three promissory notes in Le- bel"s name were due July 2 at the Banque Canadienne Nationale of nearby Trois Pistoles, where Breton was manager. The witnesses said too that Bre- ton had taken the notes, totalling $4,900, from the bank on the day he was killed and that they were not found on his body. : Dr, Maurice Catellier, Trois Pis- toles coroner, said he saw Breton and Lebel ieave Trois Pistoles toge- ther in Dumais' taxi on the evening of the slaying. Jean-Baptist Dumais, cousin of the slain cab-driver, also testified he had seen Lebel with the two men before they left. A trio of truck drivers found the two shattered bodies sprawled on the road near the cab the day after the killing. An unopened bottle of beer lay near Dumais' head. When the inquest opened Satur- day, Dr. Gustave Desrochers, prov- incial medico-legal expert, said both men died from numerous skull frac- tures and head wounds, apparently inflicted by a blunt instrument, Only Dumais had shot-gun wounds, these at the back of the neck. Meanwhile, Lebel, operator of a trucking business at St. Guy, was being held as a 'material witness, He had been picked up July 2 in the middle of a Riviere Du Loup street. Police have since searched the shes on either side of the murder ne, but have so far failed to find he shotgun. Newspaper Hints Princess Plans To Visit Canada London, July 6 -- (CP) -- The Standard gossip column " Monday published this report it says is cir- culating in Canada: "Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip may "show their baby" te the Dominion next spring." Buckingham Palace sources de- clined to comment. But it was re- called that at a July 1 dinner at the Canadian Club, Norman Robertson, Canadian High Commissioner, gave the guest of honor, the Duke of Ed- inburgh, a warm invitation to visit Canada with the Princess. "It is suggested that the Princess and her husband might live for a couple of months at Government House, the home of Canada's Gov- ernors-General and then go to a resort in the Rocky Mountains for the hot season," the Standard said. Trawler Explodes Off Jersey Shore, Crew Is Rescued Seaside Park, N. J, July 6--(AP) --The fishing trawler Reliable blew up in a 50-foot burst of flames within sight of the New Jersey shore early today and all seven crew members were found uninjured in a drifting lifeboat several hours la- ter The rescue was made by a pickef boat from the United Coast Guard which came upon. the small lifeboat after previous searching vessels re- ported they could find no survivors e scene of the blast. Poast Guard spokesmen said the seven men needed only to be ashore and given transportation home. They had drifted in the darkness for sev- eral hours after their 110-foot traw- ler blew up and burned. Stampede Sets Attendance Mark Calgary, July 6--(CP)--Top cow= hands from Canada and the United States fought wildly-bucking broncs and snake-hipped Brahama bulls oday as the thrill packed Calgary Stampede entered its stecond day. With thé first of three '"go- ounds" for the North American Cowboy championships expected to end tonight, cowboys were trying to better Monday's showing that saw hem end up a bad second to the ough, wiry livestock. A new opening bay attendance re- pord was set when 64,854 persons poured -through-the main-gate, fill- pd grandstand and bleacher seats to bverflowing and crowded exhibits. The previous mark of 64,692 was set 1946. Last year's first day crowd vas 63,911. J. J. Swain of Innisfail, -Alta., took bpening night honors in the specta- ular chuckwagon races when he ided his four-team outfit around he intricate course in one minute 4 2-5 seconds, United States and Canadian Ri- ers shared the lead in major stam- pede events. Ed Coffey of Burbank, alif., roped tied a cal in 17 3-5 se- ds to set the first day pace in P calf roping contest. Orville Speer of of Vulcan, Alta., pulled the crowd to its feet with a Maring dive from his saddle to de- rate a longhorn wjth a piece of ed ribbon in 5 3-5 sq'onds. The term "pin-money™ origin- ted during the reign of Henry II when. wives beseeched their usbands for coins ta buy the first petal pins. Backing Given Premier Tito By Yugoslavs Belgrade, July 6 -- (AP)--Yugo- slavs were reported Monday night to have given evidence of support for Premier Tito, who has been denounced by the Soviet-controlled Cominform, . The Yugeslav Communist news- paper Borba said that in five days the public subscribed $50,000,000 of the $70,000,000 national loan. Other press accounts said local committees of the Communist party all. over the country are sending messages to Belgrade that they are "with the Marshal." The National Organization of War Invalids re- solved that its members will renew their effort toward helping build socialism under Tito. But there, was an air of contra- diction in the press. On the front pages appeared reports of blister- ing replies by Yugoslav Communist leaders to the charges by the nine- country Communist Information Bureau that Tito and his lieuten- ants were deviating from the or- thodox Communist line and were pursuing a hateful policy toward Russia, The back pages of the same papers carried news items telling of normal operations between the Cominform countries. Yugoslav-Albanian relations ,ap- parently remained strained. The Yugoslav legation in Tirana said Albanian police had blocked all food for Yugoslavs in the border town of Scutari, It was assumed in Belgrade that the Yugoslav representatives were supervising one or more of the numerous Yugoslav-Albanian trade agreements. Albania severed trade relations with Yugoslavia last week and or- dered the expulsion of military, political and cultural missions but there was no indication that any of them had left Albanian soil. The Yugoslav news agency, Tan- jug, said in London that Bulgaria and Yugoslavia have signed a one- year agreement for cultural co- operation, Britain's Dollar Position Is Sounder Than Expected By SYDNEY GAMPELL London, July 6-- (Reuters) -- The drain on Britain's gold dollars during the last six months was less than expected, though more than the government predicted in its economic survey last March, official figures now available show. The survey anticipated a drain of £222,000,000 ($888,000,000)0 in the half year, The actual figure, disre- garding receipts from the European Recovery Program, turned out to be £254,000,000. The second quarter, however, at £107,000,000 was appre- ciable less than the £147,000,000 in the first quarter. Though the drain was larger than predicted, Britain's reserves on July 1, at £473,000,600, were actually big- ger than the £450,000,000 which the survey contemplated as the maxi- mum probable figures. The reason is that before the end of the half Britain received £22,000,060 of the European Recovery Program reim- bursement, and during the half year there were some drawings by both Britain and India on the Interna- tional Monetary Fund. Neither of these had been taken into account in $he economic survey. With £53,000,000 of the last quar- ter's ER.P. grants still to come, as wel] as the whole of the grants for the quarter starting, the reserves look far stronger than might have been expected. Taking the £53,000,- 000 into credit, the current figure could be given as £526,000,000, which is actually bigger than the £512,000,~ 00 at the beginnnig of this year. Nevertheless Sir Stafford cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer, is ob- viously not disposed to take any 'chances. He said Montay that Bri- tain hoped to retain reserves of about £500,000,000 though this would depend on world prices as well as on the amount and timing of ER.P. receipts. : He emphasized that there must be no relaxation of Britain's import cuts or export drive, and that Bri- tain could not afford another sef- back to her exports such as occur- red during June owing to the dock strike. The debate on ER.P.,, which be- gan in the Commons yesterday, con- tinued today. As the opposition has decided to support in general the government's resolution on Marshall aid, no major delay in passing it is anticipated. Foreign Secretary Bevin is ex- pected to sign the agreement with the United States tonight if the approval comes in time, ROTARY VISITORS Visitors at the Oshawa Rotary Club yesterday were Major H. G. Roberts: of the Salvation Army; Leonard 'C. Knight, executive com- missioner of the Oshawa Boy Scouts Association; Rotarian Oscar Ochs of Edwardsville, Illinois; Rotarian A. Morrison, Regina, Sask., and Ro- tarian William Tennant of Bow- manville. Russ 'Warmonger' Charge Is Repudiated By Claxton Ottawa, July 6--(CP) -- Defence Minister Clavton quietly marked out "Canadian" and inserted "Ru- sian" in a Moscow week-end charge of warmongering levelled against the Canadian Government. He took cognizance of the fact that the Soviet's official army newspaper Red Star had attacked him for a speech he made in the Commons in which he termed the only possible ~ggressor that Canada need fear. "The hope of future peace," he told the Canadian Press in an in- terview, "lies not in what the Soviet Union says about us but in what the Soviet Union does to improve the welfare of their own people and work with other nations in the wel- fare of all." Mr. Claxton failed to be ruffled by the Red Star's attack which cal- led his fears of Russia as an ag- gressor nation "a provocateur's pipe dream." 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