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PAGE SIXTEEN THE DAILY TIMES. GAZETTE. TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1951 Don Juan and In Behind-Scenes Battle To Recover Spanish Throne By HENRY BU Madrid (Reuters) -- The cause of 'the 38-year-old principal claim- ant to the Spanish throne, Don Juan of Bourbon, does 2c seem to be prospering at present. Tbe Franco is believed to be pressing hard for the succession to be shifted to 13-year-old Juan Carlos, elder son of Don Juan of Bourbon. This move needs collaboration between the stocky Franco and Don Juan, who lives on Portugal's "sun coast" attending to the limit- ed 'affairs of the tiny "court" of Spanish aristocrats which sur- rounds him there, playing golf and sciling in his yacht, Unless Don Juan agrees to re- nounce his rights in favor of his son, nothing can be done. In the past six months, there has been considerable coming and going of voluntary negotiators be- tween Franco's el Pardo Palace and Don Juan's estoril. Last March, it looked as if agree- ment were in sight, at least to- wards' a generally improved state of relations between Juan and Franco. The Bourbon claimant was pre- paring a manifesto which, accord- ing to Madrid reports, would have made it clear that while he had not always greed with the general- issimo regarding the question of regime, he had nevertheless felt that it was useful to Spain to have more than one political choice, particularly in the difficult years following the' Second World War. Then came the first important strike under the Franco regime. The -anti-Pranco groups, including the monarchists, whose hopes had been low for several years, sud- denly became full of optimism. It is said that one prominent Spanish monarchist sent Don Juan a private message assuring him that the Franco regime would not last more than a month. So. distances widened again be- tween the Palace of el Pardo and Juan's villa on the "sun coast." The supporters of Don Juan in Spain are united in wishing for a restoration of the monarchy, pre- ferably in the person of Don Juan, but they are divided on how to achieve it. One group, led by several veter- an figures of Spain's aristocracy sees the restoration as the end of the present regime. - The other group wants a re- storation. worked out in collabo- ration between General Franco- and Don Juan. It is in no mood for adventures. The latter group now appears to be gaining ground. Those who know . their way through the bewildering cross- cur- rents of Madrid opinion attach significance to recent minor inci- dents as reflecting a desire for an early reconciliation between General Franco and the royal family. Many people see the only hope of this in cutting out Don Juan as a claimant and naming his elder son as the future king. Even in the best of conditions the return of Don Juan would be difficult, for Franco has been head of the state for 12 years and it would obviously be difficult for him to stand down to a lesser role. The young prince Juan Carlos, on the other hand, will not reach the constitutional age to ascend the throne (30) until 1968, by by which time Franco, if still alive, will be 76. What no one really knows is what the Spanish people think about it. Do they want a king on the throne now or in 1968, or at all? No one knows the answer to that one. Malayan Independence Is Sought But Not Rushed By LIONEL :L HUDSON Singarore (Reuters)--Malayans have not spontaneously pushed for independence.from Britain al- though ¢ll round them are enthus- jastically independent countries. Melaya, British North Borneo and Singapore are the last South- east Asia territories still under the control of an overseas power. In this region today, nationalism is without a doubt the strongest emotional force and British leaders here are the first to encourage it in Malaya. But Wily Dato Onn Bin Ja' afar, 56, only Malayan statesman of any stature, has had to broach with caution the matter of launching an Independence for Malaya party-- a .ron-communal political move- ment with the objettive of attain- ing independence within 10 years. Community leaders say that most of Malaya's five million Malays, Chinese and Indians want independ- ence, but they differ on how and when it should come about. At present, Dato Onn's project is without much financial backing or a national newspaper. But the 180,000 organized trade unionists in the country are expected to pledge support soon. Leaders of the Malayan Chinese Association, with 160,000 members, have spoken in favor of the pro- posed party but are reported meet- ing with opposition from influential elements in their midst. Early success for the movement will likely depend on how cleverly Dato Onn can steer a middle of the 'road policy line. Dato Onn resigned as Johore's prime minister early last year and is now urging the abolition of the feudal system in the Federated States of Malaya. This is bound to alienate him with Malay landowners.' Apart from self-government for Malaya within 10 years his propos- ed political, social and economic program includes: 1. Free and compulsory element- ary education for all between the ages of six and 12 by 1955. 2. ""Malayanization' of the civil service. 3. Improved social services, especially in the rural areas. .4. Subsidies and guaranteed prices to cultivators. 5. Reform of the feudal system in the Malay States. 6. Full fruits of their industry to the workers. To get strong support from Mal- aya's Chinese, Dato Onn will have to sponsor widening of the nation- ality qualifications to enable more immigrant Chinese to become cit- {zens. At the same time, he has made no secret of the fact that he wants the British to remain in Malaya. He has declared that he envisages Malaya as being independent within the British Commonwealth because Malayans need the help of the 'Recent Events At Myrtle Station MRS. 8. M. PERCY Correspondent Myrtie Station--The hum of the threshing machine is here. The fall wheat is getting pretty well cleaned up. Some oats are cut. All in all, distriet farmers have very good returns for the year's work. Miss Janet Watson is spending two weeks with her sister, Mrs. Jack Tinsley of Port Union, Mr. Alfred Fisher of Meota, Sask., is visiting his sister, Mrs. A. Par- rinder. On Monday they visited Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ball of To- ronto. Mr. and Mrs. Bill McCartney and baby son, William Clarence, and daughter, Hagel, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Harrison, Hazel remained for a few days. Mr, and Mrs. David Duchemin spent Sunday at Jimmy Jones' at Young Point. Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Masters are holidaying at Bewdley for a week. Mr. and Mrs. James Latimer of Raglan spent Saturday evening at Mr. and Mrs. Norman Hughson"s. The annual picnic of the Faith- ful Group will be held on Thursday, August 9. The regular monthly meeting of the Woman's Association will be held in the church basement on August 15, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Dawe, Lois and Norma, of Meota, Sask., visited Myrtle friends and attended the wedding of their son, Kenneth, to Ann Shirk in Oshawa on Saturday last. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Pilkey and daughter, Kathleen, of Toronto, were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Mitchell. Mr. and Mrs. John Hoskin are enjoying a week's vacation. We welcome Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Castello of Whitby who moved into Mrs. Briggs' home. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Towers, Tommy and Sheila, moved back to Toronto after spending the past few months here. Mrs. Roy Scott spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Long. Mr. and Mrs. S. Adamaszek of Centre Line, Michigan, are visiting at the Percy home and are enjoy- ing a trip to Montreal. TWO YOUTHS INJURED Espanola (CP)-- Two Waterloo youths, Richard Rejeski 18, and Ro- bert Totzerd, 15, are in hospital in this northern Ontario town with in- juries suffered Sunday when their motorcycle veered off highway 68 on a gravelled turn. Rejeski has a broken leg and arm and Totzerd a badly gashed right arm. Rejeski was the driver. British. AT Powsonal,, it's "YES" to 4 out of 5 loan requests. Men and Loans $50 10 $1200 RP ~~ ed | Card to [ Joan, Invaluable at home a rom home. THA? 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POLICE SEEK PUBLIC Toronto (CP)--An invitation to meet the police--and enjoy it -- has been issued to the public by sponsors of the Ontario Police As- sociation's 19th annual convention to be held here Aug. 14 to 17. Vis itors can tour displays of under- world weapons, seized narcotics, and miniature highway systems set up to illustrate traffic problems. HEADS SONS OF ITALY Welland (CP)--Romolo Guer- riero of Niagara Falls, Ont. was elected Grand Venerable of the Sons of Italy at a weekend convention of the order. He succeeds Carl Fera of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. ICY ROAD Toronto (CP) -- Cracked ice, three tons of it, spilled over a highway at suburban Lakeview last night. An ice truck was knocked over by an automobile but James MacDonald and Clifford Lawrence, in the truck, escaped injury. TWO ARMIES HOLD BURMA AGAINST REDS Hong Kong (AP) -- Two of Gen- eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek's old Nationalist armies have formed a powerful 30,000-man guerrilld force along 'the border of Burma and Communist China. Recent reports to Chinese news- papers here indicate the Chiang's old Eighth and 26th armies, fully armed, are based in the southwest Chinese province of Yunnan. The force is said to control a sizable area where additional fight- ers are being trained. Presumably ammunition and supplies come through Burma. The Eighth was the last Nationa- list army to leave China after the 1948-50 debacle. During the collapse of Chiang's forces, it retreated slowly along with the 26th until it was back in Yunnan. The 26th was ordered to Hai- nan island at that time. But before the airlift could start, the Nation- alist governor of Yunnan, Lu Han, defected to the Communists. The two Nationalist armies re- fused to surrender and retreated to the border. A large part of the 26th went into Indo-China were the Fach disarmed them. The re- mainder went into Burma with the Eighth. In May, 1950, the Burmese de- manded disarmament of these sol- diers but negotiations broké down and small-scale fighting broke out. Eventually the Nationalist force re-entered Yunnan and established control of a border area where it remains. During the last year they have been joined by thousands of re- Jugess from Communist-held terri- ry. Observers think the Communists will not delay much longer a full- seale campaign against these hold- outs, Canada Seen AsWar Haven For Vatican Vatican City (CP) -- Vatican sources have indicated that Canada has been chosen as a Vatican haven in case of war but have ridiculed reports in an American magazine that the Pope might ab- dicate in case of an emergency. . They were commenting on a story in the magazine (Look) which said Vatican plans provided that the Pope would abdicate but would remain in the Holy See if the Vati- can were in danger of being over- run. The story said that in such a case, heads of Vatican depart- ments would seek sanctuary, prob- ably in the western hemisphere. The Vatican sources said the Holy 8ee had some time ago chosen Canada as a safe place to send "things but not persons" if the Vatican State See were threatened. Body In Car Trunk Has. Cops Running Chicago (AP) -- The citizen was pale and shaky. He was sure he had seen two stuff a body into the trunk of their car and drive into the open-air theatre. He had the licence number. Police sent two squads to the drive-in, finally located the car with five youths in it. It was simple, explained the youths, To beat tile price of ad- mission; three of them hid in the HOLIDAY TARGETS Canada's national parks system includes 26 separate units with a ly area of more square miles. than 20,000 | THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW By Al Fagaly and Harry Shotten [ Feusooe we ALWANS VERY .HESITANT ABOUT . FOOLING AROUND WITH GIRLS WHO Hey, JELLY 1 GOT A E DATE FOR US Er) DIMPLES We - JELLYS + PUSHING 50 NOW," AND NOT NEARLY hanks , MRS. WALTER JENNINGS, Lous ILLE, nt. GO OUT WITH YOu? BUT; ) {50 WAT, LIFE MR. JELLICOE, YOU'RE _/ BEGINS AT 40, MARRIED, AND UH 1000: CMON, 4 Days As Officer Wings Clipped By CO Austin, Tex. (AP) -- A fast-talk- ing, attractive 26-year-old red head posed as a women's air force of- ficer for four days at a training base before army and federal in- vestigators caught her. Mrs. Madelo Frances Evans, who said it was all a joke, was charged with impersonating an. officer. She made her first mistake when she requested an interview with the base commander, Col. Ben, W. Lichty. Dropping her pose in his presence, she gave him a story| about wanting to become an officer but not having enough college cre- dit, ' Use of Steel Banned In U.S. Building Order Washington (AP)-- The National Production Authority Friday banned the star\ of all new con- struction until Oct. 1 unless the projects use only minor quantities of steel, copper and aluminum. Most residences may go ahead, as well as small stores and even some amusement places -- hitherto prohibited. But the other will "freeze" tem- porarily the start of new factories, office 'buildings, schools, hospitals and public buildings. FUEL FOR TRIP Shannon, Ireland, (Reuters) -- A United States flying fortress made a refuelling stop here--It took on 1000 gallons of gas and 150 bottles of duty-free Irish whisky. «He is Lou Thompson, the superin- Huntsville (CP) -- The Vorllsy smallest commercially operated railway is the proud claim of the Huntsville and Lake of Bays line. Dubbed the Portage Railroad its rolling stock puffs steadily over 42-gauge rails, 1% miles between North and South Portage in the Lake of Bays district of Ontario. The little line runs over a hump separating Fairy Lake and Lake of Bays to complete steamer and motor-launch services operating on the two lakes. The rolling stock consists of two small engines, two' flat cars and one box car. Passengers ride in what were once Toronto and At- lantic city horse-drawn street-cars. The railroad has its own telephone line, roundhouse, water tank and terminals. Running only three months of the year the service last year car- ried 15,000 passengers and 500 tons of freight as well as mail. Fares have risen in line with general costs everywhere. Now 50 cents. in 1947 a return fare was only 15 cents. But despite the increased cost per ride the tiny train remains a favorite with summer visitors. however, though summer passen- gers are now its main source of revenue, it was originally built to haul tanbark over the' portage. Built in 1906 by G.O. Shaw, father of the present owner, Mrs. Pauline Gill of Brockville, it was granted a government charter in | the year of its construction. The line is now managed by a | board of directors and its presi- dent, C.R. McLennan of Hunts- ville. On the payroll are four South Portage residents, although only ane is a permanent employe. . Tourists Enjoy Riding World's Smallest Railway (tendent, who has been with the {railway since 1919. The trains run eight single trips eagh day and a special is put on, at a cost of five dollars, for canoe- ists and campers who want their kit carried. The trains can reach a speed of 20 miles an hour but normally travel through the picturesque countryside at only 14. Only one accident mars the line's safety re- cord. Ten years ago a cow wander- ed on to the right of way, derail ed- the train and was killed. No passengers were injured. Industrial strife is apparently foreign to its employes. During the nationwide Canadian rail strike in 1950 service to Huntsville and Lake of Bays line was maintained. Seize $10,000 Prizes As Bingo Game Raided Quebec (CP)-- Provincial police Thursday raided a parish bazaar at nearby Loretteville, closed a bingo game and seized prizes valued at $10,000. The Loretteville bazzaar was organized to raise funds to pay off debts on a parish hall. 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