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CHARLOTFETOWN. CANADA. TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1950

ENT WINS 2ND YOTE OF CONFIDENCE

Businegss Men App

McLure Scores Gov’t For

Withholding

New Pairol Car. Uniforms for City Police

The City Police illome will ha.ve . new patrol car and fifteen mem- bers of the force are getting new uniform: it was disclosed in reso- lutions passed at the monthly meeting of the City Council in the city Hall last night.

The possibilities of s revised city tax valuation scheme, glass covered meat in the market. the gppointlnelit of a temporary Fire ltarnhall in Charlottetown and the installation 0!! lights in Victoria Park were mooted. These matters will be taken before: the Wunail

in on Friday nigh t a wee fitting called for t:he'pts.sing of the estimates and the establishing

at the tax rate. Preslded over His Worth!-p Mayor MacDonald the twothour

meeting was packed with business (mm beginning to end. A third resoiution passed in addition to the two mentioned, stated that no more rummage soles would be al- lowed in the market after the present engagements Ire conclud- ed .

The motion for. I new police pat- rol was moved by‘Gcuncillor cox. Chairman of i Police Gommit/tee. Councillor Cox also ndica.-ted that the patrol should be traded in each year thus providing the force with an almost constantly new car at an estintnted cost of about $500 per annum. ‘

The new unitfol-ms. to be supplied by Mr. Samuel Kennedy, will cost $58.13 eacth and will be made measure. Escnunifonn will.e.on- list of n tun-lc two pairs of trousers.

Tux situation

(Mayor MacDonald revealed that definite steps are being taken to have the. City tax situation straightened out. He stated that he had been in contact with

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"Education nu...‘ um; Hell. March mo.

"Dance. St. 'l‘el'elI'I l-fall, mister Monday. auspices C. W. L.

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_"Bce our garden tractor illustra- lion on lfage 3. Arthur Veesay.

"Come to the VII-iety Oonoert It Stanley Brifle.‘ March 17th.

"Variety Oonoert, Little Pond Hall Frlday. March 17th.

"Garden seeds. Send for free

malocue. Arthur vessey. York. P. E. I. "See the “Bowery Boys" in

“N1-ath the rnrookilyn Bridge" It Bonshsw tonight.

H'1‘1C«;ordm8‘P'arty i.n Sumdlerfltellld 3 - h, neored by e Credit Union. ‘Po

-"see the original "Bring lilm Bid: Alive" plus Serial It Mac- Donald Bros. Theatn tonight.

"Mlllvale Driving om. wil hold Races Wednesday afternoon If not gllcfickllhurnday. Race starts It two:

"St. Patrick‘: variety. concert by Kinkora Players t in on Hall, lllriday, Mulch lflll, at I PM.

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UITAWA, March‘18 — (Special) —W. Chester S. McLure, Progres- sive \Consgrvative member for Queen s, charged in the House of Commons tonight thst the Gov- ernment either through ignorance or design, withheld essential in- forrnatton on transport matters of prime importance to Prince Ed- ward Island. '

debate. Mr. Mcllzure directed his

fire on Transport Minister Chev.

rier. complaining that Mr. Chev- rier had given inadequate replies to questions he had asked in the

House on three matters. They

were:

1. Plans of the Gwemment or the Canadian National Railways to take over the Caribou-Wood Islands ferry system.

« 2. Plans of the Canadian Na- tional Railways to take over’- bus-lines and trucking services 0“ the htllhwlye on Prince Ed- ward Island.

3. Failure to state the Gov- ernment policy on the proposed Wet Paint ferry system. A He pleaded with the Minister to

secure more adequate information

on issues of this kind from his of-

in order that the House of Com- mons would be correctly inform- ed on them.

Norihumberlsnd Ferries

Mr. McLure said of Northum-ber- land Ferries:

“I think I am voicing the senti- ments of my constituents and the people of the Province in ,gen- eral when 1 say they would rather -Mt ..tllg . Nosthulntbsrland Intern built up to take care of still greater trafllc, and further. more that A service should be provided between Wmt Point and Buctouche for the benefit of the farmers and fishermen of Prince County. t

"At Wood Islands last season, the .'Dunning' and the ‘Prince Nova’ had some difficulty in dock- ing at low water but the Public Worlh Department notified the ferries people that it was not their intention to provide sufficient wat- er for the ‘Dunning’ by clearing I channel with I suction dredge. One of the large dredging com. panics said this operation could

as carried out successfully.- Why should the government refuse this auction dredge service?"

Mr. McLure said it seemed ‘strange that the Minister of Trans- port should be unaware of negoti- ations between the Canadian Na- tional Railways and the Govern- ment of ‘Prince Edwrd Island for 919 1'll1'WIY company to take over bus and trucking services in the Province. was the Minister not aware. he weed, that the C. N. R. had presented I brief on this very aublect only last month?

He suggested that the C. N. R. was using its influence to limit the operation of the Nor-thumberw land Ferries. and had failed to

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Iy ALVIN J. STEINIKOPI

CARDIFF, Wales. March is -— (AP)--Britsln today ordered I full public inquiry into history's great- est sir disaster-the crash od the huge chartered airliner that kill- ed 80 persons near here Sunday.

Lord Palmllnm, Minister of Civil Aviation, through his chief

rllsmentary secretary, announced t: the House of Commons that he has ordered I court inquiry to attempt to fix the cause of the wash

leader Winston us-chill. asked for I government ststslnsat on the tragedy.

Lord Pakenhsm had hurried to the scene Sunday for I personal

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inspection.

Donald Bennett. former air mar- sllail in the lt.A.l‘. who left active service to enter srciai -Ivls- itlon, also examined the fluttered plane. its sI'i’d“ last niytglgli that "rs far-II csu. ever III was a ‘ rdsr The II people

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comet o , . on board was I load well within the veartileate of airworthiness re- quirements, for this particular

bomber mo Britain's urine com’: inst-elsl plane. has been dogged, .. misfortune.

Speaking on the Throne Speech ‘

ficials and officials of‘the C.N.R. _

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eal For Cut In Federal Taxes

Four Of'Fami1y Die In Montreal Tenement. Fire

Brieil’re—;e-nied By Chamber ’ , 0fCommerce ‘

OTTAWA. March 1: —(dr) _ Canadian business men today sp- pealed to the Government to cut taxes. but they got no pgumiggg,

In I 6.000-word brief presented by the Canadian ohsmber of Corn- merce. the Government was told the current rate of taxation was stlflins -the creation of new private wealth. -

Golllflled with I steady climb in ilovernment; spending, these high tax rates could spell dame; for Cs.nada’s economic future.

The nine-point brief was pre- sented to Finance Minister Abbott and Revenue Minister Mccann. Bobh said they would study the brief. but made no other commit. men-t.

HOWBVBI‘. E. C. Wood of Mont- Nlll. head of the delegation. said he was satisfied with the meeting. The delegcticn had received “an excellent reception."

With him were: Caurtland ml. llott. Toronto, chginnan cf the Chamber's -committee on public finance and taxation; F. 0. cm. nlnghsm. Montreal. vice-chgi an of the same ccrrnmlttee; and D. L. M01'rell. Montreal, the Chamber's general manager.

New Capital Needed

Reading the btief, Mr. Wood, vlceqoresldent of the Chamber's executive council,. emphgsizgd we ncedlto continue the flow of cap. ital into the development of new industry and trade.

The irscentivc to keep up the flaw was lessened by the high tax rate—40 per cent for corporations Md Tallgillll up to -80 per cent for personal incomes.

Personal and corporate tax rates are ‘at such peaks that have no

ly. the business men have found Canada's tax laws and their ad- ministration "inherently burden- some and under changed economic conditions, they could become in. supportable . "

ND‘. Wood cautioned crnnment against going too far with socittl security measures. By hlsh taxation. the Government produced “a vast revenue" and this “presents a constant temp- tation to (mfoark on new and fixed

the Gov-

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MONTREAL. March 13 — (OP) —Four members of I family died early today in their burning tenement in East-Central Montreal. and. three hours later, 35 other persons were carried to safety from a smoke-filled uptown apart- ment bulldtlng.

Mrs. ‘Rene Dearosiers, 36, was found clutching the body of her two-months-old son Yvon in their third-«floor flat on grimy St. Dominique Street. Two older sons, Jacques, l0, and Pierre. 7, were lying Isphyxiatad on their bed.

The blaze, extinguished by fire- men within 15 minutes. broke out in the kitchen while the victims’ husband and father, 37-year-old Rene Desroalcrs. was at work. Only exit from the flat was through a second-storey rear door.

Three hours later. a two-alarm basement blaze funnelled smoke through the four-storey Mount- view Apartment block on Sher- brooke Street West, and 35 per- sons, mostlyl women. were car. tied to safety down ladders, fire

Bill Vests Authority To Borrow $3,000,000

New Ruling Re Veterans Hospitals

OTFAWA. March 13 —— (GP) — Any war veteran will be en- titled to become a patient in Veterans Department hospitals

.I.ffi¢)'..Al>.l:1Ll. _Jt.wau.uownced....,. today, ’ ‘

Veterans Minister Greeg told the Oommons new regulations to that effect are qualified to this extent:

1. There must be room for them and it will be some time before there is much room.

2. They must pay for their care just as they would in I. civilian hospital.

3. Veterans, such as pension- ers, already entitled to free care ‘

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By WILLIAM STEWART

QUEBEC, March 13 — (CP) — J. Albert Gusy. Quebec jeweler on trial for murdering his wife in I Sept. 9 airline disaster. was des- cribed today in criminal court, first as a model husband and pro- vider. then as a "hypocrite" with a "diabolical" turn of mind. - The conflicting descriptions came from defence counsel Gerard Levesque and crown prosecutor Noel Dorion, who each reviewed the 13 clays of trial testimony in their addresses to the 12-min: jury.

Public Inquiry Ordered- Into U.’ K. Plane Crash

When the trial was adjourned,

Atlantic flighis. ‘

No date has been set for the public inquiry. but government ex- perts, Bennett and other odtlciala of Fair-fligh-t, Limited, owners of the plane, today probed the twist- ed remnants strewn in I field only so yards from the edge of Llmdow airiliald.

The King and Prime Minister Attlee led Britain _in rnournitig the death of 75 Welshman and five crew members who met their death when the plane undarahot the airport on its return from Belfast. where the psuengers had watched their team win in I Wales-lrelsnd championship rugby match. ,

only three of the 33 persons aboard survived the crash 1: Ire plane came in for I landing. ,

one of~the three survivors is in critical condition. The other two apparently owe their lives to the fact they were securely strap‘ ,pe(l to their seats at the rear o the fuselage, w-hid: suffered the

sat a.

The medlcll officer of the RA. 1': hospital where they were titan refused to allow interviews with the survivors until tomorrow.

An inquest was pr-lat. A widow or I brother to pick up

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Guay Murder Case Goes To Jury Today

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will still geb it free and will have priority over others.

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Judge Albert Sevigny said he will deliver tomorrow morning his out- line to the French-speaking jury.

The jury will then retire to con- sider a verdict.

The Crown claims that Guay murdered his 28-year-old wife, Rita, by having I dynamite time- bomb shipped aboard a Canadian Paclfllc Airlines plane which crash- ed Sept. 9, 1949, near Sault Iu Cochon. Que, killing all 23 per- sons aboard.

This morning Mr. Levesque made a plea‘ for acquittal.

Levesque said the Crown had set out to prove that a "lugubrl- ous and macabre crime" brought the airliner to earth but there were “flagrant contradictions" in the testimony of key Crown wit- nessu.

Mr. Dorion summing up the Crown ease. referred to the pos- sibility that "accomplices" figured in the case.

‘‘In I case like this one there might be accomplices,” he said. "VIlidliy.of the testimony of In accomplice must be we bed by your knowledge of human nature."

He told the jurymen: "And you need not worry - if there are others than Guay who should be sought out by the law. they will be sought out by the law."

Courtroom Jaunted

The courtroom was jammed with gzvople when 08-year-old Judge in! red this afternoon and Mr. rlon started his long address. .

Guay stepped briskly into the prisoner's box.

He was in tears briefly during the morning when his lawyer warned the Jury to consider the evidence careeully and guard against an "error of justice."

He was expi-essionlssa when Mr. Dorian this afternoon made re-

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frressurcr, will bring down

escapes and stair-ways.

More than 50 other residents of the building were forced outside but returned to their apartments after the smoke had cleared.

Fire officials said the blaze caused only slight damage in a basement storage room.

In the St. Dominique Street fire. Guy Desrosiers, 24, brother-in-law of Mrs. Dasroslers. escaped with his wife from their second-floor flat but he was unable to help his brother’: wife and her three children.

"I told my wife to get out fast and I tried to get up the stairs to save the others,” he said. “But the flames were all over the stair- case. I burned my hand and singed my hair before I realized I could not make it."

Firemen, who answered the first alarm at 4.22 a.m. EST, said Mrs. Dsrosiers had been burned about the feet and head in an attempt to escape down the blazing stair case with her infant son. She appar-

ently returned and collapsed from inhaling smoke.

Authority to borrow three mil- lion dollars in such amounts as may be deemed ‘expedient for the public services is vested in the Government in a bill which re- ceived second reading in the Leg- islature yesterday.

. Sponsored by Hon. W. ‘E. Darby, Attorney General, the bill auth- orizes the borrowing on the cre-

of.,cons_olid'ated revenue fund

exceeding forty years, with the usual provision for sinking fund and for payment of interest at a rate to be fixed. It becomes ef- fective as soon as it is paucd and receives the Royal assent.

A lengthy bill to amend the

necessary by changes in the Do- mlnion Income Tax Act passed at the last seslon of Parliament, was also given second reading.

Still in committee is the Vital Statistics Act,-of which a few ad- ditional clauses werc read'yester- day.

At 4 pm. His Honour Lieutenant Governor Bernard received the Address in reply to the Speech from the Throne, and made I brief appearance in the Legisla-

re to give his assent to the bill amending the Public Schools Act.

Before the House resumes de- liberations this afternoon it will receive the annual delegation from the Provincial Federation of Agri- culture.

At 8 o'clock. at the first even- ing sitting of the current session. Hon. W. E. Darby, Provincial the budget for the fiscal year ending March 3;, 1951.’;

More Flying Discs

EDMONTON. March 13 — (CP) —Three flying discs were report- ed today to have been seen streak- ing acroes Edmonton yesterday. Cpl. John Rogers of Western Army Command said he saw the objects as he stepped out of 3' barracks building. He said he called other soldiers and about 20 watched the "shiny round records" until they were out of sight. Last week several persons reported three other pear- ” ,. “ saucers soar- lng_ overtthe city.

Attics Refuses To Ouflew Communists

pontoon. March 1:; —(Reuters) _.Prlme Minister Attlee today re- fused to introduce legislation to outlaw the British Ccmrnunist Part/y.. He had been asked if he would do so "in view suit of the nloha trial." by Sir Waldron amithars. veteran Con- servative member of the commons.

Ontario Werner": Wes ‘I06 Yesterday

BUTTON. Ont., March l3 —-(OP) _. Mrs. Elizabeth Alexander of nearby nrbwn Bill is too today and she is receiving plenty of good wishes. she has ll grandchildren, so ' great-grandchildren and as great-great-ggandehlldren.

one run is able to climb stairs but finds reading difficult. ti-lends _hIs'_about "new-fanslod

like the atomic bomb but she doesn't worry about than for

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Labor Tribes No Chances. Calls Out Sick Members

LQNDON. March 13-—(CP)-—'I'he Labor Gover ent tonight won its second strai t vote of confidence in the new House of Commons, turning back a Conservative mo- tion -criticlzlng housing policy. The vote was 314 against the mo- tion to 289 for. The majority‘of 25 compared with the 14-vole mar- gin by which the House last Thursday rejected another censure motion dealing with nationalization of the iron and steel industry. Parliamentary reporters said at least six of the nine Liberals in the House voted tonight with the Government.

Tonight’: vote foresfalled for the time being, the necessity of hold- ing a new election in Britain. If the Government had lost, Prime Minister Attlee and his colleagues would hwe had little choice but to resign.

Tomorrow Attlee faces still a‘- other test in the House of Com- mons—this time a Conservative challenge on the Government's spending policies.

Labor Whips took no chances. They called ailing Foreign Secre- tary Bevin and Sir Stafford Crlpps, Chancellor of the Exchequer, out of slckbed to help bolster their majority, Bevin is receiving treat- ment for a heart condition and Sir’ Stafford has 8 heavy cold. One Labor member, l-‘rank And- erson. came straight from a hos- pital wlih a doctor and nurse in attendance.

An exceptionally hitter debate preceded the vote. Health Minis- ter Aneurin Bevan, whose Minis- try administers the housing pro- gram, lashed back in. Conservative criticisms.

He insisted that “In Great Bri- tain we have succeeded in making more progress (in housing) since 1945 than any other nation in the world.”

He added: “The Government's program will be persisted in." The Conservatives had ‘ ' that Bcliain is short 6.000.000 homes and described Labor’; whole housing policy as a failure. Bevan and other Labor party members reto‘l'ted ‘that the Con- servatives, if they had their way. would turnthe "speculative" build- ers loose on housing for private sale, while the poor went home- lcss. ' In the debate, Emrys Hli8heS- Scottlsh Labgr member, caused the Government discomfort by de- mandlng that Attlee set up 3 new

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buildlng in Scotland."

John McGovern, Labor member from Glasgow, declared: “It is ume we quit pointing to the past We must face the future."

Fire In Halifax C.ll.|l. Building

HALIFAX, March 13 — (CP)-— Firemen fought a two-hour battle with a stubborn blaze in in Cans- dian National Railways office and freight shed here tonight-

Damage from the two-alarm o_ut- bregk was not believed extensive as it was confined to the office section of the 1 1-2-storey water- front structure by a wire-wall. Records were lost and other damage would be from smoke and

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water, officials Snid- Cause of the blaze was not known, No injuries wr-rc reported-