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TTENDED ILL-FATED OTTAWA CONFERENCE

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Premier John Br:

povrcrs. and Saskatchewan Joined

itlrmitoba cabinet group attending the Ott to RIGHT. Premier John Bracken, lion S.

ken voiced itlluiitoba’; report recommendations ror ru-silocuung

full support of the Sirois

Lnnaumn governmental feeling. Here is the entire l conference. Seated. LEFT [our Ai-irclvux, lf-on. Q. J.

in th‘

F rmer, minister of labor. Standing. LEFT to Riff-ill, lion. l-I. F. “illis, ‘ ter of public works. Ilon. S. S. Garsun, pruiinciaii treasurer, llllll.

Attorney-general W. J. MuJor.

Elli. P emier States views on Sirois report

UFTAWA. Jan. ib-dOPh-Foi- lowing is the text of the state- ment made today bv Premier T. D. Pattnllo of Bri sh Columbia at the Donunioii-Provinclal confer- cheer-

I do not wish to enter lnio a long disc sion with the Minister of Finance, lHon. J. L. Ilsley) but

id say that the very meas- li he indicates will have

l hi the G0\'t‘l'lllll£'Ili. if it is implemen- icd. There is no question at all about that.

'I‘here is no question about that at all. If you look at the Rowell Commission report you will find it stated ulte clearly, as it is stated. in the ciorlcf which I submitted t0 this conference. that the immed- iate effect would be adverse to the Dominion Government.

I say this. that all the surplus that might. be obtained by the D0- minioh Government by way of revenue. over and above the rev- enues which it will receive, will create e. result which will be ad- verse to the Dominion.

According to the commission, if there is a surplus. it will be only sufficient to carry on the war for v0 days or so.

GIlSOIiIIB Rationing

Even though this report is not implemented you will have to aM-pt meizsures in any case which t‘, ministers say will have to be n ntcd. My honorable friend, the Premier of Ontario vI-Ion. Mitchell I-Iepburnt. mentioned the rat-lon- liig of gasoline which my friend (Mr. Ilsloyi old would have to be put. into effect. unless this report were implemented.

e n an t0 tell us that he , h to ration l‘ eien ihoivrh merited? Will . there on n2 of gasoline if unnlvmcnted?

ii Patiullo: Whore are you go- inu to uci ‘the money") I um making this statement to the Dominion Government. for the Province of Brit h Columbia. If the Dominion Govcrmcut had not entered our field oi taxation. British Columbia would never had had to borrow one

doll‘

Brit h Columbia entered the in- come ax field in i816. The Do- minion Government did not enter this field Ltntll 1918 when Sir Thomas While stood on the floor of this ch mber and said that he regretted \ ' much the of taking ih fiction. He it was intended as a Ul°RSllTR

I am sure Sir Thomas White will not mind m saying that when I

lhminion-Provincial Conference

irnler of Manitoba) there

was tul ng to him on one occu- lon he told me that he was afraid

in would be on for good. Rescnta Accusations

o have been t "ovlncial "

province so t at we may have 1i strong D0- minion of Canada. hove been ac- tually accused of being unpatrio- tic and insolcut. lwcanse we dared to say that the income tax should be maintained.

Perhaps I could give an illus-

It is like someone coming ordered pantry und everything and then say- u have no right to com- o"n. i‘ ‘ position in which we find our- selves. I would rather have the Domin- inn G " it take any action. n1 l to do for the prosecution of this w for rather have them do that than to have them take away those rights which we have in per- petuity. That is what it means.

We know that the provinces will be circumscribed in every possible way. What chance would we have if we came down here to make representations to have the income tax given back to us?

None whatever.

My honorable friend (Mr. Ilsley) says that. in Canada we need to get down to a common level. As it is admit-ted by everyone. includ- ing my friend Mr. Bracken lPre- are five economic units in Canada.

We in British Columbia have no

objection to the Dominion Gov- ernment giving assistance to an- other province at anv time with- out consulting us. When British Columbia came to Ottawa to dis- cuss a. problem having to do with our own province and with the Dominion of Canadn-ulifidoubted- ly the problem had an cct- upon the rest of Canada-I d d not feel that we were coming here as beg- gTlYS. Do you think that we came here with any pleasure, beyond the pleasure of meeting our friends? We did not want. to come to Ottawa. Whv did we come?

The Dominion Government be- cause of the e "encies of the last war found it to impose an income 1.x. u action pre- cluded our province from develop- ing in the ‘av it should have de-

eloped. B: ill‘ of unemployment uciief and other l atters we were compcllvul to bor (the Dominion Govc-rmnriit, 5 I maintain. the Piu-vis Cum! ' .si0u (on unemplovirieiitl maintaii led. this present. commission main- tained and I believe vhc Ottaiva

Government also maintains, be- (cause it is n-ilhnu to accept these Jindinus.

atiall. That is the real situation. 1 do not want. to delay matters any

" . r control nf our

vices and all that kind of thing. liuf the prlir-ticzil effect oi ii all is jthut we will have no opportunity i to exivaud.

w money from ‘

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is all "ght to 5a that we i . _ ‘models and sizes. some having auto-

l We wont to be left free to act. (‘Keep-t the earth.

Th“e'5°°" "l"! 14 Years-and more-ago our forofathersgathcred to plan the confederation of Upper and Lower Canadu. In came the other Pan‘ o‘ Emu‘ NM.“ Amerlmv N“!!! b)’ the British psrlia ment in 1867, creating the Dominion of Camila. Before and since provincial groups have debated, argued, and even re-

and an act ol‘ that name was

90"“! W M1118 velllnx-but Canada today is stronger than ever before. The debate and argument began anew with tho Ottawa conference on the Sirois report recommenda- T. D.

tions for "streamlining" Camtdirs constitution. Bluntly

Puttullo (2). All for the new idol-s was

loudly and determlnedly for eastern rights. Nova. Scotiu sent Hon. F. R. Davis, health minister,

Quarrie, attorney-general EIGHT, and Premier A. S. Mac Mlllun (6).

We an beyond the Rocky Moun- rains, and some people in eastern Canada soy that we are too far west. Would iyou like to hear that from respons ble people? Yet that what is actually being said about it.

We have difficulties today, and we will have them again in com- pleting our financing. Our prov- ince is in wonderful shape today, no guestion about that. We are paying 100 cents 0n the dollar, but we do not ivsnt to be hogtied and hainstrung.

I do not believe we are going to gum anything by olng into com- mlttee on the siro report.

I rather like the suggestion of the Prime Minister. I was going to suggest that our rovince would be only too glad to ave our min- isters take up with the Dominion Government these problems in a practical fsahion and have them tell us Just what they want us to

But we should not be tied down in perpetuity, we should not, be circumscribed in our future de- velopmciit.

NEW KITCHENS HAVE VENTILATING FANS

An attractive feature of many new homes Ls the built-in kitchen v-cziiilatrir, which acts as an ex- haust. in drawing offensive coking odors from the house.

These ventilating fans an adapt-

Took Time Out T Teach Nazi Fig-ht Mamie

By LOUIS V. HUNTER. Clnadlun Press Staff Writer

LONDON, J-Jll. 16 —(C.PJ —F‘lt,, Lt. J. B. Nicholson, 23-year-old Rs, yal Air Force flier who won the Vict/oiia. Cmss in his first. combutﬂ taught “some manners“ to thcNazii airman who wounded him in a bat-E tie over Southampton, by shooting‘ him into tlhe sea.

Nicholson. ls rains first. fighter- plloi; V. C., stuck to h‘s guns until he had shot down rman a'_, though he we». \\ vwi" l~ one leg and had shell splinters in the eye. one hand ivountlcci and tho otlhe-r burning in flames fiom .1 petrol tank.

"I had never fired at a Hun ir my life and was ‘ousting ‘o h ' crack at them," the youi in a. B. B. C. broadcast, . his dLsappcintmrnt when Junkets he was chasing with his section ran into a gr up of Spitfires and ivere dsp x1 o’ irrio t- h r

sable for use in older homes as well.

Thev mo ' be obtained in many matlc operation features.

Veniis is better fitted to support human life iii-m any other planet

SEATED left to right: Honourable Ilepburn. Premier

and Provincial

A. S. MacMlllan, Premier Treasurer

Nulr, K.(.‘.. Premier of New Brunswick,

STANDING left to right: llonouroble W. J. Patterson, Premier Columbia. Honourable John Bracken, Prom er Premier oi’ Prince Edward his-ad and the Honourable William

Puttulio. K.C., Aberburt, Premier of Alberto.

Premier of British Honourable Thane A. Campbell, K.C.,

of Nova Scotla, Honourable Mitchell F. 0! Ontario, Right Honourable W. Prime Minister of (lansda. Honourable Adelurd Godbnut, Premier of Quebec, Ilonourqblg J, |;_ M...

of Saskatchewan.

L. Mackenzie King.

Honourable '1‘. D. of Manitoba,

“agln" the changes was British Columbln, represeiﬁod by Hols. John um,

Sﬂskﬂtchewﬂlfs Premier W. J. Patterson (l), seen studying the LEI-T in (5), to carry the conference burden jointly with lion. J. ll. Mn-

could get within r He started to rejoin his squad on when he heard four big bangs, cannon shells from a Meserschmitt 110 hitting his plane.

“The first shell tore through the hood over my cockpit and sent splinters into my left eye," he said. "One splinter, I discovered later. nearly severed my eyelid. I couldn't sec through that eye for blood. The scond shell stuck my spare petrol tank. and set in on fire. The third c a d into the cockpit and tor: off my right trouser leg.

"lhc fourth sir c? the back of‘. my left. shoe. It shattered the heel‘ of the slice and made quite a, mess of my left. foot. But I didnt know anythint.’ about t-hnt either, until later. Anyway, the effect. of these four shells was to make me dive away to the right to av ' further

hells. Then I started c ng my-l s/el-f for climlcssncss. What a fool 1' had been, I thought, what, a, fool. ,

"I iras just thinking of jumpincz- out when Slitltlt iv a Mesierschlmlliti

ii". v h" " '1 nwlp m~ and go rlghti

ranzc. . time and I bullets machine. Ht- was n st‘ .3 and iurnuig as he tried

flnanoo minister, and Premier

report. Generally agreeing, the Mnrltimes were expected to spell

get sway from my ftre. So I Dull- ed the throttle Wide oven- Boll of us must have been doing about 400 miles am hour as we went down t0- gether in a. dive."

GOT HIS CHANCE

Nicholson laid he remembered shouting out, loud at the Nazi when he first saw him. “ ‘ll teach W“ some XHEFltIIIIQIS “you Hun." iilxt‘ yelled

d, .. _ , a f. RG13]? this time suit‘: “ilirctty hot in id lln from the burst

strol ntﬁn$ﬁc 1th: young airman Bgntinued. I couldxft see much flame. but I reckon it was there all right. I remember looking onourat r it.“ .‘lt"““...l"“f.“

1e ro i o . . s o i in the fire ‘itself and I could see the skit: peeling off. Yet I had little pa .

“Well, I gave lihe Hun all I had and the last I saw of him was when he was going dorm, with his right wing lower than the left. I gave him a parting burst and as he dis- appeared I sorted thinking about s. ring myself."

“its balcd out mt about 12.000 to ‘soon feet and spent §0me oi’ the tim durlngr lac deisoekiiit ‘rat

». wrmfsf) fl 6f’, 8J1 S OW K through the knuckles.

Dominion-Provincial

when he got. lower be so/w he was in danger o! landin in the sea. and "I knew I didn't ad an earthly cchaiice if I did because I wouldn't have been able to swim a smoke with my hands like that.” He Wrig. gled about a bit and managed to float inland and he was forced to repeat this when he saw there was danger of his striking a high ten- scn cable.

“Finally, 1 touched. dowin in a. nice open field and fell over," Nicholson concluded. "One of the people who cams along and who bud watched the combs. said they had séren the Messerschmltt, dive straight, into the sea, so It hadn't been such s bad (lay after all "

01101.15’! CHEESE

Cheddar cheese. named fir Cheddur, England, today is pro- duced in such quantities in Wis- consin that the stole produces more than tiho whole of Great Britain.

rrs a new wait

HEIINIMIJ STATE

Pales-

. rs a o to watch . step?!) avoid their hosts of enemies.

(ON SIR OIS RECOMMENDATIONS

PROM GARDEN 0F GULI Irlnoo Edward lSlBJldEIs, thll round table grogp (3; to p“ conference: Hon. J. P. Hcint LEFT, minister of public works highways; Premier Thuuo A, Campbell, CENTRE, and mm Mark R. McGuigun, minister of q}. ucation and public health who rt. tended college with Archbishop McGuigun of Toronto.

Low Parcel Post Rates

To help ease the burden oi’ thou. with relatives servuig overseas, Him William P. hlulock, K. C., P 1a; oer Golfers-l. has been active in er tending in an ever widening rangl the low parcel post rates .1; 0p- portunities rise, to facilitate m mailing ol’ comforts to our forces.

The special Parcel Post rate oi 12 oeuts a pound (iilllll 11 poundﬂ now applies on parcels mailed iii Canada addressed to the following:

Members of Brit Canadian, Dominion or other Colonial troops serving in the United Kingdom, and His Majesty‘: Forces serving in the Middle East.

Members of the Official Ailxiliary Services.

Members of the Forces of Gen- oral De Gaulie sewing with tlit British forces in the United Kim- dom.

Men-Iberia oi Belgian, Polish and other allied forces serving wtﬂi British forces in the United King- dom.

Members of the Custodian army on duty in Iceland.

Parcels for those serving on l! M. and HMD. ships abroad.

The rate of l! cents a pound applies on parcels sent. members oi the Canadian forces on duty in tho West Indies (limit 20 pounds.)

'I‘ho rate on parcels to members of the Canadian forces on duty ti Newfoundland is 10 cents n. pound (limit 20 pounds.)

Nurses attached u; (mm o; m; 532C105 crgfntioned anekglslsod in the

i‘ 880W as so enttizled to the respécetﬁsanghg ra .

HI.‘ WHO FLIES llIAY READ NIW!

WINNIPEG MBJL, Jo.

an overnight trip by air at s can. Eda. n. TCA passenger can read thy news in a dozen daily newspapers if he chooses, all in the space oi i6 hours, all published tlu- some dtiv in_ nine (iiffercnt cities. ‘Twelve magazines - Canadian B h and American -— are (aboard en l air- CIWIt. to keep the traveller ilbresst of his current reading. TCA places l8 subscriptions for each to meet the requirements 0f its various ier. vices. subscribes to 20 mews- papers.

IN NAZI DENMARK COPENHAGEN —(AP) »A flat- lron heated by a. pan of charcoal inserted within its steel frame is N- 11“! manufactured hora to sow electricity and thus coal. now hard 0 ) il ll

This historic photograph shows the scene in the House of Commons Chamber when th advisors sat at the Conference Table with Prime Minister report. Mr. Kin: is shown u be opened the Conference.

. L. Mackenzie King and

other Federal officials

e Premiers of Canada's nine provinces and their to discuss the Rowoll-Slroil. Seated around bin at the centre table are the Provincial Bella-I. ' ' '