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In a ruling by the Public Utilities Commission dated February 20 and now released for publication. the earnings base of the Maritime Elec- iric Company, Ltd. in respect to its operations in Prince Edward Is- lsnd as of June :0. 1940, has been set at 32.20l,l28. This figure is made up as follows: -

Total depreciated cost, 31.901011.

Total cost of purchased propert- lu, :4-9.841, less depreciation taken by the Company, tB.224. - 3411.617.

Total plant and equipment less depreciation. t2.oos,e2s. Organiza- tion expenses. 37.500. Working cap- ital. 3190.000.

"ft, will be noted." says the re- port. ”that the foregoing earnings base is of June so. 1049. a date now in past but necessary to permit the appraisers to finalize their work. However. the matter of bringing the earnings base up to date will be the relatively simple matter of applying the formula of Feb. to. mac, which will follow shortly on the revision'of the rate schedules and the question of the costs of the matter will be dealt with.

"Nothing so far has come to light in this inquiry to justify any order that the Company bear the costs thsreeof. and the same-when fin- ally determined shall beiamortised over a five-year period in line with our order of Dec. 29, 1&0. but the

dealth with when the matter of the rate schedules has been consider- ed.

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ounnass. N. 0.. search 4 -. (AP) - The secrecy been lifted from the rice diet for is blood pressure at Duke University.

For six years it has been mostly hidden from the press by the sil- ence of Dr. Walter xsmpner, auth- or of the diet. The Duka bureau of public relations Saturday iuued an authoritative report.

The lsooth patient” with high blood pressure came to-Duke a few W! use. Of this number. 1.300 re- ceived what Dr. xesnpner called 'rnarked benefit." .

Marked benefit is a drab . , for it,' says the report. "what I .y We really rescind is new life. since 1944 patients have been com- ins - some on Itretchers. some blind. many near deoth. all of them miserable from headaches; disaim-r.a saulzsvart pain that go with the

In some cases the benefits include I drop in blood pi-snore to normal Enlarsed hearts have became "Miler. sisht. has been Oregained Ind blood vessels that were leaking have regained their tone.

The diet is one eupful of rice (dry weight), a day. and as much fresh fruit and juice desired. and About a handful of . Vitamins are added in tablet form. As pat- llii-l"i5 improve, there may be addi-

Wl These are a potato. lean-meat or a slice of tomato. male diet treatment takes a long

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Ice Palrol Scheduled To 1 Begin March 1

The ice patrols. annually con- ducted by Captain Angus Brown. First officer of the ice breaker Brant, are scheduled to get under- way this year on Wednesday of this week, it was learned last night from captain Oarl Burke. Maritime Central Airways.

Captain Brown will again carry out the patrols from a chartered M.c.A. plane. A patrol on Wed- nesday would be the earliest for four years. Last year the first survey was made on March 9. one day earlier than the first one in 1949. The first 1948 patrol was conducted on March 12.

Oneipatrol will be made each week this year until April when daily surveys will be made. Ice around Island shores this year is the lightest in years.

Three Children , . liumed To Death

rnsssanon. 0nt.. March r - (CP) - Three children were burn- ed to dealih Saturday night in a fire which swept their five-room frame home at the south end of this town. Ll miles southeast of .6ault Ste. Marie. H 1 W '” . --

The victims were Betty. three: Bobby, two: and Linda Marie. one. children of Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Gibscn. Two other children. six-

vjyear-old Jimmie and four-ycar- i old Ronald. were saved by Buster

Webster. who roamed with the Gibson family.

Mrs. Gibson was shopping at a nearby store when the fire of unknown origin broke out. leaving Webster in charge of the children.

Congratulates Canadianjroops

,wnsr CENTRAL SIIGTOR. Korea. March 5 -(Monday) - (OP)-Lt.-Osn. Matthew Ridg- way. commander of the United States lighth Army. has sent a message of congratulation to Can- adian troops under his command after their baptiun of fire in Korea. '

The message to Lt.-Col. J. R. Stone. commander of the 2nd

adian Light infantry. read:

"Congratulations on your first fight. Best wishes to you and to all your command."

In a 12-day campaign that end- ed last week. the Patricla's spear- '- r' d the -' co in their sector. pushing eight miles northward against firmly-entrenched Ohlnesc forces. ' .

it. A. F. Navigators Gosling To S'slds

IDNDON. March 4 -- (Reuters) - Thirty R.A.F. pilots and five navigators leave by air for Canada Tuesday to train with the mo. a.1r. They will be followed by another party of so navigators who leave for Inutrsa! latch 11. The naviga- tors will so to aiunmsrsida. P.l.I.

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Duoles 0-fficial Chinese Report from Korea

HONG KONG. March 5 -(Mon- day - (Reuters) - Peiping Radio. quoting an official Chinese news agency report from the Han River

. -front. today accused United States

forces in Korea of using poison gas against Chinese and North -Korean troops on Feb. 23 "in out- fsgeous violation of international aw." -

The report. claimed that at about 1 PM. Feb. 23. two Amer- ican planes bombed P '-at positions on the Han River about 20 miles southeast of Seoul.

One of the bombs dropped gave out a brownish cloud wihioh grad- ually turned greenish and moved toward low-lying areas. it added.

The report claimed "it has been confirmed that the bomb was made of poison gas of an es-phyxl- sting type."

fire Destroys Monasiry In Manitoba Town

STE. ANNE. Man., March 4- (CP)-A 16-hour firs Saturday in- jured five persons and destroyed the Redemptorist Fathers monas- tery here. causing an estimated property loss of 3175.000.

Injured were: Rev. Brother Hormldas. 62, severe scalp and hand burns; Bernard Champagne. 19. of Ste. Anne. badly cut right hand; Lieut. William Moore of the

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deputy fire chief of St. Boniface. a menched back, and Louis De- sautels. St. Boniface fireman. an injured back. '

The fire in the three-storey brick building was believed stari- ed by a short-circuit in the sec-

ond-siorey office of Father J. Blanchctte. The monastery was built in

1917 and was valued at 3150.000. The library on the second floor contained one of the largest col- lection of religious and literary Value of

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BALTIMORE. Md. March 4- (AP)- Police investigating a street robbery Saturday night re- captured Joseph Holmes, convict who burrowed through a 70-foot tunnel out of the Maryland Peni- tentiary 13 days ago. The 39-year. old Negro was subdued after a four-block chase. Warden Edwin Swanson who had termed it "the most fantastic escape live ever heard of." estimated the tunnel took two years to dig.

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0800 Ontario An.gry Over

TORONTO. March 4 - (GP) - Eight hundred angry postmen from more than 14 Ontario centres yes- terday heard eight members of Parliament promise to put their grievances before the Federal Gov- ernment. ,

The postmerf are protesting against working conditions created by once-a-day mail deliveries, which were recently instituted by the Postmaster-General as an econ-

a four-hour meeting , S I Iby the ui in- troduction of resolutions calling for a strike vote and the resignation of Deputy Postmaster-General W.J. Turnbull, the postmen demanded an immediate return to a 44-hour working week, executive efforts to obtain a 40-hour week. and estab- lishment of grievance and concilia- tion committees.

Delegates to the meeting declared that cutting down mall deliveries to one a day had resulted in work-

working days of up to l1 hours. Postmen were now expected to de-

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day and their routes or "walks" had been lengthened by one-third or one-half under the new arrange- ment.

”The one-delivery is in and it's in to stay," said Fred Hurry, national secretary-treasurer of the Federal- ed Letter - carrierst Association. "They're going to enforce it. We

can ask relief from any hardship it brings. but we can't ask them to g

change it."

Lionel Conacher. M.P. (L-Tor- onto Trinity) told the meeting that a. suggestion by George I-Ices. M. P. (PC - Toronto Broadview) woulld be adopted. Hoes suggested that the Toronto M. P.'s place the postme.n'a vlewa before the Postmaster-Gem oral and Prime Minister St. Laur- ent. if necessary.

Other members of Parliament present were: Paul Hilycr (L-Tor- onto Davenport). J.1-I. Rooney (1.- Toronto st. Paul's). Joseph Nose- worthy ((7.0. F. -. Toronto York South). 0. J. Henry (L -- Toronto Roeedale). and A..).P. Cameron (L -. Toronto High Park) and Donald M. Fleming, PC -. Toronto Egiin-

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OTTAWA. March 4 -(OP)- Boosted by a wide range of price climbs, the official cost-of-living index increased by 2.7 points in Januari;-ya to reach a record 175.2

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It was the biggest monthly jump in more than two years. -

The Bureau of statistics satur- day reported price climbs for meats. vegetables. mcn'a wear, plr.-cc goods, footwear, furniture. floor coverings and house furnish- ings. as well as tires. tobacco and hospital rates.

Rents were not surveyed. estimate of changes has been made since last October. Though made usually on a quarterly basis. surveys were not conducted dur- ing winter because of the travel difficulties. The rent index is 136.- 4. the peak reached October last.

Food increases led the price- elimbing parade as the index. bas- ed on 1935-39 prices equalling 100. advanced 73.8 per cent since Aug- ust. 1939. In the United States. the Government's cost-of-living index rose 1.5 per cent between mid-December and mid-January. under a new basis of calculation.

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All Sub-Groups Up

All index sub-groups showed gains to all-time highs. The food group rose 4.2 points to 224.4 from 220.2. Higher prices for meats and

vegetables offset seasonal de- clines in eggs and oranges. Riel and light showed only a

Declares U. S. Soldiers" Carry To Much Weight

by Don Whitehead

WASHINGTON. bllrch I-(AP) -out of the United states army's studies of the Second World War has come ax disclosure that some military ccrmnander sent soldiers to certain death by piling too much weight on their backs.

"In fact." the report says. "we have always done better by a mule than by a man."

This report. gleaned from the battlefields of the last war, says:

1. Men we killed unnecessarily because our officers failed to

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2. Too much weight probably eauud- more deaths on bloody Omaha Beach in Normandy than enemy fire.

3. The army has become so en- grossed with machines of war that it has neglected the human machine-the weary old infantry- man who carries the real burden of cwnbat.

1. The army must strip down its supply services-because over-sup- ply can bog down an army as surely as shortages of gasoline and ammunition.

This expert study of the Amer- ican army in action comes from Col. 8. L. A. llarahsll. a Brat World war veteran who did, bat- tlefleld research in the last war.

In peaostilnl. Marshall is an editorial writsryfor the Detroit News. lut now he is in Korea

making other battlefield studies for the army. Ilarshall's malls in -is

argume that an army may move swiftly on wheels--but true mobility in bat- tie lrtha key to whining and this can bsjaebievsd only by having stnsaggtroops -who can .,n-love ll theory for years 1 H - nds

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slight 0.2-point increase to 14.1.7 from 141.5; home furnishings went ahead by 5:5 points to 165.1 from 179.8 with price jumps in furnit- ure. floor coverings and house furnishings. u , ,QligtlI'I& adv , -abnriab.--pain id 1 ll from based on higher prices for men's wear, footwear and piece goods. In the miscellaneous column.price climbs for personal care. tires. tobacco and hospital rates moved the group up 1.2 points to 137.0 from 135.8.

The main 2.7-point climb itself was the highest monthly increase since the 28-point advance in August. 1947. and repeated the following month. Prior to that. the high had been a. 2.7-point in- crease in September. 1939. The biggest monthly jump in 1950 was a. 21-point rise in June.

Wholesale Index

on the wholesale side. the Bur- eau's index for 30 industrial mat- erials advanced 5.0 points in Feb- ruary to a peak of 212.3 points. compared with 207.3 in January. This index is based on 1926 prices equalling loo.

Prices were higher for hogs, raw rubber. raw wool, beef hides. tin, steel. shapes and steel sheets. These offset price drops for wheat. oats and linseed oil.

The bureau's farm products in- dex. which also reflects whole- sale prlces moved up 5.2 points in the month to 160.3 from 155.1

School Burned

DOMINION. N.S.. March 4 -(CP)-This Cape Breton mining town lost its high school Satur- day when fire swept through the building with loss estimated at

Mayor Joe MacDonald today temporary accommodations were being arransed- for the school's 150 pupils. cause of the fire was unknown.

Princess Elizabeth And King on sick List

LONDON. Princess Elisa-bath today Joined her father on the sick list.

An official announcement to- night from olarence I-louse. Elisabeth's london home. said the Princess is ill with a "feverish cold" and must stay in her room for "sevxal days.

ahs ratuned from lilta Feb. 12 after visiting her sailor husband. tlirbube of ldlnbtngh. She was due to make another visit March 19. but it is not known whether -this will be affected In her cold. The King has been suffering from-xa chill for two days. His peraanal physicians visited him twiohyssterdar and again today. when. it was reported he had day and was feeling more

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New General sec'y Agricultural Institute

Mr. Rupert D. Ramsay. of Sask- atoon (abcve) has been appointed General Secretary of the Agricul- tural lnstitute of Canada. Cur- rently chairman of the memorial union building fund at the Uni- versity of Saskatchewan, Mr. Ramsay will take up his new (ill- iles at the national headquarters of the institute in Ottawa on May 1.

Well known in Canadian agri- culural "circles, Mr. Ramsay has been active in many agricultural organizations and in community work. He spent fifteen years as u livestock specialist in the exten- sion department of the Universityl of Saskatchewan and devoted some years to public service in the same province. He is a mem- ber of the Saskatchewan Institute of Agrologlsts and a lans-stand-

ing supporter of the Agricultural Institute.

A gradulatg in agricultural science from the University of Saskatchewan in 1929. Mr. Ram- say received a-master of science degree in animal nutrition from the University of Minnesota in 1932. -

Mr. Ramsay fills the position vacated by C. Gordon O'Brien. recently appointed Manager of the Fisheries Council of Canada. Ottawa. the trade inssociatlon representing Canada's commercial fishing industry.

GIBRALTAR. March 4 A (Reu- ters) - Britain's giant 4.2.500-ton battleship Vanguard steamed into Gibraltar Saturday at the head of the combined British home and Mediterranean fleets. The Van- guard had been part of an exer- cise task force trying" to force its way towards Gibraltar through a barrier of submarines and British and American planes.

WINDSOR. N. 8.. March 4 -- (GP) - George Miller of Toronto. 23- year-old naval rating, was charged here last night with the attempted murder of it canteen owner at nearby Newport Corner.

Percy M. MacDonald told police he went into a back room in his store shortly after changing a s10 bill for Miller. stationed at a near- by naval radio station.

He said a bullet crashed through a window. missing him by inches. as he bent over to pick up a news- paper. The canteen owner said he could give no reason for the shoot-

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TOKYO. March 5 - (Monda )- (CP) - Allied troops probed cau- tlously forward for gains of one mile Sunday over a broad front in craggy Central Korea without major opposition from Chinese and North Korean Communi

Field dispatches, however. told of a significant shift from night to daylight operations by the Reds - usually a sign of desperation mea- sures in the face of strong Allied air and artillery attacks.

There were dozens of small- scale firefighta along the x60- mile central front. and other indications that the Reds were mustering to strike back in force at Lt.-Gen. Matthew B. Ridgways United States Eighth Army.

In the centre of the front, the U.S. lst Marine Division pusheu north of Saemal, road junction, five miles north of shattered l-loeng- song. in a slow and bitter advance during which they found the re- mains of a 17.5. task force ambush-. ed last month. '

AP correspondent John Randolph i said the marines had passed they last road hub north of Ilocngsong and were in control of Saemal, on the eastern end of the east west highway to Yongdu.

On the west central front. Can- adian troops were reported Satur- day fighting alongside Australians of the 27th Commonwealth Brigade northeast of Chlpyong and south- east of Yongdu. They gained its miles.

Greek mountain troops, veterans of an earlier war against the Com- munists in their homeland. battled Sunday through frozen hills into Yongdu. 16 miles west of Hocng- song, but were forced to withdraw by intense Communist fire .from the hills north of the town.

Close In On Yengdu

The fall of Yongdu now threatened by 1st Cavalry, Greek and Commonwealth tr ps from the south. west and ens - would cut the main 14-mile supply artery running northeast into 1-longclion where the main body of the Chin- ese Communist force is gathering for an expected spring drive.

It would leave the Reds with only one other east-west road south of the 38th parallel - the highway leading from Chunchon to Seoul.

It has been one of Gen. Ridg- way's main objectives to cut Cen- tral Koreais road network before

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MacDonald. who lives alone in the roadside canteen, said he knew Miller as a customer. He said he thought at first the muffled shot was a light bulb exploding, but then noted the jagged hole in the window and immediately called the R.C.M.P.

Miller was taken into custody at the wireless station where he was