MacMillan Government Commended On Efforts’

To Boost Hog Industry

Swine Breeders Association Pass Resolution In Direct Refutation Of Criticism Advanced. W. M. Lea In Discussion On Agricultural Estimates In The Legislature.

By Mr.

e-rithum o! the Provincial m- pmnent oi Asrioultirre for alleged gggllgenco in not wwunsine hot

uction last spring, voiced by Mr.

,M. iegleadsr of the Opposition, pvt non. o. Shelton Sharp, Minis- gg- of Public Works and \ former ‘mo; d Agriculture, the oppor- mity d scoring another decisive pint for the tlaoalillan Govern-

ment in the leﬂalature on Friday‘

lnominl.

The House. at the time, was in aenunittee on the Asriculturai esti- rrutes. Mr. Lisa's contention, that the Department should have antic- ipsied the‘ present increase in hog prices, was vii by Mr. Sharp citing a resolution, passed at a meet- ing oi the Prince Edward Island Swine Breeders‘ Association on the previous day, warmly commending thabepartruent on the efforts it has made, not only to increase hog pro- duction, but to improve quality standards as well.

The Department, Mr. Sharp show- ed, has worksd in close era-operation with the Ihdorai Goverpment in a Canada-wide campsipi to enable eur farmers to take full advantage of the bacon quota in_the British market. rnado available to them through the successful efforts of the Bennett Government in negotiating the Empire trade agreements.

‘ When ﬂea Kaine went into corn- lrittee, with Mr. Hunter i.n- the chair. m. lea first eagusssed regret that the Dominion technical grant had expired, as it had been of con- siderable financial assistance to the department in the payment oi of- ficials’ salaries. He noted that a small saving of some $4,000 has been effected in some items of the Esti- mate. considering the necessity for economy, however, there should he a mater saving.

ta Minister

lir. lea complimented the pres- art Minister of Agriculture, iiion. Ill‘. llaoUiitt) who he said be- llllltd re a family which had been pioneer livestock breeders for many RBI. lhllbiltraining asa full- urne farmer llttod him admirably to conduct the responsible duties of his office. The Guardian's report of tha Minister's speech in the Budget llblteshﬂwedthathehada thor-

lilsh grasp of the situation. 77"" "lldlr. Lea noted, an item ll’ “M0 in the lhtimatas for en- morn of livestock. This was an important item. Unfortunately, be was afraid the present Govern-

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lat that time. ‘The Department was

, inconsistent with the Department's

been made to establish at Paleon- wood farm a purebred Yorkshire herd of hop. The present Govern- ment had allowed this herd to be depleted. They had also, he claim- ed, failed last spring to encourage farmers to greater hog breeding ac- ' tivity. As a result, when hog priou increased last fall, we were short about 10,01!) hogs. Suckers had been shipped away in the spring and “no effort" had been made by the De- partment to discourage the practice

"about a year too late" in emphas- izing the matter.

Clainu Department Ls:

Things had been managed differ- ently under his, Mr. Dee's adminis- tration, the Opposition leader said. letters were constantly being sent out to the farmers, advisinr them what to do. The practice of sending such letters had largely ceased irri- der this Government. If letters had been written advising farmers that the pendulum was going to swing upwards in the hog industry, there might have been a greater available supply. But until the price had ad- vanced to something like ten oants a pound, Mr. laea had never noticed that any advice had appeared

Mr. J. Howard MacDonald: "were you taking notice?"

Mr. us: “l raad the papers."

Continuing, 2dr. Lea read a letter recently issued by the Dcpartment, advising farmers oi the wisdom and necessity of stabilizing and increas- ing their hog production. Had this letter been written a year ago it would have been "helpful." He had nothing to find fault with in the advice offered, except that it was

policy in reducing the herd at Fal- conwood. The present improved wia-egauziﬂb-cd om.» om:-

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(C. P. Cnbio).

TIlIEVES RIFLE PRINCE EllllARll THEATRE SAFE

Escape With Fifty Or Sixty Dollars After Cooliy P la n n e d Break.

A daring robbery occurred Bsilir- day night or early Sunday morning at the Prince Edward Theatre, the safe in the managers office being taken downstairs in the boiler room. the door forced open with a (ﬂlilcl. and the sum oi fifty or six-

Girl Stowaway Determined To _ Stayln Canada

HALIFAX. March I-(By ‘the Canadian Preea)—Plumy

freﬂirters lifeboat. b not going back to the Old Country without a light.

She was understood tonight to have iiied an appeal against the decision o! an immigration tribunal ordering her aent back to her borne in Ireland lust la IDOn as die has reooveed from. the QHBGJ oi her r gorous crossing.

Ofliciﬂe of the Robert Redford Company, Halifax agent-s for the freighter Sulariau owner-s, said they had be!!! instructed to bring the M-year-old-giﬂ back to the Old

... RESEMBEES Bill

llEll AUSTRIAN Bllllilllllllml

Based on the Principle That All Power Em- anates From God.

(By Wade Weruu- Associated Prel Foreign Staff by Guardian's Spee- lal Wire)

VIENNA, MarchZB-The broad outline of Austrians new “corpor- ative" constitution was published

Country aboard one 0f the Don- aldson line's ships.

ty dollars taken. boiler room yesterday afternoon by and the culprits evidently

wheeled the safe to the door lead- 1118 to the basement, and then

(By Guardian's Special Wire)

8'1‘. JOHN'S, Nild, March ?5. - Damaged by ice on the North At- iantic, the United States shipping l Boar-d freighter Liberty limped into 8t. John's today for repairs.

A survey revealed her plates had opened only slightly, however, and it was stated tonight she would be able to continue her voyage from Havre to New York with little de- I lay. A leaky tank permitting water wmixwithiuclwassaidtobethe chiei trouble.

The OJOO-ton vessel was about 200 miles off the Newfouncfsnd coast when the mishap occurred. The . Danish" freighter Bvend Pii was in cornmuni " with her but assist- ance waa not fequired.

Meanwhile the Danish steamship Otta Peterson, which struck at the entrance oi Port Aux Basques l-Isr- bor in a blinding snowstorm Friday night was safely in harbor and un- damaged. She was refloatad early Saturday morning and proceeded into Port Aux Basues for a cargo of paper.

C. N. B. SHOWS INCREASE

(Special To The Guardian)

MONTREAL, Que, March 24- GLOSI revenues of the all inclusive Canadian National Railway system for the week ending Man-h 21st, 193d were $3,088.§58 as compared with t2,4'l0.961 for {he corremond-

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tug period oi 1033 an increase of ‘$817,397.

Overwhelming Victory

For Fas

F evr Scattered T h o u- sands Vote Against Il D u c e In Plebiscite.

(By Andrus Bcding) (Annotated Press Foreign Staff) (Al. By Gmrdianh Special Wire) ROME. March ‘lo-Nearly 10.000.- ooo voters gave Premier Mussolini

and his Fascist regime an 0&- whelming affirmation of approba- tion in a national plebiscite today.

returns ioniaht left no doubt of a outcome if any doubt really eve-r existed. The first offlo- ial returns were from the Province

t y Regime

Youth Held For M u r d e r

(C. l’. by Guardian's Special Wire) IESTEVAN, Sash, March 38- One girl was dead tonight, an- othiu- was in hoepltaFand I youth was under arrest on a murder charge as a result a! a quarrel which police attribut- ed to disappointment of the youth in a love affair. Eileen Bailey, l7, h dead, he: throat cut with a craved hunt- knife. slate Ruby, i9. la in Btevsn hoqﬂtal with deep head wounds. James Nelson Watson, 22, is in the police cells at the court house, charged with murder.

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lowered it to the cellar with a rope which they took from the stage.

There was no sign of any Uutglde door having been forced. Appar- Qhtly the thieves hid themselves in the theatre or basement after the last picture show on Saturday 1118M. and remained until all was quiet.

Th9? made their escape by a side door. which is bolted on the inside.

Documents in the safe were left untouched by the thieves, who ev- ldently had planned the robbery with cool deliberation.

A snowfall early Sunday mom- 1118 made it impossible to trace footsteps. The City Police, in w- operation with the R. C. M. P., are working on the case.

Skipper Of _ Fishing Ship Dies At Sea

HALIFAX. March 2'>——iBy The: Canadan Press)—l'ier flag at the half-mast. the Gloucester iismm schooner Adventure came into Hal- ifax Harbor today to rqport the death or her mastnr, Captain Geof- i;ey ‘Thomas. The 58-year-old mariner, a native of Nova Stxvtia. haddiedonthedeckofltisahip whie ﬁshing oi! l-lalfax.

A heart attack claimed the vet- eran seamarfs life as he stood be- side the wheel Saturday morning. He was dead when engineer James Thompson reached the spot.

The Adwnture was on the west- ern bank then, about 80 milu of! this port, and the men had left the ship for the day's fishing. Boats were recalled immediately, em the ship headed for klatlifiax.

Man Killed By Train Near Moncton N.B.

(O-P. By Guardian's Special Wild)

MONUION. March 25-1Peter Du- gas, m year old carpenter. 0i Hum- phreys. about a mile from this city, was instantly killed this afternoon when struck a Canadian Na- tional train as e was walking the tracks. ‘ﬁre accident occurred a- bout a mile and a half east of

some time w come. EXDOBUPO 811d

ypartrnenvs Hospital l-rcre. Both her feet are irostbitten.

JWABURREB lnuriln

Mother and 15-months Old Child Succumb to Flames From Oil Explosion.

(C. P. By Guardian's Slleﬁl-ll WA")

SARNIA, Ont., March 25—A mother and her l5-uwni-hs-old child died from bums received late Saturday when kerosene exploded while it was being placed on a small coal stove at the home 0f Thomas Chambers of Oorunna.

The dead are Mrs. Jessie Young. 40, wife of Robert Young of Samia and her daughter Margaret, i5 months old.

Mrs. Young was attempting to light the coal stove with kerosene when the explosion resulted. Fire followed and spread to the wo- man's clothing She dashed to the baby carriage to remove the child from the house which she feared would burn.

As Mrs. Young picked the baby up flames from her clothing spread in the baby's. Blinded from flames from her burning garments the mother did not notice the baby's burning dress. She ran outside and rolled the child on the ground.

Mrs. Young's frantic screams at- tracted Russell Cochraiie, Billy Burton and Mrs. B. Heink. neigh- bors. They found the woman stand- ing in the yard with her clothes completely burned from her body. Her eyes burned shut, and she was unable to speak.

The baby was lying on the ground, its clothes also burned from its tiny body. When Dr. L. R. Aiken, Courtr-ight coroner, an-ived the baby was dead. Mrs. Young was taken to Sarnia General Hos- pital wherc she died four hours later.

FianceeAndAlso

Informer

NORTH BAY, Ont., March 25 -- When the shOp girl fiance of W. Cv. Brittain heard he was winner of nearly 010,000 in the army and navy she left the store and went to a solicitors where she issued a writ againl him as an informer. It was a protective writ to safeguard his winnings.

Brittain a native oi New Brun- swick, held a ticht on ‘lhcmond II. third place horas in the Grand National Bteelpechaaa run at Ain- tree yesterday. Be is a telegrapher and has hem doing part time work for the ‘Ibmﬂaning and Northern $110 hilway in Porquis June

111a informer is Miss Ivelyn lharvali. North ﬂy, who met Brittain when he came to the city shortly before Christmas for a visit. Brittain was reptted to have left for ‘linrmine whm he beard he was a 810.000 wirmer. but the pu-r-

ioaeefthah-ipwasnotasoertain-

But whether or not she goes ev-, The Opened safe was found in the Qntually, she will be in Halifax for through the streets of Vienna in

in the official Government Gaz- ette today. At the some time the Government paraded its army

the greateat show of military force

theatre attendants. The lock on the l huh!" Iuﬂvred on the 11-day crm- § since Parliament. was shelved. manque; 0m“ h“ been {unﬁt-sing have left her weakened. andi The mos; gtriklng provision or had she is inn n the Immigration De- the new constitution gives the

sident powers similar to those poe- ses-ed by the late Emperor Franz‘ Joei when he ascended the tiu~ohe after crushing a Republican revolu- tlmi in i848.

The President will rule through ithe constitudon but may change it whenever he thinks an emergency demands. The constitution will be based on the principal that all power emanates from God-An cori- trlnst to the present one, which says a l

But the people, nevertheless, will be elven an OPPOPlunlLY to mipress

‘their opinion at the polls whenever t the Government thinks this advis- ‘

able. Popular initiative, however, is barred and the people will not have constitutional rights to elect their own Government.

I All legislation ‘trust be initiat- ed by the Government, which will be advised but not controlled by four consultative bodies.

Miner Hurled‘ To D e a t h

(CI. By Guardian's Special Win) EPEILLARION. March N

Caught by a belt he was attaching to a mechanical sicker, Angus Has- ey, Kl, was hurled to death in the Allan Shaft on Saturday. He was one of the Maintenance men on duty keeping the idle coal mine irom flooding pending settlement of wage and reallocation disputes with the Acadia Coal Company.

Gives Self Up To Police

(A. P. by GuaJiiLlfs Special Wire)

PARIS, March 25—Georgea Haimraux, alias "Joe the Ter- ror" alleged Btavisky"gnngster" today gave himself up to police after detectives had hunted for him all night.

The former wrestler and box- ﬂl’ ll BilPPlXvcd to be the myster- ious peraon who handed the police long-missing cheque- stubha of the late Serge Stav- ity, central igure in the coll. apse oi the Bayonne Municipal hwnahop.

mourns the office of the Surete Generals, Hainnaux

ing for mo. Well, here I em."

$140,000 FIRE lilliliRlilEAi

((3.1! B! Gmsdiasrs lpaelal wire)

raomrsaim, larch 26 - Two hours after- s guy Saturday night crowd had vacated the lees. fire broke out in the

power emanates from the people. '

awn-Qua as nape: A’ unseen-rainstorm.

so a MERE MAN

Premier Against War”

A_aal labaariptiaa Delivered I la lat!

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Oaaadaaad l1. I. A.

Guards

“Civil Outbreak

Doumergue Supported By War Veterans In An Appeal For Internal Unity.

(By Richard Massock, Associated Press Staff Writer) (C. P. By Guardian's Special Wire)

PARIS, March 25—Sharp

fighting flared in provincial

France today as political extremists, ignoring the plea oi Premier Gaston Doumergue to guard against “civil war,’

battled against each other,

Fifty persons were injured in a clash at Toulon be tween Royaiisis and Socialists outside a meeting hall be

A score of others nursed

' fore police reinforcements could dispel the crowd.

bruises suffered in street

skirmishes between Rightist and Leftist followers st. Tours, where gendarmes reported shots were fired.

Take Precautions

Precautions were being taken at Tours to prevent further violence tomorrow night at a demonstration called by the anti-Fascist front in protest against a. manifestation of the rightist organization Solidarite Franchise, organized by the p". fume manufacturer, Francois Coty.

Be the aged premier who in a speech told France Saturday that foreign invasion was to be feared as a result of threatening internal unrest, counted today with thei support of 3,000,000 war pledged to save France from civil war and the risk oi foreign inva- sion.

DIalIoie

He was both Lpublic prosecutor and 0 fatherly adviser as he spoke Baturda night: in the Quai d‘Orsay.

In c n. telling worm he told how he thought he had finished with political life after 40 years of service in various capacitia but came when he was called by "Pres- ident Lcbrun and party leaders who said civil war was about to break out, that there was fighting

in Paris, that people were killed Feb. 6 and that there would he more the next day ii I did not take power."

I5 Dead liVhen ‘Fire Sweepigelief Bureau‘

Seveniv-five l n i u red In Trnrvr-dv. Manage- ment l-leld Blameless.

(AP. By Guardian's special Wire)

nvuormunc. Va-. March 25 -— Fifteen lonely wanderers were dead tonight following a fire which swept throudh the Federal Um‘. gimt relief bureau here Saturday.

Seventy-five oJle-rs, whites and negrool. were either burned or hurt. as they leaped to the strcdt 1T0"! upper windows ill the early 1110m- m‘ tragedy. The flames started from gravy boiling over on a hOY- stove and spread speedily through the former furniture store. an old three-storey brick building. Approx- imately 10o escaped unihimd H14 scantily clad into frigid atmosiihﬁre and snow-covered streets.

Eight oi the dead were white and ilva degrees-tire race of the other charred victims could not be d0- termined.

171W“ inmates in the old build- mg became panic stricken. Some sought to tear down a blah BOI-Pd wall which surrounded the windows oi their sleeping quarters, others leaped in desperation to the streets 1d feet below and still other: swung down by sleet-covered wins. Bev- er-ai suffered brokers arm and lea‘! and other hurts.

The management of the transient bureau was held biamelm i0!‘ mi fire deaths by Alan Johnathon. Federal Relief niveltiluior.

Improved Year

For 77w C.P.R.

(0. I. By Guardian's lpaciai Win) MONTREAL. March S-Pamﬂ-

mretmei-tesuuoensehamuu

Railway Company for the year ms arday showed total amah oi lisﬂlidﬂl ea corrspared ﬂth ll.- unseen at the end of ill

The roadi not worth‘ mil poeiﬂm was also improvd. It of current assets ovvr cIrQl I- at Gilli!!!

N.B. Requires More Medical Practitioners

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the mm" md Ida,

ply Saturday. His views m Bllbloot were concurred in by Q, Richard (qprﬁtim.

the

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