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RUSSlANS TIGHTEN TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS IN BERLIN

c. 11.x; Deficit Nears I6 Million Mark

llew Civic Tax Legislation is Discussed

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With ths granting at the last session of the Provincial Legislat- ure o! authority to the City of Charlottetown for the imposition of s business and an occupancy lax, the City Council now has tho power to proceed with the drawing up of s. new tslvsystem, Coun- N. W. Lowthcr, chairman of the fin- ance committee, said at the Coun- oil's regular monthly meeting las night. '

The Council has plenty of time

in which to draw up its new tax legislation, Coun. Lowther said. In the meantime, he believed the proper procedure would be to have the City Assessorwork in collabo- ration with the City Recorder in the formulating of the preliminary draft. His Worship Mayor B. Earle MacDonald presided at last night's meeting with -nil Councillors pres- ent.

A letter was read from the sec- retary of the School noel-c, Mr. "r. B. MacNutt, stating that the teachers’ request for an annual in- crease of $200 had not been an- swered. The letter also stated that the teachers were willing to con- tribute three per cent of their supplements toward a teachers‘ pension fund.

The reading of the letter by the City Clerk, J. A. Fullerton, drew the comment from Mayor Mac- Donald: "Eight years ago the City School Board was getting $70,000 fmmJhe City; now they are get- ting $100,000." , ,

A verbal protest from Mr. A- G.

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Coming Events

"Unloading carlcad driving wag- ons todgv. G. C. Green, Emerald

"Legion Dance. ‘in, Stewart, Thursday night. April 15. Music by the Eastern Rhythm Boys.

"Dance, modern and old, time. Country Club, ‘Travellers ' Rest, Thursday. April 15.

"Danoehliradslbsuue Thursday. April 15th. Rollie Mackenzie Orch-

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"Regular Dance at Welter Con- niclvs, Kinkora, Tuesday night. April 13th.

"Dance and Sale of Lunches. Spring Valley Hall, l-fridsy. April 16th. Rollie Maclfenzies Orch- estra.

"Show this evening at 0 o'clock in Rustico l-lnil. Proceeds in aid of Father Pineau for tne China Missions.

"No. 2 mixed clover seed. ‘l0 per cent timothy. 80 per cent clover. i2 cents. Book now. MacGuigarl and Boyle. Hunter River.

"To arrive. car of choice dou- ole mcissned 2 CW. Albert-l rats. 83.50 per 100. Book. MoGuigsn k Gayle. Hunter River.

"Arriving Tlry soon at Albany. usrload baled IHIVIQBUPIIGI your a-der immediately. I. (III Ike-

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"Come to Hunter ltivsr variety concert. Tuesday, April 1s. Brook- fisld Hall. st 0:80 p.ln. If storm- ‘fll. following night. Sponsored by Irookfisld W. I. y v

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Suspense At Ottawa

Over C.C.F. Amendment On Ry. Freight Rates

Huge Flight 0f B-29 Bombers 'l'o Germany

SMOKY HILL AIR. BASE, Kan, April i2 — (AP) - The largest muss flight o! 8-29 bombers since the end of the war took off for Germany shortly before midnight tonight.

Lt.-Col. Frank Ellis, in com- mand of the flight, said it was - “a routine training mission."

He would not disclose the number of planes or men snak- ing the flight, but lid it wan the largest operation since the and of the war and the longest fillht of sucli large numbers in history.

The ships began leaving at 15-minute ‘intervals. and the last t-llre-off is expected to be about ‘I AM. tomorrow.

The huge planes will stop twice-at Westover Field, Mass” tomorrow forenoon. and for the night at Goose Bay, Labrador. Ellis said the planes would pro- ceed independently until they meet in rendezvous over Brest France, near dawn Thursday

The ships will fly in forma- tion over Paris and on to their destination at Fursterlfeldbruck, Germany. '

DRAGGER. MAKES RECORD

ST. JOHN'S, Nfld, A-pril 12 _ (OP) - The dragger Zeub, owned by Fishery Products Limited, put into port today today to announce what is believed a record voyage. The Zcub Arrived at Grand Banks 188i Tuesday and departed 24 hours later with a full load of 180,000

pounds of fish.

arrows. April l2—(Special)—' Tempers of the House of Commons were‘ edgy at its opening this afternoon with several questions fired at Transport Minister Chev- rier on railway rates prior to the opening of a formal debate on fundamental rights and freedoms.

Speed with which the chamber emptied on this somewhat theore- tical subject served to re-en-lpha- size the gathering of members in their rooms and in'the corridors and ‘ ‘ “ discussing the freight- rute increase and criticizing the recent decision of the Board of Transport Commissioners.

A full dress debate on the dis- puted freight-rate question will open tomorrow when C.C.l". lead- er M. J. Caldwell will press his amendment to the motion to “go into supply”. scoring the Govern- ment for not delaying the imposi- tion of the twenty-one per oent increase in rates until some equal- ization of rates all across Canada had been "achieved.

Queen's County Members

Both W. Chester S. McLure. Pro- glQssive-Conservatlve member for Queen's and J. Lester Douglas, Lib- eral member for Queen's have ex- pressed in caucus their opposition to‘ the 21 per cent increase on grounds that it will be an unreas- onably heavy burden on Prince Ed- ward Island's economy. It is ex- pected that one or both members from tilé dual constituency will take occasion to express their views on the" subject and emphssismtw very greet disadvantage the Is- land Province will suffer undel the new freight tariffs. It is not anticipated. however, that Mr. Douglas would vote against the administration on the Coldweli amendment.

Announcement today that a mu- tually satisfactory agreement would be reached between the Canadian Railways and’ the Canadian Bro-

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U. S. Coal Miners Win Pension System

Lewis Crdsrs Miners Back To Work But Still lies 'l'o Face Contempt 0f Court Charges.

By HAROLD W. “VAR-D

WASHINGTON. April 12 — (AP) --Joi1n L. Lewis ordered striking coal miners buck to the pits today after winning a pension system. but a Federal judge nevertheless summoned him to trial Wednesday on conturnpr of court charges.

Whether ‘the United Mine Work- ers find.) would delay their ‘sack- to-work movement because of the contempt trial was s big unsettled question. Some industry leaders expressed belief they would, but reports from the field wen incon- elusive.

Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, the same judge who slapped big fines on Lewis and the United Mine Workers in i046, took the position today that Lewis‘ nth-hour order to resume work did not purge hiin of the contempt accusations.

If Wednesday's trial ends in con-

viction, the resillt might be a slag- gering fine against the U.M.W. and Lewis. or even jail for the shaggy-brolwed mine leader.

A Federal court had ordered him to call oif the country-wide walk- out Aprll 3. and tlhe Government charged he corrmitted contempt by nor obeying immediately.

l-le sent out his back-to-work or- der today after accepting s. com- prcvnise pension system offered by Senator Styles Bridges imp-NH.) lt calls for $100 a month for UM.- W. members who are (iii years old, have served 20 years in the mines. and retired after May , 194d.

Lewis had asked for 8100 for sli U.lVl.W. members over C0 with 20 years’ service. Under his plan the pension system would hpvs includ- ed men who retired years ago

The soft coal operators were by. no means reconciled to the pension compromise.

Russia Knows How 'l'o Make Atom Bomb,

WASHINGTON. April 12—(AP)- Russia knows now how to make the atom bomb but there is nu telling when she will be able to actually make it, Defence Secret- ary dunes Ilorrestal said today.

At the same time he ssid that s teem for ‘the future, and that total warfare still depends on man-

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“The whole aim and effort of the United States is to attain the objective of peace. to prevent dif- ferences between nations from 00-’ vclopinlinto armni conflict, until the United Nations has gained the maturity andboth the moral and physical force with which to deal with any international sot of ag- gression.” ,

Several times, lorrsstal refused

to describe world conditions as ‘

“critical!- Be preferred to say thers is “a stats of "tension"

"I don't like to use the word crisis in the sense that Lexpeot war tomorrow or next Monday." he said. “I h not.’

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or war. The odds are still out the ‘

United ltaiss and pesos. And if the United liaise seisyst ooesewl mans sud resolute per-poem V will "eeptims to rest m

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DIES IN EXPLOSION

Joseph ivielgos, 32. of Toronto, father of three, died in an explos- ion perfonniing’ a task he consld. ered too dangerous fo'r any of his employees. Wielgos was perform- ing preliminary operations in the manufacture of caps for toy pistols in his plant at Waubashene, Orr, Provincial police said Wielgos’ body was thrown 35 feet and torn by pieces of flying steel from the

ress he was operating. Force of the explosion blew the machine to pieces and wrecked the small building in which it was operated Wielgos was alone in the building.

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LONDON, April 12 - (OP) Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt today unveiled a bronze statue of her late husband in Grosvenor Square.

The King and Winston Churchill were among the thousands who Wfllirhed as she tuBged a red, white and blue bunting from Britain's mslrnorial to the former American President on the third waiver-sexy of his death.

The statue is l0 feet high. Ba- neath it is the simple inscription: “Franklin Delano Roosevelt."

During the ‘afternoon thousands of Britons filed slowly past the statue. Some dropped bouquets of daffodils at the base as they pass- ed.

Following the day-long outpour- lngs of British feelings for the Un- ited States "wartime leader. Mrs. Roosevelt spoke at a Pilgrim So- ciety dinner in London. spa said she was filled with gratitude and humility.

The sculpture, the work of Sir Wiliirm. Reid Dick, was paid [or with 240,000 (about $160,000) raised by the Pilgrims Society in small amounts all over Britain. The so- Clvty is a British-American fellow- ship group.

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Violence Flares Again In Bogota

honors, April ~13 _ (A9) .-. Widespread shooting broke our. again today in looted flre-biacken ed Bogota. The Government an- nounced that Colombla had brok- a diplomatic relations with Rus-

The severance of relations was coupled with the announcement that i8 foreign agents had been captured hero and in Cali. Some of the agents were taken alive, the Government radio said.

Two Russiarn described as Corn- munists were among those arrest- ed on charges of fomentlng the savage riots which have laid waste large sections of Bogota and. killed S00 persons.

Renewal of the shooting this ylorning when the city was be ginning a slow return toward nor- mality bolstered the theory that there is an organised plan to maintain chaos here. ‘The rioting has disrupted tils Pan-American Conference.

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Operating Costs Advance Faster Than Revenue

By JOHN LeBLANC

OTTAWA, Apr. l2—(0P)—R.ec0rd peacetime traffic in 1947 failed to pull the Canadian National Rail- ways out of tile red, and the gov- eminent. system today reported to Parliament a. deficit of $15,885,000.

Second straight post-war deficit. it was an increase of $7,000,000 over the $8,961,000 loss in 1946 and compared with a surplus of S24,- 765,000 in 1945- 5

Steadily-rising costs were blamed by the company for its slipping financial position. President R. C. Vaughan said it should seek fur- ther freight-rate increases to com- pensate for increased charges in labor and materials since i946.

The comppny shares in tile per-cent rate increase authorized by the Board of Transport Com- missioners a. fortnight ago. But the C.N. R. head said the 1946-48 cost adjustment should be over and above that.

The C- N. R. report was tabled in the Commons by Transport Min- ister Ohevrier. He also brought down the 1947 report of the aflili- ated Canadian National West In- dies Steamships, Ltd, showing an operating profit of $829,277. ‘Ihis compared with $1,709,000 a year previously.

President Vaughan reported the C. N. Rfs gross revenues were close to the wartime peaks of 1943 and i044. Freight revenues were at an ail-time peak. _

But the jump of about $38,000.- 000 in railway operating revenues was more than counter-balanced by

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Sudden Death Yesterday Cf Local C.ll.R. Employee

James Lamont MscFal-lnne. 4i- yesr-oid Charlottetown man passed away suddenly yesterday afternoon after a brief illness. The deceased who was an employee at the CHNR. Freight Shed had been to his work as usual yesterday rmrvllng but on returning home at noon complain- ed oi’ a severe pain in the head. l\led.lcai attention was SLIPXIIOilQG and he was rushed to the Char- lottetown Hospital where he puss- ed away early yesterday afternoon.

A son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Maclilarlane of this Cliy. the deceased was well and favorably known by a large number cf friends who were shocked at hiswudcien passing.

Left to mourn are his wile, the former Miss Eva Warren. one son. three years old and a baby daugh- ter. In addition four brothers and two sisters survive. Thomas, Ver- non, Archio and Victor, nf this City; Margaret, (Mrs. C.E. Burke) also of this City; and Mary. (Mrs. Wil- lisrn Dely) of Boston, Mass.

The funeral will be held from his late residence, 09 Cmnbeluanal Street Thursday morning to 5t. Dunstan's Basilica. Interment will be in the R..C. Cemetery.

To the sorrawing farmily sincere sympathy is extended.

Css Rationing llot Likely ls Canada

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OTTAWA, April construction Minister Hows told the Commons today ~hs> sees no prospect of gasoline rationing ‘n Canada this year.

While he conceded there "al- ways" is-a possibility of rationing, he says he knows of no situation which made it any more necessary this year than last year, when there also was a shortage.

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Former Islander Dies In Alberta

WETASlCIWIN, Alta, April i2- (CP) - Bruce D. l-lowatt, K.C., Edmonton lawyer and former mayor of Wetaskivvin. died in hos- pital yesterday. He was 63.

Born in French River, Prince Edward Island, he was called to the Bar in Alberta and in latter years had been junior purine" to his brother; Irving B. Hewett, KC., in their 1am iinm. He underwear a serious operation last Thursday.

Besides his widow, the former Edna Smith, and his brother, Irv- ing, Mr. llowatt is survived by a brother and sister in Prince Ed. ward Island. Title-y are L, Howam, of North Wiltshire and Mrs. T.C.. Sims of Hamilton.

‘_‘Disturbed” By Labor Legislation In Four Provinces

CALGARY. April i2 -- (CP) __ The general wage pattern 1m- Canadian Congress of Labor unions (Ill-Tine i948 is a 12-14 cent wage increase, Alex Mcausizme or Mflfllwfll. vice-president of the C-C-Lc said in an interview today.

He said the C. C. L. had adopted a "no strike" policy this yea: and hoped to complete negotiations without any large work stoppages.

Mi‘. Mcauslane said the C. C. L. was "disturbed" over the trend of labor legislation in British Columbia. Alberta. Manitoba and Prince Edward Island. ‘Ilhe only way to defeat restrictive labor legislation was to “secure unified labor action."

Commenting on the deportation proceedings instituted against Reid Robinson, intiemational lice-presi- dent of the International Mine, Mill, and Smelter-s Workers. CLO.- C.C.L., Mr. Mcauslane said:

“If the police hadn't kicked him out. the Northern Ontario miners vrould have taken action to force him out of Canada."

Reid Robinson was arrested by R. C. M. P. last week as an alleged Communist who had entered Can- ada from the United States.

Coal Subventions To Be Increased

OTTAWA. April 12 - (OP) — Trade Minister Howe said today in the Commons subventions paid on the movement of Nova Scotia coal will be increased to offset the incrceased freight rates,

He told Cisrie Giilis (CCF —- Cape Breton South) the increase would be ade automatically. since rhe sub tiohs are illidhfled to cqualiu the price of Nova Scotia coal with Almerlcan coal in certain Canadian centres.

(By William Wilson)

OTIlAWA, April 1Z-(CP)-Of~ ficials of Canada Packers Ltd, de- nied today that the company vio- lated price ceilings in recent butter transactions in Nova Scotia.

They testified as the Commons Price Committee turned to investi- gation of reports that third-grade butter was sold in Halifax as first grade.

The witnesses denied that "fine transactions in question-involving processing cf butter-were sans. They said they eventually sold the butter to Halifax retailers and wholesalers at the ceiling price for “beiowl-tinrd-grade" butter.

The witnesses, called shortly be- fore the day's hearings ended. are assistant treasurer Arthur Child of Toronto: Ford Wiggins. produc- tion manager, of Toronto, and Stan Prescott, manager of tile Company's Halifax branch.

Most of the butter under dis- cussion was sold to Halifax re- tellers as “White Lily Brand" at G7 1-4 cents a pound. the legal ceiling, they said. They described "White Lily Brand“ as an inferior grade. There were two sales be wholesalers at 66 1-4 cents.

The history of a quantity of "White Lily Brand” was traced through company invoices and read into the record by the com- mittee counsel Fabio Monet.

The transactions began when 22,400 pounds of “below-third- grade" butter, which originated in Saskatchewan, was shipped by Canada Packers from Toronto to the Valley Creamery in Kingston. N. S. This transaction was covered by an invoice pricing the butter at 65 cents a pound but not stating its grade. '

Next, a consignment of 22,400 pounds from Valley Creameries to Canada Packers in Halifax was in- voiced at 67 cents. Mr, Child and Mr. Wiggins insisted this did not represent a sale, but a service. The creamery had re-churned the but- ter, adding more suit to mcer. Nova Scotia trade customs, and to convert. it from oil-pound blocks to flat cakes. For tins service, the t\vo officials said, the creamely

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Many Saint John ‘Teachers To Resign

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samr JOHN. N, 3-. Alpeil 12 -’- (CP) - More than two-thirds of Saint John's school_ teachers wid a teachers‘ meeting today they would resign at the end of the present term.

Tihe action came after prolonged dispute between the teachers and the City over salaries and City Council action in cutting more than $80,000 from this year's school budget. Much of the amount had theeh siated,for use in adjustment of teachers‘ salaries.

At a meeting of the Saint John Teachers’ Association. 223 of the City's 300 teachers said they would resign. 25 sai-d they would retain their posts and about 50 others,

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Debate Opens On Bill

. Of Rights

By GEORGE KITCHEN orrraws, April ls-(orl-Tho Government ,was urged in the Commons today to remove the bars to freedom which stiibexist in Canada and to incorporate a bill

of rights in the constitution.

Two top-ranking Opposition speakers-John Diefenbaker (PC- Lnke Centre) and,M. J. Coldweli, C. C. I‘. leader-criticized the Gov- ernment for its "invasion" of in- dividual rights. Both urged repeal of laws which deny the ‘individual the right to take action against the crown in the courts of the land. '

A Social Credit ember. ltev. E. u. l-fanseil (SC-Macuod), ex- pressed belief the "clamor", for s bill of rights was fostered by the Communists. who wanted freedom to "destroy" the ways of free men.