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OARDINER URGES SOLUTION T0 CURRENCY PROBLEM

Read by Everybody Covers ‘Prince Edward Island Like the Dew

(JHARLOTTETOWN. CANADA. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1s, 194s

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DUPLESSIS HINTS AT 0F MARGAB|NEYSHII cdloiderin: lPresent System $200,000 W010i 0f Herman-wt» on

“flush-Hush

Research

Station Puts 24-Hour

Security Watch On Area I

BY DOUGLAS HOW OTTAWA, Dec. 1'1 Defence research, probably most hush-hush part of Canada dcieucc headquarters. has

buildings and placed a security bar on the area.

ll is the first segment of the llclcnce Department to go that far reminiscent l

lr. reviving measures

of wartime. Anyone visiting th

Coming Events

"stanchel School Concert. December 21st.

"Come to Hampton Christmas

Concert, December 20th.

"Cornwall School Concert. Corn-

wall Hail, December 23rd.

"Wtnsloe South school December 21 at Winsloe Hall.

"Chrlstt-nasficoilcert, Victoria.

December 22nd.

"Dance Kinkoro Hall Monday.

(CF) — the '5 A high official said the move was prompted by any particular incident, but by the need for caut- that are dealing every day with top-secret scientific as radar, radio propagation, chemical

con- centrated its offices in one section of one of the three headquarters 24-hour

Christmas

con cert

entrance- the pass on leaving. not

ion in offices

research on such problems warfare and other subjects. It. was conceived as

through the three buildings. the. buildings are ivartlme structures and not particularly substantial. The Corps of Commlsslonaires provides guards to look after the numerous doors of the three bulld- ings after hours. Anyone who enters alter hours must have a

main door. During working hours. a visitor is supposed to ask at an information desk where he should ‘g0 to see the person he wants to j see. I Technically. if he is not recognized mile is suupposcd in be accompanied lto that office. But in reality there

section must obtain a pass at its be accompanied to the office he is visiting and return

necessary e -some months ago. but it. took some time to rearrange the offices in a headquarters where the drive for unification has mixed the services An- other cause for the action is that ,

pass and must come through the ‘

I1. S. Plans Tighter Laws Against Spies

~ Tighter laws for trapping and punishing spies —- including legal- ized tapping of suspects‘ telephones - will be a prime project of the Truman administration in the new Congress. Attorney-General Tom Clark said today.

"We'll have some 1 commendat- ions right at the beginning of the session in January —- amendments to the present statutes of espion- age." Clark told reporters after a Cabinet meeting.

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EST TOWING JOB

HALXRAX. Dec. 17 ~—(CP) —Be- lieved to be the longest distance towing operation performed by a Canadian tug, the Halifax Found- ation Lillian yesterday delivered |llle derrick barge Corall e/t; Con- iakry in French West Africa. The l3,50o-mlle tow started at Halifax I Nov. 23.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1'7 — (AP)

First Margarine Made At Vancouver

VANCOUVER. Dec. 17— (CF)- Flrst margarine produced in Can- ada since its manufacture was per- nlitted rollcrl off machines in a plant hcre today.

The manager of the firm (Assoc- iated Producersl said his staff will work during the week-end and the butter substitute will go on sale ‘in some stores Monday.

Today's production was a "test hatch."

“ll will look likc butter and tastc like built-r." thc manager said. "but will be a lot cheaper."

He did not. however, say what ,the price will be.

{Farm

‘Seven Killed When

Market Trends fAnd Current Prices

No great difficulty is anticipated in marketing the surplus bacon produced up and above the Brit- ish COIVTIFC levels which call for

. . if Seized In Vancouver llilltllwllqle Quggtign l

VANCOUVER, llct". lT—- 1GP! Seizure of 38 ounces of heroin with a black market value of 5200.000 lo $300,000 was disclosed today when a 37-year-old Montreal residcnt peared in police court ('l1ill‘£!f‘(l v/ith possession ot narcotics.

Tall, husky Joseph Roger Donizct.

believed to be a recent arrival from the cast. was remanded to Dec. 24 on bail of $201100.

RCMP. narcotics agcnts said the heroin seizure from a west. end hotel yesterday u-zts lilo lnrcr-si m Cflllllflil since bclurc thc Second World War and possibly tllc largest in history.

Authorities said investigation was

(continuing, especially into source of vltho drug which has .1 slrcvt value of $12 n grain. ’l'hl~_v declined ta lgivc furlhcr rlcinlls of llll‘ r-nso, but disclosed that Denlzr-i had a plane ticket for Montreal and was shhed- uled to leave here today:

Nor otic case histories reveal ‘Vancouver has become a distribut-

inR centre or "markct" for illicit narcotics. transported llcrc from Eastern Canada.

In October‘, 1947, more than $4,. 000,000 in raw opium was seized on a ship bcrthed in Vancouver hilfllfll".

Last July, two men were arrested ,:lnd charged with possession of

§$100.000 worth of heroin. lI\\'(‘$llE‘l~ l

=iion disclosed the drug had been IShlPPPd here from Oshawa. Ont.

Consider

Margarine Question Kggps Food OTTAWA, Dec. l7 -- tCP) -- The Federal Cabinet. still b

considering all aspects of the ’"'"' marlrariile situation, including B’, Jun” M0600“

ap-

l the possibility of a Privy (‘oun- l ell appczll. and has not yet l come l0 any decisions, it “as i learned authoritatively today. l

l l QUEBEC, Dec, lT-Jfgl" -~Prenl- ler Duplessis said today it would

be "imprudent" for anyone to pre-

pare for the sale or manufacture of

nmrgnrinr- in Quebec before “the

Provincial Govcrnmont takes a flo-

,(‘l.<lOIl on this rtlzlttcl‘ which falls rcxclusivcly under its jurisdiction." a I

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Along with the possibility of appeal, the Cabinet ls consid- ering regulations and standards which would have to be e-nuctcd to protect the public once murgluine went on salr.

other

The Premier. at his weekly press ~~-_~-.-»~. lFOHfPTEHPP, took up the decision by flhc Suprclno Court of Canada that of nlanufncfurc and

llsltlllltvhlrlwllllllllltcr substitutes ls ullrzi u. s. l lPapers Revealed

vircs of Pollianlcnl. lie did not say ]\'i‘ll(‘lllt"1' his Gnvcrnmcnt would hull their sale or manufacture in Quebec Province. , The court has docidcd. said Mr. Humpssls‘? ‘Ills fw film‘ Hskpd‘ lhi" ‘A “strictly confidential" notc strut w 7mm“ M mp‘ s.” P and pns‘\p‘\s' tn State Sccrctnrt‘ Cnrrlcll llull in loll of nlco1ll:ll'£:lrlnr~ colllr- ullrlor 193R ‘pas “mm”: 's,,\.r,n tqvhmakflr provincial author-ill‘ and that lm- Chamhnrq "(wumpnhu “mm, public Porltallnlldm. W's prom"! is "f {ML l tndav by‘ thc ilnusrnnf Representa- crrl _]\lI‘lF lcllolt." . . ' _. ' “Th”, m “m? vnnfusjnn m ’he'il\‘f‘.< un-Amellcan RPlHIlIPS com-

l l . . . lmllteo h"? . " -l ‘ n l\‘_“_“,"‘| “T7? 5",“ nail-u Fch. ‘l6, 103R, and trans- ‘mh npnlnln d‘ f". ‘u P‘ Us‘ ‘V’ niitlcrl in whztt is known as thc 1n. 1 _. .‘ “fwmlrmo ‘Hi5 n Plljffid‘ i“cra,v" undo, 1i l-amc from Herschel l “f.'°‘.“,‘."",“ or pxchmw plmm‘ |\'. Johnson. then Fnltcd States 1cm "unsummrl lcllarcc dhffaires at London. 7t

. "The .l\1(llZ"S have simply stated [that the law banning thc sale of gthis product is not constitutional. lThere is :1 difference."

‘ The Prcmlcr said he had not. seen [thc tcxt oi thc Suprcme Court dc- mision llandcd down last Tuesday. ll-lc hnrl scni for .1 Pfip)’ of thc judg-

irlealt with British warship plans.

‘The noto was one of about R0 the ‘committee ltas made public or will lmolw public in its current spy probe. Seven more, constituting the final llntch, are slated for release Sunday.

WASHINGTOIY. lnlcc. l7 JAPF-

LONDON, Dec. l7 —<CP) --l-lon. J.G. uardiner, Canadian Agricult- urc Minister. today. called for set- ‘tlcment of the doilai=stcriing cur- ‘rciicy problem so “Canada could produce food for starving millions.‘ y Canada‘: hopes for long-term [and large-scale food agreements \\'1lh Britain were “dashed to tho ,,:rou1lci" by currency difficulties, he said.

l He told a meeting of the Can- ladlan Chamber of Ccmmerce here athat the world is “no: in a stats ‘jof mind u-herc it can be expected to agree that the manipulation of ' any system or systems of currency" (is going ‘.0 prewut. surpluses of

‘food getting to "those who have - empty stomachs." I He suggested "might. be a.

good thmgWif t c 1' lted Nations meetings tvere losrd long enough to permit British and ‘nlted Stairs experts getting together and set- tling some basis on which dollars and sterling can be converted to allow a country like Canada to produce food “to feed the starving millions" and to distribute it.

As an alternative to ready con- version of dollars and sterling, Gardiner suggested filling Canada "with people to develop the re- sources the world needs for it; war and other machines so that they may eat the surpluses already piling up but which we are not per- mitted to sell."

Until Canada had a population

Tlcc. 27, good music. lunches served. 1).“. mm,

to prevent a brazen soul

‘£60 nlillmn pounds ln 194i]

hi

"School Concert. Morcll East

school. December 22nd, 1948, 8 PM

"VarieLv concert in Holy Name Hall, Si. Peters, Dec. 21st.

"Christmas Concert, Victoria Cross School, Monday, December 20th.

" Come to Christmas Concert tn Wht-alley River Hall. December Zlsf.

"York Point Christmas wi-l, 1H School, Ttuesday, Decem- lv-r 21st.

"Dance in Crapaud Hall to Don \~it-s.\er's Orchestra. Tuesday. Dec. 28th. Procecds in aid of Rink.

"Clyde River Christmas School

concert, Wednesday. December 22nd. ' ‘Selling sta-ndmg WOOd and

lumber at New Haven on December ‘Jfintl. Time 1 P. M. \

"My Store will be closed Satur- rlav afternoon and evening. Dec. 19th fipcn l-‘rldav night. N. Aubrey Futrlific, Fredericton.

"in stock, Colclnllll Oil llcllicrs. 100cm llcaters, electric and inso- llnr llrlvcn washlnu machines. oli- rnkc, bran. shorts. W. l. Bowman.

"Buying poulirv livc and dross.- "11 for (‘nnatlll Packers Tuesday. 11H‘. 21, 2 to S. Vernon River Co- "Pvfntlve.

V "We will be buyinr: all tiny Fllcfida)’ and Wcdncsriay noon Ilrosscd chicken. fowl. gecsc nn-l

ducks. R. L. Dicklcson. New Glau-

Ron‘.

"Hold your aides, hold your scars. Its really a howl. That's H" Husband's Affairs" playing at MacDonald Bros., Theatre it. lilus the Three Stooges.

"Tihe Inter-Community Choral Club presents the Christmas Story in Pictures and Song. Tryon Baptist Hall, December 22nd. eight o'clock. Carol singing. Admission 25 cents-

"lmportant Meetlng—A‘ general meeting Will be held in bong Creek Hall Monday evening. December 20th. at 7.30 p.m.. weather permit- llnz. to consider the extension of clcctrlc service from Clyde River to Rwky Point and adjacent com- munitlea, All interested nre urged to attend. Mr. V. A. Alnswurth of the Maritime Electric Company will b! ltreaent. Important.

“Buying plgl. all kind: and mes. arr and stage all well. and polli- "Y. Monday at Fredericton. Buy- "R young pigs if roads open for car: Tuecday 9 a.m., Brnoklleld: 10 Milton; 1 p.m., York; 2, Bedford: 3. Mt. Stewart; 4. Watervale; 5, Ver- Mn River: 5.30, Pownal. Wednes- "Y 9 a.rn., New Glasgow; 10. Whrntley River; 11. Holmel Corn- "I 1 p. m., New Haven; 2. Bon- "YIW: 3. Kelly's Croel: 4. Emerald: 5- Clifton; 5.30. Remington. Pay- "I $24 n pair for good pigs over - lb: each. Will also buy :moller ones. Pleue bring your pig: this week an this will definitely be the 1m time will be buying any other place but Fredericton this lesson. Knud Jorgemen.

13-29 Explodes

lfrom cruising through llW building‘ lduring the day if he wishes to.

lamina! 195 million pounds ill 194:1 ‘at a price similar to that of law l

Currency 0f Nfld.

l News In Brief

l

l GnNEv/i, Dec. 17--lAPl -~The

,United Nations launched today a

- 3510470011100 program of aid to Pales-

' lino war refuzlccs. One BSNIPY "l" volvcd said reports lulve been rc-

"people are already dying from 0X- posurc."

l BERLIN, Dec. 17--fAP1-A new ‘Russian-American disagreement. to- nilzht blocked dcllvcry of more than ‘$0.000 Christmas Rift parcels to Ger- mans in the Soviet zone and Be:- lin. American officials won't send any more rail cars to Soviet Ger- many because. they say. the Rus- sians don’t return the cars.

TOKYO. Dec. l7 -~(APl-- .1npan‘s third post-war whaling expedition to the Antarctic reported today it has caught 2R whales since bu»

!ginllim: operations Dec, 15.

lBritish Commons llldjourns To Jan. 18

LONDON, Derivl?‘ —- tCP) —~

‘lhc House of Commons today ad- ‘"1" l"

journed to Jan. 1H after the Gov- ernment. warned members they cannot give Christmas promises of Icaslcr times.

| Douglas Jay, Economic Secre- tary to the Treasury, said in the ‘closing debate on living costs that the Government will continue to light inflationary tendencies by taxation, encouragement of cav- ing and requests for more pm- ductlon.

today when a 13-25 bomber from

B1385 Air Force base El Paso. Tex. lpartmenys markenng r°p°fl 1°: l pXDlOdfld near Robeline, about '15

miles southeast of Shreveport. The Barksdale field public re- lations officer said the plane carri- ed five airmen and two naval person- nel. Witnesses said the explosion ,whlch occurred at or near Lhe

Con lceivcd from the Middle East. that lgmund blew the bodies and plane

| almost to hits.

lFew Changes In China's War News

NANKING, Dec. 17-(AP)-— De- fence headquarters on the ragged ,front before Nanking pulled back today to a point only 30 miles northwest of this Communist- tltreatcncd Chinese capital.

Tile 76-mile witlldraival from Pengpu to, Chuhaien indicated a worsening of the government posi- ltinn, although there were few fresh

developments on thc battlefields.

In the north tilcre was dcsultory lfichting around Communist-sur- lrnunded Pelping. but a wliitlni! =calm continued inside the ancient icity trails.

On the political scene, rumors of peace negotiations subsided sumo- the absence of confir-

mation.

N0 TELESCOPE

PINCHBECK. Lincolnshire, Eng- land - (C?) Walter Coward, '71, elected : Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. has never owned a telescope. "I have learned about the eta-rs from bookl- ht I hope to have a telescope ‘of m! own one day." he said.

SYDNEY. Australia. Dec. 1T —- (Reutera)— The worst drought in years and BO-rnlle wind: are turn- ing hundred: of square miles of sheep country into o dust bowl.

Moat lerloualy affected is the area where Queenllnnd, New South Wale: and South Australia meet. Thousands upon thousands of sheep and cattle have died of ihlrsl. star- vation and suffocation in swlrllnil dust storms.

"The country la literally blowinl away." said a stock inspector for the Pastures Protection Board ut Broken Hill, New South Water. -

Long dry spells are normal in

Central Australia. Till: time some ‘district: have had no rain for three or more yearc. The wiry delert grass on which livestock feed has been blown off nr burtcd.

"Hundreds of miles of country is nothing but drifting sand and wind-eroded sail," said the pasture lnlpector’: report.

"Up Tlhoohurrn way» about 170

Drought Turns Australian Area Into Dust Bowl

are creekn which haven't run for nine years.

Living conditions for settlers are exceedingly bud. One report la that "house-cleaning has to be done with shovels and wheelbarrowa." Other reports describe a sand-cov- ered countryflde littered with the carcaae: of thousands of sheep. Tho number of sheep affected is esti- mated at.

The current dust storms began early ln October. Dust from the perched land: blew ncrols New South Wales. dnrkenlnll Sydney and parsing over the coast in a great cloud. Some days later, dust made a fine haze over part of New Zea- lnnd. 1.3m mile: away.

The one redeeming feature: The drought la killing the rabbits. A stock inspector reported that “for every dead sheep there are thous- ands of dead rabbltl." In country which at best can carry only one sheep to every two or three acres. wholeule destruction of a grass- entlng pest l: at. least some con-

mllee north of Broken Hill-there

solution.

Laq Dam 1-7 ._ . year's contract, stattsMl: Walter} (AP) -_ Seven persons were killed R- Shaw» Delmi-Y 34111151191‘ 0i M!‘ ‘

frlculture in presenting the De

the current week.

To disappear

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l OTTAWA, Dec. -

‘CPI

, Domestic consumption of porkMwilli '11P Entry of Nrwfouildland

‘My, 511m,- pgjllig (yup incfQaspd 1.1m confederation. the islands ‘hgoliltd l0 percent tin 119481 and ,currerlc_v will disappear. officials is ou continue a his eve next ‘said today.

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.l~.ogs in 1949 will be somewhat be-

, low that. of 1948. I-Icg production

be maintained satisfactory level.

‘The contract on cheese sets the amount a1 511 million pounds at the same price as in 194B, which has been on the basis of 3n cts. per pound fohlactory. There will be no requlsitlonlng of cheese, however, from factories ln 1949. 'I‘hl:. regulation was of some coil- siderable protection markets durin: the past two years, With a frcc flow of cheese into Canadian markets in the 1940 period. Island cheese men will have to meet the competition of Canadian trade and will possibly not be in as favorable a situation regarding price levels as that which operted during the past two years.

British Contract

771B 6S8 contract, Mr. Shaw re- ports, has beenrather disappoint- 1H8. This involves the delivery of 46 million dozens to the United Kingdom for 1949 with a slight lowering -n prices. The previous agreement was for '74 million doz- en. Shipments will be for storage eggs. dried eggs and frozen eggs. There is no provision for fresh shell eggs. The new prices are 52kt: for storage as against 54c

111R

last year; $1.36 per pound lo: dried eggs as against $1.46 and 321cc per dozen as against 36c for the frozen product. The question naturally arises as to what will be done with the surplus of eggs It l! rather too early yet to fore- see the full implication of the

Jowered contract on eggs. but it

would almost appear as if we are

‘geared for a fairly high egg pro-

duction in view of existing mark- cts. At the same time there is a fairly optimistic feeling that, wltn a few adjustments in the indus- try, our surpluses may be taken care of in other markets.

At the present time eggs are be- lng exported to a number of dil- lerent points outside of the Brit.- ish Isles and it ls possible that a ilrmcr market may be developed in these other directions. The production of eggs and poultry in 1949 will be governed to some ex- tent by our assured export mark- ets and feed costs. At the pres- ent time with a surplus of eggs in view and the strong position of poultry meats now existent. there may be a tendency on the part of producers to swing too violently from pullct chicks to tsockerols. This could very obviously, if con- ducted on a large scale, create marketing difficulties.

"It would set-m in me that. the wise policy would he for ourPi-lnce Edward island farmers, who have

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lhercforc, would appear to be a . . reusonabw stable farm activny for nominations, already common legal the next ycai- and prlccs should Auldgr on ‘he

reasonably , officials

to Maritime _

Nclvfoundland bills will flhd their way to the Bank oi Canada here and be replaced by Canadian dc-

island. Actually

said- thcre are mt- New-l foundland hills in czrcuiaiion notv. l i All of the colonyls coin will go‘ to the Royal Canadian lVllllt to be

melted down and rc-lssucd with,’ Canadian faces. Since the New-l foundland dollar has always beenl at par with that of Canada, there will be no exchange problem in the change-over.

One, curiosity which will disap-T pear will be the Nrwloundland 20-.‘ cent piece, which looks so much, like a Canadian ZS-cent piece that.’ ,l't- is often passed as such in Can- 1 lada. l

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lBriton Would l Jralle Steel For lCanadian Timber ‘- l

l wrvoou. Dec. 17 - lCPl - Steel being exported to Eastern Europe or being used for building purposcs in Britain twould be put to bcttcl- use lf shipped to Canada in exchange for iilnher. John L. Baynes, former prcsidellt of the British Timber Trade Federation. said trxiay.

In an address in the London Softwood Club he questioned the wisdm-n of shipping steel products "behind the iron curtain" in re- turn for timber. Canada wants ‘steel. he said. but cannot. get. it,’ Because of the lack of Timber orders, slm has been forced to seek new markets.