APRIL 4. 1951

St. Paul's Church Ljaymen's Ass'n Monthly Meeting

. The regular monthly meeting of the Laymen's Association of St. Paul's Church was held jut evening in the Parish Hall. A large number of members togeth- er with several guests sat down to a splendid repast prepared and served by the ladies of the Church Guild. The meeting was pregid. cd over by President T. D. De- Biois. The guest speaker was Rev. Ca-non Malone.

A short programme was carried out consisting of "O Canada," followed by grace by Rev. Mr. Ibbott. Then followed the splen- did dinner to which ample justice was done by all. Introduction of guests followed after which those of the members whose birth oc- curred in month 01 A-prii were duly honored.

- Mr. Charles Earle favoured the meeting with several numbers rendered in his own special way which needless to say demanded cmcores. The Laymen's Orches- fra did its usual fine performance and was duly applauded. Mr. An- drew Likely led a short sing-song. After the President had duly ex- tended the thanks of the Associa- tion to the ladies, through their convener. Mrs. Robert DeB1ois. for the very special meal serv- ed in the best style of the Guild. Rev. Canon Malone was called on as the special speaker. The Pres- ident referred to the special hon- or about to be conferred upon the Canon by King's College. that of Doctor of Divinity in honor of his many years of faithful and devoted service to his Church. The members fully attested to the conferring of this honor on the Canon by loud and prolonged ap-

plause. I , Canon Malone took for his theme. Missing The Bus. He ap-

vpcaled to all, especially the Lay- man. to stick firmly to the prin- ciples of Christian religion. when seeking passage on a bus be sure and see that it was going in right direction on the right road. He outlined his remarks by time- ly reference to the path 0! Ne- and the many diversions that could be taken for right direct- ion. His address was listened to with much interest.

Mr. H. E. Miller. on behalf of the Layman. thanked the Canon for his splendid address.

Th, meeting closed with Bene- diction by C8110” M319" ""5 "The King."

YONKERS. N. 1!. April 3- (AP)-Two schooiboys Whit Immd 5.213.641 in the attic of a dilapidat- rd mansion here last week are each 31.000 richer today. The boys, Alfred Graves and Thomas Nowak, both 12, received the re-

wa,-ds from the estate or Mrs. Edgar Bigclow. owner of the house.

Thank You .

Mr. Piirkiiiun Jenkins of Pow- iral and family sincerely thank all those kind people who assilted at the fire. For the many inquiries. rnrds, letters and flower: to Mrs. Jenkins kindly nccept thankl.

BIRTHS. MARRIAGES DEATHS '

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BIRTHS

alllltltk-At the Prince county Hospital, on Sunday, March 25th. 1951. to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sherry of Fernwood, a daughter, Margaret Doreen.

RICHARDS-At the King's County Hospital. March 30th. to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Richards. Cam- bridge, ll daughter.

PEARDON-At the Kings County Hospital on March 31st, to Mr. and Mrs. Glen Pcardon, Mon- tague, a daughter, 6 lbs, 14 ozs.

MURPHY-At the King's Couniy lloapital on March 28th. to Mr. and Mrs. Francis G. Murphy. Summcrville. ll son. 9 lbs., 7 ozs.

llIA'I'HESON- At the King": County Hospital on April .'ird, to Mr. and Mn. William Motheson. Brooklyn. a son. 9 lbs. 1 oz.

DEATHS .. WILLIAMS-At the home of her daughter, Albertha, in Sydney. N. 6.. on April 3. 1951. Mrs. Delia Williams. The remains will arrive -in Charlottetown on Thursday. Funeral from the Salvation Army .Hali Friday at 2 p.m. interment People's Cemetery. (Please omit ilowera).

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Boston. Mesa. March 30th. Mrs. James Doheriy in her 77th year. Remiiins will nrrive in the City. this (Wed- .,Icadiiy) evening. Funeral from .-Trank l-IenneaIey's Funeral Home dhuraday morning at 8.45 to SI. 3unatan'a Basilica. interment in Roman Catholic Cemetery.

IIILFOY-At Charlottetown. April 5rd, Mrs. Michael Kilfoy in her -Slat year. Remalna are ranting 'At her, home. 56 Cumberland St.. From where the funeral will take ,place Thuraday morning at 1030 '10 St. Dunntiin'a Basilica for Re- ;quIom High Mun. Burial in the ,Etoman Catholic Cdmete ,. ;

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HEAR Premier J. Waite: Jones in election broadcast over CFCY tomorrow, Thursday night, 10.30 to 10.45.

LITTLE THEATRE perform- ance "Outward Bound" Thursday. April 5th.

HUNTER JIVEB Poll Meeting will be held at the home of Reagh Bugnnll. Saturday, April 7th at 8:00 p.m.

LISTEN TO the hockey broad- cast Islanders vs. Millionaires. CJCH 920 on -your dial. Begins 9.30. Sponsored by Maritime Cen- tral Airways.

"A FOUILDIMENSIONED God" topic for tonight's service at Central Christian Church at 8 o'clock. Also specials by William O. Weale, singing evangelist. Everyone welcome.

SORORITY MEETING. - Nu Phi Mu held their regular bi- monthly meeting at the -home of Miss Anita Lynd on " s' night. April 2nd. A discussion was held on parliamentry pro- cedures. The luncheon hostess was Miss Marlyn Rupert.

HEAR Premier J. Walter Jones in election broadcast over CFCY tomorrow, Thursday night, 10.30 to 10.45.

WAITING FOR PILING-Work on the Railway Wharf in Char- lottetown will be resumed as soon as steel piling is available. and it is expected the wharf will be completed in August. In addition to the steel piling to be installed. remaining work includes fill. and about fifty feet of concrete floor- ing in the new frostproof shed. About 230 feet wide and 700 feet long, the wiiarf will have a dredged vessel birth of 26 feet at low tide. The work is under the supervision of Construction Sup- erintendent T. A. Lazier. and when completed will be valued at approximately 32,000,000. Upon completion of the dredging by the Canadian Drcdge and Dock Co. Ltd, a small contract will be undertaken at Borden.

MASS. Neil

DIED IN ARLINGTON. --A former Islander. Mr. Stonlcy MacDonald, passcd iiway at the Synimcs Arlington Hospi- tal. Arlington. Mass. on April 1st. He was born in Hopi-dale. P.E.l.. and was a son of Daniel M. Mac- Donald. The late Mr. MacDonald had been in the hospital for eleven days before he died. and was in his 50th year. He is sur- vived by his ,widow, Mid four children: Mrs. Evelyn J. Wil- liams. Mrs. Roberta Frost. Miss Lorraine E. MacDonald. and Mr. W. Arnold MacDonald. all of Arlington, Mass. The funeral will be held this afternoon from the A. E. Long Memorial Chapel. Cambridge. Mass.

SERVICES CONTINUE The third service iii the two-weeks ev- angeiistlc series was held last night. in Central Christian Church with a splendid congregation present. The minister, Rev. M. D. Dunbar. brought in gospel-filled message under the topic, "Have You Collateral?" Fea- tured in the services this week and next is the singing evangelist wu- liam O. Weale. Last night Mr. Weale interspersed a song service of old hymns with the vocal solo, "In The Glory Of His Presence" and played the trumpet solo. "Face To Face." Services will continue tonight.

THE CIIARLOTTETOWN MIN- ISTERIAL ASSOCIATION.-The monthly meeting of the Minister- ial Association was held on Tues- day afternoon in the Y. M. C. A. with the President. Rev. J. D. Davison in the chair and the Secretary. Rev. W. T. Mercer at the desk. Others present included Rev. G. C. Webster. Re-v. T. H. B. Somors. Rev. Henry Barber. Rev. J. E. Irwin, Rev. E. C. Evans, Rev. J. T. Ibbott and Mr. Fred Gemblc. Reports were given on various activities including the Good Fri- day Service which was so well attended. The Treasurer, Mr. Somers reported that the offer- ing received was the largest in many years and on his motion gifts were made from the pro- ceeds to the P. E. I. Hospital and the Protestant Orphanage. The next meeting will be held on May 8th.

Personals

The many friends of Major '1'. B. Rogers will regret to learn that he suffered a stroke yester- day afternoon: He was taken to the Prince Edward Island Hos- pltal.

Friends of Mrs. Emrmons New- son, Buckley. will be pleased to learn that she is recovering sat- lsthctorily following an 094?!" ation at the Prince Edward ls- lund Hospital.

LONDON. April 3- MP)-p A coroner returned a suicide ver- dict today in the death of Mel. George Cornwallis-Welt. f0l'"l"' stepfather of Winston Churchill; com,,,,,,m..wen, 16. was foun shot In the head Sunday II M3 Mayfair flat. Lady 501""? Ch""h' ill. widowed mother of the Con!- ui-vative leader. will the "P" 0 Cornwallis-West's threl WW"-

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Prospects of arranging for a special train fmm Boston to en- able former Islanders and other Maritimera to revisit home this summer are discussed in a letter by Mr. J. V. Doddn. organizer of this years Maritime Special from Edmonton. Alberta.

Writing to Mr. James S. Mitchell, news editor of the Boo- ton Globe and a former Prince Edward Islander. Mr. Dodds says:

"Last summer I organized the second annual excursion to the Marltimes. sponsored by the

Maritime Provinces Association of Edmonton. and went down with our special train The spud Is- land Special? While in Charlotte- town, I read an interesting article in the Charlottetown Guardian of July 22nd. in which you sug- gested that such in train be or- ganized this year to take back to the Island many of the New Eng- land iIalandera' who would love to see the Garden of the Gulf again.

"We are busy now organising our third annual excursion to the Maritime: and our train will be called the '1-lei-ring Choker.' for

THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN

Boston Excursion. Train For Islanders Suggested

Ncw,Bi-iinswick. Applications for space are already coming in from Victoria to Winnipeg. Last year we had Mr. John Macxenzie. a native of Charlottetown. come all the way from Sunnyvale, California, to travel with us

.Through the efforts of Mr. A. .4. Gardiner. general passenger traffic manager of the C. N. R. at Montreal, we will have air-condit- ioned tourist sleeping cars right through to Moncton. N. B. This will be a great convenience as we had to sit up in day coaches the last night out from Montreal and that was pretty grim, especially for elder folk."

Mr. Dodds suggests in his letter that Mr. Mitchell "get someone to organize a '1-lerring Choker Spec- ial” from Boston and then we would try to arrange to have them pull into Moncion at the same time."

He adds that "we have tried for two years to have Cyrus Ching come out and be our guest speak- er but so far he has been unable to come. However, we will keep trying."

C.N.R. Gross Revenues In 1950 Reach New High

OTTAWA. April 3-(CP)-The Canadian National Railways in 1950 enjoyed the highest gross revenues in history and the big- gest net operating return since 1945 and. as a result. sliced its 1949 deficit by more than 538,000,- 000. When everything was balanced -including some 345,600,000 in fixed interest charge!--the huge, publicly - owned transportation system reported a 1950 income de- ficit of 53,261,235 compared with 542,043,026 in the previous year. Increased freight rates had a lot to do with the better financial position.

The system's 1950 annual re- port, tabled in the Common: to- day by Trunsport Minister Chev- rier, showed operating revenue totalling S553.831,58l. up more than 10 per cent over the prev- ioua record of S500,723.3BG estab- lished in 1949.

Operating expenses went up, too, totalling s498.997.079 compar- ed with S-478,501,660 in 1949, but not operating revenue of S59,&4.- 502 was almost three times the 1049 figure of 322,221,726. '

Word 01 Warning

Donald Gordon. completing his first year as president of the great network of 24.000 miles of rail line: and hotel and telegraph systems, warned against undue optimism over mm results. They should not be taken as evidence

ihiit the financial problems of the C.N.R. are "on the verge of solution."

Higher freight rates ordered by the Board of Transport Commis- sioners. which alone produced 528,016,000 more revenue compar- ed with 1049, and increased freight traffic-up 5.9 per cent- wcrc responsible for ilie record revenues.

But the C.N.R. "still carries the heavy burden of fixed inter- est charges as a consequence of the unrealistic capital which has distorted the economic worth of the system since its in- ception in 1923," he said. This. with "the unbalance between rates and costs" had been re- peatediy responsible for huge de- ficit: in the past.

Secondly the C.N.R. was "con- fronted with the certaln prospect of substantially increased price and wage costs in 1951." Inaug- uration of the 40-hour work week

nmong the systems 112,000 em- ployee: next June would "add significantly to our operating costs."

(The railways now have before the Transport Board a new ap- pllczitlon for n five-per-cent rate increase, expected to yield the C. N. it. around 513,000,000 :1 year. A further application of an unspeci- fied account-to meet the cost of the 40-hour wcck-is to be heard

shortly. (The Royal Commission on Transportation recently recom-

mended n recapitalization plan for the compriny, and it is expected Pnrilnmcnt will be asked to pass legislation based on it this ses- sion. It would cut down the com- pnny'a fixed charges.)

Out of its 359,854.50! net. oper- ating revenue the C.N.R. in 1950 paid taxes, equipment costs and other income charges of 317.417.- 730 compared with 818,163,818 in 1949. After paying 324019.158 in lnfcrclt on bonds held by the publlc a balance of 518,397,614 was left to be applied against government interest charges to- talling 321,658,849, thus producing the s3.261.23.'i deficit.

More Freight Carried

The report said that despite an iilmost unprecedented series of interruptions to train service in- cluding the nine-day riill strike of last August, the line carried 81,364,659 tons of freight com- pared with 'l6.B45.970 in 1949.

A sharp reduction in grain ton- nage was reported, chiefly due to the late harvelt.

Freight produced R15 per cent of the line's revenue.

Pallenger traffic was down to 16.819357 compared with 18.678.- 37I in 1949 and produced only 7.2 per cent of the iino'a revenue.

Of the !i6.0m.0tI) increase: in operating expenses. higher price:

' 7 for sa.'uo.ooo and high- er wages for I4.62l.(lI). The com-

any'a total wage bill was 3318,-

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, Since the Canadian National is the largest single employer of In- dustrial labor and the largest single purchaser of industrial ma- terials in Canada "it in not our-

lnlng that the effects of iii-

ation are written large in the accounts of the system," Mr. Gor- don reported.

Progreu was made during the Year on new construction de-

velopment: including enlarge-

structures

ment of freight yards in Vancou- ver. Hotel Revenue Down

The report disclosed the not operating income of nine Cumi- dian National hotels and three summer resorts totalled 5536.853 compared with 551,053,280 in 1949. Gross revenues for hotels fell off by 4.3 per cent from 57,629,960 to 57,300,740 iind for the summer rc- sorts derlincd hy 4.3 per cent from 51,048,103 to -795,225.

The system's network of tele- graph, telephone and radio chan- nels totalling more than 500,000 channel miles returned 510,565,625 in gross revciiucs, ii new peak and 14.2 per cent iiigiier than in 1949.

Mr. Gordon siiid that one of the by-production of inflation now being considered by manage- ment "is the need for adjustment of system pensions plans if the decline in the value of money and its effect on retiring rm- pioyces in the lower pension brackets is to he recognized.

Trinity YEW Weekly Meeting

The regular meeting of the Trin- ity United Church Y. P. U. was held in the social hall of the Church last evening. The meeting opened with a. film on Mount Allison University. showing the different buildings and the graduates. An introduction to the film was given by Mr. 0.1-i. Black.

Devotional services were conduct- ed by Gladys MacMiilaii and Leitli Thompson. and after the hymn "Just As I Am", scripture was read. taken from Matthew, 6, verses l-15. Dorothy MacLaren sang the lovelj solo. "Jesus Is All The World '1'o Me". and a story was read on pro y- cra that were answered.

Following a prayer and the sing- ing of "Take My Life and Let 11 Be," the service closed with the benediction. Pianist for the evening was Miss Joan Rogerson.

During the business meeting plans were laid for a party in the near- future. and a skit was presented. The evening closed with the sing. ing of "Good-night Ladies."

Believes no.6; Of Missing Explorer Found

RIO DE JANEIIRO, Brazil. April .'i-(AP)-Orlando Vilasboas. lead- or of a. government expedition, reported today he believes he has found the bones of the inng-miss- ing British explorer. Col. Percy Fawcett, tn the Brazilian jungle.

Fawceit, famous for his Amazon explorations, dropped from sight in 1025. lie had set. out with his 20-year-old son. Jack, and friend Raleigh Rimmel, lured by hopes of finding gold and diamonds or a fabulous city of a lost civilization in the Mato Grosso jungle. He believed the Mato Grosso was the original Garden of Eden.

Vilasboas snid the Kalapagos Indians killed the three explorers near the Rio Das Mortcs (River of Death). They threw two of the bodies in a lngoon and buried the oldest, whom he believed to be Fawcett.

I-its message said the Indians. "after five years of reluctance." finally led him today to the burial spot. where he dug up R skull in perfect condition and other bones.

A score or more of expeditions have sought it trace of Fawrett since he dropped from sight after sending a last message to the Brit-

ish Geographic Society May 11. 19M. Missionaries, trappers and ex-

plorers reported various conclus- ions-that he had been killed by the Indiana. that he had been spared becdusn of his blue eyes.

that he had found a paradise on earth in the wilderness and de- cided to stay among the Indians as a sort of white god.

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Fine P.El. Swine Record Shown in Market Review

Prince Edward Island swine pro- duction has nearly doubled in the past five years while the number of grade A hogs in the same period has more than doubled, it is shown in figures published in the Domin- ion Livestock Market Review for 1950.

The percentage increase in Grade A's since 1946 has increased from 4593 to 51.6515, in 1950, I. jump of over six and one-half percent in the five year period. Increases in both production and quality are very re- markable and uncommon, it is stated by swine men, as the increas- ed production means that new men have come into the business and are usually unfamiliar with the latest breeding methods.

97.229 hog carcasses from the Province were graded last year in comparison to 53.013 in 1946. Last year there were 50,135 Island swine carcasses in Grade A class against 23.860 in 1946.

The biggest increase in hog pro- duction was in 1949. The year be- fore (1947) there were 58,903 hogs ralsed and in 1948 the production was 83,800. The 1949 production was 93373.

In scanning the figures for the Dominion over the 1949-1950 period it was learned that only Prince Ed- ward Island and Alberta showed any increase in the percentage Grade A hogs produced. The per- centage increase in Alberta was less than 1'.-'.-'73 from 23.58 to 25.00.

New Brunswick and Quebec (fair- ly heavy importers of Island stock) remained nearly stationery but Nova Scoila showed a drop of near- ly two and one half percent. Ont- ario. Manitoba and Saskatchewan dropped heavily while British Gol- umbia also showed an appreciable decrease.

The percentage Grade A produc- tion for the Dominion dropped slightly from 32.44 in 1946 to 3217 in 1950. Nova Scotia Grade A per- centage with 39.32 ranked second to Prince Edward Island while Manitoba took up the rear with 22.53 Grade A production.

A study of figures published in the Canadian Swine magazine for the months of November and De- cember revealed the following iii- terestirig results: That 10 of 11 qualifying cows with scores of 90 or over were raised ill this Province and that Island swine reached mar- ket iieariy a month ahead of the swine in other provinces.

97 sows in the Dominion qualified with scores of over '75 during Nov- ember and December and 39 were from this Province. Ontario ups second highest with 24 and Saskat- chewan third with eight,

21 of the 26 sows with scores of S5 or better were produced in Prince Edward Island. Manitoba had two sows in this bracket, oni- ario. Saskatchewan and Alberta one each.

23 of the M sows which qualified in Ontario ranged in scores from 75 to 31. Nova Scotia had one qual- ifying sow with a score of '18. A sow owned by Mr. Eric Pendergast of Hazeibrook, had it score of 96, the highest ever recorded.