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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1'6. 1949

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Agriculture,

llevil. M. Murchison Awarded _ll_amages

SAINT JOHN, N.B-. March 1.'>— (CPI-Chief Justlcg J. E. Mlchaud today granted Rev. JM. Murchison $800 damages and costs in his suit against the city of Saint John.

Mr. Murchison brought action against the city for $20,000 dram- sgos for wrongful arrest and falae imprisonment under an execution for taxes. ‘ t

Th. court also ruled the city was responsible for conduct. oi marshals iltvoived in the incident.

Payments Under Hospital Grants

OITAWA. March 15 —(OP) — Projects for hospital construction [ta-tits under the new Federal health plan involving an estimated 13000 beds and 041087.501 were ap- proved up to last March 10. Health Minister Martin announced yester- day.

A Commons return tabled for R. .l. Henderson (PC-Lambton Kent). showed instalment paymentsoi $1,- M280 already have been made.

Among others the following pay- ments were made under the plan up to March l0; Prince Edward Is- land 531.416; Nova Scotta 007.053; Quebec 1.008.355.

No payments have yet been made to New Brunswick.

Savings on Deposit

OTTAWA. March 16 - (OP) - Savings on deposit in Canada's chartered banks at Jan. 31, sm- ounted to M,l.i'l.934,000 compared with 34.056.952.000 Dec. 31. 194B. Ind 53.024.001.000 a year ago, the chartered bank statement for Jan- uary showed today.

Cali loans in Canada amounted l0 $0,419,000 against $l0‘_,4(fl.- 000 Doc. ‘.11, i948. and $60,730,000 I Her ago.

Coming Events“

“Mail your Films to Garnhum Photo Studio. Charlottetown.

"Glenaladale school concert in ‘iracadie Hall Thursday, March i7. 90min rises at 8 PM.

"See “The Bells of shannon" at 3t. Peter's Bay. March 17th. Legion ltsli. aso P, ivi,

"so. add in Central Guardian wncerning Indian River-Kensing- ioh St. Patrick's Play.

"Social. Albany Village School. Friday. March ma. st. Patrick's entertainment. Songs, step dancing. late of lunches and candy.

P."Now booking clover seed. "'04-'11. our prices will save you Ii0flc_v. Rush your orders. Mac- - Guile-ll d: Boyle.

lr-"mmy Power's Variety Concert ' Vernon River Hail. March 16th. E $411‘ Under the auspices of the

‘Jllotioe- see the three act play .Beane from Lima. st Stanley

gel?“ Hall. Much ma. Bale oi’

“Celebrate st. ‘Patrick's n by

"hi! Noiboro play in Bigrald

r lllonaored by Bumcnerside ‘w- L- Thursday. 17th.

ha” for Canada h” I Thursday. March 17th. ‘ erioton till 11 A. N’. Oolviile M1130. D. L. McDowell.

"T110 anntili nicotine of new gum" 91117101 Company will "wit! in the New Glasgow Hall ‘Juednesdoy, Mlidl i0. 1M0. at

- Helen Kelly, comm-y.

"at "'_“ ‘ vmulgtéon. All those interested.

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Highways

Ministers Speak As Budget Debate Continues

Reviewing the work of his De- partment, the Minister of Agricul- ture offered a comprehensive report to the Legislature last night in the Budget Debate. The Minister of Public Works and Highways con- tinued the debate under constant needlin! from the Leader of the Qvbosition. Two private members —-John R. MacLean (lat King's) and George E. Baviile (5th King's) —also spoke and the House ad- journed until 11.00 o'clock this morning. _

Commanding the Leader of the Opposition on his budget speech which he both praised and criticised. Hon. W. F. A. Stewart, Minister oi Agriculture. answered a few oi the criticisms at the outset.

He stated that. if the Labour Act caused a rift between farmers and labour, it was not the fault of the farmer. as labour refused to handle the farmers’ hogs when the trouble arose.

The Mini-Wei.‘ refuted Dr. Mac- Miilan‘; reference to religious dis- crimination by the government as unfounded. He also stated he could not see why city people could not change their routing in the summer without changing the whole country to Daylight Saving Time.‘ "In our Department. the staff gets off at 4 o'clock in the summer time," iadded the Minister,

Answering questions as to em-

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Furnace, Stovo Oil. Prices Down Half-cont

HALIFAX, March is - (c?) - A reduction of ‘A cent a gallon in furnace and stove oil prices throughout the Maritimes was an- nounced today by Imperial Oil Company. Today's prces in Halt- fax are 15% cents for furnace oil and 18% cents for stove oil.

Report Boston Boy Locked up l0 Years

BOSTON. March l5 —(AP) - Ragged and round-eyed. a 14-year- old "wild boy" saw yesterday a sun- lit world from which police said his mother locked him away for 10 years to hide her "secret sin."

Skinny Gerald Sullivan. his matted hair below his dhouldere was dressed in the tatters of two girls‘ dresses when police found. him playing in the street. He was bare- footed._

Everything filled him with won- der. He was, police said "like a wild animal." He saw for the first time an orange. an apple. a cat.

Out oi the child's escape came a fantastic tale of a 45-year-old woman's long and careful guarding oi her secret from the world and her three _ other children. The mother was quoted as saying: "I hoped to keep it a secret so it wouldn't bring disgrace to the others."

Police said Mrs. Anne l". Sullivan told them the boy was illegitimate. Bhe pleaded guilty to neglect oi the

Increased Grant For Charlottetown

The City of Charlottetown will receive from the Pro- vincial Government a total oi $40,200, an increase over last year oi $7,400 His Worship Mayor 13.. Earle MacDonald: teamed yesterday.

According to the estimates for the year ending hiarch 31. 1960 recently tabled in the house the City receives tn lieu oi Corporation Taxes $18,000. Added to this is a sum of $22,- 200 taken from the special grants to municipalities of $36,511. The total received by the City is $40,200.

The City, His Worship said, is paid by the Government, under the Dominion-Provincial agreement, at the rate of $1.50 per head. He added that should the districts surrounding Char- lottetown ainaigamato with it these outlying sections would receive from the Government $2.25 per head.

In their present status they fail to qualify for any grant.

For Housing

lnvenls New’ Surgicallnife

EX E TE R, ‘- Devon, England. March 15 -_ (AP) - A YOURS hospital technician said today he has invented a surgical knife which immediately puts back into the veins the blood lost. by a patient during an operation. W. G. D. Gregory. an operating-room technician at Exeter City Hospital, said his knife will prevent shock throttgh loss of blood. The new knife has a grooved blade with a tiny tube running through its handle. As an incision is made. a small electric pump draws away the ilowiflil bl°°d~ passes it through a purifier and pumps it back into a vein through a needle. such as those used for giving transfusions of blood or plasma.

Three Arrested For Monlreal__lloldup

MONTREAL. March 15—-(CP)- Police announced today the arrest of three youths and said their cap- lure concluded the roundup oi men wanted for last Friday's 812.300 robbery from a tobacco firm which left one bandit dead.

Arrested as alleged companions oi the late Ovila Larose, the 28-year- old bandit who was shot and killed as he attempted his get-away, were: Jacques Gouin, 23; Jacques Capor-

chlld and was held in $2.000 bail for hearing tomorrow.

Union-C. C.

al, 26; and George Atrd, alias, Cote, 2B.

F. Relations

Touch Off Lively Clashes

By IRVING 0. WHYNOT

HALIFAX, March 15 — (OP) — Relations between Nova Beetle’: two biggest labor unions grid the 0.0.ll',~touched off spirited oil-the! in th, Provincial Legislature to- day u Throne Speech debate c011-

tlnued.

_ Attorney-General b». Out-rip slid the ‘Unitnii Nine Wei-hers district so 010.1.) hod forced the 0.0!. “down the throats of the miners, Liberals end Torin alike." .

Inter he said that at a U.M.W. convention at hum a few 7w’! ago "200 tlelogatu sat down and forced 11-000 miners, without a vote, plwbilclto, anything, to contribute to the 10.01.) Party fund."

The r cross - chamber exchange

l‘ started when Michael MacDonald cor

( - Breton Centre) is fmed to a votg taken by mem- bers of the United Bteeiworlrera of America (0.1.0.-.0.0.1...)\at Sydney on whotllq to Affiliate with the 0.0!. The uumbersnip turned down the proposal.

Cape Tireton East), leader oi the

two-man opposition, was drwwn into the debate later.

J. Smith Mclvor (L- Cape Bro- ton'Bout.h) started the “$01M when he asked Mr, MacDonald if the 0.0.1’. Party had had my- thing to do with bringing abou the vote. '

Mr. MacDonald replied that the executive oi the union local "deem- ed it advisable. and it. is onl! ill?- to give leadership on a very large scope» They recommended affilia- tion with the 0.0.3’. Part1."

Pressed by Mr. Mcfvor for a more elaboutq answer, Mr. Oun- ningham nld some mom!!!" 0! the union executive were 0.0.! Party mourners and "them is no doubt they wire most active in bringing about the vote."

Mr, Mcivor asked if the 0-0-7» would press got another vote.

Mr. MacDonald said the 0.0!- tlid not interior-g with union af- fairs. The steelvworkers had voted in s democratic plebiscite on the quettlqh.

Bald Mr. Curriez-"The UMTW. forced it down the throats of the

ltugseii Ounuiugtem (01);: -

miners, Tories and Iaiborsll alike."

Canadafs Gre

Plan To Press For Chigneeto Canal

(By The Canadian Prom)

SAOKVILLE, N. 3.. March 15- After a meeting oi the Chlgnecto Canal committee todaymnnounce- ment was made by the chairman, Mayor N. S. Sanford oi Amherst. that plans had been completed for the opening oi a vigorous cam- paign on behalf of the project.

The campaign, to begin eairly next. week, is aimed at attracting further support for constructionod a canal. Meetings will be held in many of the larger centres of the three Provinces.

MECHANIZED MINING

Machinery was used tn 1948 to out 75 per cent of all Britain's coal output. r

Private Enterprise And G0v’t Both Blamed

Shortage

By D'Arcy 0’Donnea

OTTAWM, March 15 --(C1-"l - The Government and private enter- prise were alternately blamed in the Commons today for the cori- tinued shortage of housing accom- modation in Canada.

Donald Fleming (PC-Toronto Egiinton) charged that the Gov- eminent has made a "soriy botch" and a failure of housing. Clarie Gillls (CCF—Cape Breton south) promptly took the floor and said the indictment was against private enterprise which was not building houses despite assistance from the Government.

The exchange occurred during continued debate on a resolution to a bill providing for a one-year ex- tension oi controls on domestic rents. some food prices, timber and steel.

Progressive Conservatives contin- ued a drive they started yesterday to have the Government. ‘withdraw the omnibus bill and introduce separate measures covering each of the various types of controls.

Mr. Fleming said the OppositiOn to the form oi the control legislat- ion was not to be interpreted as opposition to the continuation of rent controls. Mr. Gillis said the Progressive Conservatives were try- ing to stop the bill from coming in until the eXlStillg control legislat- ion expires at the end oi this month.

The Progressivg wanted all controls Mr. Glllis.

Other speakers included Howard

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‘Flu Outbreak In Manitoba Being Watched

THE P . Man. ‘March 15 - -(CP)~l>ro nciul Htoltrh Depart- ment offioials are keeping a close watch on a wave oi influenza hitt- ing many scattered villages in Northern Manitoba.

Practically whole populations of eomq communities have been ai- ieoted by the sickness. reports reaching here indicated. At sturg- eon Landlng. 123 out oi 139 pupils at a boarding school were said to be in bed with flu.

In most districts the influenza has not developed into the virus pneumonia stage. Dr. R. F. Yule, Indian medical superintendent. "- ported after completing an aerial inspection oi several ccmmunltlee where the sickness was moet pre- valent. .

But e amber of pneumonia ou- es have developed in The Pas. One of tho mainland’: most-widely known missionaries, Father ligenoot of the Broollet district. is in Flin Hon Hospital with durable pneu-

is. Meanwhile. Di‘. Maxwell Bow- man. director o! the Preventive Medical Jenkins leetion of the Manitoba Health Department. said in Winnipeg. that there may be as many as 400 cues in the ares. af- footed. . He laid that no deaths had some to his attention.

Officials said the influenn was

Conservatives removed. sa id

i100 ll “VON ll l-lle variety of 1911- il which claimed many lives ill Canada.

atest Menace

QTIiX-WA. March 15 —(C.P) — Senator .l. P._McIntyre (Ir-Prince Edward Island) today attacked the C-C-F- Party during debate in the Senate on the ‘Ihrrme Spfigghl

C5111"! the 0.0.1”. Canada's "Rreatest menace." he declared some Commons members o: ti.” party should “check up on their own shortcomings" before cfltlglz. i"! the Senate.

"Their nationalization program lg Mi Working out Successfully in Saskatchewan." ha dg¢la;~ed_

Defending Government D0110)’. Senator McIntyre said George Drew, Progressive 00mg. vative leader, had made "sweeping statements" that Prairie farmers would lose 0500000000 because of the prices in the British food con- tracts.

But the Senator said he doubted there had been such losses and. with United states prices going down. Canadian farmers might find themselves $50,000,000 or $100,000,000 ahead in the long run.

Turning to income tax, he said the method of taxing farmers was “not very satisfactory."

l-le declared attempts were being made now to collect taxes from P. E1’. farmers for as far back as 1942. This should not be done.

Senator McIntyre said the Gov- ernment should not try to collect -iaxes from farmers for years before 1946. since hey had no records and their reiur a would be only guess- work. Any collections already made for these years should be refunded.

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Britons Go 0n Shopping Spree But Prices High

LONDON, March l5 - (GP) _ Britons went on a shopping spree today at the end of almost eight years of clothes rationing.

"This has easily been our big- gest day so far this year," said one London department store manager. Equally brisk trade was reported throughout the United Kingdom.

Cuabumers grabbed first at sheets, tablecloths and towels. Then they turned to. wearing sp- parei.

Decontrol of clothing was an- nounced yesterday by the Board of Trade after merchants had said supplies were more than ade- quate. ,

Retailers and the hoard of trade are confident the demand will taper off quickly. They say cloth- ing prices -- from 100 to 200 per vent higher than before the war --will ration most clothes and other goods more effectively than the coupon system. Another big factor is the purchase tax, which

wheat

ranges from 16 3/3 to 100 per cent.

Here are some comparative prices:

Nine years ago a good, tailor-

made. man's suit cost £14 ($56), Today tailors say a comparable suit costs £35 ($140). A good shirt cost 4s ($11 in i940. Today a shirt oi lesser quality brings £1 ($4). A pair of sheets that cost 10a nine years ago now sells for £2 to £8. Gloves that were 4e. new re- tail at 18s. Women's all}?! were 4a. —now they're 10s to ll. Women's stockings that sold at m cents be- fore the war now or, 12s.

Prominent Glace

ijoon PRICES o|= wesrenu oars, BARLEY gncuirmo island Senator Calls C. C.F. A

Support For A Oilseed Crops ls Withd_ra_wn

orrawa.’ March 1H ~ (c?)- Trade Minister Howe announced to- day tn the Commons that the Gov- ernment will malntain the existing floor prices for Western oats and barley in the 1949-50 crop year, but is abandoning floor price support for oilseed crops.

For the new crop year, which be- gins Aug. 1. the floors for oats and barley produced in Western Canada will he nt the current rates-Si. 1-2 cents a bushel for no. 1 feed oats and 9t) rents for no. 2 feed barley. both in store Fort William or Port Arthur.

"I want to emphasize." said Mr. Howe, “that these are support prices only and producers will have the advantage of Whatever higher prices prevail during 1949-50."

There will be no floor price sup- port for oats and barley produced outside nf the Prairie Provinces be- cause the great hulk oi non-Prairie production is consumed on farms where grown and does not enter into commercial channels except through livestock and livestock pro- ducts.

Mr. Howe said the Government is withdrawing price support from the oilseed crops-Jlaxseed. rape- seed and sunflower seed~because of developing world surpluses of seeds and oils.

"Under the circumstances." ho said. "the government is not prg. pared in encourage the production of ollseetls by establishing support prices for 1949-50. The position will be examined again at the beginning of the next. crop year."

Hospital Janitor Charged With Murder

TORONTO. March 15 —(C P) -- Samuel Care, 58-year-old cleaner accused oi running berserk in the Hospital for Tuberculosis in suburb Weston, has been charged with nrurdeiing Mamie McLennon, 56, a

Expect Something To

II ll o Pop In Yugoslavia IBTAIIIL. ’rurkey, Motels 1B - (AP) -- Diplomatic and intelligence sources said to. night something may be about to "pop" in Yugoslavia. One source who cannot be identified said he believes an attempt to overthrow Marshal Tito as premier its imminent. Refugees arriving here recently from Yugoslavia said the Comin- form-Communist International Information Bureau -- is in- tensifying pressure on Yugo- slavia from within and with- out. Some of these sources say Bulgarian and Romanian forces are closing in along the Yugo- slav frontier, while Tito ta re- ported to he drawing up some seven divisions along the Al- banian and Macedonian bord- ers.

llouse of lords Give Second Reading To Nfld. limo Bill

LONDON. March 15 —- tktutera) -A bill which would authorize the union of Newfoundland and Can- ads was given second readainq to- day in the House of Lords over the protest of Lord Sempill.

The measure" the British North American Bill. already has been passed by the House of Commons.

Lord Sempill. a Conservative. who has opposed thg methods by witlch union was brought about. said he thought the bill violated “the soi- emn pledge" of the British Gov- ernment that. self-government should be restored to Newfoundland as soon as the island was econom- ically self-supporting.

But at the conclusion of the de- bate he withdrew his motion for rejection.

Viscount Addison, Lord Privy Seal. said: "There can be no “

Subscriptions Delivered 86.00 Mail $5.00; other Provinces I U.

lSubstanti-al l Tax Reductions Are Predicted '

__ B? GEORGE K1103!!! . OTTAWA» March 15-(OP)—I"lnfl ance Minister Abbott told the Commons today he proposed to bring down the budget next Tues- day evening——Ma.rch Mud-and promptly touched off a flurry o! speculation as to contents. the ex- tent o! tax-emitting and the place in the picture of general election probabilities.

In a brief. tn-the-poin‘. ment, Mr. Abbott said:

"Perhaps I migtht inform the House that. barring unforeseen contingencies. I expect to bring down the budget a week irom to- night." '

He is expected to start. speaking at. 7:30 p.m. EST. 18:30 p.m. AS'I‘).

There was an immediate sltlir o! corridor gossip about possible healthy tax cuts.

Some observers pointed. first. 00 the Throne Speech which tlptoed. into the field orf budget conjecture with this statement:

"Prosperous conditions now pre- vailing are being reflected in the buoyant level of national revenue; a condition o which due consid- eration is bong given by my min- isters in the prepaatton of liho forthcoming budgetary proposals”

t A Prediction‘!

To this. they added the stato- ment-some called it a prediction —-by Prime Minister st. Laurent Just last week when he told the (member he thought the public would be "glad" to know the con- tents of the budget "just as soon as they can be made available.“

In his last budget Mr. Abbott.‘ estimated he would have a surplud of $400,000,000 in the fiscal year ending March 8i, a total which; many say leaves amtple room for tax reduction.

Outright budgetary reducti

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Q that Newfoundland as part oi the great federation of Canada will be immensely stronger and will be much better lblQ to reap the fruits of freedom than she would as a

hospital maid last February.

small isolated dominion."

Says Britain

LONDON, March 16 - (OP) - Britaln is developing jet fighter‘ planes which will make present types obsolete, the House of Com- mons was told today.