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CHARIJOTTETOWN, CANADA, SATURDAY, _ JUNE 2s. 1949
USE a PLANE T0 RUSH TWO ll.l. DIVERS T0 HALIFAX
Will Represent S.I).U. At ' International Seminar
Mr. J. Wilfred Driscoll, Mount Herbert. has been selected to rep- resent st. Dunstaxfs University at an International Seminar which will be held near Brads. Holland. from July l1. to August I5. He will leave for Quebec City Monday morning where fifty students from Canadian Universities will as- sehlble to aa.ll on the S S. Volen- dam for Rotterdam.
The Canadian students will meet with Approximately seventy Eur- opean students from the United Kingdom, France, Holland.
Denmark, Switzerland and Italy to form the Seminar. The academic program will be conducted by at least six prominent Canadian pro- fessors, with Etucpean professors and lecturers being short intervals.
The Seminar is sponsored by the International Student Service of Canada and is designed to pro-
mote understanding. enlarge the
outlook of the students and to lnah them better acquainted with International conditions. Lectures and discussions will ‘be developed around the general theme “The in-
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‘Coming Events
"Mail your Films to Garnhum Photo Studio. Charlottetown
"Reserve July 27th, Covehead Parish Picnic.
"Dance in Auburn School, Mon- day. June 27th.
"Danoenwatorvale School, June Nth. Good music.
"Reserve Wednesday, July 13th for Bristol Church Festival. _ "loo Cream and Dance, Orwell sill, June 27th. 0.30 to 12.30.
"Show "Black, Beauty". Bon- ahaw Inn Hall, tonight at 9.00.
"Dance Lorne Valley I-Iall, June 28th. Webster's Orchestra.
"Guide Pantry Sale, B. A. Mac- Donald's today, 2.30.
"Crushing Grain on Monday's and Friday's only. Percy Howatt.
"Reserve July 53th for Marsh- ileld-Dunstaffnage United Church Tea.
"Reserve Wednesday August the 10th for St. John's Church Pic- nic. Crapaud. .
"Dance in St. Peter's Legion l-lall every Tuesday night. Cliff Peters Orchestra_
“Public Meeting in Covehead Community Hall, to discuss Com- munity Tea. July 4th, p.80 P. M.
"Legion Rink South Rustlco. Lobsfcl" festival and dance will be held m. North Rustlco Legion rink Saturday, June 25.
"Marshfisld Women's Institute“ will hold a Cake Sale, Holmans Hardware Dept. Saturday, June 35th. 2 o'clock.
"Corrsn Bann Hall. Wednesday. June 29th, Seven Mlle Bay Players Present "The Masquerade". Dame. Melody Bill's Orchestra.
"Reserve Wednesday, July 6th, for Wiltshire United Church Tea. {Pligmlged by _N0rth Wilishire
"Make a data to attend the "Denlng dance of the season in the Wlnsloe Station Hall, Friday, July it Eastern Rhythm Boys Orches-
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_ "Don't miss Larry Parks in Swordsman" plus Stooge Comedy living at MacDonald Bros. tetra tonight. Note-show liars at 9 o'clock.
"Buying Pigs, all kinds and sires 5°!!! and staga as well. Monday \f- masrimn. Buying younl Mn.
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Allocation For
Canadian Bacon Cancelled by ll." S.
~ By George Ronald
WASHINGTON, June 24 — (CP) — A $2,500,000 Marshall-plan allo- cation to Britain for Canadian ba- con was cancelled yesterday. But the cut-back does not mean the bacon won't be delivered eventu- ally
An informed source said tonight the cancellation ll, in effect, noth- ing but s postponement. This source pointed to the fact that only two days ago the economic co-opera- tion administration earmarked $3.- ‘160000 for purchase of Canadian bacon by Britain.
Delivery problems pro at the root of the seemingly-contradictory situation in which there is a can- cellation on one hand and a new authorization on the other.
This source explained it this way:
Every commodity for which E, C. A. makes an allocation ia for deliv- ery to the recipient country during a certain three-month period. if delivery cannot be made in that particular quarter, the allocation is cancelled. But a new one-in some cases, actually the same’ one-may be made for a succeeding quarter.
In this case, he laid, the $2.500,- 000 authorization was for bacon to be delivered during the second quarter-April to June--of 1949. For some reason, it was found, the June 30 deadline could not be met. So, in routine fashion, the allocation was stricken from the books.
Meanwhile, the new $3.760,000 authorization was made. That ba- con is for delivery to Britain durq ing the third quarter of the year-
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Chemical industries Sol‘ Record In Canada
OdTAWA. June 24 — (C?) -At $554,000,000. Canada's chemical in- dustries last year set n. record value for output, the Bureau of Statistics reported today. The gain register- ed was $00,000,020. or 14 per cent above production in 1947.
P.E.l. Itinerary 0f N. S. Ayrshire . lireetlersléiss'n.
The itinerary of the Nova 5co- tlan Ayrshire Breeders’ Associa- tion, which is coming’ to Prince Edward island for its annual meet- ing on Tuesday ‘evening. June 28. will include visits to Ayrshire herds in the central part of the Province, Major MacRae, pronun- ent Ayrshire breeder, Central Roy- alty, announced yesterday.
It is planned that as many 1s- land Ayrshire breeders as possible will Join the party on this tour, as
" time does not allow a visit to all
the breeders — especially at out- lying points.
Arriving at Wood Islands by car at 10.30 on Tuesday morning, the first stop is planned for Gavii! Reid's, Montague, president of the PE. Island Ayrshire Breeders’ Club. Thence the party will proceed to Earle Ings’, Mt. Herbert, president
,0! the P.E. Island Dairymenis As-
soclation.
On Tuesday afternoon the party will visit Andrew MacRae d: Sons at Central Royalty. ‘rhea to Brack- ley, where they will stop_in at Vernon MacMillanb 8e Sons; W.R. Younkefs and Willard Prowseb, winding up the afternoon at the Experimental Farm.
‘Tile Association's annual meet- éndg) will be held at the City Hall at
‘Starting again on Wednesday morning, the visitors will pay a visit to O01. F1. Andrew, 03.15.. vice-president of the Island Ayr- shire Breeders‘ Club and also to Fred MacRaeu, both of East Roy- alty. Almon Wood-s’ Ayrshire herd at Marshfield is next on the list.
The Nova Scotians will then be entertained to luncheon at Sandy's Restaurant by the PE. Island Ayr- shire Breeders’ Club.
On their way to the ferry on their return Journey. the party will make brief calls at Willard Kelly's and the ‘farm of Wilfred Fairness.
Only Scotland Con Produce Scotch Whisky
WASHINGTON. Juno 24 -(AP) —The United States Internal Rev- enue Bureau ruled today that Am- erican distillers may make “Scotch type" whisky, but only Scotland can produce "Scotch." This decis- ion came alteikeight months of weighing arguments by United States distiller-s and importers at a public hearing here,
s48 Candidates Remain In Race For 262 Commons Seats In Monday’s Voting
Greek Premier Dies Unexpectedly
ATHENS. June 24 — (AP) — Themistokl s sophoulls, (albovel aged Gre premier supported by the Western Powers to head the fight against Ccmrnunist inroads from the north, died today after a stroke at his summer home.
The durable old Greek scholar. politician and revolutionary had suffered a stroke on his 80th birth- day last Nov. 24 and doctors gave up hOpe for him then. But he ral- lied back into active work and rode out the persistent Greek political storms until his death. which came unexpectedly.
The long and . continuing fight against Communist guerrillas aid- ed by the Soviet satellites to the ncrth—Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and
Albanla—brought Sophculis his highest recognition in world af- fairs .
Sophoulis had been preparing to go to Hassoni Airport to meet Queen Fredrika on hcr return to Athens from a. visit in Switzerland when he suffered the fatal stroke.
The funeral was set tentativehl for Sunday. The body will lie in slate in the Greek Orthodox Cathedral until the final rites. Parliament is adjoumlng until the new Government is formed.
(By The Canadian Press)
Just two days-today and Sun- day-rernain before Canadians go to the polls to make their choice of the 262 men and women who will alt in the new House o! Commons as thg country's 21st Parliament.
Their attention will centre on 848 men and women—the candi- dates. ‘Their numbers are large, but not as large as the record total of 954 who contested the 1945 gen- eral election.
In that election, 245 Commons seats were at stake. In this one the total has been raised by 17 seats-to 262~by the addition of seven Commons memberships for the new Province of Newfoundland and 10 for new constituencies cre- ated since 1945.
There are 260 Liberals, 249 Pro- gressive Conservatlves, 180 C. C. F.. 55 Union of Electors, 27 Social Cre- dit, 19 Communists running un- der the banner of the Labor-Pro- gressive Party and 58 others repre- senting minor political groups.
18 Women Candidates
There are 16 women in the hunt for parliamentary seats. including Mrs Gladys Strum, C.C.F. member for fiwAppelle, Saskatchewan, in the last House.
iIn this 21st election in Dominion history, the Liberals are going to tha country under their first French-speaking leader since the days of Sir Wilfrid Lsurier-Prime
-Minister St. Laurent, 67, who took
over last November when Rt. Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King re- tired because of ill-health.
Al; dissolution April 30, the -Llb- erals held 125 Commons seats against a combined Opposition of 119. One seat was vacant.
This was the Party standing in the Chamber:
Liberals, 125: Progressive Conser- vative, 69: C. C. Ii, 32; Social Cre- dlt, 12; others, six; vacant, one.
The Progressive Conservatives, official Opposition Party in that House, also have a new leader- George Drew, 55, former Premier of Ontario contesting his first Dc- minlon election.
M. J. Coldwell, 61, scholarly C. C. F. leader, frankly concedes that the C. C. F. hopes only to win enough seals to elevate them to the strategic position of official Op- position.
The campaign has (akpn the three national party leaders across Canada info virtually all of the 260 constif
Rain Hampers Search For Killer In B. C. Forests
(By George Brlmmell)
MISSION, B. C., June 2-i—-(CP)— Polico late today issued warrants charging Ivar Johnson with the murder of two women, as search continued around this Fraser Val- ley farming community for the 70- year-old grudge-crazed farmer.
In the fear-ridden Silver Hill dis- trict, six rnllea from here, homes were placed under guard, some wo- men and children were taken to Mission City, and the school was close as the search, begun last night, continues.
Mlies'of bushland were combed by police, reserve army men and citizens from Mission, Silver Hill
Drought In England May Cut Employment
LONDON. Juno M—(ReuterI)-— Some industries in drought-strick- en Norihcast England ware warn- ed today that failing three days and three nights of heavy rain next week they will have to out their output.
C. W. Wilson. chairman of the Tm Valley Water Board. said workers‘ in the vital iron and steel industry, centred in North- east England, probably will be able to work only one shift in three. Domestic water lupplias would have to be cut.
The drought area covers moat of Southern Britain and a met- eorological expert raid there ap- pearatobcno prospect of the fine weather breaking.
Warm. summer-like weather ac- ccntuating the drought in ling- land contracts sharply with lint-
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ern Germany's cold, wet days and freezing nights.
Potsdam Observatory reported today that this has been the cold- est and wettest June recorded in Berlin and Eastern Germany for 20 years.
From_The Hague it ll reported that summer seems to be break- ing at last in The Netherlands af- ter a long period of dull. windy. drizzly and. at times, extremely cold weather.
In Switzerland. eloudlesa’ atlas in the lut few days have delight- ed tourists.
In Luxambourg.damagc wrought by late frosts to the. wine crop is estimated at 00 per cent in Bel- guim and grain crops have stiffer- ed from late frosts. '
Rainfall in Belgium thin year has been I0 per cent below nor-
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and the surrounding district, about 50 miles cast of Vancouver.
Heavy rnln pelted the district. hindering search parties. Head-high ferns, roofed stumps and trees and the debris of an untouched forest hid all but the closest searchers fl-"om sight.
Police sold Johnson began his reign of terror yesterday because neighbors sought tp build a road through his farm. He first fired bn police who came to investigate, then burned his lonely home and fled.
Within two ‘hours the neighbors -—Mrs. George Barrett, 66-year-old farm wife. and Mrs. Marla Lind- berg, 68-year-old widow were shot lo death. A police constable, Peter Bergen, escaped death by inches.
Putting the torch to his farm buildings, Johnson fled to the dense forest. _
Isolated farm cabins in the heavy clearings were placed under guard. Farmers slept with guns beside their beds or kept night-long vigil at their barns, fearing the crazed gunman would seek more victims.
Rescued Aficr Drifting 30 Hours
SHIPPIOAN. NB, June 2G (C?) - Rescued after drifting more than 80 hours in the Gulf of 8t. Lawrence. three lobster fisher- men were safely home wnllht at nearby Island River.
The engine of their small vessel failed. and they suffered exposure and lack of food before another lobster boat, in charge of Alphonse Hachay. shlppllzan. slshiod them near this port and towed them home.
The rescued men were Joseph Jones, owner of the crippled craft,
They all, too, have visited New- foundland, the new Province which joined the Canadian community March 31; '
Solon Low, Social Credit leader. has confined his campaign largely to Alberta. source of his party's parliamentary strength.
_No Over-All Issue
The campaign, at times bitter, at times personal, ha; produced no over-all issue. Trade and housing have been two recurring subjects.
Mr. St. Laurent and his Cabinet lieutenants have based their cam- paign largely on the Government's record. The prosperity that is Canada's today. they said, stemmed mainly from Liberal policies.
Mr. Drew and his Bliflliofiei‘! have charged the Government with neglect of trade and failure to provide low-rental housing,
To these charges, Mr. Drew has added criticism of the performance of engines in North Stnr aircraft used by Trans-Canada Air Lines and the R. C. A. F. and a blast against the sale of the Government- operated $22,000,000 Cahlldalr Alr- craft plant at Montreal to the Elec- tric Boat Company of the United Statel.
The C. C. F. hsr promised tn bring national industries, including the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. under public ownership.
Voting regulations bar the broad- casting of campaign speeches "m" Saturday onward. Ordinary plat- form speeches may continue, even into election day itself, but the use of loudspeaker-equipped vehicles on the streets is prohibited both elec- tion day and the day preceding.
Electoral officials estimate that close to 8.000.000 Canadians will have a vote, but. of course not all of them will use it. The popular vote in 1945 totalled 5.246.130, in- cluding 359,078 service votes, out of a potential 6,952,445 voters. There
were QSHLMO votes cast in 1940.
PRIZE MEAL
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Coal Sirllle Expected To Begin Monday _ 285,000 air-of work as
industry slows down; cool stockpiles small.
By ANTHONY WHITLOCK
SYDNEY, Australia, June 24 — (UP) — New South Wala tonight proclaimed wartime emergency powers in the face of a country- wide coal strike set for Monday which both Union and manage- ment say is "virtually impossible" to avoid. .
Although representatives of the Communist-led Minors‘ Federation agreed on "certain proposals" to avert the walkout. a. wide belief persists that the strike will lake effect on schedule.
Drastic measures to save elect- ricity and gas in New South Wales has crippled industry. The coal- saving measures have put 285,000 out of work with prospects of thou- sands more unemployed when the mines shut down.
More than 50.000 already have feslstered for unemployment re- lief. A single man receives 25s (about $4) weekly. a married man 45s, with 5s for each child.
G-H- AmOli. head of a biscuit firm. was appointed emergency food controller for New South Wales. He will have power to seize and distribute food if necessary. Reg Windsor, emergency con- troller of_transport and assistant commissioner of state railways, called a meeting of the wartime Railroad Transport Pool.
The chief reason observers say the strike will take effect on schedule is that neither the Union nor Government can afford to lose face.
The miners are demanding a 80s (($4.85) weekly wage increase and reduction of the work week from 40 hours to 35. At present, weekly pay ranges from £8 to l0 10s. Power houses have enough cool to keep going for three weeks pro- viding electricity only for hospit- als. water supplies and sewage dis- pcsal plants.
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lie-elected President
Mr. Fraallk W. Curtis, who was re- ‘elected President at the sixty-sec ond annual meeting on Thursday of l the Charlottetown Board of Trade.
Joke Thor Made Clergymen Lough
(By The Associated Presar LONDON, June 24—Whst kind _of a joke gives a preacher a real belly laugh?
This one made clergymen, in- cludir; the Archbishop of Canter- bury. guffaw today for three full minutes after it was told to the annual Church of England assem- bly of clergyman and laymen:
A woman bought a drinking bowl for her dog. The clerk asked if she wanted the word "Dog" painted on it.
"No thanks." said the woman. “My husband doesn't drink water and the dog can't read."
160 Dead And ‘I78 Missing In Typhoon
TOKYO, June 34 —- (Realtors) — Japanese rural police announced today that 100 were dead and 1'18 missing in Tuesday's typhoon in Southern Japan. This reduced the number of missing, previously re- ported as 1.048. All casualties were Japanese.
By EDWIN SIIANKE
LDNDON. June 24 - (s?) - Winston Churchill parted today with one of his paintings for 1.250 guineas ($5.350). He had never sold one before.
All he got out of it was illliwlng feeling of appreciation and an idea of what other "Churchiils" might bring at auc- lion.
The money went to the Y.W.C.A. Mrs. Churchill wheedled the 74- l/ear-old wartime Prime Minister in putting "The Blue Room. Trerlt Park 19314" on the auction block at a Y.W.C.A. benefit she was pro- moting. '
I-fe was intrigued with her letter of request written on Y.W.C.A. stationery and starting "Dear Mr.
that
First Churchill Painting On, Sale Brings $5,250
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The buyer was a Brlzilian nsws- paper chain headed by Assis Chat- eaubriand. The autographed 19%- by-ld-inch work. which was hung in the Royal Academy last year, will be presented to the Sao Paulo Art Museum.
Nehemias Guelros. a lawyer for the Brizlllnn'ffrm, said his group was determined not to be outbid by an American. “We mean to have ii. and we have got it." lie said. The Brazilian llrmbassy flash- ed the good word home.
mu can: other Provlnoea o ‘u. a. sue
l SulferetIIErom BadCase Ol “The Bends" .
By RA]! CORELL!
HALIFAX, June 24- (OP)- Two pain-wracked civilian divéra tonight were winning a fight for life inside a squad navy recom- pression chamber but ‘the battle will last for at least another four hours.
brought the pair here in a hectic race which started at the R.C.A. F. base at Greenwood, 105 miles from here. G. E. Moore of Yar- mouth. N.S.. and Roland Forlialnc of (208 High St.) Donham, Mast, suffered an attack of "the bends" during a salvage operation ofl Port Latour, on Nova Scofla’! south-western tip. Full details of the incident ulcre not known im- mediately.
One was able to walk from an Air Force orash boat which land- ed them at the navy's diving school. But both were described by attendants as "in bad shape." Reports said they had reached l depth of 125 feet-a move which precipitated the sudden, kniflng formation of nitrogen bubbles in the blood stream. “The Bends“ are a rarity today but they can
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June 24 —(OP) - temper- atures: victorla 5'5 66: Ednmii-OI 54 g3; Regina 42 75; Winnipeg 68 ; Toronto 66 B8; Ottawa 58 ‘l0; Montreal 59 '70; Quail“! 4B 753 Saint John 50 64; Morlcton 49 68; Hall-fax 52 71; Charlottetown 50 sa; Sydney 45 55; Yarmouth 46 64; St. John's A1 57. '
HALIFAX, June 7A -—-(GP) —- (OP)-—Officia.l inland forecasts is- sued tonight by the Dominion Public Weather Office in I Halifax and valid until midnight Saturday, with an outlook for Sunday: Synopsis.
Pressure was high over the fore- cast district Friday and the wealth- er was fine. By Saturday morning. the high pressure area will be cost of the district
A series of weak disturbances m‘! expected to move eastward along the southern boundary of (he fore- cast dlslrlci. A; a result rain is forecast. for the Nova Srotla main- land and most of New Brunswick.
TORONTO, Minimum and maximum
Art critics whh long have won- derocl over the worth of a "Church-l ill" weighed circumstances agalnsty merit and technique in their (AC-y praisal after the sale. But. most. agreed that Churchill is a com-‘ potent painter after 34 years of‘ daubing. He docs it to relax. I
HALIFAX. June 24 - (C?) - The Navy tomorrow will release texts of the charges against two senior officers ordered for cmlrts martial in the grounding June 0 of the aircraft carrier Magnificent. Commodore GR.
W.D.F. Johnston. her officer, will stand at hearings June 28.
The Navy's Atlantic
Nova Scotia‘. '10 miles from here.
Miles. Capt. El’. Tisdall of tswa will preside over LieuL-Cmdr. Johnston.
(Gus) Miles, O.B.E., of Hnthesay, NB. the car- rier's commander. and Lieut-Omdr. navigating
separate
Command announced its decision today fol- lowing a court of inquiry info the grounding off the south shore of
Rear Admiral ER. Mainguy, flag officer Atlantic coast, will preside at the court martial of Commcdgre
g. that of
‘Naval Officers Ordered For Courts Martial
the traditional one-gun salute and n bare su/ord later will indicate the verdict. At conclusion of a hear- ing, the point of the sword is turn- od toward an officnr if he is found guilty.
Scheduled for the auditorium of the Navy's landship Stadacona. the hearings will be held June 28 and 99
Magnificent, accompanied by the destroyers l-ialda and Nootka. ran aground on what an officer aboard the ship said was a "submerged. uncharted" rock. A second attempt
Haida. vras successful and the 18,- her Halifax berth.
Inserted by the Progressive
to yank her free. by the destroyer GOO-ton flat-top limped back to
Last week, she steamed to dry- dock at Saint John, N.B., for re- hairs lo her damaged hull. One re- vert said 200 feet of her bottom
Cmdr. V.W. Rowland will alt as was ripped by the impact and she judge advocate for both hearings, would remain immobile for three The courts martial will open with months.
but elsewhere ovcr the Maflfiiméi- Gllspe and the North Shore region the. fine weather will continue Sat- urday. Cloudy skins and widely scattered showers are indicated f0? Sunday _
Regional forecasts: Prince Ed- ward Island-Clear becoming over- cast. Saturday afternoon Warmer Saturday. Light. winds. Low early Saturday morning and high in the afternoon at Charlntteiovrn 48 and 06
Outlook for sundry - 131M141’- widely scattered showers.
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l-Iigh tide today at 9.00 A. M. and 11.0’! P. M.
Sun rises (his morning at 4.2’? and sets at 8.04.
Sumner-side tide Emmi"! mm‘ utcs later than Charlottetown-
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