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A green Christmas, a white seek u, be In“. b,“ “m m" ,0 Easter. be "up _ Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew Th” Guardian’ Three can“ M111 $5.00; other Provinces 8 U. S. $7.00.

piornliig Dally Founded 1887.

CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1949

COURT ORDERS REVIEW 0F TRANSPORT BOARD AWARD

Gen. McNaughton Is Appointed To New Post

Ry [TARCY (‘PDONNELL OTTAWA. Dec. 22-<CP>—Gen. A G l. Xfclvaughton. one of Can- 5mm i-liici trouble-shooters, and ['11) ‘Yfll pmniiiiciit in Canada's

puxl- ll spy probe have been ap- p~ilil".’l to new posts by the Gov- crnnxtnt.

Prime Alinlster St. Laurent an- nr‘\lll('(‘i'i today that Gen. Mc- Xuilfill’. n_ now Canada's perman-

iiclcuatc to the United Na-

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I . Joint Commission Jon.

i Iqiig-staiirllng vacancy.

At ii half-hour press conference in his East-Block office, the Prime hflnl-ibl‘ also announced that Mr. .-e Gerald Fnuteux oi’ U19 _ i-cal division of the QUQVPC 5 perior Court and John R. Cart- ivri it, prominent Toronto law- yer. have been appointed to the Supreme Court of Cflflfltlfl-

.\ir Justice Fauieux was leflal counsel to the i010 Roi-cl Com-

iiill join the International I b0 fill

mission. which investigated R115- gliiii-dirccted espionage activities in Canada. Mr. Cartwright was

on; of the leading counsel in the prosecutions resulting from the CfifitfnlssiOlfS findings. _

The‘. m] posts created by RS15- liition‘ passed at the recent ses- m“ n1 Parliament makngg mg supra-m, Court oi Cana a m“- final court 0i 8909015 n“ ‘

Their appointments rais-

countrv. ( m0 Court m

ed membPIFhlD 0

_ ic. ruylr. St. Laurent said the Ceb- pwl has ordered D1‘°¢i"m“i1°n o’ act Illilkillr; the court supreme

g n; \\'|'_\l| as in name. But ilfoclamRt-lon may he Wm" “iarilce, iudirial committee of ‘i191 Council in London for iina clsion.

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Al other points i" i9?“ KT? conference. Mr. Si. 1-0010 i HAM 1, Canada will lint take tin? ~ [Inn on recognition oi lllf! Gigi: munlst government of Chiiggrenée m“, m? commrgtnvonlth con . ' J . .. '“,Ce(";,i,‘},':,.i.i": fiircizn trade is ex- pmod m b, n; buoyant. in i950 r15 "(lwfléhlcan has not Yd hm‘ an opportunity to cical 05g reshuflling the duties of We

Coming Events

“Man your Films to Garnlmm Photg studio. Charlottetown.

"Cavendish School Chrlsimfls Concert. Friday, Dccftnber 23rd.

"Chrlstmas Concert. Bonshev Hall. December 23rd.

"Dances at Sky-lino, New Lon- don, Friday nights (iiscontlnued.

"See "Rachel and the Straiillfl” at North Wiltshlrc- tonight at 8.30.

Bann Hail. 26th. Melod)‘

"Dance. Ccrran Monday. December Boys‘ Orchestra.

"Cornwall School Concert. Fri- day, Dec. 23, 7.30 sharp. Lunches sold. Proceeds school.

"Dance Wood Islands East School. December 28th. sponsorefl by the Womcns Institute.

"Dance. 8t. Peter's lAgion Hall. Monday, December 26th. Cliff Pct- ers Orchestra.

“Bargain: in [Muriel UM“ Christmas, good selection of il|ll5~ Store open evenings. McGuiiifln h Boyle.

“Annual Meeting of Wood Is- land Presbywcriaii Church Will b9 held in the Church on Monday- Jmiiary 2nd. at 1 oclock P. M.

“Junior Farmers Leadership Course at st. Dunstan‘; University. January 3rd to 7th. Open to all rural youth 16 to 30 years old. Send lppllcationa to Box 0, Dept. of Agriculture, Charlottetown.

"Pioderetion of Agriculture "wins. Belfast Hell riiiirmv ‘Vining. December 29th, at 8 O'clock. Farmers from all surround- inz districts invited. Special Ibeekers.

"Notice to our CUSTOIHQIa. Our ‘We will be closed Monday. Dec- ember 26th for Christmas and Mmldly. January 2nd, for stock- tlkiua. A. s. Hicks s. Son, Mount Albion.

“Buying Pigs Monday at Fred- ericton. Tuesday. 9.00 A. M. Brook- flOId. 10 Milton. 11. New fill/fin-

1 P. M. York 2_ Bedford. 3. Mt- Btewart. 4, Wntervale. B. Vernon River. 5.30 Pownal. Paying $18-00 P" pair for good pigs over 80 libs- Wlli aim buy smaller ones.

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I lpartmenta and openln‘ m, “y

for cabinet changes,

h4- A dete- for the 1950 session as not been fixed, but there will

have to be an interval between the

(‘rid 0f the Jan. l0 Dominion-Prim‘

vincial conference and the open- miz of parliament

5. He believed the conference .“'°“ld ha“? w fllzree on a unan- imously acceptable formula be- forc power to amend the constit- “tkln 0" Provincial matter; could be transferred to Canada.

6. Six premiers _ he did not, name them - have replied to his proposal for a general Dominion- Provinclal conference in the fall.

7- He was still hopeful that the Joint St. Lawrence seaways and Dower projects will be undertaken in the nenr filture.

8. The government has not yet decided whether it. will support tlic price of eggs.

0. Canada will not b» officially represented at the opening of the Roman Catholic holy year in Vat- ican City Dec. 24, but. the Prime lvflnister \vill be represented per- sonally as a Roman Catholic by Jean Desy, ambassador to Italy.

l0. The cabinet. has decided to appoint George Black and J.L. Bowman. both speakers of the Commons during the term of the

last Conservative government, to the privy council. Geri. McNaughton. soldier, eng-

lneer, scientist. diplomat and brief- ly e. politician, ends a two-yrear term as Canada's permanent del- egate to United Nations on Dec. 3i. The date marks the end of this country's term on the U.N. security council.

Tho International Joint Commis- sion is a body mnde up of Canad- ian and United States represent- atives. 1t deals with disputes aris- ing out of the use of waters flow- ing in both Canada and the Un- ltcd States.

S'side Man injured ln N. B.

ST. JClSifiPli. N. 13.. Dcc. 22 — ICP) Bertrand Arsenault of Summersidc, P, E. I., suffered a fractured left leg tonight. when he was struck by a car while walk- ing along the Moncton-Amherst hlgliivay hcrc.

The accident occurred near the community of McGinley. Arsen- ault. a i940 graduate of St. Jos- eph's University. had been visit- ing friends there. Driver of the coi- which struck the young man was idcntificd as a Mr. Henderson of Pictou, N. S.

Arscnauit was taken to hospital in Moncton where he was report- ed suffering from a leg fracture and resting as comfortably as could be expected. Details of the acci. dent were incomplete but it was t1hought he was struck when the Henderson car was passed by an. other vehicle coming from the opposite direction.

NILE TRAFFIC

Before the Pharaohs, boats with ca; anld square saiggu were inc pr cipa means o mgpogj the Nile Valley. r' n

Second Titer" Also on Dewey's Christmas Lisi

ALBANY, N. Y, Dec. 22 -(AP) »- Governor Thomas E. Dewey to- day freed a Sing Sing Prison "lifcr" who risked death in an unsuccessful experiment to save an cight-year-old girl from leukemia, a cancerous blood disease.

Louis Boy, 50. convicted of mur- der ‘in New York and originally sentenced to die in the electric chair, will leave prison tomorrow as a result of Dewey's traditional Christrrias-eve commutations. Boy has been imprisoned for l8 years.

Dewey also freed another man once sentenced to dic for murder. He is John Resko. 38, whose art work during his confinement has appeared in several national maga- zines.

Boy and Rcsko. convicted in 193i in connection with separate rob- bery slayings. will be under parole supervision for the rest of their lives.

Boy is the first person who ever knowingly took the taint of leuke- mia into his veins. He volunlieer- ed last summer to let l8 quarts of the blood in his bodv pas: through thc body of the stricken child in a vcirwto-vcein exchanger. She died. however two weeks after the experiment.

Dewey said that Boy. with no promise of reward, had "repeated- ly volunteered to participate in various dangerous medical tests and experiments" while in prison.

Bacon Prices Decline l2 Cents In Winnipeg

WINNIPEG, Dec. 22— (CP)- Bacon prices in Winnipeg have dropped 10 to 12 cents a pound at the wholesale level since ilie beginning of the wet-k, meat pack- ing officials said today. The drop was accompanied hy nfurther drop of five cents in the price of eggs. ERR price; have been falling since last Saturday's announcement that Britain will not renew bacon and P8X! contracts, Prices to producers for eggs today were grade A large 25 cents, grade A medium, 23 Cents; grade B puller, 18 cents: grade B, 20 cents rind grade C, I5 cents

Sing Sing "Liter" Freed For Efforts To Save Child

lJ. S. DesRoches Appointed T0 Kings C0.

Mr. J.S. DcsRochcs, K.C., Sum- merslde, newly appoint-ed Judge of the County Court of King's.

Judge C. St. Clair Tralnor. has been transferred from King's to Queen's County.

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High Temperatures For

Dec. 22 Are

HALIFAX, Dec. 22 ——— (C?) ~- Thc weatherman dropped a small hint tonight that the Marl- times might get a white Christ- mas.

But today": weather perform- ance didn't provide any clue. Re- cord high temperatures for Dec. 22 were registered throughout tho seaside provinces.

At Halifax, the mercury lobbed up to 52 to break the previous high for Dec, 22 of 50 degrees set in 1906.

lt was 5O at Saint John, seven above the old mark set in 1032. Moncton's old high of 49 sci. three _vcai-s ago was eclipsed by today's 52 and Charlottetown saw the 1932 record of 39 shattered by to- (la_v‘s 46.

Pope Pius Presented Silver Hammer, Trowel

VATICAN CITY. Dec. 22 -{c?) — A silver hammer and trowel, decorated with gold. were present. ed w the Pope today by Italian workers for use in the opening ceremonies of the holy year 83L- urduy.

The Pontiff will use the lm. plements to open and close the lioly door of the Basilica 0g st, Peter's Cathedral. The opening n: the door will mark the beginning of the holy year and the closing Christmas eve 1050, will end the jubilee observance.

The gift was handed over in the Pope's Vatican apartment 11y u delegation representing workers in tho 4,000.000-member Catholic Ac- tion, n. lay organization. ‘Their president. Ferdlnundo Btorchl, headed the group.

Thousands of Italian workers contributed about one cent each to buy the hammer and trowel, which are of the normal sine.

The silver heads of the tools are in sliver, plated in gold. and om- blazoned with the arms of the principal crafts. The ‘undies are of ivory chased in silver gilt. They were pl .ented in a silver-mount- ed maplewood box.

This is the first time since Pope Boniface VIII announced the first holy year in i300 that the hummer and trowel have been presented by g workers‘ organization. This

holy year, which the Pope calls "the year of the great return and the great pardon," is the 25th.

The first holy door ceremony will be held about l0 A.M. (5 A. M. ASTi Saturday. The Pope will tap tlirce times with the hammer on the marble cross in the centre of the brick-screened holy door and say in Latin: "Open the gates, be- cause the Lord is with us."

The brickwork previously loos- ened. is than to be lowered by pulleys and roiled away, permit- ting entry by the Pope and the thousands who will follow him across the threshhold.

The ceremony symbolizes the opening to humanity of the door- way to repentance and forgive- ness. Three cardinals, will open holy doors at St. Mary Major, St. John Lateran and 8t. Paul out- side the “TB-ITS.

The Pontiff will celebrate mid- night mose Christmas eve in St. Peter's for 10.000 pilgirmii, mem- hers of officially registered pil- grlmages from about 20 count- ries. They will require identity card; for dmisaion.

The jubilee is expected to et- triict about 6.000.000 pilgrims. in- cluding 95.000 from Canada.

Today the Papal Muter of the Chamber began distributing iidmla- alon tickets to the pilgrims from all put: of the world who will form the congregation.

Reported

The \varm air covered the en- tire eastern seaboard with temper- atures up to (i0 n1 llnstnn and in the high 605 in Vii-stern New York,

The Weather Bureau snid ilie mild weather was oXpPutPfl to continue tomorrow iii most rog-

ions of the Maritiiiics.

But by Friday evening. temper- atures will start dropping sharp- iy. Saturday ls "xpcviefl to he cloudy and much colrlor in all reg- ions.

Varied Weather Ii. U. S.

CHICAGO, Dec. 2;! lAI’)--\\'in- ter served up ii scramlilcil iveathcr dish for the United Stiitcs today with cold blasts sweeping the West and mid-Western States while the east experienced a Ile- cembcr hcnt wiivc.

Freezing weather hit parts of the California citrus liclt "lZ-‘llfl. but damage, if any, was cxpcctcrl to be light, However, 10 days of frosty weather have damaged vegetable crops in most parts of the state.

A cold wave spread deeper into the mldwest. on the her-ls of rain and sleet storms that roused lum- dredg of thousands of ilollnrs damage and numerous highway accidents.

A winter heat wave liil sections of the East, sending temperatures io record high levels for lhc date. The mercury climbed to 69 of Rochester, N. Y., breaking n 4i- yeiir-old record by 1.’! degrees. But tonight colder ivcaihcr movcd into the Eastern States.

The California Crop and Livo- ltock Service said fender veg - tables in the desert areas were hardest hit by the prolonged cold. The full pea crop was knocked out and the.» mid-winter crop is ex- pected to be a total loss.

Manv communities tin Illinois and Missouri still \Vf‘l'0 struglllnr! back toward normal eondlilnnfi after n crippling sleet storm.

N. I. Reports New Lew ‘LI. Death Rare

FRIHJERICTON, Dec. 22._ (C?) —- A tuberculosis death rate of only 3'1 per 100,000 of mutilation, the lowest rate in New Bruns- wick‘! history, is indicated for 1949. Health Minister McGrand said today after a conference of district medical health officurl.

Court Bench

OTTAWA. Dec. 22 — (Special) —- In a shift of the county court judiciary ‘in Prince Edward island. Prime Minister Si. Laurent an. nounced at a press conference lo- dfly that J. S. DesRoclics of Sum- merside, had been named County Jud-Be for kings County.

Judge Gavan Duffy, present Queen's County Judge is leaving the bench 0n retirement, Mr. Si. Laurent said, and is being re- placed by Judge C. St. C. Trainer. who has been County Judge of King's County.

Mr. DesRoches has been appoint- ed to the bench and will take over the duties of Judge Trainer, he ex- plained.

Joseph Sylvere DcsRoches was born at Miscouche on October 20. i094, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam J. DesRoches. who still re- side there. He attended Miscouche public school and then Prince of Wales College. Aficr receiving his teacher's license he taught school at Bloomfield. Mont Car-

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Freighi Rel-es Issue Rieopened

By JOHN IABLANG

CYITAWA. Dec. ‘)2 (GP) T110 issue of railway freight rates was opened up again today when the Supreme Court of Canada handed down a decision which, in effect, told the Board of Trans- port Commissioners to review its Sept. 20 award of an aight-pgg. cent rate increase to the railways. Declaring the terms or the Board decision constituted an “ln- justice" to the rnilw"ag,is_ the coup‘, held the Board had failed to per- form its duty because of the way it deferred final determination of a railway application for n gener- al Ztl-per-cent increase. The postponement was effected by the Board pending the outcome of the Royal Commission on Transportation .and the general freight-rate inquiry in which the Board itself has been engaged for more than a year. The high court ruled these con- slderations were irrelevant to the specific rate case before the Board and that the Board had been in error in not bringing down a de- cislon on the hasis of the facts actually put before it. Pending completion of the two. investigations, the elglit-per-cent increase was awarded by ilie Board of an "interim" basis. It has been put into effect by the railways. (‘ails for Review

While the Supreme Court's rul-

mrzl, St. Raphael and Miscouchc and then entered St. Dunstans University from which institution

.graduation he was appointed

ed his education to enlist in

he was graduated in i922 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. After i,

_ an | ‘ inspector of schools but he only y ; served in this capacity a short .

‘ time as he entered the law office i

of Gaudct and Hazard in i924 éol commence the study of law. He} ivas admitted to the Bar in June, i928 and ‘practised law in Char- lottetown until the outbreak of war in 1939.

Served ln Two Wars

Judge DesiRoches had interrupt- the army in the First World War and served with distinction overseas in England and France. In i921 he was commissioned with the rank of lieutenant in the Prince Ed- ward Island Regiment which later became the Prince Edward Island Highlanders. When lhc Second World War broke out hc had risen to the rank of Major and he serv- cd with his unit in Canada and Newfoundland till Way i944.

On discharge from the army he opened a law office in Summer- side and has built up a substan- tial practice. l-le was appointed a King's Counsel in 1943. Judge Desltoches contested unsuccess- fully two elections for the Liberal Party. In the general election of i931 he was a candidate in the

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3rd District of Prince and in 1945 he contested a by-clectlon in the lst District of Prince.

He is married to the iorrner Florence Gormley of Charlotte- town and they have two sons,

Paul. ll. and Peter. 9.

Ai present Judge DcsRor-‘ies is a member of the board of school trustees in Summerside and is dis- trict deputy of the Knights of Columbus for Prince Edward ls- land. He is also president of the L'Assomption Society of P. E. l. and a member of the executive of St. Thomas Aquinas Socictv lic- is also an active memlbcr of Sum- merside branch of the Canadian

lng docs not automaticaily change the Board award, it docs call for ii review of the decision. Presum-

lmarkcts the Government purchas-

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Canadians Spent 300 Million On Imported Foods In Current Year

By Harold Morrison

UITAWA, Dec. 3Q. —lCP) Domestic food surpluses my b1 piling up, but that doesn't mean that Canada ls not buying I009 from other cmlritries. >

Miliiiiiis of dollars poured out o‘. Canadian pockets during the year a5 Canada imported such items as cheese, meat. bacon, a few egg.- Zmd a wide variety of fresh 1711155 and vegetables.

At the same time. the counllil‘ was smncling further milllfill‘ building up huge stocks of bunt-r. cheese and cithcr commodities in government warehouses.

And although l-he surpluses ap- pear to be growing. there il no indication that there will be an)‘ undue restrictions against the lIIl- port of foi-cign foodstuffs in 15x10. For food. anyway, 1949 was an odd year. Take cheese as an ex- ample. During 1940 when Canada was unable to find enough foreign

(<1 111000.000 pounds of surplus checce and spent $5.000.000 0f the taxpayers‘ money in doing so. Imported Cheese. Pork Yet in the same year Canadians imported 1,457,550 pounds of Dan- ish and other foreign cheese at a cost of $900,000.

During the year more than $500.- 000 worth of pork products were

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Income Tax Fraud Case Comes To Court

MONTREAL, Dec. 22 »- (GP) -— A cmwn witness testified in court today that certain former employ- ees of the Montreal income-tax division fleeced the Federal Treas- ury over a period of seven years.

The evidence was given during preliminary hearing of Paul Pic- nrd, former income tax assessor. who faced a charge of breach of trust. He is also accused of for- gery and uttering lnoome tax re- pom between 1943 and 194'! and of having obtained $37,344 by false pretences.

He was ordered to voluntary statement Dec. 29 on the breach- of-irust charge and preliminary hearing was fixed for Jan. l‘? on the other charges.

Knew of "System"

Evidence regarding fleecing op- eration; came from Pierre Arch- embault, a former income-tax em- ployee. He said he hed known Picard for years and that both he and Picurd as well as a num- ber of other employees knew of a “system" of obtaining reimburse- ments from the government through deduction claims on in- come-tax reports.

‘Archrtmbiiult said it was his rec- ollection that. Picord possessed an approval stamp and blank em- ployer forms on which amounts o1 employees‘ salaries ivere reported. In the preparation or some false income-tax reports, he said, names of actual persons were used. but

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Judge Trainer

Judge Trainor. prior to his ao- polntmenit to the King's Countyi bench. represented Charloticloyvn for four years in the Provincial‘ Legislature and had been Clerk of , the Legislative Assembly for ten years. Since i946 he has been chalnmln of the Board oi’ Public Utilities for the Province. Ills duties in this connection uiill lic- facilitated by his transfer lo the Queen's County bench.