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Unofficial Reports Say Watson MacNaught To Be Named To Cabinet

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OTTAWA. Jnti -l -\ICP) _'["n;. Fcclcijtil CJUlWi-l. friend with a hmvi net of bllsness. \v.ll

m?" 1" " lir the first time in the nrsiv 1.1:.

There “as slivfllliiiinn today in 1131"fl1\'131 il-'1-3‘-t'.\l circles lllili. thr-

r may ho f. ~ ‘ny all- illtlll of C. t-hzinges. of s" and of ap- lxiinlmierils to the Spfialp, llnoffit-inl rcprrts said that

George Pruzlliim, Liberal mem- ber of the Commons for Ed. monton We-i, will be appoint- ed to the Cabinet along with

Watson Niacfvtitiglit, Liberal

member for the Prince Edward

Island constituency of Prinq

and parliamentary assistant to

Fisheries QIIYFSIPI‘ lifzrvheav.

A cabinet shuffle has been pend. ing since the last. 59551011 of Par- Iiatment when legislation was passed realigning the work of three delidfllncrlis and creating one new portfolio.

One of the departments will be known as Mines and Technical Surveys. It will have Jurisdiction over the mining and survey functions of the present Mines and Resources Department.

A second department to be known as Reconstruction arid De- velopment, will take over some of the branches of the Mines and Resources Department and the

functions of the Reconstruction Department, which is to disappear. The new department to be

created will be known as Citizen- ship and immigration. 1t will take over the citizenship branch from the State Secretary's Department and the immigration branch frcm the Mines and Resources Depart. merit.

Some believe that Mr. Prud-iiam. an Edmonton building contractor, W111 b9 Riven the new Department of MIIIAS and Technical Surveys. Others believe the department will g0 to Reconstruction Minister Winters, an engineer by profession.

If Winters gets the post. Mr, Prudham might go to the Recon- struction nnd Development De- partmcnt. which will have con- trol over housing. a business with which he is familiar.

Alberta now is represented the Cabinet. by Senator J. MaeKiiinon. former Trade Minist- er. He serves as Minister without portfolio, but is said t0 be ready to retire from the Cabinet as IOOn as his Province is Elven new representation in the ministry.

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May Head New Dept.

Mr. MacNaught is reported to be slated for the new Department of Citizenship and Immigration. The move would give Prince Ed- ward island Cabinet representat- ion which it has not lied for about fivi- years.

Some observers are predicting that Resources Minister Gibson will leav the Cabinet for an ap- polntmen to the- Bcnch in Ontario.

Coming; Events

"Mall your Films to Gamhum Photo studio. Charlottetown.

"New Glasgow tonight, Hear Jim Austin sing before lhc show.

"Curd party ‘Stanley Bridge School, Jnn. 6.

"Card Party iii Clinton Hall. Friday, Juiull‘! 6"!- Dwl‘ i771"-

"Dsnca in Long River Hall. Thursday, January 5th.

"Corrie to the dance in Kinkora Hall, Monday, January 9. G006 music, drawing of lottery.

"Annual meeting of New Wilt- shiro District Lodge will he held at Hunter River, Jan. 11, 3O sharp.

"Thursday, January 6th. New Glueow tonight at. 8.00. Wonder- ful new ccmedv featuring "Gary Cooper" in "Good Sam."

"Notice. To facilitate repairs to mill. no lumber will be accepted until further notice. Signed: Ed- VII-I'd Mallard. Gowm Bree. P. n I.

"Plan to attend Ploy s-nd Pan- tomiinq tri Hazelibrook Baptist Church. lridsy, January 8th_ st B P. M. Presented by B. Y. P. U.

"Auction and dance in Vernon River hall, Monday, January 9th. Mlllvlew Orchestra. Auspices C.

"Show Morell every Tuesday and hlday only. Show 3 o'clock. Com- ing Friday only Burt Lancaster. Elisabeth Scott in Hal Willis pro- duction “X Walk Alone“. Ruthless! Emu-ta one; lu trusted a dam.

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_ Others are saying that state Sec- retory Eradley ‘ind Fisheries Min- 1f?" Mflyhew Will he appointed to fill two of the 11 vacancies in the Senate,

Nfflvfoundland has four vacancies. Ontario and Nova Scotia two each. British Columbia, Ne“. Brunswick and Print-e lildvvard I5. land one each. In the l02-scat Senate there are 76 Liberals and 15 Progressive Conservatives. _’I‘.G.\V. Ashbourna Liberal mem- ber for the Newfoundland‘ con- stituency of Grand Falls-White Bay. is mentioned as a. possible successor to Mr. Mayhew.

A .- “tmentc Pending Besides the possible cabinet

changes. there are several “p- pointments pe ding. but it ls un.

likely they wli all be made im- mediately. There is one vacancy in the

Exchequer Court of Canada Bench. and four additional judges are due to be appointed to the ‘Ontario Supreme Court.

The post of chief combines in- vestigator has been vacant since Jan. 1 when F. A. McGre-gors resignation became effective. The former combines chief. who rc- slgned because of the Govern- ment's handling of his rerport into an alleged price-fixing combine in the flour-milling industry. will help Rt. Hon. W L. Mackenzie King. former Prime Mlrilster_ with his memoirs.

$100,000 Fire Al Amherst. N. s.

AMHERST, N.S., Jnn, 4 - (CP) — A three-alarm fire in the heart of this manufactur- ing town near the New Brun- swick border tonight gutted the Victoria Street clothing store of Sam Abrams. Loss ivas estimated at; $100,000.

Firemen battled for three hours to keep the blaze from spreading to three adjoining buildings. They finally got it under control without any other buildings falling prey to the flames.

All available firemen were called out to fight the blaze. which broke out about 8.30 p. m. Cause of the fire was not known. No one was injured.

Suspend Police And Firemen Pending Probe

MONTREAL. Jim. 4 - (C?) - Mayor Charles Lnfontalne of sub- urban Ville St. Michel said today he will Suspend Chief Wilfrid PHI‘- ent and all l2 members of the town's police and fire department. He said he ls taking this action following unanimous decision last

night by the aldermnnic police committee to launch an inquiry into "certain charges" against

some members of the department. The Mayor said specinl constables and firemen will be sworn in. He said the suspensions were not “en bloc," but that the committee had received several complaints against certain members of the depart- ment.

Topsy-TuNy Weather Pattern Puzzles Experts

By The Canadian Press

Halt n dozen oii-r-day heat. rec- ords have toppled in the East and at least thrce one-day cold rec- ords were set in the West as the seasons went all out of joint.

The Blasts balmy‘ June-ln-Janu- ary climate enabled Halifax. Mont- real. Ottawa and ‘Toronto to come through i940 \v.tli annual high- mr-an temperatures Well above normal. says Dr. Tcm How, sup- erintendent of the Public Weather Service in Toronto.

"’l'hc -we:ither is following the same pattern it followed last year-only it has been more persistent this winter," he said. “It'll a weather who- dunlt, for we can't put our finger rm a reason for it.” Toronto. where weather records

have been maintained continu- ously for 109 years, recorded a high-mean tnfnpbrattire of 49.7 in 1049, equalling the all-time high set in 15131.

"Halifax" said Dr. How, "has had 18 consecutive mcnths with temperatures above normal."

“last Shiver! While the - Marltimes. Quebec and Ontario yesterday enjoyed

temperatures in the high 40s. 500i- better. the West continued to shivcr in freezing or sub-zero readings. It was six degrees above zero at Vancouver. 32 IJQICN/ at Prince George. I3 0.: and read- ings of 20 below or more were rec- orded at Winnipeg, Saskatoon and Regina.

Ottawa. came up with an all- time high for January of 52 de- grees and F. W. Baker, Dominion iveather expert. described the mild spell as the "most amazing on record."

Montreal also came up with an all-time high of 54 for January. while one-day records toppled like nine-pins throughout the Mari- tlmes. It ivns 5-0 at Charlottetown; 5i at Halifax. 56 at Grcenvwood. N.

S., 49 zit. Sydney’. N.S., 5i at Saint John. N.B.. and 50 at Mrincton, N. B

The st Lawrence River was

free of ice all the way to the At- lantic and hfontreal weather of- ficials said it was the greatest January warm spell in 75 years. Rain and mild weather removed

alntost the last trace of Nciv- foiutdlarids last snowfall New Year's eve. The mail plane to

Labrador villages was delayed at Goose Bay because ice conditions were considered too weak to land.

Unhappy about it all, however. were operators of popular Laurent-

lan ski resorts. all almost barren of snow. Easierncrs. however. were ad-

vised by the wcathcnman to hang onto their overcoats. llints of more seasonal weather in tit-P offing were sounded in Quebec and the iiiitritimcs.

No respite from the bitter cold wave seemed likely in the West. A new storm. driven by gale force winds. was reported beating dwwn from Alaska on the British Colu- mbia coast.

The temperature in Winnipeg was expected to remain near '20 below zero with no relief in sight.

The climate this year also is following a iopsy-turvy pattern in the llnited Stair-s. iritli blizzards. torntidorxs, floods and lcc storms hitting the west, while the east basked in high temperature read- lngs. Boston had u record high oi’ G4 degrees yesterday.

U. S. Coal-Burning Lines ‘Cut Passenger Service

n, uanotn w. warm

WASHINGTON. Jan. 4 - (AP) - The government today ordervd many railroads to slash their pas- sengor service by one-third in a. now emergency step to conserve United Stated coal supplies.

The throttle-down command was issued by the Interstate Com- merce Commission which said the action was necessary because coal stocks are dwindling as a. result of the three-day work week John L. Lewis decreed for his United Mine Workers last December.

The I. O. C. said the curtailment order will go into effect at 11:59 p. m. local time Sunday and con- tinue until midnight, March 8, un- less changed. It applies to all coal- buming rail lines having less than 35 days supply of coal for pas- senger services.

Th0 truffle cutback in expected to affect immediately from as to 4o railroads. mainly in the east and south. General passenger traf- fic will not be cut anything like one-third, however, since may of

the rail lines use diesel engines. Only about 2'7 per cent or the country's passenger service is pro- vided by coal-burning trains.

The carriers already have been given first call on all coal mined along their routes under a prior- ity system the I. C. C. not up last month.

The latest government move came as Lewis was quoted as ny- lng there is "grave unrest" among the miners as evidenced by the walkout of 11.500 diggers in Illin- ois yesterday.

Whether Lewis‘ report of "un- rest" among his union members was a forewarnlng of s general strike call remained to be seen.

MONTREAL. Jan. 4 — (CP) - Canadian National Railways an- nounced tonight that it would not go beyond the 25 per cent reduc- tion in passenger train service al- ready wamcd in connection with the action of the Interstate Com- merce Commission which ordered s general one-third cut in rail- road passenger service in the United States using coal as fucl.

Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, THURSDAY, JANUARY s, 1950

TRUMAN ASKS MORE TAXES, PRESSES FOR “F IR DEAL?

A fire which broke out shortly after nine o'clock last night badly gutted the office and warehouse of the Canadian Oil Company on Harvard Street, Summerside and deslrrrvcd most of the contents.

Origin of the fire is unknown but when discovered it was break- inlZ through the roof at the office end of the building. which has a wooden frame and roof and cor- rugated steel walls. Burning oil mzide it a difficult blaze to fight with ivnter but after about an

Fire Guts Oil Warehouse And Ofpfice At S’side

hour firemen had it pretty well out.

Mr. Wendell Stewart, agent in Stimmerside, said that the ware- house contained stocks of lubricat- ing and motor OlIS, greases, anti- frecze and car batteries He was unable to estimate the value of the stock on hand.

An oil stove was used to hen‘. the offlcc but it is not known if it ivas lit last evening or not. The building is about 60 by 26 foot and is a single storey Sil'llCtLll‘F.~—S

NEW YORK. Jan. 4 -(OP) - The New York Sun. famous IlBWll- paper started 116 years ago. ceas- ed publication today. It was sold to on evening rival. the New York World-Telegram.

Roy Howard, editor and presi- dent af the World-Telegram and president of the Scrippa Howard Newspapers. announced that be- ginning tomorrow his newspaper will be known as the World-Tele- gram and the Sun.

The transaction was regarded as the most important move in the New York newspaper field since the riicrger of the World and the Telegram in 1931. The Sun has a daily circulation of about 300000. The World-Telegramfls is approx- imately 385.000.

The purchase means the passing of a newspaper whose publishers and staff have included a number of celebrated newspaper men. among them Charles Dana, Frank Muirscy and Frank Ward O'Mal- icy. It was launched in 1833 by Benjamin H. Day. a young print- er. who believed there was a. fut.- ure in New York for a. paper sell- lng for one cent. At that time the city had ll other dailies. each sell- ing for six cents. The first issue eoiisistotl of only four pages. Day was the entire staff—erlitor, print-

Industrial Stocks Sei New High 0n Toroniotrchange

TOR-ONTO. Jan. 4 —((P) -—In- dustrlal smcks reached a record high on the Toronto Stock Ex- chnngeqtodayn Prices of irrdustriiils have been advancing almost steadily Since mid-June 1949 and today the group broke through to the highest mark ever recorded by the Exchanges index of 20 rep- resentative stocks.

The index nd-vanced 73 on the day to 208 08_ best point since it was started in 1934. Previous high mark of 207.86 was recorded June 3. 1946. Paper. steel and bank stocks led lndustrials in the ad- vance on gains ranging up to more than $1.

International Paper. Bank of Nova. Scritia, British American Oil and Dominion Steel B were amen! the leading gainers.

Liquor Consumption Doubles In l0 Years

OTTAWA. Jan. 4 -— (C?) Consumption of beer and liquor in Canada is more than double what it was 10 years ago.

And more people turned to beer instead of wine and liquor dur- ing the last fiscal year.

Consumption of beer in Canada reached an all-time high — 175,- 465,092 gallons — durin-g the year ended March 31, i949, the Bureau of Statistics reported today.

Liquor consumption was lower than the previous year. But it still was higher than in any year except the record 1047-48 fiscal year.

It was s big year. too. for the federal tax collector. He. got $l4l,- 734.586 from taxes on alcoholic beverages. Provincial govern- ments got more. but provincial revenues for the fiscal year were not available.

GEBMANS r0 our ism.

BONN, Germany, Jan. 4-(APl »The German people soon will be

presented with the "terrifying" bill for Nazism and war, the West-German Federal Chancellor,

Dr. Konrad Adennuer, said today. DHQ told a press conference thnt his Government will present to Parliament and the people in the next few months the "terrible bal- ance" of the account for war dam- ages and obligations forced upon the Germans by National Social- ism and war. ‘

Famous N. Y- Newspaper Ceases After 116 Years

er. publisher. reporter and janitor.

Among the l3 publishers rhiriiii; its lifetime was the lute William T. Deircart. a native. of l-‘inr-lon Falls. Ont, who guided its destinies from 1026 to ill-id. He. also owned the New York ‘Telegram frOm 1926 until 151?’? when he sold it to the Scripps Ilowrird interests

The Sun's name. goocltvlll and circulation lists were sold for an unspecified sum. Ilcword said many of the Sun's features will be carried over into the World-Tele- gram and the Sun.

The sun had about i200 mi- ployees. A Sun spokesman said they will receive severance pay. The Suns plant, equipment and real estate will be retained by the Sun corporation.

The contracts were signed Tues- day night.

Mounting Costs Blamed ‘Mounting costs of production"

were Ibllllnhl by Thomas Dcwart for the sale of the nowsrpipcr. In

a ffOnl-pflge statement Durant said: “Chief among the rising costs have been those of labor

and newsprint.“

Sale of the Sun leaves Manhat- tan with only threc evening news- papers of general circulation-Aha New York Post, the Journal- Americun and the New York World-‘Tclcgram and ilie Sun.

Morning- dzilly newspapers of general circulation are the Daily News, Herald Ti-lbune. Mirror. Tfiriies and Compass.

Richard Locke's celebrated moon hoax, in 18$“), boosted the Sun's circulation to 19.600 and set it on the road to popularity. The hoax- Exposed later as a fake-described Wonders seen on the moon through a telescope.

In 1868. Charles A. Dam bought the paper.

Dana introduced a. new era in Journalism. His rule w. "be inter- esting" and he told hi5 IEPOYIMSI "Get the news, get all the ncrws. get. llotilllig but. the nFv-‘Sf’

John BHCIITt, a city editor in the Dana regime. W215 credited with a classic definition of news: "When a dog bites a man, that is not news; but if a man bites ll dog that is news."

Two articles which have been many times reprinted first a-ltpfnr- ed in the Sun. One “as an editor- lal liv Francis P. Church. entitled “I5 There A Santa Claus?" It. was

first published Sept. 2i. _l8fYl, in answer to a childs inquiry. and was reprinted each yrar by the

Sun at Christmas time. The. other. by Frank Ward O‘Ma.lley. was the story of the slnylng of n policeman. as told in the words of the police- man! mother. It came to be. re- ggjfkd its s classic bit of report- lng.

British Newsmon Dies At Washington

WASHINGTON. Jan. 4 --(APi .sir Wllimott lmvls. for many years Washington correspondent

of the Times of London, died sud- denly today at his home here. He was 72.

Meunibcrn of the family 851d 51F Wllmott. was sitting in n. chair when he suddenly slumped over. dead.

__-_---—-—-— STALIN THANKS ATTLEE LONDON, Jan. Putin-Prime Minister Stalin thanked Prime Minister Atilpe torlny for wishing him a happy birthday. Altlec 011b- led congratulations when S1011" turned 70 Dec. 21. “I ask you to accept my thanks for Your EFF"- ings and good wishes," Stnlln re- plied today. Ills message over- looked one point: Altlee himself hnd a birthday yestcrtlay. lie was

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NEW FEE-tin; Iwnonasaunf a MONTREAL - <0?) -—A group‘

oi’ Chinese citizens. 79 strwna, was given the oath nf Canadian liti- zenship here recently. It. was the

third largest group of Chinese to become Canadian citizens since 1947.

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PresidenTls Optimistic In Annual Report

By Douglas B. Oorneli

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 —-(AP) -\President Truman asked a cheer- lng-jeering Congress for a “mod. crate" tax boost today in a mes. sage sparkling with confidence in the future of a prosperous Amer- ica and a peaceful world.

Once again ‘Truman thrust his “fair clc-al" program at the law- makers in u-iiat politicians consid- ered a. curtain-raiser speech for the i950 political canripaign.

He asked for his program of more social sc-t-urity, civil rights legislation. medical insuranceqthe Brannon farm plan. repeal of the Taft-Hartley labor law. more bene- fits for the unemployed.

And beyond this program, he predicted that by the year 2.000 A.I). the country's production will total a trillion dollars a year —nearly four times what it is new.

Trouble Ahead

Once again Congress greeted the Truman program with mixed, and even violent. reactions that P1011113’ indicated trouible ahead.

Democrats were for many parts

of it. but not all. Republicans snorted it was "soclalirirn" and "rehash" and booed and jeered the President of the United States to his face. More than 100 Relmlbllcan mem- bers of the House signed a round- robin declaring Truman had "again given notice that he is wholtbl committed to the eventual social- ization of America."

Yet tlicre was lcng. widespread applause from legislators of both parties at a new call to keep pumping billions in economic and military aid to European slates bucking Communism. And there were cheers for a prediction that the. Red challenge will be met fllffP-wlllhb‘ and mankind preserv- ed “from dictatorship and tyranny."

Officially. tihe President was making an annual report to Con- iltess on the state of the union. He drove to Capitol ilill on a sum- mery winter day to deliver it in person zit a joint Smate-I-Louse session in the newly modernized House chamber.

Truman took , s broad sweep over a full Century. He looked ba-ck over 50 years and the "miracle" he siiid it hacl produced in shorter hours. more production and better living.

Predict: Hfghq" Earning!

He gazed a half century into the future t0 a time when he figured the income of the average Ameri- can family might be around $12.- 600 a year-three times vmat it is now.