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8.0.0. Debating Team Scores Third Win

gr. Dunstan’s College won it uni-d consecutive intercollegiate debate last night by defeating St. Mas-y’; college. Halifax. The de- bate was held in the Queen Square school Auditorium before a large audience. The judges were A. Walthen Gaudet. Arthur Peake. and D. 1". Tierney.

‘me St. Dunstsnu team of Allan Noouan and Miss Evelyn Hessian had the negative of "Resolved that there should be compulsory Federal arbitration of labour dle- putes.” The affirmative was main- tained for St. Mary's by Ronald Downey and Stephen Haggerty.

The Charlottetown college re- eently defeated the University of New Brunswick in Charlottetown and King's College in Halifax. Acadia. has also won three con- secutive debates which means that the Wolfville College will meet St. Dunstarfa some tiirne before March 10 for the intercollegiate debut/lg dampionship.

Gandhi's Ashes Scattered In Diver

AILAHABAD. India. Feb. 12 — (OP) —- The ashes of Mohandas Gandhi were dispersed in the holy waters of India today in one of the largest funerals of all time.

While about 3,000,000 watched from the banks, a white-painted amphibiollg army craft. - a luwely “duck" -- churned to the middle qt the confluence of the Ganges and Jumna Rivers. Gandhi's son Remdas kissed the copper funeral urn. touched it with his forehead, thcnh poprqg}, thmfldiifll ' mixed» with. milkof sfiacred cow into the water.

Similar ceremonies were per- formed at about 50 places through- out the wide sub-continent while about 10,000,000 o1 all religious conzmmities - rich and poor. princes and beggars, old and young wretched.

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BRIIDGEWATER. N. 5., Feb. i3 —(C‘P)-Fire Chief Gordon E. Snyder summoned his boyg sirourid him today. but not for a pep talk. H0 had set his own store afire in an attempt to thaw a. frozen wat- ai- pipe with a blowiorch. _'1‘he blaze threatened the store and three tenements above, but little damage was done.

Coming Events

"Hockey match at Long Creek tonight, Bulldogs vs. Cornwall CC.

"Horse races at Stanley Bridge Saturday, Feb. i4, at 1.30. Three classes. ,

"Listen to C. 0.1.1‘. broadcast over CFCY Saturday, Feb. 14, at 7.45 p.121. '

"Hockey tonight at Hunter River. Hunter River Royals vs. GIN-own Rovers. skate after.

"Our Seed Cleaning Mill now wanting. Signed P. SJ I. Live- llflck Feed Agency.

“Pall-ti sale at IQDII’! lat- Iil! flies-noon» Ieb. ll. Aus- Il?! O. W. L.

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Meeting of Ihst- Ooop.‘ will be held in Warehouse, February 11th,

"The Annual Meet! of Stan- lwoe-oewasim coacmniiiity Hall, Will be held Murder, Iiebsuary _mtle'eieek.-liusreurssdte

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Bitter Debate 0n Dollar Program

OTTAWA. Feb.‘ 12 —(C PM. The Commons fought bitterly for two hours tonight over an Oppoaltio move to focus the full force of Canada's dollar- savlng trade restrictions against the United States but found no ground for common agree- lnent.

In a sharp crossfire, there were charges that the Govern- month currency conservation bill. under clause-by-clsuse study, constituted "economic lunacy." discriminated against the Commonwealth countries and curried with it, by way of American domination, the trademark “in big red letters, ‘nude in U.8.A.’“

The debate was sparked by a. 0.0.11‘. amendment which would apply the import prohibitions and restrictions, now standing - against all countries, against only the U.S. and other so-call- ed hard currencies within her sphere of economic influence.

_ Flnausce Minister Abbott, de- fending the measure, said the policy of non-discrimination- applicatio of the restrictions

all oountries-iwas in con- formity with the Geneva ‘Trade Agreement. Personally, ha felt it would be “unforiunaiW if a ncxtdoor neighbor such as Carscda adopted a “frankly" diacrhninatory policy against the U.S. while the European recovery program was before Congress.

London Dally Express Welcomes Russian Ship

IIONDON. Feb. 12 —(CP)--The Conservative Daily Express editor- ially welcomed today the Russian dhip Baku to London with iilie first shipment of grain under the Anglo-Soviet trade sgrcrment.

Tlhe Express said “let British families have a. chance to think ikindly of Ukraine families wiho grew the grain and Soviet sailors who brought it across. Let the Russians know the feel of British- mede harvest and forestry tools.

“For trade is evidence that on both sides of the iron mirtaln fihere dwell hero-working men and women of good will.”

Son Dor_n_1'o Former Mary Dhurehlli

UCNDON. Feb. 12 -(AP)-.A 6 1-2-pound son was bom today to Mrs. Christopher Soames, the fomier Mary Churchill. The boy is Conservative leader Winston Oinsmhiifs fifth grandchild.

Seaman. a captain iin the Cold- streaons Guards. and Miss Church- i-il were married a year ago yester- day.

CITAWA.‘ Feb. 12 —(CP)- Ilia nu...‘ rookie. Senator " ion Mac- Kmlio (ll-British Columbia) let fly at the Senate io-day for conduct he considered "an abrogation of its functions" and was promptly set upon by older hands.

1nd louse Leader of the 00m- mons welloped the Upper Cherrlber fer sending matters tocounnittee before they have been approved in moth and than widened his at- io other spheres.

His voice boom its Scottish accent, he cried: ' yearslhave been advocating ohanlee in the Commons‘ rules. but the Senate needs them even snore." In his first i0 days. "not half the pro- ceedings have been heard down hanW-he sits fat down the front

row.

Bills had been brought in and passed ovi out sufficient g clarity of diswsson and explanation. Personally, he reserved completely his “ma! of the principle of my“. mend within that time.

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(By The Canadian Press)

SYDNEY, N. S., Fob. l2—One of the strangest cases in Nova Scotia court annals opened here today before county Court Judge GeoN! Morrison as 23 witnesses testified at the trial of Dan Mor- gan. 85-year-old steel plant truck driver charged with causing bod- ily harm to 19-year-old Eileen Ellsworth by throwing a. corrosive fluid on her person. The trial will resume tomorrow with one wit- ness scheduled to testify.

Morgan was arrested Dec. 14 after four women shoppers were burned with acid while shopping in a Sydney department store. Highlighting today's hearing was the testimony of the accused, who vigorously denied throwing acid.

Morgan said he was in the store on the night in question to meet his wife and "to buy a present for s. ember of the Presbyterian choir" of wihich he was an active member.

l9 Witnesses Called

Crown Prosecutor Donald Fin- layson called ll‘! witnesses to the stand, the majority employees of the store. Featuring the Crown's evidence was ‘the testimony of Kay lifacC-iilivray and Betty Curtis, both office clerks. -

A hush fell over the crowded courtroom as Miss lilacC-illivray told. the court of ‘seeing the ac- cused ln the store "Just walking up and down not buying any- thing" on the night of Dec. l4. which was a. Saturday. She said Morgan kept “earning in and out of the store." Her vantage point was from the office which is situ- ated at the rear of the store over- looking the main floor.

"I saiw time accused standing dir. ecily behind Miss E ortih," the witness said. "He seemed to be looking around. He then bent down and took something out of his pocket and then stooped to- ward the back oif her legs. He then straightened up and seemed to be going bhrougih the motions of screwing something on an ob- jrct."

Investigation Will De Dy Prlee Dommittee

UITAWA, Feb. 12- (OP)—A.n inquiry has been launched under the Combines investigation Act into an alleged combine of bread- making firms in Saskatchewan.

Alberta and British Columbia. Justice Minister Iisley announced tonight.

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lawyer. has been named special investigating commissioner and will leave shortly for the West to open the probe. Mr. Haley said.

The Government's action-dis- closed just 48 hours after the House of Commons Price Commit- tee began inquiring into causes if the high cost. of livings-followed complalnts that bakers in the three Western Provinces had mad’ agreements fixing and increasing bread prices and otherwise "sup- pressing competition."

Previously, the bakery industry had been marked down as one of the first scheduled to be investi- gated by the Commons commit-

Mlr. Haley's statement on the alleged Western combine declared that “considerable documentary evidence" already had been gath- ered by the Combines Investiga- tion Commission in preliminary inquiries.

The Minister said Mr. Goldm- berg's investigation would be con- ducted at private hearings in "sev- eral" cities.

It was evident from Mr. Haley's statement that the bakery investi- gation is one of six major inquir- ies which lie announced Feb. 3 were ..being pursued under the Combines Investigation Act.

One of these has been disclosed as involving manufacturers o! dental supplies. The nature of the others has not been disclosed.

Parliament At-A-Dlanee

By The Canadian Press Trade Minister Howe announced the Wheat Board has been aiuth.

"I came down from the office to T<EZREZETTIYJsTs_cB1Y' s)‘

$120,000 In Bonds Found In Snowbank

‘IUROITPO, Feb. 12—(CP)-—Vic- tory bonds worth 8120.000 were found tonight in a. snowbank oy police who said they were stolen last Dali from the West-Central Chestnut and Dundas Streets branch of the Royal Bank of Can- ada.

Discovery of the bonds near the Queen Elizabeth Way on the city's western outskirts brought to ai- most $d00,000 the amount of the loot recovered since the $500,000 robbery.

Newest Rookie Levels Criticism At Senate

that the subject matter of a reso- lution to approve the Geneva Trade Agreements would be taken up again by the Senate Trade Com- mittee next Tuesday. while the resolution itself continued to

stand on the order paper. Senator Maclfenzie thought fir: ou

‘the principle.

Senator John T. Hiaig. then Ben- ,aior Thomas Vien (IF-Quebec). Senator Robertson and the Speak- 'er’, championed the system under iwhich the Senate refers Iuehrnat- ters to committee where members can get the information they need to dismiss them adequately. This was not necessary in the Com-none where some 20 Cabinet Minlrters were available to give that in- formation or to get it.

There was nothing to stop any Senator from diaomslni (he matter "in the Chamber during this par- lod or after it eamie back.

Said Senator Haig: "You will find that we don't stick too close to the rules in here. We flexlaie to inset our soda.

Vi : "The hosi- orabla member comes here with usher

came from the Commons,

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orlzed to make a. payinaeirvt of alp- nwvdmatelv $6,000,000 to flaxseed producers.

Mr. Howe said the Government has dropped the idea of humor-ling butter from New Zealand or Australia.

External Affelra Minister St. lament said he would answer lat- er a question whether changes have been made in tlhe signature of letters of credence of Canadian diplomats. ‘

Finamce Minister Abbott said more than 5,000 pennits have been issued to allow lion of goods prohibited under the dollar- saving restrictions. ,

Rodney Adaims l (PC-York West) said Canada, should with- dra/w from the International Mone- tary Fll/nd or take steps to bring reality iinio its operations.

In the Upper Chamber Senator Ian Mackenzie criticised Senate procedure and was rebuked by old- er members.

Friday

‘lihe Commons will resume the Throne Speech debate. ‘fiha Senate

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Plan Development 0s Mersey liver

HALIFAX. Feb. 12 -(CP)- Plans for a new lzooibhorsepowei hydro-electric developm ‘ by the Nova. Scotia. Power Commission on the Mersey River in Queen's County were announced Wednes- day by Premibr Ahlill L. Maodon- aid, chairman of the Con... ‘ssion.

Exploratory work already had been started and specifications for machinery would be drawn w shortly.

NYLON SAIL!

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PI-OVEB ADVANTAGE OI‘ HIGHER. EDUCATION

A kick. assorted scratches and finally a well-aimed left hook by Beverley Shulman, 23-year-old eo- ed, proved too much for a Mont- real gunman who tried to force his way into her apartment. The man fled.

Dity Douneil Dommittees

Mayor B. Earle MacDonald. swore his new City Council in at 3.80 yesterday afternoon after having himself been sworn in as Mayor of Charlottetown at. 1i a.m. by Mr. Justice G. J. Tweedy.

Immediately after the swearing in of the Councillors His Wor- ship called them into caucus when the following committees were ap- pointed. (the first name is that o!" the chairman). '

Finance: Couns. N. W. Iionvther, M. A. Far-met, and E. C. Johnstone.

Streets: Couns. J. D. Stewart, Lester O'Donnell. S. F. Doyle. P. E. Holland, and C. M. Cox.

Public Property: Couns. C. M. Cox, E. C. Johnstone, and M. A. Farmer.

Market: Couns. E. C. Johnstone, C. M. Cox and E. Holland.

Police: Couns. M. A. Farmer. C. M. Cox and S. l". Doyle.

Plrei Couns. P. E. Holland. J. D. Stewart‘, and S. F. Doyle.

Doyle. J. D. Stewart and Lester O'Donnell. '

Tenders: Oouna. Lester O'Don- nell, P. E. Holland and J. l). Stewart.

Mayor MacDonald also swore in the new Board of Water Commis- sioners consisting o! W. D. Gillie (later-selected Chairman), H. Roy Bevan, and J. L. Curran.

Women’: Progressive Donservative Ase’n Annual Meeting

Mrs. Robert E. Sutherland was re-elecied president of the Char- iotteiown Women's Progressive Conservative Association at its an- nual meeting last night.

Other officers elected were, Honorary president, Mrs. W. Chea- ter S. McL-ure; 1st. vice-president, Mrs. James Blake; 2nd vice-presi- dent, om. Roberta Nicholson; 3rd vice-president, Mrs. Wilbur Train- or; score‘ y treasurer. lvllss Kathleen Fitzgerald; (assistant sec- rctary-treasurer, Mrs. J. A. Gil- lies.

The executive committee in- cludes Mn. W. J. P. MacMillan, Mire. Samuel Kennedy, Mrs. H. H. Horne. Mrs. '1‘. B. Woodman. Mrs. George Crawford. M1’!- Phil! Walker. Mrs. Philip Reseller, Mrs._ B. R. Bel-l, Mire. ‘LB. B0035. Mrs. Gerald Maddinn. Mrs. AlbertWil- son, Mlle Ducy DdlcLure. Mrs. J. W. Hooley, Mia. Vincent Hooley. Mrs. D. L. Maihieson. Mrs. Lyman Dunaford, m1. Leo B. Doyle, Miss Gertrude Ooady, and Mrs. Edward

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Appointed New 0ov’t Member

Appointment of Hon. J. Wilfred Aflmlillt. fliird District of Prince. as a member without portfolio in the Provincial Government was announced last night by Premier J. Walter Jones.

Mr. Arsenault, formerly a mem- ber of the teaching staff ofPrince o! Wales College. was elected ns Assemblyllna/n for the first time in the recent. Provincial election. He ran successfully as the Liberal colleague of Mr. T. M. Ldnkletten.

800 Idle As Saint John Dry Dock 02sec

(By The Canadian Press)

SAINT JOHN, N. 3., rub. 12_ Closing of the Saint John dry- dock yesterday "for an indefinite period” has raised the number of men thrown out of work there to 800 since Dec. 1. 1947, G. A. B. Collins." business agent for the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers (C.C.L.) bold City Council today.

Mr. member of a ‘labor delegation which appeared before Council to protest the layoffs.

ollins was speaking as a’

Old “Y” Building Sold

$25,500 _T0

Provincial Government

The Provincial Government has purchased the old YMCA. build- ing on R-iclmorid Street, Premier

I. Walter Jones informed "The Guardian last night. The building. temporarily oc-

cupied by the local offices of the Department of Veterans‘ Affairs, will be renovated and its interior altered to provide accommodation for several Provincial Government offices which have not sufficient room in their present quarters.

The Premier said that since the Government also owns the Bank of Canada building, located only a few feet west of the fonner Y.M.C. A. headquarters, the two buildings may be joined so as to form s unit. Should this be clone. he said. the Provincial Government's problem of finding sufficient office ac- commodation will be “fairly well solved.” The Premier said the purchase price was $25,500.

Fatally Injured 0n Rabbit llunt

BRIDGEWATTZR, N. 8., Feb. 12- (CPl-Roy Wilfred Sawler. 28, oif nearby Western Shore, died in hos- pital here early today fromabullot wound suffered whfie hunting rabbits neair his hcme Feb. 7.

Sawler was shot when a bullet ‘from a companions gun was de- flected by a tree. An inquest was scheduled for tomorrow.

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OTTAWA, Feb. 12 - (Special) —R.eimp0sition of butter ration- ing was freely discussed in the lob- bies n! Parliament tonight after both tn. House and the prices committee today intimated an ex- pected shortage on s Dominion- wide scale either late in March or early in April.

In reply to a question asked on the floor of the House at today's sitting, Trade and Commerce Minister Hows admitted that Canadian authorities had been in touch with the governments of New Zealand and Australia to find out if butter was available from those sources. Since buttepsup- plies of the aniipodes were requir- ed under United Kingdom com- mitments. he said, the idea of get.- tlng butter from either country was dropped.

New Development

‘This is a decidedly new develop- ynent in the butter situation. At a press conference on the British food contracts last Decurn-ber, Ag- riculture Minister Gardiner said that the Government had not then approached the New Zealand or Australian governments on the subject of butler. Members of the

ment to be an indication that. Canada's butter situation has be- come aggravated since Christmas. Today at the sittings of the new prices committee, KW. Taylor, Iartkne Prices and 'l‘rade Board

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chairman said that. indications in January when pTiCe ceilings were re-imposed was that butter would continue to rise above 69 cents a pound wholesale. I-Ie further stated that unless price ceilings had been re-imposed, peak prices would have been reached about the mid- dle of March.

While only a skeleton staff is left of Prices Board's ration staff. authorities here say it would be quite feasible if necessary to re- introduce railoning in the event of extrrme shortages of butter land a serious threat of a black mar- ket. ~ '

P.E.I. Burpluaea

Should the threatened shortage materialize, Prince Edward Island and the Prairie Provinces will be called upon to share their sur- pluses with Central Canada which docs not. produce nearly enough to meet the domestic demand. Prince Edward Island, J. Lester Douglas. Liberal member for Queen's said today. produces much more but- ter than is needed for the popula- ilon of that Province but not enough to meet the total dcirnand of the Maritime Provinces.

Classic remark of the current ‘session on butter was made in the [Commons on December 15 by Dr. '1‘.V. Grant. Liberal member for King's when Agriculture Minister Gardiner denied that a shipment of 10 million pounds of butter was

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CHICAGO, Fab. 12 —(AP)-The loud plop of United States com.- modity prices still echoed around the would today wihilo soap and more grain products joined the growing list of Annericsm shopper items on the way doom.

Major United States cxcihanges were closed today for the Lincoln Day holiday and traders in most foreign markets appeared to be

ed States markets will. take Friday. Exceptions were Singapore and Manila. There prices dropped ohanply on the stock exchanges. Many foreign markets declined earlier in the week in sympathy with falling quohtloxis.

Prices of all grains ildded downward in Winnipeg. only grain exchange open. Closing prices were at the day's lows.

, Cotton prices slumped at Alex- andria. Rlmt. only cotton ex- change operating.

Those major soap companies-

and ColgelaPalmollve-Peet - an-

.ouinced immediate wholesale price

waiting to see what direction Unit.»

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Soap Joins Price In The U.S. ‘

outs of five pea- oent on all soap prodisots. The downward trend in fat and oil prices prompted the move, the companies said.

The A. E. Stsley Manufacturing Company of Decatur. IlL, san- nounced it was cutting prices at ooioe on soybean meal and oil, corn bulten meal and refined corn oil. industrial starches and bulk corn syrups. The cuts ranged up to 35 per cent on the soybean pro- ducts and between eight Mid 1o per cent on the starches and syrups.