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Dredging Railway Wharf Ai_(_i_eo'Town

A MNFIQSK llfldllllg opargtlq“ has commenced on the west ntdo of the Railway Wharf’ at Georgetown to facilitate the docking or ocean going potato heighten Iq- u" u_ S. and Cuban marlrete. ~

The Department of Publlg Wonk, [hedge N0. 115 with the tug "cariso" recently became available. This dredge works to a greater dep-tll than most of the others and will dredge at Georgetown to a, depth of twentiM-hree feet.

Dredge No. i2 has moved to the appmlflh $0 Eflnont Bay wharf in the vicinity of Abram! Village. This dredge has recently completed its operation at Darnley Basin at, the entrance to Malpeque Bay rind has provided an excellent mooring and shelter basin for fish- ing boats inthst locality.

DIES OF INJURIES

EDMUNDSTON, N.B., Oct. l".’._ tCPi-Melvin Plourde, 35, o; Ed. mnndston. died in hospital QLrly m. dry of injuries suffered Sunday night in a collision of three ' cars iicrir this town. An inquest will be h-"iti tomorrow.

Miss Hectorine Plourde, of St. Joseph. injured in the same ac- cident, remained unconscious to-

night. The three cars were driven by Plourdc, Gilbert! Violette, Van

Burch. Mo“ and Erwin Garrison. Lincoln, Me. Violette appeared in police court yesterday on a charge of reckless driving and was re- manded to next Monday.

Coming Events

"Dance. Auburn-School, October 14th. Good music.

"Show "Sis Hopkins" at New Glasgow tonight. 8.30.

"mil your Films to Gsrabum Photo Studio. Charlottetown

"Regular Dance at Skyline. New Iondon. each Friday night.

"Show. Morell, every Tuesday. Friday. Saturday, 8.30 P. M.

"Dance. Orwell Hall, Friday, October 14th. Millvlew Orchestra.

"Reserve Friday. November 11th for Tryon United Church Supper.

"Regular Meeting R. B. P. 905 Kingston, on Friday, October 14tn. at 8.30.

"Dance, Fortune Hall. Friday night, October 14th. Webster's Orch- estra.

"Dance. Grand View Hall, Thurs- day. October 13th. Cliff Lilly’: Orchestra.

"Reserve Wednesday, November 9th, Hot Chicken Supper, Curran Ben Hall.

"Masquerade Dance. Corran Ban Hall, Tuesday. October 21st. Rhythm Boys Orchestra. _

"Now buying Timothy Seed. Reg- lilefld. Cleaned or Uncleaned. Mc- Guigsn and Boyle.

"Dancing, Country Club, Trav-

eller's Rest, tonight. Orchestra Western Rhythm Boys. "Dance Mt. Stewart U110!)

Hall every Thursday night». mil-iii! by Al Blanchard.

"Adolphe Doucctte. Oyster Bed Bridge. buying live Poultry daily- Time of buying 9-4.

“Reserve Thursday, DI. II. for Baptist Women's Auxiliary Christmas tea and bazaar.

"The starch Factories st East Baltic and Murray Harbour are 110W Qilflrfor the fall ecsson.

"Provincial affairs bmndcasi. Hear Murdock MacLeod. Lona River, over CFC! Thursday, Oct- ober 13th. It 8.45 p.m. on behalf of the C.C.F.

"Bean supper iri Anderson's store. at. Peter's Bay, Saturday. October 10th. Supper served from 5 P. M. until all are fed. Sponsored b! Jtuior Farmers.

"Dates to remember, Oct. l5- Uth, for the Charlottetown Trade Ind Industries Fair at the Arm- °"1'10I. featuring Don Mensa-He Road Party as entertainment. Sponsored by Y's Men.

"Annual Meeting of the P. I. l. Plowing Match and Agrlculttlfll hlr Association will be held in Ball. Br wn. mesdsy. Odell" 18th. st I P. M. Albert Acorn. Sw- rotary,

“Buy your grain and feed N- uuiromsnts before the freight rats! “Vance in a month's time. Will for our lieolsl price on ground barley and oats. looking orders ... ~.'.°'.....t.".‘ll%h‘.£. fdlailll

Miss Evelyn Hessian, 13,5,

Sees Spiritual life of Nfld. Endangmd

WINDSOR.‘ Ont.. Oct. lZ-(CP) "Union with Canada has endang- ered the spiritual life of New- foundlanrfs people. Most Rev. JM. O'Neill, Bishop of Harbor Grace, Nfld.. today told the delegates to the Catholic Women's League.

“When the pros and cons of confederation of Newfoundland with_Cariada are weighed in the eternal balance, I wonder if the material benefits will not be out- balanced by the spiritual assets which have been lrretrlevably lost." he said.

Bishop O'Neill said he fears par- ticularly the relaxation of divorce laws, growth of mixed marriages and changes in the educational system.

Addressing the League's 29th annual convention, he said "in the past one of the greatest safeguards of‘the faith of our people has been their isolation."

“The country is settled sparsely

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N. S. Coal Miners Accept Contract

GLACE BAY. N. S.. Oct. 12—- (CFU-Nova Scotla coal miners voted almost Zi-to-l today to ac- cept a new wage contract calling for aqgeneral wage increase of 50 cents s day.

The contract. covering some 10.- 000 members of the United Mine Workers (C.C.L.) district 20 who are employees of Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation, is retroact- ive to Feb. 1 and expires Jan. 31, i950.

Each miner will get about $80 retroactive pay and the daily basic wage is boosted to $8.14, or $40.70 for a five-dayweolt.

Figures from the referendum counted tonight showed 5.078 in favor of the new contract and 1,920

. against. Only three locale. which

could not affect the anal result. had rrbt been heard from.

The contract does not cover the small, independent operator-e in Nova Scotia, but they customarily follow Dosctfs lead on psy in- creaeef: -

a, NATI romwerzar

PRAGUE. Oct. rs - (A!) — A police mundu '0! private fire- arms started ht In Commun- lst-ruled Czechoslovakia, the scans of thousands of arrests during the last. i0 days.

Communlltl as wsn as non- Oommuniets were reported re- quired to surrender their pistols and hunting weapons. Iven sir rifles were taken from non-Corn- munists. -

Arrests continued, though on a storm-bins W'-

Prggud citlsdl‘ who went shop- pin] found the old ovmsre of some gums gone and Communist-con- trolled national administrators in Qhflfl. This strilgthsnsd reports that‘ the roundup use aimed chiefly at wtplag out what is left

o‘ tbs small bullpen-men

Announcement was made yester- day at the annual convention of the Catholic Women's magma or Cflflfldfl. which is being held in Windsor. Ontario. that Miss Evelyn Hessian. B.A.. Charlotte- Wllm- P-E-l. has been awarded the national O.W.L. scholarship,

- valued at one thousand dollars, for

a course in social work at the Uni- l/"Sily of Montreal. The award was made in recognition of Miss Hessians qualifications for social work and of her outstanding acaci- emic record.

Miss Hessian led this Province in the entrance examinations to Prince of Wales College, later made bril. liant courses at Prince of Wales College and Mount Alison Uni- versity. was 0n the teaching staff 01 Queen Square School for six years. and last May, on the on. casion of her graduation from St. Dunstans University, received the B.A. degree with highest distinct- ion (summa cwrn laude).

1n addition to having been a prize winner. at st. Dunstnns, Miss Hessian won a place each year- on the S.D.U. intercollegiate debating team and played a major role in winning all the Maritime inter- collegiate debates in which she par-

» ticipated. She was valedlctorian of

the largest graduation class in the history of St. Dunstarfs.

In winning the 1949-1950 nation- al C.W.L. scholarship, Miss Hes- sian has received national recognit- ion of her- distinguished academic achievements. and has brought honor to her native Province. Her classmates and many friends offer their warmest congratulations, and wish her every success in the de- partment of social work in the University - of Montreal.

Miss Hessian is the daughter oi Mrs. James Hessian, 66 Hayfield St, Charlottetown.

Parliament Ai-A-Glance

(By The Canadian Press)

Finance Minister Abbott an- nounced the budget will be re- introduced Thursday, Oct. 20 at B p.m. EDT.

Opposition members urged sharp- er scrutiny of public health, wel- fare, social security and housing.

Hon. Brooke Claxton, acting HealthMinister, opposed establish- ment of a committee on such mat- tors.

Thursday:

The Government Government resolutions. ate will not sit.

Shields Ousted As Hood of Baptist Union

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TORONTO, Oct. 12-—(CP)-—Rev. Thomas Todhunter Shields, arch- foe of religious modernism, was ousted today as president of the Union of Regular BaptlstChurches of Ontario and Quebec.

Dr. Shields, who held the pre- sldency of the union for 23 stormy years since he founded it, wee de- feated at a convention here by Rev. E. C. Woods of Timmlns,

nt. - ‘ oSome 148 delegates attended the convention, Voting figures were not made known.

some delegates leld Dr. Shields‘ defeat was the climax of the rnlll- tnnt preacher's latest tilt agallllt modernism. »

Dr. Shields last year discharged Rev. W. Gordon Brown as dean of the Toronto Bible Seminary and denounced iris lifetime die-

mq lcsva their guns.

olplo as a modernist.

Czech. PolicqConfiscate Privately Owned Firearms

the middle class here.

Reliable sources said that as. rests in the provinces outside the capital were aimed at picking up Czechs suspected of member-s in an underground organisation. The next step, these sources said, is to connect this underground with the Roman Catholic Church and then stage trials.

The regional action committee of the Communist-dominated n‘. tionsl Front approved meesu s. authorising more widespread mm. fer of workers from loss productlvg lines into vital heavy industries,

Prague citizens lined up gt ‘w. lice stations -wlth their Wdaponl in ffllwnee to a Iummons to rc- port for revision of firearms lie. enccs. At the stat-ions, however, "l"! "l4 "W! learned tbv revision meant revocation and

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Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew CHARLOTTETOWN. CANADA, THURSDAY, ocroaaa 1s, 1949

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE AWARDED T0 LORD BOYD ORR

Prospects gFor Selling Canadian Fish Appear Good S. D. U. Graduate Awarded National C.W.L. Scholarship

FisheriesDepi. Gives Review 0i Situation

(By The Canadian Prose)

OTTAWA, Oct, 12—In spite of world currency cuts which may inrease competition. prospects of selling Canada's fish products both at home and in the United States appeal‘ good. the Fisheries Depart- nicnt said today,

Pondering the effect of sterling and dollardevaluation, the depart. ment predicted stronger competit- ion in the United States where 70 per cent of Canadian fish exports are absorbed.

But although such North Atlan- tic fish exportors as Norway, Den- mark and Iceland are expected to out a bigger sea lane to U.S.shores, Canadian exports are expected to continue strong and should “bo1. stcr the entire industry."

However, Canada may have to do some price-shipping to face a stiffer competition breeze. whipped up by the sterling area's devalu- ation by 30 per cent, against Can- ada's cut by l0 per cent.

But the market ln the 115., par- ticularly for fresh and frozen fish, was firm and appeared to be get-

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llullwdy Freight Declined In June

OTTAWA, Oct. 12—(CP)-Cana- dlan railways in June carried a

v total of 11,292,914 tons of revenus

frelght—-10.2 per cent less than in Juno last year, the Bureau of Statistics reported today.

In June, 1948. the total was 1,. 270,304 tons of freight and in June, 1947. it totalled 1,676,579 tons.

All the general groups of freight traffic shared in the de- cllne.

In the first eix months of the year, 68,677,478 tons of revenue freight Were moved, a decline of 4,436,173 tons or 6.1 per- cent from the peacetime record established in the same period of 1948.

Heavy Exports 0i N. B. Seed Potatoes

SADIT JOHN. N.B.. Oct. 12 -. (CP)-An early and heavy move- ment of New Brunswick seed potatoes to export markets is con- tinuing through the port of Saint John. About 400.000 bushels have been shipped to Cuba and South America since mid-September.

Three vessels were in port to night loading for South American and United States pOrlts. The potato-shipping season has yet to

reach its peak.

LONDON. Oct. 12—(CP)—-Brlt- ain's Conservative Party today re- affirmed its stand against further nationalization and gave full sup- port to a 12-point economic pro- gram laid down by the"party's deputy leader, Anthony Eden.

Meeting amid speculation that an election might come before next spring~perhaps next month —4,500 delegates to the party's biggest convention in history heard Eden hit hard at the Labor Gov- ernment‘s economic policy which, opponents charge, led to devalu- ation of sterling.

“Devaluation is not in any sense a magic wand," said Eden. "It is not even a policy. lt is a pretty desperate device. Unless we set a new course at once, the fall- whlch must in any event be pain- fui-will be catastrophic."

To the question. “What must we do?" the No. 2 man in the Conser- vative Party gave this answer:

1. Reduce Government ex- pencllture,

2. Increase Governmental ef- flciency.

3. Work harder and better, end, in some industries, longer hours.

4. Reduce taxation.

5. Halt natlonalizations and decentrailze where industries already nationalized can't be returned to private ownership.

8. Grow more food at home.

_ 7. Restore business competit-

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8. End restrictive practices.

9. Foster even closer Com- monwealth relations, both cc- onomic and strategic.

i0. Develop "more intimate

collaboration" with Western Europe. 11. Solve the problem of

sterling balances.

12. Tell people the whole truth however sharp and dis- agreeable.

Eden's program, couched in matter-of-fact terms, gave the Conservatives something to cbew on at their three-day conference which opened at the Earlscourt Arena this morning. The real. election keynote will be sounded by Winston Churchill when he makes his eagerly-awaited wind- up speech Friday.

While the Labor chleftains threshed out the question of a fell or spring election at their Down- ing Street meeiin, Eden drew cheers when he tod the confer- ence the appeal to the people "cannot come too soon."

Police Gazette

NEW YORK, Oct. 10 - (A?) -- Jeana Hoffman, I-year-old sports writer, will become executive edit- or of the Police Gasetta Monday. She is the first woman ever to hold a key executive poet with the publication, which was launch- ed a century ago.

Harold H. Roswell, editor and publisher- of the monthly magaz- ine. said in announcing Miss Hoff~ man's ,, ' tzncnt that the job is a newly-created one made’ nccca- sary by expansion of the silo of the publication and s return Io major emphasis on sports.

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British Conservatives Have 12 Point Program

Consider ll. K. Election Dale

IDNDON, Oct. 12-—(Reuters) —'I‘he Cabinet's ‘JBlg Three" met tonight to consider the timing of the general election.

But informed quarters warn- cd against assumption that the meeting indicates any certainty

an autumn dissolution of Parliament with elections to follow immediately.

Tonight/s meeting first was arranged as a personal talk be- tween Prime Minister Attica and Foreign Secretary Bevin, following Bovine return from North America. But it was learned later that Herbert Morrison, deputy prime min- ister and the Labor Party's leading political strategist. also attended.

The Big Three are expected to recommend to the full Cab- inet, which meets tomorrow, whether the Government should go to the country in 1960. ac- cording to its long-standing plan. or dissolve Parliament next month,

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(By Rae Corelll», Canadian Prose

Staff Writer) HALIFAX. Oct. 12 — (CP) — Forty-one seamen and another

Canadian merchantman go out of a job Saturday, left behind in a wild scramble for world-wide car- go hauls,

That day, there will be 500 idle seafarers in this port that has become a place for 72.000 tons of Canadian merchant shipping to cool its heels. Latest addition to the mothball fleet will be the 7.190-ton freighter Westminster County. Her owners, Acadia Over- seas Frelghters Ltd., already have five vessels tied up indefinitely.

The 12 ships have been immob- ilized because their owners say they cannot compete on ocean heuls with foreign shipping. One spokesman explained it this way:

Freight rates on cargoes are based on operational costs which. in the case of Canadian shlpown- ers, come entirely from the boss’ pocket. These costs include wages, maintenance and replacements.

Foreign Ships Get Business

But there are foreign owners- notably British and Penamanlan~ chopper labor and benefit, in some cases, from gov- ernment subsidies. Therefore. their freight rates are lower and they usually get preference when a cargo goes up for- bid.

Canadian flag-owners complain bitterly about their inability to best the problem, They say that Federal assistance of some kind is required but they shy from subsldlzatlon es affording only tempo n, relief. They also admit that the government cannot order importers of Canadian products\ to use Canadian ships s: trans- porters.

They are uncertain about the future end they don't

Acquires Third Carload of P.E.|. Breeding Sloclt

Planning to make the pig pop- ulation of Nicolet County, Quebec, 100% Prince EdWETd Island stock. Mr. Napoleon Mcrcier, agricultur- al representative of that county is on his way home with the third carload of Island breeding stock.

loaded yesterday under the su- pervision of Mr. HW. Clay, senior live stock fieldman with the Dc- mlnion Production Service, the car carries 60 head of breeding age sows and six breeding age boars, all from dams qualified in ad-

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500 Delegates Allend Young Liberal Meeting

(By The Canadian Press)

MONTREAL, Oct. 12--Young Liberals from British Columbia to Newfoundland were urged today to strengthen and improve their position in Canada.

More than 500 delegates to the third biennial convention of the Young Liberal Federation of Cen- acla were warned by J. O. Asselin, chairman of Montreal's executive committee, that they must not rest on the laurels of provincial-Lib- eral successes.

"Your convention is happening at a time when the Liberal Party in Quebec is facing a necessity of having to make important decis- ions with respect to its future or- ganization and other matters," he said.

“What ls true of Quebec is also true of Ontario and no less is it true in other parts of Canada..."

Improvement of the Liberal cause, he added, is not a task for Federal and Provincial Govern- ment leaders alone. He urged the Federation, representing 1 5,0 0 0 members throughout Canada, to uphold the foundation of Liberal- ism which provides freedom, sec- urity, progress and tolerance.

Federation president Charles A.

belly Halifax’: customary winter p,

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Freighters

Now Tied Up At Halifax

boom will help the situation much. This ls because the foreign car- rier will follow the cargo-he ships out of Montreal in the surnmer and front Saint John, N. B., and Halifax in tho winter. Hie lower rates get the business an)’- where and usually hc picks up smaller Canadian cargoes at a United States rail-hand without making the trip to Halifax. Responsible sour-cos say pert of the difficulty is that there is a world-wide shortage of buyers due to the exchange sittiution. There aren't enough cargoes to so around in the keenly competitive shipping game. Some countries

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Gen. Bradley Admits Russians Got A-Bomb Earlier Than Expected

AKRON, 0., Oct. l2 _ (AP) — Gen. Omar Bradley admitted to- night the Russian atomic explosion occurred sooner than his military high command expected but he as- serted that defence plans "are well under way."

The chairman of the joint Un- ited States chief of staff said that what he termed "Red-Atom Day“ makes it necessary that. the Un- ited States revicw its rats of mil-

itary expenditure and "choose carefully the further armaments of defence."

Estimates by the joint chiefs of staff on when the Russians would have the atomic bomb ranged from i950 to i952, Bradley said. but "their ‘atomic explosion‘ pre- ceded the earlies‘, of these estim- ates by several months."

In an address to the American Forestry Association, Bradley also said his staff had made estimates of the time when Russia. could have enough atomic bombs "to in- fluence the outcome of a modern war." But he did not disclose that estimate.

This he said of the Russians:

“They could be foolherdy enough to launch an atomic attack with only o, handful of atomic bombs. But of all the people of the earth, they are students .of force and of power in war, and should under- stand clearly the disastrous result of such a gruesome error.

"In the meantime, I enmestly hope that they will see the diffic- ulty and tremendous expense of atomic manufacture, and shell come forward to join us in inter- national control of such s. weep- on . . ."

"We have worked out an orderly timetable of preparations for st-

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Fewer New Homes Started This Year

OTTAWA. Oct. l2 - (OP) The first seven months of 1949 saw another 46,326 Canadian fam- ilies in their own homes, a 10.000- home improvement over the hous- ing progress of a year before.

This was reported by the Bur- eau of statistics today in its monthly housing bulletin. It show- ed, however, that fewer new