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Alberta Turns Down Export: Natural Gas

No A Sign Of Break In London Strike

By MICHAEL OMEARA

LONDON, July l9—(CP)-—Ex- P0" floods were diverted today to ports outside London, whose own docksare snarled by a strike :ying up the loading and unload- ing ships.

Trucks were jammed in queues two miles long outside loading lheds in Liverpool, as authorities lought to lighten the load on ser- vicemen trylng to keep up with the flow of seaborne freight here.

The tie-up along London's vast waterfront continued to grow. About 15 ships rode at anchor in

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Coming Events

"Lot 05 picnic Tuesday, July 10th.

"St. Teresa's Tea Party, Wed.. bug. 10th.

"Dance Bright Spot Thursday, July 21st‘.

"Palmer Road Aug. 24th.

picnic Wed,

"Ice cream: and dance, Iona I111, July 22.

"Tracadie parish picnic Wed- tesday, July 27th.

"Mall Yflur Films to Carnhum Photo Studio. Charlottetown.

"Dance Long River Hall every Wednesday. Good music.

"See Vernon River at Con-an hn Wednesday. July 20th.

"ice cream and dance in Or- well Hall, July 25th.

"Dance. St. Patrick's Ichool, Thursday, July 21st,

Road

"Reserve Wednesday. July‘ 20th, Picnic, North Rustioo.

"Hunter River tonight at 9.00 ‘Stork Club“ starring Betty Hut- Ion.

"Ice cream festival and dance. Wherry l-Iill School, Wednesday. luly 27th.

"Ice cream festival and dance, ‘lgcfimald School, Wednesday, July l .

“Dance Mt. Stewart Legion Hall every Thursday night, music W Al Blanchard. ,

"Dance in St. Peter's Legion Hall every Tuesday night. Cliff Peters Orchestra,

"Dance Thursday, July 21st, old-time and modern. Ellis Bros.’ warehouse, Ccniral Royalty.

"Reserve Aug. 9th. for Wom- !n‘s institute Festival in Mr. Hammond Home's field.

"Now in stock. hay salt. $1.15 hundredwcight. Order now. Mulch‘: Grocery, Grafton Street.

"Women's Institute ice cream social, Alexandra School, Wednes- dly. July 20th.

"Come to the Islanders‘ Coun- fry Club every Thursday evening for your dancing pleasure.

"Como to South Granville Women's Institute ice cream fes- tival in lchool July 21.

"Now in stock, Diphone spray materials and liquid D.D.'I‘. Benton l: MacRse, Shur-Gain Peed Ser- vice. Mill, Winsloo. Phone m4.

"Corrsn Ban Hall Wedncsdo. 31"! Mthu Vernon River Players Hunt "Tempest and sunshine."

not. Melody Boys Orchestra.

, "Como to tho regular open air Ilnco in Brookvalo School. Thursday, July 21st,’ Macllcill‘: Orchestra.

"W111 be loading hogs at the folio points ouch Thlndoy: llmcr igmorc. Bradslbano, until 11M A. I. Bordon Blgnlll. Hunter liver. until noon. Bummer-trio until l!) P. If. and Remington until 3 Ill. lhcliwen and Cnseloy.

"Palmer Road Picnic, Wed. “l. I. dinner served from 12 noon to '1 p.m. Lunches after ‘I.

Choice of bcof. ham, fresh cod. Iran looms, fresh garden ven- “lhle too cream refreshment booth. mbrr! I6 round and games to amuse. Donut! 1 grounds. Como

ll. S. Supreme Court Justice Murphy Dies

DETROIT, July 10—(AP)—Jus- tlce Frank Murphy, fighting ideal- ist of the United States Supreme Court, died suddenly today in hos- pital here.

The 59-year-old champion of the underdog suffered a heart ailment shortly after the high tribunal wound up its spring session June 27.

l-lis death, however, came as a complete surprise. His condition had not. boon considered serious.

Murphy's death presents a prob- lcm in that it removes from the bench the only Roman Catholic justice. Ii‘ President Truman follows custom, he probably will fill the post with a Roman Catholic.

Murphy's move up from Attor- ncgr-Gencral to Supreme Court; Jus- tice in January, 1940, was the last in a series of steps to fame. Some- how, during- his rise. he was faced with crisis in each new post:

1. As Mayor of Detroit from 1930 tn 1933 he governed a city paralyzed by depression. In his first year he spent the unheard-of sum of $14,- 000,000 for relief.

2. As last Governor-General and first. High Commissioner of the Philippines, he guided a once-back- ward people through the birth pangs of ncwly-wnn semi-indepen- denoo. liefserved" there"from 1933 ‘to 1936.

3. As Democratic Governor of Michigan from 1937 to 1939 he had to cope with the bitter General Motors sitdown strike. His decision to use persuasion instead of force possibly cost him his chances for re-clection. "

4. As United States Attoreny-Gen- eral from 1939 to 1940 he set off political dynamite in blasting cor- ruption out of Federal courts and locnl gmprnments.

Murphy's decisions from the bench displayed his fight for social justice.

Murphy was born at Harbor Beach, Mich, of humble parents. After» receiving his law degree from the University of Michigan in 1014. ho wont to work in Detroit at $13 n wcck.

Churchill Scores Success As Farmer

TUNBRIDGE WELLS. Kent, England. July 1i)—(AP)—Winston Churchill scored a new success today-as a gentleman fl-mer. A cow from Chartwell, his farm in Kent, \von the championship prize for female dairy Shorthorns at. the Tunbridge Wells Agricultural Show.

Jury Rejects

LEWES, Sussex, England, July 19 — (C?) — Handsome John George lialgh, a quiet, dapper lit- tlerYorkshireman who confessed he killed nine persons and drank their blood, was condemned to- night to death by hanging.

Dellborsllng only 10 mllltcs, a Jury rejected Halghb plan for a special verdict of “guilty of the acts charged, but insane at the time they were committed."

The Jury, comprising l1 men and one woman, convicted the 30- year-old business man of murder- l Mrs. Olive Durand-Deacon, 00. wealthy widow was slain in a London suburb last Feb. 18. The

"Attention Farmers -— Potatoes sprayed with dust. Contact Virden Robinson, York. Phone 1587-21.

___,_. "Reserve Augunt 4th. for after- noon tea at Central Royalty School in aid C. B, Institute.

"Come lee Variety Concert presented by Johnston River Jun- ior Farmers, Port Augustus Hall, July 26.

"Ball game, Uigg vs. Cherry Valley and open-air dance Cherry Valley July 2i. Game starts 7 p.m. Junior Farmers.

"Como to the motion picture of tho Royal Winter Pair. It the Capo Traverse Hall, Thursday

night. July 21st. Sale of ico cream and cake after.

"Reserve Thursday, Julyhlllt. for (‘was Roads -Womon‘| Instit-

Freight Rate Concessions Urged Before Commission

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(By John LeBlano, Canadian Press Staff Writer)

FREDERICTON, July 19—(CP)—- The Maritime economy should be placed on a par with other Prov- inces through freight-rate adjust- ments and other transportation con- cessions, the Royal Commission on transportation was told today.

The commission, continuing New Brunswick hearings in its country- wide tour of investigation into transportation problems, also heard an N. B. Government witness de- clare this Province would not give up its control over trucking as had been suggested at western hoar- ings.

Points laid before the commission today included:

1. Freight-rate concessions asked in a New Brunswick Government brief submitted to the commission yesterday were aimed at keeping the Maritimes on "an even keel."

2. The Mnritimes do not want special advantages over other parts of Canada but want equality with them.

3. The N. B. Government objects to percentage freight-rate increases such as the 21-per-cent hoist put into effect last year by the Board of Transport Commissio n,

4. The Government, while refus- ing to yield up its control over highway services, would not object to a general survey into the best meants of integrating transporta- tion facilities.

5. New Brunswick coal operators have been hard hit by last year's freight-rate increase.

6, The increased freight charges have added to the handicaps of N. B..potato growers in disposing of their crop.

7. Lumber operators find that, while the prices for their products are dropping, ~they have to pay higher freight charges than prev- iousiy to get their goods into com- petitive markets.

The evidence on these points came from Prof. R. J. Love, Unl- versity of New Brunswick eco- nomlst appearing for the Provincial Government, and Alex Tooke of

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Record Tourist Your Appears In Prospect

OTTAWA, July 19 —(OP) -—-If June is any indication, Canada is in the midst of her biggest tourist 700 foreign vehicles entered Can- year in history. During June 220,- ada on visitors’ permits, 15 per cent. more than the 192,000 in June last year which started 1948 off to an all-time high. The Bur- eau of statistics. reporting the in- crease. said during the first six months 572,700 vehicles entered Canada compared with 504,000 in the same period of 1948. Increased entries were recorded in all Pmv- inces excopt Nova Scolia and Yukon Territory, both in June and

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Insanity

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death sentence ls mandatory.

I-lls conviction cllmaxcd the most macabre series of murders of the century.

No date has been sot for the hanging.

l-laigh was not charged with any'of the eight other iii! mentioned in two statements to police rend to the court at his two- day trial.

The statements quoted Haigh as saying ho had killed nine persons in the last fivo years, drunk a tumbler full of blood of each and disposed of the bodies in vats of sulphuric acid. .

The prosecutor said he murder- ed Mrs. Durand-Deacon for mon- ey. His defence was insanity and his only witness was n psychiatrist who said Haigh was insane part- ly n tho result of having been an only child in o "fnnotlcnlly re- ligious” homo.

The prosecutor, Attorney-Gonor- nl Si: Hartley lhawcron, called Scotland Yard experts and other witnesses to connect Haigh with the death of Mrs. Durand-Deacon.

Hatgb wu defended by Si: David Maxwell Pyfc, o prosecutor at the Nuornberg war crimes trials.

Btr David asked the psychiatrist Dr. Henry Yelloeloeo of Glasgow and Iondon, whether he believed it was true that lhigh drank his victims’ blood.

"I think it is pretty certain that he did," the doctor replied.

Height hoard tho verdict of death with a faint smile. Asked if he had anything to say, he cocked his bud inuntily, put nil arms behind his back and replied in n clear. high-pitched voice: ‘Iona on all."

TAKES ECA POST -— W. John Kcnney. above, 45, former Call- fornia lawyer and ex-undcrsecre- tary of the Navy, is the new chief of the ECA mission to the United Kingdom. He replaces Thomas K. Finletter of New York,

who resigned.

Scouts Have Busy Day Al Jamboree

(By The Canadian Press)

CONNAUGHT RIFLE RANGES, South March, Ont, July 19—-Near-‘ ly 700 Boy Scouts today poured into Ottawa for a tour '0! Can- ada's capital. The rest of their: cnmradcs"at the first Canadian Boy Scout Jamboree flocked to displays put on by Scouts from Newfoundland and Quebec.

Groups of Scouts will visit the capital each day during the week- long jamboree.

Back at the big camp on the Connaught Rifle Ranges 14 miles west of Ottawa, Newfoundland Scouts presented a pageant about life in Canada's newest Province and the Quebec contingent staged a display with Scout staves and an historical pageant.

Three R.C.A.F. Vampires flew over the camp. '

Prince Edward Island] and Al- berta mounted picture ayouts at the entrance to their campsites and put Scouts on duty to answer questions. Colored pictures show- ed P.E.l. beauty spots beside a map of the Province. Alberta showed pictures of the Provinces booming oil industry, including one of an oli well burning out of control.

New Brunswick Scouts receive two fresh lobsters daily from their home Province and show them in a lobster pot in their camp.

Newfoundland has adorn d the entrance to its camp with shing net and cork floats, symbolizing the Province’: big fishing indus- try.

Sections of red cedar-three feet in diameter-are around the entrance to the British Columbia camp. Lodged in the wood are woodsmcnb saws, axes and other logging equipment.

Blast In Didi Siailon Rocks Montreal Area

(By The Canadian Press)

MONTREAL, July l9—An ex- plosion at the McColl-l-‘rontenac Oil Company's plant in Montreal East ‘today wrecked the pumping station, causing damage unoffic- ially estimated It hundreds of thousands of dollars. A company workman, A. Daniel, was reported to have suffered lhockl and bruises.

Terminus of the Portland. Mo, oil pipeline, the concentr lion of storage tanks in the Montreal out area is one of the lqgest in the United States and Canada.

The early-morning ploslon was followed by flames which skyrocketed almost 250 feet and rent columns of black smoke over tho district. Firemen battled the flames almost three hours before the ilre was brought under con- trol. . Cause of the explosion was not dotennined. The blast shook the eastern section of Montreal.

The flames for n while throat- onod to spread to other sections of the pllntfilfid help was asked from the Montreal Plro Depart- aunt J

- tremendous demand for homes and

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Premierlldnning (iives Position in Statement '

EDMONTON, July'19— (CP)—- Any hopes residents of other parts of Canada and of the United States had of soon getting cheap natural gas fuel by pipeline from Alberta were dashed today by Premier E. C. Manning.

In a statement clarifying Al- berta's position on the matter, the Premier said the Government is not satisfied there is enough gas at present to meet Alberta needs and therefore no application for its export will be considered.

The policy statement was made following requests for the Govern- ment to say where it stands on gas export, which it controls.

Mr. Manning said that "no appli- cation for the explort of natural was will be given favourable consider- ation until such lime ns the Gov- ernment is satisfied, beyond ques- tion" that under conservation and proration practices there are suffi- cient reserves to meet present and future domestic and industrial re- quirements of the people of this Province."

"This condition docs not exist at the present time and is not likely to exist for some time to come, he added.

Report Discovery Of New Planet

(By The Associated Press)

PASADENA, Calif, July 19-- Discovery of a minor planet ap- proaching closer to the sun than any other known to astronomy was announced today by the Cal- | ifornia Institute of Technology.

The new planet is the only known planet to pass inside the orbit of Mercury. When it does so it is within 22,000,000 miles of th sun. closer than any known body except a comet.

Slow Drop In Home Building Costs Expected

OTTAWA, July 19 -—(CP) — A slow, steady drop in home build- ing costs is in prospect for Can- adians.

Mal-Gen. ILA. Young, vice- president of Central Mortgage and Homing Corporation. made this prediction in an interview today after disclosing that construction costs have declined three to five per cent since last fall.

Gen. Young offered several rea- sons for the drop. "A year ago." he said, "we had trouble getting furnaces. Today we are besieged with salesmen."

In addition, competition among lumber men was more keen.

Gen. Young said there 1s also increased competition among con- tractors, more of whom are de- pendent upon house building now that commercial construction has fallen off.

“The drop to date is hardly noticeable." Gen. Young said. add- ing that prices will “continue to drop a little bit although there is no indication of a pronounced drop."

Gen. Young said 4.000 housing units are to be built for service personnel and their families at

military camps across Canada and described competition for the con- tracts as "keen."

While commercial construction is apparently dropping. the vol- nrnc of new home building is con- tinuing at a high rate, the housing executive said. There was still a

the end was nowhere in sight.

l-Ioovy Rains Bring Relief To Ontario

TORONTO, July 19 -- Heavy rains that accompanied severe electrical storms in most sections of Ontario today brought "untold relief" to the Province‘: parched pasture and crop fields. agricult- ure officials reported. Hay crops cut several weeks ago in many sections of the Province yielded genlerally about 50 per cent nor- mn .

Ottawa Decides To Buy

(By The Canadian Press) OTTAWA, July lil-ICP) -—Ot- tows City Council has voted tn buy the Ottawa Light. Heat and

Russia (Iharges Italy Breaks Treaty Pledge

LONDON. July 20 --(Wednesday) —(OP)-Russia has amused Italy of breaking her treaty pledge by joining the North Atlantic pact and the Soviet Government has sent notes to Britain. the United States and France directing their attention to Italy's violation of the peace treaty. and French, American and British responsibil- ity for this violdtlon," Moscow radio said today.

The Soviet Union. in a note to the Italian Government, declared the pact is “aggressive? and aimed at Russia and “the peoples‘ dc-mo- cracies," the broadcast said.

(Pcoplcs’ democracies is the term applied by the Soviet Union and its Eastern-European satellites to Communist-dominated countries such as Romania, Hungary. Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria).

Drew Says No Changes Planned ,

(By The Canadian Press) I OTTAWA, July 19 — George, Drew, Progressive Conservative‘: leader, said tonight "no extensivel changes" are contemplated in the party‘s headquarters organization. l After a day of house-hunting‘ and attending to accumulated per--‘ srmal aflairs, he told a reporter he will go to the Bracken House headquarters tomorrow morning. in the meantime, he had n0 statement to make about reports of several prospective departures hmongflts personnel, including R. A. (Dick) Boll, national director. Mr. Drew said he will be in Ottawa until the end of the week when they will go back to their original hometown of Guelph. Ont. They will be coming back here periodically during the sum- lnor.

By WILLIAM BOSS

LONDON, July 19 - (c?) - Overheated foodstuffs are being investigated as a possible source of cancer, the British Empire Cancer Campaign has announced.

Tabling its annual report, the society, of which the King is pat- ron and Viscount Hailsham chair- man, noted that malignant tumors have been induced in mice fed with emulsions of cottonseed oil previously heated to 350 degrees centigrade.

The news lifts the household frying pan into the category of a possible contributor to the disease if the grease ls overheated.

“A study of the temperatures reached during various types of cooking procedures showed that in open frying. temperatures above 320 degrees ccntigrade may be concerned," said the report.

Normal frying temperatures for deep-fat frying were given as 250 degrees “whereas the temperature of fats in'the open frying pm 1m. quently exceeds 320 degrees."

The document reviews cancer re-

Jewel Thief

By ROBERT MARX

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.. July 19- (CP) -- Gerard Dennis, accused of netting more than $500,000 in jewel thefts in Canada and the United States, today was sentenced to l8 years to life in prison.

Nattily dressed. but with head bowed, Dennis stood handcuffed to a. deputy as sentence was pronoun- ced. The native of Si. Cathnrines, Ont. has pleaded guilty lo seven counts. The sentence of 18 year: to life on each count will run con- currently.

Dennis. 2D. has little hope for parole. Dennis‘ arrest in Cleveland

iivo month ago brought to an end the crime career of "the most fab- ulous operations" police had en- countered in decades. l-le was nab- bed while posing u n jewelry salesman.

Following the arrest ho was

Power Company for $7,000,000. Mayor E. A. Bourque cast the

only dlmnllns vclc- Mayor Bour- lei-out charges in connection with pair; for lips On movemenis of A sociriy notables and he kept lists 3 P-M-i 5 PM-

que led= the opposition to the move ever since it wu first pro- posed several months ago. l-le _contondod tho prion was too high.

brought to Weatchcstcr County, (NX, to face arraignment on num-

irobberies from swank homes.

Grand Jupy subsequently voted 120i movie stars and other wealthy s against tho Canadian persons for advance planning of

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‘Atomic Energy Talks Scheduled For Today

L, Deputy Mayor

Investigate Overheated Foods As Cancer Source

Years To Life Sentence

By GEORGE RONALD

WASHINGTON, July l9—(CP)— Some of the secrecy was stripped today from around last Thursday's hush-hush conference on atomic- cnergy matters.

Five days after the top-secret meeting, Senator Brien McMahon (Dem. Conn.) disclosed that it concerned United States relations

with Britain and Canada in the field of atomic energy. He made that known in an-

nouncing that the joint congres- sional committee on atomic energy will meet tomorrow to discuss the same subject. McMahon 1s chair-- man of the committee.