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If a man understands ono"wo- Inan he should let it go at that.

310'

. Charlottetown. lununenlde 515.00 per annular. Elsewhere

In P.l.l. 80.00. other Provinces and U.!.A. 11.00 per anmun.

Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew

CHARLOTTETOWN. CANADA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1954

t t432,900 CONTRACT LET FOR CHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL A

Kurt Meyer To Be Released Within Months

Federal Govit

Calls Tenders

For.Breakwaler Al West Point

(YITAWA, Jan. 16. (Special) - Tendierg are being called by the Federal Department of Public Works for construction of a break- water at West Point. Prince Coun- ty, and are receivable up to Feb- ruary 10. Estimated cost of the project is 350,000.

The breakwater, wihose construc- tion was recommended to the minister by J. Watson MacNaugh-t. Liberal member for Prince, will run in an easterly direction from the end of the present West Point wharf. Its purpose is to give ade-

quate protection for boats fishing out of West Point harbor.

Originally, protection for fish- ing craft was afforded west of the wharf in a partially sheltered cove. Due to movement of sand during recent years it has become more and more difficult for fishing boats to get to this cove especially at low tide. Work on the new break- water is sohedulcd to begin in the spring as soon as ice conditions permit. The contract will contain the usual clauses providing for fair wages and preference for local labor.

Sees Freeing Prisoners Wrecking Korean Truce

By JOHN RANDOLPH

PANMUNUOM. (AP) - Peiplns i-uuo Friday niiaht told R-ed 0hina'a troops in Korea that the UN lcommand would imperil the truce by taking back 22,000 prison- ers from an anti-Red camp Wl'd' nssdsy and would "wreck" it by setting them free a week from to- day.

The Ohinese language broadcast to Comunist soldiers was the first public reaction from inside the bamboo curtain to India's an- nounced plan of retuming disputed prisoners to the two commands Wednesday. .

Pelping told the Red soldiers that U. S. acceptance of the soldiers would make the Korean situation much more critical. But it lddefl that further plans to free them as civilians next Saturday "will wreck the Korean truce."

India renewed its determination to go through with its plan regard- lees of whether the two side; want

Coming Events

"New Haven Variety Concert in Clyde River Hall. Friday. January 22nd.

"Unloading our of Royal FONS at Milton station. Monday, Jan- uary 18. Edison Mutrh.

asp,” Gain Amateur Cavalcade stage show at Georgetown. Mon- day, January 18th. Town Hall. I p. in.

"Dance in new hall Mt. Ryan. Monday night. January 133” F735" Orchestra. Lunches served,

"show at Mt. Stewart. Saturday night, "Back on Broadiwa)". 81-Ml" in: Virginia Mayo. Time 3 l1- mv

cnr baled shavings, E. J. Mc-

"Unloading Friday and Saturday- Dougall, Vernon.

"Come to Millccvve W. I. Raffle for Woolen Blankets. Monday. Jan- uary lath, at Corran Ban Hall. 8.15-

"Dance. sponsored 173' ill? K9?" at Community Club at Art Larkin Building. Saturday, January 10th.

"The annual meeting of New Wiltahirc Scarlet Chapter will be held at King William Lodgc. Kingston, Tuesday Jan. iilih at 8 p.m.

"Feed special; for cash. Cafe- teria Hog Grower. 53.90: Mlrnclt Hog Grower 83.65; Miracle H0! Finisher 08.40: Miracle Grower M35: Miracle Calf Meal Pellsu, 34.96. Ellll Bros. Dial 3223.

"Rucrve Saturday. January lath at 2 o'clock. for cake sale at Moore and McLeod. spmuami by Sprint Park Women's Institute.

uAu(,o and Farm supplies, 203 Great George street, sales and ser- vice. Complete line of De Lav Milken. separators. WI!" P11" sure systems, Automobile Parts. Oils. Greases, etc.

"Hockey at North River Rink Saturday, Jan. 16th, Nine Mile Creek Bulldogs vs. Cornwall. Met- eors. Game time 0.00 ociock. skate alter.

"Hog producers Fredericton and Breadalbane. John Bertram will be collecting hogs for Swift Canadian Co. Ltd. ihrouall your district every Wednesday unlll train time. For prompt and effl- elem trucking service please phone Hunter River 20-14.

"Buying pigs Monday at Fred- ericton; Tuesday 0 a.m. Br-ookfieid. 10 um. Milton. 11 am. Charlotte- town Market Square, 1 19.111. York. I p.1II. Bed! rd, 2.!!! p.m. Ti-acadle. 3 pan. Mt. tewart. Paying 330 I pair for good plus over 25 lb! each. will also buy smalle ones. Iii lorgenue.

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to accept the prisoners.

Whether the Reds would refuse to take back 21 Americans, a Briton and 325 South Koreans in a pro-Red camp was not made clear.

The UN cmnand is not only preparing to take back the 22,000 but to free them as civilians one week from today.

An India spokesman said the prisoners will have ample opport- unity during the transfer to change their minds and be sent back homw.

3 Million Waterfront Fire In Brooklyn

NEW YORK, (AP) -A fire Fri- day destroyed four Brooklyn water- front waielioussa. Twenty-one fire- men were injured and loss unof- ficially was estimated at 33.000,- om .

Fifteen of the fire fighters were hurt when a wall blew out and buried three fire engines under tons of debris.

some 3,800 television sets stored in three of the ancient, four-storey buildings were up in flames.

The warehouses, in the Red Hook section, were built during the ClVll war for use as ammunition depots

Howe Observes 67th Birthday

OTTAWA, (CP)-Trade Minister C. D. Howe turned up in the Com- mons Friday sporting a rose in his lapel.

His Liberal colleague from the Lakehead, Rev. Dan Mclvor of Port Arthur, relieved the puzzle- ment by congratulating Mr. Howe on his 67th birthday.

Claxlon Ndkes Announcement In Commons 1

(By Dave Molntoah. Canadian Press Staff Writer)

OTTAWA, (CP)-German S. S. Maj.-Gen. Kurt Meyer, whose 12th Hitler Youth Division slaughtered 144 Canadian prisoners-of-war dur- ing the battle of Normandy, will be released from prison "in a mat- ter of months."

Defence Minister Claxton an- nounced ln the Commons Friday that Meyer's life imprisonment sentence has been reduced to 14 years. The 43-year-old one-time Hitler bodyguard was convicted Dec. B, 1945, of inciting his troops to deny quarter to Allied soldiers and of responsibility in the mass shootings of 18 Canadian prisoners. He originally was sen- tenced to death but this was com- muted to life imprisonment.

After three questions by John Dicfenbaker, (PC-Prince Albert), Mr. Clnxton said Meyer will be released in "a matter of months" or in "a year or so."

Exemplary Conduct

A defence department official disclosed that the earliest date on which Meyer can he released from Werl prison, in the British occupation zone of Germany, is Sept. 7, 1954. Date of release de- pends on behaviour. as in the case of any criminal. and the official said Meyer's conduct has been ex- emplary.

Mr. Claxion also announced that the life term of German Marine Sgt. Johann Neilz also has been reduced to 14 years.

Neitz, imprisoned at Werl with Meyer. originally was sentenced to life imprisonment for the at- tempted murder of F0. Rudolph Anthony Roman of Regina. an RCAF pilot who bailed out of his crippled bomber.

Roman was captured on It beach at night. The next day. Neitz was

German anti-aircraft regiment. Roman was shot as the two walk- ed along the beach. He recovered -and testified later at Neltz's trial.

When Meyer and Neitz are re- leased. the eight German war criminal cases involving Cana- dians will he completed. Four Ger- mans were shoi. and one was hanged in 1946 for murdering Canadian airmen who had been taken prisoner. Wilhelm 0ssen- hach. sentenced to 15 years for a similar offence, was released in 1951 on the grounds he had been following orders when he shot down a Canadian airman in cold blood.

FORESTRY EXPERT

ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (GP) -New- foundi.nid's two-year search for a provincial forestry engineer ended with appointment of Finn Frost. a forestry expert with the Norwegian

government, to the provincial post.

Two Buried in snow More

Than 3 Days

LUDmOH, Auslria. (Reuters) - Two persons buried for more than three days in the snow-smothered village of Bions were found by Swiss rescue dogs and dug out alive Friday.

Now savory persons still are miss-

ing in the Blons Grosse Waisertal "death valley." It is feared they were carried by avalanches into the Lutz river and that their bod- its will not be recovered be-fore ring. The dogs. specially trained for avalanche work in Switzerland. were brought into the village by 30 picked volunteers who reached there on skis across the snow cov- ered rlthcs.

The 30 reinforced the 100 rescue

Found Alive

workers remaining in the twice buried-village after nearly 200 more persons picked their way out of the valley Friday.

Ground routes into the beleag- uered valley were impassable un- til late this afternoon, and fresh snowfall sent many new avalanches thundering down from the crngs.

American helicopters shuttled urgently needed supplies into Blous for a few hours Friday, but had to suspend later in the face of heavy show which turned into driving rain at lower levels.

One of the rucue craft crashed as it nosed into a restricted land- ing space near Blons.,'I'he crew.

none of them injured. was furied out in another helicopter.

,, Egyptian Army Officers

Arrested In Crackdown

By EDWARD POLL-AK

CARIO, (AP)- Usually reliable sourced laid Friday that a number of mgyptaln officers have been arrested in President Gen. Mohamed Naguib's crackdown on the fanatic Modem B-othzrhood.

Official confirmation was lack- in; but a communique by Na- guilrs rnvoi ' y council said tzced to listen to the Mosiern Broth- some army officers had been "on- ora using religion as I motive" to their iitternpt to win over arms” elements and stove a counter- ievolutlon.

A government apokeunan only re- centb denied reports cl unred. among lgy'pt'a Army omcen. in- eluding those who helped lngulh deihrone rarouk in 1951-

llearrwlilti Null-lib III the final

3A.:---jg touches on his purge of the once powerful brotherhood. which stsnds accused of plotting with both the Communists and the British to try to overthrow his regime,

The com: " has sooused British diplomats in Oarlo of oonqairlng with the nationalistic poiltioal-re- ligious Moelem organisation to lsundi in revolt.

It charged that O. M. Oresweil, Britlm minister to Carlo, and TM- for S. Evans, oriental counsellor nt the Brltlm embassy. had eon- ferrod with high brotherhood of- ficials. including Hanan el Ro- deiby. the leader. '

'lhe British for-dgri office in London Iwelldi the charge "pure faritosy" and denied that CIIISS-"ql staff members had connlved with the brothemood, which once claimed Ive nillon Arab follower:

detailed to escort him to a nearby

Mr. Campbell Resigns As Deputy Attorney General

Mk. J. 0. C. Campbell. Q.C.,

Deputy Attorney General, u re-,

signing his Government post to re- turn to private law practice in Charlottetown. His resignation be- comes effective today.

Mr. Campbell is a brother of Hon. Thane A. Campbell, Chief Justice, and a. native of " erside where he was born in Novmtber, 1900. He received his early edu- cation there and later at Prince of Wales College, Acadia. University and Dalhousie University, being called to the Bar in 1927. He has held his present post as Deputy Attorney General since 1949 and in that time has been responsible for many of the presentations in crim- inal cases made by the Crown.

As counsel for Prince Island he attended the mrst plenary

Dominion-Provincial Conference in, -

1927 and acted as counsel for tlie' Crown in criminal cases from 1928i I0 1930. He also compiled the first Prince Edward Island Rules of Court when the Judicature Act was introduced here in 1930. He was also Treasury Counsel for the years 1948 and 1949.

Mr. Campbell was counsel for this Province before the Audit Board of Canada in 1930; before the Rowell Sirois Comiminlon in 1987-1038; and before the Turgeon Commission in 1040-1950. During his present term of office he was personally responsible for revising the Statutes of Prince Edward Is- land and thus for the first time bringing up to date, with a mini- mum of legal terminology, the Pro- vincial statutes pained from 1773 to 1951.

with the Attorney General, 1-ion. Walter E. Darby, Q.C., Mr. Camp-

Edward H .

bell represented this Province be-

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Fire Destroys if Navy Buying

HALIFAX, (GP)-Fire of unde- termined origin raced through a corner of the air stores depot at the Navy's Shearwater air base Thursday. Several thousand dol- lars damage was caused to obsol- ete Seafire equipment, but fire was prevented from spreading to valu- able stores.

Fierce Gales in Northwestern Europe ;

LONDON, (Reuters) - Fiercel gale:-the strongest ever record- ed in some regions-lashed Bri-

lain and northwestern Europe Fri- day, killing two persons. i Irrlnnri, Scotland, Germany nndi Tho Ni-tlierlzintls were swept by high winds. - Two men were killed by gains

.. . i Mr. Campbell, Q. C.

fore the Privy Council in London: on the argtunent for Provincial Control of Highways, last Novem- ber, and has made many appear-i ances before the Supreme Court of, Canada both in private practice and on behalf of the Crown.

He studied law in the office of- the late A. C. Saunders, summer-i, side, and for a short time was inl the law office of the late Gilbert. Gauclet, K.C. He is a past president of the Law Society of Prince lid- warci ll-sland. He is also a. past. chairman of P. E. I. Marketlmr Board and was Deputy Minister of. the Department of Industry and Natural Resources. when the Department was first or- ganized. He was created a. King's Counsel in 1947.

.1953 Farm Production And The Outlook In PEI For i54

By W. R. Show, Deputy Minister

Thou ci-ownest the year with thy goodness, and thy paths. drop

fatness. g

The little hills rejoice on every side,

The pastures are clothed with flocks,

The valleys also are covered over with corn. '

The words of the ancient psalm- ist could very well be repeated in relation to the Province of Prince Edward island and its agricultural production in the year 1953.

We have again experienced an- other seaaon of exceptional crop conditions. Grain production was particularly bountiful, and an in- creased acreage produced one of the heaviest cereal crops in the history of the Province. This favor- able condition will provc of timely benefit in view of sagging market returns, particularly on meat and other products, in that additional supplies of iocai feeds and other roughages will take the place of expensive imported nutrient: usual- ly employed to maintain our live- stock and dairy production. Har- vesting conditions, it is true, were

not as favorable, and the usual sav-

ing operations took a much longer time than is ordinarily the case. Very little loss in quality or pro- duction, however, was experienced. Unfortunately financial demands on our farm people during the per- iod were rather exacting and there was a tendency to sell grain in the export market at prices very much out of line with actual values. or with the levels of the imported product. In some cases the price of oats. for instance, went as low as thirty-five cents per bushel.

Farm Rougbntea

While hay production did not reach up to the heavy yield of the previous year there is ample to take care of all requirements. The hay market has been dull, pressed hay selling in many cases at Ib'.Nll-- mm-

Six-Years sentence For Death Of child

IDINBUFDH, (AP) - A couple who beat their three - you - old daughter to death was jailed Pri day for six years for (ml-pdble homi- ride.

Kenneth Medium. 3; and his wife Margaret. 32. admitted heat- ing the child during a 16-day period but said he did not cry out so they did not know how severe their punishment was.

A child cruelty inspector said the child's body "was almost com- plelciy covered with abrnsionx. hruses and other marks of vio-

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B.Sc.A., M.B.E. of Agriculture

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twelve dollars per ton at the farm,

Pasture growth which started out under somewhat adverse conditions 1 was maintained at a very highl level during the while season, andi a lush condition prevailed until al very late period in the Fall. The season was cool, and frequent rains helped to maintain excellent graz-, ing over a long period. The reac- tion to this was found particularly in dairy" production, figures of which fol- low in this report. i

The production of ensilage con-, linues to occupy an importani in-, terest in the feed supply for live-i stock. Producers are becoming more familiar with different types oil and there h asbeen considerable cx-i pansion during the year in trench-

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BEEF FOR BRITAIN

WASHINGTON, iAPi-The for- eign aper:i.t.ions administration Fri- day alloited 517,250,000 for the pur- chase of frozen beef for Britain. A foreign aid official said the pm-i gram may enable Britain to end. meat rationing sooner than rx-1 pocied.

in central and north Germany. In Munster, zi man was killed byi

1. files blown from a rhurch roof, X - . . 7 lhlszli lcnsion rnblr-. hlown from A.-itiziillebl;:l:ii,:;h'C,:,'::fg;,.;';f::, 12:: ' '"lS1Udil before being disposed of

mast, oi:-ciroruterl ihe other

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Baltic roast. rnin nndlglif lwmmg: plant throughout Mm sea water whipped over the topic0;;n.aextcepLion com” under me of the dikes and flooded nhouil -I-hecS't'eel mad 1. th u 37,000 acres. , l , n ,9 539 9”

Irr-ldnrl harl its worst wind . mg.bu”dmg. 1.5 bemg plued smm, ,,, 5,, .,.,m.,' Cam" w,,,.t,,lIi position and it is expected that

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Highest mu Rates in World

cvrrawa, rdpi - Gr-oi-no Drrr said Friday Canada will have litr-

1948 and l949Jl1ilzhPst postage rates in the wnrldlman Company Ltd. of Bummerslde

-"i llllblxised our--cont-an-ounce, increase on first - class man 13', adopted.

The Opposition leader said in the Cornmons the governments plan is tine payoff on I-lln political bnlti that was offered last spring” be-l fore the general clr-oi-ion. The gov- ernment knew it would lose money" when it rnniovrrl the stamp tax on cheques then.

On the second day of debate on a resolution prr-liminary to am. illnmrnt the postazc boost. Mia, Drew was joined lav memibm-5 or ihepothr-r two opposition parties illl criticizing the proposal. l

Postmaster - General Cote d-- frnded it. saying his department is faced with increased of around tl.'i.500.000 a year and this government wants the post of-i fine to pay its way. He estimated! the boosts. scheduled for April 1,7 will yield s15,00'.),000 a year. i

The Commons Friday night ap-l

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moved the resolution by a votn of:

favorable f.'nlldIll01l.49 to 34 and ablll to lmplenrr.-ntllf3?00

the increase was introduced. Pro- zvressive Conservative. CCF .-and Social Credit members voted against the motion. which was sup- portod by the Liberals.

llepohrtfliight Fhne I Missing In Nfld.

HALILFAX. (CF) - Search and rescue said here Friday night that piper cub No. CF-GPD is missing between Tnrbay,,Nfld., rind Glover- town. Nfld.

The light aircraft left Torbay at 11.45 am. AST with enmuzii fuel, for three hours and 30 minutes, and- hns not been heard from since.

frhe plane had no radio and was equipped only with whorls.

Plan Traetour-Sleigh Road For Far North Befenee

WINNIPEG. (OP)-The Canadian Press learned Friday that work will start this winter .on a tractor- and-sleigh highway for northern defence, stretching over 1,800 miles of wilderness from Manitoba to the Yukon.

A Winnipeg source said a fron- tier transportation firm which will handle 400 miles of the planned "winter trail" is assembling men and equipment at the Manitoba minim community of Flin Fion. Asking that no names be used. he said he understands the trail will stretch from Flin Flori to the Yukon settlement of Watson Lake

First reports of the project were carried Wednesday in the weekly Northern Mall at The PM, Man The winter-only road will run over frozen lakes and tundra and will be used by "cat trains"-catcrpih lar-type tractors towing a number of loaded sleighs.

The source said the company": part of the project will be from Fiin Flon, 650 miles northwest. of Winnipeg on the Manvitoba-aaskah chewan boundary. to waterways in northern Alberta. roughly 250 miles northeast of Edmonton.

He said he understood the re-

taken by "some branch of the de-i

The Northern Mail said; "A similar start is to be made out of Watson Lake and the crews will work toward each other for several winters." It added: ”The road will provide a winter link between vari- ous military and civil installations. mostly radio stations across north-

,Constructlon Company to 5-197,000

expenditures We

fence department." ksin."

It is folly to complain of the fleklsneaa of the wind.