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ChangeslAre Announced
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tretive ‘poet on the three regions at the Canadian National were annumced here ‘today by N. B. 038., executive vice president of the system. -
W. B. Devonian, vice president, Weeiua region. wilds-headquart- ers at ‘wlnnillll. retires under the pension rules of the company and is ncceeded by J. P. Johnson, formerly vice‘ president and gen- eral manager of the Atlantic Reg- ion. Mouton.
J. F. Pringle. vice president and g l manager. Qentral Region. with headquarters at. Tor- .ont0. is appointed vice-president
o! the company there. A, J, Lo- mas, formerly general superin- tendent at Montreal, is made gen- ersl manager cl the central reg- ion with headquarters at Toronto.
W. H. Robinson; assistant gen- eral manager, Central region Tor- onto, is named vice president and general manager of the Atlantic Region at Moncion replacing Mr. Johnson. .
Four of the senior officers of the national system included in the changes have played an important part in the rail transportation history of the Maritime Provin- ces since the turn of the century.
Born at North Sydney, N. S.. Mr. Robinson entered the railway service as station agent at In- gramport, N. 5., in i905. The fol- lowing year he transferred to the position oi freight clerk at Brldgewater. subsequently serving as ticket agent, freight agent and train despateher, and after a short time as station agent at Port Wade, successively chief despatch- er and assistant superintendent at Brldgewater, in i927 at Moncton and two years later at Campbell- ton. In 1090 he was promoted to superintendent. three years later he transferred to the Moncton div- ision and in i037 to the Halifax. division. Mr. Robinson was sp- polnted general superintendent of transportation, for the entire At- lantlo Region in 1030.
He moved to North Boy in i944 as general superintendent, north- ern Ontario district and in i946 o! the southern Ontario district. Mr. Robinson was appointed assistant general manner. cent-fl»! region. at Toronto in 1941.
llr. Johnson's Career A native or castle Ber. Quebec.
. m. Johnson was educated at
Danvilia Acadsmy- Ilia long rail- way career, during which he has
1m. J. r. Pringie
Gan. Stilwoll ilisagreed With Top Politicians
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(frat. miter of this review o! the sliiwlil diaries ‘Wig g w“ cQn-gga Pondent for two years in the China-Burma-Indla theatre com- lllllldid by General stilwell and in the Allied southeast Asia Com- morldwhers Stilwell was de ut to Viscount Mountbatten) p y
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NEW YORK. March 30 -iAP) -0en. Joseph W. Btllwellls own bitterly-worded thoughts on the ‘W wartime politicians were pub- lished today.
The)‘ showed his conviction in l!“ that the Chinese Communists offered "tho people’ a better deal than the lovernment did and that Communists and Kuomintang "002! Should be fighting side by
. side against the Japanese instead
N llpltetely.
The thoughts he wrote down in hi! posthumously published pri- VOM did-rite were directed mainly lllilut‘ Ohiang Kai-Shek. whom he W001i?- called "The Peanut" and who eventually had the crusty dd General fired out of China.
“Well did not spare the late President Roosevelt, his wartime "Ulohder-in-chlof who agreed in ltilwellb recall from China. at Wm’: biddinl’ in lm.
itllwell called President loose- alit "Old leofty" in one diary nom-
ln end suggested the wax-true
Irellllntwae too much under A Wineton Churchill's influence.
"bloody Joe" was his name lei; Joesph atelln emi- the lee: Teh- rameonferenoe of the Jig mm which revmed the decision reach- gnu vmlwlr in can by
iii. Roosevelt and Chime all: xterm for a big war ef- l.
liimil wrote U! who la 1m in» the‘ Chinese Constraints of- IQII [bitter future to. peo-
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selrved- four railways-the Grand
Canadian Government and Cane- diaznflatfonll-belm as a. tele- grapher in 1006. Mr. Johnson is ens o! tho few oflioere of the company who has rallroaded from coast to coast. and knows every inch of the system's more than 38.000 miles of main line. Among the positions he has held are de- epatcher, chief deapetcher, train master, assistant to general sup- erintendent, inspector of trans- portation, assistant superinten- dent. superintendent, general sup- eflntendent and chief of transpor- tation for the system at Mon- treal. He was appointed vice president and general manager,
Atlantic Region at Moncton in - 10M.
Mr. Prlcale. a graduate in arts‘ and science. began his railway service on the National ‘Irena- eontinental Railways as immi- rrentrnent and resident engineer in
' i907. l-le enlisted with the Royal
‘Canadian Engineers in the First
' World War. and upon demobiliza-
tion in iiliil Joined the engineer- ing department of the Canadian National Railways at Montreal. Mr. Pringla was successively pro~ meted to transportation engineer, assistant general suwinvendent of tranSWltation, Toronto. general anthem-Ontario district. and chief o! transportation for the system, Montreal in 1941- l-ls was‘ LP‘ pointed general manager, Atlantic region. Moncton in i943. and later in the same year vice president and general manager. Mr. Pringle became vice president and general manager, central region. Toronto. in- i044.
' hfr. Deverlish, a native oICahir, Ireland. came to Canada in. the early 1000's aea. civil engineer and was actively connected with the construction of the National Transcontinental railway in the Meritilnes. He transferred to the Iutdveolonlal Railway in i013. and subsequently served as division engineed and superintendent at Moncton and Cempbellton. Tol- lowing a. wide experience in the Atlantic region, Mr. Devonian held numerous luocessi w posts in the central and western regions prior to his appointment as vice-presi- dent. western region, in i044.
men! military people, moat o! them Iriileb. In the way o! a foot soldier. he thoulht American ab forces commanders consistent- ly over-rated their importance - except when they were making food d"?! to bib Juntil “More.
Btllwell contended Iritain never intended to that a large aolle war in Burma because she was confl- dent she could win beck Burma at the Dildo table. 8e accused ‘Chin- ese and mum o! involved in- irlniu to keep tron fighting in Burma.
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Britonsinjoyed. Fine Weather Over Easter
(By Stuart Underhili. fianadiaa Press Staff Writer)
The weatherman was a national hero in Britain today-he accur- ately forecast, sunny days which made the long week-end holiday for many people “the best Essie.- ever."
The economic crisis, food short- ages and Communist scares were filed away from Thursday night to Tuesday morning. Under cloudless skies. Britons in the millions dug in their backyards. happily paddled bicycles along country lanes or crammed into buses and trains for a glimpse of the seashore.
"Me feet ’urt but I've ‘ad a. lovely time," beamed a red-faced matron, settling into a seat on a London subway after a day with her family at the famous Kevv Gardens. whpre more than 200.000 persons max-veiled at a spring dis-
play of~ daffociilsmlnd flowerihl
trees. .
Even neu/spapers grew Lyrical over the Easter gift of good wea- ther. Some gave up precious front page space to photographs oi rural scenes, comrplete with suitable quotations. The favorite picture was a. gypsy caravan and the fav- orite quotation was the Bylliys creed from George Barrows "Lav engroW-“theres a wind on the heath, brother, wind on the heath,"
Some holiday editions devoted whole pages to springtime lea turcs including the sound edvice not to dig too hard or too long in
the garden for fear of straining flabby muscles.
Metocrologists attributed the prolonged good weather to an
"anti-cyclone" extending over the
British Isles. Seaside resorts which a few weeks ago complained no one
could visit them because there is’ no gasoline for pleasure driving. were swamped at the last minute which found other means of transportation.
“With weather of this benlgnicy. it would be a strange thing if the towns did not succeed in ejecting large numbers of people toward the sea and countryside." the Mau- chester Guardian commented in an editorial.
The weather was just right for a. bumper sports Program-the Oxford-Cambrldge boat race Sat- urday, hundreds o! football ntai- chu and several race meetings.
Despite the lure of the outdoors, religious obacrvances were not lor- gotten and churches were crowd- ed for Good Friday and Easier services. sunday afternoon. prom enaderl appeared throughout the country and if clothes rationing prevented complete new outfits.
most maneged new gloves or ac~ .
censorin-
ilamhridgc liiin In Boat Rape
1DNDON.'March 31 (OP) — -The light blue of Cambridge stormed to a sensational five- length victory over Oxford in dat- urday‘: traditional university boat "ti. lettint a record time for the Putney-Mortlake course.
The results of the race augurcd well for British rowing ic promecta. The Cambridge crew clipped l! seconds all the 1m record sat by a Cambridge crew to finish the 4 i-e mile grind in i7 minutes. so seconds The dark blue Oxford crew was we seconds outside the.‘ oidmierk.
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‘the true identity of' the Han in the Iron that. a Bench political
prisoner at the time cg muiv 8W. '
and hare of Alexander Dumas’ fa- mous book. still remains a, histor- lcel probium. -
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Emphasizes Serious
Financial
Situation
‘Inc serious situation of the Provlnu financially was review- ed in time Legislature last week by Mr. R. R- Bell. Second District of Queens in speaking in the Budget debate.
Reviewing the increase which had taken place in the past five years, Mr. Bell noted that the total indebtedness in 1035 was 55.200900. In i940 it was $9,436,- 000 and the present indebtedness as revealed in an answer tabled in the House was $12,300,000.
Mr. Bell recalled the boasts made by the Premier and mem- bers of the Government in i947 about the bargain they had made with Ottawa. ‘rhe Opposition had warned at the time that. the Gov- ernment had not received enough money and, their prophecy had proven to be true. “I suggested last year that we would be no better off this year and that we would still be in difficulties, that the extra money received would be absorbed in expenditures and that we would see very little good from it, and would ‘be in financial straits again.”
‘Phat is exactly what has hap- pened. sald Mr. Bell. who sug- gested that the former provincial treasurer had seen the impending danger and left the Premier "hold- ing the bag."
.'I'he Province had gone behind one and three-quarter millions last, year on total account, and it looked like another deficit of at least a million dollars this year, he said.
Regarding the seven million dol- lar increase in the debt in the past l2 years Mr. Bell noted that there had been very little expendi- ture on capital account during the war years. Other provinces had ilad huge surpluses during those
years h_e said. “We did not get enough money from Ottawa to allow this or any other govern- merit to give the Province ser- vices comparable with those en- joyed by other provinces," he said. The leader of the Government had said that it would soon be
‘time to start planning for the next.
agreement with Ottawa when a new five-year agreement is sign- ed. "I suggest." said Mr. Bell, "that he will have to look to Ottawa for more money long bo- fore the present five-year agree- ment expires".
He quoted from press reports statements that the Premier and his colleague (Mr. MacKixlnonl had made at their nomination meeting at Eldon to the effect .
- had to disiodg
that the financial agreement with Ottawa had given the Province enough money to work with and had removed financial worry. The results did not bear out such statements. Mr. Bell maintained. The Premier had predicted a ml!- plus of three-quarters of a bullion dollars for the current year at that meeting, Mr. Bell noted. _
Actually the Government had had a. deficit o1 one and three- quarter millions instead.
Election Road Work
The mnister o! Highways had stated that it is no use doing road-work in election year, that it wouldn't get votes for the gov- ernment. "If this ls so the min. ister was certainly trying to help me.” said Mr. Bell, who claimed that he had never seen so much roadwork done in the ' Second District as had been done Just. be- fore the electlcn- Gravel was pil- ed on the roads. heaps o! it were frozen so that the road machine them and break them up. There had been more road work done in November than there was in July, August and October combined.
He saw very little hopes o! cut- ting the expenditure in the Pub- lic Works department because the work must go ahead. The sum ad $285,000 was estimated for hard surfacing but that would only look after very small mileage, he ob- served. r
The Minister had told the Eldon meeting that he would pave the road to Wood Islands "if I have my way." And. added Mr. Bell. the Premier was not likely to stop any such roadwork in his own dis- trict. So there we have an ex- penditure of at least a million. There is no sign of cutting down expenditure and. the revenue is very short with no signs of an increase from Ottawa.
The only other possible source of any income of any volume is from the liquor act if it comes into force and that is very un- certain because the people may vote for a return to the old Pro- hibition Act which produced only $58,000 back in i038 instead of the $700,000 or 0800.000 that, would be received under the present set- up.
Criticizes Reduction
l-lc strongly criticized the reduc- tion of some 320.000 in the esti-
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WINNIPDG. Mart-At Westgats by the beaks o! the Assinlboirle River, in one of Winnipeg's more aristocratic sections, lives Malcolm A. MacQueen, son of the late John Angus and Isabelle (Nicholson) MacQueen, formerly of Orwell, P. l. I. O I O
"Donald MacQueen of Blaye, Scotland, and his wife Christina Manhood, daughter o! Malcolm MscLeod o! skye (later of Glash- vin.‘ Mt. Buchanan, Belfast, P. El. l.) emigrated on the "Polly," a ship which came out with settlers from the Old Country, under Lord sel- kirk. “After living for a few years liar MacAulayls Wharf, Glashvln (as above), Donald MacQueen, died and was buried in the French cemetery." near the shore below the MacMillan and MacPherson farms in ‘Eldon. P. E. l.
"About 1815," the widow Mrs. MacQueen and her six children" moved to Orwell, where they took up land, which was later dlvidll between two of the Ions, Angus and John. The mother died about i864."
One of the MacQueen sons was Malcolm, and he married a Mar- garet Martin o! Newtown, To them were born six children, one of whom was John Angus, who mar-
ried Isabelle Nic lson -father and mother of the character of this sketch.
Malcolm MacQueen, Malcolm A.s grandfather. "was one o! the first r
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OTTAWA. March fl — (G) - The Navyla developing a. body of manpower to handle a two-pronged job which lrilee from the fact. that, in the vernacular of the fleet, its big ships are getting "stiff" with radar. '
Termed radar plotters, the men are trained to operate the two types of equipment that have come to be used in this field. One de- tects aircraft or airborne weapons, the other picks up surface craft.
The plotters are taug-ht at the Navy's Navigation Direction School at H.M.C.S. Stadacona, Halifax, to report the detected information and then to plot, track and indic- ate to the ship's weapons the tar- gets reported.
Their status is recognised by a sleeve badge consisting o! a spid- er's web wiih two lightning flashes darling diagonally through it. Tlheir branch was crested late in the Second World War but where the wartime radar man was quali- fied only as an operator, the RI’. is a doublcduly man,
They will serve on such ships as the cruiser Ontario and the alr- craft carrier Magnificent.
The Halifax school was net up a year ago.
Its sideline duties include courses for ollicers in navigation, piiotage. meteorology and other subjects, summer courses for reserve offlc_ era and occasional courses for the R.C.M.P.’s Marine Section of the Transport Department in radar and electronic aids to navigation.
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the Navy in its operational Siéii Its most interesting rooms, for i stance, are those called "rnockupi where layouts duplicate sud ihluss as the radar display rrmi and an air detection room o! s: mi rier and the operations room of‘ CFUIRI‘.
Fleet aircraft are used to its: the plotters their job of detectl and target-finding,
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