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The Guardian, Three Cents Morning Daily Founded 1887.

FARM PRICE SUPPORT MAY BECOME PE

CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25. 1950

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Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew A

U. K. Conservatives Announce Party Platform

Says Alberta Oil Fields Biggest In. North America

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24—(CP)— Canadian oil discoveries in Al. berta are believed to constitute the "largest find" ever made any- where on this continent, Interior Secretary Oscar Chapman has dis. closed before a Congressional ap- propriations sub-committee.

Chapman told the committee in iutlmony released today that the Canadians have made "a very vital, important discovery of new ell fields."

"They do not know quite the virtent of it yet," he added. “They are exploring it now, but the esti- mates by the geological people n: the Government of Canada indi- cated flint it is probably (h.- lnfg. est find they have had anywhere on this continent, lt may he part of the same vein that runs down into Montana; but that seems tn be the main body of itweerlain sands up there in Alberta."

“Pilartmental officials said they believe Chapman, \\'lin \\'.'iS out hf town today. ‘(vas referrinn in the rich oil deposits discovered several years ago at Lediir and other see. tors of Alberta. They did not hp. lleve he liiid any new oil finds in mind.

Chapman appeared before the committee durlni: study of hi; (in. "Mimi-id's budget for the 1950 fiscal Year,

T-DNDON -— (CPI — Police Con- "able 300129 Bristow is retiring liter 25 years on the London force. During that time he served nore than 20.000 summonses.

Coming Events

"Mail your Films to Gamhum Photo Studio. Charlottetown,

"Dance. Millview llall. Friday. ia-iiuary min.

"Unloading car of {cod at Co]. ville. Thursday, Jan. 26th. Cecil Stewart.

"Unloading Old Sydney goal W33)’ at Milton. Vernon Gilles-

pie. "Dance in Legion Hail, Mt, Stewart. January 26th. 0 P. M.

Burke's Orchestra.

"Springfield Ilnll, erokinolc llilTlY. Friday, Jziiiiiiinv flTtli. Weather unfavorable Saturday.

"All interested in miniature "Ilse come to Winsloc Station school tonight. (Organization meeting.)

"Come to the card dance at Hunter River Masonic H811. Thursday night. Sponsored by Hunter Rlvcr hockey team,

party and

"Hockey at Hunter River to- Xillht, Hampshire Bulldogs vs. Hunter River Sliiir-Gziins. Game ‘farts 8.30. Canteen service. Skate ii er.

"Hockey Long Creek rink to- "lilht at 8.30, Canoe Cove Rough Riders vs. Long Creek Beavers. Skate after.

"New Glasgow tonight at 8.00. Show. "Eve of st. Mark". Also 5008s by Jim Austin. Please note change of night.

“Hockey iiinlcli Long River Rink. French River and Graham's

Road. Wednesday, Jan. 25th. if not fine, Thursday night. "North River Rink hockey

match, Wednesday, January 25th. Lfillile game, Soiiihport vs. Corn-

Wall Meteors. Game time 8.30. Sklte after.

"Notice—Unloadiiig car baled “hi/it'll!!! Wednesday this week. Bl-Tlt-‘Y Meal. Saturday. twenty- Qitllith. Three dollars from car. 500k orders now. G. C. Green.

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"Will be loading hogs ‘ at the following points each Thursday: Elinor Wlgmore. Briidalbime. until 11-00 A. M. Borden Bagnail. Hunts: River. until noon. Summersido until 1M P. M. and Kenslngton until 3 PM. MacEwen and Caseley.

"We invite enquiries from res- ponsible buyers of straight or as- sorted carlosds of ground find/or Whole grain in sacks. Also car- ioads of bulk grain. We have many Ioiisfled customers all over the island. ‘The Atlas Grain Company. Board of Trade Building, Montreal.

“Federation of Agriculture Dis- trict meeting, Fredericton Hail. Thursday, January 26th at 1 p.m- Following districts are asked l0 attend: Hazel Grove, South Gran- ville, Miilvaie, Fredericton, Pleas- tnt. Valley, Springfield. Bradst- ana, Elinwood. Eniyvale, hiker- mln, Thistle and Shamrock, Rose Valley, Stanchel, Springton, Glen Galley, Hartsvi’

lleails Special Names Division in f‘Y” Drive

The Campaign Executive of the

Y. lil.C.A. Maintenance Drive are pleased to announce that Mr. T.D. DeBlois (abovei. well known city business mim. will head the Special Names Division. The campaign opens Monday. Feb- ruary 5 and will continue until February 20.

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Quebec Village Honors Centenarian

STE. ANNE DE LA POCAT» ll-IRE, Que, Jan. 24 (CF) This lower St. Lawrence village today paid its compliments to Mod- ame Vincent. D‘Amours celebrating her 100th birthday anniversary.

Family parties were held during the day to celebrate the occasion and Madame D'Anioiurs has been presented with a. photograph of the Pope and notified that he has extended a special indulgence - the privilege or remission of pun- ishment for sins _ for her.

Madame D'Amours was the 111th of 14 children in a pioneer family at Trois Pistoles. She has lived in the rural centre of Ste. Anne a large part of her adul-t life.

For many years she worked as a seamstress and sewed for dozens of Ste. Anne College students the blue frock-coats with green piping that once were the fashion.

Among Madame D‘Amoiirs rcla- tives are nine priests.

Mrs. D‘Amours is an aunt of Senator Adelard Godbout and Judge Alexandre lilichaud of Riv- iere Du Loup.

KILLED \VHI—LE COA STING

WOODSTOCK. N. 13., Jan. 23 - fCPl—Harold Melton. 11, was killed Saturday when hit by a truck while csastliill near his home at McKenzie Corner. llo suffered a skull fracture as his toboggan slid under a truck driven by .iohn Kennedy. No inquest will be held.

Battle Lines

Will siieiiiien Commonwealth. Enlarge Freedom

LONDON, Jan. 25 -— (Wednes- day) (CP) — The Conserva- tive Party today promised to lighten the ties of the Common- wealth and to give Britain a cheaper welfare state and more freedom if it wins the general election Feb. 23.

In a 7.500-word platform en- titled “This Is The Road". the party pledged itself to maintain social services at less cost, halt the Labor Government's national- ization of industry. slash govern- ment expense, cut taxes and whit- tle away controls.

It proposed a Commonwealth conference aimed at closing the dollar gap and settling perman- ently all infra-Commonwealth debts. notably those incurred by Britain in defending India and Egypt during the war.

On foreign affairs, the mani- festo said the party would work with "the United Slates to help by all means all countries in Europe, Asia or elsewhere io re- sist the aggression of Communism by open attack or secret pene- iration."

The Main Clash

The main clash with Labor is on the issue of public ownership of industry.

The Labor platform. issued a week ago, promised that a Labor government would nationalize the cement industry, sugar refiner- ies, waterworks, meat slaughter- ing and wholesaling and basic ‘minerals.

The Labor government already has nationalized the coal industry, railways. canals. long-distance trucking. docks. airways, the bank of England, gas and electricity and the cable and wireless com- pany.

The Consepvativc manifesto said the value of social security ser- vices has been reduced by infla- tion.

"By energetic action they can be saved and their value main- tained," ii. said.

Food Policy

Th-e rising world production of food, the platform said, should make some de-rationing possible.

It said the Conservatives aimed to restore the purchasing value of the pound sterling, asserted to have fallen more than one-sixth since the Laibor Party took office.

It promised no reduction in iihc 2482000000 61.432.200.000) yearly food subsidies without "compen- satin-g increases to those most af- fected."

"These compensations." ed, "will take the fbrm. on the one hand, of larger family al- lowances. pensions and other so- cial benefits. and, on the other, of reductions in taxation, direct and indirect. that will increase incentives among th-e masses of the people."

On Housing

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The manifesto said everyone should be able to own a home of

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Rent Controls Question

OTTAWA, Jan. 24 -- (CP) — Tenants, veterans and ilie Fed- eral Government claim it's up to Parliament to decide when there's a national emergency and what's to be done about it.

Landlords and the Quebec Gov- crnmenit claim that, emergency or no emergency, ren-ts are one as- pect of properly and civil rights. subjects over which Parliament has no jurisdiction.

That's how) the battle lines were drawn tonight for the rent- control battle that opens in the Supreme Court Monday.

The arguments of nearly all parties in the important test case have been disclosed in facluma filed with the court.

Neither the Canadian Congress of Labor nor the Ontario Gov- erntneni, also to appear bofore the court, have made their facturns public. The C. C. L. is expected to support. the validity of Federal controls. Onlario lo oppose ii.

Th; Supreme Court is hearing the case at the request of the Fed- eral Government. If controls are

found to be valid. the Govern- ment has promised io continue them until at least March 3i.

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Factums so far have been filed by the Federal and Quebec Gov- ernment; the Canadian Legion,

the Canadian Federation of Pro- perty Owners Associations and by J. J. Robiaette, a Toronto lawyer appointed by the Su- preme Court to represent the tenants.

Quebec and the property own- ers‘ claim the controls are-and always have been-invalid.

The Legion. Federal Govern- ment and Mr. Robineite argue they are valid under the Tran- sitional Powers Emergency Act.

Mr. Robina-Me's factum, made public in Toronto, showed he will argue that Parliament has the power to determine if the war- time emergency is over.

"The demobilization of our armed forces after the war and tihe immigration from Europe ac- centuated the shortage so that. the impact of scarcity has probably been more acute in the post-war period than during the war it- self."

The properly owners, however. in a factum by R. M. Willes Chitty of Tomato. said:

“Regulating and restricting the contractual and legal right of the owner to obtain possession of his property either by contract or under the law is not control of the property or its use by the Government for the benefit of the nation or for the purposes of _1.lio wn

Arctic Cold

VANCOUVER. Jan. 24 (C?) _ Arctic-like weather is promised British Columbia in the wake of the worst storm of the winter. What the weatherman called a “sneak storm" _ he had predicted only snowflurries left eight inches of snow in Vancouver last. 1118M. and turned the Fraser Val- ley into an “Arctic ivilderness." Prince George. s00 miles north 0f here. was the coldest spot, 55

bOlQW Zero. and the forecast was for "colder." Brilliant sunshine swept the

snow-scene today. clown the coast. into the Fraser Valley and the in- terior.

Snoiv crews continued the fight against mountainous drifts to keep highways open, but train service was still halted.

No transcontinental trains have arrived or left Vancouver in five days. Giant drifts and slides block-

ed both Canadian Pacific and Canadian "National Railway lines in the Fraser Canyon. 120 miles

east of here.

Claims 150.000 Germans Working ln Uranium Mines

By Paul R. Block

HAMBURG, Jan. 24 —(AP) -- About 150.000 Germans are work- ing in uranium mines in Russian- occupled Eastern Geiirnany. the West-German Social Democratic Party claims.

In an 86-page report. the party says both men and women are drafted by the Russians for the work. Ccmmunlst attemipis to re- cruit volunteer miners at high ivages did not bring in enough‘ workers. the report SHYS~

Married men are more likely to be drafted than bachelors. the re- port claims. If a. married man escapes from the mines, his wife can be drafted in his place.

Until a short time ago. Wimen had to do the same work as men- even working in the pits. Now they iire employed above ground sorting the mines ores.

All the miners are subject t0 Russian military law, ilie report claims. Iiiiormers are said to keep a close watch on all the miners. Some miners who refused t9 WON! on a siiiidav normally their day off. got 10-year prison Scf-‘iitmcfs in Soviet courts, t.he rrpnrl asserts.

A special unit of M.VD. (Rus- sian secret pwlici) f-TOODS Guard the uranium mine areas.

Protection for the IITPCFS is a1- most non-existent, says the report. Fatal accidents are said to occur daily A reccnt dl-"liSlCi' a. (‘I10 mine claimed 400 victims. the re- port says. Anti-Communist news- papers in Berlin estimated up l-O 1,500 died in this disaster.

Last May. 1B0 miners were kill- ed when a pit under a mountain lake collapsed. the report asserted.

The report says hoslllmls l“ W“ mining areas are overcrowded. Some workers were said to lulu"? themselves deliberately to get fret of tine gruelling work.

Three types of ore are mined- The black. heavy "amolin' ore is quickly packed and shipPed l" Russia. Two other Will's °l i)"

are ground and washed _ 0n ti" spot. The residue is IJMLBG and sent to Russia.

IZ-Yeor-Old Admits Torruring Small Boy

HAMILTON, Jan. 24 --(O‘P) - Police said today a izvcor-old boy told them he tied Vitus Kalenspergelren, 4. to s. basement post. beat him and burned him with a. poker becausd the lad swore at him. The 12-year-old was tum- ed over to psychiatrists for ob- servation. l-ie is scheduled to ap- pear in juvenile court tomorrow.

BILL COUNTING MACHINE

MONTREAL. Jan. 24 -- (CP) — The Bank of Montreal here iii- staiied a new machine today cali- ed a "tickometer." But it's not. for counting ticks. it's meant to do away with sprained wrists and cal- iciised thumbs suffered by tellers in the past by counting other peo- ple‘; money. The new machine, one of the first in Canada. counts bills at a rote of 800 a minute ~ and

doesn't. get cailoruses.

To Follow

Heavy Snowfall In B. C.

.- ‘ u. because of the storm. an airlift service. bringing passen- gers in from Calgary and Edmon- ton, and returning with travellers for the east, was resumed late in the day.

A ban on mailing or parcels, news and printed matter to points west of Kamloops and Pentictoii. 13.0., 1'75 miles east of here. was ordered today by the Post Office Department.

Letters will be sent by airmail wherever possible. postal author- ities said.

The toll of storm-caused deaths remained at Six. William s, Mc- Leod, '75. died last night when he suffered a. heart attack after walk- ing through the storm.

Emmy-thousand school children had a holiday in greater Vancou- ver. All schools were closed here. in New Westminster, and many rural districts.

Tram and bus services were near- normal in Vancouver after the crippling storm. which last night stranded thousands of office work-

ers on downtown streets for hours.

Hears Report Of Chaos, Famine In Red China

(Wayne Richardson. veteran As- sociated Press correspondent at Hung Kong. was aboard the Airner- ice-n freighter Flying Arrow when o. Nationalist. gun-boat riddled hei- with shot off Shanghai. The fol- lowing dispatch was written aboard the ship after he spent four days ashore in Communist North China. at Tsitigtao while the ship was unloaded).

By Wayne Richardson

ABOARD FLYING ARROW EN ROUTE T0 KOBE. Ja-pan. Jan. 24—(AP)—A black picture of chaos and famine in Communist North China, was given to me during the four days I spent ashore on Sliantung peninsula. while the Flying Arrow unloaded cargo at Tsingtao, once the base of the American Asiatic fleet.

‘My informant was a. well-inform- ed soince, His name cannot be used. lie said:

“Poor crops in Shantu-ng (one of China's richest agricultural areas) will make impossible any surplus for export. Consequently many’ millions of people will starve be- fore next year's harvest. despite anything the Communist Govern- ment could do even if it was will- ing. Even now in various areas people are eating herbs and leaves.

"The administrative picture is absolutely a mess, because of lack oi trained personnel and Commun- ist reluctance to utilize available experienced professional men.

“Tlhe average shiiiitungese thinks even lass of the Reds than he did of the Kuomintang (Chlang Kai-Shekb Nationalist Party) but will remain apathetic Consequent-

ly. by resorting to Gestapo meth- ods there appears no reason to believe the armed Communists

cannot maintain effective control.“ My informant said there was no more behind thr- Communist mon- ey than was behind Kuomintang currency. "That is why their exchange is

going to hell." he said bitterly. (The exchange rate iii Tsingtiio was 21.000 Communist dollars to

$1.)

"The Kuomintang through sheer corruption and robbery of the people by their financial measures lost. any remaining prestige they might. have had in Shantung." be said.

l-Ie said the communists’ present policy of taxation indicates they intend to drive out all private trade.

"The volume of busincxi is not used as a. basis for taxation but rather each guild is assessed so muoh to be pioriited among mem- bers," he said. "Many firms, f-rir- eign and Chinese, already have closed or applied for permission to close." he said.

This mui said that since last year's withdrawal of United States Marines from Tslngteo the people would welcome back the Japanese to re-esiabllsh law and order and reasonable taxation.

Governor-General Plans Trip To Britain

OTTAWA. Jan. ‘M (CF: The Governor-General. accom- panied by Viscuuniess Alexander. plans a trip to Britain in a few months for the 50th anniversary of the Irish Guards, the regi- ment of which he i: colonel. Vis- count Alexander will fiy to Brit- iiin March l4. returning April 1.

Viseounteaa Alexander will re- main until mid-April.

New legislation Expected Al Nexi Session

By HAROLD MORRISON OTTAWA. Jan. 24 - (CP) -— "Ihe Government's program. a. $200,000,000 farm price shock-absorber. likely will emerge soon as a permanent feature of the Canadian farm scene. it was learned foday.

Legislation to change its status from that of a. ‘temporary emer- gency in the transitional period between war and peace to that of a. permanent peacetime measure is expected to be sought by the Gov- ernment at the next session of Parliament opening Feb. 16.

The prices-support measure ter- minates March 31. unless extended by Parliament.

Need to imbecl the price-support structure more permanently into the Canadian peacetime scene up.

pears to have roots in these fac- tors:

l. The farm industry is show- ing growing signs of lack of stabilization. principally be- cause of the questionable fut- ure or United Kingdom food purchases in Canada.

2. Farm prices have fallen considerably during the last few months. This decline appears to be more than just a temp- Orary phase.

3. Because l-t is linked with the Emergency Transitional Measures Act. the legislation may be considered beyond Par- liament's jurisdiction in the event that a national emer- gency is found to no longer ex- ist. This question may come up in the Jan. 30 rent controls case before the Supreme Court of Canada.

As outlined iii the current act. price support: serves a double duty. 1t either allows the Government to set a price for a farm product and purchase ii; outright. or it can un- derwrite the market through o. form of subsidy.

Parliament earmarks $200,000,000 each year as the sum which can be expended under this program, but at no time has the Govern- ment used more than 10 per cent of the allotment.

The Cabinet is understood to

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New lilrug Help-sfl In Heart Ailmenr

EDMONTON. Jan. 24- (CPJ

Eightccn-year-old Brian Hanson of Lethbridge, Alta, the subject of one of the first experimental uses 0f the drug cortisone. today was reported showing “continued favor- able improvement" at the univer- sity hospital here. The former resident of Sydney. N.S., is suffering from rheumatic heart disease. Doctors said there was nothing further to report about the experimental use of the drug. made available in limited quantity by the National Research Coun- cil.

STOCKHOLM. Jan. 24 -— (Reu- ters) - Ninety-one-year-old King Gustav of Sweden, who has been suffering from bronchitis and a septic throat. today announced that he has resumed his duties as head of the state. He now is well en- ough to Wlllk in the palace grounds

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NEIW YORK, Jan. 24 —(A F) _. Ralph Barrows today, was convicted by an ail-male jury of first-degree manslaughter in the killing of Colin Cameron Mackellar, prom- inent Montreal business man.

The court set Feb. 15 for the sentencing of the husky Grand Rapids. Mich. youth. As a second offender he may draw from 10 to 40 years.

‘Ilhc 20-year-old Barrows. a for- mer high school athlete and one- time car salesmen. displayed no emotion beyond blinking when the verdict. was announced.

Samuel Sega-l. defence counsel said he dlcl not know yet whether he would file an appeal.