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CHARLOTTETOWN. CANADA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13. 1950

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Read by Everybody Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew

6D Missing In Sinking OF British Sula Truculenl:

‘Island Premier Busy With Ottawa Ministers

dITAWA. Jan. ll — (Special)- Five minutes after the Dominion- Provincial Conference came to a close with the singing of the Na- tional Anthems, Prince Edward Island Premier J. Walter Jones was busy on his own Provincial- Federal negotiations. They will until tomorrow afternoon ' of meetings with Fed- et ministers on P. E. I.

While shaking hands and bidding fare- wells, Mr. Jones singled out Rev- enue Minister Dr. J. J. lVfcCann.

other Premiers were

pulled out two chairs and got down to cases with the tax czar at the deserted conference table.

"Now in regard to income tax. there is a matter which has come up in the Island. . . ." lie began. As Premiers, members of the Do- minion cabinet and Attorneys- General filtered out of the Com- mons chamber, Mr. Jones was still pressing his point, holding Dr. McCann captive.

In the morning, the Island Pre- mier is meeting Reconstruction Minister Winters to discuss pro- blems arising from Trans-Canada highway plans in the Province.‘ Mr. Jones told The Guardian that one of the chief advantages of having a stretch of the national highway in Prince Ed-ward Island is that the Federal Government will pay half the cost of the nec- essary bridges. These bridges will loom large in his chat with Mr. Winters.

Potato Price Support

Asked if he proposed discussin! pota-to price support with ASH- culture Minister Gardiner, Mr. Jones said he was by ll° Weill-S certain that he would. He indi- catodflhat he is not completely

satisfied with the principle of in- discriminate price support and personally would prefer to see

some plan of selective support. To paraphrase Mackenzie King's noted phrase on conscription for military service overseas, Mr. Jones was inclined to the idea of “potato price support if necessary but not necessarily price support."

The Premier was manifestly re- luctant to endorse the idea of price support for what he termed

"speculative farming."

The idea of growing potatoes which~would be surplus and which would be dumped on the ground to rot was plainly repugnant to him.

One of several Premiers to ‘jllld the results of the three-day par- ley, Mr. Jones said in the closing minutes that the conference had been "extremely satisfactory" and complimented Prime Minister St. Laurent on his skillful guidance.

Invited To Charlottetown

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Askingfor the next meeting in Prince Edward Island, the Pre- micr said:

"Other speakers have cxtcndcd invitations to the committee t0 visit various cities but I believe

Coming Events

"Mail your Films to Clarnhum Photo Studio. Charlottetown.

"Whlst and Dance. Belfast Hall. Monday. January 16th.

"Unloading Old Sydney Coal to- hy at Milton. Vernon Gills-ville-

"Oerd Party at Graham's load Hall. Monday. January 16m-

Point W. I.

"Cornwall, York Hardware.

Pantry sale at Rogers Friday January 13th.

'°'Unloadlng car of Old Sydney coal at Mount Herbert, Saturday and Monday. Arnold Burhoc.

"Variety concert and box social Hampton Hall, Friday, February l. If not fine, following Monday-

Vernon soon, cor Old Sydney Coal (Princess). Book

our orders now. Russell Jenkins-

one Ill-J Charlottetown.

"Weather permitting, horse laces will be held on the Hunter ltlver speedway 3fllllfdfly 11m“ noon. Classes for all.

"To arrive

"Opening skate. New Glasgow rink tonight. Ropresentatlves from

Glasgow Road and Hope River tea a please attend. "Canoe Cove tonight at 8.00. William Boyd as "Hvpalong Oll- " in "Texas Masquerade." I by Jim Austin. ' "Auction Ibrty-flves. Powm-l

Roll. Monday. January 16th. Doors Will I P. M. Admission includlnl refreshments 40c. Prices. Canad- ie- Legion. ,

the claim of Charlottetown is a strong one. We could provide the same room as that in which the Fathers of Confederation met. furnished as it was in I864. If this conference were to be held as late as August. the delegates coming to Charlottetown would not only renew themselves in the vigor of our climate but consum- mate the signing of the new con- stitution at that historic place.

"I heartily invite you to con- sider Charlottetown as the site. The Legislature will probably be in session until May, and I do not think there is any election pending, He added:

Fall Election?

"But perhaps in the Fall there may be an election. Perhaps lt would be a good idea to finish this job before the personnel of the present conference can be chang- ed. I suggest that Charlottetowns claim be given consideration."

The Premier expects to leave Ottawa for Charlottetown on Fri- day afternoon.

Local Mon Named Assistant Supervisor

HALIFAX, Jan. 12—(CP)—-A. R. Kemp of Forest, Ont., has been named supervisor of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's na- tional fiirm broadcast service and A. K. Morrow of Charlottetown has been named assistant super- visor, it was learned here to- night.

Morrow has been CBC farm commentator in the Miiritimes since his discharge from the navy in 1945.

KILLED IN BRIDGE COLLAPSE

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jan. 12—(OP)——One woman was killed and a man seriously injured today when their car plunged tnto the flooded Maracas River after a bridge, condemned eight years ago. collapsed. The woman's body was found five miles ‘dclwnstrerm af- ter a. three-hour search.

14 Survive l Collision Wilh Swedish Ship

LONDON, Jan. l2 — (OP) - A small Swedish tanker tonight ram- med and sank the British sub-

marine Tiuculent. carrying 76 men, 1- Tom» M 1-- sr...i‘;:i:"":.~.'c. $2.222." s . l'l BC-

14 of the Truoulentb crew were

reported rescued. Two others were vlce_presldents Mr

reported killed. The remaining men are believed trapped or dead

in about 54 feet of water.

However, the Truoulent carried solution asking that all print but-

onough underwater rescue appar- atus for all on board and an Ad. miralty spokesman sold:

"There is no reason to be pessi-

mistic about an en h y m w 0 may be eratlon and Dalrymen‘; Association

in the vessel alive." Pacific Veteran

The Truculent. a veteran of Pacific fighting against; the Jup- anese. was. rammed by the 643- ton Swedish tanker Divina. vwfhose prows were built like a. battering ram to withstand the icepacks found in northern waters.

An Admiralty statement said six officers, 52 seamen and l8 work- men from the Royal Naval Dock- yard at Chatham were aboard the Truculesit.

Four officers and one rating, who were on the bridge o! the 5111-. faced submarine, were hauled from the water by the Dutch merchant ship, Almdijk. which radioed the first word of the collision,

The Divina was reported to hay.- picked up nine other survivors who later were transferred to a 008st guard lifeboat from South- end.

Reports reccived immediately after the accident said tho Divina- was out of control, flying two reg lights. and had drifted on to the treacherous "Shivering Sands" nearby.

The Truculent was undergoing trials after a. refit. This accounted for the extra number of men aboard. The normal complement of submarines of the Truculontfs

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Nationalists Report Heavy Raid On Shanghai

By Spencer Moose

TAIPEI, Formosa. Jan. l2 — (AP) —— The Chinese Nationalists announced tonight that a heavy air raid on Red Shanghai had hit 11 ships and left waterfront ware- houses in flames.

The communique said National- ist plancs: i

Bombcd three ships in harbor. setting one afire; badly damaged

two 2,000-ton ships iii drydock; badly damaged another st ‘the mouth of the Whangpoo River;

and set five more afire by straf-

ing.

In addition. waterfront build- lngs and unidentified ground es- tablishments in the Chapel and Pootung districts were hit.

The former capital of Nanking and the Yangtze River cities of Kiangyin and Chinkiang also were

raided, without announced re- suits. Wuhsien (Soochow), famed

beauty spot west of Shanghai, also

was attacked.

Swatow, port 200 miles north- east of Hang Kong. also was re- ported bombed again, l,()00-ton ships and many small craft hard hit. (Hong Kong re- ports said one ship hit at S-watoiv was the small British-registered freighter Leong Bee.)

The Nationalists Defence Min- istry also reported small-scale fighting with Red guerrillas on l-lainan, big island off the south coast.

Generalissimo Chiang Kai- Shek‘s staff flatly denied, however. a report published abroad that the Communists had begun an invas- ion of Hainan.

(I-Iong Kong sources estimated there are 17.000 guerrillas on Hainan and that they control l0!) miles of the big island's west coast, buit said they have been re- pelled recently when they tried to drive lo the north coast in an at- tempt to link up with the Reds on

the mainland.)

ACTH Brings Dramatic Recovery From Leukemia

(By Alton L. Blakealee) NEW YORK, Jan. 12-—(AP)- The hormone ACTH brings dram- atic recoveries from acute leukemia. the quick-killing blood cancer.

three physicians announced to- night. But these recoveries may be

only temporary. It is still too early to tell, they said,

They told of tests on three child- ren and two adults. All five re- covered after getting the hor- mone for 24 to 80 days. '

Tho disease camo back in one child three weeks later. ACTH again stopped it. The other four were still Well with almost no sign of leukemia from one day to flvc weeks after getting the hor- mone.

The report was made by Drs. 0. H. Peaqon, L. P. Eliel and '1‘. R. Talbot, Jr., of the Sloan-Kettering Institute and Memorial Hospital. famous cancer centre hare. They gpokg pg a New York Academy of Medicine discussion on ACTH and cortisone.

Leukemia is a cancer-like blood disease. in which the body ll"- duces too many white blood cells.

All five patients began to im- prove in the first few days on the hormone, the physicians said. Enlarged lympth nodes. spleens and livers began to shrink. Bleed- ing stopped, and all five got vor- acious appetites during the first weeks. The amounts and quality of their blood cells returned near- ly to normal.

The fact that all five Improved stamps ACTH as the beat treat- ment yet found for acute leukemia.

ACTH ls a hormone made by the petultury gland, at (he bnsc of the brain. Cortlsone, a hormone from the adrenal glands, was tried on one pntlenfqlia ls recov- ering and still Rotting cortisone. the physicians said.

ACTH was tried on other forms of cancer, including cancer of the breasts, testes .and adrenal gland. But it hasn't shown any benefit so far, Pearson's group said,

In Leukemia, the hormones act- ually destroyed cancer (issue.

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Tho leukemia results are excit- ing. but aren't a cure, Pearson said. The recoveries so for must sill] be called "temporary and lu- complete."

Farmers Conclude gSeries 0f Meetings

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Mr. Louis O'Connor, New Lon. dilll. Was re-elected President of tho Prince Edward Island Feder- allml 0f Agriculture at a meeting of the Federation Directors yester-

Mlllan, Cornwall. were elected Leo P. Mc- Isnac ls the permanent secretary.

A delegation was appointed to lhe Maritime Federation fleXt week. This delegation will present a re-

ter offered for sale in the four Maritime Provinces be stamped with on official grade. Resolutions to (his effect were unanimously agreed upon at the P. E. I. Fed-

mcetlngs held here this week.

The delegation will also ask the lifnritime Federation to arrange for a Maritime conference of po- tato producers to establish a mar- keting board for Maritime seed potatoes.

Members of the delegation are: Messrs. Louis O'Connor, Leo Mc-

Isaac- Eafl 11185. Jerome O'Brien and J. Lincoln Dewar. The meet- lfll! at Moncton will be hold on Friday, January 20,

The Maritime meeting ivill w“. sider all resolutions cnrl those no. copied will'be condensed for fllS- Cllsilvn at the annual Canadian Federation of Agriculture meeting which will be held at Niagara Falls commencing on January 30.

County and member organiza- tion directors were appointed for the year at yesterday's meeting. Queen's County directors are: Mr. Earl Ings, Mount Herbert; Mr, Arthur Johnston, Long River; Mrs. Keith Boswell, Victoria.

Prince County: Mr. Charles You, She-Pllflwkf‘! Mr. Gregory McInnls.

from Halifax, which boasts having responsible government as far back as 1846; Edmonton, capi- tal of the second newest province

Tignlsh; Mrs. Harold Laird, Kol- vln. King's County members are yet to be appointed. Member organization Co-operatlve Union, Mr, Lnuls' O'Connor, New London; Fox Breeders Association, Mr. Gordon MacMillon, Cornwall; Potato GFDW-' ers Association, Mr, E. D, Reid, A

directors: .

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Accuses Russia Of Taking Over Vast Areas Of China

By JOHN M. HIGIITOWER

WASHINGTON. Jan. 12 - (AP) _ State Secretary Acheson today accused Russia of taking over four vast areas of Northern China, in- eluding Mancihuria, in a. far-reach- ing sweep of Soviet Communist imperialism.

He pictured this development iis a great opportunity for American foreign policy in the Far East. The best way for the UnltedHStates to wiii friends and stop Communism, he contended, is to pursue its pol- icy of fostering the independence of Asiatic peoples and their econ- omlc ivell-being.

By contrast. Acheson declared. Russia's actions in Northern China will arouse the "righteous anger and uwath" of the Chinese people and show up the Soviet Union as an imperlallstlc power throughout Asia.

The areas which Russia. is in the DTOCBSS of taking over, Acheson Said. are Manchuria, Outer Mon. golia, Inner Mongolia and Sink- iang. His accusation was the first such to be made by a top Western official.

For the first time since the ls-

with i-wo i Suflncc of the China. white paper

last summer, Acheson spoke out publicly on the Far East, in a speech at the National Press Club iere.

Sees Germans Returning To Old Form

1,33’ J. M. Roberta, Jr. Associated Press News Analyst

The Germans are beginning to act like Germans again.

In their newly-granted pride of "lllfleilendent" government in Wostem Germany, and apparently prone to forget that they are still operating under a military occu- pation statute as the result o! their responsibility for starting and losing the greatest war in history. they are progressing from petition to demand for Allied con- ccssions.

They seesn well aware that Ger- many ls the prime prize in Europe for the contestants in the cold war. and to be trying to make the most of that position.

They practically boycotted the

Allied plans for international con- trol of the Ruhr until ooncessionu were made.

Government officials ask this and ask that. They are trying to

break Franco's integration of the long-dflsputod Saar economy.

into her own Socialist soiiumacher has quits warned Chancellor talking about

(If the Autos want to rearm Ger-

many for the defence. of Western Europe. under strict controls. that's

one ihiiil- Ker the Germans to adopt the idea as part of their own‘ program is quite another.) Although the matter of plant dismantling has just been gone over and revised down to what is intended to be its final fonn_ tho

Palienl Confesses Selling Fire i

DAVENPORT, 1a., Jan. 12—- (AP)—A 23-year-old woman pa- tient, described as "schizo- phrenic", was reported todn

to have confessed setting 'a_. fire in a mental ward, lh which 41 women perished. County attorney Clark O. Filseth filed a charge of

“murder committed 5:1 the per- petriition of arson" against Mrs, Elnora Eppcrly. l

Meanwhile, authorities said they are checking further the story of the small and attrac- tive brunette who was a pn- tient in St. Elizabeth's. menial ward of Mercy I-lospitiil which was destroyed by fire early Saturday.

Hospital records showed Mrs. Epperly had entered the ln- stitution last Dec, 12 and was due to be released on the day

of the fire.

SYDNEY, N.S., Jon. 12 — (CPU _ Allan MacKinnori. 27, son of, Sydney's slain registrar of votersl today was sentenced to one month‘, in county jail on a charge of ob-, structlng pollcc.

Charles O'Connell and Vince Morrison, counsel for the defence), said they would appeal the sent-l once and MacKinnon was released‘; on $500 ball pending hearing of tlic~ appeal. Date of the hearing will be set by County Court Judge George Morrison.

MacKinnons court appearance was a sequel to the murder charge against Dan Jack lvfacLcnn, 62, former mayor of this steel city- Saturday Mnclean was committed to stand trial at the February sit- ting of the Nova Scotia. Supreme Court. for the Doc. l8 slaying of Joseph MacKlnnon. 65, a cripple. ROMP. charged that on Jan. 4. the clay before MacLeanh pre- llminiiry hearing opened, young MacKlnnon tried to prevent them frorn serving s. witness summons on Mrs. MaoKinnon. l When the defence asked forl clemency today, Crown Prosecutor Donald Finlayson said police were willing to release MacKinncn on probation or a. suspended sentence. But Provincial Magistrate Vernon Read said the offence was a seri- ous one sinoe this was a capital case. The sentence ‘would be a les- son that interference in police in- vestigation would not be tolerated. Five witnesses. including Mac- Kinnon and R.C. M. P. Sgt. W.J. Lawrence. testified bonny. Inw- rence told of going to the Mac- Kinnon house tn serve tho sum-

mons, Mrs. MacKinnon loft the room upon the advice of her son and Lawrence explained the pur- pose of his visit and tho summons to Maoltinnon. The RC.M.P. officer

Mackinnon as then saying:

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Germans are making new de- mands that it be halted. John J. McCloy, United States

high commissioner. has Just had to Raontliiued onmPage I Col. 4)

“Bhc will not be there and we can get around that very easily by saying we do not. i-cinemhrr riiiv- thing. Don't think that any mcm-

lnvilallo? Extended By Premier Jones

OTTAWA. Jan. l2 -— (C?) — The Dominion-Provincial Confer- ence concluded today with no definite decision on when it will hold its next meeting, possibly in a few months.

But it had five bona fide offers on record. plus the presumed standing offcr of the Federal Gov- crnment to reconvene in Ottawa.

The Provinces may choose for their next conference either the historic site of Charlottetown. where the original conference on Confederation was held in 1864 or Quebec City, the scene of a sec- ond such conference in the same ycar.

Also ori hand invitations of

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and St. John's. Nfld., capital of Canada's 10th province. Premier Duplessis of Quelbec

started the invitations rolling

with a “cordial" welcome to dele- gates should they wish to recon- vene in his city. \

Premier Macdonald of Nova Scotia remarked that “Halifax would be glad to entertain them."

"Or St. John's“, echoed Premier Small-wood of Newfoundland.

Premier Jones of Prince Ed- ward Island put in a strong plug for Charlottetown.

“We could provide tho some room as that in which the Fathers of Confederation met, furnished as it was in I864. If this confer- cnce were to be held as late as August, the delegates coming to Charlottetown would not only re- new themselves in the vigor of our climate, but/consummate the signing of the new constitution

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AY RECONVENE lN H’TOW

Adjournment Made

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(By D'Arcy O'Donnell)

OTTAWA, Jan. l2—(CP)—A his- toric Dominion-Provincial consti- tutional confcrenci- adjourned to- day after the heads of the coun-' try‘s ll governments agreed lo‘ tackle the iromplex prolilvm iii‘ drafting n formula for uniciirlinui the Canadian constitution lii Can-i ada.

The three-day conference, reach- ing a measure of agreement which many political observers hzirl fclt would not he possible, decidcvl tn toss the problem into the laps of, a continuing committee,

Tho committee, composed of the attorneys-general of the 11 govern- ments or their representatives. will attempt tn correlate tho views 0i’ all governments on tho proper formula for future constitutional. amendments.

If the committee, which met im- medlately the conference adjourn- ed, can meet agreement the plen- nrj confcrcnco will be reconvened. The committee's report then will be submitted for final approval, subject to ratification hy Parlia- ment and the Legislatures. i

The committee's main task will he to Implement the conference's decision to break down into cate- gories the various sections of the constitution. The amending pro- cedure would vary for each sec- tlon.

The conference p.m, AST on a note of optimism and with an apparent feeling of goodwill among delegates.