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EGYPT AND ISRAEL SIGN ARMISTICE AGREEMENT

Claim c. P. R. Could ' Have Surplus Without increase In Rates

DEAN OI‘ ENGINEIIING

TORONTO, Feb. M—(CP)——Ken- iiath F‘. Turper, 43, a leading Cana- illhll expert on atomic energy and tot propulsion, will be the new dean of engineering at the Univer- glty oi Toronto, president Sidney Smith announced today. He suc- ceeds Dean C. R. Young who re- tires July 1 after 42 years in the faculty of applied science and en- rincerlnk.

Coming Events

"Mail your Films to Garnhum Photo Studio. Charlottetown.

"Horse races at Stanley Bat- uyda)‘, 26th, at 2 PM.

"Variety Concert. Traoadle Hall. Thursday, March 17th.

"Dance, Jinsloe station Hall. Friday, February fitli. Eastern Rhythm Boys Orchestra.

"Lunch and Dance in Kelly's

Cross School, Friday, February 25th. ' ‘Crokl nole Party Springfield

l-iall Friday, Fob. 25. at 8 o'clock. Lunch and candy.

"Pantry Sale at Prowse Bros. Saturday; February fllthamnsored by South Winsloe W. I.

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"Races at Vernon. Satin-day. February 09th. weather and ice per-butting.

"Carnival at Milton rink to-

night. Admission 20 cents. Skate liter. '

"Hockey Blast Royalty Rink to- night, southport Ramblers vs. Phalanx. skate after.

"Our Store will be closed ‘hres- day, March 1st for Stock ‘inking. Brent Wood, Crapaud. ’

"Legion Dance in Belfast Hall, Monday. February Nth. Lunches served.

"Hockey Long River Rink, Pri- illl‘. Feb. 25, Long River vs. New London in second game of semi- iiiinls. Skate after.

"Hockey tonight, Hunter River, Hartsvlllc Beavers vs. Hampshire

gulltiogs. skate ,ai'ter. Admission f‘. "Hockey tonight Long Creek

rink. Hampshire Bulldogs vs. Long Slrtcek Beavers. 8 o'clock. Skate er.

“CF-Tic to Comwali-York Point lttlsiion Band Pantry Bale at Raters Hardware, Friday, Feb. 35, at 2:30.

“it's a tense. exciting drama at Maclltinald Bros. Theatre tonight.

' Don't ifllhS Glen Ford, in "Framed"

lllus 'I'llrt'e Stocgeg,

HTDarlce in Vernon River Hall. F dirty. February 25th. Ausp'ce| Eénvidh. Millvlew Orchestra. Lunch

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.ery feature, Charlie Chaplin Qfiltglv-Yvrl; 11-11. ma». retini- ": -5. Dont miss the old Hick-

rgéllmkw some. North RAIQUCO ‘gm, “id”- Feb- 20th. 1st game ‘mi-finals between North Pamico

""1"" Rlver- Clams starts gelat- Skate after. Admission

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By Jdm Leblanc

OFITAWA, Feb. 24 -(0P) -.In final etvidetnce on the railway ap- plication for higher freight rates, the Board of Transport Commiss- ioners heard today the Canadian Pacific Railway could have a 1940 surplus on its rail operations with- out a rate boost.

Harold J. Egan, Halifax ac- countant testifying ior the seven Provinces opposing the increase, presented figures intended to in- dicate the C.P.R.--on the basis of its own calculations on income and financial requirementkcould ccme out about $15,000,000 ahead on the rail side.

lie rn-ade this computation by al- locating SCme of the C.P.R.’s re- quirements—-now assigned to the rail branch for rate-making pur- poses-to non-rail income The board has been instructed by the cafblnct to consider such a real- location.

Hearing Adjourned

At the end of today's evidence. which closed out a brief three-day presentation by the Provinces, the board adjourned the hearings to March 28 for final argument. That was expected to take seven days.

The hearings began Jan. 11, with the bulk of the time taken with evidence sutbrnittecl by the railways in support oi their application for a general QO-per-cent rate in- crease.

‘Iloday, chief iommlssicncr M.B. Archibald indicated that at this point he was not disposed to loo-k on the case from the standpoint of rato-of-retnrn on railway invest- ment, as the CPR. has sought.

He gave this intimation when A.J.G. Priest, C.P R. associate counsel from New Yofl. was cross- exarnining Mr. Egan on the rate of return his figures would yield on a railway lnvmtment of $1.000.- 000.000. Mr‘. Egan agreed that for" 1948 it would be only two per cent on $1.000,000.000, though he did not accept that figure as a rate base.

Oppose Rate Base lnue

Mr. Justice Archibald admonish- ed the lawyer to stay away frctm the rate base issue, declaring that would be a matter for another hearing.

"We have not had it in the evidence," he said.

Mr. Priest replied the C.P R. was going to argue that it had estab- lished e. rate base. ’

Much oi the C P.R..'s evidence has been pointed in this direction. The opposing Provinces, however, have contended that the railways could not switch t this fort-n of case alter basing th ir original ap- plication on alleged financial need. They claim that a rate-bass case would oall ior a.n independent val- uation of the Canadian Pacific. the “yardstick” line for Canadian rail- way ratemaklng.

Mr, Egan's. submissions’ today clashed sharply with the railways’ contention that. for the setting of rates. the rail operations of the C.P.R. should be charged with div- idends and fixed cliaiges for the company's whole corporate struct- urc.

ATTENDANCE BOOSTER Ln thq time of Hem-y VIII. a person II liable to have his ears cut off for not. attending church.

Newfoundland Union liebate In British l

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reading of the bill approving tern-is of union between Oannia and Newfoundland will be debated in. the British House of Commons next. Wednesday, Herbert Morri- son, Deputy Prim; Minister. an- nounced today.

The measure is known as the British North American bill.

Brisk debate is expected to be led by Sir Alan Herbert, Indepen- dent memiber for Oxford Univer- sity. who hiis campaigned for re- storation of responsible giovern- ment in Newfoundland.

He is among l3 members who have signed a motion asking that the bill be deferred.

King George Returns To Buckingham Palace

LONDON, Feb. 24 —(AP) —'I‘l'le King returned to Buckingham Palace today after a seven-week holiday on the royal estate in Send- ringham, Norfolk. His first official engagement since he became ill with an arterial ailment of the legs lust Novcruber ls to be an investit- ure of some 300 New-Yearksi-hon- ors recipients March 1. A special throne has been built for the King during the inves-titure since his physicians forbid his standing dur-

ing the two-hour ceremony.

Announcement Made

Fraser Banyan Blocked By Snow

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VANCOUVER, Feb. 24 — (CP) — Highway and rail-way lines Lhroughghe Fraser canyon, re- mained snow-choked tonight.

Rains and thaws have loosened tons oi mountain snow, threaten- ing a complete blockade of cast- west transportation.

The death toll stands at one — a truck driver killed when his truck was engulfed by a snow avalanche near Boston Bar, 140 miles cast of here.

New avalanches slithered into the canyon during the day. one parti-

ally burying a C. N. H. work engine. There were no casualties. "lize trouble spots are the

Coquahalla Pass. the Yale-Boston Bar section of the Fraser Canyon, and Cheakamus Pass to the north.

Telephone service to Eastern

Canada wits limited to five lines as mountain snows swept. down Coquahalia Puss to bury wires

and poles. Efforts the being made to arrange a. radio telephone ser-, vice. ‘ i

Five telephone and telegraph! trouble shooters. unreported for‘ three days in the snoyv-filled pass, tonight were safe at Brookmere. 1'50 miles east of here. ‘Ilrcy were found by a rescue party as they struggled through the SO-milc pass. In some places the snow was 48 feet deep.

Meanwhile. heavy crews are battling to clear roadways but as fast as they break through one slide a new one develops.

Because oi danger, night work has been prohibited, and all travel over open sections of the Trans-Canada Highway is banned

during hours of darkness.

Mild Winter

HALIFAX, Feb. 24-(CP)-Nova South's mild winter and a low vol- ume oi freight movements overseas from Canada made themselves felt in the Provinces coalfields today leaving thousands oi miners un- employed.

Ail production ceased at Acadia Coliierles in Pictou County yester- day, leaving the entire 1.30041“?! working force at Albion, Alien and Thorburn Mines idle. During the last. few weeks other pits have ‘tad to reduce operations to a few rial’! a week. l

Main reason ior the closedow... was attributed by mining company authorities to a stoppage oi orders from the Canadian National and Dominion Atlantic Railways, which had built up huge reserves. Can- adian Nationai stopped taking coal from Acadia two weeks ago and alncs that time the company had been depending entirely on local domestic markets. ' ' _

“These now are flooded. too," an Acadia official said teddy.

B. spokesman paid: "The railways built up big staffs and

big coal supplies sat-U in the win-

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Coal Mining Industry

ter in anticipation nf.a normal amount oi cold weather and heavy export traffic. But both fell off. The result is they have bis re- serves."

A layoff of freight train er‘ gineers, fireman and conductor started in January.

Nova Scotia’: small mines were first to be affected by the shortage of orders.

During the last month moat of them have been working only uart time. The Campbell mine at Inver- ness has closed down completely. The Bras d'Or Company mine worked only two days last week, tiha Indian Cove coiliery only a few

ays.

Dave Burchail of the Bras d‘Or Coal Company ~said today: "We haven't got an order on hand.‘

Most small operators had been depending entirely on the local do- mestic markets which now were flooded. Central Canadian markets had been completely lost due to price cutting by U. S. firms which were sailing beat trade industrial slack coal at l4 i.o.b. nuns corn-

pared with SBJB last winter.

Alberton Hospital Eligible Under Federal Health Grant

Yesterday In Legislature

By lion. A.W. Matheson, Wllo is Followed in iiraft Address Bebats By Messrs. ii. L. Mathleson, ti. E. Savllle Anti Phillip Matheson.

The Aliberton Hospital, which was almost completed when the Federal grant ior hospital con- struction was announced, will be eligible for a portion ofttils grant. Hon. A.W. Matheson, Minister of Health and Welfare announced in the Legislature yesterday.

He was speaking on the Draft Address. and had previously re- ferred to the allocation under this grant to the Charlottetown Hos-

pital, and to the building of Beach Grove Hospital for mental patients.

Mr. Matheson said he was also pleased to report that the terms of the grant in connection nvlth mental diseases lied been chang- ed to permit it being applied to purchases of equipment for an active treatnent centre. This grant amounts to $56,000 and it is hoped lo make n start. this year. At least 81,500 is allowed for each bed, ii certain conditions are ful- filled. ‘

He referred to the school of psychiatry being set. up at Dal- liousie, which will have outside branch hospitals. "If we have a branch hospital here it will be used for training the students."

he said. “We must have better facilities than we nc'.v have. how- ever."

Mr. the Health Nursing at Dslhousic. will have branch units of this in- stitution as vvcll", he said.

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i-ciiiQiisi 0f Ghurchmen Marie Public

BY DIMITER MISHEV

BOFIA, Feb. 24 -— (APt — The Bi gal-fan Justice Ministry made pu iic tonight voluminous docu- ,ments represented as mass pleas of guilt and repentance by 1o Protestant churchmen going on trial tomorrow on charges oi’ SPY‘ ing for the United States and Britain.

‘Through the 2.206 pages ran such phrases as:

"I admit my guilt.

"I repent.

"I beg clemency. .

"I want to be given a new chance to work for the motherland."

Ilia Timev, Deputy Minister of Justice. produced the ‘statements at a press conference. i second- ants were shown time volumes o! files of the pro-trial investigations with himdrsds of pages in tbs bandwri ing, ‘Illinev said, of the defendants.

The government announced pre- viously that all had "fully con- fessed." .

Timev produced in pages which he said were in the handwriting of Rev. Vassil Osorgiev Ziapkov. 40. head of ‘the Congregational Church in Bulgaria and religious representative oi the United lvaagslloai churches -- Congre-

in , ‘American School oi.’ Public;

Labor Retains Seat p With Reduced Majority

"The farmers of Canada have no desire whatever to challenge the ire; and democratic right of Canadian citizens to buy what they want, or make what they want. provided it does not inter- fere with the public right, and ls no; detrimental to the national wellbeing; but they do want to make it very clear that the intro- dllctinn of oleomargaririe into Canadian markets offers a vi-i-y real threat to the future of the dairy industry." ‘declared Mr. Colin Groff, secretary of the Can. adian Federation of Agriculture. at a. largely attended public meet- lfll of the Prince Edward Island Federation last night. Mr. Allison R. Profitt, president, presided.

Others who spoke briefly a; last nights session included Premier J. Walter Jones. Messrs James Mclnnis. J.J. Tralnor and Sand-

ford Phillips. Ari outstanding fact about the margarine question which tho

public do not fully appreciate, Mr. Groff said, is that there are in Canada today plants equipped to manufacture 120 million pounds of margarine each year. "If that amount of margarine is event- ually made and sold in Canada,“ lie'added. "it. very definitely spells disaster to the dairy industry of this country."

The 300,030 Canadian involved in dairy production in Canada represent a total rural population of a million people, he pointed out.’ "I claim that you cannot disrupt the economic , itlon of a million “people without causing very gravg disturbance to the whole Canadian economy."

1L8. Restrictions

In the United States. he said, lire restrictions are such that the sale and consumption of margar-

farmers

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Bommaniier Named For Bornwaiils Base

OTTAWA. Fob. 24 1GP) Appointment of Capt. A. Philip Musgrave, O.B.E., of Victoria and Ottawa, to command the naiys iimv-entry training‘ establitliment when it opens this ‘spring at Corn- wallis, S.. was announced to- day. For the last thrpe years Capt. Misgrave has been director of Sea Cadets at naval headquarters in Ottawa. He will be succeeded by Lt. Cmdr. Douglas C. Elliott oi Vancouver iand Ottawa, deputy director. Capt. Musgrave. who is 4D, commanded the navy's wartime communications, school at St. Hyacinthe, Que, for four years. Prior to that he was in marge n! new-entry schools at Halifax.

RéVieWS Attitude Taken {Stage Set For By Federation On Oleo, Taxes And Food Prices

Stacking 0f Arms In iioly Land

BY L. S. CHAKALES

RHODES, Feb. 24 (AP) Egypt and Israel signed an armist- ice ngreement today, thereby set- ting the stage for a general stack- ing of arms in the Holy Land. Preliminary work toward a lull peace already has begun.

Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, acting United Nations mediator, predict- ed that the other Arab states will follow Ezypts lead and conclude armistices with the young Jewish state they set out nine months ago to destroy.

Talks with Trans-Jordan. Israel's most formidable foe, will begin here Monday. Armistice arrange- ments between Israel and Lebanon are expected to he concluded soon.

Iraq has announced that she will approve Wflafflvtl‘ agreements are reached by the Arab states border- ing Palestine. Trans-Jordan will speak for her. Saudi Arabia and Yemen did not take an active part in the war against Israel and a formal armistice may not be needed in their case. The attitude of Syria may be announced soon.

Once tlzere has been s complete sheathing of weapons. Bunche said, the emphasis will be placed on securing a "peaceful settlement of all outstanding questions political. territorial and economic - between Israel and her Arab neighbors."

That task is the responsibility of the United Nations Palestine Con- ciliation Commission. which is do- ing the ground work now.

From Cai1§t¢and-Tei Aviv came further comment: '

roi-eignfivitntsiei- Moshe Shefiok of Israel told a press conference in Tel Aviv the armistice would prove to be a "momentous event in the life of the Middle East."

In Cairo. Premier Abdel Hat-ii Pasha was quick to point out to reporters that the agreement was on “purely military questions" and

did not deal with the political future of the Holy Land. Actually the armistice is an

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Wlng Billirjiseomte To Command At OampBordan

OTTAWA, Feb. 2-i~<CP)-Wing Cmdr. J. H. L. Lacomle, D4'F C.. of Acton Vale, Que, who com- manded the famous Alouette bomber squadron overseas during tho war. has been appointed com- manding ofllcer of the R.C.A.F. station at Camp Borden. Ont., it was announced today. He replaces Wing Cmdr. G A. l-Iiltz, AFCtT of Milltown. N. B., who becomes commanding officer of the Green-

wood. N. 5.. station.

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LONDON, Feb. 25~ (Fritlii_v)--- Labor retained its parliamentary‘ seat in the l-ianimevsmith South by- election Thursday, it was announ- cetl early today.

In a close race the Labor candi- ilnle, Tom Williams. polllad 15.1 votes to 13.610 for his Co servalive opponent. Anthony Fell. Vi/iliiams‘ margin of victory was 1.613 votes compared with the Labor majority of 3,458 in the 1945 general elec- tlon.

The victory maintained the party's unbroken record of never having lost n scat to the Conserva- tives slnce the 1945 general elec- tion. The Harnmersmlth South hy-

eiection was the 48th since Labor came into power and the 30th Lab- or retained.

It. was one of the fiercest and nolsiest by-elections in many years. with the filll weight of hoih party machines thrown into the fight which Labor and the Conservatives regarded as a major test of strength.

Both sides went all out in the campaign. Labor and Conservative

‘or: said the result would influ- ence strat ‘y for the general elec- tion. expected ,in the spring oi

The Hartuuersmith South ballot- ting was to name a successor in the House of Commons to W. T. Adams. who died recently. Adams won his seat in the i945 general election by a margin of 3,458 voles over his Conservative rival.

Previous Labor victories in by- eleotions have been in solid Labor

rational, Baptist. Methodist and‘ of Pflkdfll.

clement, predominantly Irish. _ Issues during the l-Iammersmlth campaign ranged from Commun-

ism alrd religion to partition of Ireland. T-he Hammersmlth lay-election

was the second of icur voting tests scheduled for this month and early March. Last Thursday Labor retained the Bntiey scat in York- shire. Qther lay-elections are enri-

ing in Sowerby and St. Pancrzls .

North.

Ebwinese inancial Plans Call For Silver Dollars

By SEYMOURTPOPPING CANTON. Feb. 24- (AP! -—F‘in- ance Minister Hsu Kan said today new nuance measures promulgated by acting president 1.1 Tsung-Jen nail for general circulation in China of silver dollars: Hsu said last August's straight lc reforms will be modified by the new measures. ivhieh are to be reviewed by the. legislative Yuan. But. he added. the circulat- ion of foreign currency within China will be continued to be pro- hibited. i The new silver dollars. said l-lsu. will be minted from old coins by the government. Other features of the new econ- omic measures outlined by I-Isu: The Central Bank of China will he ordered to purchase more for- eign banknotas on a price scale

calculated in s with the

P.E.l. Federation lllrectors-at-Largs

Following last, night's meeting of the P.E.I. Federation of Agri- culture the following directors- at-large were elected: for Kings. Jerome O'Brien, Queen's. Mur- dock MacLeod, New London; Prince, Edison Rayner. Kensing- ton. J.G. Dennis. secretary of the P.E.I. Oo-operative Union was appointed audi">r.

Officers will not be elected un- til the directors are appointed from the Swine and Sheep Breed- ci-s‘ annual meetings today. when all the directors are to meet for this purpose

Claim nciiswstiéiiitlisii Soviet-Norwegian Border

HELSINKI. Feb. 24 - (AP) A well-informed Finnish source said tonight Russia has strength- ened her garrisons along the So-

vlct-Norwegian border. The infor- mant said tho Soviet troops had come from the Murmansk area. While giving no estinlata of the number involved, he said the troop movements were observed last week and apparently were in connection with the stand taken by Norway on the projected North Atlantic defeme treaty.

‘TWAS DOCTOR/S IDEA

The soft drink industry was born in the Uis. in 1807 when a doctor combined carbonated water with fruit juice for his patients.