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SECOND CABINET liF-ORGANIZATIOLN ANNOUNCED

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1 Minister Abbwt ami- Itsllilicgle its?! tonight hat five of Canada's ll military strict! will h, gbollshed. and that the ‘othsr m‘ Wm b, gedcsignnteu ereo Jed I quarter] under the five T911333 ‘commands established early ~11‘!

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The functions of those cLmim-i» ed will be absorbed by the com- mands, The functions of those re- inalning will fall completely under the authority of the commands for the first time.

The announcement was mMI ‘hoytly after \ Mr. Abbott left I cabinet session which B“? the ghgngg approval and sew him ff- itnqulsh his post in favor of HcaLh Minister Brooke ciaxton to <1!- vate himself to the finance minis-

ulllhe district headquarters '0 be abolished are MD. 6 at HnlllflX under Brig. Graham Gibson: MD 4 at Montreal under Brig. Vlilllam 35mg; M, D. 2 at Toronto under Brig. Alan Sparling; M. D ‘.0 B! Winnipeg under Brig R 0. 0 Morton and M. D. 13 at C113"? under Cc-l. Eric Snow.

Those that remuzn are, M. D. ‘f at Fredericton under Brig. Agnew; rap. 5 at Quebec flity under Bris- Paul Bcrnatchez; M D-~3 at King- ston under Col. Put. Bogart; M. D- l at London under Brlz- Phllll! Earnshaw: ‘M, D. 12 at Racine under Col. Geoffrey Morton. Mid M, D. 11 at; Vancouver under Brig.

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OTTAWA, Dec. l2—(CP)~Me:n- bership of the Boy Scouts Associa- Upn is nearing its pre-war figure of 100.000 and may rcaclfthat total before the end of the year, R. C. Stevenson. chai-rmrin of 'the Dum- liiion executive board, sold here today.

Guest of the executive committee cf the Ottawa district council he said that more intensive interest was evident in lZVQPy province especially al-nce the Canadian lcut of Lord Rowallan. Chief Scout.

Coming Events

"Movies at Bordm to-nlgiht.

"liiizeibrook School Concert, Fri- tiiii‘. December 20th.

"Canoe Cove Slbhool Coilcerl, Duccanber 19th.

"Hampshire Christmas concert Frill-u‘. December 20, 0' pm.

‘Tome to Mount Tryon School Cvutert. December 17th. 8 P. M.

“Note — Rice Point School Con- ml. December 18th. h-§_ “Zion Rummage Sale. Market Building. Satin-day. 16th. 8 P. M.

"Our ChrlatnrsCandv is in. E. “Mist. Harrington.

"Unloading bulk wheat st Mt’. Herbert. J. H. kilcoll.

“P-nw ma om sue by South- Iort. women's Institute Maritime "Rule. Batulday at a ouiocm

"Hartsvllla Christmas Concert. getlsvlllc-Hali, Friday. December

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LEON BLUM

PARIS. Dec. 12 —(AP)-—S0cllilist 1490!! 131mm. '74. and ailing. emerged today from the almost negligible

‘role he had taken in politics since

his liberation from a German pris- on camp and became head of the French government for at least the next month.

The only pre-twar premier to rc- turn to power in postewas France, Blusn pluszged immediately into the task o0 forming a. cabinet.

Blum. who had taken over once before in 1036 when France was shaken by labor unrest which saw red flags flying over worker-seized factories. said he had consented to come out of semi-retirement in order to help save France "ln a difficult and perhaps serious situ-

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Dias Showing Baby To Friends

MONTREAL. Dec. i2—~(CP)~—'i‘he Coroner's verdict today was cold and formal-death from natural causes. It. didn't. tell the story of the proud. young mother, her eyes glistening with happiness, collap~ sing in the midst oi friends.

Yesterday Mrs. Harold Murdoch 22, of Verdun. took her baby, two months old today. to an insurance company office where she rad been employed before her marriage a year ago. she wanted her former co-workers to see the baby.

Everyone gathered around. od- miring and petting thr- cli-ld and talking to the happy mother about Christmas Plans, Mrs Miifdmh passed the baby to_a friend Sud- denly she collapsed Frantloclly office employees telephoned Si. Luke Hospital. Wlienmthe ncibul- once arrived an intefiie said lvirs. Murdoch was dead.

RHODES SCIIOLAB FOI B C.

VANCOUVER, Dec. 1km?‘- Allstair W. Gillespie of Vtcioz-la. 04-year-old veteran eof the Royal Canadian Navy, has been mi-ried Rhodes Scholar for British Pol- umbla it was announced today lie is a student et Mcfllll Unlvca-elty new and plans to go to Glad DB1 Ifll.

m tionoi assembly.

Strange Rabbit From W.il.0. Ilat

OTTAWA. Dee. 12 Pulling on: of the strangest rabbits yet out of its wartime hat. War Assets Corporation to- hlsiht announced a quantity of ‘"1’ Illfvlus etiihof .25 to 100 tons dell! 000M117. are being offeredfecaslebvitsshificom- t- ‘ division. The Corporat- ion's statement did not suggest a civilian use to which, the equipment might. be put. The stills. made in Brltsin. ere locat- ed at Montreal and Vancouver. 111d were used by the uavy—to evitporate flesh wctar from sea we er.

ll. S, Lobstcrman llavc Gear Damaged

YA-RMOUTH. NS» Dec. l! - (GP) — Lobster fishermen along Nova. Scotiefis southwestern shore today suffered their second setiblok of the lfi-day-oid season when lob- ster traps were washed ashore and damaged by a. gale.

There was no immediate estim- ate 0f total damage but it was be- lieved confined to traps set in shal- low water while those in deeper

w-alier were unharmed. The first blow to lobstermen. hoping for a. repetition of last

veer’: $l.000.000 season. came on the Dec. l opening day when an- other sale delayed setting "our

day‘; gale-also prevented the arrival here of an aircraft from High Islands, Me, which was to can-y lobsters beck to the United States.

Shipment by water continued however. although lobstermen es- timated that about 1.250.000 bounds were being held in pounds for higher prices. which have fallen to 2'1 cent; a pound, three Wilts below the opening mark.

Write Flals Tc 1945 Lake ilavlgatlcn

PORT MLLIAM. Dec. 1L Writing flnls to the 1946 navig- ation season to and from the ports ‘of Fort William and Port Arthur at the head of Lake Sup- erior, three grain vessels cleared late today for the cast. At mid- night navigation insurance fates will terminate for the season and all vessels were obliged to clear before that hour to get tinder the lviun-YI

‘Ihe three vessels which loaded today are the Becord, CountBen- nett and Superior.

Slalt Prospects Good la Batllrstjistrlct

BATHURBT, N. Dec. 13-40?) —Pi'olpacts for tho catch and price o’ smelt in this district were re- ported good tonight and anticl- pated colder weather la expeved to result in the busiest season since pro-war years starting next month. Preparations are being mods to extend the industry along l the Oaraquet coast.

Heavy Death Toll When

N. Y. Tenement Collapses

(By The Associated Inca) NEW YORK. Dec. lB-Filhtlng as ‘_ against time. rescuers today dug into the wreckage of a eoliepsad tenement building than alert-to raadh I persona believ-

ed deed under tons of debris.

lght bodice were found during the day. ~ Many of thcae missing were

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deb and rescuers rcdoihlad thctltcflcttaintltallcpaefdnd- l 0cm pascal-alive.

las, collapsed shortly sitar mid highh. \

1pc four top floors cf the six- atorey building fell with _a thun- deroua- roar after a five-alarm fire in an adyoining abandoned ice house caused e supporting wall to shear cl and fall on the dith- floor level. I

Jacob Grunict- assistant distract attorney. save the following as the most generally-accepted theory of the ice plant wall‘: cclicpm- ~

‘no wail was weakened h: water poured on it ac s result of a fire in the anemones». At

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Plan Children's Art Centre In City

A well-attended meeting hem lset night in the Charlottetown Library. unanlmousiy agreed to make arrangements for the estab- lishment in Charlottetown of a children's art centre. Dr. RA. Cxeelman presided.

Among those wiho expressed their views on the subject were Jwqueline MacDonald who that her experience ea a tewcher had some such supplementary addition

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add to the value of the present school curriculum. Miss MacDonald ,5!“ YWIII children could have their interests easily diverted from less worthwhile activities to ap- Preciation of art should such a centre for children be established.

Mrs. Willard McKay, president of the P-E- 1818M Art Society, said she considered the establishment of a children's art centre in the City s. most desirable undQy-tgking 1,. Which all citizens interested in tLe cultural development p! the mud. hen should co-opemte.

Mr. Bramweli Chahdler. super- visor of the RE. Island Libraries, said he believed the project was one which should be formed in the CilY- Mr. Chandler recalled this own school days. stating that one o! his mslor intenests while a student was attending a. manual training course which was them available. Follow- ‘ 111i that course had given him, Mr. Chandler acid. agrcat deal more in- terest in school life and he thought an art centre would be of valuable Reel-tweet 1n expending auoturthec. developing the intellectual and cultural horizons of the children. Mr. L. W. Show. director of edu- cation, sald his department was greatly interested in the idea of a children's art centre and he con- gltdered tsuch s. centre would prove

grail‘ a lemcntary edqoc tlcsnl value toillggchooi children. ‘ .

Licut’ qv- .w. ‘Reid. ‘o.s.o., wprovin director of ‘ptiyslcal fit- ness. ch t there was m urgent need for the establishment o! a high school in the City. He also suggest- ed that quarters might be provided in the City's four large schools for workshops for the boys and domestic science class-rooms for the girls. Small art centres could also be located in each school. Col. Reid said. which would obviate the necessity of children going long distances to attend the centre.

A committee of those interested in the establishment of the centre will meet next Monday evening at 8 o'clock to make further plans for tihe establishment of such s centre.

Sees Vital Role For Atomic Energy In Transportation

MONTREAL. Dcc. i2 - (OP) - Scientists predict that before long atomic eneigy will provldexunsus- pected possibilities in the realm of transportation, Transport Minister Chevriar told the Montreal Cham- ber-of commerce in a luncheon ad- dress prepared for delivery today.

Recounting some of the out.- standlng developments in trans- portation in modern limes. the Minister said humanity had w- grsssed further in 100 tear; tlnce the advent of steam railway» than in the preceding thousands -f rears He referred to the "vital role of the st. Lawrence-Great Lakes

canal system whim united Weat- em Oaswds and the industrhil centres of Ontario and Quebec with the Atlantic snd the markets of the world" and stated that merch- ant vessels were the principal moms of communication between nations and in overcoming dist- ances between continents.

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llitl-IIAX. Dec. 12 - (OP) -- Goid produced in Nova eootic dur- ing the flrat nine months of i946 totalled 9.00s oimces. an increase of 0B0 ounces aver that Produced and the nme pflrbd lllt veer.

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Fox Fur Prices lip In

i London Since October

LONDON. Dec is-(cr Cable) —’l‘l1s Hudson's Bay Company revs In a report 0n e silver fox fur efllc this weak that sales of this aeasolfa skins showed a 7 I-Z-perccnt advance compared with October.

Last season's skins were in reduced demand. Better colors declined flve per cent and poor colors l2 1-2 per cont. Other grades were "neglected."

0hurchill=Expccts Jlivll War In India

LONDON. Dec. 12 - (CP) __ Winston Churchill told the H-uuse of Commons today that he expect- ed civil war i.n Indie. which may 651156 an "awful sbridgement" of the population. and accused the Labor Government of direct re. sponslbllity for thousands of lives already 10H ll'l Cflmmllnal violence,

"All the facts and all the omens Mint to a revival in an acute and violent form of the internal hat- reds and quarrels which have long laid dormant under the mild in- competence of liberal-minded Brit- ish control" said Gizmchill in 5 debate on India.

Polnteclly‘ dissociating the Con- servative PartvTrom the govern- ment plan for Indian lndepeaqd- ence. he said: "I should be very sorry indeed to feel that as mat- ters unfold in India there is any question of our being held an. countable at the present time f0 the course of events." ‘

TWO courses were open to Brit- ain, he said.

“The first is to proceed with ruthless logic to quit India regard- loss of what may happen there."

111s second. “failing a measure of agreement not now in sight. an lmprrtial administraticn appoint ed by parliament should be eel up.. ."

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -—-(AP)-—- President Tnunan today shook down into e temporary agency the once vast bureaucracy which wield- ed war and reconversion powers in the United States. He said that only the strikes kept him from Junking the aner v ey powers entirely.

The order kills oft the dying Of- flee of Price ddanlnistraticn and makes only a memory of this con- tsvvanlsl agency which played e great pert tn the daily life of the American people.

A lull new agency yae set up headed, l1! MeL-Gen. Philip B. 110ml“. federal works adminis-

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trator. Officially called uhe Office Temporary Controls. it inevitab- ly will become known as tihe 0.'r.c.

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Corporation Tax

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Foreign Ministers End Sessions In llaw York

NEW YORK, Dec. 12 — (AP) _ The four-power foreign ministers’ COILIIiCU finished its peacemisklng sees om n New KJONINPWRF, its mmbflehlltgfilmt that the 11m: experience. tiny-hive nu in writing the European satellite peace Hid-ties would be of great help in milling c. German settlement.

State Secretary Byrnes of the United States said that if they should get stuck on German issues at their meeting opening in Mos- cow March 10. he would invite them hock to New York because this seemed to be the Place where they could reach agreement.

Protest Bringing Polish War lists Tuianada

AMHERST, N. S.. Dec. l2—'l'.‘he Amherst branch of the Canadian Legion today passed a resolution protesting against Federal Gov- ernment action in bringing Polish war veterans to Canada ‘and placing them on farms.

The resolution. copies of which were ' directed to the Legionfls Dominion and provincial com? mancls and members of the Fed- eral Government, sold there was sufficient labor for farm work in Nova Scotla if farmers would pay a living wage but that the aver- age worker could not support a family on e45 a month. the am- ount said to be paid to the Poles.

Trial llun For Big Refrigerator Ship

LONDON Dec l" -. mentors)- A ship with the Yhffigerato-i- cap» acitv to keen Inndorvs K000 000 in- halzftants in meat, under nrescnt ration cordiwins. is on “er "nal trlels no-w prior to makWiv her meiden voyve to Fouth ‘me ica she is the l0.8(lO-t0ri Hornby Grange. with an insuleted bapacily

of 505.820 cubic feet. sufficient fa 7.300 tans of frozen meat.

May Seek Increase In Out-of -work Benefits

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OTIWWA. Dec. l2 - (C?) Boosting of unemploymant- insur- ance benefits will be sought at the next session of parliament, it is expected here, and some likelhood exists also that the scheme will be broadened to take in logging and lumber workers.

Though no moves in this direc- tion are apparent as yet, it is con- sldlred probable the Unemploy- ment hllllfl-IICE Advisory Commit- tee will recommend to the Iwern- ment lsrgcr payments to 1051088 from the ionldlrsmvies Md of amund while the scope of the schema es it affects lumber- man ma‘ be extended under exist-

iqgé-alt ion. it payments tot Joawackfcr

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Iits. hat spring, the committee proposed that than filuna ha rais- ed to fill andJllM. with the hulk of the increases Mes to man

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(By R. K. Clsrnqle)

OTTAWA, Dec. 22——(CP) -'l.he views of Hon. D. C Abbott", at 4'1 one of Canada's younger cabinet ministers. from now on will be- come increasingly important to the economic life of the Dominion and to the pocket beck of oueiunaa and working Canadians. " ‘Mr. Abbott this week was sp- polnted Finance Minister and his advice in that portfolio will carry a great deal of weight when the f ' policies of the Dominion Government are settled in council.

Mr. Abbott will bring down his first budget probably next March and by that time the situation should be clearer regarding Do- minion-Provlncial financial ar- rangements. The progress made in the negotiations of the Dominion

with the Provinces is llkr-ly to effect the tax changes he will propose.

May Have New Ideas

One of the big headaches of the Government is the corporation tax and men informed in tax mat- ters are wondering whether the minister will have any new ideas for dealing with it in n why that will relieve the ministry of some troubles.

Beginning Jon. 1 the corpovut on faxes will be consmidsted into one lax of 30 Der cent of the profits of a company. For the current ral- endar year these taxes total 4c per cent, This is apart from thi~ excess profits tax of l5 per cont.

The corporation tax, however open it may be to attack, v/ill bring into the federal treasury for the fiscal year ending next March something between 3350000000 and $360.000.000. It would be d"t‘ic"zlt to find such big money anywhere if the corporation tax were dros- nod.

The principal argument against the "orpctrati-on tax is thfll it re- sults in dotihle taxation. The ]‘.l'0' {its of a comnanv l" taxed 40 per cent and dividcrds distributed from what is left to the share- holders ls again subject to per-

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liar flu linnber workers. the plan is effective now only in British Col- umbis.

Owing to the seasonal nature of the industry in other areas. with many men unemployed in the off- seaaona. the sdvisory committee ea- timated that coverage of the whole trade would cause a drain of about flour per cant of the tote! Y"!!! contributions to the fund.

At the end q! last year, the fund stood at 916000.000. By last Oct. 3i. it wag about $304,000,000 and handing studily for the 0400000000

t. with a consequent increase employee- employer umtrlbutlmll. has been telponalble f0! the [with of the fund. to which the wvemmnit also contributes one-fifth the share of the other two parties.

A new study by the committee will be made early in the new 7911'- and it is expected its report and recommendations will be llid b6-

Dlaxton-lleads Amalgamated Defence Dents.

OVITIAWA. Dec, 12 —- tCPJ —- A second cabinet reorganization in three days was announced tonight by Prime Minister MacKenzie King, who revealed the amalgama- tlvn of the Defence Departments B-nd three P01110110 changes.

The changes were:--

Health Ministcr Brooke Claxton becomes Defence Minister. taking over the army and navy portfolios from Hon. Douglas Abbott and the sir portfolio from Hon. Colin Gib- eon.

Col. Gibson becomes Secretory of State succeeding Hon. Paul Mar- lln.

Mr. Martin takes over the hBnlth and welfare ministry.

Mr. Abbott continues mlely as finance minister.

Tonight's changes follow those announced-by Mr. King Tuesday night when Justice Minister St. Laurent became full-time external affair; minister, Finance Minister Ilsley became justice minister and Mr. Abbott iwceedcd Mr. Ilsley in the finance purtfulk).