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DTTAWA WILLING TO INVESTIGATE

Canada To Produce

ltederal Gov’t Proposes Dominion-Provincial Conference a Next Fall

O‘F'I‘A\‘.'A, Der‘. B -- (OP) — A general Iltiiiiiiiioii-Proviiicial coli- iereiire ill the fall of 1950 has been proposed by the Federal Government, Prime Minister St. Laurent announced today in the commons,

The proposal was made in let.- ters yesterday to the 10 Provincial PIEIiiLPFF. 'l'lie conference hinges on their acceptance.

Mr. Si, Laurent tabled copies of the letters which suggested that the conference be held next Sept.- smber or October to "dismiss ques- tions of common concern to the Provincial and Federal Govern- meats"

While the correspondence gave

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Coming Events

i "Mali sour Films to Garrihum Photo studio. Charlottetown.

"Attend Christmas Concert. at Kingston. Wednesday. December 21.

"Rummage sale, Market Build-

iflf. Saturday. 3 P. M.

"Cornwall aibistmus Friday, Dec, 23.

Concert,

"Card party Graham's lilll Friday, Dec. 9,

Road

Imidoii, each Friday night,

mas concert, Dec. 21st,

Putin only. Show a oclock,

Hall. December 19th.

"North and Schools Christmas Concert, mm ha". Tuesday, Dec. 20.

"WYiQLY Concert. Pie Social Dim» i\°il.\"s Cross Hall. Monday Dmmber 19th. DOor prize.

D"Resi~rve Tuesday, January 3rd ‘tiililtte. Melvicw ilaii. Women's In f’.

"Enerald Hall, Orchestra.

CTN“ buying Timothy ‘eiiiitd or lincleaned. 6r Boyle.

Cross school Frid t h” m‘ . av nigh , Deoem

.""The liliracle of the Bells" to iiieiit at 8.30 at Dont miss this show.

§°°‘='~- Croesus Hall, "Huber 14th.

3min at Fennell

glam“ Cfickiiis. Market Bl. December 10th, 7 P. ivf,

“if .t' __% Fgnjm: “i! 0i Cornwall

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“My "d bi! Vernon W. I.

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bi "is Altar Society.

"Rude, 10th, g; 2 School A

‘Ac Cal a gluing Thurldiiy afternoon Cou

on Saturday.

Sauciatlon.

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Legion Room

by R"- Mr- Mercer. ."Bu i? uit. "t your- n

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"I! Ind boars to-da

ilvivgluth ' I10! BC b“ w‘ Klllld Jqrjymmggn

"iittlulni- Dance at Skyline. New

"Union Road (Queen's) Christ,-

~ "Show Moreii every Tuesday and "Christmas Concert. Long River

South Pinette Flat

no v December 26th. X Socia. and Dance. Hickey Bros.

Seed. McGuigau

"Dance and Ilimch in Kelly's

North Wiltslilre.

"L- 0» B. A. Concert and Box Wednesday,

"South Winsloe Pantry Sale and 85mm, _ dz Chandler's, iii. December 10th. at 2 P.M.

"Sm “i Fflmv Work. Aprons and Building,

Junior _ 13th. If; 8.30. films “"“ be FiWWIi- Everyone wel-

"Rieserw- Decnnbe fill for and Dance, st Vernon Hall.

r afternoon. or Rummage Sale n lloly Redeemer Hail. Sponsored

“Pmlfy Elle at Holrnann. Sum- December P- M. by Emerald Home 6a

i'_ Cream of the West Flour, eteria feed: and mill feedl un-

‘y “i "Peciiil prices off car.

at 0 P. M. o 12th. Added attraction: ii Veterans Affairs and

pigs and w M“ 8i Fredericton. Kindly

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i ‘few details, there was speculation ‘that social-security measures, pub- iic-lnvestment projects and new taxation agreements would be am- ong major items on the agenda. There was almost immediate reaction from the Provinces, due to meet with the Federal Govern- ment in a Dominion-Provincial constitutional conference here Jan. 10. For instance. Premier Frost of Ontario said he agreed with the proposal for a general conference and his Government would be pre- pared to sit in on a pro-conference discussion of matters on the ag- enda.

In British Columbia. the Office of Premier Johnson said he would be willing to attend the confer- ence.

All Provinces have agreed to at- tend the January conference which will discuss the possibility of transferring to Canada power to amend the constitution in matters under Provincial jurisdiction. Pow- er to amend the constitution on most Federal matters was obtain- ed from the United Kingdom Par- liament earlier this month.

Mr. St. Laurent said the Federal Government does not propose to (draft any agenda for the constit- utional conference. He said:

"It had been the feeling of my colleagues and myself that the sub- ject for discussion at the forth- coming conference scarcely ad- mitted of any formal subdivision or reduction to an agenda of pro- cedure in advance.

"We had felt that each delega- tion would be making his own preparations for discussion of the problem of procedure in cou- stitutional amendment, and that the question of the best way of discussing it might be settled af- ter we had assembled on Jan. i0." The inquiry about the agenda came from Premier Douglas of Saskatchewan. in replying to him, Mr. St. Laurent also raised the question of a general conference and sent copies of the letter to all Premiers.

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Montreal Firemen Rescued From River

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MONTREAL. Dec. 8 -— (C?) —~ Two Mon-treat firemen. facing the possibility of freezing to death iu near-zero weather on the Si. Lawrence River, were saved to- day by police who made a labori- ous trek across the river ice tn- ward their ice-stalled motorboat. The two, Rene Guerin. 35, and Silvio Lacliaine, 29, were treated in hosprial for exposure after Pro- vincial Police officers, Paul Le» tendre and Paul Hebert brought them ashore. The firemen went duck-hunting yesterday morning in their boat. When they started for shore the motor stalled and ice forming around the bull pre- vented them from paddling. They used up all of their shotgun am- munition in vain attempts in at-

llealih Minister Makes Siaiemeni In The Commons

(YITAWJX, Dec. 8 -(CP) -Qgn- adil if going to undertake product- ion of ACTH, a new drug which has liiid "encouraging results" in treat- inciii. of arthritis and other diseases, 11631111 Minister Martin announcgd tonight.

He told the Commons that $750,- 000 would be provided ‘in the firstyear of the project on which the Federal Government, the pack- ing industry and the University of Toronto are fro-operating.

Mr, Martin emphasized that all amounts of ACTH produced would of necessity have to go to re- search to hasten the day when the drug would be available in quan- tities large enough to supply the human needs.

Allocation of ACTH will be under_ the direction of a special committee of eminent Canadian medical men named by the presi- dent of the National Research Council,

"This committee," Mr. Martin said,_"besidcs advising on the al- location of ACTH, will approve financial support for research on both ACTH and Cortisone to en- sure that all available facilities in Canada are fully utilized to speed the research program."

Cortisone is another drug. usual- ly associated with ACTH, which has been found to “hold promise for the treatment of diseases."

Murder Charge In N, S. lieaih

LIVERPOOL, N. S., Dec. 8

murder in connection with the death Tuesday night of Char- les Martin, Ti.

The Woodsman was charged after a coroner's jury here io- night declared that Martin hart (lied ns n result. nf n blow from n rock in the hands of Cunningham.

During the inquest, Ciin-I niniziiam said he had been "chasing" 40-_vear-oid Mrs. lilnriin "a little." He said liiariin had accused him of "fooling around vviih sweet- lips."

Martin was found uncon- scious by his wife on a dark. wooded path a short dis- tance from their linme.

Toronto Considers Non-Resident Tux

TORONTO, Dec. s —(CP) —The Telegram says today in a newspage story that ‘Mayon Hiram McCal- luin “is seriously considering the imposition of a poll tax or head tax oii iron-residents who earn their living within the city," The story says "ions of thousands of residents of contiguous suburban municipalit- lcs illflkt‘ use of the services which the eiii- provides almost as freely as residents of the city itself. but make no direct contribution to the cast of supplying and maintaining

tract attention from shore.

Bull's. Draft

By GEORGE KITCIQ WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 — (Cl?)

The United States draft law appears to be in for a rough ride at tho next Session of Congress.

Under the law. all single Ameri- can youths _of 10 to 25 are liable for 2i months of military service. Actually, only a few more than 30,000 have been called since the act was passed.

The act expires next June 29. unless revived by Congress. Polit- ical circies say that any bill to kce it alive and on the statute books will face almost certain de- feat unless there is a marked change of sentiment in Congress.

It was put through the 80th i048 at the earnest

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"Se congress! i?“- ident Truman as a e "a t .. _ b n st o = - liiid Randtfldirmgéiggafld-row" 385$; frieéilohfl of national defence. It was Eur lam mm, Cmfiedy good m: nemw then because voluntary “filament s. MwD,,',,,,,d 3m, enlistmerits were not sufficient to ire tonight, ' keep fhe United States armed “M n“ m forces at streiigtla. m Us °'" YMeeting of Mt. Stewart At the time. o0. e . . was hgféml: Canadian Leila“ Wm be preparing itself to meet any event-

uality arising abroad.

Want extension

During the new congressional session opening in January, repre- sentntives of the services are ex- pected to go to bat strongly for gn extension of the Draft Act. Th”. mgy even seek a permanent

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political want no extension. id to fear the wrath

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sioilal election year. and sources say Cofltlffisilmen part. of any move for They are so of the peace lovers. the labor uh inns, the cducatioiiists and run-ol-thc mine mothers and fa thors.

When passed

law acted as an immediate spur t

and in February only 3'1. only One In June

one draftee - in June - when youth vice to ducted.

on the other hand.

monthly target totals.

A mouth ago. G01’ rotary of the army. army's a anti the ne

sat military trainin said, eliminate the perhaps fatal" that migh ergency.

“'j‘CPl"Fr°§°1“°k James CHIP pro-trial "confession." said: ninglitim, 40-year-old‘ woods- “It has happened in the pa“, man from nearby Milton, was that these puppet shows have charged lato tonight with gon-e according to plan")

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in 1948, the draft

voluntary enlistments. So SUCCESS-

ful was it as a prod that it has 8 been used little. Starting in Nov- cVL/ATWO. Queémdglrf- we; ember i048, 7.724 youths were in- i i- 0 90""! h me diluted. In December. the total gums! so deaismieydev fir“? m"

- . 194e, 14,003, e vs a cc r - w“ R362‘ m Jammy miles from this Eastern Townships

Since then. there has been only

who had been evading ser- r several months was in-

more than

1601100 have enlisted since the draft became effective and the WQQQhQf services now are slicing their

don Gray, sec- muie clear the ttitude toward the draft ed for extension when he came out strongly for univer- g. It would. he "agonizing and period of waiting t ensue in a sudden ein-

New Drug For Arthritis

VANCOUVER. Dec. 8 -- (CF) —- Northa American women want their fur coats rich and expensive looking »~ iiot just. Wflffri.

The trend of fashion suits West,-

ern fur ranchers, especially the mink raiscrs. The 800d news came to the

ranchers here today when fur auc- Wm buyers paid 3'5 per cent more for ranch mink _ barometer- o; the trade _ than they did at the close of the season a few weeks ago.

T09 grade male mink pelts sold at $27 while females advanced to $15.76. _

It was an all-mink auction with sales estimates at $150,000.

Furriers interpreted the sales as a trend toward tastes in made-up furs.

keen richer

Fur Sale Brings Good News To Mink Ranchers

The major buyers came from United States centres, including New York, and took the cream of the crop.

It is the first. good news ranch. ers have had in a year. Rockbot- tom prices prevailcrl in 1948 and forced '100 Alberta ranchers out of business. Another 300 folded up in Saskatchewan.

British Columbia's 500 ranchers found the sledding rough but held on because of their big advantage over Prairie fur growers _ fish,

Major item in the balanced diet of mink. fish scrap costs one or two cents a pound in British col- umbia compared to four oi- five cents in Alberta and Saskatche- wan. The Prairie alternative, horsemeat, costs six or seven cents a pound.

Bulgarian . Denounced As

Former Briti

SOFIA. Dec. 8 —-(CPl -Traicho Kostov, Bulgaria's foimer deputy premier, today heard six former hiEli Communist officials denounce him in court here as a British agent. Not once did he challenge their evidence. though yesterday hr,- had denied the main treason charges against him.

l-le was given an opportunity to question his co-delendants after their "guilty" pleas, but, apart from a minor query about a date, ‘he re- mained silent.

(A British Foreign Office spokesman, conwmeniing in llJlldOfl on Kostovs repudiation yesterday of the bulk of his

Kostov is on trial with 10 other Bulgarians on charges including spying and anti-Soviet activities, which call for the death penalty. One after another, six a the ac- cused today acknowledged their guilt and piled up evidence against Kosiov. In mitt-h of their evidence they linked Kostnv and themselves with the "British intelligence ser- vice and told of sabotage attempts" against trade talks.

Three Confess Today

Three defendants confessed their guilt this morning. They were Ivan stefanov. former Minister of Fin- ance; Mikoiov Naichev Petkov. deputy head of Kostovs ministry, the State Economic Commission; and Boris Kristov, commercial rep- resentative in the Soviet Union.

Stefanov alleged that “Kostovl- men" sabotaged Bulgarian trade talks with Russia and Eastern Eur- opean countries to ciisure close trade ties with the West. He said he and Kostov were unmasked after the failure of an alleged plot-Wu have been carried out with the help of the British intelligence ser- vice and Yugoslav Premier Tito"— to capture the Communist Party congress and radically c-linnge the Party government.

Pet-kov said he became a British agent in 194.1.

Qne of the accused testified that the former press secretary of the British legation, Steven Patrick House. gave hFm an order in 1048 to sabotage trade negotiations with Hungary.

He was Ivan 'I‘utev. former direct- or of Bulgarian foreign trade. who pleaded siiilty.

Iratri" lie worked dcr the. directive of "a one-time mistress of the late Kim! Fer- dinand" and finally was ordered into the underground communist Party by British intelligence

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Certified Seed Exports To U. S. Ai Alliime High

OTTAWA, Dec. 8 - (Special) ~- Canadian exports of certified seed potatoes to the United States this year reached the nil-time high of 4,713,163 bushels, according to a reply tabled in the Commons by Agriculture Minister Gardiner, to a question asked by 111.11. Ha Progressive Conservative member for Victoria-Carleton.

Last year's export of Canadian certified seed potatoes which also was a record, totalled 4,310,215. lu- creases of the past two years were due to the larger quotas extend- ed this seed by the United States government.

Export of Canadian table pota- toes to the United States dwindled from 1,967,797 in 1048 to 1.073.964 from January 1 to October 1 this year.

Imports of United States pota- toes into Canada have also galli- cd during the past year, Mr. Gar- diiier's answer reveals. Imports of table potatoes to October 1 were 519,505 bushels compared to 338.- 053 bushels last year and certified seed imports gained from 1,592 in 1948 to 3.230 in 1949. The increase is attributed to relaxation by Can- adian authorities of embargo on U. S. potatoes.

Proiesis Against Discrimination In Postal Setup

Vigorous protest over discrimina in the set-up of postal

by W. Chester S. McLure, Pro- gressive Conservative member for Queen's.

Mr. McLure insisted that P. E.I. was entitled to equality of treat- ment with other provinces in ev- ery respect. and it was not getting this consideration.

"We are not rsiteil as a prov- ince at. all," he declared during discussion of Post. Office Depart.- ment estimates. "Under i.he new set-tip the Department has a re- gional controller. That is all right.

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OITAWA. Dec. 8 - (Special) -

tion against Prince Edward Island officials was made iii the Commons today

CHIGNECTO PROJECT

Engineermay Be Asked To Make Report

OTTAWA, Dec, 8—(CP)—'I‘rans. port Minister Chevrlcr told the Commons today the Government will consider setting up a baud 0f engineers to determine the egg- i-iomic possibilities of a canal across the Isthmus of Chignecto betu/een Nova SCOlill and New Brunswick.

Mr, Chevrlor said the latest in- formation in the hands of 1b.;- lielbartment-as of 1931~indicated that was not: the time to build the "n81. but he would consider a board to find out if conditions had changed,

The proposed canal would cut across an 13-mile stretch of the isthmus, linking the, Edy 0g Fundy and the Gulf of Si. Lawrence and providing an ail-inland route down the east coast. For many years. various section's of the Maritimes have bee“ ilrmnfz its construction.

The Minister made his nn- nouncement after Pcrcy Black (PC-Cumberland) had urged [he Minister to undertake the project, which br- said would be of value strategically and commercially and

as o matter of justice to the Maritimes, Earlier in the session, several

other Maritime members had call- ed on the Government to under- take the long-sought canal, which they contend wag promised the Maritlmes at, Confederation.

Not Satisfied

After the Minister's statement, Mr. Black expressed dissatisfaction that the question should be in- quired into from an “ec0nomlc" aspect. He declared millions were spent on canals elsewhere in Can- ndn, and they were not expected

MONCTON, N. 8.. Dec. 8 --(CP) — The Maritime Regional Employ- ment Committee today urged that the new $3,000,000 ferry to run between Yarmouth, N. S.. and New England be built in the Maritime!

1n passing this resolution the committee. an advisory body to National Employment Service, took note of a Government statement that there are more than 20,000 unemployed in the, Maritime-s.

The meeting, which reviewed employment conditions in the Maritlmes, was under the chair- manship of Magistrate W. F. Lane.

Possible construction of a new

hotel ‘in Moncton also was dis- cussed. Afrter some discussion of the

hotel matter, the committee felt that the question should be refer- red to the Moncton District Em- ployment Committee with the suggestion that it be fully consid-

cred.

Officials heard a report on con- ditions in the lifonc-ton area by W A. D. Trent, manager of the Na- tional Employment Service here.

The Amherst Employment Ad- visory Commi-ttee also presented a proibletm to the officials. The Amherst office asked the Regional

OTTAWA, Dec. ~ (CP)—A half-ton shipment of Canadian uranium compounds went to Rus-

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Mr, Chevricr said his Depart- ment has much data on the pro- ‘posed canal, but it indicates “t~lcnrly" that from ilie economic .pnlnt of view the time had not larrived to build the canal when ‘the last survey was made in 1931. ‘ However, he said lie would be iwiiling to consider setting up the board of engineers fn “establish whether or not conditions have so changed as to indicate whether to- day it xvould be economic to build the canal." Speaking during House consid- eration of Transport Department estimates, ‘Mr, Black declared n strong Maritimes committee had been working at rressing the claims of the area for the canal. The department now had en- nuizh information in its hands to be able to anrinuhco policy and proceed with construction. Par- liament. seemed to br- "straining at. the leash" to get the St. Law- rence seasvay project under way. but nothing xvrrs being done on ibi- canal. promised since confed- oration.