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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, FRIDAY. MAY 5, 1950

SHOOTING WAR WITH RUSSIA NOT NEAR. TRUMAN H0iDg

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Residents OF Morris Decide

Fish Meal Plants At Hunter River And Souris

N ow Being Considered

Two Island companies may set up” fish meal plants here in the near future with one to be erect- ed at Hunter River and the other at Souris, it was learned last night. Arrangements for the plant at Hunter River are being made while plans are being studied for the Souris plant.

The plant at Souris will be op- erated by the Eastern Packing Company Limited. It is believed that the Company are considering erecting a medium sized plant but the scheme is still in the consider- ation stage.

Officials of the proposed plant at Hunter River announced that they hope to has final arrangements completed within a few days. This plant is to be erected on it large scale with the latest equipment. The erection of the plant has been approved and commended by the Department of Fisheries at Hall- fax. ,

The erection of these plants should result in benefits to both the farmer and fisherman. it is claimed. They will provide a mar- ket for fish refuse which is wasted at present and will also provide Island made fishmeai thus clini- inating considerable importation of this feed.

325.000 Loss In Orplionogs Firs

CORNWALL. ont.. May 4 - (OP)-Miss was estimated at 525.- 000 when fire swept through the top floor of the Nazareth orphan- age in downtown Cornwall today. Occupants of the orphanage - five ohi1dron1.nn”vni.ne-stisff1nendsers-'- csco.ped;A1olleved to have started in a broom cupboard. the fire spread rapidly through the upper floor of the two-storey brick structure. Twenty-one other child- ren from the orphanage were at classes in city schools when the blaze broke out about noon.

Coming Events

"Mail vour Films to Garnhum Photo Studio. Charlottetown.

"Come to dlnce in New Haven School Friday. May 5.

"Meeting Clyde L. O. B. A. Saturday. May 0th.

"R. e sols. Holy Name Hall. Saturday, May 6th. at 2 P. M.

"Dance. French River Hall. Fri- day. May 5th. beginning 9 P. M.

"Rummage sale. Trinity Bocill Hall. Saturday. May 6th. 3 P M.

"Fs.rrners. now booking Clover seeds. Rush order. Mcauigan at Boyle.

"Dance. Watt-rvaie School. Mon- day. May 8th. If not fine. follow- ing night.

"Cream Route-Beginning MILV an. to Kensington once a week till further notice. David White.

"Zion Guides cake sale. Rogers Hardware, Saturday, May 6th.

"Booking orders for Cross Seeds. Lowest prices. Rush orders. Iirt's Food service. Souls.

"Dance at the Gordon lodge. Friday night. May bth. Dsncinl from 9 till 1. v

"Hunter's River tonight at 030. "Lee Tracey" in "The "PINK- Also "Laurel and Hardy" Short.

"Bun Holm will be collecting hogs through De sable and. vicin- ity .11 day every Maidsy for swift con. Do.

"Dont miss that action packed Drum. "'r.Mon". playing at Ilse- Donsid Bros. Theatio. Mt. Stewart. tonlsiit.

"Io prepared for the Variety in M0

. M010" mil. tgxioay, any sth. sponsored by Isoiitoguo talent. "Goddlo Memorial ciudren amt- Ing will be new in-ieny svmins. May an. n 1.30 to which all in- terested in the iinpi-ovsinsiit of the comets 1 an invited to still"!

"National mm Board I- Isnts films slay sth. south mica lcltool. sale of I Luuobls

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MR. R. A. PITT

Household Finance Corporation of Canada announces the appointment of Mr. R. A. Pitt as Manager of their office in Charlottetown. Mr. Pitt was educated in Halifax. serv- sd three years with the R. C. A. f".. being discharged as a Flight Lieu- tenant. 1-Ie joined Household Fin- ance in Halifax and has latterly been Assistant Manager of one of the Ottawa branches.

CHARGED WITH MURDER.

WINNIPEG. May 4 -- (GP) - Walter money. 38. an unemployed chef, today was charged fromiiily with murder in the icc-pick slay- ing oi Mrs. Martha Perrsault. Body of Mrs. Pei-result, 31. mother of six young children. was found under a bed in a downtown hotel room May 11. she had been stab-

bed repeatedly. Stoney was re- manded a week for preliminary hearing.

To Abandon Town

lose Bame To Keep Hospital. Dry

WINNIPEG. May 4 - p(CP) - The residents of near-floating Mor- ris. Man.. will abandon ship 10- nighl. y

A Canadian National Railways train left here at 6:30 p.m. CDT to evacuate all remaining persons from the hard-hit town. 41 mile! south of here.

For volunteer flood-fighters and army and navy personnel, who have waged a week-long bdme against the implacable Red River. it was a strategic withdrawal.

Thirteen patients from ihe new hospital, where a last-ditch stand was made will be brought out. So will every other man. woman and child left in the centre of 1.100 persons.

Hospital Dam Breaks

The hospital dam broke tonight. Pumping crews will try to keep the water below floor level until an army duck takes .the patients to the railhead.

Of the patients. four are babies. Two expectant mothers and four new mothers will be met by ambu- lance and taken to Winnipeg Gen- eral Hospital.

Morris squats in the muddy waters near the north end of a 150-mile-square lake which stret- ches almost to the international border.

An official estimate placed ihe number at about 150. Besides the patients and 31 soldiers. about 100 persons were still in town.

Prepare Beds

Two hundred beds were being made ready at H. M. C. S. Chippe- wa in Winnipeg. Some 300 had al- ready fled to this threatened city and hundreds oi others had. moved to closer-points. -

The Morris Hospital was ihe last point left by the rising water. A sandbag dike. reinforced today

Spotlight At

As the Fifth Annual Festival of Music finished its fourth day of Competition. the adjud-icators sug- Ke-"ed t0 9-he '11'8e aud'ence in at- iendance at the P. W, C. auditorium last evening that they most likely W979 beginning to think that it was impossible to please adJL'di at- ors.

This was expressed after they had heard the beautiful singing of Trinity Young Women's Chorus of Summerslde and the Charlotte. town Baptist C-;rl's choir

com petiniz in Class 9. Mr. Lee com- plimented the Summer-side C-hoir

on their lovely warm tone, and ex- reileiit soprano section. Speaking of the Charlottetown group he said it was definitely a pleasure to listen tb them, and that they had an excellent, pure quality. He also paid special tribute to the work of the conductor of the Charlottetown girls, Mrs. Allison MacRae. and pointed out the terrific amount of

Festival is

Held. By Choral Singers

lwork she must have done to help

the girls reach their high stand. ard of perfection

"It is our dutrz, however. to show you what can V('i be done," he said to the choirs. "and that is the reason for the constructive criticism we offer". He stated that the task of deciding between the two choirs was a difficult me, in regard to points, but after much discussion with Mr. Hubble hud awarded the highest mark to Charlottetown with 82. and Summerside 81.

The same groups competed also in class 11, am; the Baptist girl's choir were again awarded first place with 82 marks, the Summer- side Trinity Church choir receiving 78.

String Ensemble

In commenting on the Kathleen Hornby Enserrblc of Charlottetown.

the only entry in class 109. string continued on pigs Col. 5

i'iFriFriH6iri-iigT" is Continued Al Halifax

HM-IF'AX. May 4-(GP)-A crew member oi the destroyer Haida. Wlniam Tooke. testified at 8 pre. liminary hearing or a murder

after a minor break with another 3,000 sandbags. was the scene of

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Tourist Business May Break Record, Dolan

Tells Senate

OTTAWA. May 4 -(OP)-In- quirics sent to the Canadian Travel Bureau for tourist infor-

mation indicate that 1950 tourist traffic may break the record set in

1040. Leo Dolan. director of the Travel Bureau. today told the

senate committee on tourist traf- fic that inquiries to date are 19 per cent higher than in the cor- responding period last year.

A total of 188.210 inquiries - most oi them from the United states-have been received. In April the number of letters asking for information about Canadian tourist attractions averaged 3.100 daily.

He said competition for the travei dollar is increasing and the government is conside ing the os- tsblishment of elaborate Travel Bureau information offices in New

Committee

York and Chicago.

Canada now has representatives in the consular offices of,Now York and Chicago handling in- quiries about travcl in Canada other countries were establishing ground floor offices on the main thoroughfares of New York and Chicago to attract the tourist dol- lar. He believed Canada should have similar show windows.

He told the committee that tourists spent an estimated 5288.- 000.000 in. Canada last year. about 5270.000,000 of it by United states visitors. Expenditures by Canadians in the United states was about 5164.000.000.

Mr. Dolan told Senator W. Rup- ert Davies (L-Ontario) that the Travel Bureau spreads its adver- tisemenis right across the U. 5. As a result Quebec. for instance.

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Living Costs Edged Up Slightly During March

OTTAWA. May 4 -(OP) -l..iv- ing costs in Canada edged ill) three-tenths oi 9. 1101119: i0 5 "9" high of 104.0 in March. reflectinl price increases for s. wide range of goods with the exception 01 clothing.

The Bureau oi Statistics ssld.to- doy that the advance from the previous record of 1.7 in Nb- rtilry was caused mainly by hlsher prices for beef. ell!- WW0 "id anthracite cool.

Although butter prices were down slightly. the advance in other food prices moved the food .db- x from 214.0 to 214.5. down .7 points from the record Oi no.2 last July.

Tm general index is calculated on the basis that ions-39 prim

oausi 1oo.. A you no 1-31! "id" touched 159.3.

In other sub-In-cups eomvriiinl in. index. the Bill" W01” that advances for a lie coll

in onus-Io gnd Quebec were large- ly rssponsibio for the rise in the

and fuel and um. index from no.3 to

13.0. a rscord for that column- lioor coverings went up in wk! and advanced the omofurnishirlls Q from 1 .0 to 100.0. I on n of a point lacrosse. n-tag also rose for-.drIIOI

andininand

..m.......:...jm-.-- for automobile operations. cousin! the miscellaneous sub-group to ad- vance two-tenths of a point from 132.1 to 132.3. a peak for that

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only clothing moved down. The March decline was two-tenths of a point from 101.4 to 181.2.

Rents were not surveyed and the sub-index remained unchanged at the record of 132.7. reached after an advance oi 7.7 points in Ebb- riisry.

The Bureau noted that from August. 1930. to March 31. 1900. the increase in the cost-of-liviig index was 02.7 per cent. .

Meanwhile wholesale prices con- tinued io climb. The index for in- dustrial material prices hit 100.0 for the week of April 21. coin with 1110.1 for the west of arch 31. an increase oi nine-tenths of s

point.

The Bureau sstiniaud that dur- ing the first three weeks of April. there were gains regisfared for oats, steers. row rubber. raw cot- ton. line and copper. Wholesale

prices for sugar. hogs and resin receded.

whoisssis fanii gained man-tenths of a point bmvse Much I1-Alifii N. from 107.9 to

cbnrse against Eunice rial-nisii, 18- YEBY-Oid waitress. today that he was not the father of R child lO'lfld st"-nsled April 16 in Point Pleas- ant Park.

1 The ordinary scaman admitted keiliing compiny the odd night" with the accused since meeting hei- during the Summer of 19-'9. He said he saw her March 14 and that she had a baby with her and asked him ior 35.00.

"She told me she got k'cked out of her room anl her kid had been living on water for a week." Tookc said. Miss Harni:-h had called him by telephone the next night, land they had met. but the baby was not with her.

"I asked her where the baby was and she said she put it in a home" he testified. '

Tooke said he knew the waitress had 3 baby last October, He said the girl and her father had accvs. ed him oi being tiic father of the baby. He had never given Miss Hamish money for support of the child and denied that he had struck the infant.

"Did you ever threaten to kill the child?" asked defence counsel.

"N0." rbplied Tool-re.

He also denied saying. "why don't you wrap it in a newspaper and throw it in the gutter. If you don't, I wiil."

Tooke said-ho had told the wait. ress to put the baby in a home.

Mrs. Kay Viner testified Miss Harnish had brought the baby to :'.er home one day and asked her to look after it until she found the father to pay the rent.

Mrs. Codie chines said the locus- ed hsd rented ii room from her the first week of March. There was a man with her and they identified themselves as Mr. and Mrs. Des- chene. she said the woman stayed in the room only a few days. she and a baby with her.

John Fen-ish said he had known Miss Hamish since "a couple of days before cliiistmas." She stay- ed at his home until the end of February.

He said a "navy guy" was the accused when they took the baby away from his house. The hearing was adjourned for a week.

United Church Hod Successful Your

TORONTO. May 4 -(OP) --The United Church of Canada said to- day it received 30.908 new mem- bers last year. It was the second largest annual number of convers- ions in the Church's 20 years. some 32.715 were recorded in 1940. Largest single Presbytery con- version total last year was Mont- real's 1.750. some others: Van- oouvor 157; Winnipeg 1,342; Tor- onto (three Presbytorlos). 3,114. Nina Provinces showed membership increases over 1940. Newfouridli-.nd and Saskatchewan recorded small decreases-

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Survey Completed At Fullertonis Marsh For Waterfowl Development

Prince Edward Island come the first place in Eastern Canada where a site could be chosen for devclopmcnt of a migratory waterfowl area by Ducks Unlimited, an organization of Can- adian and American sportsmen dedicated to the preservation of wildlife.

Mr. Bruce B. Wi-iglit. an offic- ial of the wildlife Management In- stitute in Fredericton, N. 11.. left here ycsterday after completing a three-day survey of Fullerton's Marsh.

The survey was conducted at the request of the Provincial Depart- ment of Industry and Natural Ri- sources at the suggestion of the P. E 1. Fish and Game Agociat- inn. The Association had asked that Fullerton's Marsh be dammed.

Before leaving the Province. Mr Wright conferred with Premier .1. Walter Jones.

A report on the survey will be given to Ducks Unlimited. Should the organization decide to proceed with the project. it would then seek the approval of the Provincial- Government. Costs oi the develop- ment would be dc-frayed by Ducks Unlimited. .

During the survey. Mr Wiishi was accompanied by Constable Bpiirgeon Jenkins. Game Warden. whose services were made avail- able by Inspector N. W. Churchill of the Royal Canadian Mounted

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Police.

Fullertons Marsh is local-Dd about four miles northeast of Charlottetown.

Says villa Siiuaiion is Improving

By D. Harold Oliver

WASHINGTON. May 4 - (AP) - President Truman sought to- day to allay fesrs of a shooting war with Russia. He said he is not alarmed. and the situation now is not nearly as bad as it was in the first half of 1948.

He said he thinks situation is improving.

He spoke out at a press confer- ence against a reorganized United Nations with Russia excluded, as suggested by former President Hoover. and said the United States will continue to support the U. N. as long as he is President. In mos”. instances the U. N. is working well. he added.

As if to point up his guarded optimism, he said the American defence budget for the year start- ing July 1. 1951 will be smaller than for next fiscal year, now es- timated at 94.261.127.300.

The administration's recent pro-

the world

A possl 10 increase the defence ap-

propriatlon by 0350.000.000 was

oi based on alarm by any sense of the word, but was simply to give the country an adequate de- fence.

other Views Conflict

'l'i-iiman's optimism did not square exactly wiih rcccnt state- ments by his defence chiefs. De- fence Secretary Louis Johnson, in justifying the s350,000,000 increase for planes. warship modernization and anti-submarine devices. said the Russian atomic explosion. ihe fall of China. and other serious in-

iernatlonal events caused a te- valuatlon of American defence pla

ns.

And Gen. Omar Bradley. head of the joint chiefs of staff. in a new plea this weak for extension of the draft. said rccen-i. world events add up ”to a very bad situ- ation."

Truman said today that fears that the northwest states and Alaska may be written off in de- ience plans as "expendable". as a reporter put ii, are unnecessary and unfounded.

Truman also formally nominat- cd Stanley Woodward as ambas- sador to Canada. and sent the nomination to the Senate for con- firmation.

Woodward. a close personal friend of Truman's. will succeed Laurence A. Stein-hardt. killed last month in a plane crash near Ot- iawa.

SECRET INSTALLATIONS

WASHINGTON, May 4 - (AP) -. The United totes Air Force said today it plans four secret install- ations in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa. The disclosure came amid reports that a radar defence net- work is being set up in that area. While refusing to confirm those reports, the Air Force said that secret installations will be built at Mason City. Ia.. East Farmington and Elkhorn. Wisc.. and at an un- specified point in Minnesota, north- east of Duluth.

By A. F. Mshsn. Jr-

DETROIT. May 4 - 15,1” "The ions. costly ChF)'51" Sim” was settled today on a note of bitter- ness simllar io that which marked its beginning 100 days ago.

But there was elation. too.

The 89.000 striking members of the United Auto Workers (C.l.0.) will start back to work Monday. with everything they asked in ihe why of a 3100 monthly pension. in- cluding Federal social security benefits. backed by I joinllv-8d' minlstcred trust fund.

The union failed. however, to get a union shop and total bene- fits of 28 cents an hour. which it demanded when negotiations on n new contract opened July . 1049.

Bitterness marked neg otion.-I from the walkout to settlement and as today's signing was announced. Walter Reuther. U. A. W. pres- ident. told a press conference:

"Chrysler Corporation has sunk to I low never before attained in the auto industry. - - - As late as yesterday Mr. Weckier (Herman L. Wecirler. Chrysler vice-prey ident and general manager) pros- tituted the facts." -

Weckler yesterday repeated his charge that the U. A. W. was sini- llng settlement to collect a maxi- mum sirikc fund under 31 week- ly assessments against working union members.

The 12-week assessment period ended yesterday. When all col- lections are in. they will total ap- proximately 37.000000. of which less than 00.000000 already has been expanded.

Reuther hotly denied Wecklerls

iLong, Costly Chrysler Strike Ends In 100th Day

charge that the union prolonged the walkout to enlarge its strike fund. I-ii: blamed the settlement delay 10 Chrysler": "blind selfish- ness". V

Weckler said today in a stale-

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PEI Arguments Cited On. Railway Nationalization At Commission Hearing

Labor Gov'i Boosls Majority To Nine

BRIGHHOUSE. Yorkshire. England. May 4-(Reuters)-- The Labor Government today increased its effective voting majority in the House of Com- mons to nine by holding Brig- house in a parliamentary by- election.

L. .1. Edwards. the Labor candidate. polled 24.000 votes against 23,567 for the combin- ed National Liberal and Con-

servative candidate, Maj. W. E. Wooley.

Winnipeg Man Heads Red Cross Central Council

TORONTO, It-fay 4--(OP)-John A. MacAulay of Winnipeg today was elected chairman of the Cen- tral Council of the Canadian Red Cross Society.

A former pres.dent of the Mani- toba Red Cross. he succeeds A. 1... Bishop of Toronto.

Leopold MacAiilay of Toronto was re-elected chairman of Society's national executive committee.

Executive committee members include:

Mrs. W. F. I-liitchlnson, St. John's. Kim: C. W. Mofiatt. Dartmouth. N. 8.; R. H. Rogers. Charlottetown.- and R. F. Wright, Saint John. N. E.