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II. K. Labor Leaders Make Churchill Special Target

UK LABOR

LONDON, Feb. fi-iCPh- Brl. tainfls Labor lenders tonight, made (‘i>n\i‘i‘\'.‘ill\'0 chief \Vl ll s t o n (‘llurelilil their special target in tile i-alllpzliglling for the general tleclion Feb. 23. But tiieir attacks only matched Churchill‘: bitter anti-socialist blasts.

Prime Minister Attlee, Foreign Secretary Bevin, \Var MInI§QQr Shlalvell, Labor M. P, hllchpsl Filo! and Health Minister Aneurin Bevan hammered at the 75-year- old ‘Tory chief with speeches in aideiy-scattered sections of Eng- land

'l‘llc speakers accused Churchlll of everything from nearly ruining Britain's economy to insulting the eaililtry of Wales,

For his part, Churchill kept riclit on shooting, Ho acornfully drilarccl that tho Labor Govern- ai- at has been kept alive only hy llclicnlz dollars from the United States, and that without such help lirllaill would be facing an un. QlHPIiLVTlICTH crisis.

Would End Gas Rationing

Speaking in support of his son, l"..'illriolph, running for Parliament in llevonport, Churchill Tiiflflc the promise that, ii‘ elected, the Tories llould end gasoline rationing at

Coming Events

"Atoll your Photo Studio,

Films to Gsrnhum harlottetown.

t Hockey match Long River Rial: tonlcllt. French River vs. Stanley.

"Dance. Grand View Hail. blon- diiy. F's-biliary 13th.

"Hockey Long Creek tonight. i-‘List Royalty Royals vs. Nine Mlle _ii-ek Bulldogs. Skate offer.

"Dance. Fort. Augustus School,

Friday. February 10th. Burke's Orchestra. "lloekey at Long Creek to-

night. New Haven Royals vs. Long Sleek Beavers. Skate after,

"Wiilsllire rink tonight. ltnn Juniors vs. Wllishlrc lols. Skating after,

King- Jun-

"Don't miss the Farley Dress Ice (tqirnilal in O‘I.cary Rink on ’I‘ues- ri:i_. February 21st. Atxnission lift cents.

“ ‘Hockey New Glasgow tonight. lfir-it game of semi-finals. New »ilfl»=soil' vs. Glasgow Road. 8.30.

"Wirokinoic Party and Box S0c-| iai. btarsilfleid Hall. February 14bit. Adiilission 35 cents. Marshticid Wiinlens Institute.

"Hockey at liunter River to- Wiillll. Don't miss this game. Cllflf- l.tli1'lt)\\'ll Y.l\f.t‘..A. versus Hunter Rilcr Sllur-Guln Skate uftcr.

“Annual Box Social, Bingo. mice, auspices Holy Namesac- Town flail. Georgetown, Tues- liii- February 14th.

"flares Racing at Stanley. Sat- lrdal; February iltfl. If not. fine, Viuilday, February 13th. Starting -: 2 o'clock sharp.

'Rr~serve Tuesday. Mart-H 7th. ' l’ 7.loll Young Peoples "Sill-prise under the flircction til iii-s Altllur Roper.

“Vlllntlne dance, Canoe Cove. Wednesday 15th. Sale of lunches. Intcrtalnmcnt for all MacNeilik Urehestra. Proceeds Home flail ichnol Club.

"Annual meeting of the Wilt- Iliirc Dairying Co. will be held .a North Wiitshirc Hall on Mon- lay. February 1R, 2 pm. Nelson liritherley, Secretary.

"Share the Wealth Auction Sale or fancy work and social evening lll Kingston Hail, Thursday. Febru- "iv 16th. In IJCi of Kingston W. I. Admission 35 cents. Free lunch.

l "North HJVGI Rink

L018"! Game: tonight. Charlottetown Mon- lmhs vs Bouthport ll’!- Gl-Itie time B30. Skate after. Closed tam win luvs Market. Scum It I o'clock. '

"North River Rink. Saturdty- FPtbruos-y iitli. Special hockey

lime, Nina Mile Oreo! Bulldogs vs. Milton Hornets. Game time l o'clock sharp. Slate lifter. Oicoed grim-k leaves Market Square It .30.

"To srnvo within the nlxt fsw 4m. ocriosd of-buik wheat. w- lvld of Barley moot. col-loco of Pioneer feeds. cal-load of Brlfi

llic earliest possible m0 B meat. cur-go "B to drive a pleasure Ame mmesi a month, 9 8 ' whim]?! ttlowflsfltziiizlifis of speeches l5 vial speech of the night Amerlc 9 chflfges of living on “I an charity by saying; shanimldfifl‘ more ashamed of Mar. than 1st] cyl. this p°"“""r period l l'- urehili is ashamed o! ease-lend during (be Wary ‘him’!!! Crfimlnded his audience as ancellor of the Exche- quer in 1924 Churchill put Eng. isgflhlmfik °"_ "if 801d standard - t? 501d. destroyed every trade union agreement tb country." e Shinwell declared it "amazin " t‘ n z that Churchill dared to speak yesterday ln Wales where "before tile war workers’ heart; were blight“ h)’ Unemplqvmnnt," m". _RBIi\'l0lPh Churchilfs 0p- "°““"l i" Devoiilwrt. said Church- i" “lslliied the people of Wales hi’ 80mg there to "sneer and Jeer at ‘what; has been done by our People in these four or five years." (PBZVan mentioned the Tory lead- l ozens of times in his speech l" S"I‘I’°"'~ "f FOOL but never reached the tone of Churchill's rs. marks yesterday in which the lag. ter referred to Bevan as "Minister of Disease.’

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Attica Interrupted

ca???“ ‘he day Attlee Ilfifl his h ‘aste of the interruptions and

eckliniz w ich have been char. acteristic o most Labor meetings i" ""5 Camllllffn. One insistent heckier wag taken out of m}, ha“ llyTpolice,

h“ c°"'°"'“""“§ lmilkiit used jm“ D7 "if! five radio dates which iilve been allotted them by the BBC ti" R Slleech intended for housewives,

Florence l-Iogbrugyh w)", has hem hlf-‘h Positions in Conserva-

tive Governments, attacked the (l(wernm'"' '°' alleged deficien- ces in providing hnuglng. She

also ssid that the social services might l‘? impaired by a full in the value of money.

Ailtllmil’ Eden, former Sfrrslarr and Churchill's no g m""!- ("T991151 greater economic difficulties ahead for Britain when the sellers’ market ends and Mor- shilll-Plaa aid is over.

nvqYITTGTl-ib. Setting Fire To Church

CAMPBELLTON. N. B.. Feb 9-_. tCPi-Wiifrld LcMaitre or dam bellton today was sentenced t]: five years in Dorchester. n.5, penlltlflltiflfy when he pleaded 8H1 y to settin ti t church here. s re o Christ

LeMoitre told the t, h . to the Church to lodkurfor Indlnedyt When he found none he bemmé Bnflsed and set fire to the organ.

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NEWSMAN DIES

GUELPII. Ont, Feb. 9 »-tCPl— William Tc-mpltrllan. 0.0, {or many Yea" l1 Wlilfily-kriown Ontario "PWBPaper man and former editor °f "i6 31mph Daily Mercury, dlgd today. After his retirement fmm "f-‘Wfipllmr work some 20 years ego. he conducted a real estate business here. He is survived by three daughters.

Minor Political Tempest Touched Off By inlpfloris

By GEORGE KITCHEN

WASHINGTON, Feb. e _ (ca) — The humble Canadian potato today hit the front pages of up. ited States newspapers.

It became the centre of a minor political tempest. with congress- men and American potato inter- ests demanding that its importation into the United States be curtailed lest it serve to undermlne the Governments potato price-support program.

They agreed. generally, that. im- porting Canadian potatoes into the United States, a country which is literally giving them away in an effort to unload Government-held surpluses. Just: doesn't make sense.

The Canadian potato was thrust. into the political limelight two clays ago when a New Orleans inl- porter reported that: he was able to bring ill Canadian spuds and under-sell the American stock bc-r cause of their low price. He brought in 1.000.000 pounds.

His report came at a time when the United States Government was taking steps to destroy 50,000,000 bushels of surplus American pota- toes accumulated through its price-support. policy. The Govern- ment bought the supplies as a sup- port measure and now ls unable to dispose of them.

Growers In Picture

The powerful National Potato Council. a. non-governmental body representing potato grwers through- out the United States. hopped into the picture today with a state- ment demanding that the Govern- ment “regulate" the importation of the Canadian product.

Congressmen from potato-growing areas also entered the fray, but their contributions were more of a criticism of the government's price- support operations than an attach on Canadian potatoes.

Senator Owen Brewster tRep. Me) whose state produces about one-sixth of the American crop. said half the surplus problem would be solved “if the President would exercise his power to stop these lmports."

"We cut. our production l0 per cent last year and New Brunswick. growers increased theirs by that, amount," he declared. 1'

Already Regulated

What. the Council and the Con- gressmen dld not note was that importation of Canadian potatoes already is regulated to a degree through a 1048 Canadian-Anlericail potato agreement.

‘This arrangement provides that. Canadian growers may export to the United States market each year 2.5'.‘t).000 bushels 0f seed pota- toes and 1.000.000 bushels of taSe potatoes at a reduced duly of 371i cents it hundredweight - h:l!f of the regular duty of 70 cents. Imports beyond those amounts bear full duty.

In the period from Sept. i. 1940. to Jail. 3i. i050. Canada shipped 3.35800 bushels of seed and 1.827- 000 of table stock to the United States market. Of these 858.000 bu- shels of seed and 627.000 of table stock came at full duty; the re-

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Report New Production Records For Margarine

OTTAWA. Feb. i) - (OP) -—

Canada's dairy warehouses are biilllliig with butter as its compet- itor. margarine, reaches new pm. ductlon heights. it was dlgclgggd today. ‘A Bureau‘ of Statistics monthly mundup of developments in the fill?!’ Ind margarine industries showed thst w-rshousc held 4d.- 404.000 pounds of cresmsry butter on Feb. 1, about. IEOMMI) pound: more than the 27,610,000 in Qbgf- age Feb. l. 10h.

Margarine scored a productlon r000!!! with output in January rtwhlns 7.008.000 pounds. on in- cresse of more than 1.000.000 , imds over Decomborl; total of 6.903.010.

The rapid development of the msrgsrlnc industry was reflected in the fact that January's produc- tlon was seven times greater than the 1,000.0» pounds ucod fn Jtnucry, 1N0.

In stones Fob. 1 were LUODM oompcrod

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and 1mm. All at. reduced pricel- Book crdll now. It-L. Dickinson. "n Glasgow.

pounds cl i-lurscrino. m: 00o‘ lo‘: low Notwl standing the normed flow of oars-m Mm Omit"

machines, the pr cry butter in January remalmd steady. Output. amounted to 0.. 957-900 00110115. slightly shove last years total of 0,830,000.

More significant. was the sharp rise in the production of cheddar cheese. With the anncunbmm; 0f l MW 86.000.000-pound contract with the United Kingdom, cheese

,. ‘ climbed t0 1.6010(1) pound; from 734.000 a year ego.

In other segments of dllfy pm. auction. the Bureau noted that Ice- cyeun declined in ' mm 000,000 gallons to 800.000, s drop of seven per cent. Output of con- centrated milk products also was lmver, marking sn tLB-per-csnt. de-

crease from 16,402,000 pounds to 14.008900. Pedffng into the dairy ware-

houses, the Bureau found 41.101000 pounds of cheese ln storage Feb. 1. s l0.000.0ti0-'pound increase over last year's QLMtLOOO.

Both cheese and butter holdings. however, were down from the Jan. I totals. Holdings of cheese Feb. l dropped 3.000.000 pounds to 44.- 290000; butter 0.000.000 pounds to

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h East Meets West At Annual Federation Convention I

'1‘ Tying the unity in Canadian farm circles through the Canadian i on oi‘ Agriculture is the group of delegates above.

Left to

rigii: are Jack Broderick, President Ontario Federation of Agriculture, Alex. lilcrcer. Manager Fraser Valley Milk Producers, Vancouver, Louis

O'Connor. President P.E.I. Federation of Agriculture. and Henri Boisfl General Manager Co-operativc Federce de Quebec, Montreal.

By Harold Morrison

OTTAWA. Feb. 9 -—(CP) — A ‘big "if" may mean the difference btclvecil price support. or no price support for Canada's egg industry, an agricultural source said today.

The industry has been informed in a Governmemt directive t-hat it must be prepared at any time to sell eggs in storage to Government representatives. If the trade doesn't. then the Government will withdraw price-support protection.

The reason for this move. said the informant. is that the Govern- ment. llnaiy at any time contract. t0 ship eggs to some foreign country, perhaps even the United Kingdom. It wants to make certain that should such a contract b6 conoiiud- ed. it will be able to buy the eggs at "reasonable" prices from the domestic trade.

lie said the industry could be asked to sell eggs in storage with the Government paying the 38- cent-n-dozen support price "plus a rcnsonobic hrofit.“

"I-f t-ho trader declines to hand Over the eggs, he will not be aible to cla-‘m price-support at tihe end

of the year."

Although the United Iiilugdc-nl has lhdlflltcd willingness to buy eggs from the United States, so

far it has made no move to renew purchases ill Canada.

Interest In Eggs

However. other countries, such as SWliZCTlfliifl, Venezuela. Colom- bla. the British West. Indies. Jotpan. I-Iaiivaii iultl Alaska. are showing greater interest in Canadian eggs this year. ‘

They are buying shell 828s in "folr quantities" and this may iflko up some cf the export slack

caused by the ending of the Anglo-Canadian egg contract. last year.

In Washington. Senator Elbert D Tilcilnas. Uiall Democrat. said Britain is interested ill buying some of the 710000.000 pounds of dried eggs which the lillited States has placed oil the giveaway lifii-

lie made public a. letter from William Poster. acting admin- istrator of the Economic. (‘n-Op-

eration Administration, which said Britain has indicated a willingness to spend about 53.000000 for dried eggs. A final agreement has not yet been reached.

Sales Tax For N. B. llum_ored

MONCTDN. N 8-. Feb. 9 — (OFF-Plans of the Mcncton branch of the Canadian Consum- ers‘ Association to oppose s rum- cred pmvinciei sales tax levy in New Bninllwiok today won support of the Moncton Board of Trade.

‘Iillo Trade Board. voice ad Mono.- ton business men, assured the Consumers‘ Branch. an affiliate of the Moncton Oolmcll of Wcrmn. that. full co-operntion would be given their plans to place petition forms in Monctnn stores for citi- aens to sign.

The one» Board went on record as opposing my move by tihe Pro- vincial Government to raise ad- ditional revenue by imposing a sales tsx. It was mngested st. the meeting that if the New Bruns- wick Government is in need of more revenue it mould look first to Oitswc for a more advantage- ous mom grant in lieu o! its

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Big “If” Seen Key T0 Support Price For Eggs

Speed Effort To Gel U. S. Miners Back To Work

WASHINGTON, Feb. E1—~(APi -- President Truman's coal-strike ill- vestigation board finished hearings today and ilurrlcd to report iiy sillllrday"lw° ‘lays ahead of tile

for his use Labor Act.

The President will then be free to ask a Federal Court; to order the 370.000 striking American soft- CQBI dlilkers hack to work for 80 days while new attempt; are made i0 flet John L. Lewis. chief of the United Mine Workers (Ind) and the mine operators to agree on a contract.

At his regular Thursday press conference, Truman said he has not-—and doesn't Vanni-power to seize the coal mines. He emphas- lzed that seizure was rl wartime power.

David L. Cole, chairman of tile hoard which got Lewis and the owners together for eight more hours of contract talks yesterday, spoke optimistically of improve- ments in "the general atmosphere“ between them, Major operators, however, said they found no cause for optimism. .

Lewis was silent as the Taft- Harlley machinery ground on.

Loss of jobs for possibly 500,- 000 more Americans may be just around the earner if the strike doesn't loosen its grip quickly, n survey showed today. industry has escaped lightly so far. An estimat- ed 35.000 are laid off because of coal shortages, Most of them are railroad or stecl mill workers.

With the country stretching out its simply of mined coal, the lint- tom of the barrel is staring up at hig business and small house- holders alike.

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535.000 Fire At Acadia University

WOLFVILLE. N.S.. Feb. 9 (C?) — A converted army hut housing the Secretarial Science Department and the Department of Home Economics of Acadia Un- iversity was gutted by fire tnnittht. Damage was estimated at. $35,000.

Office equipment. and a. number of solving machines and musical instruments were inst in the blave.

The women's residence was threatened for a time and 1.50 girls evacuated the building but Wolfvlllc fire fighters were able to keep the blaze under control. Cause of the fire is not yet known.

Glace Buy Icy Cilokos On Balloon

GLACE BAY. N.S.. Pvt». (C?) - William Allcoln. 5.

9 asked

could buy a toy balloon. Hc went down to the store and

mother. Mrs.

realized he was gasping for air.

right to impose a ts: on incomes.

to death on the balloon.

80090-110 schedule set by frumanl

his mother for a cent. today so he;

retumed a few minutes later. His Kenneth Aucoin. thought he was laughing int then

A doctor was called but the boy was dead when he arrived. Tile boy was believed to have choked

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Extension 0f Telephone Office Here Forecast

An extension to the Char- lottetown telephone office next year to permit installation of -dial equipment W85 forecast. last night by Mr, A. M. Mac- Kay, Halifax, general manager of the Island Telephone Co. l-le was speaking at. the official opening of new dial equipment

at the Summersidc office of the company. Mr. MocKoy said tilc dial

system, was installed in Sum- mcrsidc because an enormous growth in ilio use of phones hnrl left the manual equipment inadequate, lll Charlottetown. although manually operated. the equipment and facilities were up-to-dato and before a dial system could be installed large extension would have to be made to the present build- ing.

Then Mr. MacKay went on to say he llflpflfl the extension would he made in 1951 and as soon after as possible n dial system would lie installed.

Nomineleiflillifax Man As Moderator

l TORONTO. I-‘cb. i? iCPt Rev. C. M. Nicholson. principal of Pine Hill Divinity School in Hali- ,fax. has been nominated by the iToronio East Presbytery of the _United Church of Canada. as the ‘next Moderator of the United lnext Moderator of the United lChurch.

The Presybtery decided this ueck that it would be fitting. in view o! the celebration this year of the Church's 25th anniversary, to nom- inate as Moderator n churcliman ordained since tile church union by which the United Church ivas ‘set; up in i925. Dr. Nicholson was ordained in 1934. All former Mod- erators were ordained before un- ion.

Present Ntcderatol" is Rev. Wil- lard Brewing of Toronto. His suc- cessor \\‘lli be chosen next. fall.

HuIifcuRtRRIEQPrIsfer Appointed To Bench

OT'l‘A\\'.\, Feb. 9 —(CPl —-Vir|- lccnt. C. Macdonald. K.C.. of‘ Itali-

fax. has been appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, the Justice Department an- nounced today.

Also announced was the appoint- ment oif Judge Vincent Joseph Potter of Halifax County as Judge in Admiralty oif the Exchequer Court. of Canada in Nova Scotia.

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LONDON, Feb. 9 —t.APi —Riu5~ sia's air force probably is tactically as strong as any group of air forces in uile world and she and her satellites are making 40.000 to 50.- 000 planes a year. a British exiperi

said today. _ Asher Lee. former Wing Com- mander in Air Intelligence during

the war. made his appraisals ill_ a nmrtv-published book. "The Soviet Air Force "

Lee said Russia 12.000 operational

now has about military planes.

with 12 air armies of about. 1.000 planes each. The production of 40.000 ho 30.000 planes a year

,"u'ould enable the Soviet. air force to maintain about i5 air annies, oleil with a strength of 1.000 to 1.500 aircraft." .

"In the realm of tactical air warfare, she tRussisi probably is at least as strong as any other air foroe or group oi air forces in the

l HeavyD

By Larry Allen

TEL AVIV. Israel. Feb. 9- (AP) — Snowstorms and a cold wave vifflich stunned the Middle East tlhls week appeared receding today. leaving crop damaae run- ning into millions of dollars.

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OPOSAL

Folltrwillg a two-day conference. between officials of the Canadian‘ National Railways and the Pro- vincial Government on the sub- ject of co-ordinating rail, busand truck services in the Province. ihu following statement was is-. sued last night by Premier J.l Waller Jones: l

"I: was agreed that. the railway delegation would submit their propositions in the form of a wrlt- i lc-n brief, not later Iltl Fc-brualgv 1T, and that the Government of Prince Edward Island would make a written reply soon thereafter. ‘

"While the offer looks attract-l ivc a‘. first. it will require carc-~ ful study of its long-term effects."

i Questions Involved

ll is understood that the Gov- ernment, while desirous of as- lslsling ln every ilvay to expedite railway plans for more efficient service. is much concerned also ,witil the question of highway control. and with the position of