Wage boost Would Result In Deficit

GHAWA; June U — (OP) - dine Canadian National Railways’ expected 1H8 surplus would be (ghgriﬂd into a ‘deficit through ﬂQIQ increases on the scale involv- sd in current negotiations, the senate banking and commerce committee beard today.

Testimony by- 'l‘.H. Cooper, c.N.R. vice-president and comp- troller, indicated the deficit for this year would range between $6,000,000 and more than p0,- ooopoo, depending on the size ct increase granted.

Mr. Cooper's committee appear- ance, on s, bill to provide funds for the nationally-owned line, was the only Ottawa development in the railway-labor dispute threatened n-ii-h a strike o: 160,000 employees of the two mater railways.

Labor Department officials ap- parently were waiting for the next move in the Department's media- tic-n proceedings, expected to re- sume June 30. On that date, the Government's mediator was to make a renewed effort to bring agreement between the railways and 128,000 members of 1B Inter- national unions.

Mediation attlnpts traveling the 28.00(rman Canadian Brother- hood of Railway Employees and Other Transport workers <C.C.L.) niresdy have collapsed. The CB- RE. membership has voted to strike to enforcejts demands.

‘iiha talks between the railways and the other groups were being kept open pending the outcome of a similar vote. This was completed yesterday, but the result has not been announced officially.

Ontario Penny Bank To Gem Operating

TORONTO. June as -— (O?) — The Penny Bank of Ontario, which once had 208.000 school children depositors, will disappear from the Canadian banking scene Aug. l.

Final transaction will be the gift of s surplus - estimated at between $80,000 and $85,000 — to the Hospital for Sick Children in ‘Toronto. -

Accounts of over one dollar will be transferred to the Post Office savings Bank, Ottawa. Un- claimed accounts under one doi- lar will make up the gift to the hospital.

The institution traces its history to penny savings banks in Tor- ontO. operated before 1000 by two church missions. They were pat- terned on a, much older system of school savings in Scotland.

In i000 the first schoobbank was opened by the Victor Savings As- sociation in a Toronto school, It ms so successful, 12 more schools

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opened others. In 1005 a Domin- ion oharter authorized the Penny Bank of Toronto to take over the assets of the mission banks. The name was changed to the Penny Bank of Ontario in 102a with the

_Pictured above is Commodore Hope, 0.8.2., R.C.N. fax. inspecting the division of tile-Royal Canadian 5e lotte. Commodore Hops expressed himself as favours

. commanding officer. H.M.C.S. Stadacona, Hali- a Cadet Corps Kent at H.M.C.S. Queen Char- biy impressed with the keenness and efficiency

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Carefully Screened

OTTAWA, June as -- (OP) ~A hunt for employees who might cause damaging leakages of secren information is under way, in tlirec key government departments.

This is one of the chief purposes

behind a new series of searching questionnaires that rnuat be filled out by about 23,000 government workers, it was learned today. ' The employees are in the Dc- fence and External Affairs Depart- ments-the branches where confl- dentlal information falling into the hands of an unfriendly country would be most dangerous-and. the National Research Council, the agency dealing with atomic en- ergy.

While government officials are treating any disclosure gingerly it was admitted that the scrutiny l5 along the same lines as that of loyalty tests being undertaken in Britain and the United States. '

In those countries, the govern- ments have made no bones about the fact that they are engaged 2:. weeding outsuspected Communist sympathlzers.

In Canada. though considerably more caution is being exercised in discussing the action, the test per- haps goes even further than 1n Britain.

In the U. K. it is largely con- fined to employees in key positions Here, it extends through the three aflaaied departments from top lo bottom. The questionnaires start right at the deputy ministerial level and go all the way down.

As officials describe them, their purposes are as follows:

1. To consolidate and enlarge biographical dais on employees for personnel records. ‘

2. To ensure that the loyalties of every employee lie with Canada.

One official said the second point was not the "primary" pur- pose of the inquiries. However, it was regarded significant- that they were confned to the three departments in which major leak- ages could endanger the state in certain conditions. and that the Jloysl Cariidlan Mounted Police had a hand in framing the quea- tlons. '

It was admitted, loo, that in embarking on this course the gov- ernment gave consideration to dis- closures of the Russian spy ring in- quiry here in 104d.

Particularly in mind. it was stat- ed. was the ease of llama Wotlein. an External Affair! Department employee named as having implicated in the ring. She re- eaived three years ln prison.

Under the HUI policy, Ill Olli- oial said, an aim will be to sea that no "restricted" information comes um the possession of any- one who might be "tempted" ta pass out information that some;

under the Official Secrets Act.

West Kent and Queen Square Cadet Corps are pictured above going through their inspection ceremonies at Victoria Park. The in- specting clllcer W85 Colonel J. Wallis, 0.3.8., E.D., Chief of staff, East- ern Command, Halifax, who expressed himself as well pleased with the precision and smart drill displayed by both Corps. The top picture is the W. K. S. Cadets wheeling to complete their march past. The Q.S_S. Corps (below) is seen passing the reviewing stand. The west Kent Corps was under the command of Cadet Major Clifford Thacker and the Queen square Oonpe was under the command of Cadet

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Greeks Charge 10,000 Children Kidnapped

LONDON, June 25 ——(AP) -At least 10,000 Greek children have been taken from their rebellion- torn homeland. into Russia's Bal- kan satellite countries.

The Greek Government charges they have been kidnapped.

Foreign Secretory Bevin, ad- dressing his Labor Party col- leagues, spoke of Greek children being "abducted," but offered no estimate of their numbers.

A special investigating commit- tee from the United Nations re- ported earlier that many children "are being forcibly as well as willingly removed from their homes in Greece."

The committee's report cautious- ly stated that "part of them are being collected in certain coun- tries to the north of Greece.‘

Markos Vafiades, guerllia lead- er, sent a note to 'I‘rygve Lie. sec- retary-genersl, of the United Na- tions, admitting “a. transport of 10,000 children was sent to dem- ocratic countries" mlalllll mainly Yugoslavia. Albania and Bulgaria.

Markos and Yugoslav leaders have claimed that the children came willingly to escape the hor- rors ni Greeres mountain war- fare, which has made an estim- sled 500,000 persons homeless.

Several weeks ago the Greek Government said Albania, Yugo- slavia and Bulteria were plotting with Markos to kidnap 60,000 Greek children and carry them off for education as Communists.

The Government called the re-‘ ported plot the “most ‘alarming and unprecedented guerrilla act- yity" in the twlryear-old mar.

The Greek Government ordered all children evacuated from areas where guerrilla raids were taking place, or were threatened. More thari_l0,M0 have been taken to safety, but their removal added to the Government's already heavy burden of caring for 500,004! oth- Il‘ refugees.

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CHICAGO- (CM-The fourth annual summer school for Swedish studies will be held at North Park Collie, June as to August l0. Courses in the Bvrediah language are of! ed for beginners as well as sdvs. eed students.

Prices Committee Concludes l Hearings

OTTPAWA, June 24 ~ (C?) '- Fourrnonths -_ '18 days 0f Public

hearings -- after launching a cost-cd-livlng probe the 014905 committee completed sittinla l-O-y. (is .

éhe last public session whlchl hoard n witness say textile prof“ its were excessive interrupted a private meeting devoted in ham- mering out o. report to present to Parliament, The witness was Sam Baron of the Textile Workers Union of America.

Committee sources say that in their report to Parliament mem- bers will state that there have been cases of opportunists mak- ing unprecedented profits; that there have been unnecessary price increases -- at the expense of the consumer and for. selfish benefit; that in some cases profits were put ahead of the consumer's good and the well-being of Canada's, economic systrm. ‘r

It also was indicated the cnm- I mlttee will report that its activi-i ties hurl a deterrent effect on‘ some firms and individuals, that rising prices had their origins in the war years and that the most important single factor has been foreign prices,

Members indicated that the re- port will cite by name certain firms which it considers have made excessive profits and should be willing to reduce prices. They ex- pected 1t also to mention films whose policy is to reduce prices.

The fruit and vegetable trade is reported to be described in the report as taking greater profits 1n the last year than were necessary to compensate for the loss of vol- ame involved in import rests-lo.

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HALIFAX - (OP) - A S50- psgve illustrated book containing the llllwi’! of 8t. Paul's (Xiurch "W" l‘! hl-lﬂmlil down to the present time will be published to commemorate the sooth anniver-

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HALIFAX _ Mon; Roy. 2i, of Halifax, has gtsdugfgd in Forestry st the University of New Brunswick. She now is em- ployed in the Dominion Entom- ological Laboratory in Fredericton she stood third in s class of 32 ifflell and herself.

ll. 8. Traneportsll Troops From ll. 8. To Middle East

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-—'i'he help the United States gave Britain "short of war” before the Pearl Harbor attack included the

transporting o! 20.000 British troops from Nova. Bcotla. to" the Middle East.

Th! operation is described inthe latest instalment of Harry Hop- kins’ "secret papers," appearing in Center's magazine tomorrow.

Hebert E. Sherwood, biographer for the man who was personal ad- viser to President Roosevelt, says this is what happened:

Prime Minister Churchill asked United States help to get 40,000 troops to the ‘Middle East. Presi- dent Rooeevelt refused to send American ships into British port; to do it. _ '

Finally. British ships took 20,000 men to Nova Scotia, Then Ameri- can shlpl. manned by American crews. took them through neutral waters to the Middle East,

‘lihis was two months before the

‘Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Hopkins’ notes said the British delegation a rrived at the Churchill-Roosevelt shipboard con- ference on the Atlantic with a pap- er—whlch they wanted tho Britons, Americans and Dutch to issue- warning the Japanese that if they moved any fart-her they would ihce war with all three Western Powers. This was in August, 1941. Roosevelt objected. and the warning was never issued. , But the “Atlantic Charter," with its promise of four freedoms, was issued. Hopkins said it apparently turned out later to be a "more powerful instrument than the British intended it to be."

He said he thought the British group regarded it only as a "pub- licity handout" but that Roosevelt took it seriously.

Hopkins‘ notes contained an es- timate of the Roosevelt-Churchill partnership. He said neither leader ever forgot whom he represented. They did get down to frank talk.

_ tremendously stimulated each oth-

er, and sympathetically understood

each other’: domestic political v problems. Hopkins, who was Roosevelt's

Dersonal representative to Stalin in

a July,.194I._ suspected that Stalin's

Dower in Russia "was not so ob- solute as he had first imagined,’ Sherwood says.

“But he never gained any clear ides as to how the Politburo really operated, and neither did Roose- velt.

"As time went on.. .they be- came more and more aware of lll (the Polirburo) as an unseen, in- comprehensible but potent influ- ence on Stalin and thus on all Al- lied long-term policy."

(President Truman recently ex- pressed the view that Stalin is m ‘prisoner’ of the Politburo-a. vlewj contrary to that expressed by some of his diplomatic advisers.)

Ottawa Confirms Report

OTTAWA, June I --(OP)-An' army spokesman confirmed than Great Britain and the Unite-i States pulled off one of the neatesf:

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