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Problems Reviewed At Junior Farmers

Sailing 0f llueen Mary Postponed

SOUTHAMPTON, Iimgland, Jan. 4 — (AP) - Sailing oi the dam- aged liner Queen Mary for New York today was postponed for an. other 24 hours.

A Cunard White Star Line of- ficial said the decision not to sail was made because a. l20-ton temporary concrete patch deep in the hull oi the Slams-ton vessel had not hardened sufficiently.

More than 203 workmen labored all night. to put in the repair Job in an area of strained and loosed rivets, damaged when the giant ship ran aground at Cherbourg Saturday.

G. I". Hughes, Cunard general manager at Southampton, said “the cement was not. set _ and it's pure hard luck." '

Announcement of the delay in sailing was made five minutes be- fore the deadline for departure of vessels of the size of the Queen Mary. Right up to the last minute. an announcement on the ship's bulletin board said she would sail. Smoke poured from the vessels stacks and the "blue peter" de- parture flag was flown.

The Mary now is three days be- hind schedule. If she gets oii to-‘ morrow she could reach New York next Monday.

Uncertainty over the Mary's sailing delayed for a few hours the maiden trip of the new Cunard ship, the SLOOO-ton Caronia, al- so bound for New York. The Oaronla. was held in its berth for a while with the idea that the Queen Mary would have the whole harbor to herself in which to man- oeuver.

The swifter Queen Mary. even if she sails a day later, would still be expected to beat the Caronin lo New York.

PAPER BOOSTS PRICE

ST. JOHN'S, Nfld.. Jan. 4 --(CP; -Tlle Daily News, St. John's news Dapcr. today advanced its price from three in five cents a copy. The paper said increased costs was the reason for the increase.

Coming Events

Course

Enthusiastically carrying out a variety of activities, from early morning outdoor exercises until well into the night preparing for t0- night's Mock Parliament. the Junior

Minister of Agriculture on "Better

Mr. Alex Laidlaw, both oi St. P152. Extension Department on the Co- operative Movement, and also view- ed a couple of excellent films.

The loud clanging of the dormit- ory bell at 7.15 a.m. roused the majority oi the Junior Farmers to s. l5 minute period of P.T. under the energetic leadership of Mr. Leo MacIsaac. It is an indication o! the good spirit of the participants that all seemed to enjoy this short period of exercise, although it was suggested that a short period of exercise at 7.30 at St. Dunstans was "a good trade" for a round oi chores and cow-milking consider- ably earlier at home. The practice oi selecting one of the number to act as chairman and conduct the proceedings for the day is being followed. William Cairns. Freetown did an excellent job tn this capacity yesterday and Elmer 0‘H.anley of St. Margaret's is car- rying on today.

Discusses Farm Practise:

Substituting for Dr. Lhnyd WI Shaw who was indisposed, W. R. Shaw. BSA. M.B.E., Deputy Min- ister of Agriculture, gave hi5 tall; on “Better Farm Practices" which- was scheduled for the afternoon, at the first period in the morning.

Warning against the insidious thief of fertility, erosion, Mr. Show emphasised that all farmers must take steps w retain the valuable top-soil. He advocated the use of cover crops after the harvesting of early crops. contour plowing and a mixed farming program based on dsirylng which is the "keystone of

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Provinces Win In Rates Skirmish

I

OTTAWA, Jan. 4—(CPl-- Seven

the main battle over a new 20-per-

"Dances. Coles’ Workshop are, cancelled until further notice.

"Come to Milton Variety Con- cert at Brookfield Hall tonight. i "Orantlemans Variety Cancer‘ Brookfield Hall, Wednesday. Jan-

uary 5th. "Dance in French River llnll Wednesday night. If not finc. Thursday.

"Legion Dance, c1111’. Inn, slday. January ‘ltb. Lottery Draw- g.

"Dance in Rusttco Hall. Wed- nssday night, January 5th. Refresh- mcnts.

"This Store-Er be closed all lily Thursday. January 6th, for atglcdk taking. Signed Parker Can-

, _.___

“Meeting oi the Merchants Lea- lue will be held at New Glasgow Rink. Wednesday, Jan. 5 at 8.30. All teams interested please attend. 1f not fine Thursday night.

"Sunday schools taking up the National Temperance Study Course “T liked to send their papers to Mrs. Frank Deacon, Freetown, as 5°91! ll Pfiliblo.

"Will be loading hogs at tile 212F111: points each Thursday: l ‘l’ Wilvnora. Bradalbane, until 1-30 a. m.; Borden Bagnall, Run- k’ River. until noon; Burnmer- . lids until 1.30 p. m; and Ken- lihlton until a p. m. Mscnvren and Casaley.

"A meeting will be held in Long freak Rink. Thllfldly mm, Jan. ltheteoblockiorthapurposeoi "Wins a hooll! leans. All mm glad partial from Cornwall. Canoe "W. Nine Mlle first and aur- "Winc districts an mm.

McIleflan Field, Sacramento,

details. It was snowing at crash scene.

The Chinese Governmentis offensive" was rebuffed tonight. in a Chinese Communist fermion.’ it "nothing but a blun- der."

a rising clamor for a truce and a negotiated Cmtrrnunisis, who have been win- ning the civil war, indicated they would have no part 0i it.

ed Chlang that his Nationalist forces

Communists. The broadcast quot-

e News Agency as saying the Ccm- munists have 3.000.000 mcll anwws and asking how the Nation-l alisis could have an anny of 60,- 000.1300.

Provinces opposing railway freight- rate increases today won a pre- Nflllkillf! PPDol-ted RY-"Wiilg anx- liminury skirmish in advance of lei)’ "mom: Chinese. Ncutrnl ob-

Truman To Deliver Annual MessageToday

WTATSHINGPON. -_lan. 4 ——(CP) -Presldent ‘Truman tomorrow will deliver to congress his annual mes- sage on the state of the union. In it he may touch on plans for mil- ii-BFY aid to countries in the front line of drmocracys "cold war" with Russia.

Farmers attending the Show The message. to be read personal- Course u 5L Dunstan‘; heard ly by the President to a joint sess- Lalks by ML w_R_ Shaw’ Deputy ion oi the two llouses oi Congress,

Will deal chiefly with dOmAStic is_

ll. S. Air Force Transport Crashes

COLFAX. Calif., Jan. 4 -- (AP) —- A United States Air Force 0-47

transport crashed eight miles southeast of here in the Sierra Nevada foothills tonight. Search-

orsreported finding seven persons dead.

Capt, Harry G. Fisher said at hc- fore leaving for the crash scene that his information was that the plane was a weather ship.

Fisher said he had no further the

LIFORNIA - ARIZONA CITRU

PROGRAM snares UP FORARMED FORCES Farm £9‘ Public Health

iS’side'Air Stationliiiw P15- Gets Wings Back

Interesting Ceremony At ll. 0. A. l-'.

Station As Aircraft I

News In Brief

[shunting more than 8,000 tons of Hir-lift coal into the black market ‘of fuel-short. Berlin. Anglo-Ameri- l-nn officials promptly retorted: -“.'\'onscn5c" and "poppycock."

WASHINGTON. Jan. 4——(AP)— The United States today boosted foreign aid to China by $16,490,000 to provide emergency food sup- plies of wheat and rice to seven lflrize population centres in that (‘l\'ll war-ruvzlgerl country’.

LONDON. ~ Snow Northern

Jan. 4 - (Reutersi continued to fall in Britain today. with danger of outlying places being cut off. In southern districts heavy rain storied floods. Snow ‘was reported north of a line from Aberystsvyth on the Welsh coast to Yarmouth in East Anglia.

SHANGHAI. Jan- ii ~ (OP) >- "peace

broadcast

From the Government side cams

settlement. But tho

The Communist. radio, monitor-

llcm, said that Generalissimo Kai-Shel: had claimed were 0 to 20 timcs stronger than the d the (CCmnlunlsil

New China

Reds Rebuff Peace Talk By Chinese Nationalists

Lost Money By llndershooting Bacon Target

OTTAWA, Jan. 4 - Canada. lost $2,000,000 in Amer- ican Economlc (Jo-operation Ad- ministration funds by being un- able to meet s British request for bacon, a Government source dis- closes.

He said last night that because

(OP)

tinder

crvers in that nationalist capital

of British and Canadian difficul- ties, the Dominion could not. de- liver some 220,000,000 pounds of bacon the United Killddom want- ed during 1948. Canada undershot her target by more than 21.0w.- 000 pounds.

s Shrlstened.

The R. C. A. F. station at. Sum- merside got its wings back yester- doy>at a ceremony in one of the hangers before the officers‘ of the

. - » _ yum Practices"; new Lewis Mun sues, but in view of the seriousness Zfsiéozhgiigftlngtege gilfigsj. d1 l? ray on "Youth Cannps and Rural °l the ‘F0114 01111001‘ almost ca". BERLIN, Jzm. 4-<AP> — Th»: the only air navigzWoii siiigoi n? Programs"; Dr. llarold Shaw on ‘filmy “m "la-ll? some reference wfRussian-licensed newspaper Na- Canada “in; QrfiCi1l‘; pm. t d "Our Public Hcalth Problems"; “"59?” “immi- lionul Seilun; today accused Bri- the ~zeimih~," by is“? com 15 edne Rev. Father Adolphus Glllis and "*“ iilSlT and United States officers of pr C, warp c1315., groupmocohif

mander of l0 Group, Halifax. who said that the occasion, in a sense, also W05 the official opening of the school. As Air Commodore Walt pushed a button that caused a sliver pitcher to tip and pour its contents of champagne over the nose of the plane and at the same time the flags which covered the name to fall away he said. "I christen thee Zenith. May all your courses be true mics and all your landings be happpy 0110s."

Squadron Leader W. C. Lang- staff. D.F.C., commanding officer of the station opened the proceed- ings by welcoming those present and expressing his regret at the absence of Lieutenant Governor J. A. Bernard, who was unable to be present. He commended the work of the personnel for making this occasion possible and said that the arrival of lllc aircraft on the station means a great deal to them.

Air Commodore Wait also added hi5 own words of welcome and said it was on important clay for the station. The main purpose of the gathering was to christen the new aircraft. and to officially open the air navigation school. i-le reviewed. bricfLv, the history of the station since the end of the war and said it had gone through difficult periods when there were rumours that the station would close clown. The road is now clear for the station to go ahenrl and take its place in the defence of Canada. The new runways are nearly finished, he said. and a good job has been done on them. bots of other changes would be seen, he told the gathering, such as new construction and the tear- ing down of old buildings.

The job of the new school would be to teach the basic principles and advanced ideas ni navigation and to carry out rc- search and experimentation. The school is now staffed by exports

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As a result a $12,000,000 EC.A..

s - - - . cent rate hoist. ilrodicicd that the Communists émhzr-lza-uubn for Ylmltiilm i? hi?‘ They trained from the Board of would demand that the Govern- an“ l.“ Mo“ in m m". Transport Commissioners an order men; 31-min _ not (he Rm arm. quanel or m“ “n! cancenfd m

compelling the Canadian Pacific Rullwuy to furnish certain finan- r-inl information for the case. The

ies -—- la._v down their arms.

A usually-infcrmcd source in

C..P.R. opposed the move.

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.1 Col. ll

‘Margarine May Be White, Lemon Or Green f

Washington. I However, the source said Can- i ada did expect to complete her]

initial i948 contract l0 ship 195,- ,--

000,000 pounds of bacon during; the ncxt fruv weeks. Sn isr more. than l80,000.000 pounds had been: shipped. i

The source izavc twn main res-l sons fcr Canada's failure to rrnch l the larger target: j

l. Britain, liPCRHSp of her dollar}

llrunk Sits ln Bar In Path 0f Train >

PLASTER ROCK, N.B., Jail“ 4,

(CP) - The drama of a fast freight train roaring toward an automobile parkcd on the tracks. with its driver ronnulivuz behind the wllccl, was unfolded m police court today befnrc Clarcucc Mow- bmyfis conviction on n charge nf drunken driving Ncw Yrarls eve

Station agent LEI Snarr sold

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for 02 years. The

By George Klalfl

OTTAWA, Jan. 4 (GP) When nlsrgnrine hits the mur- ket in full flood. don't be surpris- cd if illf! pound you buy turns out In be a fiat white, a meekly-toned lcmou or cven seaweed green.

One thing seems certain. It won't have the rich, gold hue oi butter.

The expectation here is that the dairy industry. including the man who milks the cow and the msn who makes the butter, will press for legislation to bar any attempt to produce butter-colored margar- ine. They want to make sure the consumer knows he is buying margarine and not butter.

No one here is sure just. who is going to establish the standards for margarine, whether it is to be the Dominion or the Provinces. The Dominion is waiting to see what attitude the Provinces ndopt and the Provinces have an equally cautious eye on Ottawa.

The uncertainty arises from the supreme Court decision ‘which said. in effect, that. the Dominion had no right to ban the manu- facture and sale of margarine. even though it had been doing it authority over margarine. the court went 1.1, be-

longed to the Province.

The Dominion, under ti" Food

and Drugs Act. is known l) have draftnd some sample for margarine. and these dcatood to touch on the question

reg latlons sre un-

oi coloring. But, for the time being. the draft standards an bfll Ifli under wraps.

The suuutiolt likely will be clear- ed when Parliament and the Pro- vincial Legislatures open their spring sittings.

It may be that a situation will develop similar to that existing south oi the border. where each stats enacts its own laws on the coloring of margarine. In some states, you can buy butter-colored margarine, ln others it has a lem- on tlnge and in still others it is in its manufactured state—-white— with a coloring capsule enclosed.

Canadians hav, had few experi- ences with margarine. Its manu- fnctin-a and sale was permitted in Canada folowing the First World War. but the product then was un- bleached and urwolored and borc little resemblance to butter. Can- adian soldiers in Britain in both \VllJ'B‘WGT'Q fed butter-colored mar- garlne. _

The Canadian Federation oi Aa- rlculture is understood to bl favor of a lemon-colored rnsrga .- which would be Just enough oi .- change of hue to prevent illegal substitution.

For that. say the dairy people. is all they are worried about. ‘rhey want s safeguard against the fraud and dcceptlon—and unfair compet- ition for the mdustry-wiuoit would arise if unscrupulous retailers were able to pass odi yellow margarine

stiigllxs of bacon whorl it Wits RV-l nllable during the early months of 104B.

2. Lifting of the United States up the price oi beef in Canada and ‘ consumers turned to bacon aild pork. As a rcsult there was little bacon left over for shipment in the latter months of 104B

However, the source believed Canada would be able to live up to her 1040 commitment to ship l-80.000.000 pounds of bacon to Britain in 1949.

Shipment would start soon, he said. Britain paying the same 104a price of I30 ‘a hundredvwelght for grade "A" Wiltshlre under the new Anglo-Canadian food agreement.

shortage. was unwilling to take a what nilcr giving rlvnrance for the

train he noticed the car on the‘ tracks and found the Arthurette man At-the wheel.

Warnings of thr- danccr arcused

cattle umbargn in August brought ,nn response. Snarr then rallrd po-

lice. grabbed two flares and ran down the track in an effort to stop the train. Meanwhile a con- stable aJrtved but was unabic tn remove Mowbrny. _

Snarr lighted a flare but the snow extinguished it as the train ileared. A second flare was seen by the engineer Just in time to avert a collision. Tho trnin sic-p- ped a few feet from the cor.

Mowbrsy was sentenced to three months in jsil and fined costs of 01.1.50. with an alternative of sn- other month in jail.

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‘For Airborne Brigade

BY DOUGLAS HOW

OTTAWA, Jan. 4 (CF) 0n the eve of her first defence alliance, Canada is embarking on an armaments program that will equip her three small regular" forces with new air and sea craft whose cost will tower well into the millions of dollars. ~

A definite and concerted pro- gram, marking the first ost-war splurge on military equipment. has

been shaping up here over the past few weeks.

Ils full financial impact won't strike the Federal budget this

coming fiscal year by any means. but if. will eventually embrace in- definite tiuantities of two jet lighters for the air force, a new type of surface craft and a fighter plane for the country's anti-sub- marine navy and now a transport plane to guarantee the mobility of the army's airborne brigade.

The armament. program will certainly strengthen Canadals hand as a participant. in Atlantic security pact discussions later this year. also promises not only that de- fence costs will be up again this ‘year but that. they will stay high for some indefinite period.

It will be i950 before production of the new craft really begins in roll. There has been no official cstlmatc nf cost but one of the new Sllb-lltlilllllil craft alone will cost. at least several million dollars.

lt is one of the complicating factors of defence planning that costs all along incline have soared since the wnr.

The last of the new pieces of equipment. to come into the lime- light is (he American Fairchild

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above,

Dr. Obren Blagoievitch, tl?pl.ll._\' finance minister of Yuk"-

sluvin, has been arrested while trying to flee the country. ac- cording to Belgrade. One oi Yugo- slavlifs top economists, Bingo- jcvitch supposedly confessed first he intended to "flee the country and dcfrnuid lt."

Funeral Yesterday 0f iSenator Sutherland

lNGl-JRSOLL, Ont. Jun 4 (CPi —— Funeral services wcre held today in a quiet farm-home setting near heri- for former farmer-politician Sen- ntnr Donald Sutherland, who died New Yrafs Day at R6. Rev. George Alurdoch of Si. Paul's Presbyterian- Church told thr- congrcgntion "the quality‘ of thoroughness predomin- ated all through the life" of the former Progressive Conservative Senate member from Ontario. "Whatever llc tlicl was done well."

O'I"I'A\'VA, Jun. 4 fCPl A new round of finaccial demands is ile- wlnping in Canadian labor as 1945i opens. Hnwew-r. the pressure m many unions may bef tilrucrl tr»- warrls ohiztinirlg security bent-fits such as pensions rather than out- right pay boosts.

Eggs In Deal

BY ROBERT JEWETT

LONDON, Jan. 4 (AP) An encouraging gain in British- Polish relations vuas seen tonight in a five-year bacon and eggs pact expected io be signed soon.

A board of trade spokesman said the two countries would exchange a bout 5350000000 ($200,000,000) worth of goods under the pro- posed trade agreement —- greatest cast-west commercial deal since the war.

The spokesman said Poland and Britain had reached agreement on

fall major details" in three months

bargaining. A British negotiator left for Warsaw yesterday to Wind

up (he clonl. A Foreign Office spokesman said trade treaties with the Soviet

satellite stairs were m1 “encourag-

slccl, chemicals and row materials. Polish llmbcr also is sought by

Britain To Get Bacon, With Poland

Britain.

The agreement. running until 1954, would replace. and expand a lliI‘Pf.‘>_\'(‘Hr trade treaty signed in i947. Under that pact Poland agreed to ship £23,0fl0,0fl0 worth of food and timber by midsummer. 1950.

An axithoritstlve source said agreement also had been reached on the British demand for com- pcrlsnlion for an estimated £30,- 0001100 Wflfih of British property confiscated during and since the war in Poland. -

Onc-ltear agreements negotiated by Britain with the Sovlct Union and Yugoslavia are bigger than anv sulsle year's irndc envisaged

ReeordIG-‘reezo Threatens Huge Loss

Blizzards flag; Over

Large Areas; Ball And Highway Traffic Stalled.

CHICAGO, Jars 4 —(A.P) -fi Thousands of train passengers werl mztroonexi by a raging midwntlnefll blizzard today after rampaging u-ulter raked the Southern United States with tornadoes and gavl the Callfornia-Arlzolu citrus belra

their worst killing freeze in PH years. l At least 59 persona were killed

(and mint-e than 500 injured in wr- nadoes that ripped across section: