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TH REPORTED IN WESTERN CANADA BLIZZARD

Opening Today 0 Of legishiiure

The fifth session of the doth Genet-til Assembly of the Province -the 21st since Confederation- wiil be formally opened at 3 p. in. today hy His Honour Lieutenant Governor T. W. L. Prowse. ac- gompallled by the usual military display. It will be the fourth regu- lar session of the Assembly. the last sitting having been called during the summer for the special purpose of discussing matters uisitii: out of the railway strike. p

The guard of honor again will he iorlned from members of the 17th Reece Regiment under the command of Captain L. Caseley. .Vf.C. They will be headed by the Reece Band.

Major General E. O. Plow. 0.0. 0. Eastern Command. Halifax. will be present along with a rep- resentative from the Royal Can- adian Air Force.

A salute will be fired from Vic- toria Park by the 114th Battery oi the 28th L.A.A. "agiment at three o'clock. This detachment will be under the command of Captain M. E. Campbell.

Lieutenant Governor Prowse will be accompanied by his aides. Captain J. J. Connolly. Lieut.-col. A. W. Rogers and Squadron Lead- er A. G. Macmillan and his priv- ate secretary sturgeon Lieutenant L. E. Prowse.

Following today's opening cere- mony the parade willie stage (a march past. The. Lieutenant Gov- ernor will take the solute in front of the Provincial Building. -

77,658 cars Imported From ll. Ii. Last Year-

()l"l.iWi't. March 5- (CF) - Canada imported 77.658 passenger cars from the United Kingdom last your. more than double the mlmlwr in 1949.” 'i o

A tinmmons return tabled today for John Dickey (L-Halifax) show- ed 1050 pnggenger car imports had a tnial value of 568296.490 ronipn-nrl with S31.499;868 for the H.230 cars imported in 1949.

British truck imports last year totalled 5.180 with a value of 34.- 893.480 compared with 2,232 va- lul-fl at 52.CB5.3483ln 1949.0

Sabotage Festival n . Of Britain Equipnlenrt

Lf)NlDON. March 5 -(Reuters) -Police today investigated sabot- iro to electric cables feeding the Fest-ivnl of Britain site on the south bank of- the Thames in London. A festival spokesman said Wllflll damage had "beyond doubt" been done. During the last two Weeks cables -have been deliberate- li' rut. fire alarms damaged and other fittings tampered with.

' Coming Events

P"Mail ii... Films to Carolina: hoto studio. Charlottetown.

"Golden Seeds! Send for free malogue. Arthur Vesey. York.

MI!-lcar Stephen McLeod sing. o Bonshaw Male Chorus in Don- ihw Hall. Mlrch 9th. Variety Concert. Bonshaw w. 1.

T”Don't miss (The Iroquois 1””) plus in Chapter of new set- si (Pirates of High Son) at -

"lid Brit. Theatre, Ht. 3

Vi. tonight.

I 'Ntiiion.l ruin bond will on- ';n(l, film in French River Hall. )' "9-d-y. mi-eli 'It at sao -Fm Sale of Candy.

" . ...... Hockey North! River sink to-

See Prospect Big Four Will Agree On. Agenda For Later Conference

. By Eddy Gilmo c

PARKS. March 5 -(AP)-Rum aim and Western deputy foreign ministers met for three hours to- day and a nrench 31)OkeSI.lI3u said he believed' they could agree on a work sheet for a Big Four meet-

ing. .

The rival agendas presented by Andrei Gromyko, soviet deputy brelgn minister. and Ernest Dav- ies, chief British delegate, showed old differences, however. on what

each side believed the foreign ministers of the four power: should talk about to ease world tension.

Russia's ,lliit was headed by the proposal to halt the proposed re- armament of Western Germany. conclude a German peace treaty. withdraw occupation forces and reduce the armed forces of the four powers. .

The Western Powers proposed to look first into the "causes of international tension in Europe.” then tbkc up an Austrian peace treaty. They put German unity and a German peace treaty last.

Neither side proposed to talk about the Korean war, the prob- lems surrounding C mmunist China 'or other bases of conflict in the Far East.

The Western Powers are con- cerned mainly about the arma- ment on the east side of the iron curtain. which they claim is the real cause of tension - in Europe and the reason for their proposed real-moment of Western Germany.

The four deputies are meeting to see if they can agree on holding another foreign mlnisters' session. the first since october..1949. when

ongan Austrian peace treaty."

A-mb sador-at-large Philip Jes- sup le the American delegation. Alexandre Parodl. secretary-gem eral of the rrench Foreign Mm- lstry, a permanent official unaf- fected by the currentcablnet crisis was the official host.

The French spokesman describ- ed the atmosphere of the gather- ing as cordial. He said there was ,no .debate' and added:

"1 think we can put agendas into agreement."

Shot At Crow Blows llp.SmaIl fireworliililani

. PEARL RIVER. N.Y., March 0 - (AP) -. A hunter took a -shot at a. crow here today - and blew up a small fireworks , plant. no one was hurt but the blast rocked cornmunltles I doun miles away in two states and frightened the hunter so badly .he Jumped into a river in flee- ing for safety.

The scene was an isolated spot along- the Hackansack River on the New York-New Jersey boundary.

Fire apparatus and ambul- ances responded from six neigh- boring villages.

This is what happened. said Patrolman Donald Ellsworth:

t Frank Perkins, Jr.. 24. crouch- ed behind a thicket. He could not see the half-a-dozen frame buildings of the Barnabas Fire- works Co. about so yards away.

He aimed his shotgun at the bird and fired. v

The shell ta shed and fire- works mate al in it blew up. The concussion set off blasts in the other buildings, spaced

about so yards apart, levelling them all. There was no estimate of damage. ., Barnabas workers had quit

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Slill oppiied To General Price Freeze

0'l'rAWA. March ; -(C15) - Trade Minister Howe slid to- night the Government, still op- posed to a general price freeze. is considering commodity margin-ob proflt control as one of several weapons to fight price inflation.

' e'll have something to say on that before many weeks go by.” Mr. Howe said in an inter- view by Parliamentary Press Gal- lery correspondents in a CBC dominion network program called "Press Conference." The program was recorded for broadcast.

Commodity margin - of-p r o fl t control was used in the Second World War. along with price can-. lugs. By this means. the govern- ment: controlled price spreads be- tween the manufacturer zmd the distributor and the distributor and consumer.

soon to be faced. too. said Mr. Howe, was the probability of civ- ilian production restrictions by which the same quantity of goods would be produced with less mat- erials. For example, chrome might be stripped from passenger cars and steel from certain parts of washing machines.

Other Possibilities

Questions ranged widely over widely over the defence product- ion picture. To there Mr. t Howe replied:

I, The Aluminum Company of Canada is going ahead with the big aluminum project in Northern British Columlbla. However. up to the moment. no contract has been signed to supply the United States with Canadian aluminum.

2. The shortage : of steel .,..,.wg,1s

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Gov? Is ,C;onsiderihg M.argin" OF Profit Control

orrawa. March 5 - (OP) - A seven-man team of Canadian wool experts soon will be scouring world markets. buying up scarce wool for Cans a's defence machine. trade officials disclosed today.

Harry Brownp former Toronto textile executive who handled the job during the last war, has been pulled out of retirement to do the Job again.

The Second World War wool ad- ministrate. will head up a new government wool-buying agency with headquarters in Toronto. Working with him will be repre- sentatives of the Canadian wool and textile trade.

The new team. first'of its kind in Canada in peacetime, will be equipped with a. capital fund now being worked out and likely will purchase up to 825,000,000 worth of wool this year.

Its wool-buying efforts will ex- pand as the C -" i defence ma- chine expands and more textiles and more uniforms and defence equipment are required by the fighting forces.

Canada is hoping to get most of its wool from Australia and New Zealand but every other source will be scrutinized. Wool purchased will be channelled by the government agency into factories producing un- iforms and other defence equip- ment. '

supplies not immediately requir- ed will be stoclrpilcd against future need. This is expected to bring a measure of stability and uniformity to this segment of the Canadian defence effort.

The current difficulty, as one of- ficial saw it, is that few Canadian manufacturers are able to quote a

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wool fluctuating from day to day.

Prize Winners In -. Poster Competition

Fire Destroys Halifax llores

HALIFAX. March 5 - '(CP) - Fire equlpmeit from several sta- tions was rushed to two adjoining three-storey brick buildings on Bar- rlngton Street tonight as a stub- born blasc spread quickly through the stores.

The bullldings are only a .few doors from the gutted ruins of Kay's Department Bt.ore..where 10 died in a raging inferno Nov. so.

'ronislIt's fire spread through Condon's Men's Wear store and the adjoining stcak House.'a cafe.

The fire was discovered when a waitress in..thr...cafc opened the door of a small office. By that time the blaze had lug, , gained a good headway in the men's" wear store, closed since supper time.

No Meal Ar U. K. Bui'cllers' Banquet DOCKING, Norfolk; England-

(CP)-A Butchers Association had a fine menu for their local ban-

quet-soup. fish. fowl, pears. mushrooms on toast, petit-fours and coffee: Missing was the meat.

HULL, Que.. March 5 --(CP) - Horace Chsrette of Gatineau Mills. Que. today was sentenced to two years for setting fire to a competitors potato chip wagon last May. The wagon, owned by Henri mclcot, was valued at 33,- 000. Albert Cervals. an accomplice

the act, previously was sentenced to one year on a sim- llarcharge.

Butter Advance All Across

Sixty-one entries were received frompupils in various parts of the Province in the post competition which was sponsored by the P.E.l. Education Week Committee.

The posters were related to the general theme of Education Week and dealt with the role in educa- tion of each of the following groups: (1) The Church; (2) The Farm; (3) The Home; (4) The School; 5) Industry and Com- merce: (8) Labour; (7) The Com- munity as a Whole.

A prize of 35.00 for the winning entry in each of the seven classl- fications has been donated by the Prince Edward Island Teschers' Federation. Winners are as fol- lows: '

Class l-The Church: Merle Eld- erkin. Summerside High School.

Class 2-The Farm: Laurdene Wood. Bethcl School.

Class 3-The Home; Janet Mac- Kenzie, Prince Street School.

Class 4-The School: Edna Srnlth, Gicnaladale School, and Wanda Benson. Noise Dame Acad- emy (equal). H

Class 5-ind i y and Cornmerce: Billy Kelly, Queen uare School and Jaimes Smith. ueen Square School (equal).

Class 8-Labour: Jacqueline Mc- Intyre. Notre Dame Academy.

Class 1-The Community as a Whole: Mary Fielding, Prince Street School.

Winner of the special prize of 320.00, donated by Hyndman and Company; Charlottetown, is Mary Fielding whose poster was judged to be the best of all submitted.

The Judges were the Misses Eleanor Lowe and Mary MacDon- ald of the Prince of Wales Col- lege Staff and Miss Jennie Turn- er. ('4-ufottietown.

A point worthy of.note is that seven of the nine prize-winners aft pupils of Reverend Sister st. Margaret. Arte t 4 at Noll-0

. Dame Aacsdemy. In addition to

the two resident pupils named. the winners of Classes 2. 8. 5. and 7 are also Art students of sister st. Margaret. L

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P.E.I. ieadsln Consumption Of Shellfish

OTTAWA, March 5 - (Special) A By 9. large margin, rrince Ed- ward Islangzl tops other Canadian Provinces in consumption of shell- fish, accordlng to an answer tabled in the House of Commons today in reply to a question asked by T. J. Kickham, Liberal member for Kings.

Per capita consumption of shell- fish in Prince Edward Island for 1950 was 1.52 pounds, compared to .6 pounds for Nova Scotia. .3 pounds

Ontario and only .02 pounds each for the Provinces of Manitoba and Alberta. 1

The Fisheries Department reply to Mr. Kickham's question on per capita consumption of fish of var- ious types by Provinces showed Prince Edward Island's per capita use of fresh and frozen fish to be only 1.42 pounds compared to much higher volumes for the other prov- lnccs.

"It is obvious," the King's mem- ber said to Tile Guardian in look- ing over the figures, "that the De- partment was unable to get: the complete record. 1It has no facilities for compiling the volume of fresh fish sold from house to house by truck as is so widely done in our Province. In the inland Provinces. they are guided by the value of rail

” menta. our actual consumption of fresh fish is certainly much

the prairie provinces."

Per capita. consumption of fish in Canada is high in the cities of Montreal and Toronto. In Montreal the figure is 17.95 pounds and in Toronto 17.93 pounds. Montreal uses a higher proportion of fresh and frozen fish and shellfish, and Toronto buys more smoked and cured, and canned fish. Per capita consumption of Halifax is 35 pounds.

Canada still ranks among the smallest consumers of fish among world nations. the answer to Mr. Klckham's question reveals. An- nual Canadlan consumption of fish is 12.6 pounds a year compared to 29.0 pounds for Great Britain. 148 pounds for France. 19.8 pounds for the German Federal - , ”" and 83 pounds for Japan.

By HAROLD MORRISON

OTTAWA. Mar. 5-(CF)-Canada faces a tough task in attempts to negotiate new financial arrange- ments with the United Kingdom by which Newfoundland can sell dried salt cod to Europe for ster- ling, informed quarters said to- day.

At stake is the future of New- foundland's cod fish industry. and. to some extent, the cod fish in- dustry of the east coast.

The problem centres around a complicated dollar-for-s t e r I i n 3 deal, involving Spain. Portugal and Italy. sterling non-convertibility and an old debt of 880,000,000 that Newfoundland owes Britain. That

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de-ht now is the responslb'lity of the Canadian Government.

Last year, Newfoundland sold about 35,000,000 worth-or about one-flft'h of its dried salt cod-to Italy. Spain and Portugal, receiv- ing sterling which Britain agreed to accept as payment against the outstanding debt.

Since. by fihc terms of confeder- ation, the Federal Government was responsible for the debt. it agreed to turn over to the Newfoundland fishermen in dollars an amount equivalent to that deducted from the British account.

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Eager for dollars, H-iuin now is showing reluctance to continue such a deal. liiorlnanta said. sini- ply because it. cant reduction of what the to a "dollar auei." which eventually would be paid in dollsrsmby the Canadian Govern- mfnl. '

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EDMONTON, March 5-(CF) - A full-blown blizzard whistled acrou Western Canada today.

bringing death to one person, par- alyzing traffic in some areas and sending temperatures to record lows.

In Northern British Columbia, a 40-year-old woman perished as she attempted to reach safety after allghtlng from a bus at midnight

A. Wiesner whose frozen body was found today on a highway. 8 half mile from safety.

In southern Alberta. more than 30 persons were marooned on the bald prairie all night when three buses and a passenger car nit huge drifts burying the Trans- Canada highway west of Medicine Hat. All were rescued unharmed today.

Trains Stalled

South of Medicine Hat. a Can- Pacific .Rallway freight train ground to a halt at Whitla and two more freight trains and a passenger train were held up until the rlf;ht-of-way could be, cleared. .

The storm blew up Sunday after a cold air mass moved in from the Arctic, plunging the tern-per- ature to record lows for March- Late today. it had spread as for east; as Saskatoon and Brandon. Mann but allow had stopped fall- ing and the wind had droPP8d suddenly at Leihbrldge, Alia.

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But March's heavy-footed lion continued to tramp across British Columbia tonight.

Heavy snow was still falling in southern parts of the Province. Hundreds of moto. ' , abandoned their cars, pn Vancou hnstreets af- ter a ' record 15.2-inch.lweck-end fall.

The weatherman said the temp- erature will drop to 15 here to- night, coldest March nieht since 1903.

In Washington and Oregon. three traffic deaths were blamed on blind- lng snowstorm: or icy roads. Many rural schools were closed.

Weather officials here laid there this no relief in sight from the late cold SP9”-

Snowplow crews had bucked drifts all night in a vain effort to locate two of the missing buses but about noon (MST) today an R.C.M.P. snowmobile got through.

Gasoline from one bus was transferred to the tank of the other and all passengers huddled

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Cod Fish Industry, At Stake In Deal With U.K.

have the effect of virtually break- ing the market for cod, sparking sharp cuts in cod prices not only in Newfoundland but also in the other Maritime Provinces.

Faced with this problem, the Government again has taken up the question with Britain, hoping for a renewal of 1950 arrange- ments.

There is some hope that ar- rangements may be finally com- pleted. perhaps on the basis that Britain accept, if not all, at least part of the European sales in sterling against the Newfoundland account. a

In this way. the burden of find- ing dollars by such non-dollar countries as Italy and Portugal would be used and Newfoundland fish would continue to move over- seas. Negotiations on this basis likely will continue for the next few weeks. --

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Korean Reds

TOKYO. March a -- (Tuesday) - (AP) - United states and and 7th Division lnfantrymen. aided by French troops, squeezed. an estim- ated 6,000 Korean Communists out of I. mountain fortress in East-Cen- tral Korea Monday and sent the Reds fleeing north.

Fifth air force jets hurled jellied gasoline, rockets and machine-gun fire at the Reds as they ran.

Allied artillery and tanks pound- ed a plateau 10 miles northwest of Pangnim in the snow-capped moun- tains where the North Korean lst Ddivision had been deeply entrench- e .