All

rltlonllvns- For Promotion tTouristTrafiic

med-initial ables Requests “_‘ , ormation From

of the in-glfld to ascertain the attitude oi.’ the Jones Governmesrttoward the Omnpmyb purchase tube-generator for its ohsrlotte-

Wllfilltloues in tile Wit

m Pe‘ a».

Electric Co.

' ‘Three futile attempt-s on the part Maritime Electric Company

of s. new

plant. are revealed in corres- tebled b Premier d’. Legislature

-_ ‘N1. .

"1' flgpeal are interested in Eastern

. “r "

\”’J'-,"\ ‘Dr. T, V. Grant,‘ liberal member ' _ » i gos- King's told The Guardian to-

fConting Events

i

._ grave been

UITAWA, March Si-(Speciah- Prince Edward Island will behe- tit indirectly if not direct from an additional vote of $170 in- serted in thq supplementary esti- mates “to assist in promoting tourist business in Canada," the Guardian learned today.

Bulk of this amount added to the funds of the Cénadisn Travel Bureau it was learned from D. Leo Dolan, director, is being spent- in United Btates periodicals to ed- vertise the advantages of Canada as a. summer blwsround. Canada's advertisements in periodicals and magazines of national clrculdtlon “pepped up" and are presented .now in color instead of the former black and white.

"It ls ‘not. our general policy." Mrabolapaaalfldto boost the tour- hi... ttrae ', of. any particular Pr \ ' locality. Our appeal-to the Unite _Btates tourist in, search for a g p place to spend q holi- '.ay is-natlon-wide. At the‘ same timeqit must be remember... that the hepvlest ‘concentration of pop- ulation in ‘the Uhited States alqhg the east coast. and it is hat- uraf that the great proportion of those to whom our advertisements

BMlMe-illlt is to say, the Marl- dis’, Quebec and Ontario.

., “ Maritime x._ _

"I shsitlldvaay the Maritime: will derive. their full‘ share of advan- tage froth our advertising lathe United States. Moreover I can prove it. In my office, 1 have s great sheaf of enquiries from men and women in the_ eastern states desirous of visiting Nova Scotia. New Brunswick and Prince Ed- ward Island. They are asking for detallras to accommodation, food, golf, angling and other sports."

Mr. Dolan added that Prince Edward Island will be “excellent- ly represented".ln the new book- let "Canada" to be issued shortly by the Department of Trade and Commbrceflrhere will be. he earn. three full-page illustrations of the Island's famous beaches.

Dr. Grant Interviewed

ey that while there is vary dofin-' itc community of‘ interest among the three Maritime Provinces, the tendency of Ottawa to lum, them together as if they were a single province was becoming too com- mon. -

"An example oi this," he recall- ed to The Guardian's Ottawa cor- respondent, "vase the intention to appoint only one representative from Prlocelldward Island. Nova Bcotla and New Brunswick to serve on the Federal District Com- mission. This commission is charg- ed with the planning of the na- tional capital.

"I took the matter up on the floor of the House with the result that representatives to this com- mission were named from esch- Province." he said. ‘There is cer- tainly no great difficulty and no additional expense in listing the factual data of each province rep- erately. ff this is done it is more convenient and more accurate in many cases. And if anyone wants to lsnow the totals of the three Maritime Provlncerin any field, it is just a matter of simple ed- ditioh."

cuissssnaoms other: The first watch was really a portable clock hung from the girdle by e. chain or cord

"To arrive, cisoice double re- eleened Pesoeafilver oats. look. u Ilbfiulgan b _e.

' ,_ _ 1 _-.-.'l-

"lb arrive this week sluice. des- of Hey. Booking orders now. James L. Mscltlnnoo, lprinetea.

'"Our will be closed all

‘jThecorrespondes-lce was tabled in reply to a question on the order paper by Hon. Dr. W.J.P. Mac- millan, leader c! the Opposition Iaetweek. in a verbal reply, Pre- mier Jones said he could not find any correspondence, though he re- called receiving one letter from the Cowbell)’. askingior s. 15bit?- ment of government policy. The Government had declined to give any information. Yesterday he stated the correspondence had turned up. and tabled it accord- ingly. first Letter

In the first letterjdated’ June 2i. i046. Mr. AN. Alneworth. divis- ional superintendent of the Mari- time Electric Company, informed the Premier that “one of the major

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us. or... Billie. Passed

HALIFAX, March 31 —(CP)\. The Nova Scotio. Government, pon-

ti£‘.“‘..‘i="."" t"""“'f"“.il‘“t‘t'.; 1 ' jreoea a , PWPOIeI. won-lent" we‘ ' '

to incl-sang “with.

. . absorb- ins a three-cent levy being 1,14... QU-isiwd by the Dominion. Authorisation for the. tax boost Wl-iflveninabiiipaesed bythc hfilalature and given royal assent. It will take effect tomorrow when the federal flmpogt expires, leaving the overall tax to the consumer lat 13 calls.

Dfilils of Finance Minister Ab- botta reply to Premier Angus 1,, Macdonaldls proposals for a new fiscal and tsxa-t/ion agreement were not made known. pending discus. alon by the cabinet. However, the premier was expected to discuss the question during preeentatlon of the budget Wednesday.

Russell . Cunningham (CCliL_ Cape Breton East) registered his party's OPPOsltion to - ago of the 1926 gasoline tax act amend- ment to aliorw the threecent tn- crease.

"The aeneral feeling of the pub- lic of tuna province." he said, "is that the three-cent difference was a federal enactment during the wartime crisis and now they are looking for tax alleviation.”

“If Prince Edward island and New Brunswick put on this tax. we in the Maritirnes are going to have the highest fies tax in the Demin- lon of Canada.

"There should have been some Opportunity for public hearing be- fore the legislation was enacted. I feel sure thereto going to be un- favorable reaction."

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Tin Dan Shortage in Dasads Still Drltloal

the Prices Board said today. announcing continu- ation of the Conservation order for metal containers.

General effect of the order, tho Board said. will be to continue priority for the reasonable and perishable fruit and vegetable packs. fish and meat products

41

CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, TUESDAY, "u,

Covers Prince Edward Island Like l: Do .1

Diplomatic Post

Kenneth Alfred Green, Ottawa industrlali t, who has been ap- pointed Canadian high commis- sioner to Australia, succeeding Mr. Justice T. C. Davis, recently ap- pointed Canadian Ambasador tu

China. “x

PeltSale At Montreal Begins

March Si -(Spec- lull -Thc Canadian Phi: Auction Bales Co. Ltd. ‘first day's offer- ing of silver tlox and mutation pelts resulted ‘as follows: platin- ums, 3rlper oentsold" at an aver- age of $30.90; inferior platlnums, 45 pcr cent eold at an average oi‘ 896.51; white ‘marked silvers 3B per cent ‘sold at an average of 110.10; one-half to three-quarter

la per-“eenti sold at an average ‘of $l9.l7. (The above infonnatlon was

furnishedby Mr. George A. Cali- beclr, manager of the fur market- ing department. Canadian Na- tional Sliver Fox Breeders’ Asso- ciation, Summcrside.)

Dutiooll Favorable For Good Soal Dutch

ST. JOl-DPS, Nfld.. March 81- (CD-Planes spotting for “patch- es" of seals off the northeastern and western coasts of Newfound- land today reported that chances for a good seal hunt this season were favorable. =

The sealer Bronco. owned by the Arctic Sealing and Fishery CO!‘- poration of New York. put in hero today to refuel. Capt. O. Brandol. skipper of the Bronco. said his catch had been transferred to an- other ship before he had entered port.

Jury Disagrees In Dr. Bovyer Trial i“

MONTREAL, March 31 ——(CP) -A new trial for Dr. Raymond Bayer was made ecessary when a King's Bench Court Jury failed to- night to agree on a verdict in the trial of the scientist charged with conspiracy

to communicate information un- lawfully to Russia. Ml‘. Justice Wilfrid Laaure db

missed the Jury when the foreman reported that no agreement had been reached. Date of a new trial for Dr. Boyer. last of l8 Canadians charged in connection with last year's espionage investigation. was set "pro forvma" for April 17.

Dr. Boyer remains at liberty on

and certain essential chesrlioals.

the same $15,000 bail put up on his committal for trial.

(By ‘Ilse Canadian Press)

MONTRDA-Ii, March 31 - Two armed gunmen escaped with e6.- 000 today from a north-end branch of the Provincial lent of Canada after they had forced the manager to open the gate. It was the second time in flittle more than a month that the bank. io- cated on fiouln Bvid. eut. had been held up.

The bandits entered the bank shortly after s pm. closing hour.

' One of them snapped at E.

Leoel, the manager, to "open the safe right away." ‘men, while Label was some at gunpoint to keep his bends in the air. the

roses bandits scooped the cash out of

U0 Ife sad fled.

Bandits Take $5.000 In Montreal Holdup

The bank was robbed on Feb. 2.5, banddts escaping with 8,000.

Police said that the hold-up men apparently took advantage of the fact that police strength had been spread thin elsewhere through concentration of heavy forces in Cartier constituency for todayb federal by-election.

There were no customers in the bank at the time and the manager was about to close the front_door's when the hold-up men appeared. Tile! forced Miss Paulette Laporte, the cashier. to unlock her cash box and the cash into a beg.

The two bandits escaped in an automobile they had waiting near the bank

$1'erg‘ l’ ...._‘ . . ".'d‘, of 9fi°sle°iifi full‘ silver? '

wealthy Montreal ‘

mow‘

Sugar Prices Advance Dent Per Pound Today

OTTAWA. March s1 _(c p) -An liwreaoc of one cent s. Pound in the retail price of re_ fined sugar, effective tomorrow, was announced torsight by the Prices Board and saedbed to "greatly-increased" cost; 0g 11,11 sugar.

This means the price of re- fined sugar will‘ advance to an averagg of nine cents a pound. The increase applies on all siz- Qd packages aml- at all trade levels.

In conformity with Govern- ment policy. the Board will re- capture tho (llfferencc ‘between the old and the new prices on all stocks of raw and refined sugar at tihe refinery levelqflirn- liar recapture of potential in- ventory profits has taken place on each of the previous oc- casions when sugar prices were increased since the inaugura- tion of sugar control in Octo- ber, 1889.

The increase will cover most of the increase in raw sugar prices which has occurred slur- ing the last; year or tvfls. Th! remainder of the loss will be made up out of the sugar stab- lllmtitln fund. Qtablished ear- ly in tho war and used since that time be hold Canadian

» the Spanish Republican gove

IN MONTREA

gNew Law Indicates

llAfi-XD. lhmh Ii -—(AI) Generaliaslmo Francisco Pr.» told the Spanish people tonl he had sent a “law of suocesslo to the Cortes (Parliament) Will might place another king on t vacant throne of Spain. '

On the eve of t-he eighth a nivezrsary of the capitulatton

ment, Franco declared in a broa cast that the l-aw would be fectlve in the event of his dea or incapeciiation.

The la/w of succession was t first admission ever made Franco that his government a temporary one and that it. mig be replaced by anotht-r form rule over 26,000,000 spamurds.

It provides in one section til Franco. as chief of state,

i

' ‘slvg representation, when

Hartt was elected member

llamemt lnsuccesdon to tiled

iv

Speech

state secretary Marshall

tori

v {March ll ,..- ‘ sit '

Says Better. Seed Potatoes Expected Soon p.

tonight at ‘Russia's uncom Jill!“ lng stand on. German» reparation! and WUJIIBd that theUnited Stated’ ,__ "policies; which will con- tinue Gsrnmny; say a cousesdcd’

Sill-II." ' - . a In his blun Lspeech to the",

council of fore ' ministers. Mar?"

communist Iilred Rose. - l, . _ Official rctwnsj-lrom u. o! raannucrols. March 31.. 5,23,,'3;*1,;,"°,;;;§,,3;§;"1.°;°‘g,:. - ‘he l“ 9°11" tmiflrm cw" m‘ (c?) t» F" ' “"971 1'95"!!!‘ basis of an ultimatum." Hie added gm ttmgghi‘, Fa". ‘these m ' - ' h” "1 n" 9'51"!“ that the United Slates "categosi- ~ i a‘ - 33v F“! “M555 B . h‘ Fm" M"- ln‘ cally rejects" the Russian stand; wmmmm mdl'“"m°mxs" u“ 1 “m!” "l" ""1 that "acceptance of repsratoae .

Michael Buhly, Debor- sive. 6,419: Dave Rochon. In - endent Libelahlfiw; 0.1.. s ma. Independent. 135: - Valiquette, Independent, 43. Rcchon, Gingras and Valiqu ~ lust their $200 deposits. inaction of m. mm, ell-year

have the power to suggest a su cessor to the Cortes. but in a

Montreal lawyer who r _,- - i

seat in the Quebec Legislative ' sunhly. to rtest; this electlo _

other section sets up a "coun of the kingdom" which we serve as interim ruler and wou . have the power to select a kin‘ or another chief of state. ~' The proposed law dcclar Spain still to be a monarchy. al though the throne has been vac ant since Alfonso XIII left Spa‘ in i951. Alfonso, however, nave renounced the throne cup to th time he dzled in exile in 1M.’ ‘The council of the kingdom under the law, would have 1h power to elect a successor Franco by a two-Burris lnaiorit vote. The law specifies. lWIev-"er that the successor be Span- ish. male. at least (Wyeara of age

sugar prices steady.

Parliament lit A Glance

By The Canadian Press - External Affairs Minister 8t. Laurent tabled a 290-page report on the second part of the first session of the United Nations. ' Defence Minister Ciaxtun~ an- nounced that Sept. 30 had been set as the date on which men serving .in the interim forces would be discharged or become mcmibers of tile permanent scr- vices.

Miaj. Gen. G. R. Pearkes, v.c. lPC—N£\ll8illlO) said some sort of employment should be provided

for discharged members of the Veterans Guard. i Transport Minister Chcvrler

said he would consider n sugges- tion that machinery be establish- ed to provide for annual‘ medical examination of government em- ployees.

James Sinclair North) urged that books of the O N. R. be alldiicd by the Domin-

(L-Vuncouver —-—

and a. Roman Catholic. k

East

The conference of the Coast Fisheries, sponsored by the Prince Edward Island Fisheries Federation. opens in the Canad- ian Legion Hall at i030 this morn- in

g.

All indications point to the conference being the- largest of its kind ever to be held in the Pro- vince. Delegates from Quebec, New Brunswick. and Nova Scotia are all ready present in large numbers and it ls expected that practically every fish cannery in this Province will have represen- tatives present.

The official we‘come to the delegates will be given by His Honour Lieut.-Go\crnor' J. A. Ber- nard who will he followed M’ Premier J. Walwr Jones and Mayor B. Earle MacDonald.

The afternoon session urlii see the conference getting down to business with a review of war- time oxperiences in the Canad- ian fishing industry and the cur- rout trends in tile market as they affect the Atlantic coast, Que- bec, and Gulf of Si. Lawrence

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(Cchtiwlued

Inn's auditor-general. A. 0.6.1“. amendment to this effect was tie- feated l06 to 20. Tuesday. The Commons

will consider

More Refrigerators

OTTAWA, March ill --tCP>- Still waiting for that electric re- frigerator? Then tnkc heart for the Dominion Bureau of Statistics re- ported l-hat production of refriger- ator equipment during 1946 soared to more than eight times the value of 1945 production.

Total value of i046 production. the Bureau re-ptrtcd today. W113 $13,762,000. with domestic typo units accounting for well over 60 l!" cent of the total value.‘

During the year, Canadian pro- ducers turned out 56,786 units val- ued at sesame oomowc vim 2,418 units valued at $355125 in 1M5. Output of commercial um!" 01

in Fiile Provinces

various government legislation. 1

Gasoline Prices ilo

TORONTO. March 3l— (CH-q Imperial Oil Limited today au- nounced s. orne-cent-a-gailo il~ crease m the wholesale pr ce of gasoline in Ontario and Quebec, flue .to higher costs. and said that the price also was being increas- ed in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. No price changes were announced for tho Maritime Provinces or British Columbia

Tho increases ill the Prairie Pronnccs are to be announced a. Winnipeg for Manitoba. Regina for Saskatchewan and Edmonton for Alberta.

Present prices in Ontraio and Quebec vary with regions. de- pending on freight and other costs. but in Toronto the price has been 17 cents s gallon, ex- olusive of government "gasoline lax, and goes to 18 cents tomor-

311 kinds totalled $5,164,518 ill value compared with 51.244.941-

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CANADA

Bl FLOUR

no, pulls»: w? ii.‘ (p; Aliii W‘.

lndfid a t ht. wszlpalgn,‘ cliu

‘ uxed by an eieellortdl?‘

constants; roumof mute dur lag which glursheta we: loci-sans till-and black lacks we!‘ med. No serious iniuriee jweremiworted- His election, m. u; t tisfli U" labor-Prosre-ioive P's!‘ no representative at Dttawa. Rose, emit/to penltentlaryjqs sixsean lut simmer for manages massed! , image l‘ “it Mo. was the

norm calyjmm- bar i.n‘tlio ounmonslissvos‘

_ liélect- d first in a by-electlort @1943 and ' rc-eleeted 1945 ‘

.. . H _e. my‘; - ‘filth outrun lawyer ho resigned his fQuebec legislatl assembly seat to contest, the by-election. led from the time the first returns were reported, soon after closing of the polls at d pm. ended s. ‘tur- bulent election.

His margin increased as the votes were counted and his elec- tion was indicated at the half way snark when even unofficial returns from the committee rooms of rival candidates showed him to be com- fortably ahead.

Election of Idartt ended a bitter campaign. climaxed today when iighiiflg. during which several shots were exchanged. broke out in one of Masses committee rooms. Po- lice raid two persons were injured slightly in the shooting while Macao's ccnunittee member; said five were hurt.

House Burned At Ebhsfleet

Fire yesterday morning destroy- ed the home oi Mr. and Mrs. Can- lePBurlre, Ebbsfleet, a district near the fishing village oi Mim- iuerzasit on the wcst shore about nlirlway between Wvst Point and North Cape.

The family were ltaving break- fast when one of them discovered

of the furniture. The rest of the contents of the house was de- strayed.

The ioss is partially covered by insurance. .

will be available to farmers in

F. 28; Social Credit l3; Independ-

that the upstairs was ablavc. 14. Neighbors rushed to Mr. Burke's With the announcement. the assistance and helped io save some hlI-nistcl- forecast an improvemcnt

potatoes which realet disease

the fairly near future. Comparable int s, ,wey to the rust-resisting wheat which Canada developed. the disease- resisting potatoes will revolti- tionise one of the, most Import- nnt .. I e. o’ _'. .. u sucdelelill they will save farm- ens ol this region o! the Do- nlinlon alone-an average of $1,. 000.80g‘ geyser. based on the cos “aprlylng for blight and the lose or em yield through blight. ffilllrywfito breeding pro- am," Mr. Bailey, said. “was hbliehld in lilStriyiithe last g ~- re-thees drove psomhiakreeed-