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Child Kidnapped, Released Unhuri

TORONTO (CP) -- Elght-year- std Alice Nesbltt. daughter of a multi-millionaire retired lawyer. was kidnapped from a residential meet Wednesday as she walked home from school 101' lunch.

Less than four hours later she was home safe and a charge of kiiiiiapping had been laid against Philip 0'Desse. 32. of Penetang- ulshcne. Ont. lie was arrested at gunpoint by a Toronto constable.

lJi'. Smirle Lawson. lhntarlo au- periising coroner and the Nesbitt family physician. said the kidnap- per or kidnappers got "cold feet."

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Alice was let out of n station wiicuii near her home at 3:56 p.ni. word she was kidnapped came to police about 12:30 but was not printed or broadcast in Toronto or outside until she was known to be we .

"He made me get in the car." Alice said. ''I couldnt run away. ;uanted to go homo for lunch but he uouldn't let me put of the car and hi; wouldn't give me anything to Pill.

"lie drove out of the city and lino the country. We drove around and around. . .He didn't hurt me."

"At last I knew we were getting close to home and he told me I would see my ummy and daddy again He stopped the car and said 'you can get out now.” "

lirs. Nesbitt Illd the man who demanded 825.000 ransom threat- ened to kill her daughter if any- thing was published about the kid- napping. . SECOND CALL

Alice was let out of a station wagon not more than two blocks front her home. Five minutes later and a mile away. a station wagon was forced into the curb by a police cruiser and police motor-

Nesbitt said the ransom No Shomrocks Left In Ireland

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland grects St. Patrick's day without a shamrock to show and with the bars closed tight.

There are no shamrocks because cold weather nipped most of the plants in the bud. The bulk of what did survive has been shipped abroad to gladden the hearts and

ighteu the lapel: of ,expatrlate

tshmen and other cailebrants.

.tnii tastes of the fine fiery Irish Wllhlty are out since the govern- mom in years ago closed down

pubs on St. Patrick's day.

"Scramble" To Unload Cars

TORONTO (CPI - The Star tiais Toronto automobile dealers are izcrambllng" to unload new c;it"- before the budget is an- lI()lllll'(Vl next month.

Tl)? Paper says dealers are of-

o buyers as much as S500 Si is suggested manufactured

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"iv Clicvrolets are quoted at ll "9 and new Fords at 51.699. iiflt it down payment of less than tilt!) and monthly payments of lbw than 360. Accesso lea and il- Wjc cost extra.

4 Star quoier dealers as say- in -I iicit-s-paper-advertising war if ”.Iitst begun."

C oming Events

"llcservl Tuesday. E March runiiunge sale. Holy Name Hall.

"llcserve Saturday I April. talc sale R. T. Holmana Ltd.

f"liit). one act plnyl. Seven Mile Bay Hall. March 17th.

"Auction and dance Vernon hall. St. Patrick's. March 17th.

"Pie social and cards in Lot 65 Hall, Thursday. March 17. Curtain 3:90. .

"Variety Concert and Cards in I-01 53- Hall. Thursday evening. Mllf('ll 17th.

"C-i'-ipaud rink tonight. Nine- Miie Creek Bulldogs va. Albany it. Pats.

"Ella prices going up and chick sales way down in Canada. Order Your chicks now. Dillon it Spillett Chick Hatchery.

"Have quanti heavy brood alckerels week March 130- 11

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Virletv Concert a'nd Phyl-

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lcsday -and Thursday. Clltfll

Farmers Co-op. Phase II. "M I. I. I.

"Iron 17. oration It. Patrick I! . -omen. followed

demand was made by it man who Spoke in a low voice that didn' seem to be disguised.

Shortly after 3 p. m. the tal- ephone rang again.

”The"man asked if I had the money. a. Nesbltt said. "I said we had it."

"I'll have a messenger at your house in M minutes to pick up the cash and five minutes afterwards Alice will be home." the man said.

Alice was home before a 11- year-old boy came to the Nesbltt house. Police said the lad. Jim Edwards. 12. had been asked by a strange man to pick up a par- cel. The boy "thought the whole thing sounded fishy so he took the licence number of the car and called us." they said.

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Legislature To Prorogue At Noon On Friday

The Legislature at one o'clock this morning passed the appro- priation blll of S7.723.081 after a lenghthy discussion which began on Tuesday evening shortly be- fore six o'clock and continued the same night until 10:30. Discus- sions under Chairman William Acorn resumed last evening at 8 p.m.

Premier Matheson announced before adjournment that the House would prorogue at noon tomor- l'0W.

The estimates were closely questioned by the Opposition from the beginning to the end and dur- ing this time the discussion was not without its highlights II the Opposition Leader and Mr. John A. MacDonald became involved in heated arguments with the Premier and Hon. Dougald Mac- Kinnon.

A half hour recess at eleven o'clock brought a welcome inter- lude to the weary members. Present at the recess was a for- mer member of the Legislature. Mr. John Archie Campbell. who in his inimitable style rendered a couple of his Gaelic songs. Those present admitted that Mr. Campbell had not lost much of his vigor during the years since he sat in the House.

Tililck Transport 0 Ass'n To Meet

SACKVILLE. N.B. (CP)--Three (op authorities on trttck transporta- tion will speak Friday and Satur- day at the fifth annual meeting of the Maritime Motor Transport Aa- sociation in Amherst, N. S.

Executive secretary C. W. Mof- falt announced the speake n as William Norris of Montreal. pres- ident oi the Canadian Trucking As- sociations Inc.: J. L. Rumble of Toronto. radio commentator and transportation is a l e a ma n; and George L. Bowles. director of mo- tor vehicles for the interstate com- merce commission. Portland. Me.

Awarded 53.116 For Loss of Hands

KITCHENER. Ont.. (C P) -- Mlchacl Schwager of Kitchener. who lost both hands in an accid- ent willi a forage harvested. was awarded 33.11052 by an Ontario Supreme Court jury Tuesday in an action against Lloyd Helpel. a Heidelberg. 0nt.. farmer. The ac- cldent occurred when .1-lelpcl started the harvester while Schwager had his hands in the cutting section of the machine. trying to clear out grass. Heipcl was found 60 per cent nccligcnl. Scliwager. who came to Canada last year. 40 per cent.

By ALAN HARVEY

LONDON tCP)eIn a crowded committee room of the House of Commons. Labor members of Far- liament voted Wednesday to strip the party label from Aneurln (Nye) Bevan and shed the lmpetuoua. 57-year-old elshman halfway W0 political exile.

The margin was unexpectedly close. In the secret ballot. open to the the members of the rlismantary Labor party. the Pl decided by 141 votes to 112

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next step Ia up to the na- eaocntlve of the Labor party.

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The contract for the construct- ion of the new Guardian Building. on the Prince street site acquired last Fall. has been awarded to the Island firm of M. F. Schurman Company. Ltd. Final decision in connection with the awarding of the contract was made yesterday. Work will start on Monday and it is hoped to hue the building completed by the end of August.

Of steel and concrete block construction, with brick and

New Guardian Building Contract Awarded To M. F. Schurman Co. Ltd.

limestone facing along its front- age of approximately 100 feet. the building will be modern in design and will greatly facilitate newspaper operations. It will have a total floor area of 17,900 square feet T and will consist of two storeys built in such a manner thatia third storey may be added at a later date.

The architects. whose sketch of the new building was published last November. are the firm of Barnett and Rieder. Toronto.

City Tax BiilMa'kes

Employers Responsible

For Poll Tax

Second reading given a bill to amend the City of Charlottetown Incorporation Act will empower the City Council to impose a tax on transient workers of up to 330. The Council may decide what amount the tax will be. Transient workers are now required to pay a tax of 510.

Another clause in the amend- ment requires the employer of an employee who may be in de- fault of his or her poll tax for that year ,”to withhold the amount of such tax in default from the employee and pay the same to the City collector whose receipt shall be a good discharge pro tanto to the employer."

The Act also provides that any employer "who shall fall to so do when so required. shall be liable to pay and may be as- sessed with such tax in default. provided that should the tax in default exceed ten per cent of such next payment. then ten per cent only shall be withheld and

N. S. Gov'i' Survives Vote

HALIFAX (CPl-Nova Scotia's Liberal government Wednes- day survived its first non-con- fidcncc motion since Premier Hicks took the reins of power. de- feating a Progressive Conservative motion 19-15.

The two CCF members of the legislature voted with 13 Progres- sive Conservatives.

All Liberal members. except one who slept through the vote. cast their ballots against the motion which called for an end to "gov- crnment waste" and no increase in taxes.

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Child Missing

SYDNEY MINES, N.S. (CP)- Police and volunteers drlggcd a nearby pond without success Wed- nesday as they hunted for clues to the disappearance of slx-ycar-old Linda Bonnar.

Linda left her home for a store 200 feet away for candy Tuesday and hasnt been seen since.

RCMP brought in the police jog ''rim to help in the search.

Labor MP's Vote To Strip Party Label From Bevan

with an amendment which would have rebuked Bevan but taken no action against him.

This was defeated b 138 votes to 121. a margin of 1 . The slim margin of the two votaa provided little combrt to the party leader- slilp. headed by the 72-year-old Ai- tlee. It showed the Socialists split down the middle and gave en- uiuragement to Prime Minister Churchill's ruling Conservatives.

A general election must be held by October. 1050. and there has been some among Conservat- ives of calling a snap vote wh e the opposition is dernoralised. the decision will be made by the N-year-old Churchill ,and up to now he has shown no disposition to hurry the vote.

Tonker Moy Transfer Fuel

HELSINKI (AP) - The Finnish tanker Aruba. carrying 13.0w tons of ht fuel for Red China. will not be out into "dangerous waters."

night. may mean the Arum will -Communist Asian

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paid. and the balance withheld and paid from the next succeed- ing payment or payments to em- ployee. with a like limitation to ten per cent thereof."

The bill was introduced a week ago by Dr. W. J. P. MacMillan and was left in Committee until

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How Federal Buildings in N. S. Heofed

OTTAWA (CP) -Sixty-four of the 72 buildings owned by the federal government in Nova Scotia are heated by coal. the other eight by oil.

The works department gave this information Wednesday to W. M. Buchanan (L-Cape Breton North and Victoria) in a Com- mons return. It added that-tall seven buildings now being built by the federal works department in the coal-producing province will be heated by coal.

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Porliomenf At A Glance

By THE CANADIAN PRESS Wednesday

The CCF moved a motion of non- confidence in the government on unemployment. calling on it to provide for able-bodied persons out of work. ?

Revenue Minister McCann said the government made no direct contracts with a company which maintained a reslden to enter- tain public officials.

Defence Minister Campney said RCAF planes have committed three minor violations of air saf- ety regulalions since the 1954 Moose Jaw tragedy.

The senate empowered its stand- lng committee on finance to make a sweeping investigation of fed- eral, provincial and munipipal spending.

Thiirsday

The Commons will I. nsider gov- ernment legislatlon. The Senate will sit. -

P. W. C. Teoclier Receives Grant For Research

Mr. H. B. Neatby. a member of the staff of Prince of Wales College where he teaches history. is one of 13 -Canadians chosen by the Canadian Social Research Council at Ottawa to receive a financial grant. for postdoctoral research. Money is provided by the Rockefeller Foundation and averages 3400 to each recipient. (Mr. Neatby. Who has been on the P. W. C. staff for about a year. is a graduate of the Uni- versliy of Saskatchewan. Toron- to University and Oxford Univer- sity. He was born at Saskatoon. Sask.. and served in the Can- adian army overseas during the second great war.

During the summer will be doing research work deal- ing with the life of Sir Wilfrid Laurler and the history of the

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Opposition To Railway Application Taken By Legislative Committee

Opposition to the application of the Canadian National Railways for discontinuance of the present local railway passenger service was expressed in the report of the Legislative Committee on Transportation and Communica- tions which has been tabled in the Legislature.

The report states that the com- mittee held alx meetings to con- sider problems in connection with transportation and communications affecting the Province. Three of these meetings were advertised as open meetings at which a number of briefs and presenta- tions were received from indivi- duals and organizations on mat- ters considered vital 'and of major importance to the Province.

The committee's first recom- mendation was with regard to the Borden-Tormentlne service. which was published in yesterday's Guardian. The report also dealt with water transportation and telephone communications.

The recommendation re the C. N.R. application reads as follows:

"The Committee views with concern the application of the Canadian National Railways to the Board of Transport Commis- sioners of Canada for an order authorizing the discontinuation of the present local railway passen- ger service on its Island Division

Weather Delays Search For Jet

CHATHAM. N.B. (CP) - The weather closed in over central New Brunswick Wednesday and the air force reluctantly aban- doned temporarily the search for

since last Friday. A spokesman said search planes would take to the air again in-

Liberal party.

Retiring Locomiive Engineers

(left) greets engineer H. M. I-Iowatt at. Charlottetown yesterday leaving his cab at the end of his final run prior to goin on retirement from the Canadian National Railways. Cen- tre is Roy,McGee, fireman. In the picture on the rig t. En ineer J, P, Dante from Mr. Lockhart.-also at the end of his final run before 1-pi Barter's Film Lab.

and car foreman

ship's owners announced Wed- da

OTTAWA (CPI-A aaoond roo- tlon of non-confidence in the fed- eral government over Its employ- ment policies was placed before IIIEFCOIIIITIOIII '.'.ednesday by the C .

It was introduced as an amend- ment to a Progressive Conserv- ative motion of March 1 as a spasmodic unempl eat debate continued. The debs was still in progress when the House ended its abbreviated Wednesday at .

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Move 2nd Non-Confidence Motion On Unemployment

ulate employment.

WILL PROLONG DEBATE

The Progressive Conservative motion is in more general terms. .The CCF motion. expected to rolong an on-again! off-again do- bate that now has run through five sitting days. was ropoaed by yzrhart Regfar. Burns - Coquit- a

in. Speakers of o t is e r opposition parties in Wednesday's debate ad-

vocated various means of reducing "K

unemployment. Liberals defend government policies. I Mr. Reglar said he does not lgiarne industry far; uamplomiigt. at was no I . The federal governnienrwaa the

g authority able to deal with a

ltnatlon. At the forthcoming federal-pro- foresee. the federal gov- forward with

day if skies cleared.

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(right) iring.. Centre is James Darte. who was fireman with

for eight summer months. The Committee is of the opinion this move would entirely disrupt transportation and submit the fol- lowing Resolution for your con- slderatlon.

"Whereas the Canadian National Railways have applied to the Board of Transport Commission- ers of Canada for an order au- thorizing the ” ntlnuancc of the present local railway passenger

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New Look In Tires Reported From U. S.

DETROIT, lAP)- Colored tires, designed to complement a variety of exterior car body finishes. are in production at United States Rubber Co. Three colors-Blue. green and brown-are being arldcd to the white sidewall tires. The color extends from the outer edge of the white sidewall to the top edge of the trend. The tread it- self is of convention black. A set of" the colored tires could cost up- wards of 3300.

A-Power Plan! For Michigan

LANSING. Mich. (AP) v De- troit Edison Co. detailed plans today for a 845,000,000 atomic power pLant to be built in Michi- gan. It said it would operate with a fuel cost of "almost nothing".

It (old the state public service

commission the plant will be i"

built with the help of 32 other companie joined in a research program for peaceful use of at- omic energy.

The plant would be located in the southeastern i Michigan area served by Edison. Additional plants would be built if the pilot pilalnt is found commericaily fea-

be.

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TOPSEBRET tiocuutzttts titt YALTA TALKS MADE PUBLIC BY u.-s. STATE DEPARTMENT

WASHINGTON. (CP)-President Roosevelt propos-

ments.

The papers consist of pages in all. They are about gate.

The British government had op- posed publication at the present ltime. The Utiitcrl States govern- ment also had been reported con- cerned at the effect publication might have on West European opinion. especially in West Ger- many.

LONE SL'lH'lV'0R Prime .'lllntslci' ('lt':itlitIl ts llic

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In suggesting l-ion: Kong go in China. Roosctl-it li:id expressed the hope it could then become an lfltC'i'nli'l(7llallZ8(l free port.

The rot.-tirds sliow that Roosevelt ”l.'ncvi Mr. Churchill would have strong objections to this sugges- lion.”

It was at Yalia that Russia agreed to enter the Jli-If against Japan in tiio or three iouths af- l:'r the def:-wt til Cc" .)'. Russia rztt-.-iliy oiiicrctl just ill)'Illl. a ltL'Cl( ':ic'-ire Japan stirrciirlcrcrl S()L7GHT PORT

The papers discuss -l(l.sL'llll Sla- lln'.-' desire for s warm-water port in the Far East. possibly Daircn on the Kwantung peninsula.

Notes kept hy Charles E. Bnhlen of the U. S. delegation. now U. S. ambassador to Russia. recorded:

”Tlte president said he had not yet had an opportunity to discuss this matter with Marshal Chlang Kai-shek (Chinese president), so therefore he could not speak for the Chinese. He went on to say that there are two methods obtain the use of this port:,(1) outright leasing from the Chinese; (2) making Daircn a free port under some form of interna- tional commlssion. He said be pre- ferred the latter method because of the relation to the question of Hong Kong.

"The president said he hoped that the British would give back

China and that it would then be- come an intematlonallzed free port. He said he knew Mr. Church- ill would have strong objections to this suggestion."

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receives congratulations

Stalin told Roosevelt that he needed sweeping concessions in the Far East in order to explain "to the Soviet people why Russia was entering the war against Japan."

There was no atenngraphir re-

Federoiion In West Indies Step Nearer

PORT OF SPAIN. Trinidad (AP) The problem of migration. which has been blocking a proposed West Indies federation. has been nearly solved. authoritative source say. and all that is needed now is "some patching and trimming."