.'lLLY 19, 1952

Q THE GUARDIAN, CHARLOTTETOWN

PAGE ELEVENQ

IOUR NEWS BUDGET for OUR SATURDAY SUBSCRIBERSL

MONDAY

A call has been extended to rwv. Frank MacLean, presently pastor of saint Andrews United Church at Sydney, N.S.. to come to Trin- )t,v United Church here in succes- sion to Rev. 11.2. D. Ashford, 13.0.. who has accepted a call in Cal- ggry, The call to Rev. Mr. Mac- Lean was unanimous. and R reply is expected today by the official Board. through Col. G. Elliott Pull. who is chairman of the Pastoral Charge Committee.

”The people at home need not worry about how the men are be- ing treated in Korea," said Squad- ron Leader B. E. Shaw when in- terviewed at his home, 25 Alexan- der Drive, last evening on arrival by plane from Moncton, which brought to an end his long trip from the theatre of war. ”Every conceivable need has been sup- plied, and it is free to all,” he emphasized. -

R e f e r r i n g to hospitalization, Squadron Leader Shaw said, "Our hospitals are number 1 in every respect. and the wounded are picked right up by helicopter and taken care of. The paddy fields are fierce to work around but the Engineers have done a splendid job in constructing a network of highways that can take us any place in all weather.

Four barns were reported burned by lightning in Prince Edward Is- land yesterday.

Early Sunday morning a violent storm in West Prince County caus- ed the loss of two large barns owned by Mr. Thomas Griilen of Woodstock, some eight miles from Aiberton. In the saute district a belt of lightning struck the chim- ney on the home of Mr. Jack Finnan. causing considerable dam- age but apparently setting no fire.

The storm occurred at approxi- mately 3.00 a.m.

In the afternoon another series 'if storms struck the Province, al- though the West Prince area. es- caped this time.

Two barns owned by Gerald Rooney. Newtown, some four miles from Eldon in Queen's County. were destroyed. Loss was estimated Ii the vicinity of 54,000.

Acquitted, by reason of insanity at the time of the commission of the offence, was the recorded ver- dict of the Jury trying Joseph Gab- riel MacDonald, Chepstoiv, on 11 charge of having murdered Mrs. John (Mary Ann) MacKinnon, Lit- tle Harbour, on the night of Nov- ember fl, 1951. The Jury brought in their verdict at 2.45 yesterday morn- ing, nearly five hours alter they had retired to consider the case.

Mr. I-I. Frank McPhee, Q. C., leading defence attorney began his address to. the jury following the supper recess and spoke for slightly over twc hours. Following the charge to the jury by Chief Justice Thane A. Campbell, they retired at 10.55 ;).m. shortly after midnight they were called into the court room to report what progress they were making. They returned again r.t 1.40 a.m. for further instructions regarding in- asnity and after hearing the Chief Justice went back to their room at 2.15. It was Just twenty minutes later that they brought in their verdict.

The official verdict read by Jury Foreman E. Pierce was, "we mm the accused who stands charged with having murdered Mary Ann Msexinnon. was insane at the time of the commission of the offence and we declare that we acquit him of the said offence on account of such insanity".

A beautiful day and a large ga- thering greeted the Orange men and Orange sisters who met at Milton to honor the memory of William the Third Prince of or- ange and King of England. one of the largest assemblies of members of the two orders and their friends and visitors in the past twelve or fifteen years were present.

The parade was led by Broher Keith Young tas King William) and capably marshalled by that veteran of other years, Brother Davis Ward of King William Lodge. Kingston. The music for the occasion and quite frequently for the remaining afcrnoon was fur- nished by the L.0.A. Pipe and Drum Band under the leadership of Pipe-Major 0. Albert MscLeod.

NOW MU SEUM

independence Hall. the Philadel- phia building where the United mates Congress adopted the decla- ration of independence, now is it museum.

There Ought To Be A Law

FCRINGELV BEGGED. PLEADED AND CAJOIED FOR ANY KIND OF RESERVATION ON THE ' SLEEPLES5 SPECIAL

HE Fiuaitv MANAGED 1o case A seizrii, mo ALMOST iiii-: eariiza min as ms PRACTICALLY

Tl-IE ONLV PASSENGER ON THE TRAIN 3

TUESDAY 1

A cur-uner's Jury at Bouris last night decided that Allan James Maccormack. 41, came to his death on July 3 on the St. Char- les highway by "losing control of his car and being thrown there- from while driving at an excessive rate of speed."

Coroner Dr. M. N. Beck presid- ed. Mr. S. S. Hessian,r Q.C., of Montague represented the crown.

In the absence of Mayor Henry W.

Council. present. Town bills paid, amounting to

All the councillors were

unpaid bills amounting to 54,741.10 were ordered paid. Electric light paid bills amount-

electrlc light unpaid bills amount- ing to 513,140.40 were ordered paid.

The Town Clerk announced that as at the end of the month of June taxes amounting to 531,059.00 had been collected. This. he point- ed out, represented fifty per cent of the town taxes payable.

A house owned by Mr. William Irving of Murray Harbour North was struck by lightning during a severe electric storm, part of the flue hole in the roof.

last year.

A verdict Bryenton ('ilIl1f! night of July 5 as ii result of an automobile accident in which he suffered a fracture of the skull and damage to the underlying: tissues was reported last night by a coroner's jury impanr-llod lo inquire into the dcnili. The acci- dent occurred at I-Jnirvlew xvii:-ii a car owned and driven by John Nottlng left the road and over- turned in a field.

Several witnesses last. night as Coroner Dr. L. 1'1. Prowse opened the proceedings. Dr. T. A. Laidlaw said Ihat he had received a call to the P. E. 1. Hospital that night but the boy was dead when he saw him. There was is small wound on the back of the head with a large area of soft swelling under the skin. He

that Robert Clark

were heard

parent serious cluded that death had occurred between 10.20 and night, but there was no record of the exact time. The young man had been dead an hour or less at the time of his examin- ation. The nature of the head iii-

A .litl.le boy. Anthony Roger LeC1air, 13-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Leclair, North

road near his home yesterday af- ternoun.

playing around a truck which was parked on the road in front of Emmett Gallant.'s lobster factory. When the driver returned he did not see the child.

Coroner J. P. Blacqulere. of North Rustico ordered an inquest. A jury was impant-lied and after viewing the body, the hearing was adjourned to Friday night at Stella Maris Hall. North Rustico.

It was understood the truck was driven by Alyre Mathias Gal- lant of Rusticnville.

The accident is being investi- gated by the R.C.M.P, detachment at North Rustico.

His Excellency, the Hon. Vincent Massey, Governor General of Can- ada, who will be making a short tour of the Maritime Provinces. is expected to arrive in Charlottetown on August 28. according to an an- nouncement made last evening by Surgeon Commander Dr. L. E. Prowse, Private Secretary to Lieu- tenant Governor T. W. L. Prowse.

evening that she

the bums were self-infllcted."

street sweeper with lenders close on the last day of this month

I'LL TAKE ANYTHING! Eyed oi: BAGG-AGE can: ITS A MATTER OF l.ll'I an 1. on-ru -mar x oer . on AT 1

Wedge. Acting Mayor T. D. Morrison presided at last night's meeting of the Summerside Town

818,947.81. were approved and town

ing to 3104.83 were approved and

destroving and piercing a

Irving having moved to Montague

to his dmilll lliei

thought it was likely a skull frac- ture as there were no other ap- lnjuries. He con-

1040 that

Rustico was fatally injured on the

Apparently the little fellow was

The coroner's jury investigating the death of Mrs. Catherine Wy- and brought in a. verdict yesterday "came to her death in the P. E. Island I-lospital at approximately 1.30 p.m. on July 10th. 1952, as n. result of severe burns sustained at her home in Cavendish at approximately 10.30 am. on July 10th. From the evid- ence available it is apparent that

Tile City Clhe:k-last night was authorized to ask for tenders for. the supplying to the city of A motor with to

The authority was given in a,res- oiution passed at the regular meet- ing of the City Council.

Other important resolutions auth- orized the Finance Commitee to enter a contract whereby the East- ern Trust Company will have the safekeeping of civic sinking fund investments and -monies and the investment. re-investment and re. alization thereof as required. The fee of the Trust Company is not to exceed four percent of the annual income from the sinking fund.

WEDNESDAY

Fifteen haymakers from Cape Breton are due in Charlottetown on Thursday night. This number will only partly fill the more than fifty orders for haymakerg on file at the National Employ- ment Office. and 'many farmers

will still face the problem of harvesting the crop without as- sislance.

For the past two weeks the

local Employment Office through its clearance syslem has been try- ing to secure farm help from the mainland.

The Provinces acute farm lab- or shortage will be relieved some- what by the arrival of twenty West German farm laborers next week. Fifteen of lhose have been allotted to farms in Queen's and King's Counties and the other five are slated for Prince County.

The building however did not The immigrants brought to catch tfire, No one at present 15 Canada under the Dominion-Prw living in the noun, Mr, and Mrs, vincial assisted Loan Passage

Scheme, are expected to land in Quebec City next week end. They will be part of a full shipload of young Germans destined to fill farm jobs all across the Doimn- loll.

One of the busiest women in the Province this past week has been Mrs. Emma (Topsy) Bruce of the Women's Division of the National Employment Office. Charlotte- town. Strawberry growers in a wide are around the City, with a bumper crop on their hands have swamped the local office with or- ders for pickers.

Within it few days Mrs. Bruce had placed upwards of a hundred women and older girls with grow- ers but the demand for help still rolled in. With no slackening of the demand she sent out a call for the teen-agers from eleven years and upwards. and the grow- ers faced with a crisis accepted the youngsters. Over the week-end and through Monday and yesterday the youngsters collected at the local office, and were picked up by trucks and cars and taken to their destinations. Most of them car- ried lunches, and were in picnic mood as they left the City.

The love of all Islanders for their native land could more easily be

Star came rolling up the runway to the R.C.A.F. Station Summer- side control tower where it dis- embsrked the Central Band of the Royal Canadian Air Force. In one short hour all forty bandsmen, un- der the direction of Flying officer Karl Frlberg. had eaten dinner. washed, climbed aboard it bus and arrived at the Summerside Mem- orlal Park.

To the hundreds of music loving citizens who listened to Cole Por- terls songs, marches by John Philip Sousa and special arrangements composed by the band itself, it was indeed the treat of the year. Soon even the blades of grass and the leaves of the trees seemed to be infected with the gay tunes and sprightly airs as they swayed and rustled as though fanning up a breeze for the enjoyment of -the grateful audience.

THURSDAY

Organization is now underway of the Bishop's Hospital Building Fund which seeks to raise at least 5300.000 to help defray the cost of the building program at the Char- lottetown Hospital, it is announced by the Most Reverend James Boyle, D,D., Bishop of Charlotte- town. Funds are needed to pay for the construction cost of the hos- pltalls new pavilion, which was opened in 1950 and for the com- plete renovation and moderniza- tion of the original hospital struc- ,ture.

Word was received in the city of the death last night of Mr. B. Roy Holman, former Mayor of Char- lottetown, who died in Toronto following an operation. The late Mr. Holman had served two terms as mayor as well as having been a. member of the City Council prior to his election as Chief Magistrate.

A native of Wlnsloe. Mr. Hol- man, who was 83, was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Isaac

Holman. He left here a few years ago to reside in the Ontario city, but had returned on several occa- sions for visits. Word of his death was received by his aister-in-law. Mrs. Fred Holman, but there were no particulars available. '

Reforestation in this Province, brought to the fore recently by the Federal Forestry Act, is rapidly forging ahead under direction of the Forestry Division of the De- partment of Industry and Natural Resources. 1

In an effort to maintain exact cost accounting records the De- partment has established its own nursery at Beach Grove Inn where approximately 120,000 plants have been put in. At the same time this year there were 12 acres planted to trees, mainly red pine, in Iona. These were planted by the mech- anical planter which digs a trench

-1”” mmcnud that mere Could understood after he had seen the we” M” been 5 broke" land for hlmsel'f, Lord Lovat said

last night on his arrival to attend

the annual Scotch Gathering at Montague today. The disting- uished former Commando leader stood up practically all the way over in the plane from Moncton last evening to better see the beau- ty of the Province.

The Highland Chief of the Clan Fraser. Lord Lovat, is an Army brlgadier with the Distinguished Service Order and the title of Right Honorable. He is making his first visit to the Maritime: after having been a. special guest at the Calgary Stampede. He was met :11. Moncton yesterday by Mr. Walter Shaw, president of the Caledonian Club of P.E.1., and Mr. George Fraser, Director of the Travel Bur- can.

A iaiik car ofgoll recently purchas- . ed by the City as an experiment for

rived yesterday and will be given a try-out immediately. according to in- formation received last evening at City lvlall. Mr. J. A. Fullerton. City Clerk expected that the Island Coil- struction Co, would make it prelim- inary run an Upper Queen Street to- day

The oil. which requires to be pre- heated, will be sprayed under pres- sure hy one of the machines now available" by the Company. The spraying of Upper Queen Street will be followed by I similar treat- ment on Highland Avenue. Upper Spring Park Road and possibly Maple and Green Streets. depend- ing on the quantity of oil immedi- ately available.

should the treatment prove suc- cessful. a further quantity will be ordered and applied as promptly as posslbley

At seven o'clock last evening the thermometer hovering just it bit under a sweltering nine- ty degrees, a huge R.C.A.F. North

use on the gravelled city streets. sr- me.

and covers the seedlings after they are set in place.

The famed Highland Chief, Lord Lovat, his friendly nature per- meating through the gathering as he mingled through the crowds meeting club members, set the pace yesterday for one of the most successful and largely at- tended Caledonlan Club Gather- ings held in the Province in years. The Gatherine along with the sports events and other en- tertainments was held at Mon- taltue.

Willi the pipes skirling and the plaids whirling as the younger members danced to the Highland music, Lord Lovat, once a fam- ous Commando leader and now a farmer moved through the large. crowd meeting many of the older Scottish people and making friendships that will long remain in the memory of those whom he Owner of a magnificent physical stature and wearing kills Lord Lovat presented a majestic ap- pearance as he walked around the club grounds. chatting wlili the elansmen.

But it was not Lord Lovai's lame alone that won him the ap- proval of the crowd. Rather it was his friendly and sincere man- ner which he first manifested on

the platform when he told the group that his main ambltioii during the afternoon was to

meet as many of them personally as he could.

FRIDAY

"We have no inteiitloii of getting tough in the matter of dogs atlarge by accident, but those habitually at large are in for a clean-up," said Chief MacArthur yesterday in speaking of the activity of the police department in that respect Since the drive began on July 1st to reduce the dog nuisance to "nil", more than 25 dogs have been picked up, six being destroyed. Fourteen have been reclaimed by their owners, and the remainder are still impounded. Even the tax had not been paid on many of these, so the pick-up has served a dual purpose.

Undaunted by the severe lose they sustained three weeks ago when the Tignlsh Legion building and contents were completely de- stroyed by fire, the Legion mem- bers together with the members of the Legion Club, are already plan- ning to build a much larger build- ing which will be in the nature of a recreation center to be known as the Tlgnlsh Legion Recreation Center. such an institution has been a long felt need for the resi- dents of Tlgnish and the stOound- ing farming and fishing settle- ments. Present pians are that the new building will be the headquar- ters for the Tignish branch of the Canadian Legion and the Legion Club, moving picture theatre and dance hall, bowling alley and read- ing rooms.

At I. meeting held recently it was decided that the chairman of the meeting. Mr. Claude Kinch. who is president of the Legion. ap- point a committee of six to make a survey and study three prob- lems, namely-the location in Tig- nlsh which would serve the public beat. the estimated cost on any

agreed type of building to be erect- ed and the possible practicable me-

thod of financing the enterprise. This committee will report their findings at a meeting to be held by the Legion in the near future.

According to information receiv- ed from the seed Potato certifies- tion Office, preliminary figures on the acreage entered for inspection this year in Prince Edward Island do not indicate that the increase will be as great as was 'anticlpated. The following shows coinparative acreages by varieties:

Acres Entered for Inspection

1952 1951

(Preliminary tl-Iinali

Sel:-ago . . 10,235 10,070 Irish Cobbler . .4,576 5,020 Green Mountain. 2,528 3,481 Katahdin .. .. L238 Canso . 94 Pontiac 182 Keswick . 54 Warba .. . 52 Sequoia 6'1 Netted Gem . 62 Bliss Triumph 21 94 Kennebec .. 13 - Chlppewa . 12 40 Others . 28 13 21,907 21,771

Plans are now underway for re- storing the original chairs in the Confederation Chamber and Pre- mier J. Walter Jones said last night he was expecting the arrival of a specialist in the work. Al- though the Premier did not name m, he stated the visitor would examine the seats and determine what steps would have to be taken. A recent visitor to the Province. Mr. V. B. King, of Woodstock, Ont. was very much interested in the historic Chamber where Canada was born. Learning that the chairs used by the Confederation Fathers were becoming greatly worn and there was some danger that they might not be preserved in their or- iglnal form if they were allowed to deteriorate further, Mr. King ini- mediateiy offered to share in the cost of having the work done. His. proposal was reported to Thej Guardian at the time. ' Under the auspices of the Char-

lottetown Auxiliary of the Cana-

dian National Institute for the

Blind the annual picnic for these

handicapped residents of the Prov-

ince was held yesterday in the National Park. Through the co-operation of

the National Park superintendent, one of the roomy- Park kitchens was placed at the exclusive use of the plcnickers for the afternoon. A full bus load of cheerful blind folk made the trip to the seaside resort and eninyed them- selves immensely. Under the su- pervision of Mr. John Proude, a Charlottetown college student, the picnickers participated in games and competitions, and most of them figured in the prize list. La- ter they were served an excellent buffet lunch, and took part in a spirited sing-song.

OTTAWA, July 17 - (CF) -The Princess Alice Foundation yfund today announced the two winners of its 1952-53 scholarships, each valued at a minimum of 51,200. Winners are Audrey Macmillan of Falrview, P. E. 1., and Shirley Anne Pearse of Winnipeg. The an- nouncement was made by Sen- ator Cairine Wilson, chairman of the foundation.