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Sees Unemployment In The Maritimes Seasonal Matter

Parliament At-A-(iianee

(Canadian Preset

Prime Minister " ‘ X121] announced increased rwtee in psy- menis to disabled war pensioners and widows and to married stu- dent veterans.

Finance Minister Abbott said the matter of increased rents ob- viously was a question of Govern- ment policy.

Labor Minister Mitchell, prod- ded by Opposition members, said unemployment in some Maritime centres was largely seasonal.

External Affairs Minister 8t. Laurent said the Government was not disposed to publish confiden- tial correspondence with the King in connection with new letters patent.

James Sinclair (L-Vahcouvsr North) protested against rejection of members’ travelling expenses on the ground they had travelled oy ar

The Commons voted 40 to 42 against limiting currency-saving import restrictions to dollar coun tries. mainly the United States. Mr. Abbott said he was convin- ced import restrictions wer help- ing United Kingdom trade. vvitl- Canada. Opposition members criticized plows:- held by Trade Minister ow B. foelwllelblewsqged

Senator J. W. Farris (L1-Britisl1 Columbia) said Stalin now 1's a greater threat to world peace than Hitler.

Tuesday

The Commons will consider Government legislation. The Ben- ata will sit.

Three Children Burned To Death

_DUN'BA.R.'1ON. Ont. Pbb. 16- 1CP)-'I'hree children were burned to death this afternoon, when the home of Tony Mask was destroyed by fire at nearby Fairport. The iilllldlCnr were alone -when fire broke out.

GUILTY Ol‘ SIIOPLIFTING

STRATf-‘ORD, Ont. Feb. 16- (Cw-‘hvo Windsor men pleaded guilty today to a series of shop-l will)! charges involving items rename from table napkins to ohinau-arc and women's suits. Wil- “lm Qumlan. pleaded guilty to four charges of shoplifting and R. Loree pleaded guilty to five such ‘"5983. They were remanded i4! Feb. 23 for sentence.

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OTTAWA. Ibis. 1d -(CP)—'I11e deteriorating earwploymant picture in some Maritime centres received the attention of Parliament today. with Opposition members prodding for information on relief measures and Labor fvilinister Mitchell sx_ pressing the view the 1area’a

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Mr. Mitchell said the situation in certain sections-notably Cape Breton, Halifax and New Glasgow.

NA-ohad been receiving special gove ent attention in recent weeks. but he expressed belief it

had been brought about by a tem- porary combination of eimum- stances.

At. the same time, Transport Minister ClXWIlCI said in an inter- view he believed the abrupt. lull in shipping at Halifax during the last couple of weeks was a tem- porary situation.

Conditions already had improv- ed in Halifaxis shipping, he said, and a "reassuring" number of ves- sels were scheduled to load at that port in the next month. However, he would make no prediction on their expected volume of traffic.

Mr. Mitchell's statement in nhe Commons was prompted by a.

question from Clarle Gillie; (CCF—

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heel heard a report that 7.000 per- sons were jobless in Halifax and

wanted to know what steps the

Government proposed to takc. Mitchell Explains

Mr. Mitchell said.

"The freight-traffic through the Maritime ports has reached an all time low sluice before thewar. The out of logs for lmnber has been lighter this year, and lumbenmen have not been in as great demnd es heretofore.

"Shortages of material. especial- ly steel, have affected work in the shipyards. and layoffs have oc- curred. Other industries have also had to curtail due to the short- BCQQ of materiel.

"On Satuiday. the Halifax ship- yards laid off 300 men.

‘Tor the flrst- time since the war. the textile plants report sufficient staff, and there are no vacancies

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Cathoiie Cardinal Passes Away

VATICAN CITY. Feb. iG-(AP) -Gennaro Cardinal Granite Pig

ndtelli dl Belmonte. 96, second only.

to Pope Pius in the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church. died today of a bladder ailment com- plicated by old age.

Cardinal Pignatclli, who was a prince of‘ the Italian aristocracy as well as a prince of the Church expired at 10:18 a.m. (4:13 a.m. EST) in his simply-furnished apartment in the historic Vatican church 01f Santa. Martha.

Ia had known five Popes in his long life and had been an 1n- timata of the present Pontiff and his predecessor. I-Ie had been dean of the College of Cardinals for nearly 1!’ yea-rs.

lranoeaco Cardinal Mai-chatti- Selvaggiahl. ‘id. Bishop of Fras- eati and Vicar-General of Rome. succeeds Cardinal Plsflatelli as Cardinal dean.

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After spending a month at im- migration quarters in Halifax. Mrs. Conrad Mansfield. 51, penni- less Scottish wife of a Canadian, and her baby daughter will be permitted to stay in Canada. authorities have announced. Her husband.i14, failed to meet her when she arrived Jan. 9. No_ trace of him has been found since he left a Montreal boarding house shortly before the ship docked. Worried. Mrs. Manfleld said she is afraid something has happened to 111m. "He would not leave us, he loved the child and 111e," she said.

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UITAWA, Feb. 16--(Special)— Shown a copy of Saturday's Guar- dian by .1. Watson Mack-taught. Liberal member for Prince, con- taining an item about his cow- milking contest with Mrs. Gladys Strum, C.C.F. member for Q11’- Appelie, John S. Sinnott, Liberal member for Springfield, Man.,told this correspondent today that Mrs. Strum was "trying to baolt out of the contest."

The burly Manitoba member who keeps a. herd of 50 cows and farms 425 acres in the Winnipeg area charged that the only fe- male member of the House of Commons had cast reflections on him as a farmer.

"She challenged me and I ac- cepted. Now she wants to back out. That's the trouble with a lot of those 0.0.1". people in this country. They're smart and glib at talking but when the chips are down, they backtrack. There are scans nine 0.0.1". members in this Parliament who call themselves

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Good News For Chinese in Can.

(By The Canadian Press)

OTTAWA. Feb. id-Wives" and children of Chinese who have be- come Canadian qitiaens will be admitted tn Canada as soon aa the Dominlonb newly-established knmigration office 1n I-iong Kong begins to function, it was an- nounced today.

A. Jollifia. Direetur of Immig- rati . said H31‘. Peters. new with the Resources Department at Vancouver, has been appointed t0 the Hons Kong post and will go there within two mo .

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tario that Bouthean Ontario imsniehalitiae could ex"- past a lii-per-cent out. in power by Wednesday. ‘Ilse earlier.- outs lasted isaif-an-dioik.

raffle signah endhalted theflow of electricity to homes. factories, offieabuiidlimaand even hoqitala.

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affsoted in tonight's cut-off.

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GEORGETOWN. British Guiana. Feb. 16 -(CP)—-The 70-foot ketch Arthur Rogers tied up here today after Tom i-lepworth of London with his wife, ,former actress Diana Sheldon, sailed her from England in a five month's voyage across the Atlantic.

‘They left England Sept. 28 and after visiting Ireland. Las Palmas and Madiera. sailed for British Guiana 21 days ago. I-Iepworth said they encountered two fierce gales while crossing the Bay o! Blscay but rode them out without dam-

age.

Married a year ago. the Hep- worths have lived aboard the lg-toh ever since.

Bandits Del $2,100 l1: Windsor Holdup

WINDSOR. Ont. Feb. i6 -(CP) —-1A1pprox1mate1y $2.101) was taken from the Albert Road aind Tecum- seh Boulevard branch of the Royal Barak of Canada. this after- noon. vnhen three thugs, two of themedarrned, robbed the newly- QP"! bPF-Ilfi-h- . . ssanr-tha oelohwaived into‘ the bank, and ‘one ttnlgyheld the staff at gunpoint. During the hold- up, the manager D. W. Boynton, was siugged by one of the LINES. police said.

Nfid. iias First Fur Auction

ST. JOHN'S Nfld., Feb. 16-—(CP)

Conservatives In‘ Ontario By-eleetion

SEAFORTH. Ont. Feb. 16-(0?) -Thor1-1u Pryde. 59-year-old busi- ness msn, today won the Provin- cial lay-election in Huron riding by a margin of nearly ‘I00 votes over his only competitor, Liberal Benson Tuokey.

The poll marked the first ‘est of Premier Drew's Progressive Conservative Government . since the Ontario general election of 1945.

Mr. Pryde had 7,618 votes from all 93 polls. M1". Tuckey 49-year- old Liberal candidate. had 8,934.

The victory restored Progressive Conservative strength in the 90~ seat Legislature to 66. There are l1 Liberal members, eight COR, two Liberal-Labor, two Labor- Progressive and one Labor mem- er.

Most of Mr. Prycle's margin came from Exeter where he p)“- ed 534 votes more than Mr. Tuc- key. who now is serving his ninth term as reeve, chief municipal of- ficer in the village of some 2.0011 persons. He won eight of the l3 municipalities 111 the 1111111; u-h-zri. c1 -< i'O\l§l'il_‘-' 11w :.o11i.l11~r11 .l- I. of l-lilrun 0011111)‘ lying alongside Luke 11111-011.

The tuo candidates broke oven in the eight ‘townships, each win- ning four. Mr. Pryde led in the towns of Godcrich and Seaforth and the village of Hcnsall 11s well as Exeter. Mr. Turkey won this town of 2,000 persons. 22 miles west of Stratford, by l4 votes.

Mr. Pryde. native of Scotland ubqliverliumarewa-aado , horrors going into the monument business in Exeter in 1911i, said in e brief statement after the elec- tlon: "We're very happy with the victory. . . .Our opponent fought a good fight."

Mr. Tuckey, who was born near London and operates a trucking business, said the election was “.1 good.. clean fight and well worth the effort".

Depression brightens

—Newfour1d-la.nd had its first fur auctio. today and biwers were present from New York and Mont- real to buy 3.089 furs for $110900.

Most prominent-at the auction was F. Nobel, of Montreal who purchased 31 of the 69 lots in which the furs were offered.

The 3.000 beaver pelts brought an average of $32 per skin. The other 89 pelts comprised mink, marten. silver and fox skins.

Child Burned To Death At Amherst

AMHERST. N.S-. Feb- 16 —(CP) -'l'he ninth fire death in the Mar- itlrncs 1n a week occurred here to- day when nine-months-eld Lloyd Oomnley- was burned to death as flames destroyed his parent's home, Three other children were rescued by their father. Paul Cor- mler.

’I‘h‘h fire started when one o! the children was said by the lather to have thrown a lighted piece e_f pa- per into the wood~b0x o! the par- tially completed home. .

Holdup Attempt Fails

HAIJFAX. Fob. 1d - (CP)—A lone gunman fired a wild shot at shopkeeper Antonio Marrone in Homer's West End tonight and than fled empty-handed when i111. intended victim failed to obey

' orders to ‘fstick 'e'a1 up."

‘Ihe shot passed through the leg of Narrows trousers. The. Illn- man escaped in a car driven by an accomplice. Police said they be- ilevad the oar was one stolen earlier 1n the evening.

Briefly At lia_i_lfsx

HALIFAX. Feb. 18 — (OP) - Ha1ifax's steady winter-time march to depression faltered briefly to- day es it sturnbled across an in- crease in shipping activity. calling about 40o stevedores and freight handlers back to the piers for tem- porary employment.

But few were optimistic, realiz- ing the number of jobs varied ac-

raging in the Atlantic had post- poned the arrival of st least two freighter: bound here.

In a population of 95,000. some 7,000 workers are jobless and most of them depend on the port. for their livelihood. One stevedore said today he had had four hours work since Christmas.

Commodity Prices Rally in The li. S.

CHICAGO. Feb. 1d - (AP) - Prices of many commodities today bounded upward in one of thl strongest rallies since the slump began almost two weeks B80 at. the msior primary markets oi U"? United States. '

Grains, hogs and cattle, leaders of thq American menu, were up rather sharply at the Chicago Board of Trade _sncl livestock Market. Wholesale butler was up as much as three cents a pound in Chicago and 2% cents in New York. New York stocks also re- vived. \ltl'i01lgh volume was small.

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LONDON. Feb. 1B -- (APT- Britain disclosed today that her Navy's South Atlantic flagship is en route to the Falklands Islands.

Governor against. Chilean Argentine claims to those sub-Antarctic territories.

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islands which lie northeast of Cape Horn and the Strait of- Magellan, and about 300 miles east of the Argentine mainland.

A Foreign Office spokesman confirmed that the 8,000-ton cruise: Nigeria was definitely on the way to “show the flag" in urhat the Government considers British territory. The Nigeria steamed out of its Simonstoivn, South Africa base this morning under emergency orders.

In the House of Commons Hec- to: McNeil, Iiiinister of state, told a questioner stops are being taken to ensure the British Governor of the Islands. Miles Clifford, he will receive thmsupport he needs.

Clifford represents tihu King not 1.111; in ll11~ linlklands but also in t‘ l-‘uikinll-cl ',‘<l1=pe11de11clcs." ‘ c111 12 the 5011111 Shr-ilancl gsoup on the 1-‘111 of Antarctica southeast of Cum- lloi-n. svbere Chile and Argentine dispute Britain's claims to Deception and Greenwiuh Is- lands.

Today's disclosures came amid, widespread speculation in Britain's press of a possible show of naval strength by the three powers fol- lowinig rejection by Argentina and __C_i1il_e of Britain's proposal insub- mlt 11111- dispute m the internation- al court of Justice.

The newspapers noted that Chile's President Gabriel Gonzales Videla was already on a cruise in southern waters and that an Ar- gentine task force left last Friday for manoeuvres in the Antarctic.

MIDDLE EAST DEVF-LOPS

New industries such as dyeing and tannins. llgnite mininl and production of fertilizers have been developed in the Middle East.

SMALLEST WILD CATTLE .Anos. the wild buffalo of the Ceiebes Islands, is the smallest of

all wild cattle.

A public meeting, held under the auspices of the Board of Trade in the Summerside Town Hall last evening to consider a proposal to hold a "Home Week" in Summer- side this summer. ended without any decision being taken. There was only a. fair attendance and it was decided to ask the Kinsmen Club to contact the more promin- ent business men of the Town and ask them if they are interested to attend another meeting next Mon- day night. As it would be neces- sary to have the support of the business men, if the idea is to be a success, it was the opinion of the meeting that the number.» in which they showed up at the next meeting would indicate how they feel on the matter.

Mr. B. Graham Rogers, who originally suggested the idea, ad- dressed the meeting and said that he has long felt that. summerside has been neglected in regard to the tourist business and he felt that it had tremendous possibilities. He phasized that he had no

Rev. Urban Gillie. S. A. o! the Franciscan Friars of the Atone- ment will be ordained to the. H011’ Priesthood on February 21 m _5i~ Patrick's Cathedral. New York Clty.

I-lis Eminence Francis Cardinal Spellmun -wlli be the ordainlnz‘ prelate. Father Gillis is one of the gwup o; sixteen to be ordained for the Atonement Community.

The Society of the Atonement, whose ltiotherhouse is at Gray-

1noor, forty miles north of New York City on the Hudson. is widely known for its inauguration of the Church Unity Octave and the A" Marla Radio Hour. Tho Community has several mission territories throughout the United Slates and, Western Canada. 1

Father Gillis was born in Indian ‘ River. the youngest son of the info M1". aurl Mrs. John Gillis. After the decease of his parents, he was adopted by his granduncle. the late Frank Giilis of Grand Rive)‘. Where he received his early educatibn prior to entering upon his course of studies for the Religious Priest- hood.

Fa-ther Gillis will celebrate hi! First Solemn Mass in his Zonmer parish church at Grand River on Sunday. February 29111. His eldest’ brothel‘, Father Raymond, S. A.‘ who is also a Friar of the Atone-l ment and who served as chaplain in . the U, S. Army during the war, will ‘ assist at his brother's Solemn Mass. 1, Father Glllis has two sisters resid- l ing on the Island, Mrs. Russell‘ Barry of Wellington. and Mrs.’ Celestine kllcLellan of Grand River. His Cousin, Father Urban Glllis, 1a pastor of the Church of the Im- maculate Conception, Wellington, After his brief visit to his native Island. Father Gillis will return to , Washington, D. C. to resume his- studies at the Catholic Universlty- .

No Decision In S’side" ‘I-Iomeweels? Proposal

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gested the idea. He made a num- ber of suggestions in regard to events that might be held and suggested that a small committee be appointed to investigate the possibilities of the idea. He said that about $700 would have to be raised for promotional purposes.

General Discussion

Following 111.1‘. Rogers’ talk there was a general discussion. '-

Mayor J. P. Arnett said that in his opinion the first two things to go into would be accommoda- tion and financing. If the mer- chants, who will beneflt, are will- ing to finance the project 1t can be proceeded with.

Mr. George Hog/g said that fro1n a previous experience he had had he believed that accommodation for over one thousand people could be found in private homes. But he reminded the meeting that this matter had been brought up at the last meetipg of the Board of Trade. at which were present

ulterior motive for having sug-

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Toronto iiewsmsa Dies, At Ottawa

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LAKE SUCCESS. Rb. i8 (AP) - The Palestine Partition Commission called upon-the Sec- urity Cofincil tonight for adequ is military force to help divide the Holy Land into Jewish and Arabic countries.

In a strongly worded special re- port, the Commlssion told the Security Council that time is of ‘utmost importance" in carrying out. the partition orders of the 1047 UN. Assembly.

It declared that “powerful Arab interests, both inside and outside the Gen- eral Assembly and are deliberately t 11g to alter by force the part- iti n plan,

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OTTAWA. Feb. i6 - (OP) - The Government, yielding to widespread pressure. announced

increased rates today in payments to disabled over pensioners and widows and to curried student veterans which brought their greatest relief to those who are supporting families.

Prime Minister Mackenzie King disclosed in the Commons that the Government is proposing:

1. The pension for a. tote!!! disabled veteran be boosted from $75 to $87 a month; for his wife 1mm $25 to $30: for a first child from $15 to $18. a second $12 to $14 and for other-a $10 to $12. Instead of 6131, such u nan with wife and three chil- dren now would get $161. In- creases for lesser pensions would be on a proportionate percentage scale.

*2. widow's pensions would go up from $60 to $70 with the same increases for children as those 1hr children of disabled pensioners.

3. Married student veterans attending universities or voca- tional schools would get $90 a month instead of $50. plus $18 ‘ a month for the first child in- stead of $12; $14 for the sec- ond instead of $12 and $12 for the third instead of $10. Pier n men with wife and three child- ren the monthly cheque would be $134 instead of $114.