CHARLOTTETOWN. CANADA, SATURDAY. APRIL 29, 1950

7MlNERS RESCUED 'Ai'iER EXPLOSION IN ALLAN

M'aniEobaCaIIsiFor Federal Aid In Flood Areas

Drew Urges Commission To Study Govlt Finances

df'l'AWA. April 3 - (CP) .. A full-scale ddbato on Govern- mait efficiency was launched in the Commons today as the Pro-

lfelaive Conservative Party de- manded a royal commission in- Veilitition into the whole field of Federal administration now V-'0lilnK 32.400.000.000 a year. 000113 Drew. Progressive Con- IGTVIUVD lelder. in a 90-minute criticism of the present methods of handling the financial estimates and of "inefficiency" generally, moved that a royal commission bet set up to make recommenda- tions for: i 1. Reducing public expen- diture to the lowest point con-49 sisteni with efficiency. 2. Eliminating duplication of

Coming Events

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"Play. Tracadie Hall, Wednes- day. my 8rd. Dance after.

"May Day Dance. Mlilview Hall,

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flciency of government and

assuring all members of the

civil service full recognition of their reapnsibilitiea.

Finance Minister Aibtbott said Mr. Drew was charging the Govern- ment with waste, extravagance. duplication of services and the like. This he- challenged and categorically denied.

"In my judgment there is no duplication. waste and extravag- ance." he added.

Mr. Drew had called for a board of accountants to take over the scrutinizing job which was primarily the function of Parlia- ment. The fact was that the Op- position had done a lot of talking about waste and extravagance. but had "fallen down on the job" of exercising a constant and vigilant scrutiny of public accounts.

At the House opening Prime Minister St. Laurent said the Fed- eral Government will investigate the flood situation in Manitoba io decide what. if any, Federal aid will be given.

Mr. St. Laurent also announced that advantages and responsibil- ities of Canadian citizenship will be emphasized this year in Cana- dian schools May 23. the day on which schools ordinarily mark Empire Day.

Others who followed Mr. Drew

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mariners. now booking Clover Ieeda. Rush order. Mcauigan an Boyle.

"Reserve Wednesday. May 10th for Clearance Auctlon.sale. George MaoiMilla.n. Ooveheari.

"Y. M. C. A. Ladies Auxiliary rummage sale at the Market Sat- urday at 7 P.M.

"Cake sale in aid-of Hlghfield Presbyterian Church, Moore and Mcl..eod'a. April 29th. 2 p.rri.

"Hampton Hall. Bean supper, Saturday. 29th. 35 cents. Followed by Community Films.

"Seed Cleaning Plant now open for Grain and Timothy. John Laerd. Crapaud.

"Bonshazw tonight at 8.30. Show "quota mm Wild" with the East Inc Kid!- Naarden seeds. send for free

eatalogue. Arthur vessey, York. P. E. I. '

Rummage sale Saturday. April nth. Trinity Ohurch social Hall. I P. M. aaomored by Junior W. A.

"Unloading car cement. also ear asphalt Ihinxles. 12 lb. felt Phi-N-'P May he and 2nd. Court 3: Son-

"Variety concert in covehead Community Hall. my 3rd. 8 o'clock. Dance after.

"Dulce-St. Petor's legion Hall. every Tueedoy nlsht. 9.30 to 1.00. Cliff Peters Orchestra.

"Now in stock. A full line of foods at new low prices. W. O. Myers. Stanley Bridge.

"See three act comedy Brlniziniz Up Mother in Summerfield Hall Monday evening. May 1 at 830- sale of candy.

"Basil Holsn will be collcctini hogs through De Sable and vicin- ity all day every Monday for Swift Canadian Co.

"National Film Board We- aenta films May 5th. South M91- vtlle school. Sale of Lunches and Candy.

"Come to the his OPGTNW Dance. at the Boiishavw Inn. T1195- day. May 2nd. MacNeill's Orch- eeixa.

"Mayfield Variety Concert in fredgricton Hgli. gdnudlg lafoli at. ponaored 5' Drill I1 ' may fneumbe. Bale d luebee.

"llummage sale at Market. zuiiainx. Saturday. April Nth- l.tl'i P. M. Charlottetown Business and Professional women's Club-

--xiniion. mu. seven nu. any will present their 3 not comedy in Hall. Monday. Iggy M-

xlnhnra Curtain I30. Lottery of all

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in the debate on his motion for a royal commission included Prime Minister St. Laurent, Solon Low, Social Credit leader, John Dicfen- baker (PC-Lake Centre) and Ross Thatcher (CCF-Moose Jaw).

Mr. Drew suxlcsted a royal commission survey of government administrative practises might fol- low the form of the Hoover Com- mission investigation in the United States where it was estimated 55.- 000.000.000 might be saved. He thought S500.000.000 annually might be saved in Canada by a similar examination.

He said under present methods of handling financial estimates Parliament and the taxpayers only got partial answers as to what the money was used for and what it was spent on.

I-IOLDENVILLE. iOkla., April 23 --(AP)-savage tornadoes smash- ed into Texas and Oklahoma late today. killing at least nine persons and injuring more than 100. Scores of hulldings were damaged.

Damage Mounts lnio Millions Along ileiiliver.

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. April 3 -(OP) - The Red River flood reached a. 56- year high level today in most of far-south Manitoba. Worse was to come. I

George Wallace, provincial drain- IJI engineer. said the crest of water from hbirth Dakota. will not reach inundated Emerson, at the international border, until Sunday or Monday.

Provindal and municipal leaders said the muddy deluge already is a. national emergency They called for Federal help to meet flood losses.

At Emerson. Letellier, Dominion City, st. Jean Baptiste, Morris and other towns and villages the water moved higher.

Winnipeg and st. Boniface.

farther dowrstream on the Red's course to still-frozen Lake Win- nipeg. more sandbags were piled against the threat of higher water next week. At Emerson the Red was higher than it has been since 1897. The town now is three-quarters under water. ,

"Far worse than 1948" when the last bad floods occurred in Man- itdba. said Errlok F. Willis. Works Minister and Deputy Premier.

Prime Minister St. Laurent said in Ottawa he would prefer to make no comment until he is directly approached by the Man- itoba Government.

In badly-flooded Morris. 30 miles rlovmstream from Emerson. Mayor Harry Showman wired Mr. St. Laurent for help. He said there should be Federal money for flood victims. a royal commission to look into flood control, and in- come-tax reductions for those who suffer lose.

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VANCOUVER. April 28 -(CP)- The ominous threat of floods in the Fraser Valley and southeast- ern British Columbia continued to grow today.

The forecast of summer-like weather and the sullen refusal of the n-ioiuitains to start their nor- mal run-off added up to danger

for residents of the vulnerable areas. Holding more water-in the

form of snow-on their slopes than before the devastating floods of 1948. the mountain's run-off was weeks late.

New Potato I

Warehouse

Agreement Criticised By Queenls Liberal MP

CIITAWA. April 23 - (Special) -J. Lester Douglas. Lisberal mem- ber for Queen'.s.itoday coiifesed disappointment at the new agree- ment governing construction of frost.-proof potato warehouses in Prince Edward Island.

"It is not a good deal in my opinion," Mr. Douglas told The Guardian tonight. ”lt is not as beneficial to the potato-growers and shippers of the Province as the former arrangement which is now revoked."

The Queen's member who has long years of experience in the potato warehouse business to his credit characterized as "unne- cessary" the clause in the new order-in-council about the potato warehouses whereby the Co-opera- tive association will pay back to both Federal and Provincial Gov- ernments the amounts they re- ceive as grants-in-aid.

Had the former agreement been adhered to, he said. there would probably have been no demand on the part: of the Federal Govern- ment for repayment. He had never heard of farmers on the Canadian Prairies paying back sums received under the Prairie Farm Amistance Act or the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act. Nor was he aware that apple-growers in Nova Scotia had ever repaid grants made them by the Federal Gov- ernment.

Order In Council

Paragraph in the new Order-in- Council P.C. 2017 regarding re- payment of the Federal Govern- ment grant reads as follows: "After the Receiver-General of Canada and the Provincial Treasurer have each received an amount equal to one-half of the amount paid to the Province (by those using the ware- houses). any balance shall be paid to the co-operative association and the agreement between the Pro- vince and the co-operative las- sociation shall then be terminat- ed."

"I have been asociated with this business of potato storage warehouses for many years." Mr. Douglas said. "When I saw' farm- ers recelving government aid for

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Island cheese in one pound. pliofilm wrapped packages will re- place the long familiar. round forms of cheddar cheese here if a packaging method agreed upon by members of the P. E. 1. Cheese Manufacturer's Association yester- day proves satisfactory.

Known as the pressure packed system of marketing the new meth- iod will first be used some time this fall. Beginning on a small scale the process -will be tried in one.

plant possibly at East River and

lfy Robert C. Wilson

PARJB, April 20 - (AP)-The French Government today fired Frederic Joliot-Curie, outspoken Prench Communist scientist, as head of its Atomic Energy Oom- missio . It also ousted him from the French Institute of Scientific aoaearch.

The action. affective immediat-

ely, was acclaimed by' moderate and rightist poiitieal leaders a'ike. Joliot-Ourie himself made no pub- lic comment. A Communist deputy, Roger Oar- audy. called the firing a blow to science and to peace and demand- ed a parliamentary debate.

The Moscow -radio carried news of the dismissal without comment.

The loan, 60-year-old atomic specialist drew fire by a declar- ation April I to the lath National congress of the Prench commun- iet Party: "Oorianunisi: scientists will never eontnbuto a particle of their science to a war against the soviet Union."

The cebinet decision was In- nouneed by the Minister of auto. neon Teiigen. who quoted Prem- iar Georges ntaoult as saying: blur all the It-ientifla merits of this agutentiat, riillampaublte smash: Illa undue aooep M

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French Govit Fires Top , Atomic Energy Scieptisifti

Party made it impossible to maln-

tain him in his functions of high isaioner for atomic energy."

The Government gave no indic- ation who Joliot:-Curie's success- or will be.

The former Nobel Prise winner was appointed in 1040 by Gen. "Charles De G-aulle-then presid- ent-to head France's Atomic En- ergy Cummiasaiuh.

Joilot-Curie, in his capacity as France's atomic research head. witnessed the American atomic explosions at Bikini in the Pacif- ic in 1010.

Jollot curls was born Jean Pred- eric Joliot of well-to- PINN- He added the name te to his own name after his marriage in ind to Irene Curie. daughter of Mine. Moria Ourie. eo-discoverer of radium.

An able eclentist, Joloit-Qrrie at the age of U was an assistant to Mme. Curie in the french Rad- ium Institute. He eollaborated with her in research in radioact- ivity. 1

He and his wife won the Nobel Prise for chemistry in me. After the Germans occupied Prance. Joliot-ourie took an active part in the underground lie helped or- ganise the resistance movement "mint Nations!" of which he be-

came presides

New Packaging Method For P. E. Island Cheese

it it is satisfactory will be devel- oped throughout the province.

The new system is designed for the improvement of the sale of Island cheese throughout Canada especially in this province and the rest of the Maritirnes. It is not. ex- pected to result in a price increase.

There will be no rind on the new cheese as it will be made without the cotton bandages. The cheese will be placed in boxes the same size as the cheese while curing. Certain pressures will be exerted on the box and at the end of three, four, five or six months the cheese Vii be taken out and cut into one pound blocks.

The cheese will be doubly wrap-

-'ped in pliofilm while it is curing.

Before it is cut into blocks the wrappers will be discarded. The blocks will then be doubiycwi-upped in pliofilm and. placed in e be: for marketing with the design of the P. E. 1. Cheese Manufacturer”: Association stamped upon it. These boxes will be approximately 2 1-2 by 4 by 3 inches.

Plans for the purchasing of equipment which can be purchased in either Canada or the lJ.s. A. were discussed yesterday. Provision of suitable curing and packaging rooms were also discussed and it is thought the the curing rooms now available are satisfactory.

The meeting of the Association was held yesterday afternoon in the Agricultural meeting room in the Provincial Building annex with President Leslie Hunter presiding. The meeting was very well attend-

Narionoliarf Defeat Costly To Canada

UITAWA, April I - (CP) - The defeat that has engulfed Na- tionalist China is costing Canada at least 351,000,000. External Af- fairs Minister Pearson indicated today. He told the Commons committee on external affairs Canada had "better not anticipate rnueli repayment" of that amount of money advanced to the Na- tionellat under a post-war credit.

iiew Ii. 8. Envoy

Stanley Woodward. above. close friend of President Truman and chief of protocol in the state de- partment. has been chosen new ambassador to Canada. He will re- place Laurence A. Steinhardt, kill- ed in a recent plane crash near Ottawa.

Beaverbrobk Paper Critical Of The U. 3.

LONDON, April 28 -- (AP) - The Daily Expmss. Lord Beaver- brookls staunchly anti-Communist newspaper, charges today that the United States imitated Ruwia in denying Rev. Hewlett Johnson. "Red" Dean of Canterbury. a transit visa to get home from Aus- tralia.

"Nobody is afraid of the Dean or minds greatly what he says."

says the Express. "yet there is an, American official act, refusing en-1 I .

try to the United States to British citizen seeking to pass froin one part of the Common- wealth to another.

"Denial of freedom to move about is one of the reasons we resent the Russian system so much. The Americans. in impos- ing this ban, are imitating the very philosophy which they seek to extirpiitc."

Housing loans Show increase

OTTAWA, April 28-(GP)-The housing loan business is on the upswing, and Ontario is smack in the midst of it.

Central Mortgage and l-lousiiii: Coi-poratioii reported today that Canadian lending institiitiniis put s390.000.000 into real estate last. year, mi increase or nine per cent over 1948. Business was good for another point, too. Cniindiniis re- paid s13'7.000.000 worth oi mort-

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Five iii-en Are.Burned serioigiy

By HARRY SUTHEILLAND (Canadian Press Correspondent) STELLARTON, N.S., April 26 -

(CP) - Nova. Scotia's famed drives- ermen crew, some of them veterans of the Moose River drama. went into action again today and brought to safety seven miners trapped in the Allan shaft coal pit here by explosion and fire.

Groping their way through sear- ing heat and dangerous gases. the 20-man rescue squad brought the seven men - five of them serious- ly burned by the blast - up from the 1.200-foot level to safety.

The explosion, which could have resulted in the Province's I first major pit loss since 1938. occurred at 6 p.m. near a section of the pit opened several years ago. It had been sealed off following a similar blast years ago in which a score or more of miners were killed.

As anxious relatives by the hun- dreds milled around the pit head. Jimmie White led the draeger crew uiidertzitound. Trainer of the squad, recognized as tops in their field in North America. White now is chief safety man for Dominion steel and Coal Corporation.

First they brought up five of the l'.l'.flp1.)Cd men.

Then they continued the hunt for the remaining two. Just as they reached the limit of their endur- ance in the depths, they had suc- cess. The heavy masks. oxygen tanks and other equipment they carry limits the time they can spend working. '

Mine manager Ernest Wright, hearing the news in his office, turned to 9. union official and said: "Oh, thank God, they got the last of them.”

Officials of Acadia Coal Com- pany, a Dosco subsidiary. went into an immediate conference following the rescue. There appeared to be a strong possibility that the mine would be sealed with cement over the pit head and air"bha'ft. This would eventually cause the fire

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N. B. legislature Prorogues

FREDERIUION, April E-(OP) The second session of New Bruns- vi-iclrs 41st Legislature was prorogued late tonight by Lieut- eirant-Governor D. L. Maobaren. It opened March 7..

The Lieutenant-Governor gave royal assent to 110 bills tonight. Seventy-two previously received assent.

Far outstanding among the leg- islation enacted is 9. "social ser- vices and education tax" measur- providing a four per cent levy on retail sales of many goods. The act. subject to proclamation, prob- ably will become effective June 1 after iidvmlnistrative machinery has been set up. a reliable source said today.

Works Minister Anderson told the Legislature today that New llrimswick and Federal authorities had not been able "to see eye to eye" regarding the Trans-Canada ilighway route through this Prov- ince. "We don't. want to Sign un- til certain sections (of the agree- ment) are clarified." he added.

Another enabling act authorizes the Province to participate in housing projects.

gage loans in l949. up 14 per cent from 1048.

Lcndin: institutions investment. in Canadian reiil estate at the end of the year totalled 31,000,000,- 000-represcntim; 29 per cent of the 54.500.000.000 lending institut- ion assets.

Sample surveys showed that the i

average house cost about 57,700 to build in 1949. an increase of 12 per cent over 1048. '

The biggest part of the lending business is done in Ontario, the housing survey showed.

A comparison of the Provinces shows Ontario in the lead in the number of loans granted last year.

Of the 62.000 across the country. Ontario did business in 30.w0 loans, valued It SlW.tllJU.(X)0.

Other Provinces: Prince Edward Island, 145 loIIl.'l, valued at 5131.- 000; Nova scotio, 4.000 at si5.ooo.- ooo; New Brunswick, 1.000 at I.- aoimoo; Quebec, 7.400 at 087,900.- 000.

FISH LANDING!

OTTAWA. April 28 - (CP) - Landings of sea-fish in Canada during March amounted to as.- 45d.000 pounds. a decrease of 1.5 per cent from last year's corres- ponding total of 23,008,000 pounds. the Bureau of Stir-tlstica reported today. The total landed value during the month amounted to 8l.l42.000. decrease of 6.2 per cent below the March, ma. value of Ql,2l'l,000. A

5 17 -Year-Old

BANGKOK, Thailand, April 20-i (GP)... The King of Thailand itslam) was mairled to his beaut- 'tful 17-year-old sweetheart today .in simple ceremonies presided over fby his 04-year-old grandmother. i,

only the immediate farnilywit--, lnessed the Buddhist rites at 10:24: AM. the moment fixed by the royal astrologers as the most nus; picious for the marriage of Kin"g Phumptphon Adiiidet to his ,dls- tant cousin, Princess sirikitlKit- lyakorn.

The Princess. daughter of a leading That diplomat. airlvcd half an hour early for the cere- many.

The King and his bride signed the marriage register and the King paid the customary fee of ten baht (about. 55 cents) in the palace of the queen giandmother, samdet Rnnlasa Then the OH Queen entered tne room and pour- ed on the hands of the kneeling couple the holy water symbolic t purification.

The party proceeded to another

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Air Armament School At Trenton Likely To Be Removed To Slside

I change in the; status ofthe R.O.A.F. station ati sumrnerside is almost certain to take place within the next year. it has been learned. Unofficial informat- ion indicates that the Alr Arma- ment School, now at Trenton. Ont. Air Station. will be transferred to Sutnmerside and will be located there along with the Air Navigat- ion School, making it a two unit station.

This belief has been considerably strengthened by the Ottawa dis- patch in Wednesday's Guciidinn that a bombing and gunnery range is to be located in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and that it must be within 30 miles of the Summerside air station.