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BIG BFOREIGN MINISTERS AGREE TO

Co?ere Prince Edward Island Like the Dev?

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1953

Read by Everybody

Report: Huge Oil Discovery In Australia

Marketing Problems Touch Off Hot Discussion At Meeting

Three of the most important things to farmers of this Province were under hot discussion last night at a. largely attended meet- in; of the Queenie County Federa- tion of Agriculture held in the Le- gion Home. The president, Mr. Norman Macltae. presided.

The items taking most of the time of the group were the mar- kgtlng problems of potatoes, tur- nips and cattle, with the rural electrification program also taking up considerable time.

on every matter under review there was is wide divergence of opinion as numerous members took part in the arguments. On the aubpect of cattle sales on s. rail grading basis the warmest argu- ments of the night developed as it

Coming Events

"Crushing Grain on Wednesday- Ciifford Chandler. North Milton.

"Come to Desabie Christmas concert in Hampton Hail. Dec. 31.

"Warren Grove School Concert. December ism at North River Hall.

"Christmas Concert, Valleyfield liall, Monday. December 21st.

Qj. "Dance, Little sands Hall. Tues- day night. December 8th.

"Rummage sale. Hearts Memor- ial Hail basement today. 8.00 P. M.

--mince, Fortune Hall, Tuesday, ilecember Bth. MoEwen'e Orche'stt-a.

"Remember spiringveie Concert in Brookfleld Hall. December 10th.

"Reserve Tuesday, December nod for Spring Valley Christmas Concert.

"Scottish concert. I-leafs. B Belfast Y.P.S.. Eldon Hall 8 p.m.. December 7th.

"Alpha Phiat rummage sale, Junior Lounge YM.C.A., Saturday, December 5th, 2:30.

"Robert Vickerson will be haul- ing cream to Wiltshire Creamery on Thursdays only.

Crushing grain on Wednes- days and Saturdays at Stuart VQSOTG, York.

"Annual Meeting of the Federal Dairying Cc., Belfast Hail, Friday. December llth. 8 P. M.

"Pleasant valley Christmas Concert in Fredericton Hell. Dec- ember 2lst.

"Get your 3.723 shavings at cores. Milton Mills. in stock all the

time. ,

"Annual Meeting of the Wineloe Road Hall. Monday. Decunber 7th.

"Can! Play for Blankets, Ber- nard McQue.id. Ten Mile House W. 1.. Thursday. December 10.

"Sacred Concert. Baptist Church Sunday. December 6th. at 0-15 F. M- Snoneored by Dr. zeiia Clerk. Mie- .-icn Circle. e

"3. sale. Knights of P.Vihies Hall. Grafton street. to- day at 2.30. Bunny Group of Trin- Ily Church.

"Alexandre W. I, Cakie Bale. Fennell and Chandler's. Saturday. P cernber 3th. 200 P. M.

"Wanted at once, good pigs over 35 ibe., psyiru 300.00 pair. Wei- lmtzton McNeill ea son. Bunteln dt Bell's wharf.

"For a grand nights fun join the crowd at the old fashion hoe flown. Mt. Stewart Legion Hall. Saturday. December 5th, lots of dntnclng with Jackie D0.Vie'l Orch- P5 fa,

"Auto and Farm supplies. 208 Great George treat. sales and Set- Vicr. Complete line of De Laval Miikere. separatdrs. Water Pres- sure systems. Automobile Pam. Oils, Greases. etc.

"Yes. it's true! The Oovehead Young Adult Concert is to be the bflt yet. Place: covehead-8tan- hone Community Hell. Date: Tuss- "ilk. December Ith. Time: 510. sale 0! randy.

"showing at Mt. Bizwsrt Pri- day and ssturdsy. "skim Aboy" starring Dtor Williams. Evans and Vivian Blaine. and Mrmdny and Tuesday. "I confess". warring Montgomery Clift. Ann Fr-xtor. cari Maiden. This is I I giriure made in Quebec by Warner

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w and retail stores were responsible for the present lower price of beef by buying cheaper grades in other Provinces and thus forcing pro- ducers here to sell a better quality at the lower price.

Taking part in answering the nmny questions from the floor were Mr. Donald A. MacDonald, man. ager of the Potato Marketing Board. Mr. E. D. Reid of the selling agency, Mr. J. Lincoln Dewar. secretary of the Federation of Agriculture. and Mr. Roy Grant, Livestock Mar- keting Agent for Nova. Scotia and New Brunswick. They had a busy evening as approximately 20 men and women hurled questions from the time the meeting opened until the chairman was forced to state the hour was late and asked for a motion to adjourn.

Several speakers felt that the systems of the past in marketing cattle were satisfactory. being done on a live weight basis. but others emphasized the many advantages

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Annapolis Valley Growers complain lie PEI competition

KEN'rVnLi..E. N.s.. (OP)-Anna. polls Valley potato growers claim that Prince Edward Island grow- era are placing their subsidized crop on the market at a price be- low production costs.

The K1118! County Potato Grow- ers Association was told at its an- nual meeting here that in freight rates alone Nova Scotia. growers are taking a licking. c

It costs N cents to send 100 pounds of petition from here to Sydney by rail. P. E. I. growers can ship their produce there for

V to cents.

As a result. one grower said. Nova Scotia farmers were losing a market in their own province through no fault of their own.

F. Waldo Walsh. deputy agricul- ture minister. told the growers to organize in some way to meet the "unfair situation, if it is not al- ready too late."

Sloclts Elidiange Rocked By Rush Of Orders

MELBOURNE, Australia. (CP) -Australians were already look- ing forward to a new era of boom prosperity today as evi- dence multiplied that their na- tion had struck it rich in oil.

The stock exchange here was rocked by rush orders for shares in the American-Australian com- pany which tapped whet Austral- ians were saying may be one of the biggest oli reservoirs in the world.

Announcement of the successful test drilling near Exmouth gulf. 700 miles north of Perth, came from the Standard Oil Company of California in San Francisco Thursday night.

The statement marked the first discovery of oil in apparent commercial quantities in Aus- tralia.

Overnight Explosion

revelation caused an over- night expioslon in stock ex- changes throughout Australia. Shares in the Australian Ampol Exploration Company. which con- trols 2) per cent of the drilling company's stock, soared through- out the day and stood at live to

The

six times their previous value when exchanges closed Friday night.

The American California Texas Corporation holds the other 80 per cent of stock in the drilling firm, West Australian Propriet- ary Limited.

In Canberra, federal ministers said confirmation of the oil field's extent would give Aus- tralia ihe most powerful magnet in her history for attracting Am- erit-an capital. Successful develop- ment ot the field could shift Aus- tralia's entire economy from its pr'esent dependence on wool, they sad. '

Drilling at the Exmoutlr gulf site began last September. Ampol general manager W. H. Leonard said at. the time that "we will find nothing--or one of the big- gest oil reservoirs in the world."

NELSON naLic'izVisri'iaNan

LONDON, (Reuters) .- A gold enamel box given -by Admiral Lord Nelson to his mistress Lady Ham- ilton wss returned anonymously in mail to Scotland Yard police head- quarters here Thursday. The relic had been stolen from a museum.

19,000 Canadians Out Of Work Because Of Strikes

By THE CANADIAN PRESS

Almost 19.000 Canadians are out of work across Canada in strikes for higher wages. Ten thousand of them are lumber workers and 7.- 000 are gold miners.

strikes of lumberman in British Columbia and gold miners in north- ern Ontario and Quebec which have dragged up for months show no signs of settlement. But other Can- adian provinces are free of such large-scale walkouts, a Canadian Press Survey showed Friday. About 800 paper mill workers are on strike in the Montreal area for a shorter worii: week. Another .500 employees of ta. tin can company at Toronto and 250 workers of a similar company at Vancouver walked out this week in sympathy with A strike called in the United States.

Those were the bigger strikes but there were lesser disputes in other industries. The federal gov- ernment Wednesday sent top con- ciiiators into contact negotiations involving i.'l0.000 non-operating railway workers after their is un- ions could reach no agreement with employers. -

"Shur-Gain Cavalcade N;l:tl1 River. Dec. 16. Piano provided.

"The postponed Friday con- cert will be presented at Crap- and hail, Monday Dec. 7, at 8.30.

"Iriehtown Christmas concert Thursday seventeenth, not twenty second as lre'V10lDi7 mood-

"A meeting of the directors of the North River Community Club will be held in the North River Rink Monday. Dec. 7 st 8 p.m. A. C. Maclischern, secretary.

"Buylrll Pigs and fowl Monday at Fredericton: Tuesday. Brook- fleld 9 a.m.; Milton 10: York 1 p.m.; Bedford 2; Tracndie 2.30: Mt. Stewart 3; Plsquid .'l..'i0; Fort Augustus 4; Watervaie 4.30; Var- non River 5; Pownsi 5.30. Wed- nesday. New Glasgow 0 a.m.: Whoatisy River 10; I-Ioimu' Cor-

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In ritish Columbia, almost 4.- 000 members of the Intemntional Woodworkers of America (010 - CCL) were on strike and another 6,000 lumber workers made idle by the walkout. The union wants a six-per-cent increase over the basic 31.29-an-hour rate.

About 215 Shell Oil Company workers went on strike at Van- couver Wednesdny for wage boosts averaging lo cents an hour. The members of the Oil Worker-s' In- tematlonal Union CIO-COL now get 31.50 to 02.21.

American Can Company work- ers at Vancouver walked out Thursday after 33.000 United states metal workers struck earlier in the week for 12 cents an hour more than the basic 01.50

At two Toronto plants of Con- tinental Can Company. 500 work- ers walked off the job in sym- pathy with the U. S. strike but United Steelworkers of America O10-COL officials said the stop- pege was unauthorised. The fac- tory closed down.

Non Unionists

Only strike on the Prairies is at Winnipeg. when so bollenmakers hove bent out since Oct. '1 at the Canadian Brown sisal Tank Com- pany. Non - unionists have been hired and the plant is in full op- oration.

To change 0

OTTAWA. (CP)-The C mmons rejected by a vote of 9'! to 32 a CCF proposal Friday that Auditor- General Watson Seller private firm of chartered account- ants to audit the books of the Can- adian Netionai Railways.

The suggestion was made by A. M. Nicholson (CCF - MacKenzie) who opposed the reappointment of George A. Touche and Company as CNR auditors.

Social Credit members voted with the CCF while Liberals and Progressive Conservatives voted

together to defeat the motion.

A government bill for the ap- pointment was given second read-i ing-apprcval in principle. I

Mr. Nicholson said he has "every confidence" in the ability of the Touche firm. It had audited the CNR's books every year since 1023 with the exception of 1935. At that time, the auditors had made some "critical remarks" and had not been appointed the following year. "It is significant that since this company was reappointed . . there have never been any critical comments regarding the problems

commons Rejects Move

replace s . lament."

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of the company."

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the past had made comments on o t h e r government departments which were "most helpful to Parl- A firm such as George A. Touche and company would not comment on such matters of pub- lic interest.

.1 .M. Macdonald (PC - Toronto

kept out of the CNR and appoint- ment of the auditor-general would not give the impression that that was being done. A The commons moved quickly through its first debate on govern- ment legislation this session and adjourned after the afternoon sit- ting until Monday. dropping the

usual Friday night session.

It gave second reading to two other government measures. Oriel bill would give the board of trans- port commissionera jurisdiction' over interprovlncial or internatio- mil gas and oil pipe lines and pro- vide for federal chartering of com- panies building them. The second would permit use of present stocks

. of printed election material in fed-

eral by-elections or northwest ter- ritories elections during the pres- ent Parliament, expected to last

However. the auditor-general in,four or five years.

lliefenbaker To Be Married Tuesday

TORONTO. (GP)-John l')iefen- baksr. -.p8, Progressive Conserv- ative member of Parliament for Prince Albert, will be 'marrIed here next Tuesday to Mrs. Olive Freeman Palmer of suburban Willowdale. daughter of the late Rev. and Mrs. Charles B. Frec- man of Canning, N. S. '

The marriage will take at the Park Road Church here at 7:30 p.m. C. D. Stone will perform ceremony.

Mrs. Paimorwas born at Roland Mnn., though her family lived for five generations in Nova Scotia. A graduate of Mrivlastrr Univers- ity she has been with the Ontario department of education since 1945 and was acting director of guidance when she completed her services recently.

It will be the second marriage for both. Mrs. Palmer is a widow with a l7-year-old daughter. Mr. Diofonhaker, it widower, has no children.

Frigat-eEl.auzon To Be commissioned At Sorel Dec. 12

OTTAWA, (CF) -The frigate Lauzon. one of i6 wartime frigates now being streamlined lib Cuna- dian shipyards, will be,commlss- toned at Sorel. Que, Dec. l2.

Following acceptance trials at Sorei. the Lauzon will sail for Halifax to join Canada's east coast fleet. The navy said she will re- place tho La Hitlloise, decommiss- ioned and placed in reserve last Nov. 23.

The Lauzon. which carried out an extensive but inconclusive nt- lack on a German U-boat in 1044. will be commended initially by Lt.- Cmdr. Harry A. Porter. 33. cf Chemalnus. B.C. Later, the com- mend will be assumed by it.- Omdr. Marcel J. A. T. Jette, 40. of Montreal.

Two of the it! ships undergoing moderization. the Toronto and the Prestonian, already have lweit commissioned. They have ban" outfitted with the Jatest anti-sub- marine apparatus.

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launched and commissioned in 1044.

. Britain and Iran probably will announce today or early next week the re- sunption of diplomatic .elatlons, broken off more than a year ago. ailplomstio soumes here said Fri-

y, . Fennel. iron announcements

There III no Itstdlnoiltl Friday, the

Joan nor 11: New Haven 1 pm: Bow "um mu” M ii::”;lmt:.i:l.dbl.d; 2(':ii(i?..uyi;.; -i-in smut: roman omen .fol-

iowinc receipt (an Iranian ots 1tsui-Idsv. said it also was optiiiiia-

each. Will also buy smaller ones.

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relations.

Expect Britain-Iran To Resume Relations Soon

The Iranian note. forwarded to London through Switzerland. re- plied to A British message propos- ing renewed diplomatic relations as a first step towards settlement of the Anglo-Iranian oil dispute.

Mohammad Mossedegh, than Iran's premier. broke off the rela- tionl Oct. 10. I051. at the height of the crisis which followed Iran's nationalisation of the British - owned oil industry. x

Main British interest is com- pensation for the &l).00o.0o0 Abs- dan oil refinery. the world's largest and other assets of the British-

Deelares courts Should Decide "Public Interest”,

OTTAWA, (CP)-4Mr. Justice I. C. Rand said. Friday that matters of law dealing with ”public inter- est" are subjects for the courts to decide-and not cabinet ministers.

The Supreme Coi.u't. of Canada judge-diagreed with F. P. Vardoe. deputy justice niinister. who g- ticctthat ndnbinet minister as supreme responsibility in deciding wiiellicr a secret government doc- ument shotiid be denied to the courts.

”That is putting him in the posi- tion of judging what is in the pub- lic interest," said Mr. .lustli:e Rand. "A niltiisler has nothing to do with the administration of jus- tice in the public interest."

That was the very thing the courts had to decide.

The exchange developed as Mr, Varcoe, representing the federal government, coriiinued argument in an appeal against a British Col- umbia court decision ordering the government to make certain income tax returns available to the court.

Mr. Varcoe said that if the miti- lSlPl' in cliiarge of the revenue de- partment hasn't the power to keep returns confidential, the whole sys-

tem of tax collections might be threatened.

"Would you silggt-st. that the courts could say that a certain

class of documents are not in the public interest?" asked Mr. Justice R. L. Keil-ock.

Robbery Case

"I don't admit that the court could over-rule the minister and say he is wrong," replied Ml" Val"- cor.

Mr. Varrnr said that while it is the minister's right to exercise dis- cretloriaiy powers over documents. that. didn't. mean the minister would make every document sec- ret.

There were ones: where the de- fence llllillfli-91' had made docu- mentspiiblic after deciding that such action was not against the public interest.

An example was the case of a man who had been arrested and charged with armed robbery. He said that he had been mistaken for another man who had Joined the forces and subsequently was killed in K0rf'A The lawyer re- quested and obtained the dead sol- dier's file.

Chief Justice Tliibaudeau Rinfrel said that there is no statute giv- illg the minister power to exercise decisions over publication of docu- ments and wondered where he got

originally it

"From common law." replied Mr. Vsrcoe. .

"This court has been told re- peatedly by the Privy Cotinoil that the ritish North American Act cove a nil cnristilutbonnl matters." persisted the chief justice. "why do we have to discuss common law?"

"Imported" Lawn

Mr. Varcoe said that Canada did

"import" a lot of comm laws from the United Kingdom when Canada was set up as a legal soc- iety. llnder common law. certain evidence could not be permitted in COlll'i.. "I thought. the minister gets all his powers from Parliament," said the chief justice. "He gets some of them from oommon law-is that your proposition?"

Mr. Vsrooe suggated that the word responsibility" and riot- "power" should be used. The min; lster had certain responsibilities in

Will Discus-s German Peace. Other Problems 1.

Tucxaats TOWN. Bermuda, ,CP)-The Big Three Western for- eign ministers Friday night were reported to have agreed to join Russia's Molotov in an early con- ference on ii. German peace settle- ment and other world problems.

The report came from British conference officials after U. S. State Secretary Dulles. British for- eign Secretary Eden and French Foreign Minister Bidauit discussed the terms of notes they intend sending to the Kremlin in response, to its recent proposal to meet in, Berlin.

The meeting of the three foreign ministers was the first session of the Big Three talks, which began; Friday after the arrival of Pres- ident Eiseiiliovver and his advisers to confer with Prime Minister Churchill and French Premier La-

nl.

The president told a welcoming crowd at the airport lie hopes the; talks will result in better under- standing and mutual benefit to the countries involved.

The first formal session of the Big Three was called for late. afternoon at the tightly guarded Mid-Ocean Club, a sleepy resort which for the next three days will be the focus of world attention.

Atomic Talks Likely

In a last-minute decision, Els-f enhower brought with him atomi chief Lewis W. Strauss as well as Asmistant Defence Secretary Frank Nash, whose specialty is the nu- clear field.

Lord Chenvell. Ohurchillis soi- entific adviser, accompanied his. chief to Bermuda Wednesday. '

The presence of these men seemed Ito indicate atomic matters may play it big role at the con- ference dlscuseltms. but, no one inivaublierity was-wililnrto any in M:;.:m

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in Hospital

EDMONTON,-E((CFV'Al -Most Rev. W. F. Barfoot of Winnipeg. Ada-

lican primate of all Canada and metropolitan of Rupert's Land. is

a patient in hospital her:-. it was-

reportod Friday.

He was taken ill on in plane on route to Edmonton. A Maior curr- atioii was performed Thursday night and his condition Friday was reported "good."

atrmifsitivive 12 Hours On Raft

NEW YORK. (AP) -Two U, S. navy fliers whose plane crash- landed in Long Island Sound were rescued alive and well Friday alter they spent more titan l2 hours bobbing in a rubber life raft in fog and near freezing tempera- tures. A navy spokesman credited

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Pro-Red Pows Seek To Sabotage Explanations

PANMUNJOM, (AF)- Pm-Com. rnunist South Korea war prisoners in a defiant new tactic today sought to sabotage Allied effort; to speed up "Come home" talks which so far have failed to Mn bark a single captive.

The il"Sl. rive of 40 poxvs called up for lIllFl'VlPWS today asked l'r-- peatedly for recesses in the talks so they could consider their de- cisions. Indian Brigadier Gen. B. M. Kaul began an investigation.