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Most Powerful Plane Makes its Initial Test

M0528 LAKE. Wash. Dec. 13- (Ari-Jllie XB-47 Stratojet, des- arlbed as potentially the world's most powerful plane. made its in- iilai test hop yesterday on the 44th anniversary of the Wright Broth- ers’ first flisht at Kitty Hawk. N- C

The (lo-ton Boeing bomber, pow- ared by six jet engines, was flown from Seattle to Moses Lake.

Describing the ship as a. "very easy airplalle to fly" after its 50- rninute idling-along 145-ml1e flight, pilot Robert Robbins, 31, said:

“We could take right of! again

now. as far u the plane is con- corned." Here are some of the claims made

fir the Plane. one of five such let- engi-ne born-hers now being tested or about ready for tests in the United fitates.

It should carry a 10-foot bomb load at 500 miles an hour, or faster. Because of its speed and slbility to come back from missions fast, I grew of only three is needed.

It can travel so fast that re- frigeration ls provided around the crew compartment, in keep it oool from air friction and resultiml! hes-t at high speeds. 111a cabin is preswrelzed and ieznperature-con- trolled.

It is one of two such ploncs or- dered by the air forces from Boe- ing and the concern has spwwml- ateiy $10,000,000 tied up in the work.

‘me plane, on its maiden flight. was throttied down and the high- estspeedwasmrnilesanhour.

No announcement was made ls t0 when further test flights will be m3“ but the plane is expected to remain here some months. A clamp of secrecy was placed on the fut- ure tests.

Coming Events

"Grinding Grain daily. Bell Bros, 8t. Peter; Road. Parkdale.

"New Glasgow School Concert. Monday, December 22nd.

‘e West Royalty school Concert December 22.

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"Meadow Bank School Concert. tibrriay. December 22nd.

"Gienaladsle School concert in Tracadia l-iali. Dec. 22nd. -

"Concert and Dance. itiverdaic School, Monday, December 22nd.

"Albany Village School Concert, Monday, December 27ml, ll P. M.

"Christina; Concert - Kinkora ilail, Friday, December 19th.

"Unloading at canal-u w... house. olr of Oilcake Meal. Leslie MacDonald.

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"Long River lchod it Friday, Dacmabar 19th. If not fine. Monday.

"Ailctlou and Dance, Vernon Hill. ‘mesday. December 30th and each Monday following,

“Movies Coveiiesd tonight, “Ad- ventures o! Busty". and royal weddinl iilm.

"To arrive. oilcaka meal. 04-00 Per cwt. Book. Mcdfuigan and Billie. '

"mourn December 20 for the Park Corner school concert in Branch River l-lall. sale of sandy.

"Dance in League Hall at Bor- den. on hi . December 19th. Modern and Old Time music. lane 301m’! Orchestra. Admission 50o.

"labia Claus will be at the I. 0f O. Ball, Courts. Friday, Doc. 10 lt- 1 ma. All children of Uouris Ind vicinity 1i years and under are cordially invited. _ -

“Don't kill off your cattle, hogs I816 poultry as a better day must Borne for farmers. and soon too. Just a little patience. Contact as for Whfit" "‘.°‘.'T.‘.°" 9.8.1?“

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OTTAWA. Dec. 18-(091-11011. Earl Rowe (PO-Duflerln-Simcce) charged today tn the Commons that the Government had failed in its "stain plsnruig" for agricul- ture and ha said it was time to "hand farming back to the farm- er."

The Governments "half-heart- ed" and “hslf-baked." socisiistic policies were causing uncertainty nud unrest among the farming people and were discouraging pro- duction 0f food badly needed to prevent world chaos.

Ha spoke during continued de- bate on a. resolution that would eXt-end irom Dec. 31 to March 3i the provision of the Agricultural Products Act under which the Government is authorized to re- quisition food needed to fill con- tracts with Britain.

A short time earlier Prime Min- ister Mackenzie King announced the renewal of bacon. beat’, cheese and egg contracts with the United Kingdom. Agriculture Minister Gardiner said the new prices ‘to be paid for the products had not yet been fixed.

A-i. the House opcnlns. first read- ing was given a bill, sponsored bvy F. E. Jaeriicke (CCF-Kindersiey). that would abolish appeals to the Privy Council. Also glven firs’ reading was a bill. sponsored by Stanley Knowles (WE-Winnipeg North Centre), that would protect railway workers against loss oi l-heir pension rights as a result of a strike. I

Mr. King said the Government would have an announcement to- morrow on civil service salaries.

Besides Mr. Rowe, speakers in the agricultural debate included Virllliam Bryce (COP-Selkirk), C. E. Johnston (SC-Bow River) and Jean Francois Pouliot (Ind. I.- Temiscouata).

Mr. Bryce urged Government action to reduce the cost of the distribution of farm products. He said the price spread from the time the goods left the farm until they reached the consumer was too great.

Mr. Johnston said s program should be developed to give the farmer a. fair return for the goods he produced. Present prices fixed by the Government were discour- aging production. '

Mr. Pouliot said Canada should attempt to sign trade agreements with every country in the world in order to assure markets for Can- ada's production.

Raised To Rank l 0f Domestic Prelate

HALIFAX. Dec. 18 — (OP) -- Blghi. Rev. Charles Curran, pastor of Si. Joseph's parish. was raised to the rank of - ornestlc Preiaie by Archbishop

Ohn T. McNaily of Halifax at a solemn high mass today.

The appointment was announced

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Batter TIDECants _ Pound In Moiureal

(By The Canadian Press)

MONTREAL. Dec. 1B - Butler sold for ‘I5 cents a pound in Molt- real grocery stores today, highest price in B0 .years. Dealers pre- dicted prices would continua up- ward with demand heavy and stocks decreasing.

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Bevin Reports To Commons 0n Big Four Talks

(By The Canadian Press)

LONDON, Dec. Ill-Foreign Sec- retary Bevin told the House a Commons today that the collapse of the Big F0 Foreign Ministers Council means that grave decisions will have to be taken because “we cannot go on as we have been" and that Britain would not agree to an over-centralized German government that would be “simply a too1‘in the hands of an occupy- int! power."

In his lengthy formal report Bevin castigated Russia for “hos- tile propaganda" during the con- ference which made it impossible for the Western Powers “to get to grips with the fundamental prin- ciples involved" in reaching an agreement on Germany and Aus- t-rla.

Says Russian Planes Sighted Over Canada

(By The Canadian Press)

WINNIPEG. Dec. IB-A Torollti) steeplejack who worked. at Cam- bridge Bay, 1,400 miles northwest of Winnipeg, reported here today that two four-motor planes bear- ing Russian n1arkin$5 flaw W" the area early in September.

Pater Dumas who was at‘ Cam- bridge Bay from Aug. 19 to Dec. ti said he was working on a tower when the two planes appeared shortly after noon.

"They were very low and. we could easily nuke out the USSR mark 011 one wins of each PlBll-f and a. number on the other wing.’

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R.C.A.F. headquarters in Ot- tawa said it knew iiotiuug of the reported appearance and that s0 far as was known here none had made an. appearance there.

Child Drowned. In Gravel Pit

AMHERST. us... Dec, 1a - (or) —-Five-_\'car-01d Vivian Lynds- tiziughtei‘ of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Lynds. was drowned tonight in a water-filled gravel. pit 1168-1‘ he!‘ home.

Her lather, searching for the child after dark, fell through the ice of the pit. Helped out by a neighbor who had a flashlight, he discovered the little girl's track 1n the snow led to the spot where he had plunged into the iii-feet deep

water. _ The child's body was recovered.

Itatarlo To MCVT- More Feed Grain Toaorrro. Dec. 1s _'<cr) ~

Statistics gathered by the Ontario Department of Agriculture show

' an increase in feed grain acreage

this fail by Ontario farmers. The objective next year is 200000.000 bushels of feed grain to of'set the increased price of Western feed grain.

' MOM-E FROM WEDDING

GALT. Ont. Dec. 18 -(CP) - Mrs. Robert Braeey o1’ Gait. who anissed the Royal wedding recept- ion beca-usa her plane was late, has returned home. Before leaving Landon she was shown the wedding gifts. among them her own gift-

a tatted bedspread.

British Supplies 0f Bread Are Assured

I JAMIE McCOOK

IDNDCN. Dec. 1e - (C?) - 'l‘he announcqnant o! the Anglo- Canadian trade agreement today in Ottawa and lnndcn means that Britons can feel confident that the vital bread ration -- their rinalnd standby -- will not be ro-

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Britons look on the nine-ounce daily bread ration as their main filler in a scanty diet, Pour-fifths 0! the grain for their daily bread is rovldad w Canada.

a Ibod inisiry refused im- mediate comment on whether the assured Canadian liliply iua the 00,000.01!) or I.000.000 bus 01a ad- ditional purchased from Australia will allow the ration to be eased 0r eliminated.

The Ministry also declined to forecast whether it will be possible t0 restore the one-Hive r-eekiv bacon ration to two ounces now that arrangements have been made

Grain . h“ i‘ ‘u. C0096”. Montreal

The prices for products_other than wheat probabl will be re- flected in househoi bills ahortly as Food Minister Btrachey said ae- cently that food subsidies to keep down prices cannot be increased.

Sir Stafford Cripps. Chancellor of the librchequer, announced the agreement in the House of Com- mons and concluded his speech on Britain‘: economic recovery campaign when he referred to dif- ficulties in overcoming the un- balance in dollar payments.

"We must realise that this ia a long uphill struggle ‘vhich with

the help of our friends overseas.

we can and shall win through," Sir Stafford said amid cheers. Informed sources said that the Canadian financing arrangements give Britain "breathing space" dur- ing which she can continue the drve to increase exports to the dollar ares. This was em hsaliied as the top objective by B Staf-

ta purchase Canadian ail-pluses. ford tonight. -

Bracken Prepared To Contest Election

(By The Canadian Press)

OTTAWA, Dec. lbqlchn Brock. en. Progressive Conservative lead- er, said tonight his party was prepared to contest a general elec- tion on the issue of the Govern- ment's new economic program.

In a statement. Mr. Bracken criticized measures under the doi- lar-conservatlon policy as “dictat- orial" and declared the Progressive Conservatives would "fight to the last ditch" against their Parliam- entary endorsation in their pra- ent form.

The party leader was comment- ing on an Ottawa story in the Toronto Telegram quoting him on the election issue.

The Telegram story also outlined Progressive Conservative policy as: "Devaiuation of the dollar by l0 per cent, elimination of one-man dictatorship on imports, and the removal of the 25-per-cent excise tax, validity of which is question- ed, untii Parliament has given its approval."

Montreal lias Fire In Near-Zero Weather

MONTREAL, Dec. l8- (CD- Thousands of theatregoem jam- med Montreal's busiest corner to- night to watch a two-alarm fire that started in the babcment of a four-storey building on 5t Cath- erine street between. ,.and Stanley. More poured 22 streams of water on the blaze 1h freer-zero weather before it was brought under control at 8.30 p.m. ' _ ..

Heavy smoke billowed u.) ihrough- the Tiffany shoe Store s. novelty shop, Stanley Fbto Studio, Frank De Rice's restaurant, the Royal Bank and the Canadian Na- tionale Bank. all on the ground floor. The smoke also seeped into the Dariube Steak House on the

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fluke or Windsor Memoirs Continued

NEW YORK. Dec. l8 —(AP)— llhe Duke of Windsor. desoriblnl his life as Prince of Wales in the First World War. said today his education was completed in the war by "living under all kinds of conditions with all sorts of men.”

In the last of a. series of auto- biographical articles published in Life magazine, the Duke mote:

"As Prince of Wales and next 1m

line of succession to the throne. I was to discover that -my trvphl! vairue exceeded my military 359311‘ ness

' 1 have no desire to flfiiiihul" my obscure and no doubt suilel" fiuo-ug role in a grea-t war. Yel- l!" manner of speaking my cdilolf-lflfl was completed 1n war. if not ex- actly as my tutors intended. It was completed not by 500k °\' theory but through the experience of living under all kinds of condit- ions with all sorts of men."

Diving his service 0n all fronts his repeated efforts to bccrme 9- combat officer were frustrated by the army comonand, he said. Nev- ertheless, he had typical soldlering

experience under enemy shellflre- was shelled by his own artillery "and, needless to say. I 110}- m)’

first lesson in crap-shooting from the Americans."

As a result of his war experience, there grew between his father. King George V. and himself" a "divergence of our viewpoints.

"To the end we were i110 N" °9 trtends. ‘lihls gulf therefore wls not of the heart 1m of secret-

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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1947

OTIWWM. Dec. l8 — (Special)- lfany hundrlds of Prince Edward Island families will benefit by the, pledged increases in civil service salaries, veterans’ allowances and disability pensions which will be 501101111061! in the House of Com- mons tomorrow shortly after the House assembles.

. Douglas. Liberal member for Queens‘ estimated that at least 500 men and women in the Do- minion civil service in Prince Ed ward Island would benefit from the pay increases. This would mean that at least an additional 015.000 would be coming in to the Province from Ottawa in i948. Ac. tualiy. he felt the amount would, be larger. taking into account dis- abilitv pensions and veteran's al- lowances. Bulk of this "new mon. ey" will be scent in the Province itself, tending to increase the an- nual turnover of merchants and the overall ‘living standards.

While the exact amounts and percentages of the pay boosts have been kept closely-guarded soc-w; it is established that i110 “hnsid” rate o! increase for both iléflliiilh, ent and temporary civil servants’ salaries has been fixed at 15 oer-i

cent. Those 1n the higher incomei _

brackets will get less than l5 per-f cent of their present rcmureraJ tlon and those below a. standard; "tlflv “CW” mfly let as much as] 20 or even 2E percent increases. Prom sources close to the cab-l lnet The Guardian lea-med ihnt tomorrow's announcement will nf-- feet: (1), The armed services. (2). All civil servants those ln top brackets. (3). Disability pensions. (4). Veterans‘ allowances.

Senior officials of the Dominion Government. it is Explained. have been “pretty well token cure of" by such action ls reciassiflcaiions, war dutv supplements. and imple- mentation o1 the Gordon Royal Commission on salaries of senior

except

Reasons for’ the salary increases are to place em- ployees of the Dominion Govern- ment more 1n line with the re-

wards received by persons 1n ‘pHV- '

ate llldlflifyq-CO secure recruits fnr the Army, Navv and Rlcyai CimarFan Air Fol-cc, siibseriueni to the disappointing results of ihe recent recruitlnq (jgmpgfrvn par-vied out by the Department of Na- tional Defence, and to bring vet- erans allowances and disability "ensiona more in line with the current increased iivlmz costs. y

Civil servants in Ottawa today expressed the hone that the sniarv increases will he retroactive to‘ Aorii l. 1947. This. i-hév say. 01111111 be done without financial embar- rassment to the Government since it has plied up half a billion dol- lars‘ surplus in the past six months.

In the realm of veterans’ disab- iiitv pensions’ it is evuected ihag subseoueot to representations made hv the Dominion command n! the Canadian Legion, ahere will be no more cutting of pensions of vet- erans of World War l. The Legion like! the stand that “a man lust doesn't get better of gunshot Wounds or gas poisoning" when he ‘s over or near the nee of 00.

Veterans of World War Tl’ can expect increases in enerlal allow- "nces for educational anrl "ocu- "nnai training and also, of c0"rse. for disabllitles suffered in combat and otherwise.

lull Continues In iloly Land

JIC Dec. il- ("l-g The violence of Arab-Jewish strife waned further in the l-Ioly Land today but Hussein Khalidi, Arab high executive, said "it is a lull that may end at any moment."

Reports from neighboring Arab- syria said the "peoples army" of about 2.000 men recruited by Pawai Bey A1 Kaukli may basin the "infiltration of Palestine from Cyril within a fortnight."

It was presumed they would move into the Palestine hills and conduct guerrilla operations The syrian Parliament went into ses lion at Damascus and observers than said it might discuss math- oda of facilitating movemen‘ across the Palestine border in both directions. .

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Holding Company

A11 interim injunction. signed by Chief Justice Thane A. Campbell, was served by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police yesterday on the Prince Edward Island Granite Holding Co, Ltd. Richmond Street. ordering the Company to cease all trading “in any security whetsoever" for the next ten day's.

The in-terfm injunction was granted upon application to the Supreme Court by Attorney Gener- al FA. Large. At 2.30, Tuesday sf- ternoon. December 23. the At- torney Generai will appear before the Chief Justice at the Law Courts Building to show cause for asking that the interim injunction be made "absolute and final."

The action by the Attorney Gen- eral W85 taken following a sworn statement by the Deputy Provinc- ial Secretary, J. \\'. Mackinnon. lhnf. the Prince ‘Edward Island Granite Holding Co. Ltcin, "is not, nor is anv person on (i5 behalf, ree- istereci as required by Section 3 of txhiat Security Frauds Preventlons

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Letters patent incorporating the company were granted on Nov. 20 for the purpose "of importing, ox. POFUHC. buying. selling. quaying, crushing. manufacturing and other»

oi’ all kinds and descriptions and including all the by products there- of" The total capital stock 0f the companv is given as $5,000, divided into 5,000 shares of one dollar each.

Declaration Day Returns Announced

Lists Difficulties Faced By Farmers In New Brunswick

OTTAWA. Dec. l8 —- (C?) __ A.J. Brooks (PC-Royal) said lri the House of Commons tonight that there should be information

on prices in the new British f0 d had bee“ Officially . agreemenb announced earns“ 0A, elected candidates by Conn-ties are:

contract without prices did noti

mean much. he said, when AgpmfiCouncillor; Hector Richard (Lib.) uiiure Minister Gardiner declared Assemblyman.

the Government had agreed "in principle" on prices.

stimulate two-way trade with Britain. He fcli sure Britain would 59nd 800115 to Canada on credit.

With British goods piling up. if was not fnir to Canadians or to Britain 1o have them banned from this country by embargo.

In theMoritimrs, said the New Brunswick member, conditions of his Perhaps worse than anywhere else in the Dominion. i

Livestock feed prices were su high that some farmers were consider- ing killing off lhrir zrnininis.

The potato cl‘0p in New Bruns- wick nlso was under difficulties. One obstacle was the cost of fert- llizer.

Maritime-s was partly responsible‘

m.- this higher COSI, m. Brooks (Lib) Councillor: Dousald Moc- said. Kinnon (Lib) Assemblyman. He regretted (he British agree-l 5th Queens: lion. Dr. W.J.P.

ment made no provision for the MacMillan

sale of apples io Britain. “Unless some arrangements are

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yesterday in connection Provincial general election 1n the case of King's County had to be adjourned until Tuesday, Dec. 30. Only three of the ten mandidates in King's were official- ly declared elected yesterday.

.other two Counties, previously re-

ported elected. were declared elect- ed yesterday after the total votes

i Councillor; Hon. George 11. Barbour Mr. Brooks said Canada should (Lib) Assemblyman.

(Lib) Councillor; J. W. Arsenault (Lib) Assemblyman.

(Li-b) Councillor; 0.0. Baker (Lib) | Assemblyman,

ggfigunufa] (Lib) Councillor; Carrol Delaney Province were (Lib) Assemblyman,

(Li-b) Councillor: Hon. 11A. Large (Lib) Assemblyman.

Councillor: Assemblyman.

Councillor; Russel C. Clark The long freight haul to the Assambhnmal“

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