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MARCH 14. 1947,

f. 53y; 1946 tins tiittitlliiililiiilllii,

iii Worst Year in 0.P.li. tilstory

UITAWA. March i3 - ( —‘ mops for two depression years,‘ m; Canadian Pacific Railways‘ not earnings last year were the iovrest since 1905. the Board of Transport Commissioners was told toda?» ‘

'Ihe “exceedinqly serious" do» riline in earning! was cited by 5, .1. W. Liddy. assistant controller. or the c. P. n... as he testified in i nlfpuft of the Canadian rail-I vrnys‘ application for general 30" pm‘ cont. increases in freight rntca. I

Only 1-032 and 1003 showed lower n-et earnings than last. year in the last ill years. Mr. Litifiy declared. Iiii each oi those years, the C. P. R. netted about 519000.000. comlpared wltm $20,. 1143.000 in i040.

An increasing cost ratio was refit-cred in the comparative fig- ures. the assistant cofrrpt-roller do- dint-rd. Last year. lrross earnings were six times those oi 1905,

but not earnings wcrc only up nun-third. 110 obtain $19,000,000 net in

1932 and 1931i. the C. P. R. had crossed nnii’ $l32.000.000 and 5114000000. Last- yeal‘. to net. its $20.843.000 t-he C. P. R. had to gross 8292405000.

By comparison with 1M5. Mr. Lidd-y said. the i946 gross earn- ings were. down $29,000.000 or '15 per cent. while the not carn- ings were dawn $l5.000.000 or 42 per cent. The fact that work- 111g expenses had been reduced by only three per cent against the 7K per cont fall in the gross was TPRTMHISibiP forwthe growing dis- parity between gross and net. the witness said.

Local Man Gets Important Mission

IONDON. Manih l8 — (OP) — Wing Omdrr. A. J. Shelfioon. fien- ton, .Ont., was chosen to fly Alr Marshal Sir Roderick Hill, Air Council member for technical services. on a QODOO-tmrlie tour of the India and Far East Oom- mands of tiha R. A. l".

Wing Cmdr. Sileifoon was for- merly chief flying instructor at the lihnpire Ftlying School. Ha served in the R. C. A. l", from October. 1N0. until July 1940 ufiten he was granted s. pennan- ent commission in the R. A. l".

(Wing Cmdr. Sheifoon (Tony) is the eldest son of Mr. and Mlrs. Joseph Shelioon of this City).

BIRTH. Mflliiillfiiil. DEATHS ' 50c Per Insertion

M BIRTHS.

— At the P. I. I. Hospital on Thursday. March 13th. to M’. and Mrs. John ‘A. MacPl-lerson City. a son (still- born). BAKE- — Alt the Prince Edward Island Hcmitai on March l2. to Mr. and Ma's. Earle C. Baker. a son. Donald Daria. McAVTNN — At the Charlotte- town Hospital. on March ll. 1917. to MY. and Mrs. Joseph McAvinn

n"! wllmn ls reserved for news of local interest, out advertising of a III” nature may b. [guru] at flva csnts a word strictly p“. sills in advance.

l. 0. 0. I‘. Wildey Lcdgg ynm. sticn tonight.

WANT BORDEN ROAD PAVE!) —A large representative meeting. assembled Wednesday evening in the New Haven School. appointed delegates to wait upon the Proving. lal Government with the mquest

‘ha; ma’ Clglottetown-Bordeu‘ e wry vsv u i siblo. Persons i-ntfioegto? will:

having that: highway paved wen Present from Victoria, Cornwall, Kingston, Eimwood, Churchill. Bonshalw. and several other rural districts, Mr. Gordon Macmillan; Cornwall, presided.

FUNERAL YESTERDAY — The

fimerul of the Lard Juno; J, Tgy- Wfls found Tuesday along the San-

lor (lighthouse keeper) was held‘ yesterday afternoon. A short ser-

vice was held at his late residence,

Z48 Kent Street, conducted by the

Rev. o. Carlyle Webster and Rev‘. ‘T.W. Goodwill. Pallbearers at. the. ‘house were. Ernest Maclrlnis. S1,‘. Au, Watts. John Lund. Albert‘ lloDougull, Joseph ShOlioOn, St,

and Oephss Power. mineral services

_were held at New Dominion and

‘were conducted by Rev. G. Carlyle

.Webster. Interment was in Now

‘Dominion Cemetery. Pall bearers

‘were. Seymour Murphy. Norman

MacDonald. Robbie MacDonald,

Michael Murphy, James smith and‘ Joseph Shelfoon, J1‘.

‘tic-elected President‘

‘Maritime Association 0f Broadcasters

HALIFAX. March 18—-(CE)—Lt.- Coi. K. S. Rogers, owner and manager of radio station CFCY.“ Charlottetown. tonight was re-‘ elected president of the Maritime‘ Association oi Broadcastem at ills. annual meeting. l‘

Malcolm Nell. Fredericton, was‘ named‘ vice-president and F. A.‘ Llynds, Mmicton, N.B., secretary- treasurer.

Col. Rogers, who is honorary president of the Canadian Assoc- iation of Broadcasters, and Mr. Neil automatically bocoma diroc-i tors ct the national organlzatloni representing the Maritime Prov- inces. '

CAB. offlciala who attended the. meeting to seek Maritime viewst ‘regarding matters of policy were T. J. Allard. Ottawa. director of public service, Harry S. Dawson, Toronto, general .managcr, and Douglas Scott, director of broad-' casting advertisements.

Representatives of stations in Charlottetown. Antigonish, N. 8.. Brddgowater, NS, Monctoa, Saint‘ John, N.B., and Halifax attended the meeting.

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the high councils of government has been previously made in tile lobbies and col-rid s of the bulld- ing, ths Quebec momberh rsfer-, ence to it was the first time the proposal had been made on tnl floor of the House itself. i

At tho last session consideration was given, The Guardian is in-X

Naught so parliamentary assistant: to tho Minister of Fisheries. But‘

. _ \ THE CHARIQITETOWN QUAIQDIAQ

Murder charge l Thinks linions Should

Laid In Los Angelcs Slaying 4......

Los morass, March ls-xsr)‘

—lrwnector Norris Stensland or rm sheriff's office announced early to- dnv Blmarent solution of one o1 1011i‘ brutal slayings (1 women in L0! Mlseles and vicinity in the last two months.

H¢ 551d Myron Funk. 23. foundry moulder of nearby Soutih Gate. “Shed a statement admitting he kmed M". Lorena Preston, 46, al- so known as Mae Lund-a friend of his and his father, Frank Funk, 52, a cement contractor.

The tat-her and son had been held B11168 Tuesday night on suspicion of murder but Frank Funk was re- leased today. The scant-studs strangled body of Mrs. Preston

Gabriel River.

Stensland sold a murder com- plaint would be filed today against Myron Funk.

L65 Angeles police, meantime. questioned acquaintances of Miss Evelyn Winters. 42. whose nearly nude beaten body was discovered, also Tuesday, along railroad tracks near the civic centre.

FRESNO. (CPl-Absellce of definite clues pinned police hopes on a. checkup of suspicious persons today in their search for a sex maniac who brutally killed Esther Lee Lewis. nlne-year-oid Sanger girl, on her way to school Tuesday.

"We have very little in the way of clues, and no suspects." Under- sherlff John Ford said early today. He said some persons had boo-II questioned but. there had been no arrests. ' '

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_.____m______ that several million 6f oanddldn wheat were being shipped from Portland, Me.

The shipment through Portland. he said, had resulted from the acute shortage of Canadian box cars.

Reviews Our Situation

tn a review of the box ca: situa- tion, Mlr. Chevrier said Canada at the moment had 117.000 b0! 0B1‘!- Of these, 26.000 were Ln the United States, 44.000 were in Western" Oflllfldfl and 47,000 were in East- ern Canada. About 11.000 of the

in wasbem Canada. were used for the transportation of grain but more were needed.

There was an "acute" shortt18e in. Eastern- Canada of 15.000 Ill‘!-

Mr. Chevrier traced the short- ago back to the United States coal strikc which necessitated the use of box oars for the movement 01 coal into Canada. But. he said, had this not been done the 008i supply situation this winter would have been diffiobdt.

However. the wheat movement slttsaltion would not hlNQ been "nearly so serious" had Went-he‘! conditions been wood. The allus- tion ‘had been "fairly good" up to mild-January when storms forced the Transport Controller to iscua priority orders in favor of Who!!- This action resulsed in the ‘iivarstoa of 2,400 to 3.000 box cars Mom East- ern Canada to the West for wheat shipment.

That relieved this sltmtion for s. short time, but Eastern Canadian industrial plants report-tad that if they could not get oars they might. have, to close. The priority order than was resohdod and the prob-

formsd. to appointing m. Mac- 1cm placed back on the laps of the‘

railroads. Discussing the shipment of grain

Calif, March 13 —.

tho custom of naming psrliamen- through American pot-ts. It. Chev- tary assistants has fallen into dis- rlcr mid the statement that grains use sincg V-J Day, and sevemiihsd been diverted from Canadian

iiontroi ilonlmunists

March l8 - (OP) - Lsbol- Minister Mitchell told a. dol- egstlon from the Canadian and Catholic Confederation cf Labor today that he thought the respon- sibility for watching and disciplin- ing Communists rested largely with labor Unions. ~ ‘ He was one of a number of (Jab- inet Ministers who met a delega- tion of more than 25 members of ‘ the Confederation as they present- ed a brief advocating, among other things, the outlawing of the Labor- Progressive Party, mention ,0! ~I

1 distinctive Canadian flag and com-

' pulsory voting in blecilons. Led by their president, Gerald ‘Pioard and their secretary-general.‘ Andra Roy. both of Quebec 01W. ‘the delegation presented the views of their 65,000 Members ‘ Alter listening to Mr. Mitchell. External Alfliirs Mi er St. Laur- ent. Postmaster General Bertrand. Worlm Minister Fournier, Solicitor General Jean. Transport Minister Chevrier and Defence Minister Claxton bespeak their reactions to the brief. Mr. Picard said he Was Qtisfied that they pad received s. "very good reception." ‘ Mr. Mitchell said nobody dis- agreed with Communism 100W than himself but added that he

felt "you ask too much of the Gov-_

ctmmetlt whzn you ask it to do something you should do yourself.“ There was, nothing Communists ‘ would like better than beinfl throw-n‘ into Jail as martyrs. Labor organ- izations should face up to the PTO‘!- lem themselves. ‘

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time."

Leftist organs in- Athens said Truman: message was "undlsguis- ad preaching of American imper- ialism" and aimed ut establishing “beachheods in the Mediterran- ean}: l

In a statement. Premier Recap Pekel‘ of Turkey ilalicd the Presid- ent's “realistic s.ll-d fully humanitar- inn” speech as the end of American isolalionisnl.

Reaction came from ifs-n, in- volwd recently-in a. dispute with Russia over Azerbaijan. The Per- sian newspapor Kcyhan describ- “gmatsesi: political event since September, i939." _ “The speech resembles very much

of the uur over Nazism and OPBTUY declares. war on Communism." 881d the newspaper.

The Roma it’ ,.end-ent news- pgpfl‘ 11 Messagero worn even flu‘- thor back and said the 5119900 W" the most important American pro- nmmcement autos mwrwisotion o! the Monroe Doctrine in 1823.

A Diplomatic Bomb The Madrid newspaper ABC said tn; speech had thg effect 0.! a F1117‘ loonatic bomb and ths rorelwn min- isters hardly had any T015011 110W ‘for meeting in- Moscow. "Had a similar V? made a o t o 0r Wllld w!" . ABc declar-

i0 not have bmiwn WU’

i 4m Dublin rm. Independent ‘mid the speech stated clearly‘ ths lrdlo o: the United std-m as pro- ztoctor. of democratic ireodvlm 1n ovary part of the world."

Ths official British reaction was given at a. crowded Foreim‘ 0m“ pres; conference when the F901!"-

"ThQ British comes Mr. ‘ii-mums statement to ‘man said: ‘Donates.

The views he erwewd on the ralestion of Ivllflnmm" b?‘ ing imposed on soverelsn 5m"! l." are very

Government wel- ‘

tines Klics MoManus) a daugh- Europe er. ltfflitllflil. — At the P. E. I.

Hofltal. March i3, 1M7, to Mil‘.

membars of the cabinet have statedlportg was “not an 11410111116 filth, openly that they do not need or|mlent." Canadian grain alrw-slys had‘ wish such an aide. Moreover in moved through American ports

the parliamentary Qstimltdl tab- such as" Bikifalt). use. Burundi-ultimo

with our own views. Mid tm @- Wm‘ 1m- qf occasions we have conveyed beliefs to oelitfli-tl

instead ca in- i mm)"

and It's. George H. Nliitolwil. Olly. a daughter.

DEATHS

MIDIIUBI — There pas-sad arwn n the city Hospital Friday mom- i118. Much 14. Niil‘. Philip D.D. MadLure of Nod-Ml R-ustico. aged so rears.

KIKIUGII — M the Charlotte. town Hospital on Thursday. March l3, Mrs. DanieliKeough. 01 Rochiord 81.. City. in her 50th lv-alr. Hed- reasalnc are resting at time A. A. Hennessey Funeral Home from where the funeral will be held on Saturday morning at. 8:46 to St. Dunstan! Basilica. intotnlmnt in the Qtbolia o1-

Mrs-y. q MacEIINNON — Suddenly at Tor- onto. Mardb 1B. 19M, Horace Mac- Kin-non in his 70th year, form- "N of Kelppoch. The remains will arrive at flte Otttoiittfe Fun- sral Home Friday evening where mMrsl services will be held Sat- "flitlv afternoon service starting It 1 o'clock. notes-alone nun- field cemetery.

HARDING At Remington. March l3. 1047. Mrs. Harry Hard- ins of Frencth River, age 68 years. Remains resting at the Davison Funeral Home. Ksnsingvton, un-

til Saturday. thence to St. Ste-i

Fhsrfs Church, Burlington. where funeral service will be held at. 2 lJ-‘tn. Interment at Burlington. JOHNSTON! -— At Spring Brook. March 18. 19H. Mrs. Mice John- "OM. age ‘iii years. Funeral from her late residence Saturday at 2 Pm. Int rme-nt in Caddie Mo- "Wrl main ..

ti. ti. Macloan I

UNDERTAKER

EMBALMER

Charlottetown snl North Wlihhira

Phono Ill _ _

led by Finance Minister Douglas’ Abbott s. short time ago, no prov-"

_ islon was made for additional oar-

liamentary secretaries to cablneti, ministers. Ordinary business oi the country, it ‘is felt, can by ably‘ handled by the present 20 mem-. bers of tho cabinet and assistants to those most heavily burdened.

Youthful Cabinet Timber

Although tho stopping-stone of parliamentary amttsnt i! now be- ing removed. it is known that Prime Minister Mackenzie King who declared last year he would not lead ths party into another, general election. is looking for bright young men to reinforce the cabinet.

swsrs of the claim of Prinoa Id- ward Island to cabinet !'0p!‘CS€l’itS-‘ tlon. Moreover he has evinced a‘ decided interest in Mr. MacNatlght‘ both this session and last. and was, particularly gratified over the manner in which the member for‘ Prlnco moved the address in re-e ply to the Throne Speech.

It is admitted that Mr. Mac- Naught lacks seniority in tne Commons, an clement enjoyed by. hia colleagues, Dr. T. V. Gran‘. and‘ James Lester Douglas. On the‘

I favor.

The last five members called to the cabinet, Fisheries Minister: 'Bridgcs. Finance Minister Abbott. iDeienca Minister Claxtcn, Health 'M1ntster , iMlnister Chavriec are s.ll under 50, years of age. High councils oi the ‘Liberal party are committed to a policy of bringing in the younger] men and rewarding the elder’ an‘ with senatorshlpa or judguhips.

At present thsrs srrno cabinet vacancies. Conditions at Ottawa alter quickly, however. and further rashuiflcs of the csbtnn srs in prospect. In event of some of tho older ministers accepting on am- baiaadorial post, tho office of high commissioner or superior court‘ judge. Prince Edward Island is considered to have c fsr chance to be represented in cabinet coun- cii by s native son-l ‘

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Tho Prime Miaililr is t

other hand his youth is all in hisllhlill-

and Nsw York. and. creasing, this Yeah those shipments were down 50 per cent.

Mir. Clwvrier referred to an edi- torial 1n the Saint John ‘Iblaglraph- Joln-nal and said it contained Pmany imoouracies." Omc of these was the

‘statement that there had been a’

tie-up of ships in the Saint John ilarbor because of a lack of grain.

A Typical Day

He said that on March 11 - a. "typical" day - there had been 31 chips in that harbor, five of which were ready to load grain. With the grain already in the elevators and that which urns en routs to the port. by rail, there was an "advanta- eous" balance, of 710.100 bushels

1f there were any ships unable in load grain, it. was because there was "too much business."

At Halifax. on the same day, theme were 110,000 bushels of grain- in elevators and another 02.000 bush la in box oars in the port. In the arbor were ships with a cap- sicity of 101.000 bushels. so there was a. deficiency of 0.000 bushels. But there were marry thousands of bushels an routs by rail, colouring a-n "ample" supply for the steam-

No ships had to be diverted from

Saint John or i-faiifax to Portland

to pick up the wheat going from

there. l-iowever. there were (ilVQtfi, starts of American ships from one. Mnmn nnq Trgrlgport American Port to snothm- Ameri-

can port. Wheat was diverted from

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66386." In the

been carried out 1n line with 0W1!‘ pl

511mm had granted or lent first?“ 135341001100, plus the cancelling of a. war debt oi $148,000.00‘)-

—"“ ' Buffalo to Portland because of a shorter haul.

Blames Railroads

‘that if the railways had been

alive to the situation brought to ‘vmwe mom“

last October

tiheir attention be a shortage oi

there would 110i 8.000 box cars today .

Ho said he was sure

srlin @0104 bé 801W“ muchilegislallon. which will Cfiiitiflile the

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faster out of Halifax than ‘could out of Portiamd. John Hacks-bi

interjecied that a shill "M"

Halifax would reach London sixmmfl‘ c c! and 50cm hour! lhwd 01’ l 9MP "m fir“ ‘members, was aimed to having the

land.

Mr. Isnor said it. was hours run from London to Mon- treal. l!!! from London to Saint John and 173 from D0000" W Halifax.

He, pointed to the elflPhYIuent

which could be given to men in iHaliiax by the movement of igrvain lhrouglh that port. ' Mir. Isnorsald it was not the grain alone that the maritime ports were concerned about. It was that the ship: which came to a port created other cargoes.

He said there had been a "lack of arrangements" for tho ship- ment of grain through Canadian ports. The number o_f lnlsilols of wlheat which would be ship- ped through Halifax this year would be mailer than last year.

He lsid the food agreements with the United Kingdom should specify that the products cover- ed be shipped aciian ports.

The Government should see to it that there were no further shipments through American

said he thought there would be rmra than 1.000.000 5119M“ Milled through Port.- land, Me. .

through Can-

Wonlon’: Institute A Executive Meeting

Long ltours For Delegates At Moscow Parley

B? WES GALLAGHER

4 meetlna of the Provincial m- ccutivc of the Women's Institutes was held in the Institute Rest Room on Thursday, March 13th. Atlttast-‘gaw. March 1a - (am- The Policy Committee reported _1 e oscow conference it 1s on the resolutions re Health Tax Q "n" 5i Ffldlllkht. and i-l-IHQI if a-nd Dormitory for Prince of Wait-s any in mid-afternoon. ‘College which they presented to

If a union organizer came along . the government, nlio g regolutlgn with a plan for a 60-hour week re Rural Health Centres presented he would find plenty of oandl- i It the annual meeting of the Fed. dates ready to 10in. ‘oration of Agriculture. and another

Those delegation members wlnhto the Provincial Exhibition A5- cam-e to Moscow expecting m g9 , sociation requesting the estatni-sn- Ilsltltsevtns are finding that u... men: of a Women's Work Section inside of their hotel rooms and ‘ tit the Provincial Exhibition, tho inside of their eminssiesl Matters pertaining to the annual are about the qnly Sights ‘hey tronvention were discussed and 1n- flec. The most welcome sight offl-Hesting projects arranged. all is a bed. It. was decided that we should

The limited size of the delega- send one of our special "crib quilts" tlons has made everyone double ‘as a contribution to the "Canadian ulp in duties. Even State Secre- M°“1°"- This mllsfllc t8 bEiHt-l tary Marshall of the United arrimfild by Lire Federated Wo- States, wnv, [5 known m, m5‘men's Institutes of Cullada and hnlbli; o; golng to bod eafls“ ‘S‘wili be displayed at tile Triennial staying up way pas‘ his “gum. E Cmicrcnce of the. Associated Calm-

hours. Aftcr three days of theiiry wilmell 0f the World bring conference 90cm‘ me h“ been l‘ held m Amsterdam ln September. k nll_ ' - It was deci-zltri to hold a [urthnr-

The schedule of n day; work "K391i"! 1-0 zirzm up n ilriel’ or, l; m“, m“; inational projects to he pl‘c&n1cd In ithc morning ‘l... d‘al)u!‘§4si‘€|_‘t' the Biennial Conference of tne for Austria and Germany lnet-t,"'w'x'c' '" Hum“ m 5'1"“ ucwlllpanicd by advisors. This! m‘ the "ms? M ‘hi’ ‘Tieeiillb’ F011- tnkrs virtually all lili‘ toll nlonirusemutwi“ [will the Srlluoi [lil- and most of tire sccrt-tarit-s of i Wovtmfm“ Leugm: each dclrgntlon. 'I‘l‘.r>s.r m.o@¢_1....5;°5‘°¢'_"l1\9 1'» ‘us! unm 1 m. 1:30 PIM_ ° ‘ltcgmnzll High School for (111.11- As soon as “he” two mocungsglottelrllvn. WiliPil area would 1n- a", m," fleets o‘. m" m“ from ‘ elude a large iliilllilfl‘ of disLl-ll-ls Avmflon Hons?‘ whcre m!‘ com where Institutes are Eirtllblishcd, iercnccs are held. along Lenin- grad rrlgnv-dy to Cvfifki Strceti and thr- i-lotei- Moskva Whbfi‘. ibrcl delegations are housed. I There tilc various dclcgations' - driscend on tllc huge dining room mm, when they n-y m perm“, ‘he This development topped a, dny waiters that they want lunch in l i“ which ‘h? "lsimlll £01018“ till-ll- a. hlllrfy. c ‘istrrs awaited SOVlEi reaction to‘ mum ends around 3 o‘, 3.3o,Pf€5idt.=lllTrll-lnll.t1's 110v.’ fOrCign‘ pm, yo; most o; m‘. wmkem i Policy Md vntfP-grd with Molotov in‘ The" ‘he ca‘... bum ‘he m” i a series of exchanges in which they '