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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20,‘ 1947

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Subscription Delivered 86.00. Mal-l 86.00. other Provinces a. u. I. A. 57.01

Summerside Electric Lineman‘ Seriously Injured

Arrange For Chipment P.E.1. Spuds To U.K.

sAlNT JOHN. N.B-. Fob. 19 — lam-J. G. Taggart, chairman od mo Agricultural Prices support 50am, expressed confidence hero may that New Brunswick‘; potato gPUWGTS could look for an immedi- ate improvement in the market.

Accoinpaniod by KB. Cont“. manager of the Special Products Board. Mr. Taggart arrived Saint John to arrange for the ship- merit iroi-n this Port of 97.500 tons of Prince Edward Island potatoel purchased by the British Food Ministry

Mr. Taggart said the removal of these surplus potatoes from Can- ada should automatically stiffen prices and “solve the problem" of [rowers in thtpProvince. i

"Our advance price guarantee of :1 per T5 pound bag loaded on care at shipping points as of May l still stands." he said, “but I expect tiho price to reaoh that level long before May 1 in view of tho shipments go- ing to Britain. Our theory is that ll we lift 2,500,000 t0 3,000.0(D bushels off the Canadian market, our position will be pretty nearly in balance."

Mr. Taggart. while hm. ia meet- ing several Prince Edward Island exporters. He said experts from the British Food Ministry would arrive shortly to make the final inspect- ion of potatoes destined for the United Kingdom.

lt is posible. he added. that af- liir those oxptrts come, the British order will be extended to lllelllfk New Brunswick potatoes.

Coming Elvents

" "Movies at Victoria to-iifit. 1'

"Races Souria, Saturday, Febru- ary 12nd.

"Crushing grain as usual. John- ston Mills, Suffolk.

"Hotkmv at Milton ‘tonight. Brackley vs. Milton.

"Lrgion Dance, Grandvlew Hall.

Friday, February 21st. Refresh- aients.

"Hockvy E887. ROYBIIY Rink tonight. Souihport Ramblers vs.

\l’alki=r‘a Bearcats.

"llockoy East Royalty Rink to- ilrht. Cove-head Red Wings vs. Rvials. Skate after.

a_.__

"Loading Hogs at Peakas Bia-

llon each Thursday for Canada Packers Lid. Merlin Dovlno. "Medina a at Montague

station each Thuraday for Canada Packers Ltd. S. C. McLean. Phone

"A special meeting Ihrnscllifo “W” "may. 7.30. to organize Bum» Club. Also National Film Bimlli Pictures.

"Lilldlna hogs at St. Peters for 1 nada Packers Ltd.. each Tuesday if truck pickup service from farm it ca: Phone Roddie Pratt.

fulfil"! H08: at Cardigan Sta- Piion each Thursday for Canada flickers Ltd. Norman McKenzie. ~lfdigm

W"P“°Bressive Conaorvatlvee of [m Royalty are requested to at- "ld nu‘ ngetinl in tho McLuro m Ab“ ma. at a us. N°'P1'0nesaive Conservatives of mlw Haven Poll are . ' dglzlithl/llcthtaeénevereeuxu, Mon- Pou- Gnu-lam‘ . P‘. A. Darrach,

. "Collect __ cm-dllnigigr. eaoh Tuesday

service th Emhfifrlltlfulig.

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my Valley. trio" Orwell and ‘m- Phone Welter crane ii-ia

"citllwtlnr Hm each Irlda for tam ’ mhxhplflfll Ltd. for

m“? Pialna. Vernon River. Avon- “. if: Hermitage. Phone Gordon

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Summer-side To Have lock Plant

British Quit Buying American Potatoes

LONDON. Feb. l9 — (C?) —Di'. parliamentary eeoretary to the Pbod Muiirtry, told the Home of Oommong today that no United States potatoes had been imported by Britain {or the last three months due to preval- ence of a bacterial disease. ring rot. which is unknown ‘ri- the Un- ited Kingdom.

It. was understood Canadian po- tatoes would be purchased in ac- cordance with-British needs as they are not affected by tho blght.

Prices 0f Glothlng Substantially Higher

Freight Rates lloaring Lapses Into llolilrums

OITAWA. Oritrlf-eb. 19 -(spq;. fab-Hearing of the Railways’ Aa- soclatlon before the Board of Trans-

cont increase in freight rates lapsed into the doldrums today.

J.A. Cross. chief commissioner, adJoumed tho hearing at four o'- clock in the afternoon after evid- ence an to freight costs had been given during the entire day b; C.E. Jefferson, freight traffic managrr of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Mr. Jefferson's evidence dealt en- tirely with general matters with no specific reference to either Marl- tirne or Western rates.

Not a Flat: Increase

1t was stressed at the hearing that the 30 per cont freight rate in- crease 50l®ht by the railways. is not- a fiat increase across the board. In, the application of tiho milway oom- pames it is specifically set. forth that no increase in freight rates is being nought for transport. of coal from the Maritime Provinces or for the carriage of grain from the west

OTTAWA. Fob. l9—Oanadlau6 are going to bo paying substan- tially more for their hiothing as a result of withdrawal last month of the Government's subsidy on wuoilens. worateda. yarns and tops and lowering of the subsidy on cotton.

The Prices Board said today the subsidy reductions had rc- sulted in cost increases to cloth- ing manufacturers which would bo reflected in prices of certain men's. ‘Joya’, women's and misses‘ dnthiag.

The new prices will be on ship- ments made by manufacturers on or after Feb. l8. ‘llliey apply specifically to men's and boys‘ fine woollen clothing. woollen work clothing and sportswear. and wo- men's, misses‘ and Juniors‘ coats and suits.

Although unofficial estimates placed the retail increases as high as 25 per cent. Board offic- ials indicated that because of the many coat factors involved in the subsidy reduction it was impos- sible to make an accurate forc- cast at this time. The increases would also vary with tiie cotton. woollen or rayon content of each garment.

The announcement also stated no price increases would be al- lowed on madc-to-measurc clothes ordered on or before Feb. l7.

Midlands Get Light For Monday

LONDON. Fob. 19 -—(OP)—Brit- aln's industrial heart will start boating again next Monday but the long pullback to normal will te Just starting, developments on the winter crisis front indicated today.

Prime Minister Attlee gave the green light to the resiunptlon of work in Midlands factories after an- nouueiaig in the House of Corn- mons that stocks of coal had been built up past the danger point.

However, it is atill uncertain when tho drastic power restriction: of the laat 10 days will be lifted in many paria of lmgland. Attlee said the prQut fivo-hour-a day gwltch of electrlo current to domestic and other non-essential ulora iihrolllh- out Emland would continua lu-

Coment B

A new. lndm will be establish- ed la Sunnis do this apt-Lac. it yesterday. that will

almost oaehaivaiv. It la a vim! for the ntanufacturo of “mom und in eonstrtietlon work

. the Maritime Transport Commis-

ofl IUD

to Canadds Maritime ports.

A new figure appeared today at the freight rate hearing in the per- son of Gerald Fauteux. K.C., cousui of l-lon. Gaspard Fauteux, Speaker of the House of Commons. and un- til a few weeks ago counsel to the Royal Commission on espionage. A former crown attorney ‘of Montreal. Mr. Fauteux replaces J. Forsyth. K. C. as counsel for the province of Alberta.

Col. JJ... RaLiton fonner senior defence minister who is counsel for

sion and the three Maritime Prov- inces in the enquiry today will con- test evidence of ireigiht revenues as submitted by Mr. Jefferson. it is expected that the hearing will be prolonged for several more weeks.

Youth Admits Thefts While Posing As Girl-l

FAIRJ-MVEN. Mass. Feb. lit-A 17-year-old youth who, police said. admitted posing as a girl domestic iii a New York liome and stealing $25,800 worth of jewelry. was arrested today as a fugitive from New York City Police.

Detective llerbert Halos. who identified the youth as Albert. H. Cook, 17, alias "Ruth Hathaway". of Fairhaven. said Cook related he pawncd the gomS in New York. Boston and Chicago jewelry stores for $1.500.

Hales said Cook told liim he took tho name of a cousin. went to New York and worked for several weeks at the Manhattan homo of K. A. Zllkhu. Thc jew- elry was missing after lite domes- tic departed.

State Police said the trail turn- ed to Fairhaven after an $1.000 ring, one of the stolen picccs, turned up in a Boston pawnshop last September.

SEEK BOllll/OWING POWER

EDMUNDSTON, N. B., Feb. 19 - tCPb-The Edmundston Town Council has decided to seek legio- autdioriiy to borrow $260.@ fer an electric power system. dteaei plant, distribution lines. waior d fwerage systems and fira prot t- on.

port commissioners for a 30 per ;

fall-Students of Eastern Canada are practical training as Bwnvmisls. it was revealed by the organization brunch of the Civil Service Commmion.

JJ-l. Myers lie-elected Pres. Of Daiyrymen

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MB. J. H. MYERS

President, PEI. Dairyrnens soclatlon wiho was re-elected torday.

As- yes-

Japanese Officer Sentenced To Hang

(By The Canadian Press)

TOKYO, Feb. lit-Col lean Tokunaga-known as "The Pig" to Allied prlaonera-of- war-baa been found guilty of nine of. 10 charges of/"fll- treatment nl prisoners and sentenced to death by hang"-

g. One of the moat hated Japw ancae involved in the war crimes trials, Tokunagu was found guilty also of lllegul executions of Canadian and British soldiers und misap- propriation of Red Cross par- cels. lie was the over-all commander of all prisoner-of- wan camps and hospitals in lflng Kori from Jan. 24. 1942 until VJ-Day. and all the 1,601 Canadians taken prisoner at; Hung Kong passed through his command at some time.

Special Training As Economists in Agriculture

OTTAWA, Ont., Feb. 10 -tSpec- universities, in- to be given agricultural today

In all 600 students at universities

are to be given special practical and theorctlcnl training summer at experimental farms and stations, including those in Prince Edward Island.

this coming

Already several hundred appli-

cants for the posts have been inter- viewed at their colleges Maritime; and in Central Canada. and a number selected after oral in- terviews with mwnbers of the civl service commission's branch.

in the organization

Salary to be paid the students

during tihoir periods of training will be $125 to $150 a month. It is under- stood that a/mong the successful ap- plicants are a number of students from Dalhouele, Mount Allison. and the University o! New Brunswick.

re-elected

Ml‘. J. H. Myers was Edward

president of the Prince Island Dairymens its annual meeting yesterday. Mr. Earl Ings. vice-president. and Mr. S. C. Wright, secretary, were also re-el-ected.

The Association at a iV\'0-sess'.~:\ conference yesterday registered disapproval cf the 90-day holding order which does not allow Is- land cheese manufactured in the Spring to he sold over the counter before Sept. 1st.

Bc-th sessions were presided over by the president, Mr. J. H. Myers. Hampton.

The second Jessica, held at tho Charlottetown Hotel. was preceJ ed by a banquet at which the guest speaker was Mr. George Johnson of Fredericton, NB.

Mr. Johnson traced thr- history of the co-oper-ailve iiistitutio-n of which he is manager from its in- itial small membership of '18 farm- ers to its present enrollment of 700 farmers. The regional head- quarters al: Fredericton wi-li sunll have one of the best plants of its kind in Canada. Mr. Johnson said.

He said they had purchased their own milking-machine factory the United States and were able to supply their members wflh machines at a cost much below that paid by individual farmers.

Ml‘. Johnson said he had been called all so-rts ol ii-imes during his two-operative career but that it was an easy matter for him to give in a few words his economic creed.

He said that he believed in a guv- emment "oi the people, for the poop-fie. by the people" and that any true ctr-operative was that sort of organization. High pr z-cs for his product was only hall the picture so far as tho farmer was concerned. Mr. Johnson said. Tnc c-thcr. equally as important. was that he buy his goods at the low- est posslble price. The c-o-oper-itivc achieved both those objects.

As an evidence of the success of his organization. Mr. Johnson said the turnover a few years ago was $75,000 a year. Last year. it W35 0'\' ‘ $700,000. Dividends

tContihEdTi Page ' Coffin-

Poland. France Sign Agreement

Association at *

1,1 ported as fair.

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PARIS, Feb. Poland today signed a five-yearl "friendship und cultural agree-l merit” with France.

The agreement was signed Zygmuiil Modzclwski. Polish

by Fo r-

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Wilbert Gallant lias Left Arm Badly Burned

Mr. Wilbert Gallant of Summer- side. a war veteran. L5 Ln- the Prince County Hospital with serious burns as the result of a pcwef Pm ac- cident at aibout 10.30 yesterday morning. An employee of the Town of Summerside electric light plant since his rcturn from. oversea; over a year ago. Mr. Gallant was work- in: on a pole on the extension of Granville Street near the home of Mr. Victor Travers beyond the Tcvvn limits. While hooking up some secondary lines, his hand came in contact with a line carry- ing 2.350 volts, One of his compati- ions seeing his plight ran into the Travers residence and callcd the plant to have the current shut cff. When brought down both hands were found to be badly burned and on examination at the hospital. it W85 decided lo ampuiate the left arm at the clbcnv this morning. His condition last night was rc-

He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Jos- eph Z. Gallant. King St.

Another employee, Mr. Edward Gallant is also in the hospital with injuries to both his hands which uvere burned when the rope by which they were lowering the injured man from the post slipped.

This is the third accident of this nature in about three years. Last October. Mr. Ernest Arsenault suf- fered a similar accident. near St. Eicanors and is new Cl'ipplE_d for life with his right arm amputated at the shoulder and the right leg at the socket; About three years ago a. workman named Mr. Mur- phy. vras killed in a similar accid-

Would Admit European Girls As llomfitics

STONEY CREEK. Ont, Feb. l9 —(OPi Daughter of the first president of a Womeifs Institute, Mrs. Gordon D. Conant of Toronto tonight told a golden jubilee ban- quet commemorating the foundflng of the first institute 50 years ago that Canadian women could help relieve distress in Europe by press-

eign ltlinisit-i- who told a press con- . 7113 for admission to this wunlry forence latcr that Poland's- foreign iof Ellwllean Ellis 811d ‘Women Who

policy was based on a desire to pro-I

vcnt any further of German aggression.

He called for a trcniy among the "Big Four" powers to guarantee peace.

Montreal Goal Situation Good

(By The Canadian Press)

MONTREAL. Fob. lli-Monircul Coal Company officials“ said today this oily will not suffer as a re- suit of the Maritimes coal strike.

Domestic coal stocks were brought in early ln the winter and docks and coal piles arc well filled, a. spokesman said. Very little Maritime coal has been brought to Montreal in recent years for domestic use. he added

Industrial plants and institut- ions sald thcy too woro not llkcly to be affected as much of their supply comes from the United

resurgence

States.

em b9 finished with a smooth aitface or rock faced which re- mnblre out rock. Being air ‘spaced a building coastnletrd of these bbekr will bo warn-tor in cold wea- ther and molar in warm weather than other typos of bulld'ngs. Cement blocks may also be used (or foundations of build using other material for the wa .

.1110 machine ,- la already cm the way and while the locatfon of the plant hi! not been definitely de- cided, it will likely be near the Morrison and Moll-lo plant at St. lloaaora. Mr. Hermon reya that he mgy erect a btrldlm t» machinery and 1am- l Dlfllllllit. t q oom- ont Noah. the atorlaa uaoti

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.1: that walla in notation the factory will give employment to tea or twelve ma.

Ilfvil. are Illfld with tho newt-IQ o! laolpooted

could wcrk as domestic help and

as hospital nurses. She said that was part of a scheme advocated by National

Council of Women.

"Canadian homes at present are suffering from lack of domestc help. one outcome c-f which is our shortage of voluntary workers and

Gdefs in all our organizations." a e said. "Our young mothers are so tied wilt house-work that small families will result, and more nop- iiiatlon is a crying need of Can- ada. .

"Europe is full of dcsrnble fe- niulc persons who would make good Canadian citizens and wculd be grateful for the work Canadian vmmen can provide. This action would it'd in Europe's displaced persons problenu and give us an opportunity to voeicome and ex- tend a hand of friendship to those ln- need."

D- W- I-flllil. K.C-. of Tomnio. was today appointed first National Chairman of the Arts and Crafts Committee, Canadian Red Oross Society. Mr. Lang's appointment was announced by Col. AL. Bish-

op. Ghalnman oi" the National Executive which 1115f 1.. Toronto. By agreement with the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, the Red Cross Arts and Crafts llFQZTammc provides materials for and instruction in iiscful recrea- tional ancl divcrsional skills at veterans‘ hospitals and institu- tions.

Parliament

At A Glance

Labor lliinisier Mitchell and Ite- construolion Minister liowe said the time had come when the Gov- ernment must end production sub- sidies. including those the Iilarliimes.

Clarle Gi.l1is tCCF—Capc Breton South) obtained adjournment of or-

dlnvry business to discuss the Marl-

time coal strike.

C.C.F. and Progressive Conser-

vative members urged tihe Govern. ment i0 continue coal subsidies to end a strike of 180,000 Maritime miners, seeking wagg in- crcascs

production

Thursday

'I“he Senate

Prime Minister King lias Severe Gold

OTTAWA. Feb. 19 —tOP)~--Prl.nie. lilinister Mackenzie King. confined‘ to his Laurier Avenue ilOnlC for the ‘ last three days with a "sevore" cold. was TPpOPICd today to be "feel- Lm: better." ‘

The Prime Minister had been ab- sent from his office and the Com- mons chamber this week but was understood to be handling a conslii- 5 ertiblc volume or business at ilOlllel External Affairs itlinislcr $1.1 Laurent thus boon acting as govern- ment leader in thc Commons dlll'lil$f_ Mr. King's absence. |

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TRUMAN PLANS Tllll‘

Missing Airmen Are Rescued By Dogsledi

(By The Canadhn Preel)

GOCEE BAY, Labrador. Fob. 19 —Two American ainrien, missing since yesterday when the gas in their small Norseman aircraft ran out over bleak Labrador. have arrived uninjured at Cape Har- rison. the RCAJ“. reported to- night.

Although further details wore not immediately available. it was presumed they had been reached by a dogaled search party which put out from Cape Harrison earl- lcr today. They arrived at Cape

' Harrison at 6.01 A831‘.

Names of the men were not liable. A Iii-equipped Norseman will fly to Oepe Harrison from here tomorrow to pick up the ttwo men. It had been scheduled to make the lN-rnile hop tonight but a drilalo felling through a slight mist grounded all aircraft. Drawn throuh deep anew by a teun of Iabrador hustler the ground search party left Capo

'&rrilon immediately after air

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on coal in‘

The Commons will consider Gov- _ ernment legislation. Will not Sit.

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BSIDY

Opposition f Requests Are Turned flown r

lily D'Arcy O'Donnell) OTTAWA. Feb. 18-¢OP)—l..aboa Minister Mitchell and Reconstruc-

t lion Minister Howe told the Com-

mons today that the time ha: come when the Federal Govern- ment must end all production aub- sidles including those on coal m the Maritime Provinces. _

They made the statements amid a barmse of requests from Opposi- tion benches that the Government continue the ccal production sub- sidles and thus end the strike of 13.000 coal miners in the Maritime Provinces.

The requests came from both Progressive Conservative and C C. F. benches during a‘ debate in- itiated by a motion of Ciarle Gli- lls (CCF-Cape Breton South) which called on the House to adjourn its ordinary business in order to dis- cuss the coal strike. The motion uutomatclaily expired Bl lilo

‘House adjournment. MIuat Stand on Ow-n Feet “The coal industry sooner or

later has to be made to stand on its owii feel." said Mr. Mitiholl ivho had the floor at six o'clock adjournment.