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Federal Building Holdup

Discu_s_sed I

OTTAWA, March 21 — (Special) ' — Progress of the Federal building ' for Charlottetown is being held up by differences between valu- ators on the value of the properties now on the site of the new struc- ture. Public Works Minister l-‘ournier told the House of ‘Coni- mons this afternoon. .He was re- plying to a question asked by W. Chester 5. McLure. Progressive Conservative member for Queen's:

"Out of the‘ 23 properties form- ing the site of the proposed build- ing." Mr. Fournler said, "agree. - men: have been reached in two cases. and two more will he settled in the near future. On the bal- ance we are negotiating for settle- ment. ' "Our difficulty is that our valu- ainrs—and we had two outside firm making valuations — do not agree with the amounts naked for the properties by the owners. I can give one instance without mentioning the name so that no harm will be done to the negotia- lions. in this case, according to the detail I have here. we have a valuation of 310.000 for a property. but the owners are asking‘ $80,000. It is quite difficult to come to an agreement in I case like that. I am afraid we shall have to pro- ceed through the courts."

In these instances when no agreement can be reached between the Crown and the owner of the exproprlated property, the owner has recourse to..__the Tlnchequer Court of Canada. -jOwing to the multiplicity od cased’ of all kinds before this court, it is difficult to estimate when such cases as those of Charlottetown property-owners can be heard. Delays of months or even of a yaaswa-unon are‘ not uncommon.

Replying to another part of Mr. Melina-e's question as to tnrpro: sress now being made by the Works Devpartntent on plans for the Charlottetown building. Mr. Four- mer said: “As to plans of this buildml. the sketches have been completed. They are being sub- mitted to the two departments which will occupy moat space in ii: that is Post Office and Cus- ioms: but from the list I have here, I note that nearly every Depart- ment of Government will occupy Since in that building. The nic- "WM we get that site-—and we

.’"|"E given notice to the owners that _we need the site from April 1 this year-e-we will proceed to the completion-of the plane and

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Coming Events

"Mail vour l-‘lime io Garnlium Photo Studio. Charlottetown.

“Card Party and Bingo, at Mac- Donald Bros. Theatre tonight.

"Pantry sale, March 31st. Rog- ers Hardware. Cross Roads W.id.B.

"Show at New Ghsgow tonighl. It u.oo. "isle of Forgotten sins."

“St. Patrick‘: variety Cffillliud Hall, Wednesday, March 22nd. Ci-apaud W. 1, no non .. ma icton Hitch Rd. tillil A. U.

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at .0 ufl Gol- vllle until use. Phone fI—-Ill. D. it Maoboweli.

“Calf club Organisational Meet- lna’. 1-funpton Hall. 3 o'clock. “lured-v. ins-on uni. Dept. of Agriculture Ofliciala ‘present. Hm shown.

"Bradalbane hall Thursday. Mirth 23, one-act plays. “A Ghost- lv Evening" and "Green Point". Slioniorsd by‘ the Bradalbane h°°"€Y team.

“North ltlver Rink tollllht exhibition um, . ' 1-_°na Crook. oclock. pg“. vice. \‘

lfardblhlra Ganja starts ‘at 8 after. cannon ur-

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Ii;.'i'.h Today of ~ Lt. llol. Thompson

Lt.-Col. Charles C. Thompson, 56, a veteran of both the First and Second World Wars died in the Prince Edward Island Hospital early today. He had been a patient in the Hospital for the past month.

A native of Montague, he was the son of Mrs. Thonipso and the late George Thompson. His father

was a member of the well known firm. Pools and Thompson. and for a number‘ of years col. Thomp- son was also connected with the ..fir.m. Before the outbreak of-——tlz-

Should. .0; Ban Imposed On impgI_'i_s

(By Harold Morrison)

SEIGNIORY CLUB, Que., March 21—(CP)—Margarlna ingredients. like Japanese shirts, should be banned from Canada, Major.-‘Gen. C. B. Price said today. . ~

The wartime Canadian army div- lsional commander, now head of ii Montreal dairy company, called attention of dairy men to the in- dignation “aroused by the import of shirts from Japan."

These imports, he told the Na- tional Dairy Council, are protest- ed because shirts can be produced more cheaply in Japan than in Canada and thereby threaten the Canadian textile and shirt-making industry.

The same was true of margar- ine, "but there is no protest at the plight of farmers and manu- facturing plants in our ‘dairy in- dustry through the production of a cheap substitute for butter by tllileulmport of low-priced foreign o s. -

If there is a case for keeping out Japanese shirts, Gen. ,Prlca declared, then there. certainly is as good a case for keeping out foreign oils.

Gen. Pa-ice formed one of a pro- ceasion of speakers trying to find means of destroying the competi- tion by which margarine is eating into butter sales.

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Five-Point [run

As the Council continued its three-day annual meeting. Gen. Price urged the 300-delegates to consider a five-point ' program. aimed at eliminating the sharp price differential between butter and margarine,

This price differential, said Gen. Price, was the real reason why -‘some Canadiasarfavoead... margar- ne.

Gen. Price's program:—

Farm Leaders Confer On

Marketing Legislation Lumber Order ‘

Is Announced

SAINT JOHN, N. 3., March 21 — (CP) — Formal awarding of a $2,500,000 order by the British Timber Control for Eastern Cana- dian spruce was announced today by John E. Sayre, chairman of the Maritime Lumber Bureau. The quantity is expected to run be- tween 50,000,000 and 00,000,000 feet

New Brunswick’; share, it is be- lieved, will be about 40 per cent, with the rest coming from Nova Scotin and the Gaspe area of Quebec.

A recent announcement said that $12,500,000 of Marshall Plan dol- lars had been allocated to Britain for the purchase of Canadian lim- ber. Muchof this will be used to buy British Columbia fir.

T ‘ dealers here said the uni: would help considerably to stabilize New Brun.awick'.s lumber industry this season. Unfavorable weather had baena factor in de- creased production. Domestic de- mand was still fairly good. how- ever. and some exports had been made to the ‘United States.

Undarnourishmanr Hampers Children

SASKATOON. Basin. March 21 — (C P) —- Government nutritionist Dorothy Hagar today told a meet- ing of the awhewan school Trustees Association that ohildrears backwardness In school can often

be attributed to undernourish- merit. .. - . . c Properly packed lune-hes for

children could do much to further their general health and well-be-

Second World War he moved to Charlottetown and was associated with the late Mr. Boulter in the P. E. I. Potato Growers Associa- tion.

He served with the lifith Battli- lion during the early part of the First War. The batallion was changed to the 26th after proceed- ing oversea He saw extensive service in cc and was award- ed tho Military Cross for his ex- ploits.

During peace time he remained on service with the Prince Edward Island Highlanders. which unit he later commanded. At the outbreak of the Second World War he went on active service as commander of this unit

Following training eriod he took the unit to . New oundland wtiere he served for some time. In health. ‘however. forced him to forego his military career and he was obliged to return home before the war was completed.

Book in civilian life.‘ he went into the potato business for him- self as operator of the Thompson Produce. a shipping firm. Later he was appointed manager of the P. E. 1. Potato Promotional Gam- mlttee which position he held un- til illness forced him to hospital.

He marri the former Katherine Stanley of arlottetowrt who sur- vives him. Also surviving in ad- dition to his mother at Montague are two earn. Donald and Stanley Mr. George Thoiripson of the As-

p e uiiuguinu annul- try from putting out excessive

aunts of margarine by in- stituting government quota controls. These controls would be the same as in other Com- monwealth countries.

2. Increase the excise tax

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Miss l-lagar said in some trees children "pool" their lunches among the entire school or among their own grade or cl . she said children coritiuually eating their individual lunches tend to gather in "cliques“ with their schoolmates. i

Plans For Public Works Announced In S. House

By GEORGE POINTER

HALIFAX. March 21 — (GP) -- The Nova Scotia Legislamre today opened a session that is expected to see heavy emphasis on public works projects a'nd unemployment problems. _

Plans for construction of new highways, bridges, schools and other public buildings were an- nounced in the speech from the Throne.

The speech said unemployment is "of greatest concern" to the Government which is taking steps to alleviate it. Most of it. however. was caused by conditions beyond the Provincial Government's con- trol.

But Robert Stanfield. making his debut as re . ssive conservative leader, said» his party con not ag- rec that conditions are beyond the

aociated Shippers, Charlottetown, is n brother. .

Government/s control. In a brief speech before Id,lourn-

Illness Keeps Members U. K. House Absent

(By Aha Harvey)

LONDON, March 21—(CP)—-Ill- neg; lg upping Labor and Con- servative strength in the Home of Commons. and la dolls! |t‘lm- partially. If a snap division should take place wit|Iln\a° few days, a aurvey showed today. both parties would probably be at least four

This would leave Labor’: over- all nuuoi-ity at four, with two by- olectiona pending. The official standing in the House of con-

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I.abor'a four absentee: are ex»

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until r. Two Conser- vatives may in ell next week.

sprightliest of the lllvalida la

Hubert Ashton, consarvati mem-

so lznclsalnsdord. Ho 3 he

reels 0. allnouali so his -beans

are Patrick - . Baalngstoke. and Lt.-Col. Willinm lflnnmlll. Yeovil. Donner has been ill with pneumonia. ‘

Kingsmill, who has not yet taken his oath of allegiance In the Commons. is recovering from yellow jaundice and expect; to be in London next week.

The only jnbor member not 3!“ sworn in is Pi-snlc Palrhurat. Oldham But, who has been hospital since before the election.

David‘ Klrkwoad. 1?

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, -year-o clause who also-for Duaabarton Egrthla expected to, leave hospital a . . .

Tw . more Iocl i ‘ abeentaaa » & G. Willey, , York- ab re; in hospital with 6, log all- amnt, and James lfctnnoa, Glis- l°" “i"‘.......""" 2 2:‘.li."'..’.“:

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ing debate on the Throne speech until tomorrow. Mr. Stanfield’ said his Party, rep. asented in the House for the first time since 1946, be- lieves just as many people in the Province are against the Govern- ment aa for it and will act sccord- lngly.

Reading of the Throne speech by Lieutenant Govermr J. A.D Mccurdy marked the first meeting of the Legislature since the Pro- vincial election last June. The Lib- erals have 2'! of the 3'! seats with eight Progressive Conservative and two 0.0.1". members.

Thc_ Lieutenant-Governor opened the session shortlgnafter members chose Gordon It mkey, 64-year- old veteran Liberal membe Lunenburg as Speaker. He been speaker since 1940.

W.H. Pipe (la-—Kings). moving the address in reply to the Throric speech said the apple growers of his ‘ , “ Valley constituency are fesing a "serious situation" as a result of the loss of the British apple market.

Earl Urquhart (L — Richmond). who seconded the address motion. couanended the Government for its‘ policies of rural eieotr“lcation and rural high schools. He urged ex- tension of them to his Oops Bro- tcn Island riding.

The speech forecast little legis- lation. Premier llncdonald mold a press conference last week. how- ever. the legislative program for the sullen probably will be beav- ier than usual.

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OTTAWA, March 21—(CP) — Farm leaders today sought a so- lutlon to their post-war problems at n full-dress conference on mar- keting legislation tangles.

Producers and government men from every Province were present at the opening session of the two- day meeting, called by the Cane- dlan Federation of Agriculture to discuss the problem of unifying marketing procedures.

Main problem before the 100 de- legates is to find ways and means of fitting Provincial legislation to the Agricultural Products Mar- keting Act passed by the House, of Commons last year and to iron out differences between provin- cial statutes.

Because of constitutional restric- tions, provincial mnrketing legis- lation can only apply to the mar- keting of products of any one Pro- vince within its own boundaries. The Federal statute was passed to facilitate orderly marketing of farm products at the lnter-provln- cial and export levels.

Discuss Floor Prices

The first day of the meeting reached no lusloiis on this main Pbint and much of the dis- cussion got sidetracked into is gen-

eral talk about Federally-fixed floor prices. Agriculture Minister Gin-diner

stressed that the Canadian Gov- ernment could not be expected to buy up all the surplus agricul- tural products produced in Can- ada and that he was in no posi- tion to outline any "pattern” on price auoport legislation.

The Minister said it was neces- sary to establish a general pol- icy for each product, since what applied to butter was "quite dif- ferent" from- what might apply to eggs.

The price-support question arose after Saskatchewan delegates. headed by Premier Douglas, said that establishment of marketing boards under provincial legislation should be carried out with price support legislation.

Nawfoundlsnd Protests

Newfoundland delegates, attend- ing their first meetlng of this kind. registered a protest that quantities of potatoes and cab- bages were being shipped into the new Province at competitive prices because. of government s", ' aubaldlee. .

Delegalea got back-on the main conference topic-uniformity in provincial marketing lawI—at the afternoon aittlng.

H, H. Hannem, C.l-‘.A. president. In hlg opening address, said that a system of orderly marketing was desirable because it enabled the producer to use more intelli- gence in planning: it made it easier to supply markets. result- ing in more and better products at fair prices to the consumer: and it put, the agricultural in- duatry on a usiness basis. /

Producers ad found that a small minority operating indepen- dently could often render the co- operative efforts of the majority ineffective.

Did Not Consider Shooiing Murder

COBOURG. 0nt., March 21 - (CP)'— Ralph Kilbon was quoted today as saying he did not con- sider it murder when he shot. his mentally-ill wife after she gravely wounded herself in a suicide at- tempt.

Mr. Justice Dalton Wells, presid- ing at the murder trial of the 56- year-old retired engineer, admit- ted as evidence a statement Kilbon made to police after the Nov. 1 slaying.

Provincial Constable Don Nicol read the statement, which he said Kilbon signed:

"1 left the room while shocwas

sitting in the chair to get some cont,“ .3 ought-ggk o1_

water. When I came back she was lying on the flool‘ and the gun was

an on the table. She asked me to lift

her up end put her on" the chair. I couldn't bear to see her suffer and shot her In the temple.

"she suffered from an incurable disease that effected her mentally. She was packing that day to go to Whitby (mental liooihl) and I had no idea she was going to take her own life.

"i do not consider that l com- mitted murder." - .

Similar testimony was given by two neighbors. Charles Barnard “mu Parrin. and by Dr. A. L.

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Ask De|ay—|n Application Oi Recent Boosi

OTTAWA, March 21 —(O!’) - An appeal against the last bio freight.-rste increases coupled with an application for a stay of the latest one-due to go into effect Thursday-ti-as lodged with the Cnibinet today by seven Provincial Go ernments.

e Provinces—all but Ontario. Quebec and Newfoundla.nd.—term- ed the increases a. “substantial miscarriage of justice" in a petit- ion following closely on a railway appeal that the two increases be boosted by a further 3.4 per cent. -

Immediate indications” were that the railways would fight the pro- vincial appeal before the Board of Transport Commissioners.

The appeals stem from an ap- pllcation for a. general 20-per-cent increase made to the Board by the railways in 194-8. Last Sept. 20, the board awarded an “inierlm" eight per cent. and it gave another eight on March 1. The railways put the first boost into effect and served notice the second would -be- aptplled March 23. ‘

The railways followed that up by calling on the-Board for the full 20 per cent. which would nmovurit to an increase cf 3.4 per cent over the rates due to be applied 'IV:iurs- dsy. so far. the Board has not set a. date for hearings on that appeal.

In their counter-move, the Prov- inces wenl. to ‘the Govemor-in- ‘council. which has wide powers to rescind or change any Board order.

Protest Size,’ Form

They protested both the size and the form of the increases.

one ground was that the Board erred in awarding general percent- age increases, utilch the Provinces claimed acoentaueted "disparities" in the freight-rate structure.

After deciding on percentage in- creases, the Province: said, the Board was wrong again in not im- poslix limitations on the amount applicable to any traffic.

F‘-urther. said the Provincial petition. the Transport Board erred in four ways in not taking measures that might have cut down the amount of any increase:

1. It had failed to comply with n 1948 cabinet order dir- ectlr-.3 it to investigate the question of apportioning some railway dividend requirements against the non—rail income of line Canadian Pacific Railway, the “ysi-dstick" line for rate-

‘ making.

2. It had allowed the C.P. R. a. surplus of $15.K5.000 out of rail earnings, fixing this amount "without the applicat- ion of any principle." ‘

3. It had failed to determine whether the C.P.ll..'s purport- ed non-rail income contained item; which should have been classified as rail income.

4. It had not made it proper investigation to determine whether or not maintenance charges submitted by the C P.

R. were excessive for rate- maliing purposes. ’I\his was the - second appeal

launched by the same group of Provinces in the last two years. In 1948, they appealed is general 21-per-cent rate increase.

An apparent upshot of that

referral was that the award to the railways in the subsequent rate case was scaled down somewhat. . On the basis of the Cabinet act- ions in the previous case. there appeared scant chance that the cabinet would tact to throw a brake into the railways putting the lat-. est increase into effect day after‘ tcmonvw.

More likely was that it would hear further representations from both sets of opponents before tak- ‘ing action. That could stretch into weeks. or even months.

LONDON. March 21 — (AP) —’ The Government today ruled out I return of legalized flogging to violent crimes in Britain.

Instead on using the cat o'nino tails on offenders who get caught. it promised more police on beats to prevent such asanulta.

The Government's views were set forth in the House of Lords by the Lord chancellor. Lord Jowitt.

The inn was abolished in a re- vision of the Criminal Justice code passed Parliament in 190..

lard owitt conceded that Brit- ain is "confronted .by a difficult

and dannroiu situation" a is said there is soon for public disquiet. But he added:

“ml the veaed question of flot- gin. tba auituda of the Govu-n- anont is quite definite. we have no tnlentipn whatever of reintroduc-

it. ~ uni -Jewitt said the new crim-

F logging Rejected To Combat Crime Wave

PROVINCES APPEAL FREIGHT RATE, INCREASES

Challenges Premier To he ‘il_nte1t_de Honorable’

Mr. William Huglieo

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