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CHARLOTTETOWN. CANADA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1953

St. Peter's, Bay Airman Aids In Dilte Repair

Sask. Liberal Makes Plea For

Vast Power lrrigatidn Project

orrrsws. (cm ---A Saskatche- uan Liberal said Wednesday the ii-deral government should go ahead immediately with the vast Fnutll Saskatchewan river power rind irrigation project, ignoring a royal commission re-port recom- mending against it at this time. Fred Larson, 39-year-old farmer irom Saskatchewan's Klndersley innstituency, said steps should be iaken to negotiate an &EPe9m9m min the Saskatchewan govern- ment for the long-discussed river development.

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Unless this is done, he told the Commons, the people of Saskatch- ewan cannot help but feel "there is a good deal of discrimination ccainst them."

The irrigation and power pro- gict, rejected after A year-long .-iudy by the royal commission on me ground that it would not be economic. also drew support from C.C.F. and Social Credit speakers.

The Commons has before it two amendments to the motion to go znto committee to study govern- ment estimates. The first, by the Progressive Conservatives. "rc- in-sts” there is no provision in the csttmates for the South Saskatch- .-wen project.

The C.C.F. has offered a second

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Coming Events

"Reserve March 24th, Afternoon Tea, Y. M. C. A.

"French Rive.rCconcert postpon- ed until Monday. February 9th.

Hall.

"Legion Dance, Belfast Thursday. February 5th.

"Variety Concert and Box Social. st. Teresa's. February lath.

"Auction and Dance. Mlllview Hall every Friday.

"Dance Curran Ban Hall, Mon- day, February 9th. Music by Char- lotteionlans. Hall heated.

"Farmers, ask about the Shut Gain Feed Finance Plan. For part zculars contact your local feed mill

"Borden Rink. Friday night, Borden Juniors vs. Victoria Jun- ior Unions. '

"Croklnole; party, Vernon Hall Monday, Feb. 9. Sponsored by lernon River-Orwell Y. P. U.

...,1.. "Charity Dance, Millvlew llall, February 17th. Sponsored by the Lesion. Good music. "Car of Baled shavings to ar- zive first half of February. Book your orders. 12. McDougall, Vernon.

"Barn Dance at Mt. Stewart fl;-CRl0n Hall. Thursday. February th.

"Victoria rink Thursday night, Charlottetown Abbics Sisters vs. Victoria Seagulls. Game time 8 o'clock. Skate after.

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"The Altar Society of Holy Redeemer will sponsor, "Meet Your NPighbor Party", Community Centre. Wednesday evening, Febru- "Y lith.

"Come to the shur-Gain Am- riimir Show at 8 p.m. Friday. Fchrunry 6th in Winxloe Station llall. Sponsored by Hlghfield Wo- men's Institute. Door prize.

"Hockey at North River rink Thursday. Feb. 5th. Nine Mile Creek Bulldogs vs. Cape Traverse glltlavers. Game time 8:30. Skate

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"Come to the Ci-okinole Party in Brookneld Hall. Friday night, February 0th. sponsored by Brook- fleld W. I. If not fine Monday nlsht. February 0th.

"Shut Gain Amateur Show'. ml"nI1, Hull. Tuesday. February wh. sponsored by Mt. Mellie: 5- I. Entries close February ilth.

end entries to Mrs. Jack Meme, Cherry Valley. . '

"Oatmeal was the chick feed our refathers used. oatmeal is 0411; 5059-1300. ibrtifled with minerals and "extra" vitamins it's still the I We Pu!-0-Pap Ohlckstarter mn Grower. the feed with the 0st- Cll bung, I

"l 0 O. F. Wildey Anniversary. mnoddfellows and nebekahg are

"l '0 be present in Lodge ,,o'"P0n Pridly. February 0th. at I." m. II. There will be square mcd I With Geo. Andrew calling mt snoel. orchestra pro mnme wmashments. Admission cents.

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flame commander 0f Algonquin

OITAWA, (CP)-Cmdr. Patrick F. X. Russell, 36, of Victoria will take command of the Algonquin. first offa series of radical new anti-submarine vessels, the Navy announced Wednesday.

A rebuilt destroyer. packed with radar and other ultra-modern de- vices, will start its trials at Esqui- malt, B.C., Feb. 23. Her home base eventually will be Halifax. .

Fourteen of the ships are to be built. In addition to the Algonquin, the Crescent and possibly other destroyers will be almost entirely rebuilt into duplcates of them, raising the total to at least 16.

As fl. lieutenant. Cmdr. Russell survived the 1940 sinking of the destroyer Margaree in a collision on its maiden voyage. '

Novelist Ben Amos Williams Dies

PORTLAND. Me. (AP) - Ben Ames Williams, veteran novelist, died Wednesday, a sim, Roger, said, The Mlsicon, Miss.. native was 63.

A proloflc writer, Williams put a

60 Canadians loind Fight Against Floods

GREAT YARMOUTH. Eng. (CP) -Wearing parkss and rubber boots against a driving rain. 00 Canadian airmen joined in Britain's fight against the floods Wednesday.

The R. C. F. men. under Flt. Lt. Doug Coo of Montreal. worked side by side with the RAF. filling and carrying sandbags to plug gaps in the seawall of this Norfolk coast town, where rampaging wat- ers have already claimed eight lives. Cook is engineer officer at the R. C. A. F.'s No. 1 Fighter Wing at North Luffenham, Rutland. The 80 Canadians drove from their Rut- land base to the broad flat lands of East Anglia in buses and trucks.

One of the first men on the job was LAC. Ken MacDonald of St. Peters Bay. P. E. I.

The sandbag-toting airmen in- cluded veterans of flood-fighting at Winnipeg in 1950 and the Fraser Valley in 1948.

As the Canadians worked in the chilly dusk, fresh gale warnings were posted. An official said there was danger of new breaches in the seawall.

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tremendous amount of work into his novels.

A good example is "House Div- ided." a story of U.S. Civil War days, He spent 20 years on re- search. 4'5 on the actual writing.

This lengthy novel, published in 1947. probably was his most widely- read. It topped most best seller lists for months.

A big man-he was six feet tall and weighed arou-nd 235 pounds -

HALIFAX. (CF)-The search for a missing British airliner and its 30 passengers, believed down in the Atlantic off Newfoundland, was called off Wednesday.

R..C.A.F. Search and Rescue Centre here said Wednesdays search was the last for the four-

Best Dressed Man

TORONT , (CP)-For the second year in su ession, Governor-Gen- oral Vincent Massey (above) heads the list of Canada's 10 best dressed men, the Men's Fashion Council of Canada announced Wednesday night. v

This year's judges were influ- enced by the "vice-reg simplic- ity" of Mr. Masseyts wardrobe while in 1952 his selection was made on the basis of ”gentlemanly restraint" in apparel.

Hon. Lester B. Pearson, external affairs minister and president of the United Nations General As- sembly, is second on the list. He

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P. E. 1. Little Affected By Yesterdayisl Mild Storm

The first really threatening snowstorm of the winter caused little hardship to anyone, parti- cularly motorists as a mild wind ranging from north east to north west kept the snow scattered. None of the main highways of the Province was blocked and traffic was not in-terrupted in any way.

Provincial Government snow plows were ready to move at the first sign of trouble, but Mr. Wil- fred Duffy, Plow Despatcher at the Government Garage here, said that the best information they had late last night was that the roads had all been blown clear of snow. However, it was thought that some of the secondary roads

:, might possibly have filled in to a

slight extent.

The Maritime Electric Company had little difficulty, with the only trouble coming in Lot 65 where me snow caused slight interrup- tion in the service before the re- pairmen got on the job.1n the city here the plant officials reported that the snow had no effect on the service.

City streets, with some ice on the bare surface prior to the snow, became slippery as motorists had difficulty making turns at corn- ers. However, there were no ac- cidents reported and City Police said everything was satisfactory up to a late hour last night.

Missed Crossing

The Islanders hockey team at- tempted to keep a playing date in Glace Bay. but were a little late in arriving at Borden and missed the early morning crossing. Be- cause of the rising storm they did

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engined troop-ferrylng aircraft which disappeared Monday about

Williams was active and force.fu.l. He played as hard as he worked - at hunting, fishing, riding and curl- ing. A good curler, Williams play- ed in several international matches,

Will lnvesi'igs:';g- Magazine Charges

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O'I'I'AWA, (CF) - John Dlefen- baker (PC -Lake Centre) asked Wednesday if it is true that Cana- dian strategic metals are finding their way Russia. He said a statement to that effect was made in an American magazine, Life.

External Affairs Minister Pear- son said international arrange- ments exist to see that strategic materials "do not get to the wrong destination" and the system was working reasonably well but prob- ably not to 100-per-cent efficiency.

He promised to look into the re- port.

Consider Ferry

AUGUSTA. Me, (AP) - The Maine legislature has been asked to appropriate 31,260,000 for a Maine terminal of the proposed Bar Harbor-Yarmouth. NB. ferry. A resolution introduced in the House Wednesday said the Cana- dian government already has agreed to spend a similar amount for a terminal at Yarmouth and more than 34,000,000 for a ferry.

The appropriation would become available to the Maine port auth- ority after it had executed I. lease with the Canadian government or its agent for use of the Bar Harbor terminal when completed.

The Canadians would pay an- nual rental intended to amortlse the construction costs within so years. after which the terminal would become the property of the

Terminal In Maine .

859 miles east-southeast of Gander, Nflcl.

The Air Force also reported no succus in its hunt for a missing R. C. A. F. Lancaster and its nine crew members. missing in the Lab-

rador wasteland.

The Lancaster disappeared while hunting for an American civilian plane and its two occupants, also still missing. About 40,000 square miles was covered Wednesday in

the search, which will continue Thursday. Hopes for the British airliner

were raised Tuesday when a United States Coast Guard cutter reported sighting a brilliant flare but in- vestigatlon revealed nothing.

Ford Company To Build New U. S. Plant

DETROIT. (AP) - The Ford Motor Company will build a new assembly plant in the San Fran- cisco area io expand its manufac- ture of Ford cars and trucks.

The company did not make an estimate of the cost when it made the announcement Wednes- day. However, prior re-ports placed the figure at from 335,000,000 to 350000.000.

OTTAWA. (CP)-consumer price yardsticks for December likely will be published today and indica- tions are they will show another small decline in living costs,

The lndices may also contain a new feature in Bureau of stalls- tics policy on gauging price changes-a monthly instead of a quarterly survey of rents.

Canadian government or its agent.

Though rents are still climbing,

OTTAWA. (CP) - Canada: al- ready, considering financial and other help for flood victims of Britain and Europe, has announced avplsn to make it easier for some to migrate to Canada.

Immigration Minister Harris sn- nounoed in the Commons Wednes- day that the government will ex- tend finonclsl assistance to en- able victims in Britain, Belgium and Holland to move to Canada. Amid applause from all parties. Mr. Harris said the assistance will

the government's assisted-p.uage program. since the program was inlllluroted in 1061. it has been limited to single workers and to the heads of families. It will be

extended in cover do dents. Under the program. 0 Olm- dlsn Government advances the

Canada -Invites Flood Victims To Come Here

....;.m........ cost of transporting immigrants from their port of embarkation to their destinations in Canada. when the plan first was inaug- urated. the immigrant was requir- ed to contribute 000 or an equiv- alent amount ln the currency of his own country toward the cost of his passage. He was required to undertake to remain with the some Canadian employer for a year and to repay the government advance within two years.

All these provisions may be re- laxed in the cases of flood vic- tims. Hwever, they must meet medical requirements to gain ed-' mlsslon, s

Oemde admitted an estimated 40,000 '1 last year. A ut 00.000 came from

Senate Approves Netherlands Bank

OTTAWA, (OP)-A Senate com- of granting a. charter to a. Neth-

tions in Canada.

The Senate banking and com- merce committee took the action Wednesday after hearing opposi- tion from senior officials of several Canadian banks to grinting a charter to the Merchanirile Bank of Canada.

If Parliament approves the char- ter. the bank plans to open offices in Montreal and Vancouver and later Toronto, Controlling interest

nts from Britain data

will be held by Nationale Ha.ndels- bank N. V. of The Netherlands.

Graham Towers, president of the Bank of Canada, said his opinion lS that chartering the new bank will not damage the Canadian banking system.

Expect Another Slight Decline In Cost-Of-L

iving

many consumer prices have eased from their peaks a year ago. In November. the new consumer price index, based on 1949 prices equal- ling 100, dropped three-tenths of a point to 115.8 from 116.1.

This was the biggest d.rop in seven months as lovicr food prices eased the lmiprict of higher rents.

The November decline followed a half-year of small ups and downs in the index. But the November prices level was nnly 2.4 points below the peak of 118.2 in Decem- ber. 1951.

The old cost-of-living index also showed a drop during November. slipping three-fifths of a point to 184.2 from 184.8. It was down 7.3 points from the December, 1951, peak of 101.5.

In Index Accurate?

For many years the bureau has been collecting most of its prices quotations from thousands of mer- chants across the country on a monthly basis. The exception was rsntsi which were isurveyed o ly about once in three months.

-This raised the problem of who- ther the monthly cost-of-living lndioes actually showed it true pic- ture of consumer price changes without the inclusion of the latest rent changes.

Bureau officials now believe that through a reorganization, move, they will be able to collect rent on I monthly basis, making the monthly index as complete A

The Netherlands and about 2.500 from Belgium i

picture of monthly price changes as possible. -

Dairy Problems Discussed Al federation Convention in B. C.

Mr. Allisn Proftft, who l'ei;2resent- ”

not wait for a. later crossing of the ferry, returning to the city in-

lfNo iici7i . Will Face Cut in U. S. Aid

LONDON. (AP)-State Secretary Dulles of the U. S. is giving the big Western European powers '15 days to show real progress in set- ting up a unified defence or risk cuts in American military and economic aid, a qualified inform- ant sald Wednesday night.

The deadline was disclosed after Dulles, in day-long meetings with British leaders, gave assurances that the United States will con- tinue its policy of trying to limit the Korean war and sought to counter their criticism of U. 5. action on Formosa.

Dulles came here from Paris and Rome and in each capital, the in- formant said, made it clear that Congress may balk at putting up more billions of dollars for Europe unless he and Mutual Security Director Harold Stassen can report advance in the project to place troops of six continental nations in a unified army. I

The American officials visit Bonn Thursday on their swing around Western Europe and, the inform- ant sald. will set the saute 75-day time limit before West German leaders. There Dimes will encount-

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To Flood Are

LONDON. (AP)-Gales sweeping out of the North Sea brought new terror to Britain's flood-ravaged east coast Wednesday night with thousands of families under orders to get set for speedy evacuation.

Many are already fleeing their homes in the low-lying King's

ing up high seas. Sen and storm

disasters have already cost ,546 ,lives by unofficial count since lsaturday.

The Air Ministry issued a warn- ing that gales are expected off the whole of Britain's east coast, stretching down from the islands north of Scotland to the Straits of Dover in the extreme south.

The rising Ouse River tore a 40- .Vard gap in its banks threatening 35,000 people living along the 15- mile stretch from King's Lynn to Downham Market with an esti- mated 6,000 in the low-lying dan- ger zone. '

Convoys of trucks loaded with granite rocks rushed across the countryside from Nottingham into

or uncompromising sociealist op- position to any German alliance with the West.

' Critical Days

Prime Minister Churchill and Foreign Secretary Eden were told Wednesday that the next 10 days are critical for the future of Europe and were given the attitude of the United States toward it.

Dulles presumably set the dead- line at April 20 because the North Atlantic council of foreign min-

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flame Wanted Man In Murder Case

MONTREAL, (CF) -- For the first time since B. J. McAbbie was fatally beaten at his restaur-

Lynn area of Norfolk on the heels 35'” l" "W of government warnings that a "aw fresh storm is heading south kick- I ”00d-rlwarsed

the hamlet of Magdalen, six miles south of King's Lynn, in an at- tempt to fill the breach.

Prepare To Move Children

Parents in King's Lynn were of- ficill-Hy urged to send their child- ren overnight to-rest centres for a quick getaway in the event the ouse River banks give way further under gale-driven tides.

Lain reports said the temporary filling did the job of holding back the first assaults of gale- backed tides.

Blustery winds reaching up to so miles an hour struck the York- shire coast, some distance north of King's Lynn, itt nightfall.

Britain's home secretary. Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, told the

Dales Bring New Fears

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Death Toll Now At 546

llliilland Counts

1,223 Dead

AMSTERDAM. rAPl - Fresh North Sea loosed terror Wednesday along coasts of England, Belgium and The Netherlands. High winds, high tide and ram threatened to expand the havoc wrought by mack-end storms which has claimed nearly 2,000 lives. A driving rain broke over the

devasiatcrl area nf Holanrlv-harm est. lIlL of the three countries.

Against tlic sea's rising chal- lenge, rescue work and reconstruc- tion operations went on. Thous- ands of men struggled to finish repairing broken dikes before their gains were wrested away. Thousands of others battled to reach flood victims still isolated.

The revised three-country death list, as compiled from official and reliable unofficial quarters, rose to 1,783. Holland counted 1,223, England 546, Belgium 14.

Experts Approval Of St. Lawrence Project

NEW YORK, '(CP) - The New York Times says in an editorial it is expected the New York State Power Authority will soon be granted a licence to carry out the U.s. side of the st. Lawrence River hydro-electric project.

The Times notes that the hear- ings at Washington before the Fed- eral Power Commission concerning the application for s. licence ended Monday.

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ant in mid-January, police have Hnamed a man they are looking or.

They identified him Wednesday Patrick Gerald McKuhen, 32,

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pound that was set two years ago. This increase was needed,

ed cost of production, and

the cost of production. Mr, Profitt said that arrange- ments have been made by the dairy

Call Chinese Peace Proposal "Old Stuff"

WASHINGTON. (AP)-The U.S. state department termed ”old stuff" a proposal Wednesday by Chinese Communist Premier Chou En Lai to cease fighting in Korea land then tackle the knotty pris- cner-ol-war repatriation issue.

A spokesman noted that the same proposal was advanced by soviet Russia and turned down in December by the United Nations General Assembly.

Officials said it would be scam- plete capitulation to the Com- munists to agree in a cease-fire without gaining acceptance of the Western insistence ;that unwilling prisoners must not be sent back under Communist rule at bayonet. point. They reasoned that if the Communists refuse to go along with the American view now they certainly will not relent when military pressure is relieved.