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Soviets ‘Also Building Large ‘Submarine Fleet

By Hal Cooper ‘Loyntiiy, Dcc. 19 - (Monday) _ (Aft - Jane's Fighting Ships “mi-ted today Russia is building Qii-ee BfhOOO-ton battleships equip- ped to fire radio-controlled aerial

oes. “mid the Soviet navy also is weeding construction on a fleet d 1,000 submarines, including a gype "\\'ii'h a great range and a wry high submerged speed.‘

The tinofficial but authoritative

‘bilcatlon, in iLs new 1940-50 edi-

On, said a “hitherto reliable puree" advised that two of the battleships may already be in com- mission.

Up to now Russia's only known httle-ungona were the 21l,662-ton Giulio Cesare. obtained from Italy under the peace ireaty..and the patios-tint Sevastopoi and Okty- pbrskaya Ilcvoltltsia.

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31inch said Russia is believed to have about 300 submarines al- ready, and that more than 100 new ones arr- planned for 1948-49 de- livery and that the Soviet navy now hopes to have 750 sutbs in lervice at the end of 1951. if said previous reports were that the SPAViPLSKi Soyuz, laid down In lseninzrad in i939. was so bad- ly damngoti during the war that little progress had been made to- __.___i_ii_

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Cooling Events

"CiifistmlLS Concert. Clinton loll, llrtmnber 21st.

"Kelli-n Grove Christmas Con- cert, Thursday, December 22nd.

"lfaii your Films to Garnhum PM: Studio. Charlottetown.

"Christmas Concert in Miliview IU. December 22nd.

"Canoe Cove Christmas Con- tut. Decemiber 20th. “Regal Flour now $5.50 per

It! at McGuignn & Boyle. "East Wiitshire School Concert, North River Hall December 91st.

"Graham's Road School Concert. fllttrsday. Ileccmber 22nd.

"Clyde River Christmas Con- Geri. ilecenlbcr 21st. Sale of candy.

"South Milton School. Christ/mas Concert. Tuesday. Decornber 20th.

"Union Road (Queen's) Christ- mas concert, Dcc. 21st.

"Christmas Concert. Hampton llml. Tuesday. December 20th.

"Afsrlc Shore School Concert, December 21st.

"York St-liocl Christmas Con- Qm. Thursday. December 22nd.

"St, Peter's School concert. will’ Name Hall, Doc. 20th.

"Klllkora School Concert, Ture- llltl‘. lloccnlber 20th, at, a P. M.

"NoticewUnlontlTng car of Al- m" ‘"000 cool today, G. C. Green, Emerald,

"Vlllltt-v Concert. Pie loeisl. “timer Kelly's Cross Hall, Monday. Dscelnber 10th. Door prlzo.

"clllfihlng Grain on Wednesday's ma Eric MiacEaChefn. Applh

"Conic to Hartsvilile Sunday "1001 0Ofl0£tt 1h Hartavllie Hall “Why. December 20th.

lc"Nlne Mlle Creek Christzrlu 000i Concert in Afton Hall. Wed- "smr. December 2m

"Simeon School Christmas

"It River;

“mo. Sturgeon not, ill!- Doccmbcr 2m.

utflllristanu Concert and Dance. n ell Hall, Wednesday. December li- Mlllvlew Orchestra.

Wednes-

“Ilwect a» Albion not 00d n“!!! in oil next week. Order n - J. Russell Drtacoll, Mt. Herb-

"! have installed g new hun-

and will be grinding Mon-

'» Thursday's and Saturdays. “ED011016. Ne’! Dominion.

U elinuyi"! W"!!! pigs Monday at Emféiltliillli Tuesday I am. ‘venfld; i0 Milton: 11 New ML s’; 1 it-m. York; 2 Redford; 3 will; 4. Watervele, B; Ver-

gwunpm "Q Pownol. Knud

ating Glass At S’

Side Air Station

Pictured above are the me-rrltbetri of the graduating clam of No. 1 basic air navigators course, Royal Canadian Air Force Station, Sum- merside. They are to receive their wings at a ceremony tomor- row. There are nine flight ca- dets and one flying officer, who

"Christmas Concert, Victoria Cross School, Wednesday, Decem- ber 21st.

"Christmas Concert at Hamp- ton Hall, December 20th, starting at 7.30.

"Newton School Christmas Con- cert. Thursday, December 22nd. at 8 P. M.

"North Wlltshlre Christmas Concert in North Wlltshire Hall. Wednesday. December 21st.

"Show, "Rachel and the

Stranger" at Clyde River tonight at. 8.30.

"Bargains in groceries until Christmas, good selection of gifts. Store open evenings. McGulgan d: Boyle.

"New Haven Farmers‘ Imtitute Annual Meeting in schoOl. Decem- ber 19th. nt B o'clock. Booking orders on carload of oats. All inter- ested. please attend.

"Buying dressed geese. chldccu and fowl up to Tuesday night. December 20th. Highest market prices paid. R. L. DiCklelon, New- Giuqow.

"We will not be receiving hogs at our Livestock Pens in Char- lottetown after Wednesday. Decem- ber 21st, until Tuesday. December 77th.

"Free Pictures. Victorlg Hall. 1911mm} by public meeting with regards to purchasing n joint. ccrm- munity film projector. 0n Decem- ber 19th.

"Junior Farmers Leadership Course at Si. Dunstan! University. January 3rd to 7th. Open to all rural youth 16 to so yea-re old. send appilmtioill to Box 9. Dqzt. of Agriculture. Charlottetown.

"Attention. We will be buying dressed poultry at our store on the afternoon of Tuesday, Decem- ber 20th. The weighing and grad- lng will be done by Mr. William MacQuarrie, Canada Packers. I-l. S. MacLeod and 3on8. Vernon River.

“A qpectol General Meeting

the shareholders and patrons of the Wlltshire Dairying Oo. Ltd. will be held in North Wiltahlre flail on Saturday, December 31st. at 2 P.1d. to consider the build- lng of a new creamery. it la ad- visable that all patrons attend. By

order of the Directors. Nelson

his: already received his commis- son.

Back row, left to right: F/C J. M. M. Desjardins, Montreal. Que; F/C J. L. Abertcrombie, Toronto, Ont; F/C P. J. M. Decruyenaere, St. Boniface. Man; F/C R. J. Noon-an, Schreider. Ont; F/C L. G.

Ottawa Order Authorizes LPU As Bargaining Agent

Orders have been issued by the Canadian Labour Relations Board. Ottawa, certifying the Laborers’ Protective Union. Charlottetown, to be the bargaining agent for the unit of employees of H. B. Willis. Iiic., Buntain, Bell and Co.. and the island FertiiizeriCompany, com- prising all stevedores employed by those companies at Charlottetown ilt the loading of ships, excepting gang foreman.

Tile orders were issued on Dec- ember i5 and were received on Saturday by Mr. L. T. Rush. presi- dcnt of the L, l". U. These are the first certification orders grant- cd by the Board to any labor or- ganiultion in this Province.

The orders cover all produce loading operations in Charlotte- town with the exception of work on the "Eskimo". In connection with this boat, a request for a Board order ivas refused. on the

Ashweil, ‘Ladyslnith, B. C.

Front row. left to right: F/C G. - W. Patrick, Ottawa, Ont; F/C J. M. Wheeihouse. Bear River, N.S.; F/O L. S. Deyell. Edmonton, Alta; F/C L. G. Osborne, Yorktown, Sask; F/C J. G. Kilgour, North Bay. Ont.

ii_____.___ ground "that the rtespondent cor- poration is an emanation of the Crown in the right of the Prov- ince of Prince Edward Island, and the Board is of the opinion that the provisions of the industrial Re- lations and Dbptltes Investigation Act are not Btpplicabie to the re- spondent's operations."

SANTA AT CITY HALL

NEW YORK, Dec, 1S JAY’)- The Christmas spirit prcvnilod at City Hull Friday as the city's governing bodies pnssed pay raises for themselves and Mayor William O'Dwycr. A boy's choir on hand for the occasion sang “God Rcst You Marry Gt-lltlenit-n". while inside its Yttlc-tlcrorutctl chambers, the Council voted pa!’ boosts for its 25 mcmhors from $5.000 to $7,000 a year. O'D\\’.\"‘l"! salary was increased from $25.- 000 t0 $40,000,

Army Veteran Sets Up C0-op Transit System

By Joe MICSWQCII’

ST. JOHN'S, Nfli-L, Dec. it — (CPI -—- A talkative young army veteran from the Pacific Coast has organized a co-operative transit system in thlk Atlantic city. Max Poyntz, 31, of Victoria received the stamp of approval Saturday from City Council for the Hodge- Podge Co-op bus service he or- ganized 23 days ago.

It was started after the Gov- ernment cancelled the franchise of Golden Arrow Coaches Limit- ed which had serviced this capital of 00,000 following labor troubles. Public transportation became cha- otic with everything from panel trucks to a converted ambulance being used u buses by private operators.

Then Poyntz celled I driver: together and started the Co-Op. Then he called on the public to give it a seven-day trial. The or- ganization. which new to about o0 owner-drivers. carried a peel: load of 10.000 commuter! Friday. The Council granted a temporary

therly,

six-month fnnchioe to become

formal before the new your.

Poyntz, a former book ulel- man, said the Co-Op is being or- ganlnd so that the owners. Wilt) also are drivers, are eligible flot- preferred stock while the Public have access to common rtock.

"It la our intention," he said, “to take over all road transportation in Newfoundland and Labrador. where roads are being built at present. Our plans are to take over the bu: services in Corner Brook and Grand Falls"--the only other large Newfoundland towns.

Steps had already been taken to start a trucking business in the spring along the some lines as the bus service. Ari inter-town service also was planned to go into operation when silitable highways have been completed.

Drivers turn over to the Co-Op 10 per cent of their daily take, estimated at about $16 a day at: l0 cents a fare. Poyntz said that under his three-month contract he cannot receive higher than 060 a week. Following the three-

moath period contracts will be reviewed.

The chief of the Air Training Command, All: Vice-Marshal C. R. Slemon, will present the wings. He is replacing chief of the air slnff, Air Marshal W. A. Curtis, whose plans to attend have been changed.—S.

lion. (I. (I. Baker Predicts Support Price For Potatoes

"I would say that possibly we may receive favourable consider- ation from the Agricultural Prices Support Board on our application

for price support on potatoes,"

stated Hon. C. C. Baker, Minister

of Agriculture who returned on

Saturday front Ottawa. Mr. Baker

and deputy Minister Wallcr R. Shnw were attending an auricul- turnl conference.

"A delegation of the Ministers

of Agriculture from the Maritimes, together with the Dcputy Minis- ters from Ontario and Quebec met

with Hon. J. G, Gardiner on the matter. Price support would lend stability to the market and On-

tario llnd Quebec‘ are interested uty leader of the opposition since in icceping n flood of llfttrltlme 1944, is the Minister or Defiance potatoes off their market. cnn- and Postfiwar Reconstruction.

tintiod tho Minister. Mr, \Vnilcr Straw snid

lowering of farm prices, due

tracts."

$100,000 Fire At Yarmouth

YARMOUTH. N- 5-. Dw- 18 --(CP) ~ Plre of unknown origin which broke out in 400 bales of cotton, stored in the garage of Yermouth Motors Limited. Saturday completely destroyed the building. Loss il estimated at more than $100.- 000

Flremen hauled burning bales from the building alter caught. fire nt one n. m- Work- men were storing cotton in the garage at the time of the out- break. Firemen answered n. second call. as smoldering bales burst. into flame eight hours later.

Three care in the attract. l. rebuilt army hut. were imm- ed. Con-nos Imperial Mills Lim- ited had stored the cotton bales in the building when its own sheds had become filled.

Major John Campbell. presi- dent of the nmtor company. laid the bul-ldlng and burned care were worth 860.000

ilrleflyi that. "it looked like an all-round o tho loss of the major British eon-

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Weatherstrip Lands Ill Island Seanthit

ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. Dec. 18 — (CP) —- The navy woathership St. Stephen made an emergency call here today, to land foilr sick crew members and then headed for Station Baker. midway be- tween Greenland and T alvtdtiv

The men, all appendix cases, were Petty Officer Ervin Platts and Ordinary Seaman John Blanchard, both of Charlotte- town and Stoker Clayton Fland- ers and Leading Seaman Russell Christensen. both of Halifax.

Blanchard was operated on here soon after arrival and the others will be treated tomorrow.

it was the third emergency call

at St. John's within the past

month for the St. Stephen. PROFESSOR DIES

OTTAWA, Dec. 18-—(CP)—-Rev.

Benoit Mailloux, 53, professor of theology at the monastery of the Dominican Order here, died in hospital Saturday after a brief ill- ness. He joined the order at. St. Hryacinthe, Que., in 1917 and was ordained as a priest in 1922.

Australian

oarvanana. Dec. l9 ~ (Mon. day) (AP) Ailstralllis new Prime minister, Robert Qm-dnn Menus-t. enrwtmcod Sllildliy night the names of l4 Liberal and five Country Party leaders as mom. bers of his Coalition Cabinet. They are to be sworn in today to take Over from the Labor Government which lost the Dec. l0 elections.

The Sydney Morning flgmld PYOmDUY hailed Menzies‘ choices as a, "strong cabinet."

Next to. Menzies in the order- Of rank is Arthur William Fudden, leader of the Country Party and former Prime Minister, who will become Deputy Prime Minister and asst; hold the portfolio of Tress. urer. Fatddens party won 20, per- haps 21. seats in the House Qt Representatives, while the Liberals cllilltured 53, perhaps 54. IA-tbor has 4/7. Two other members in the Hit-seat House of Representatives are to be appointed.

Fladden. 54, was ri-lms Minister of the Commonwealth for a month in 1941. but was voted out on 5 budget issue. Since then he has been in opposition.

Percy C. Spender. a. lawyer who served as Menzies‘ Army Minister in the first Wnr Cabinet in 1939. 4'1. Wlblaces Herbert V. Evatt as the new Minister of External Af- fairs and External Territories, or Foreign Minister. He has been in Parliament for 12 years,

Eric J. Harrison, 54, h mambo!‘ 0f the House since i931, and Dep-

Of Bridge Work Under Federal Highway Scheme

Menzies Announces

Programme

A Brighton Bridge and a new Hllislboro Bridge will be rcqtllrcd as part of tile proposed trans- Canada highway if it goes through in this Province, Premier J. Wal- ter Jones stated on his return Sat- urday from Ottawa. whore he a’.- tendsci a Dominlon-Proviilcial con- ference on technical dezaiis ot the scheme. Ho was accompanied home ‘by Mr. Gordon Wright, Deputy Minister of Public Works.

‘1‘he Premier reported saiisfact-i ory progress made at the conter- , once, and said he assumed thei Dominion Government will get in | touch immediately with all that Provinces to sign agreements. ‘

While choice of routes rests with the Provinces, the Federal Government's participation in the cos-t on a fifty-fifty basis will be on condition that the route in each case is the shortest practical east-ivest route, consistent with the needs of the Province and the interests of the Federal Govern- mnt,

In this Province the proposal Itentativciy agreed upon at Ottawa is from Borden to Charlottetown lby way of Craipaud and Bonshaw, and from thence to Wood Islands tby “ray of Millview and Eldon.

Premier Jones said he had no ifurther information with regard ‘to the Federal Government's at- titude to the request that the route should include Summerside. Ii’

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Cabinet

a1 Service ad immigration will be Harold E. Holt, 4'1, a lawyer and Milnster of Labor in 1940-41, He has been a member of the House since 1935.

Richard G. Casey, 59, M11115. l" 0f Slllbply. Development, Works and Hflllslllti. is a former Gover- nor of Bengal. United Kingdom Minister to the Middle East and Australian Minister to Washing. ton. He ‘was n member of the wai- Cabinet ln 194243.

The new Minister of Commerce and Agriculture is John McEwen, deputy leader of the Country Party. He was iviinister for Air and Civil Aviation in 1940-01 and Minister for External Affairs from March to October, 1940. He has been a member of the House since 1937.

The only woman in the new Cabinet - and Australia's first. woman minister _- is Dame Enid Lyons, widow of a former prime mlflifilel‘. Joseph A. Lyons. She becomes vice-president of the ex- ecutive council.

Other members of the new Oab- lnet are:

Interior - Philip A. McBride. 5'1; Health - sir Earle Page, 60: Trude and Customs Senator Neil O’Su1llvan; Fuel and Ship- ping - Senator-elect George Mc- Leay: Air and Civil Aviation -_ Thomas W. White. 61.

Postmaster-General Hubert L. Anthony; Repatriation - sen- ator W.J. Cooper. 58; Attorney- General Senator-elect John A. 5010M; Social Services -Scnator- elect William Spooner, and 1n- formatlon and Transport _ How-

The Minister of Iiohor. Nation-

ard Beale.

President of

By KENNETH LIKES

JOGJAKAiRTA, Java, m, 1g _ (AP) — President Soekarno of the United States of Indonesia was sworn into office Saturday under a Moslem oath and received hls first 11-min salute.

Humbly, he declared himself a, "servant of the people, not their mafltfil‘ -—- and appealed to the world "to clasp hands with this newly-born country that want to determine its own fate."

He raised the historic "proclam- ation flac"—e red-and-wilite ban- ner of the Indonesian republic which he first unfurled at his bun- galow in Batavla. Aug. 1'1, 1M5, in s declaration of lndepende u from the Netherlands. Then he led an automobile procession to a cemet- ery where Indonesian guerrilla fighters are buried. There he scat- tered flower petele over the graves of men who died during nearly 4% years of warfare.

His next. official act will be to name three key cabinet members who will build the rest. of an ab- brevlmted government to take over rule from the Dutch within i0 days.

Of Indonesia Sworn In

New State

The swearing-in was a colorful ceremony in the red-and-gold pav- ilion of the sultan's palace ln this shaliby capital city of the Indon- cslan republic. which now becomes a dominating unit in the U. S. of I. Most. of Indonesia's top leaders, both of the Indonesian republic and the other 15 federal states end territories, were present. They had elected the liryesr-old Soe- karno unanimously Friday.

Soekarno acknowledged that his people are "still flaming and smouldering in our revolution," hilt he urged them to bind utp the wounds and scars of their struggle. protect minority groups and seek unity,

Indonesia is mostly Moslem. The biggest minority among the 70,000,- 000 people are about 1.200.000 Chi- nese who could become a problem

Subscriptions Delivered $8.00.

OOGGESTS MORE PAY, PENSIONS FOR COMMONS MEMBERS

EDIE Russian ‘Battleships To Fire Guided Aerial Torpecloes

Members 0f llradu

other Provinces do U. B. $1.00,

Private Liberal Member would Pay 5510.000

(By D'Arcy O'Donnell) ()T'I‘.\.\\'A_ 1101-, 1F‘. APP) — A move has hoc-li lnuliclioci to obtain higher salaries and a pension plan for members of tho Commons. A private Liberal mr-mlwr. who ilSi-(Pll tllnt his n-lmt- in- withhold, l‘t"<‘(‘l'lllf.‘ plltvvd the s ' fort» Prinio Illtllislrlr at. rlnti some mr-ltllors (if tho Cabinet. Ilo rovtrivotl no zissurrincc of any immediate notion, hut was told the matter was sollictlltng that should he considered.

Full Timo Joli

Politics, time, now

once a leisurely past- has ilccome an almost nrounzl-lhc-ycar jolt. As a result. fewer anti fewer men can afford to run for public nfficc. Lawyers. who can keep their llnv offices oporntitllz vvhilo performing their strssional duties, now outnumber any other profession in the Com- mons.

In prc-vrar years, sessions lasted three or four months at the most. Now they average six months.

At present mclnhors receive an indemnity of 54.000 for each ses- sion and a $2.000 tax-free annual allowance, As a result of the two sessions this year, members re- elccietl in the June 27 general election received about. $10,000.

The private member said he hart

suggested that ntcrnbers be paid $10,000 a year. regardless of the number of sessions.

The increase in Canadian indem- nllles would increase the salary of the Prime Minister from 823.000 to about $27,000. and that of the loader of the official Opposition from $16,000 to $20,000.

Would Contribute To Fund

The Liberal member has surr- gested that out of their 510.000 members pay. $500 annually into a pension fund. They would draw from the fund when they were defeated in an election or when. they decided to retire.

Th» need for a pension fund for members has been evident for some time, said the Liberal mem- ber. In the last election, some members, who had devoted most?‘

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. . . , TORONTO. Dev. 18 ~40?) --' liiinimtlmi and muimum: Victoria‘. 2S 32; Edmonton 13b 4t); Regina, 4b 4; Winnipot: 10b 1i; Toronto 36i 42; Ottawa 26 34; Montreal 30 36;- Qiiober 22 Til; Saint John -- 46: Moucton 24 4'2; Halifax 32 d6; Sydney 18 40; Charlottetown 24 39. Yarmoilth 38 48; Si. John's 18 It.

HALIFAX. Dcc. 18 —(O'P)—Of- ficial forecast; issued by the Dom- inion ‘Public Weather Office here‘ tonight.

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