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British Labor Gov’i Maiority Reduced To Three

Premier F oresees Early Development Of Coal Run Mabou To Georgetown

The possibility of a big develop. ment in Georgetown this summer, «later learned to be the opening up of the proposed coal run be. tween Mabou. Cape Breton, and the King's County port.) was strongly hinted at in the Legislat- ure by Premier Jones yesterday afternoon.

The coal. it is reported. will be taken from a re-opened mine at Ma/bou by Mr. W. N. MacDonald of Plciou. This coal is to be towed across the approximately 50 mile stretch between the two points to Georgetown.

It is rumored here that Mr. MacDonald has been negotiating with the Maritime Electric Com- pany for a coal contract, should the proposed scheme become a reality. whether or not the Electric Company would take all or the majority of the coal con- veyed could not be learned.

The original plan of Mr. Mac- Donald was to have the coal pro- cessed into “briguets" at George. town. This idea may still come into effect but it is behaved that it has been shifted into the back- ground.

Reportedly the only impediment to the opening up of the coal run is the undredged waters around Mabou. A sum of money has been voted by the Government for this purpose but has not yet been for- warded to Mr. MacDonald.

In conection with this develop- ment Premier Jones stressed the importance of a paved road into Georgetown stating that the road would be paved this year as prev- iously noted by Hon. H. H. Cox. Minister of Public Works.

The mine it is believed original- ly belonged to a. French religious order but through transactions over the years became the propert of the Nova. Sootia. Goverrnnen. Mr. lid'.acDonald"pu’rellased it from the Government and through the use of machinery has received large outputs.

The mine is only a short dist- ance from the shore line and Mr. Mscnonald proposes ~ to transfer the coal to the breakwater by means of a. conveyer belt. ‘me coal will be loaded onto barges which will be towed across to Geaorgetown.

To operate the mine Mr. Mac- Donald has purchased the engine of one of the fastest boats in the world.

Mr. MacDonald was in Char- lottetown last week at which time he conferred with Premier Jones and.Mr. V. Alnsworth of the Mari- limo’ Electric Company. He is in Ottawa at Wesent.

FIRST WOMAN MAYOR.

BATH, somerset, England. March 27 -—(AP) —'1‘he City Council elected a woman mayor to- day for the first time in its hist- 0ry—which goes back to mo A.D. She is councillor Kathleen Harper, 60-year-old splinter. she will be Bath's 7ZZnd mayor. .

Coming Events

Arnold Beer.

"Grain Cleaning.

"Mail your I-‘lime to Garnhum Photo Studio, Charlottetown.

"Cornwall March 28th.

"Garden seeds. Send for free ntalogus. Arthur Veluy. York. P.l.r. ,

“Farmers now booking Clover

concert Tuesday. .

Beech. Bum order. Mcclulgan at Boyle. 1 "See “Bhaggy" in technicolor.

Pius aerial at MacDonald Bros. Theatre. tonight.

"Annual Meeting of Vernon lint Co-operative Auociadm 1-00. will be held in Vernon River Hill. Monday. April 3rd. 8 P. It.

' and Grain begin- o"r"sinouow«am3;'£u.i.‘iri7.¢ ts am -iuunm.-.'a'a1-am.

“ltisorvo woduaed . am

March for 1': fun‘: And Oom- vloto list of articles listed in Gurn- merside Journal. ~

"Receiving hen -ovary ‘hsudny all day. at Albany trucks banned. no permits’ issu . W lay so

units per hog cash above market price delivered. 1. George ilaclfay Ind Ion.

Ronny cmnr

President of 8'7 Ratarians around "19 810119. Percy I-fodgson, British born Rhoda Island, N. Y., business man, is at present in Canada as part of his aoo.ooo mile tour of 34 countries. Mr. Hodgson says that as Rotary president. he can accom- Dllsh more good by visiting each country in which Rotary is located.

Federal Budget Due Tonight

O'1'l'AWA. March 37 —-(CIP) - ‘me 1960-51 budget, due to be pre. sented to the Commons at 9 p. m. AST ‘ ow, may mark at least a temporary and to heavy post- war tax reductions. * ,

In every budget since the end of the war. the tax bills of Can- adians hive been lightened. The largest .eductlo resulted from the 1949-50 pre-election budget which cut more than $370,000,000 from the tax bills and removed an estimated 750.000 Canadians from income-tax rolls.

There has been some speculation --a word branded in Parliament- ary circles as uessin-g—that there may be some scattered changes in the eight-per-cent sales tax.

Some believe Mr. Abbott will re- move or reduce the sales tax on coffee. ice-cream, clgarets and certain foodstuffs.

A number expect that he will tighten the income tax law to ob- tain for the Treasury part of the capital gains made on investments in Canada.

Two Wounded On Toronto Slreei

TORONTO. March 27 —- (CP)—— Two men were shot and seriously wounded on the street tonight when a passer-by drew a pistol and fired a string of shots for no apparent reason.

Donald E. White. 30. and Ed- ward Long. 36. both of suburban Long Branch. were taken to hos- pital. both suffering shock and serious loss of blood.

' Police were seeking a man who had been lodging at a hotel on mid-town Pembroke Street. where the shooting occurred. They said the suspect came to Toronto from Sudbury. All bus terminals and railway exits were placed under 4

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Death Claims SecondMembet Since E|e_c_l_ion

LONDON, March 2'1 — (CF) - The death of a Labor member of Parliament today reduced the Gov- ernment's majority in the House of Commons to three.

The death of l".A. Cobb, 40, member for the Yorkshire constit- uency of Brighouse and spendbo - ough, was announced to the House by the speaker, Col. Douglas clif- ton Bro-wn.

Cause of his death was not an- nounced. ,

He was re-elected in the_1"eb. as general election by a majority of 2,132 in a tough [two-way race with W.E Woolley, National Liberal, an ally of the Conservatives.

Cobb's death will bring on the third by-election of the new Par- liament, all Involving seats won by Labor candidates in the general election.

The Labor Party's present slim majority is all the more shaky in view of the fact that there are many day-to-day casualties on both sides of the House.

At present one Labor member is in hospital. He has been there for 9. week. On the other hand. three Opposition members have not taken their oaths of office. Two are Irish Nationalists who boycott Parlia- ment. The other is an Ulster Un- ionist, allied with the Conserva- tlves,, whose eligibility has been questioned.

Clement Davies. leader of the Llberal Party's nine-member group in the House. was ordered today to take a complete rest for at least three weeks.

Cobb's seat is the second Labor has lost by death. The first was caused by the death of A. 5. Mc- Klnlay. member for West Dum- bartonshire. McKinley had only a majority ofrblflr ’ '* ~' ' ‘

C0mmons‘RejectsCCF Plan To Control Farm Exports

Quote Report Slalin B_e_ad

BROCKVIILE, Ont., March 27 - (CP)—The Recorder and Times today quotes a former Britlsh army intelligence of- ficer as saying he has informa- tion that Prime Minister Stalin died several months ago.

The newspaper's informant, who declined to give his name for publication. said Stalin's death would not be announced officially until late in 1951 or early in 1952. In the meantime. V. M. Molotov. deputy prime minister. would have an oppor- iunity to consolidate his posi- tion as political and spiritual leader of Russia.

. The newspaper’: editors said they are able to vouch for the reliability of their informant.

Donald Gordon Gets Salary of,$45.000

OtI'1‘AWtl-, March 27 —(C_P) — Donald Gordon. president of the Canadian National Railways. gets an annual salary of 815.000.

This was disclosed today in a return tabled in the Commons by Transport Minister Chevrier for glnstyton I-fodgson (lPC—Victoria.

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M1-.. Gordomasausned presidency of the C.N.E. Jan. 1. Previously he was deputy governor of the Bank of Canada, which carries with it an, annual salary of about 320.0001 year. ’ ‘

Premier Says Statement‘ To Farmers Misconstrued

Claiming that he had not been quoted “exactly right" in his re- marks to the delegation from the Federation of Agriculture, Premier Jones undertook in the Legisla- ture yesterday to rectify the mat- ter and explain what he really had in mind.

When, he looked at the delega- tion ln the Legislative Chamber. the Premier said. he noted that it was a lovely March day and he had told them. "ln the most friendly way." that it was hard to be away from their farm: a day like this. and that if they were real farmers they could hard- ly afford to stay away. Next day it was reported that he had said that "if they were real farmers, they would not be away."

“I didn't say that to the farm- ers at all." he maintained. ‘'1 said ‘You couldn't afford to be away if you were real farm_ers‘."

Looking over to the Opposition, he said he could see only one real farmerithere. “And I don't think he can afford to be away from his farm in good weather either." he added.

"The Press had you right!" re- torted Hon. Dr. MacMillan.

“Not at all." the Premier re- : “Did you correct it at the time?"

Premier Jones: "Oh. well—"

Mr. Bell: “You chaatlzed the former Minister of Agriculture for not correcting his tatements."

comments on Brief

Premier Jones: “It used to be

Nfld. Sealer Returns With

27,000 Pelts

s'r. JOHN'S. Nfld.-. March 27 — (OP)—Her holds crammed with some 27,000 pelts, the sealer Al-

ine steamed into St. John's to-

y. the first Newfoundland sealer book from the annual hunt.

It was the maiden sealing voyage of the Alger-ins. a converted ocean- golng tug. It was the second year in a row that her skipper, Capt. Wilf Barbour. an ox-naval officer syn first into at. John‘; from the ioefiold. -

last year Capt. Barbour brought home the Terra Nova ahead of the fleet. He arrived March 31. Just a for hours before Newfoundland became Osnadrs ioth Province.

In Halifax. meanwhile. the seal-

In Holds

land by March lb—legal openim of the seal season.

Her crew killed 5.000 whitoooats —-baby aeaio—on each of the first

two days.

sometimes, crew members re- ported. the killed usls so quietly that the couldn't pick them

up fast enough and they were left on the ice to be picked up later.

‘nae seals are killed by a blow over the head with a "bet"- a mail club.

Fonnerl . up to 100 vessels went to the fab!-odor coast in search of seals. Last year. total revenue from the seal hunt was down to seoo.ooo and difficulties in Iellifll seal oil for a time raised fears the hunt would be abandoned this ":3? «atom the mo’: of the sealers share in the of the catch. in addition to the pelts.

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that farmers would come in and

discuss their grievances. but what do we find this time? They come in with a brief. It is not signed by anybody. Look at the thick- ness of iti_ It was not read by a farmer; it was read by a man they hire. and he probably wrote it. I doubt if a man of this farmers’ group ever saw it until this man got up and read it.”

The Premier went on to quote excerpts from the brief. maintain- lng that they covered matters of government policy which were de- termlned months ago. and which should be matters of common knowledge. He cited in particular the Government’: nursery and rural electrification policies. The latter had been determined by the . endatlon of Mr. Hogg two years ago, and the Government was making "great progress" in this direction. "Electrification is going forward just. as fast as it. can possibly be done." he added. "We don't have to be reminded by people to ‘state our policy’ on a matter of that kind. It is there for anybody to see it."

The same applied to the recom- mendation about silos. He had film on his farm for thirty-five years, and - there are dozens of silos throughout the Province. He did not know whether many of the farmers’ delegation knew about them or not. "They have their minds on marketing." he said. “They want to have their marketing done in arm fancy way. They say our w ole market- ing system is chaotic. and I don't agree.

"I wouldn't have a group of farmers handle my sales for any- thing." the Premier added. "I don't want a bunch of farmers by vote telling me what should take" for the products I now and

sell. Dr. Maclilfllianz "You will be

all right in the sen . They won't get you there!” ( ughter).

Believe Chinese Beds Ready To Ilil

H0106 KONG. March 2'l--(lteu- tors)—Chlnaso Con-ununlata are ready to hit back at the air bases from which the Nationalists have bombed shanghai and biockaded the Yangtze. Western observers hero believe. '

The Communists have mined as air force with Russian help and technical advice. according to

ltatidnalbt sources snort ‘the

OTTAWA. March 27—(CP)—-By a vote of 143 to 23. the Commons today rejected a C.C.l-‘. proposal which would have brought the ex- port sale of Canadian farm ‘pro- ducts under Government control.

The division came on a motion by Percy Wright (CCF-Melfort) asking for consideration of estab- lishment of a permanent agricul- tural products export board “to fill present contracts, negotiate future contracts and develop new markets abroad for surplus agri- cultural products."

The C.C.l-‘. proposal de- veloped as the Chamber stud- ied a government blll—lnter given third reading—to extend for one more year the Agri- cultural Products Act, which "°W empowers the Govern- ment to negotiate and fulfill food contracts with Britain.

Mr. Wright said the C.C.l<‘. group felt the Government's plans were not sufficient. The tempor- ary methods followed to date “have lost most of our markets for surplus agricultural products." There should be a permanent export board.

In the count. the C.C.F. won support from the Social Credit zroup and‘a lone Progressive Con- servative-—H. I-I. Hatfield (Victoria- Carleton). ’

When the farm bill was adopted, the Chamber turned to consider- ation of a bill to give permanent form to Government machinery for the setting of floor prices under farm products. It was up for sec- ond reading.

Speakers in the main debate in- cluded Agriculture Minister Gar- diner. Rene Jutras (L-Provencher). H.. W. I-Ierrldxe (CCF-Kootemiy West). E. 0. Jones (CCF-Yale) and J. I. 1-letland (1..-Humboldt);

Irr--the farm debate. Mr. 'Gar- diner said the Asriculiural Pro- ducts Marketing Act adopted last year covered “exactly what is dealt with" in the C.C.F. motion. Under it, board: could be set up to deal with the marketing of farm products either inter-provln- clally or internationally.

Mr. Wright said he did not think those boards could go into the export market.

Questioned Re Cheese

George Tustin (PC-Prince Ed- ward-Lennox) asked if any of the 20.000.000 pounds of cheese now held in storage by the Govern. ment will be used to fill a con- tract with the United Kingdom. He also wanted information on what success Canada had in ob- iainins a market for matured cheese in the United States.

Mr. Gardiner said the Govern- ment had not yet decided whether it will use any of the cheese in "OM89 to supply the U. K.

The Government had not been too successful in obtaining a mar- ket for cheese in the United States. The U. S. had considerable cheese of its own.

Bacon Contract

Opposition members tried to ob- tain from Mr. Gardiner an under- taking of what steps the govern- ment would take to supportpork Drices once the British contract of 60.000000 pounds was filled. The price now paid is 32 1-2 cents I! llound—made up of 29 cents from Britain and a 3 1-2-cent Fed- eral subsidy.

I-Iazen Argue (CC!-‘-Asainlbolne) said that if the British contract is filled the floor would go out from under hogs.

He noted that Canadians now We eflliflil 33 Per cent more pork than they did a year ago. If they continued to do this, "all your Worries are 8oin8 to pass nway and Why worry until you have to."

At the moment. Mr. Gardiner said. the Government had dif- ficulty obtaining enough pork to fill the contract because of the high domeatia consump- tion and e high retail prices

that we ,iptth it. rm. tend- ed to . . pork to the do- mestic t.

William Co (CCF-Selkirk) said that while -Canadians were paying more for pork the farmer was getting less from the pack. lng houses.

"What are you fellows thinking about in letting the packers get away with that robbery. is is rob; bery . . . The producer is getting 39 less and the consumer is pay- lnl from one in two cents a pound more. The fucker is setting and lllllhllll it Ms sleeve at it. and :23 Minister does nothing about

Independent confirmation of these reports is lacking, but went- ern observers. believe increasing Russian help and advice is avail-

new Communist air force includes Soviet-manufactured plans;

able to the Communist Govern-

ment.

ilnpreced_enled Prolesl Against llelajl Sales Tax

FREDERICTON. March 27 — (CP)-—-A "March to Fredericton"— by automobile and traln——wlll be made tomorrow.

Unprecedented on such a scale ‘in New Brunswick. the influx to the capital city from points throughout the Province has been planned by local and provincial groups to protest the pending im- position of a consumer. or retail sales. tax.

A public meeting will be held in front of the Parliament Build- ings at 2.45 p.m. 15 minutes be- fore the Legislature resumes its sittings after the usual week-end adjournment.

The Provincial budget is to be brought down Wednesday. and Premier McNalr announced last week that it will explain details of the new tax. Legislation for the measure could be introduced the same day or later in the sit- tins.

Widespread Opposition

With the Government previous- ly withholding confirmation or de- nial. rumors of the tax had been prevalent for months and aroused widespread opposition. Premier McNalr‘s announcement that the tax definitely was planned brought the opposition to a head.

Prptesting petitions and hun- dreds of telegrams have flocked into Fredericton. Boards of trade. labor and women‘: orianizntions were among the OPDOSHIE Z!‘°llDl- Full page newspaper udvertilk ments by the Fredericton Mel'- chants' Association and business men of St. Andrews have .equeat- ed further public support for to- morrow’: rally in Fredericton.

More than 200 persons from Moncton alone will leave in a 50- car motorcade organized by the Moncton Board of Trade. A large delegation is being arranged at the summer resort town of St. Andrews. and slmilar-- action is planned in numerous other cen- tres.” ’

McNalr’s Statement

Premier McNalr issued a state- ment today saying that Pr0f- -7- fl. Petrie. head of the Depflfliment of Economics and Political Science at the University of New Brunswick. had suggested in I broadcast commentaq that the tax proposal be abandoned and cock- tail bar: instituted as a means of increasing revenue.

The Premier repeated his state- ment of last week that he doubts "the wisdom of any attempt 10 drink ourselves into a state of financial equilibrium or stability.’

Opponents of the tax declare it would strike a blow at business in general. the tourist trade and the mun wage earner. Premier McNalr said that the tax. similar to levies in British Columbia and three other Provinces. was de- signed to avoid hardship in the case of small incomes. This tax for a family of five with a_ $2.000 income in British Columbia, for example. had been estimated at $1.65 a month.

James A. Whitebone.- president of the New Brunswick Federation of Labor. took a different view.

“Our group is among the hard- est hit." he said. "Our members just can't afford to D8)’ 0“! Edd" tional money. As it is. they have to spend every cent now in order to live."

FLOWER!’ TOWN

ASI-IFORD. Kent. England—iCP: _ The Ashford council has organ- lzzed a scheme to brighten up local business premises. Window boxes of flowers are now a common sight in Ashferd's business centre. For e..u- uragernent the council has decorated the streets with flowers hung from lamp standards.