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Postwar Development

Plans Being

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iias Been_ Promoted

Ueut. John Kelly, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Ke iy, 06 Hayfield Ctreet, City, has been promoted LieuL-Comm der and will take up his new utieg at 8t. John, N. B. Commander Kelly recently spent a month's leave with his parents in Charlottetown.

Youth’: Body Recovered At Grand River

The body of 11-year-old Emmett was]

Moran who, with his father, was drowned last Tuesday afternoon .when their car plunged through the ice in the Grand River some distancg from Matthew and Mac- Leans wharf at Bridgetown, was recovered about l1 o'clock yester- day morning.

‘Prswi-lines caught the body of -the drowned lad about 300 yards oi! the wharf and with that en- couragement eflorts are being re- doubled to recover the body of the father.

Since Wednesday morning, scor- es of men have been working far into the night hours but with the recovery of the boy's body all efforts are beLng concentrated off Matthew and Macbean’: wharf Yesterday, it is said, practically the whole male population of Newport yillage, where the Mor- ans

lived. were on the ice at

Bridgetown. r. . {the late John Moran, was the t... V. w m0 3° ' and.‘ ~ fins weather m.»

customs?!" o tat? Emmott, his only son, with him or company. On the afternoon of the tragedy, he was however, not deliver-in the maii, but, as rural tax col ector. was engaged in collecting taxes from the residents of the Bridge- town disfrri .

l Coming Events

I I ____ . i‘ "Show Murray River ‘iuegdlolysl.

"Pan Sale. liolmans, January 12th. BLIUC! Altar Society. 1-9-41.

pigs every Monday at . Kmld Jorgenso . - 1-13-tf.

"liinkora sigma? suing. a " a 301$.’- I D y’ 1-12-11.

Annual Meeting of Crspoud ‘MY. scCraps-"uild wmusrwml-ith .zvr. 0-11-25

can r %

- "loading Hogs for Davis a

144., Tuesda til further 53$. Five BousemyJunJ. Larkin. ope vs. Milton at mlton Rink tonight. Game starts at 8:10. Skate after. i-iii-li

"Kickers. Monday afternoon. Notional Film Board free movies. (Postponed from n-ids 1mm

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"Its tn exts ai from Pan ° n ssfs mi. ‘this. result-s.

Drafted

orrrawa. one. Jw- 11 (Speciall-Jeeds of Prime BdWiI-"l Island's Notional Perk. one of the newest in the Dominion wide chain of summer playgrounds. M‘? b81118 studied with a viow to further Dost- war development, The Guardian

by the Naidonal

was informed today Park Controller. Plans now being drafted at 0i- tawa headquarters include im- vement of ronds and park facil- es so that the PEJI. M!!! "l! accommodate increasing nmnbers of visitors in the vacation season. Estimates foo- this and other Na- tional Parks presented in the dying days o the session had no real sig- nificance. it was explained, since these had been held up from the spring of 1946, and much of the fund: allocated “nod already been IP91! - .

Awaiting Treasury Approval

"Our National Parks including that in Prince Edward Island which

or the 088i. six years. senior Parks official said. “We have plans to continue and complete its develo mt which will go before the Mglzrilstcr, Hon. J . Allison Glen. minutes for future implpvflflmii will then be eubnfltted to ‘Treasury Board. Until Treasury Board ap- proves, we are not in a position to state the exact nature of the changes and improvements now un- der consideration."

In a number of other National Parks. the Iibdcral Government has not only met all expenses for the park proper but has cooperated with provincialarsd at times mun- icipal authorities in parks with approach roads. In some cases Ottawa. has carried out the work on the‘ approach roads and paid half‘ the cost, the balance be- ing taken care of by the Province.

If. ll considered likely that some such financial arrangement will be made for an approach road to the Prince Edward Island park as re- quested during the'1ost seuion by .W. Cheater S. McLure, Progres- sive - Conservative member for

“T! n.

rut 99811. k liicb is one the few straw: ofw b- lioly-owncd domain on the ho- ay coast. will be developed along the lines originally planned. Emphasis W111 be laid on its landscaping along the lines as the‘ original site as de. scribed in the novel "Anne of Green Gables". 1n happy perpetuation of the famous legend.

Special attention will also be Biven to maintenance of migra. bind life in thempark and to maint. enance and angling ‘aunties Movement of its

fn view of the

1mm comparatively

igilrxitltdg‘ orbutrli decided into‘ the Prince Edwgrderlglfid m3- 9u°h Elmo Wvuld eventually prove a nuisance to formers, and "mild hi1 my to hunters n n efirlyqd beyond the park limjfl_ ——-————_-—-_-

lio All-Weather Trans-Boned: lioad

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NTO, "W!!!" highway on which Cana-

‘ onor Livestock ms Asoscy. 1044- ‘;,',',',',,,'PIgg;;;',g- 333g; man-gr. “to "- e w- ». “.*.":.:rm~.::'r. .7 .. "n" ~ "'3 ~ “Pu” ‘mu’ orist can cross the Domimio “d” 5°‘! ' u a‘ 3N‘ wit out detourin into the Uriito: m" “nu- "im Etna . but it cangt be dons in wist-

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~ulwgsssyup.m Fwmid-‘o-e-o-tr ‘Ole Chick lotions: the salsa Hung‘ 155s,

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Ur because s stretch between Swastika and abrthern O

owplows.

o the difliculties of high-

way construction in some parts of

Northern Ontario is a shortage

rock, and that is expensive,’

said. “However, we hsvrmany of s built wast of

of highway Hearst in

developed fairly rap from new on."

coo-nus Pipeline

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bigaotharsgost of appzoaclaiomads p. fund asmprotttaotlo; agfitiistgvg-rh; 0n $040- r _ g 7W1"! 9F Y ¢°,.. ° ‘feugféhram a .. - Claims on the fund have been ‘iimlisr fldhesno n. 2.1m. mour- st sdi war employ-

ir" Tvvo Liverpool

ntario, cannot support *' of iNl he

our g bridge 1 Swastika and thc hi hway will be

early twice as large as any ct

incr, an outstanding rough-waterpatrol plane, it is exp:

rescues. The new ship weighs approximately 30 tons, is powered by two 2l00-hp: engines, is B0 feet

-in length, has l~l8-foot wingspan, cruises at 147 mph. with speed maximum of 200 mph. Nose wheel retracts into keel and side wheels fold into side of hull. ‘Turret atop fuselage is a radar dome.

TN; Qrtaddof Amphibian dinner,

hr amphibian plane is the Gledn L. Martin Co.’s new twin-engine XPBM-SA, above, pictured during its recent first flight. Similar in design to Martin's PBM Mar-

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especially valuable for air-sea

Unemployment Insurance Fund

OTTAWA, Jan. 11: - (CP) ~—- Despi-te increasing claims for unem- ployment insurance benefits Cana- dian workers are continuing to build

e y as ment slackened; but the payment of those claims has not caug t up with the steady increase in the fund through emplo er-employee and government corntr but-ions and thro h interest earned. '

At ov. 30, 1944, the fund had

reached a total of $316,782,540, an during ‘the 1

credit c;

soxn h .000 P" icipants, Benefit ims aid for the 11 months were $11.11 .708- Most of the o5. persons who burned to the fund for benefit spay- ments were from tine indu rial centres. Unskilled light labor ac- counted for 22.300 and unskilled heavy labor for 9,600. '

Fishermen Missing

LIVERPOOL, N. 5., Jan. ll — (CH-Fears are felt here tonight for two fishermen James Kelsey, 43. and Harry Cunningham, 3i. both of Liverpool who have been unreported since they left here last Tuesday in a foot fishing schooner. It was iopvfled till-i "19 men had food enough only for 24 hours.

The two fishermen were last seen late Tuesday afternoon hauling in their traps eight miles from this

port. _

A search by several boats yester- dav failed to find any trace of the men and it was hoped to continue the search today but heavy seas prevented boats from leaving p0"-

Brief Strike At Sydney Ended

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Bissenting Judgement By Chief Justice In Cemetery Funds

Case

In the Court of Appeal yesterday conflicting judgments were readby Chief Justice Thane A. Cam bell and Mr. Justice A. E. Arsenau t in the Chancery case of the Attorney General, lant, Ada L. Smallwood, administratrix of the estate of the late Vivian C. Small- wood, respondent.

The case concerned trust funds alleged to

the late Mr. Smallwood.

chietouatlce, in his judo-j

gFn-rllnwni- . _ 1. ~ ustice Arsenault concurred n1 e ctober

Justice M. R. i disallowing the appellants claim against the Smallwood estate. The result of the divided opin- ion of the appeal Judges is a twko- to-one judgment in favor of t 6

jgudgmeni: rendered last y Mr.

respondent, involving dismissal of

l. th-‘i-nivgfie before Mr. Justice Mc-

1 Gulgan, as Master of the Rolls in

the Court of ChancBfY. arclefrem

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Turn Down

Workers WageApplication

HALIFAX, Jan. l1 — (CP) — Application fc-r wage increases for more than 4.000 enaployees of the Dominion Steel and Coal Corpora- tions steel plant m Sydney, 11.5., has been dismissed by the Regional War Labor Beard. it. was disclosed tonight.

Rmectlom of the stcelworkers’ wage demands was automatic fol- lowing a split vote of the members. The finding and direc- tion of the board stared that one member of the five-man board had beenbilll. thus making the split vote

e.

(Union officials, in askim the wage increases at Sydney plant said that they should be to bring the Oops Breton workers’ wages up to a level paid employees of o oer Canadian steel plants). ,

Th demands turned down by the board were:

1. Aminlmumoftiilocenfspeo‘ hour to all eight-hour enrployces over l8 years of age paid hourly. tonnflge or piecework rates, or a oomblximtion o! such mtg; which resin: in present earnings of 09 1-8 to 601-2 cents per hour;

I. Increases of 4 cents per hour

din! snot rim-late

other Jhour

employees over eighteen years of

age and ainsilarly paid, $00M... slafi w

0 B arlabor

$01k!!!” directive of llay I.

other employees {working Isl): ‘t: more than eight hours-

have been deposited with thg People's Cemetery dur- ing the secretary-treasurership of

Me ulgan

1945b ilhristmas Tree Shipments

Monorou, Jan. 1l—(Special)— Christmas tree shipments from Canadian National stations in the Atlantic Region topped the two million mark last year, an increase of approximately 370,000 trees over the year previous, according to traffic officials of the railway. Nova Scotia led with 1,382,000 trees. New Brunswick sh.pped 144,000; Prince Edward Island l4.- 000, and Gas-pe Peninsula 288,000. All told there were 1,214 carloads as against 1,028 in 1944. -

Ile De France Is Due About Jan. 25

- _ A§~€med1=~f8l>§r~~ Defenee Headquarters". announced tonight that uni s of the 4th Cen- adian Armored Division and the 5th Infantry Div sion will be aboard the Ile de France, exrpected to ar- rf/ve at Halifax about Jen. 25 with nearly 10,000 service personnel.

ALDEWSHOT. HANTS; Jan. l1- (CP Cable) é Viscount Alexander said today he is making a close stu- dy of Canadian newspapers from east to west in preparation for his

ow job as Governor-General of

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tine Dominion.

Sydney Steel

Fisheries Minister 0n Visit To St. John

SAINT JOHN‘, Jan. ll-Fisheries Minister Bridges arrived hers to- day on his first visit since his np-i

ointment to the Federal Cabinet- ust summer. Ho will remain until! Monday. It was not learned im-, mediateiy whether he would visit‘ other Maritime cities.

He declined to comment on re- cent developments in dominion- grliovincial relations, which saw

tario refusing to accept the Dominion Government's proposals, except to say, "we are still hope- ful thq conference will be a suc- cess."

Asked regarding developments in_connacf.lon with the Federal Governmmenfls plans to build a

,000, airport at Clover Valley, near t is city, to serve as Saint John's municipal airport, the Fish- eries Minister commented only that he would "certainly he in touch" with Adrian B. Gilbert, KC, bounty secretary on this matter.

LONDON. Jan. ll — (Routers) -’.l'he five Arab countries rspre aented at the General Assembly of the United Nations swung the vote electing Paul Henri Spank of Bel-

m- 0ontinuing*'""“"

Births cities. towns and villages with population of 10,000 or more in December totalled 10,704, deaths 4.980 and marriages 4,614, compared with 10,455 3,759 44. tistica reported today. I

Will lioad Vital Statistics Branch

The Provincial Government has

appointed Mr. W.'I‘. t. Mm o Mr. and Mrs. MJ. Crockett City, heals}

of the Vital Btobistics b o t of Pub- . Mr. Croobews office will be in the Provincial Senator- ium. The tlon is a new one. Mr. Crocke t is a veteran of World War II and served overseas as Secogeant-Maior with the 2nd Rag- iment. 8th Heavy Battery.

Bacterioiogisi Appointed To Provincial in;

The Provlnolalfioverrlment has appointed Dr. CM. Chaplin as as- 51808110 to Dr. Harold Straw as bac- terlologist in the Provincial Tech.-

nical Laboratory.

Dr. Chaplin. native of England,

come to Canada for his university training about 15 years ago

obtained his Science Degree in PRQWYWIOEY and Immunology from McGill University in 1936. He then served for some time with the Min- istry or Health, Province of Que- bec. and upon the outbreak of war went overseas with the No. 7 Can. adian General Military Hospi

bacteriologlst. At- the end of Ems-

tal as tllitles, Dr Chaplin returned to

Canada and is z com 1 Master of Sciendgwdegreg it?

Donald College.

Dr Chaplin is expected to be

available to the Provincial Labor”

tory with a few Wgekl

Sessions 0f ii. ll. 0. Assembly

LoNgy JOHN a. rannrs‘

ON. Jan. ll- (Appurh _flve_ mayor United Nations Organ? ‘"90" Powers were reported to- night to have agreed upon Canada Brazil. Egypt and Poland for non: permanent membership on the all. powerful security council whim glxigecontrol the new “world police

thneliable sources said, however, at. there was disagreemgm; m, the remaining two council seats to be filled. that the council elec- tions, scheduled for tomorrow at the assembly meeting, eitherwould be postponed or the differences between Russia and other key powers would be aired in discus- sion on the floor.

British and American sources emphasized that the over-all at- mosphere of relations among the major power delegations remain- ed harmonious.

They said the powers had reach- ed an agreement on l8 or l7 of thc l8 countries to he chosen for membership on the U.N.O.'s social

and economic council.

The key pcwers-Britain, the United States, Russia, China and

France-were elected with South Africa and Venezuela today to vice

nresidencies of the General Assem- bly. Each of the delegations rcp-

rescniing these countries will meet soon to choose the person to serve as its vice president.

OTTAWA, Jan. ll - (C?) — registered in Canadian

irths. 4.7M deaths and rnarrl ges in November. l9-

Monday Have

NEW YORK. Jan. 11 - (AP) — President Truman arranged for continuation of steel wage talks at the White House Saturday as to settle or avert major labor walkouts in the United States collapsed on several fronts.

The White House announced to- night thst top leaders of the CI. O. Steelworkers Union and the United States Steel Corporation had accepted the Presidential in- vitaticn

These were other major devel- opments a-s labor controversies kept 418,000 idle, not counting an estimated several thousand tele~ phone workers whose exact nurnbe was not immediately determined:

1. Tho country's long-distance and some local telephone commu- nications were crippled by c. grow- ing paralysis.

2. The C.I.O. president Philip Murray announced failure of neg- otiations to avert a strike of 800.- 000 steel workers Monday.

.'i. General Motors Corporation announced rejectio of a Presiden- tial fact-finding board's recornmen. dation for a l0 l-2 cents an hour wage increase to 175.000 striking 0.1.0. United Automobile Work- ers.

NEW YORK, Jan. l1+The Unit- ed States’ vast long distance tele- phone system was virtually par- alvzed tonight and a government ofiicial said seizure of the industry might be recommended if the strike situation became more a- cute.

Throughout most of the country only emergency and priority ions!

‘ distance rails were being‘ handled

as a result of picket lines set up at rlawn bv 8.000 installation work- ers at key exchanges, and subse- quent sympathy actions in some areas.

ii. S. ‘Fhon Strike Affecting Canada

MONTREAL, Jan. 11 —- (OP) — Trans-Atlantic telephone commu- nication between Canada and Bri- tain has been substantially inter- rupted and calls between the Dom- inion and seven American cities reduced to an emergencv basis by the strike in the United Stated. the Bell Telephone Compnay of Canada announced here today.

A spokesman for the Canadian

Telephone Company said. that many calls and from Britain normally are routed by way of New York and that the trans- oceanic channels from that city have been put on an emergency basis as well. That left only the Canadian Marconi Company's dir- ect wireless telephonic channel to handle all calls. The seven American cities with which telephone ‘communication was ‘blacked out" are New York, Chicago. Washington Newark. N. J.. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Only emergency calls to them were being completed bv the American operators and the small number of calls coming to Can- ada from there indicated that they were being put through only in emergency mo.

CHELSEA, Mass, Jan. ll —(AP\ --Mrs. Rose Carlan. charged with manslaughter in the death of her six-months-old son, Ronald, Wu or-

the Dominion Bureau of Bta-

dered held todav for the grand Jill?-

Overseas Brides Coming To New Homes Shortly

Up To 38.000 New Canadians Begin Arriving

In Dominion

4- All h t0 h; retroactive um to the conference presidency LONDON "’“_ ' Jan. ll-Yfhousands of '1' “m” '- 1"‘- igvls loomed Wisv- new Canlariians will start life

the T‘ by March l under

gallons outlined today by Canadian

litary Headquarters hers.

. _ ’I'hey are_the British wives and

en s t e children of Canadian servicemen hi $1.10 married while serving over-

s.

RIfrQ. "q comm. announced that the movement will start in February

nQvQffl,qQ with between o.ooo and aooo de-

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pendent: slated for transportation -a than

bined over moved across the At- lantic in a peacetime month.

tlhe movement of women and chii:

o the Dominion during the month larger number of civilians Canadian Paciiic Steamship

net and Cunard Whit, Starcom~

No troops will be delayed b

ren, CJIJLQ. ibis shipping more than can be ward-bound soldiers. By the and of January, the num-

said, because avail- next month will be filled by horne-

Next Month.

500 troops outside of the Canadian

y" Army Occupation Force in Europe

will be left by the end of Febru-

"Y.

CJLHLQ. said the Mauretania will remain on the North Atlantic run through January and Febru- ary, and the lie de France Aqui- tania, Scythia and Queen Elizabeth will all ba carrying Canadians to the Dominion during that period. The Mauretania wll sail for Hall- fax in the near ‘uturg with 600 servicemen and between S00 Gil) wives and children. .

Although the speeding up of the movement of dependents will sen mar, wives and children over the Atlantic than at any previous time, about 80p» will remain In Britain by the and of Febru