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, or A MERE MAN

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We mustn't forget that property has duties even if other people

“nut that it has fishin-

Morning Dsily rounded 1881.

Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew

The Gultdiln, Th", can“ P Mall 85.00; other Provinces vb U. B. ".00. Bubecrlptlons Delivered $6.00.

CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1949

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The heroes is that they are made of flesh and blood like ourselves.

MAXI MS

0F A MERE MAN one cruel fact about

DREW ‘DEMANDS

lniured In Railway Wreck Near Toronto

Deep-Sea Shipping Granted Small Subsidy;

Fleet Will B

fly John Ill-Blane

(i'l‘l‘.~\\\'.-\, DOC. 9 —(CP)-——Can. rdai- (hi. sseti deep-sea shipping lnduary tcdtiy vans given a year to work out its survival on a drastical.

i ' with the help oi a

iii- cziii of the year. it will be °°fmili°n5 Wmlld 3°59 mflre 111811 up t. tu- met. to ltcep itself afloat $9=>-°°°-°°0 a veer in subsidies. wltf- the Government depends hBnVlif‘ for any wartime shipping Explains Plan needs on n proposed allied “defence Preliminary negotiations for

shipping pool" now being negotiat- ed

Prcposetl formation anti inc 1050 subsidy than half the existing navy tx-kc a year's lease on life were announced in the Commons today by Prime Minister St. Laur- gilt.

of the pool to help less merchant

First, Last subsidy

i-is indicated that would be the first and last post-war subsidy for the deep-sea fleet. now hard-pressed 11y dwindling freight business. If the ships ciiuld not pay their way when the your was up, they would have to haul iiou-n the Canadian flag.

e Reduced

"is retained in Canada.

'I‘he Prjtrne Minister made it clear that Canada intends to bank main. 1y for wartime ship needs on the Proposed pool-if it works out- "thfir than support e merchant fleet of her own at a loss. To keep the flBet operating under present

creation of the pool now are under WM’ aiinong the Atlantic treaty nat- ions, and the Prime Minister said it was hoped the transfer of Can- adian ships to the flags of other friendly countries~particularly the United Kingdom-would serve as Canada's peacetime contribution to the project.

The idea would be that in the event of war. Canada and the other participants could draw on the pool according to their tonnage require- ments

While the Prime Minister did not disclose what progress was being made in setting up the arrange- ment. a well-informed source said

lifennwiille. an avenue was being opened for the transfer of Canad- isn-ilag vessels to the registry of other countries, with ownership be-

Coming Events

"Christmu Concert in Ebenezer Othecl. Friday, December 16th.

"Brackley Point Christmas Con- sort. Home's Hall. December 23rd.

"Suffolk School concert Tues- day, December 20.

developments were "very favor-

ing offered for 1950 only to be- tween 500.000 and 600,000 dead- weight tons of the existing Canad- ian merchant fleet of about 1.200.- 000 tons.

He said that. meant help would be given to keep afloat about. 40 vessels out oi 118 now flying the Canadian flag on the high seas and another M due to be transferred back to Canada from wartime loan to Britain. (Government officials

said thc

able." Among the injured Meanwhile, the Prime Minister was Ni Elgiback of Raglan-Ilsa? said, the $1,000,000 subsidy was bc- Ont., o his way to Denmark with

Passenger. Freight Train Meei Head-on

TORONTO, Dec. 9 —(CP) -.P‘if- teen persons were injured, one ser- lWSlY. today when a crack trans- continental passenger train col- lldfid head-on with a 5il-car freight train eight miles north of here. Police attributed the light injury toll in the crash between two Can- adian National Railways trains to the tact that the passenger flyer {ind blackened its speed on a. curve Just prior to the impact.

Eleven of the injured were in forward coaches of the Ila-car pne- sense: train which left Winnipeg Wednesday night. They suffered only minor scratches and abrasions W118" Jolted out of their seats. The rctnaining four injured were Yallway Btrflillflyees. Most severely hurt ivas Arthur Harrington of suburban Mlanieo, freight train engineer. Taken to hospital with Hafrlflitton was Alfred Touden. an- other railway worker. Their injur- ies were not known.

Four cars of the No. 4 transcon- iinental limited. due in Toronto at 7.10 am. and running two now-g and 4O minutes late, were derailed, Eight. cars of the Winnipeg-bound freight train, made up to 56 loaded cars and two empties, left the r3115, The locomotives were looked, head. on. .

the ashes of his four years ago.

wife, who died He suffered two

Dewey Enters Quarrel Over Airlines Rights

S. D. U. Wins ’ Debate Wiih ll.N.B. Team

A Saint Dunstan’s University debutln team of Messrs. Mark R. MacGui an and George L. Keefe last night unanimously defeated a. debating team from the Univer- sity of New Brunswick Lew school in Queen Square School auditor- ium. Subject of the debate was, “Resolved that the Canadian Pac- ific Railway be Nationalized."

The S.D.U. team defeated the resolution upheld by Messrs. Ervln M. O'Brien and Carlyle Hanson of U. N. B. The judges were; Chief Justice Thane A. Campbell, Mr. Joseph MacMillan and Mr. J. Pius Callaghan. Mr. Brendon O'Grady presided.

The first visiting speaker, Mr. Hfl-Ilifln. stated that the construc- tion of the C. P. R. was a political achievement hand in hand with confederation. He outlined the tragedies suffered by three rail- ways and compared records of C-N-R- and C.P.R. showing the former to be the better system. For betterment of CPR he proposed a new public corporation compar- able to the T.C. A. corporation.

broken ribs.

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0'i"l'AWA, Dec. n _ (GP) -

Parliament Discusses Old Age Pension Plans

Geolfge Drew, Progre$ive Con-

AIBANY. N.Yi. Dec. 9 - (AP) - Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York State today asked the Federal Government to call upon Canada to withdraw its move to prohibit Colonial Airlines, 1mm- porated, from operating in the Dominion.

Dewey wired State secretary Dean Acheson that s pending ac- tion by the Canadian Air Trans- Dort Board "appears to be arbit- "YY and directly opposed to the interests of New York State com- munities" served by the airline. The Governor asked Acheson "to make appropriate representations" and to urge the Dominion Gov- ernment to discontinue the pro- ceedings against Colonial.

The Canadian Air Transport ‘Board has ordered Colonial to show cause Monday why its cer- tificate to operate to Montreal and Ottawa should not be revoked. The Canadian action followed Colonial's vigorous opposition to a Canadian-American Government agreement authorizing Trans-Can- ada Air Lines to operate on tlie New York-Montreal route. which has been served exclusively by Col- onial for 21) years.

Colonial hH-s applied for s. Fed- eral court order to restrain the Civil Aeronautics Board from granting a flight permit to the

Prime Minister Goes To Defence 0f Mr. Garson

By nouoms iiovv OTTAWA. Dec. 9 (CP) Justice Minister Carson's resigna- tion was demanded by George Drew today for a "spurious" new statement about the combines controversy, but Prime Minister St. Laurent. promptly came to Mr. Carson's defence.

The foremost issue of this dvirindlinq session of Parliament boiled up again in the Commons because of s statement by the Minister himself which the Pro- gressive Conservative leader said eliminated the "great sympathy" many members felt for hiin.

Mr. Drew and other members said the long, bitter and involved issue probably would not have come up again this session had Mr. Carson not brought it up himself in rising on a question of privilege when his departmental estimates were culled for study. They indicated, too, that it will be raised again because of the new development.

Garson Explains

Mr. Garson said the combines commission always has found that if a printed report of a. combines investigation report is to be pub- lished it’. is "mechanically impos- sible" to comply with the provis- ion in the law that it shall be made public within 1L5 days after it is handed to the Justice Min- ister. '

Canadian carrier. Colonial con- tends that if it has to compete with T.C.A. its business will be reduced and eventually destroyed. C0l0fl1al. meanwhile, has asked the Aeronautics Board for permis- 5l°n l0 SUSDBIld temporarily its routes in New York state in the event it loses its rights to fly into Montreal and Ottawa"

Dewey said Colonlal's request was a result, of ._the- Canadian board's action.

recently from

made on alleged price-fixing the flour-milling industry handed to the Minister's office last Dec. 29 W35 not made public un- til Nov. ‘1, 194/9. That. report is the core of the whole parliament- ary debate.

Mr. Garson said he would not deny that he should have raised the point before "but this is just

He said the information came F. A. McGregor, combines commissioner who is re- signing Jan. 1 because a report he

in and

Wins 35th B

BRADFORD. Yorkshire. Eng- land, Dec. 9 - (C?) — T116 Lab" Government retained the Brad- ford South House of Commons seat in Thursday's by-election, keeping unblemished its record of not having lost. s seat to the Op- position since the general election in 1945.

George Craddock, the Labor candidate, ivas elected with a re- duced majority in a three-way contest. He polled 23,835 votes. John L. Windle, running under the mlors of the Conservative and National Liberal Parties, polled 19,313. C.J. Canning, an Inde- pendent Liberal, trailed with 2,882. The results were declared today. At the general election, MT‘. Titterington, the Labor nominee, received 24,394 votes. The National Liberal candidate obtained 15,392 and the Liberal candidate 6.701. The seat was made vacant by the death of Titterington.

The by-election may be the last before the general election which must take place by mid-summer

Expected In

By Anthony Whitiock Canadian Press Correspondent SYDNEY, Australia, Dec. 10 — (Saturdayi-(CE-Australians vote today in a. general election offering them a choice between private ent- erprise and continued socialism. Eve-of-poll speculation indicated the Liberal and Country Parties which now form the Opposition might gain a. narrow victory over the Labor Government.

Many political observers regard- ed the rcsult as an even money bet for or against Prime Minister Chifley's regime, which has held

ers in Sydney last night were quot- ing odds of 5 to 4 against the Gov-

RESIGNATION 0F JUSTICE MINISTER

Britain's Labor Gov’t

y-election of 1050. It was labor‘! 36th E

cessful defence in lay-elections o! House of Commons seats the Party won in the 104.5 general election.

Craddock, a trade union organ- izer, had a majority of 1,140 votetr compared with Labor's majority 0! 2,295 in i045.

The bailotting Thursday W58 heavier than expected with 46.000 of the constitueniys 61,000 voters going to the polls.

The victorious Labor candidate described the result as “a vote of confidence in the Labor Govern- ment and s. clear indication that the people of South Bradford un- dcrstood the issue of full omDlOY- ment and a planned economy."

Herbert Morrison, Deputy Prime Minister, called it "a splendid vic- tory ior Labor and progress"

The by-election ivas the first since Britain devalued the pound Sept. 18 and the Conservatives

campaigned on the devaluation ls- sue, contending inept financial pol- icies followed by the Labor Gov- ernment made this stBP "@9955"?-

Strong Opposition Vote

Australia

enlarged to 123 members. The Liib- eral and Country Parties forecasts. joint majority for their group of 8.

‘There are 46s candidates for the 121 elected seats in the newly enlarged House. Voting is by prop- ortional representation. ‘Phat is. the voters must express their pref- erence for the various candidates by writing the figure 1 agairst the nominee they went elected. 2 against their second choice, end so

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ofticesince 1941. Leading-boolunak- ..

He made the statement during study of Health Department esti-

graph

report; he 1s preparing, the 12 hours of polling. An indicat-

ion of the results for the House of

beach" by an impending reduction of Canada's deep-sea fleet will be

"Clinton Hall

-._-_ actual mtmbcr to be retained would . . . . y 1 _d ~51 m t "Mail your Films to Gamhum “somewhere between 40nd 5(1) Shawl llghullsé" Mlmmlhsiild is; figltrggvtsvhaftq Iflgmbsearls did an Hi‘; —i——--_ another Exgynjplg Q1 the pqsltlon orunwm and 5 p, 4 on the Qpposir. Photo Studio. Charlottetown. ay m e ommmls a “n l time they could not change ‘he in which I have found myself from ion coalition group. . u ‘ Aid For seamen Sagadgnslilgfi alawnttgébuggy Fm"! figure in the csfimatei It was w ' ' ° beginning to end in this matter." The betting was strictly unotfic- “r ‘PROUBLES WERE in 2mm)!“ Sam Maia Bund- tge IrJneans tlgstn for rpeifsllznegg cover Payments authorized by n He hm Only learned M l‘ ‘mm m u anyone wnvmmd“ bemmg D°\-\-l>\l1% WED Al-l- s..sturday, 3 11M, QTPAWA, Dec, 9 -109) _ t b t l t d pensions last year‘ Mr, McGl-ogor when the latter on ‘the election can be fined £50 BE M\\_uoNA\REs. _ Merchant seamen left "on the cam“) e Co“ empa e i Drew E‘ "s" R y asked for permission to mimeo- i$12-i-50)- ‘ ,- ‘9 ‘ 5 c!" y rather than prjm, a new Fine weather W85 forecast for

Company card He said there was only one rea-

PflYP-M d '. . . l 011B) December 12th. son why consideration has no‘.

__..__ ' . g, _ mates. l-ie was pl g t St - _ p - "Staniohel School Concert. Dec- clgctizrdlaklfeljd.ocatlonql ley Knowles .w"i....i.§§. bee“ We“ l° a Pmd °°“‘"b“' BYDNEYi "-5" De“ 9*”) hi2. tghlid ll/(lilfibflévzrgdglge Representatives“ (viewed W111i- snibq- 21g; Inannouncmg plans 10,. a redufi Norm Centre). who “Md when tory old-age pension plan. That — Panic broke out at a dance that some members would m“ midnight (local time). Senate re- “L - y ed merchant marine, Prime Minister the present means test will be re- xgtbiasusfeftllgfidllezfralr gomfm; lblrlutitilllle “figs; lfizgua tgzzfikr; from him "the good name" he had Slgléisl “Pdlfft expected t‘? be 33mm‘ - °- B- A- concert and BOX told the Cem- mevsd- e “ e" l? a g built. up in r.» years of public life " Pmf: chmey would

St. Laurent today _ _ , g mom the Government would “Cum Pensions o! up to $40 ‘ month the 194-5 Dominion-Provincial con- when a fire was discovered in because for reasons o! umamm ’ say no more on the eve of the

Social, Crapaud Hall, December 14th.

Wednesday,

5n View Hall. Tuesday evening December 13th. in aid of Rink.

‘lnsiiluto dance

stile lunches,

and

thestra,

seed until further notice, Gutsnn and Boyle.

this show.

"'A_tientlon_ Ca-pe Traverse. Don‘ ill-Si The Miracle of the Monday night.

Westley. December 13th,

"Kingston

night. December 21st.

"Rlnswncd - raft-view Dance after. .

m“ ‘i 3°13’ Redeemer

"Conic to Hot Chicken Supperun

of Wiitshirc hull, Tuesday, DH‘. 13. Jimmy MacDonald's Or-

"Discontinued buying timothy Mc-

"Tlis Miracle of the Bells" at Bonshnw tonight at 8.30. Don't miss

Bells"

;'\l'cr.ncn’s Institute Dance and la e of Lunches in Will-shire Hall on

C ‘ ‘School Christmas ‘mmi- Kingston Hail. Wednesday

School

Concert, Elliot Hall. December 20th.

"WWII! veleee, bergeisu ge- Hail rummage sole today at 1.30 p.m.

ate the entry of these seamen into its training scheme for wartime seamcn. Certain restrictions in- , eluding the age limit-mow 30- would be relaxed ut the discretion of the Government. To qualify. seamen have to get their applications in by Sept. 30. 1950, and begin training by Jan. 31, 1951. Aiirn of the plan is to help seamen to find shore jobs.

FOREIGNERS MUST PAY

LONDON. Dec. 9 —-(AP) —For- eigners no longer will be able to come to Britain just to get free medical treatment under the Nat.- l ional Health Act. The House of Commons today passed an amend- merit to the act empowering Health Minister Aneurln Bevan to charge persons not ordinarily resident here

now are paid to needy persons 70 years and over.

Mr. Martin said $100,000,000 l year already is being paid in old- age pensions i0 some 225,000 of the 600,000 potential old-age pen- sioners. Family allowances are being paid on behalf of more than 4,000,000 children.

If the means test for old-age pensions was removed at the pre- sent. rate of pension it would cost the government $300,000,000 a year. If the pension was lerft at S-ifl a mcntih and the eligible age for women was reduced it would cost the government $395,000,000.

lf the eligible age for men and women ivas reduced and the means test was removed the gov- ernment's pensions bill" would be $535,000.000. If the pension was raised to $50 a montih and the ages reduced the bill would be

for any use they make of Britain's

$785 ,000,000.

socialized health scheme.

By MEL suram orraws. Dec. o (or)

Reports Canada Winning

the

Battle Against V. D-

ference of 1945.

the office. No one was report-

Mr. Drew said he wished to express regret that the Govern- ment has called a Dominion-Pro- vincial conferencc only for the fall of next year. This meant that such things as a contributory old-age pensions plan could not be considered by Parliament un- til the session of 1951. _ He hoped that at the forthcom- ing conference the Federal Gov- ernment will show a greater spirit of ctr-operation than it showed at the last conference and since. The question of assistance to the disabled was raised by W. Chester S. McLure (PC- Queens). who charged that the Government had shown s "most flagrant" disregard of the Plight of the country's disaibled. Mr. Martin said Federal-health Bronte to the Provinces assist in the treatment of crippled child- ren. Public-health grants from the Government helped pay for the cost nf treatment to crippled adults. The Veterans Affairs De- partment assisted disabled veter- ans and the Government provided

ed injured, however.

Some 125 persons, mostly young people. were in the hall when several girls passing the building noticed smoke. Screams of “fire" threw the crowd into a temporary panic.

There was a mad dash for the exits as smoke filled the building. But everybody got out safely.

The outbreak of fire in the office was believed caused by defective wiring or a carelessly tossed cignret butt.

Firemen put out the blaze in a short time. Smoke and water caused most of the damage. There was no estim- ate of the loss.

The centre is owned by the Navy League of Canada.

ll. N. Votes To

lniernaiionaiize

iarlty with his work and for vari- ous reasons, he could not. com-

election than that "Labor will win."

impossible to follow. Mr. Drew's View

Mr. "extraordinary" meaningless unless Mr. had said 10'»;- sary for publication

and said it

of

ply with a section it had on sev- eral occasions been found quite

Drew called the statement \\‘8S McGregor months were neces- reports. Further, the necessity to mimeo-

Robert G. Menzies, Liberal Party leader, and Arthur W. Fadden, Country Party leader, were equally chary but equally confident.

Public opinion polls Friday fore- cast 50 per cent of the total vote would be for the Opposition, 48 per cent for Laibor and 2 per cent for Independents.

Labor, which ‘had a majority of 11 seats in the old house of represent- atives of 75 members. expected a majority of 10 in the new House,

TORONTO. Doc. f) - (C?) - Minimum and maximum: Victoria. 20 42; Edmonton 22 31; Regina 2 31; liVinriipeg 2 22; Toronto 17 26: Ottawa 11b 8; Itfoirtrcal 5 10; Quo- hec 5 l0; Saint John (‘i l6; Moncton 5 13; Hailifax 18 2i’: Charlottetown 13 17; Sydney 19 23; Yarmouth 21

graph rather than print a report placed no limitation on its being made public, He joined Alistair Stewart (CCP - Winnipeg North» in quoting a section of the Criminal Code un- der which he saiii, the minister could be jailed for a ycnr for a deliberate breach of the law. He argued, too, that Mr. Carson is no longer in a position vzhcre he can prosecute laws because he has broken one. Mr. Stewart said other Cnbiti- et Ministers could be jnilcd for’