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Beef Shortage ‘ Still Acute In United States

WASHINGTON. Dee. l — Im- ports oi Canadian beef cattle have done little to ease the high prices and shortages which plague United States housewives_

The Agriculture Department re- ported this week that 240.150 head oi siauchterand feeder cattle en- tered from Canada between Aug. id and Nov. 24. Aug. l0 was the dale on which the Dominion end- ed s wartime embargo on cattle shipments to this country.

United States agriculture oflic- isls desczibe as "unusually large" the exports since that time. But housewives still are meat-hungry and pocket-poor. Their butch l7‘.lll still are as per cent bigger than this time last year and 200 per cent greater than meat costs in 1942.

Charles F_ Brennan. secretary oi agriculture, says pricg controls would bring meat costs down. But. ti controls remain off. he sees increased production oi litiestrytik as i-‘ae consumer's only hope for relief.

"There's no mystery about the high price of meat." he says. "It's dne to the premature death of the office of price administration. it. beats me how anyone evcr mitt to the American people the idea that we had to scuttle price

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Coming Events

"Dance and whist at Eldon on Tuesday», Dec. 14.

Concert.

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Ptihristirnas Victoria,

December find.

" ance. Bright Spot tonight.

0-12.30. _ "Dance. Colcs’ Workshop. New

London. tonight. Canteen service.

"Christmas Concert, Victoria fir? School, Monday. December

"Regular meeting Abegweit Pre- "Plvry Kingston tonight. seventh degree.

"Reserve Wednesday, Dec. 22, for (Zhristmss concert at \Vinsloc Station Hall.

"Come to (T.G.I.T. Vcspcr Service at Charlottetown Baptist Church at 5-30 p.m. this Sunday. Dec. 12th.

"Adult Music Group in Masonic llall. llnnter River. Friday evening it 7.30 Everyone welcome.

flvotice-Unloading car Screened ‘M! Friday and Saturday. Please lfl yours now. G.C. Green, Emerald.

“New Glasgow Ice Racing Club will hold meeting at Blair Andrews °\'\ Friday night. A]

Plf-‘lsc attend.

' "Commencing on the 15th oi h“ month. Milk will be 14 cents s

quart. J. A. Sanders. Murray Riveqg

"The annual meeting of the gedarai Creamery. Eldon. will be Dtiti in Belfast Hall. vlednasdav.

mother 10th. at 1.30 P. M.

"Buying dressed chicken. fowl. :9"! and ducks Tuesday. Dec. 14. l-m. until 3 p.in. Competitive arices offered. R. L. Dlckieson, New suow.

‘ngllnleading Thursday. Friday

“Snuff!!! mixed car Shur-Gain 8&1. Macifie and C0,. Grafton ‘ox! (Canada Packers Siding). C.“ 4:11am Grains rising in price.

QINY‘. folks. it's an Immortal m“! st MacDonald Brod. Theatre hllht- Queanna lioetcr. hirbsn Y 1" that great technicolor fea- Thb ouaisx." show s P. u.

“Matures st Koren ‘a; "l!!! and Saturday. Show d" P. M. Ooining Irldsy and lat- ‘Y- "Thunder la the valley." {PHI-s non lleOallisler. minuna n?!» Gardner. ‘this is a ... than so: P1011112. "It's in tdlnicolor." If you see this pic-

every Tues-

Polish Farm

(By H. Dent Hodgeon) OTTAWA. Dec. 9--(CP) -- The csse of the 2,800 Polish war veter- sns who completed their two-year contracts to work for Canadian farmers in November came under scrutiny today as farm labor rep- resentatives from sll Provinces held a round-table discussion with federal officials.

General opinion expressed was that the veterans had discharged their contracts faithfully. with some exceptions. but that only about half the now-free Poles in- tend to stay on the farms. This pointed up to the sixth Dominion- Provincial farm labor conference the necd for new steps to meet 1040 labor needs.

Arthur MacNamara, Deputy La- bor Mlnlster, who welcomed the delegates to the two-day meeting. said the shortage of iarm labor in 1949 probably would equal that of 1948. This would have to be met by immigration. He suggested a ques- tionnaires be sent to Canadian farmers to determine their needs ior immigrant farm labor. including single men. single girls as domes- tics. or families.

He also urged that the Provinces consider establishment of the Do- minion-Provinclal farm labor agree- ment on a long-term basis. rather than on a ycar-ln-year basis as ii has opcruicd since 1M3.

A Training School

Some of the delegates registered complaints about Polish workers. W. R. Shaw. Deputy Minister of Agriculture for Princc Edward ls- land. said now that tho contracts were completed. Polish workers wcrc seeking industrial employ- ment. in Central Canada.

"The Pnlcs and displaced persons in the main have shown willingness to work. but they are not too satis- factory because they are not par. mancnt.“ he said. "They are usinc. the Province as a training school ln Canadian customs and as a springboard in other jobs ln other‘ parts of llie country."

The meeting: also expressed gen.

merits for seasonal movements of workers. such as berry pickers for British Columbia from Alberta and Saskatchewan: hay workers for On- tario from the Prairies; harvest workers from Ontario and Quebec for the Prairies and potato pickers from Nova Scotia to Prince Edward Island. f

Selby Parsons. farm labor rein. iloiis officer for Newfoundland. a guest at the meeting, said there was a labor surplus in ihe embryo

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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1948

0ne Killed In Gar Brash NearTruro

TRURO. N’. 8.. Dec. 0—(CP)—- A man was killed and his woman companion critically injured near here today when their car plunged ofi the highway and crashed into a tree.

Killed was Percy West Roberts. 45. of West Wentwcrth, N. S. l-ils companion. Lucy Legere of Cormiex‘ Village, N. B.. was in critical con- dition in hospital.

An inquest was ordered.

News ln Brief

OTTAWA, Doc. 0 (OP) Prime Mtiister 5t. Laurent told a group of war veteran civil savv- ants toduy he expected to make an announcement on the much- sought cost-of-livlng bonus for civil servants within the next few days.

BERLIN, Dec. 9 — (AP) — The Russians made new complaints today about low-flying Allied air- lifi. planes over the Russian- blocksded former German Capital.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 9 — CP) __ President Truman today told a press conference that he approved oi the St. Lawrence seaway plan and that he would tirgi», Congress iiexl. year to take favorable action on the proposal. '

NANKING, Dec. 0 _ (AP) The three Chinese Government army groups trapped by the Com- munists southwest of Suchow were estimated today tn‘ have sufferedl 30-000 or more '

casualties ln their; continuing struggle to break out i soullnvard. l

Dollar Spent

Bureau Figures

10th Province and that sonic 5,000 inexperienced workers would he willing lo come to the mainlantkifor farm work.

Well Known Montreal Snoe "irade lvian iiies Moivractlh, Dec. c ~tOPi ~

iienri A. Clouticr. 54. owner of the Cloullcr Slioa Cirnpany, dicd iii

Mr. Cloutier began his career with the John RllChle Company in Que- bec and later established his own iirm.

l-le is survived by his widow. the former Msrlorle MscLcod of fax. a daughter. Joan and fihlue sons. Albert, Eric and Jack.

A funeral service will be held in Quebec City Friday morning.

hospital here yesterday after s brief illness Well-knovrn in the shoe trade..

On the basis oi figures published today by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Prince Edward Islanders in recent years have fallen aioului liquor laws in greater numbers than the people of other Provinces with the exception of New Bruns- wick and Nova Scotia.

Inils recent bluebook "The Con- trol and Sole oi Alcoholic bever- ages in Canada". which sells at 50 cents a copy. it is recorded that the number of convictions ior drunkenness per 10.000 oi populat- ion in Prince Edward Island in 194'! reached sse males and five females-

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Commission that not lricluric taxes already lnclud-. ed in the cost of an article when; slirretailer buys it “om ms suméOle Langllle, 38. oi Si. Martin's,

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MONTREAL. Dec. 9-40?)- Water still trickled out slung downtown St. Antoine Street here today u workmen start- ed to repair the domage caused Wednesday when mil- lions of gallons spur-ted out of a broken conduit.

The big main which collaps- ed was shirt off by a. govern- ing valve but a considerable trickle still bubbled up through the broken pavement.

The City Claims‘ Depart- ment cadmated tonight that damage would be far less than was at first feared as iew of the private buildings in the flooded area contained perish- able goods The department estimated that it will cost $40,000 to repair the buckled streets in the area, along Si. Antoine Street. from inspector in little Si. Antoine Street.

Most ncrious aspect of the break was the loss of water in the Outremont reservoir ivhcrc the water, dropped ll feet. About, 15.000000 gallons worn lust from this reservoir and hlontreal householders ivorc asked in he careful of consumption until stocks are restored.

NDeclare 1 1 Cents Qf Every

In Retail

Stores Goes Into Taxes

.crnl approval of existing arrange-t

OTTAWA. o... . .. tor) at ‘Saint John Man

least 1i per cent. of every dollar the public spends in retail stores

s on gcescito federal. QlOVlIlClBl‘ snail. i .muni pal governments in ax .. ‘tired tgdagadian Retail rierierationiufllflfl-madg Pistfl] i sat '. George S. llonglism. general. ——-~ _ __.____ manager of the federation. said in[(c5PA!NTF-70HN~bNthB1l-- D90 9“ - QITAWA, Dec. tl-tspecial) — a brief presented to the Prices l‘ mmd Y C dzggililmgg

An exhaustive and

impossible, he

Canadian Congress of

the estimate didimckct 915ml“ puwed

minute breakdown of taxes as an element _ of‘ cost of’ individual ronfmoditirs had been the brief, and the figure he used was reached through studies made by some Canadian stores.

In a brief presented by Eugene research director, the Labor

said in

Only province exceeding this record was New Brunswick whose drunk- 10-000 at- tained the all-Canadian record oi Hie 392 males and 1i females.

Nova Scotis stands in top place

sought reimposiilon of price con- trols and excessive profits tsx as a means oi curbing the rising cost of living. Coupled with this were proposals for higher corpor- ation taxes, reductions in sales and excise taxes and higher EX-

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PARRY SOUND. Ont., Dec. B — iCl-‘fl-Allister Johnston retained the Ontario riding oi Parry Sound for the Progressive Conservatives today with a- decisive wiii in a thrcc-uiay by-election fight.

The 39-year-old war tcteran de- feated two political veterans in his bid for the seat won in the pro- vincial general election last June ‘l by Progressive Conservative Char- les Gragg. who since died.

With 70 of the 102 pulls in the scattered riding reporting, Mr. Johnston liad more voles than the combined total for his two op- ponerits-Dr. M.T. Armstrong. Lib- eral. and Roy smith, CCF.

The figures: To of 102 polls (final for night) Anrnstrong (L) i743; Johnston (PC) 387i); Smith (OCF) 1077.

The winner. an instirarice irnan at the community oi South River. held the lead right frcm the start. i

His victory brings to 52 the num- be!‘ of Progressive Conservatives in the Provinces 90-seat. legislature. The C.C.l". holds 2i seats. the Lib- erals 13. Labor-Progressives two and Liberal-labor one. There is ' one vacancy in Cochrane North.

Clear. cold weather prevailed in theflIOO-square mile riding. lying least. of Georgian Bay, for the first provincial vote since lhc Progress-

‘aiid apartments, a barber shop. a

[TEE CAUSES HEAVY DAMAGE TO ALBERTA TQWN

Ontario Conservatives. Retain Seat

Montreal Water Main Break Proves Costly

Thorshy Was Faced With Destruction

THORBBY, Alta. Dec. 9 -_ (OP) — Fire that earlier today destroy-l ed a section of this municipality Sflllt‘ 35 miles south-west of Ed- monton, CF-‘lllglli was reliablv ro- Dorled to be tinder control v

Althvlllth telephonic orrnnivli. icaticn hetwecn Thorsbyi and Ed. monton was not, DQ551519 a, ‘hi. exchange is closed at certain llvilrs. a fire department official at Letltic, Alta, son"; pg miles from Tlicrslry, said he had licard “on good authority” that the fire is under control

Extent of‘ dcsirticiion or dam- agc is not r-fficially knmrn but early reports said that thr- iirc broke out in a one-storey build- ing housinE a radio shop and sev- cral apartment suites.

The blaze is said to have des- troyed apart from the radio shop

beauty parlor general store

Although there was firefighters were handicapped b_v 20 - below zero temperatures TfllvnfvPfiiiie hastily orzanlzerl- bucket. brigades but "were at ilrstl unable to cope with the situation.

Both the Edmrtiion and Lmduc Fir» Departments were notified

and a two-storey no wind.

tivc COIlSCYVFillVP gnvcrcrricui. ivent. back into office at. the gcnerai‘ election June 7. More than l4.0€)0‘ tirore eligible in cast ballots in U18: scattered constituency. Polls wcrc' iopen from B am. to '7 p.m. § The shortage of hydrri-clcclric ipower in the Province was a main Jssue in the campaign. first. to be ‘lfilight by ihc Progrcsslvc (‘on- lscrvalivcs since George Drcui ionic ovcr the national leadership and Hon. T. i.. Kennedy sticccctled him jasn Otario premier. t Liberal and CCF speakers iblamcd the zovcrnrtictit for the ‘power shortage. Govcriimcnt speak- ers attributed it in an unusually." dry season and the. setback in iv-tlro expansion plans during- the.‘ oWrF-‘tie scarcity oi mcn and tnatfi , crials. l

Wounded With l i

wvhen a bullet fired by a iii-year- old seriously wounded his uncle while he sat at: dinner. The victim.

we... reported in ialr condition in liopsital tonight.

Langillcs nephew obtained the single-shot. home-made weapon from a playmate who had found it abandoned near railway tracks. The child entered the Saint John home oi Hugh liangiilc as the

' vented the

hut wcrc unable lo send equip-t iIlFilf as ihra‘ feared in cqtiipmeiti that might he tier-dad,

r1 Bead, 2 Wounded ‘In Shooting Affair

SUDBliRY. (lnTDec. 9---(CP)— Willlrim Wilson. 29. was killed and two other persons suffered gunshot

twourids tonight. in what police de-

lsr-rihed as a shooting affra)‘ in a;

Stitlbury rnominzhousc (‘hit-i (Ton. stable- J. S. ltlcliarcn said lair- to- night lie was still trying to estab- lish a motive.

\ .. .. _. .. . lleclde Flaming Object Bver Maine Was Meteor AUGUSTA. .\ie., o... o -_ tsp, T‘ Mam“ "nflfllinfl Object." mystery “'35 apparently cleared up tonight with a report that it was a meteor, Robert M. Dole, retired Port- land Weather Bureau meteorologist. identified (be fiery mass in the sky widely reported about dusk Wednesday — as a meteor.

"They are common at this time "f m9 3'6"." Dole said.

Ghlang AKaIV-HSHImWKSMSon

allow Reported Safe

NANKING. Dec. 0 (AP) -- The official Chinese central news agency reported today that Col. Chlang Wei-Kuo hard arrived in Peiigpu. The adopted son of Chiang Kai-Slick pre-vicvtrsly was repcrted 11th the smiles trapped southwest oi Snchow. He is chief of staff of the armored corps.

CUXHAVEN, Germany, Dec. 9- (Reutersi The. liner Scythia sailed from Cuxhaven today for

rcleasifCariada with 1.300 displaced per-T

sons aboard.

Witness Refuses To Answer Questions In

U. S. Spy Hearing

Blames Liberals For Rates Boost

By A fiaiiadtaii Press Staff Writer

ANNAPOLIS ROYAL. N. 5.. Dec. 0 --tCPi-National leader M. J. Coldweli of C.C.F. told a campaign meeting here tonight that Liberals fiom the Maritimes could have pre- iticrease in railway freight rates but were prevented by party interests.

Addressing a rally in support of Lloyd Shaw. C.C.F. candidate in next Monday's three-comered Diz- by-Annapolis-Klngs Federal hi‘- clcction, Mr. Coldwell said dbcause the CCF. is free to work con- stantly in the peoples’ interests it was able to lead the light against

WASHINGTON, Dec_ 9--IAP\~ Accused oi shipping government secrets to a Red agent, Henry Julian Wadleigh, a former State Dcpartment. employee, today re- fused io say whether he did or tiid not. do so.

Nervous but. defiant. wadleigh zefused to tell congressional spy hunters oven whether he knew Whittaker Chambers, admitted one-time Red courier who says that Wadlclgh was an "active source“ of documents he handled.

"1 refuse to answer that. ques- tion on grounds that the answer might tend to incriminate or de- grade me." said Wadlcigh, who used to work on foreign trade matters for the State Depart- mania

The Wadleiizh episode of the spy hunt. undertaken by the House committee on un-American activi- lics followed shortly oil the heels

the increases. Mr, Caldwell took the only several hours after

platform George

Drew. National leader of the Pro- spokc on

gressive Conservatives. brhali oi George Nowlaii

tContiiTued on PEI.

family sat. at dinner. "Put up your hands." lie piped. and pulled the trigger of the “my. Ole Langilie, a visitor and bro- ther of l-lugli. was struck by the .22 calibre slug, which lodged in his abdomen. For a moment the rest of the family though-t he ‘was playing reacting to the crack oi the pistol and the child's

by President ‘Truman. The Presl-

rjerii. took the stand that the ccrri- ‘

mitten is interested primarily in making lion's-paper headlines.

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Y Believe Big iSteam Boilers lExploded

TOPEKA. Kas.

Dec. 0 _ (A?) -- A FEflES oi explosions rocked ‘the Kansas Power and Light ,_C0mpan_\".< main plant near here [late today. killing at. lease get-cg lrvnrkers and injuring 17 others. Seven bodies were recovered and firemen continued to grape through the dense smoke and gas in search .ni workmen still unaccounbgd for, t The blasts rocked the plant f0! {'45 minutes. This state capital oi .90.000 population was without gelectmclty’ for several hours. l it was believed the boilers of the big steam installations blew up. At first it was believed 100 con- struction workers had been trap- lped but most of these had been ‘accounted for late tonight by their company officials. - The dead were C.A. Allensworth. Alphonse Bryant, Charles Miller, Boy Hamby. A.W. Freei. 0.1!. Red- enbaugh and Albert Sheahsn, sll cf Topeka. Flames broke out soon alter the explosions but they were brought under control quickly. The basement oi the plant was a sham- bles of twisted metal and concrete. Heavy steel doors were ripped from their hinges.

Births Decreased lll‘. 1P.E.l. In September

1 OTTAWA. Dec. 9 -(CP)-— Last September the stork was kept busy in Eastern Canada and British Columbia. But he didn't pay many visits to the Prairies.

‘llhe Bureau oi Statistics today reported 29,900 births were register- ed in Canada during September. an increase of 800 over the corres- ponding month a year ago. In- creases vrere shown for New Bruns- wick. Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia. but births decreased in

Alberta. Saskatchewan. Manitoba. Nova Scotia and» Prince ‘Edward Island.

Marriages increased in Septem- ber from 13,400 to 14.000.

Deaths dropped to 8.!!!) from 0.100 for September. 1947.

Births in September in Msxitiant PTOVlIICPS with 1947 figures in brackets:

Prince Edward Island 225 ($0). Nova Scfllia 1.421 (1.537) and New Brunswick 1.705 11.512).

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l! ALAN HARVEY PARIS, Dec. 0 -- (OP) - Hon. L. B. Pearson, Canada's External Affairs Minister. said today the third assembly of the United Nat- ions has served to consolidate the forces of world opinion against

"reactionary" Communism. In a broadcast. the leader of

Soviets new have lost. the support and goodwill they had at Ban Francisco when the United Nations was formed.

Every important issue in the sa- sgmbly has been n case of "Oom- munlste against the rest of the world."

One exception was on Palestine where the ordinary lines of division were altered.

Pearson’. broadcast was recorded here ior broadcast in Canada over OIO national network.

Pearson added:

“The Soviet Union is using this

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assembly almost exclusively as an

Believes Russia Losing Support Of World Opinion

Canada's delegation hes-e said the ,

instrument of political propagan- da. .. .

"As long as this situation exists we cannot expect the United Nat- ions Assembly to work as it was meant to work. But with all faults it remains as one greet internat- ionai forum in which world opin- ion can express itself.