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Price, Not Location Top Factor In War Contracts

OTTAWA. March 14 - (or) - senator wishart Robertson. gov- ernment leader. said today that the government could not agree to lace defence contracts on a non- competitive basis in all parts of the country "simply for the purpose of distributing war contracts."

This. he said in the Senate in "ply to an inquiry by senator aordon Ienor (L - Nova Scoteni would "lead to higher prices and

senator Isnor had asked what inflationary tendencies. was being done about "a more even distribution of contracts and on the question of decentralization of defence contracts were placed in industry." He noted most of the Ontario and Quebec and thought the Maritimes and the West should get a bigger share.

Difficult Question

scnaton Robertson said he would "welcome a discussion on the ques- tion" but it was difficult for him to initiate it as leader of the gov- ernment. He suggested some other senator might want to bring the subject formally before the upper chamber.

In a direct reply to Senator Is- nor's inquiry, he said he had been "instructed" to reply that the Canadian commercial Corporation is "constantly endeavcring to place all business that can be placed at I ” competitive prices in areas outside Ontario and Quebec.”

"same price preference is being given for material manufactured from the Maritime Provinces and the Prairie Provinces. The govern- ment cannot. however, agree to place contract on a non-compet- itive basis simp for the purpose of distributing w contracts as this would lead to higher prices asldvinp. flatiooary.tendenclcs." ..

in locating new industries, the government "will place them out- side Ontario and Quebec whenever this can be done with a reasonable prospect of continuing peacetime operation in the locality selected."

Plan To Step Up Recruiting In Canada

OTTAWA. March is -(cm - The government is preparing to mil up sharply the aiready-in- tensliled drive for armed forces recruits in an effort to keep mg.-.. Dower needs satldled by volunt- Irv methods. It will become near- ly II t4.00o.oo0-a-year proposition.

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Declares Dairy Production On ' Skids In N. &

I-IALIFAX, March 14 -- (cm .. The production of dairy prod- ucts as an industry "is defin- itely on the skids in Nova Sco- tis and there is no other word for it." Agriculture Minister A. W. Mackenzie told the agric- ulture commitiee of the Nova Scotia Legislature today.

He said while the sale of margarine was a contributing factor to the decline, it was impossible to determine how great a factor because of the floor price on butter.

He said a number of modern cream i in the Province "will have to shut down unless the situation improves."

"They are becoming nothing more than collecting stations for fluid milk," he said.

The Minister said there are sections in the Province "which will never again manufacture butter."

Cries of Rage As Yulion's Capital Ordered Moved

DAW5ON...)'.T., March 14 A (GP) -'-' 'l1lere.are some strange things done to old Dawson By the men who make the law; But the Ottawa mail no-w bears

the tale That will rub the Klondike raw; The nortib-ern lights have seen queer sights. But the queerest they ever did see Was the Winters' night that they changed the site ' Of the grave of Sam McGee. (lbeconstructios: Minister Winters

' announced in the Cwnmons Wed-

nesday that Yukcn's seat of gov- ca eat is being shifted. from Dslwson to Wh.lieborse.)g .

The cries of rage that went up from this fabled centre of the Klondike gold rush echoed and re- cohoed through the musty. empty saloons of the 'D9ers.

"Why, it's like shoving our last frontier needy 500 miles to the south." thundered Alderman Jim Meilor.

"We'll show them back there at

spending in the fiscal year start- ing April 1 indicate that the De- fence Department. with Parlia- menlfs approval. will be doubling Wtlldllls on its recruiting pro- 1'

H11. Under the heading "films. dia-

Dleys. broadcasting. advertising Indnother informational mater- isls. the estknstes propose to

mend S-3.56.000 in the next fiscal sear compared to 8l.9o5.tll0 in the :61; gnding with the end of this

A departmental spokesman said this means recruiting in going to become "a very big operation.” mAtr:;1cruitinI official estimated

A a tempo of the campaign, mldlly intensified since Korea llarted. will be boosted between

to co per cent.

The three forces now have about

The explanation lies in figures.

men. By 1064. they want at lust 115.000 and Del nee Minist- I Olaxlon has said It's a far- ltl. not a ceiling that can't be llrvassed.

Coming Events

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pushed sitting ,dueks." said dentist William Joiner.

From a roaring boom townof 3.000 at the turn of the century. Dawson today is a village of little more than 800.

It exists largely on the annual 3100.000 payroll of Government of- ficials. Transferring the seat rA -government will cut off this source of revenue.

Today. the blowing doors of the haunts of Sam McGee. Dan Mc- Grew and the Lady that was known as Lou swing creakily back and forth on rusty hinges. walt- ing patiently for prospectors who never -come.

NEW'CAs'l'LE. England -(CP) -Butch'e?s- have been competing in eye-catdzing window notices since the meat rationing got really tight. One sign here said "bring your own meat and we'll supply the pages.”

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By ROBERT EUNSON TOKYO. March 15-(Thursday)

. -(AP)-Jubilant South Korean

troops re-entered Seoul Wednesday without opposition and raised the Republican flag over the rubble of their ancient capital.

To the east U. S. tank patrols by-passed the old Chinese Com- munist bsse at Hongchon and pounded after the retreating Reds only 18 miles south of titre Slitib parallel.

General Retreat

The general retreat of Commun- ist forces. the first since the Chi- nese intervened in the Korean war last October, continued siong the entire battlefront.

Seoul. in its pre-war days a city of.1,500,000. appared abandoned by its Red cmquerors. It was the fourth time the city had changed hands since last June when Ko- rean Communist forces first ap- peared south of the 38th paraillei to open hostilities.

Details were scant and Eighth Army headqusrvieis expected a blackout on Seoul operations for a short time.

The Reds fell back all along the front faster than Lt.-Gen. Mat- thew Ridlgway's Eighllhy Army cared to advance. His forces push- ed steadily and slowly north. Lines were tight and strnigll-it. Esch division su-pport-.d divisions on its flanks.

AP correspondent Leif Erick- son at Eighth Army headquart- ers aald it was probable the Chinese would make a stand or

. strike back in the Chunchonl basin sector on the Central Kc- rean front. '

Ohunchon is a major Red supply and assomlbiy area, eight air miles south of the 88th parallel and 46 air miles northeast of Seoul. Sup- plies lnve poured in there under constant. r.rs-sssment by Allied war planes.

Phlota rqiortsd as many as 120.- 000 Ghinese were sighted north and west of I-iongdion. which is s. dosen miles southeast of Chun- chon.

News In Brief

SABKATOON. March 14 - (CP)

- A continued Federal Govern- ment buter-support price program was predicted by Agriculture Min- ister Gardiner in an address here today to the annual meeting of the National Dairy Council. ., HALIFAX. March 14 - (CP) - Legislation to prohibit the hanging of "cupid dolls" and other orna- ments from car wlndshields was introduced in the Legislature today by Highways Minister Rawding as one of several proposed amend- ments to the Motor Vehicle Act.

KEY WEST. Fla.. March it -- (AP) - President Truman bluntly accusedtltussia today of forcing the United states in help rearm the free world by its own aggression and "ruthless program of rearma- ment." He cited repeated Russian refusals to agree on a "fool-proof" program for control of atomic and other weapons.

OTTAWA. March 14 - (CP)- Trade Minister Howe said today he believes it will take a full five years to meet present targets in the huge defence production job Canada has set for herself.

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CANBERRA, March 15-(Tharp day)--Prime Minister R. G. Men- zies went to the Governor-Gem oral icseelc a dissolution of both Houses of Parlimrnent, the govern- ment announoed today. Dissolution of Parlialmen-t means new general elections.

Menales has run up against stubborn apposition in the Labor- d-ominnted Senate. which last night refenred the Conservative coalition gove.rns'nent's urgent banking bill to committee, thus delaying the leeidatlnn.

Reports General Election Likely In Australia

Menzies heads a coalition of the Liberal and Country Parties.

He was expected to tell Gover- nor-General William J. McKe'li that Parliament should be dis- solved because the Senate failed to pass a. bill by the process of unduly delaying it.

Standing in the l23-seat House of Representatives is Liberals 55: Country Palrty l9; Labor 47. in addition one Lalbcr member and one I 4 pendent hold seats from territorim which are non-voting.

Se-nnic standing is: Labor 34; Liibemis 20; County Party 6; total 60.

Announces Changeln

Poialo Boal En' liouie To load Al Souris

A small craft. the Clyde Valley, yesterday left River-port in Lun- enburg County, N. 8.. for Souris. P. E. I. to load a cargo of potatoes. The vessel is due at Souris late to- day.

Capt. Angus Brown said yester- day after a three-hour,aerial ice patrol for the Department of Transport that Souris harbor is open but that drift ice ls,wosi:ing

flortifhnd south shores om” e New Brunswick coast-where it was packed solidly last week. Char- lottetown Harbor wasopen yes- terday but ice extended along the south side- of the Northumberland strait some miles eastward.

Large herds of seals were still on the ice off the north shore of this Province. Seven sealers were sighted yesterday. but they were still some distance from the main herd. The men were walking on the ice between the ships and the seals.

It was understood- a schooner from Souris was also out hunting seals but no sign of the craft was seen y'esterday.

The patrol was cut short by poor visibility. It will be resumed to- day if weather conditions permit to survey the steamer track to the mouth of the st. Lawrence River. I

Believe Russia May Give Air. Naval Aid

TAIPEI, Formosa. March H- (AP)-The Chinese Nationalist De- fence Ministry today asserted Rus- SiB might give the Chinese Rods air and naval support in Korea to hold at the 38th parallel.

The Ministry said 600 Soviet fighter planes and bombers had arrived in Msnchurla, but had not been thrown into the Korean war because of a fuel shortage.

The shortage was being remed- ied. ll. added. by shipments via the Ts-ans-Siberian

Drop Idea Of llnifylngliorea?

NEW YORK, March 14 -(OP)- The New York Times today quot- ed unnamed United Nations dip- lomats as saying that the idea of unifying Korea by military. victory throughout the country is being tqulstiy dropped.

The Times said in a newmage story the United states is report- ed to be considering the position that the U. N. military job will and somewhere arou d the aorta parallel and that a next task. unification. will depend on liti. cal jockeying which may ast 3 long this. ,

The newspaper said an actual announcement of the rqsorteel new position is unlikely. The rea- son was to be that such an annonnounent would amount to a gift of information to the chines! Ounmunists.

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Educational System I

A change in the educational sys- tem whereby the Maritime Board Grade XI would be disposed of and students would be required to take two years in High School after passing entrance in order to enter University was outlined in the Legislature yesterday by Hon. F. A. Large. Minister of Education, in the debate on the draft address.

Under Maritime Board regula- tions. students may now enter Un- iversity with oniy one year's study after passing entrance. The regu- lar High school course of Grades XI and XII is given only at at. Dunstan's University and Prince of Wales College in this Province.

The new regulation would call for the establishment of Grades XI and XI! in various centres through- out the Provlncafrhe courses would be taught invmore centres than where Grade X1 is now being given.

The Council of Education is con- sidering the problem of transform- ing the system. Mr. Large stated. Beginning Sept. 1, 1951. Grade Xi will be given in these centres which will be comparable to that of first year Prince of Wales. -

Unlike labor regulations the new educational law will probably call for a longer week instead of a shorter one. Instead of a five day week the students will likely have a six day week, Mr. Large said.

Mobile Mechanics Course

Following the trend of the times. one section of the Vocational School will probably become mobile this year. "We are preparing to

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Down Payment On Cars llpped To 50 Perlleni

GITAWA. March it - (CP) - The Government, sharpening its fiscal , against inflation. announced today a general light- ening of controls on instalment buying. .

The new restrictions. effective next Monday. March l9. mean that instalment buyers must provide a larger down-payment and pay off the remainder in 12 months in- stead of the 18-month period now allowed.

Biggest Jolt .

The biggest jolt was handed to prospective motor car buyers. Tlrcy will put down 50 per cent of the cash price - against the current one-third down-payment- and will finance the remainder in 12,montils.

This applies to all motor vehi- cles - whether new or used - and to motorcycles. Trucks are exempted. The trade-in value of the purchaser's old car can be used as part of the down-payment on another car.

Settlement Arranged

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LAKE SUCCESS. N. Y.. March 14 - (CP) - United Nations dip- lomats today viewed the approach of U. N. forces to the 38th parallel with renewed hopes for a negotiat- ed settlement in Korea. It was a hope that had been blasted before when Chinese and U. N. troops crossed and recroavd the border which separated the U. N.-backed South Korea from Communist - dominated North Korea.

At those periods too, the diplo- mats saw good possibilities the bor- der could serve as a demarcation line for a cease-fire. But the Com- munists failed to take up the U.N. cease-fire appeals and any signif- icance the border might have was overlooked.

Today. however, the diplomats were bolstered by the possible ef- fect of the statement two days ago by Lt. -Gen. Mathew B. Ridgway. Eighth Army commander. He said flatly that ending the Korean war at the 38th parallel would constit-

For all other commodities covered by consumer credll. regulations - and that in- cludu nearly everything the ordinary consumer buys by instsiment - the down-pay- ment is boosted to one-lnlrd of cash price from one-fifth. Exempt from the regulations are

all books. fuel. uniforms, nearing aids and similar appliances for invaiids. building materials. but not plumbing fixtures. and tools of trade. such as s.-rpente s' tools and surgical instruments.

Finance Minister Abbott, an- nounclng the tightened restric- tions to the Commons. described them as "much stiffer."

The Government inaugurated consumer credit controls last fall as a move against the rising cost of lirving.

Here is a point-by-point picture of the changes going into effect next Monday:

1. The minimum dcvwn-psy- ment for motor cars being bought on the instalment plan will be one-half cash price in- stead of one-third.

2. For all other commodi- lies. the minimum down-pay- mrent will be one-third instead of one-iiriih.

3. In all cases, the minium down-payment will. be not less than 310. Formerly, it was 55.

4. Tlhe maximum period of credit will be 12 months in- stead of ill and the minimum size of instalment payrnerrts

give a course in motor with plans being made to fit up a

- truck and take out a mobile unit

to the country", he stated. The school was 'becomi lg increas-

t lngly popular. Trades courses lact-

ing from six to eight months.and short courses of four to six weeks duration are being given.

Fifty six new schools have been erected with a total of 95 class rooms built since the Government assistance plan was adopted in 1947. 449 school districts have taken advantage of these grants and about 100 schools have installed modern inside toilet facilities since May.

Grants for new one roorned schools have been increased from 8500 to 31.000. 3300. is ailsble for improvements to one room schools and S750. fog improvements to larger buildings.

An increase in school attendance of 300 students was noted during the school year 1930 over the year 1949. he stated. This increase, he Slaled. was due to a large extent to the school Attendance Officer and the Family Allowance regulations. Last year's attendance of 82294. was the highest in the history of the Province. Mr. Large continued. In 1089 the percentage attendance W8! 57'7b: in 1900 it was 635; 7491. in 194'! and 8095 in 1940.

Teachers' Salaries

speaking of salaries he noted that the avenge for the principals

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leacllers Call For FedeLl Aid

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ute a U. N. victory. sources said

that secret. high-level talks are un- der way between the United States and Britain concerning what U.N. strategy should be, if and when U. N. forces again reach the 38th parallel.

Against the background of indie- ations by several Western delega- tions - including those of Britain and Canada -- that they believe re-crossing the parallel .by U. N. forces should be considered care- fully. Ridgway's -l ' ' was seen as possibly directed at Chinese leaders. The Peiping regime could take the hint and start " ” with the U.N. good offices com- mittee - which it has ignored so far.

The U. N. actions now. moreover. contrast strongly with the previous U. N. crossing of the parallel last October in pursuit of the Commun- ist invaders of south Korea. The U. N. Assembly gave tacit approval to that crossing. The U. N. resolu- tion of Oct. '1 still stands but it is not predominant in diplomatic dis- cussions now.

some U. N. delegations view the U.N. objective of stemming Com- munist agzresaion in Korea as re- pelling the Commun' ' from the borders of South Korea. Their view is that unification of North and South Korea should.come through a political rather than a military settlement.

AMONG ESSENTIALS Iron nails were in common use during the Roman Occupation of

Britain.

FREDERICTON. (CP)-A "drastic cut" in New Brunswlclds potato acreage this year and more attention to grain growing were forecast today by H. C. Greenlaw (L-York) at a meeting of the Legislature's agri- culture committee.

Mr. Greenlaw said there was a need for studying methods of making more and better use of farm products. He -cited experi- ments in Maine involving mixture of potatoes with wood pulp to produce high quality paper.

Agriculture Minister A. C. Tay- lor said experiments were beluz conducted to determine the best

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Predicts ”Drastic Cut” In N.B. Potato Acreage

type. of sugar best, suited for cul- tivation in New Brunswick. Sugar Beets required A long growing season in this Province and even a slight frost lowered their sugar: content.