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§ ] S OAD IW WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1947 Se THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE" 'PAGE FIVE "Demands for Telephone Service Exceeds Even Wartime Peak Levels Montreal, Feb, 12--Demands for telephone service in 1946 ex- ceeded even the wartime peak levels according to the 67th an- nual rport of The Bell Telephone Company of Canada for.the year ended mber 31 last, issued today. The net increase of 127, 811 telephones in , service was greater than any othr two years in the company's history, the year end total being 1,177,924, The total payroll rose to $36,- 519,000, an increase of $2,476 000, or 36 percent above 1945. At the year end, there were 21,801 employees -- nearly 6,000 more than on December 31, 1945--the largest number. in the history of the business, Record Construction Program "The construction program to extend and improve service was the largest ever undertaken," Frederick Johnson, resident, states in the report, "New tele- phone equipment was received from the manufacturers and put into service at a rate never before equalled, No effort was spared to meet the public's demands for ser- vice, "At the beginning of the year 1046 there were 77,000 appli- cants waiting for service; As the year progressed the shortage of telephone instruments was over- come and outside wire and cable became in most cases adequate to meet requirements, The provision of central office equipment, how- ever, an essentially slcwer process, lagged behind demands and the year ended with 84,000 unfilled applications for service, The still greater construction program, for 19047 should take care of all of these and a large part of the ex- pected new demands." Gross reverfue from all sources totalled $78,014,338, or 10.9 per- cent more than in 1945, while net income in 1946 was $8,274,370 or slightly less than the $8,304,081 reported for the previous year, Taxes amounted to $11,737,- 000, a decrease of 31,2 percent, Total taxes were equivalent to $10.48 for each telephone in ser- vice, or $12.86 for each share of capital stock. Earnings for 1946 were equal to $9.07 per share of average out- standing capital stock, compared with $9.63 in the previous year. Quarterly dividends paid at the rate of $2 per share totalled $7, 299,118 in 1946, Oalls Greatly Increased The report states that there were about 7.4 million more long distance calls and 310 million more local calls than in 1946, Thus operating facilities were strained to the limit, but most calls were answered promptly and . most long distance calls were completed while the customers held the line, The number of shareholders New! 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Overseas telephone service brought Canadians within tele. phone reach of 62 countries, Trials of mobile telephone service were conducted successfully in Toronto and Montreal preparatory to offering the service to the pub- 1 e, With the objective of improv ing and extending rural telephone service, some 700 rural lines were built and over 12,000 rural tele- phones added in 1946 with the result that 48 percent of all fam flies in rural areas in the com- pany's territory now have tele- phone service, Edison Born Century Ago Milan, O,, Feb, 12.--(AP -- One hundred years ago in a humble red-brick cottage here was born a boy destined to Become America's greatest inventive genius --Thomas Alva Edison, To commemorate the name and fame of the man who gave light to millions by inventing the incandes- cent lamp, the first issue of Thom- as A. Edison memorial stamps was ready for presentation to Edison's only daughter, Mrs, John 8, Sloane, Orders for more than a million Edison memorial stamps have been Governor-General Ends White House Visit Viscount Alexander of Tunis, governor-general of Canada, and Lady Alexander, say their farewells fo presi- 'dent and Mrs, Truman as they leave the White House after a three-day visit with the "first family." Loft to | right are Canadian Ambassador Hume Wrong, Mrs. Truman, Governor-General Viscount Alexander, President Truman, Lady Alexander and Mrs, Hume Wrong. : Most Tragic Capital Warsaw, Feb, 12, -- (oP) - Of Europe's war-wrecked capitals, Warsaw even two years after its liberation seems the most tragic. A traveller from Prague gets a jolt as soon as the Orient Express stops. It doesn't come into a sta- tion for there isn't one. You simply jump into the snow at a siding which fills in for the magnificent Central Depot, now a crumbled wreck From the siding you pass through a crude wooden barrier and walk into the ruins of the city. There are only a few wheezing taxi- cabs and you take a crochety horse- drawn "drosky" to your miserable hotel, There are no good hotels left. The ruins are worse than Berlin and Vienna, Here the destruction was largely deliberate retaliation by the Germans for the Warsaw insur- rection of 1944 when the Poles fought a losing battle for more than 60 days, with the Red Army com- pelled to remain on the eastern bank of the Vistula River, within rifle range of the struggle. With dynamite and fire, after the rising was suppressed, the Germans worked through Warsaw block by block, systematically razing vast sections, There is scarcely a street which isn't a grim reminder of those weeks. The famous "old city" is a pile of rubble and jagged walls. Chinese Immigration Subject Of Hot Debate received from President Truman, Queen Elizabeth and Princess El- zabeth, and from other persons scattered throughout the world, Edison's great-grandfather, John Edison, was 8 United Empire Loy- alist who migrated from New Jersey to Dighy, NS, at the time of the, American revolution. In 1811 the family moved to Vienna, in Ontar- io's Elgin County, where two of Thomas Edison's brothers and a sister were born, Edison's father became involved in the rebellion of 1837 and left the country, settling in Ohio where Edison was born, In his youth the inventor worked for a time as a newsboy and tele- graph operator on the old Grand Trunk Railway in Western Ontario, Lisbon, Madrid Colorful Cities In Post War Era By HENRY BUCKLEY Lisbon-- (Reuters) --The Portugese say proudly: "Quem nao tem visto Lisboa, nao tem visto cousa boa" in other words: "he who has not seen Lisbon has missed something very beautiful." Madrid has many excellent qual- ities, but its most ardent admirers standing beauty. A correspondent in Madrid and Just a visitor to Lisbon, I am going to take the grave risk of making mortal enemies in both Iberian capitals by comparing the two cities, Lisbon is when arriving by sea. Salling up the Tagus you can get a view of Lisbon reminiscent of that of Istanbul seen from the Bosporus, but with Lisbon winning on points. Lisbon remains the neat, clean, and orderly town designed by the intelligent Marques de Pombal after the great earthquake of 1755, Mad- rid is neither neat or orderly, Its baby sky-scrapers with their modest 16 or 18 stories make it the most "Americanized town in Europe." Lisbon's climate 1s moderate, languid, that of Madrid extrava- gant, swinging from extremes of cold to extremes of heat. Lisbon dresses conservatively, The senoras make a point of wearing hats, Madrid dresses smartly and in American style. © A Madrid stenographer has the knack of like a princess on very few pesetas. She does not wear a hat, If it rains, out comes a gaily-hued keerchief to keep her hair dry. Lisbon's cafes are numerous and teeming with mostly male clients drinking tea or coffee, with a plate of cakes at hand. Madrid cafes are disappearing as fast as horse cabs. Latest victim is to be La Granja Florida, Most of them become banks--symptomatic of Spain's present financial boom. Madrid folk, instead of sitting in cafes, stand at bars and order ban- ana splits or waffles with cream and honey--tortitas, as the Spanish call them, . international goods--stockings from America, wh from Scotland, beauty products from Paris, not to mention stacks of foreign books, re- views and newspapers. Madrid's shops are entirely national. You could look in 10 shop windows and not see a aingle foreign product, Foreign currency is short and what there is is needed for producer Lisbon's trams--British run--are swift, modern and magnificent. Madrid's trams run by a Hispano- Belgian concern--are derelict and primitive, except for some new mo jus cars recently bought from Lisbon is' flooded with foreign travellers and tourists. On Madrid streets, you rarely hear a foreign 8 h Lisbon's some 800,000 inhabitants are scattered over an enormous area. Madrid's 1,200,000 dwellers are mainly concentrated in a very small Lisbon looks immense! r= ous, but most mebasly Jrosper are hard. Madrid looks shabby, but is more prosperous than it has been since the post-war boom of 1933-25, 4 Color For Men could scarcely call it a town of out- | Loveliest view you can have of | Lisbon's shops are stocked with | Percy Color, this season, is being high- lighted in all phases of men's wear, This is the prediction of the Mer- chant Tailors' and Designers' asso- ciation of America in convention in Chicago, The model is wearing a canary-yellow dinner jacket and chocolate-brown trousers, a soft ecru shit with bown tie; baku straw hat banded to match the jacket; casual brown suede, wedge-sole shoes. That's color--with capital letters! Harmony Cub Pack Organized MRS. KENNETH FLETCHER Correspondent Harmony, Feb. 12 -- The newly organized Harmony Wolf Cub Pack will hold its first meeting at the Public School at 6:30 pm, on Tues- day next. All boys between the ages of 8 and 12 years are asked to attend in order to give the organiza- tion a fine send-off, The Willing Workers Group is sponsoring the organization, i Final arrangements for the for- mation of the Cub group were made at a meeting last night which was attended by Harry Rigg of Oshawa. Members of the committee are: Mrs. Clarence Greentree, Mrs. Thomas Fountain, Mrs. Charles King, Mrs, Allman, Mrs. Albert Rae and Mrs, W. A. Fleming, A. E. Maycock has volunteered to act as secretary, while G. Arthur Korry will act with the committee. The leaders are Bob Durham, Joan Whattam and Cliff Willoughby. The colors chosen for the Pack are green sweaters and purple and gold neckerchiefs. Religious instruotion at the Public School, which was terminated some time ago, was resumed yesterday with Rev. Ralph F.. Willson, minis- ter of First Baptist Church, con- ducting the classes for Grades VII and VIII . Miss Kathleen Campsall, teacher at the Public School, who visited her home at Odessa during the week-end, informed the school board that due to the storm and the illness of her mother, she would not be able to return this week, Her place is being taken by Miss Clara Willlamson of Hastings, a former teacher here. The Men's Own Class of Albert Street United Church and the Happy Doubles Group of King Street United Church, played a spirited hockey game, at the local rink last night. The Albert Street group triumphed by & score of 9 to. In House of Commons By GEORGE KITCHEN Canadian Press Staff Writer Ottawa, Feb, 12--(CP)--The gov- , ernment bill for the repeal of the | contentious Chinese Immigration Act ran into bitter opposition in the Commons yesterday as both government and opposition support- ers demanded it be withdrawn and revamped, A violent debate developed on second reading of the bill, a three- fold measure which in addition to repealing the Chinese Act also would continue wartime orders dealing with administration and the entry into Canada of dependents of Canadian servicemen. The Chinese Immigration Act it self, passed in 1023, drastically limits the numbers of Chinese al- lowed into Canada, Howard Green (PC-Vancouver South) touched off the debate with a speech in which he bespoke the fear of British Columbia members that the repeal would lead to a great influx of Chinese. Discrimination M. J, Coldwell, C.C.F. Leader and a member of the Canadian delega- tion to the United Natiohs, termed the measure a "cruel hoax" and a "hypocrisy" because it would con- tinue "discriminations" already ap- plied against the Chinese and said he would not wish to represent Ca~ nada at any further international gathering if the bill passed. There was no immediate indica- tion of governmental reaction to | the reception of the measure. Other speakers in the day-long debate included Resources Minister |i | Glen, Labor Minister Mitchell, | David Croll (L-Toronto Spadina), T. L. Church (PC-Toronto Broad- view), Lawrence Skey (PC-Toronto Trinity, Angus MacInnis (CCF= Vancouver East) and John Black- more (SC-Lethbridge). Healthy Policy Mr. Glen sponsored the Immigra- tion Bill in the Commons and made a brief statement in which he re- called the many representations made agdinst the Chinese Act and sald it was felt that as a first step towards a "healthy" post-war im- migration policy the act should be rescinded. He later told .Mr. Coldwell the government also planned to repeal a long-standing Order-in-Council which gave foreign governments the right to say whether their nationals living in Canada could seek Cana- dian citizenship. Mr. Coldwell demanded the with- drawal of the bill lest it add an- other "blot" to Canada's name be- fore the world and said he first had approved the step but later found that "discriminations" against Chinese living in Canada would remain on the statute books. It had been said that the bill would allow Chinese residents in Oanada to bring their wives and children to this country but it now was apparent that they could do this only if they were Canadian citi- sens while this right was extended to Europeans resident in the Do- minion even if they were not citi- sens. : "You are imbedding discrimina- tion in a statute," Mr. Coldwell told the ent. "We are going to have legislation in this House free of hypocrisy or not at all. This is hypoerisy pure and simple." An Canadian delegate who went to the United Nations with "this skeleton in his cupboard" would be fearful lest some one raise the is- sue, He had "too much pride" in Canada, his adopted country, to be looked upon as a "hypocrite." Mr. Mitchell said that unless the people were prepared "to fill this Sentiment up you are going to lose Colds Meatholatum juich: re. lieves head colds; checks saniffling; soothes irri. Head tated mem. ISAT] COMFPORY Daily ME Mallet-Killer Is Hanged In Saint John Saint John, N.B., Feb, 12 -- (CP) -- Thomas Henry Heflerhan, 28, died on a gallows here in the chill hour past midnight this morning for the murder of 25-year-old Miss Leversey Powers. Heffernan had been, convicted of the Sept. 30, 1946, mallet-slaving of Miss Powers, and was sentenced to the scaffold on Dec, 3. The day following the crime he had given himself up to police voluntarily and had led them to the spot where the body was found -- on the shores of nearby Ashburn Lake, "I'm a nice fellow, don't you think?" he asked police at that time. At his trial in October, he ex- plained how he had lured the girl to the lake, struck her over the head with a mallet and thrown the body into the water. Hog-Town Tactics Are Condemned Aylmer, Ont, Feb, 12, -- (CP) -- Ontario Health Minister Kelley told a Chamber of Commerce meeting here that Toronto's policy of "hog=- ging" Industry in Ontario and es- tablishing induestries at a rate of 10 a month is "crazy and asinine." "Every new industry brought in makes conditions in Toronto that , much worse," he said. "But Toron- to Is not likely to change its ways Ny nobody else does much about Urging smaller towns like Aylmer to fight for greater industrial re- cognition, Mr. Kelly said one of the reasons why a number of towns in Ontario haven't grown larger, stems from the fact that people in the larger centres have been too greedy in grabbing off industries, He added that the people in those places fail to consider how each adds to the congestion already pre- vailing there, Few people live even in the cellars there now, The levelled ghetto is the most ghastly empty space in Warsaw. But you insult Poles to complain about only having a small hotel room, Four or five frequently live in the same amount of space. The streets of Warsaw are drab and melancholy, many still clutter- ed with rubble. There are 600,000 people in Warsaw now, compared with about 1,000,000 before the war, but those left are tackling their work with spectacular determina- tion, It will be years before Warsaw looks like a capital again, Sulfa, D.D.T. Stamp Out The Plague Shanghal, Feb. 12 -- (Repters) -- Armed with two modern discover jes--sulfa drugs and DDT-- China has initiated an extensive anti- plague campaign to wipe out the "black death" which has overrun the country for centuries, Following a year of plague epi- demics described as the worst in 50 years, 30 flying squads, modern counterparts of the Pied Piper of | Hamelin, systematically set to work | recently to destroy the rat plague- carriers. Based at Foochow, China's worst plague city, they have been equip- | ped with supplies and medicines by U.N.R.R.A. and the Chinese Na- | tional Relief and Rehabilitation ad- | ministration, In a modern laboratory in Foo- | chow, technicians of the plague pre- | vention bureau carefully examine rats that have beén collected through the province of Fukien for the tell-tale signs of bubonic plague. They compile reports from the plague cities and villages in order to ascertain the danger areas to which the . flying squads shall next be sent. In recent years, the reports have been alarming. In a single village in Fukien province, one person out of every 10 died of the disease last summer. Proper treatment with sulfadia- | zine and the other sulfa drugs has been instrumental in curing large numbers suffering from the plague. New 4 WHY LM v Wh Wo Here is an engineer's drawing Midget Car For of the new "Publix" 250 mmm car which will soon be placed on the market. The tiny three-wheeled vehicle, which will sell for $250, weighs less than 100 pounds. It is six feet long and 3% feet wide. According to the Newark, N.J., manufacturer, the car's one-cylinder air-cooled engine will do 70 miles on a gallon of gasoline. Even Cons Queue-up In Denmark Copenhagen, Feb. 12, -- (Reuters) ~The housing shortage in Den- mark is so acute that even the prisons have a queue of convicts awaiting "accommodation." Thousands of young people can- not get married because they can- not find a flat and many families with several children have to live in a one-room flat because they are unable to find a larger one. No less than 2,000 persons sentenced to terms of imprisonment are await- ing their turn for a prison cell. 'Thi. shortage of prison accommo- | dation is partly due to the large ex- isting prison population, Some 6,- 300 persons either convicted or ac- cused of collaboration and treason are in custody---4,000 more persons than all Danish prisons held before the war. . An additional 5,400 persons. accus- ed or convicted of ordinary crimes are in prison, making a total of some 12,000 prisoners compared with a normal of about 2,300 before the war. Some easing of the situation may be obtained from a reduction in the number of political prisoners to around 4,000 as a result of discharg- es and acquittals of those not yet brought to trial, but even this will not bring complete solution. Lesser offenders will still have to queue up for "accommodation"like would-be guests in Copenhagen ho- tels. To shorten the queues in Copen- hagen, some offenders are being sent to provincial prisons to serve their sentences. \ In most cases, too, cells meant to accommodate one prisoner are be- ing used to house two or three. Only those sentenced to death are held in a cell of their own. OLD CHUM Canada's Original Aromatic Pipe Tobacco CUT COARSE FOR PIPE + CUT FINE FOR ROLLING YOUR OWN SAVE SOME FOR for. or two and -- bang! -- where's that money you so carefully had ear. marked for savings? IT'S a melancholy thought. . . but isn't it true that you are always the /ast to share in your monthly earnings ? There's the. butcher, the baker, the coal-man, the landlord, There's that new mattress for Mary, or Junior's dental bill. All it takes is an unexpected "extra", 3 lift to your self-respect . . . to your sense . A Yet here's an interesting thing. All through the war youn proved, with your Victory Bond purchases, that you cowld "save some for yourself". In fact, you saved a surprisingly large amount, You proved, too, that a back-log of savings 'does things" to you. It gives a of getting somewhere. It makes you feel less vulnerable -- makes you more willing and able to grasp. opportunity OSHAWA BRANCH -- A. R. HUESTIS, Manager when if comes along. It gives you peace of mind. Who can say how im- portant these things are, = al fe 0 ld 8° > Certainly they are well worth working L} both to your progress and your personal happiness? And that means owing yourself a certain set sum every month, and then making sure you collect it. So keep up that wartime saving habit. It's one good thing the war taught all of us, PERHAPS YOU are one of the hundreds of thousands who already keep a Royal Bank savings account. If not, we'd like you to consider this your personal invie tation to open one at the Royal Bank branch most convenient to you. The size of your first deposit isn't the important thing, to you or to us. The important thing is to open it, and then make sure, every pay day, that you save something for yourself, THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA ER.