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Woman Thir » d To Be Convicted In Airliner Murder Case Mrs. Pitre Found Guilty, Is Given Death Sentence ma | By RICHARD DAIGNAULT Canadian Press Staff Writer Quebec, March 17--(CP)--Death by hanging July 20 was ordered last nigh: for the woman who delivered a time-bomb to an airliner that bore 23 persons to their doom. Third person convicted of murder in a plot hatched in lowertown haunts, hefty 42-year-old Mrs. Pitre was found guilty by a French-speak- ing 12-man jury that deliberated only 29 minutes. Her trial lasted two weeks. The involved affair led to the de- struction of a Canadian Pacific Airlines plane at Salut au Cochon, Sept. 9, 1949. A cold, unsympathetic crowd that packed the courtroom, hall and bal- cony heard her weep through most of Crown Prosecutor Noel Dorin's plea for a guilty verdict and the judge's instructions t> the jury. But, once the verdict was returned, she met the crowd's glare boldly when she was asked if she had any- thing to say before sentence was pronounced. "Yes," she said raisin; her voice above the din of the courtroom, "I have something to say ... for the sake of my children. I am innocent ..." and she went on tc say "Christ was condemned by Pontius Pilate delivered into the hands of Caiphas" She turned on the judge: "Now it is your hour. That is all I have to say." Elderly Mr. Justice Noel Belleau did not rice to put on the customary | black tricon and gloves before pass- | ing sentence. In a soft spoken voice he told her she had been convicted of a horrible crime. At the words "to be hanged by the neck" the heavy woman slumped, white-faced, to her seat. The crowd continued to glare at her. She seemed to collapse, ad a burly police constable assisted by a matron carried her bodily from the prisoner's box. Unprecedented Crime With her conviction, the crown wrote finis to an unprecedented crime in Canadian histOry. J. Albert Guay, a young jeweller, was hanged Jan. 12 for organizing the plot to kill his wife, Rita, so that he could collect $10,000 insur- ance on hér life and marry a pretty 19-year-old waitress. Genereux Ruest, Mrs. Pitre's crip- pled brother, is scheduled to be hanged Sept. 21 for making the det- onating device used in the bomb. | Hearing of his appeal is scheduled | for April. | Mrs. Pitre had been Guay's con- | fidant, giving secret abode to the | waitress, Marie-Ange Robitaille, pur- chasing dynamite for him less than a month before the plane explosion and finally delivering the lethal parcel aboard an airliner, the crown charged in its case. She was the only one of the three accused of murder in the plot to testify in her own defence. Her evidence, marked by wisecracks and rilings against police, largely main- tained her story that- she thought the "parcel" contained a statue. With Canada's Naturalists Written For The Canadian Press By PERCY GHENT Experts find little to recommend the crow except perhaps that his reappearance at this time of the year indicates spring is just around the corner. The late Percy A. Taverner, fam- ous Canadian ornithologist and champion of wildlife conservation, in his standard work, "Birds of Canada," refers to the crow as a game destroyer. He says: "It be- hooves the sportsman to protect his own sport and to take the burden of controlling one of the worst game destroyers." Taverner's conclusion followed prolonged personal research and a study of the evidence, for and against, the crow. Everything he could find in favor of the crow is set forth, especially its usefulness in the destruction of grasshoppers in the west. But, he says, if crows would give other species of insect-eating birds a chance to increase, they would handle the grasshopper pest, and other insect pests, very nicely. That chance is denied them. Egg-robbing, nestling-eating crows destroy so much useful bird-life at its helpless beginning, that this destruction off- sets any good they might do at their best. Nor is that damage all: Examina- tion of thousands of crow stomachs has revealed that no less than 51 per cent of their food later in the year, is corn. Crows have increased with the spread of agriculture and the re- treat of the forest. There are far too many of them; they are a men- ace to song birds as well as water- fowl and upland game. Damage by the domestic cat, commonly blamed as the worst destroyer of birdlife, has a limited range in most in- stances; urban and suburban re- gions being its favorite hunting ground. Crows invade the entire countryside and can locate bird nests more speedily than the clev- erest small boy. Every crow shot by a sportsman rids his community of a pest and is a deed of kindness for robins, bluebirds, game and other useful birds. Black crows are as black as they are painted, despite their appeal of cleverness. to the sentimentalist. They will never be exterminated, their wiliness will take care of that. But their numbers call for radical reductign. "The goldfinch in his pretty coat of many colors, is the most beauti- ful of all," wrote the famed natur- Ontario Spotlight [] BUILDS STEEL BOAT Meaford, On'., March 17--(CP)-- Joseph Perks is building himself a 45-foot all-steel fishing tug--in' his own back yard. Many fishermen in this south shore Georgian Bay area build their own wooden craft but this will be the first steel one. ~ rr ee KINGSTON ANNEXATION Kingston, Ont, March 17 -- (CP) -- Annexation of Ports- mouth Village and other sec- tions of Fingston Township has been postponed until Jan. 1, 1952 The Ontario Municipal Board announced yesterday. Or- iginally scheduled for Jan, 1, 1951, the date was changed at the request of council here. FILM PREMIERE AT FALLS Niagara Falls, Ont, March 17-- (CP)--The world premiere of the film "The Neighbor Next Door," made by Warner Brothers at the request of the Canadian govern- ment, will be shown in theatres here and in Niagara Falls, N.Y. next Wednesday. International cere- monies will be held on the Rain- bow Bridge prior to the showing. SWILL QUELLS FIRE Hearst, Ont., March 17--(CP) A bucket of swill and 30 cups of coffee were used recently to put out a fire in the lunch room of the commupity centre in this town, 160 miles northwest of Timmins. Firemen said spec- tntors at a game broke the no- smoking rule. CHICKEN THIEVES ACTIVE Kingston, Opt., March 17--(CP) --Chicken thi€ves have been oper- ating in the Westbrook afea, eight miles from here, provincial police have reported. Farmers, who have made a number of complaints, are keeping watch on their henhouses with shotguns at the ready. DRIVER, SAVES $12.50 Brantford, Ont, March 17-- (CP)--James Torek admitted in police court here yesterday that he had not had a driver's li- cence since 1926." Magistrate R. J. Gillen fined him $5, plus $10 costs. However, at the present price of a licence, $1.50, he still has saved $12.50 for his 25 un- licensed years. TAKES FORT ERIE PASTORATE Fort Erie, Ont, March 17--(CP) --Rev. R. Malcolm Ranson, who re- turned from a missionary post in China six months ago, will take over Knox and St. Andrew Presby- terian Churches here Sunday. Mr. Ranson served for two years as na- tional missionary secretary of the Student Christian Movement of Canada before going to China. TO PRODUCE A-BOMB London, March 17 -- (Reuters) -- The London Daily Graphic stated today that Britain is to produce atomic bombs and other atomic weapons. "The first A-bomb will be ready in the near future," The Graphic stated under a front-page headline. The British Ministry of Supply offered no confirmation and made no comment, TO SUBSIDIZE RECRUITS London, Ont., March 17--(CP)-- Subsidization of final-year uni- versity students who accept com- missions with the R.C.AF. will be continued during the 1951-1952 term, T. L. Hoskin, University of Western Ontario counsellor to men announced yesterday. aliss W. H. Hudson, in his book on British birds. This epecies with crimson patch around the bill, white on sides of head and across throat, and™ with yellow wings, is familiar to Canad- ians who visit Bermuda. Introduced there from Britain some years ago, it has prospered and multiplied. On more than one occasion at- tempts have been made to estab- lish the species in Canada and the United States, but with no success whatever. About the size of the Eastern goldfinch of Canada, the British bird has a much gayer ap- pearance. L 4 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE WHITBY | Milk Control Bill | | | | Sent to, Committee VOL. 10--No. 65 OSHAWA-WHITBY, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1951 PAGE THIRTEEN By FORBES KHUDE Cauadian Press Business Editor The price you can get today for a victory bond is less than you paid for it in the war years, and you may pe wondering why. Well, it's part of the battle against higher prices. The government's monetary advisers undoubtedly hope that lower current prices for bonds will help put a brake on the rising costs ~f living. Also, remember your $100 bond will still be worth $100 when it matures. In the meantime it will pay the interest which is promised to pay. I; is only when you want to sell now that you will get less than $100; or pay less than $100 if you want to buy one. To get at the story we must go back to the '30's, when the govern- ment embarked upon an "easy" -- "cheap" money policy. This simply meant that interest rates were kept low so that it would be easy for people to borrow to build factories and other things which might get prosperity rolling again. At the {same time, the government establish- ed a central bank, the Bank of Canada. The easy money policy continued until early 1948. Then, people were building so many things, that they were trying to buy more things than there were to buy, and run-away prices threatened. So it was decided to make money harder to get. This was done by raising the interest rate on money, making it more expensive to borrow. To illustrate: When in the war years, you bought a bond for $100 and it gave you three per cent, or $3 a year, in in- terest, that meant that the basic cost of borrowing money was three per cent. Now, say that a year ago you sold that $100 bond for $10". The man who bought it would get only $3 on his $97 whereas it took $100 of your money to get $3. That means the yield of money is more--it has be- come more expensive to borrow. Changes in the basic rate of yields on government bonds percolate through all financial dealings and bring changes in rates on all new loans. Why? Because while you may buy a corporation bond at 3': per cent while governments are payine three per cent, you will buy the surer government bonu when it goes to 3a, to pay still more to attract you. How is the change effected in government bond prices, which bring the change in interest rates? The Bank of' Canada, either through its own dealings, or through its close link with chartered banks and financial institutions, can vir- tually say what a government bond should sell at, by either buying or selling the required amount of bonds. Perhaps it was with the thought in mind that bond prices would have to fluctuate and perhaps go below par, that the government, after the Victory Loans, established aimed at the smaller wage-earner and salary-deduction plans. These dont fluctuate in value--al00 Can- ada Sayings Bond will always bring $100. You can buy them only to a maximum of $1,000 per issue, To get back to the Victory loans, | here is the more. recent history of | a representative long-term bond, | the Ninth Victory Loan of 1946, called the Dominion, of Canada | three per cents of 1966, the year | they mature. : . | In Octhber, 1949, they yielded between $103.25 and $103.50. By June, 50, they were down to $102 | to $103.25. Extraordinary United States buying sent them to $102% | to $102.75 by September. | Freeing of the Canadian dollar | in October halted this speculation and by December they were dipping | below par at $98.75 to $100. They | have eased since and yesterday were between $97 and $987.25. In these changes one sometimes | hears such things as the Bank of | Canada is certainly not the only element in the market, bub it can be taken that it is always there, ready to step in or out as it t.'inks advisible. Incidentally, the current change in Canadian bond prices and interest yields is in line with TO THE MERCHANTS OF OSHAWA It has been brought to the attention of the Council of the City of Oshawa that children have suffered injuries due to various fire- works' explosions. The Council requests the co-operation of the withholding from sale, all fireworks, until '« Saturday, May 19th. fully solicited. Alderman Cephas Gay, CHAIRMAN, GENERAL PURPOSE COMMITTEE. merchants, by their Your help is respect- Bond Price Fluctuations Are Part of Government Fight Against Inflation and the corporation will have | the present Canada Savings Bonds | ¥ changes in the United States and Britain. " : Will bond prices fall lower at this time? Probably no one knows ex- cept in the inmost counsel. of cen- tral banks and governments. Some think they may have some way to go yet, and certainly it is difficult to say wha' steps may be required by develoments of the future. Some, on the other. hand, think that in- terest rates. may have already gone up too far and that a reversal may be called for before long. The fol- lowing is an in-between view of the nvestment dealer: The United States will announce MarcH 19 terms of it; latest refunding issue. Mean- time, the United States bond mar- ket, like thé Canadian, is in a state of uncertainity. However, there is an expectation that the new bonds will bear 2% per cent. Traditionally, for various reasons, Canadian bonds bring % per cent more than U.S. bonds. This would mean that they would draw 3.25 per cent. At 07 they draw 3.17 per cent. So they might drop to around $96. That, as stated, is the view of one investment dealer. He points out that as the government allows the interest rate to go up, it also raises the rest of the Princess Pats. Ready for Easter Parade i ; ] Ready for the Easter fashion parade is Pte. Jack Smith, 28, of Midland, Ont, His chapeau was picked up somewhere in Korea and is the envy of --Central Press Canadian, the interest rate on its own future borrowings. So, it must balance the advantages of checking inflation on one hand, against raising the costs of its own financing 'on the other. | Investment - dealer in question feels, therefore, that the govern-| ment will hesitate before allowing | Toronto, March 17--The Ontario any drastic drops: | Legislature yesterday approved a Incidentally, the presence of the $1,500,000 hospital grant for indigent Bank of Canada is a stablizing in- | patient care in the last year. A fluence which can prevent the|similar amount has been budgeted sharp drops in government bond | for the 1951-52 fiscal year. prices which occurred after the| During the discussion, Premier First World War. It can, in any | Frost suggested that the federal foreseeable future, prevent drops | government assist general hospitals unless it is a matter of fiscal policy | to allow them. Added Hospital Grants Approved | hospital problem," he said. | situation this way; Mr. Frost said he had spoken I dont like taking nasty medicine, | | I an not enthusiastic about my wife "several times" to the | oremother selling bonds for less than | Health Minister, Paul Martin, that the $100 they paid for them--if | Ottawa extend its aid -- now con- money. But neither do I like paying $1,000 a bed. $2 a dozen for eggs. 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Ex- | reported | that he found there natives who | the Second Sir Jamjetsee JeeJeebhoy, Indian | orts of dollar goods, as Can- | first to open systematic commercial | | bean Monday. For Consideration * Toronto, March 17--tCP)-- The | creases would come "only after all Ontario Government's emergency | the cards are on the table face up." legislation to put ceilings on retail | Answering Farquhar Oliver, Lib- milk prices was given rapid ap- |eral house leader, and J. B. Sals- proval in principle by the legisla- | berg (Lab-Prog -- Toronto St. An= ture yesterday and will be sent to | drew), who asked for subsidies on the Agriculture. Committee Tuesday | production costs, Mr. Frost said that for detailed study. | problem was "strictly a federal Premier Frost told the house he matter." hoped the bill could be given royal | Cost of subsidies would force the assent by Wednesday to allow the government to impose added taxes revamped four-man milk control | including indirect sale$ taxes, Mr. board to begin public hearings on | Frost said. . retail price ceilings in the province's C.C.F. leader E. B. Jolliffe save various milk markets. | opposition objections to the bill Freeze To Remain | would be made in Tuesday's com- A price freeze imposed Thursday | mittee meeting, He urged that the will remain in force until the board | milk control hoard be given more pegs maximum prices, the Premier | power to investigate records of milk said. | Production and distribution costs, | Opposition members withheld | especially of dairies. It had been | several objections to the bill yes- | difficult to get facts about their terday to permit it to be sent to Operations. the Agriculture Committee. Agri- "The plight of the distributor culture Minister Kennedy indicated [leave me cold," he said. Toronto hz would permit the committee to | milk prices had increased 90 per amend the bill after hearing re- | cent since 1945 but prices to farms presentations from farm, dairy and | ers had increased only 40 per cent. consumer interests. | Mr. Oliver urged that the board Those three interests will be re- {also assume duties of arbitration in presented on the new milk control | board under Judge A. B. Currey, Manitoulin District Judge. Consum- | ers were not represented on the | former board which dealt only with | wholesale prices. Judge Currey has also been nam- ed sole arbitrator in wholesale price | dsiputes, to replace the - present three-man board, Mr. Forst told the legislature the control bill is aimed at encouraging price competition under the ceil? ings. Competition, expected when retail controls were dropped = in | 1948, had not materialized and now | "the limited number of distributors | | wa.ry Employees | has calied a strike vo.e sunday af- bargaining disputes between produ= cers and distributors. One of the new Board's first milk price hearings may be in To- ronto, waere the Milk Drivers and Union (AFL) iecung 1,700 employees. Toe strike vowe was announced after the 'i'oronto distributors' ase sociation said that with the price frozen at 20 cents a quart, dairies cannot give a wage increase recoms mended by a conciliation board. HONOR TORONTO TRUSTEE 17-- (AP) --Senator Robert Taft (Rep. Ohio) last night called for the immediate of Chinese National- of Halifax, March 17 -- (CP) -- The | hands of others. | aircraft carrier Magnificent and the | | destroyer Micmac will sail on a five- | control board, and public hearings | | week training cruise to the Carib- | under the present arrangements | Toronto, March 17--(CP)--C. R. have this matter in their own | Conquergood, who retired last year hands." . | after 12 years as a trustee on To- Milk prices had not risen as ra- | ronto's Board of Education, has | pidly as other food prices since the | been chusen as the man who con- war, the Premier said. Farmers | tributed most to secondary school and dairies had tried to keep prices | equcation in Ontario during 1950. down, b.t the public had felt their | The Ontario Secondary School interests were completely in the i Teichers' Federation makes the choice annually. Mr. Conquergood was one of the 21 members of Mr. on applications for price increases, | Justice J. A. 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