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-- Helped Bolster Our Resolve, . Willki Tribute fo Pepper, f I6 The ceremonies prorogtnnx: the tthe dark ages of tyranny and llavot'y Legislature last night were witness'- Ilslmll not return to the earth. ed bv thirty-live p.xocutive heads all He expressed regret in the death the Columbia Broadcasting System. of Sir Frederick Banting and land- who at present are in the city as ed the Government in its record '0! guests or the Ontario Triavoi S1i5,600,000.1940-41 surplus and tts Bureau Otherwise the galleries resolve for the current fiscal year held but a few scattered witnesses to have a surplus ovr'r expenditures. to the brief and formal ceremony. without borrowing except for re- lion. Albert Maintain. Lieutenvtundilm purposes- f ant-Governor. gave lls'l'lll to Ji/o/Cl As the session closed, l"T were seven bills and in hi" final mus-saga- ,two legislative items still left on lo the members urged [ho-m lo (In the order paper, the women tutors vote the-matches "to the great iliill and the act to prmtdt' for. the . crusade in which the {tee drmoc-lsusponsion "f x'ritntl Jun" for lit" racies of the world are julltt'd." 'dttration of the war. .\clthet. . h"- lip rettsrrod in the (lm'lsntt totes cause of criticism. had been gum: ot the Congress and Senate of the setund IttttltttL'. , United State, it) Hive "tllilt'sfllt'it'd ('onsctvatne Lender Drew ask". aid to our cause." lie impressed the (huernmenl's llll"llllUIl on the; gratitude tor the messages Ill Ir"y/l ttt 2H0 ""1110" tight ttt slt on, Legislature my en by Senator Claude ljur 'Ps. ' " Pepper and Wendell Willkte. '"rhr.s l "W" are Pot, "Mimi ll. sHIri In"! helped to strengthen our resol\e."|m:vr llepnunt. "You can write thel said the Licutcnant-Goxcinor, "that obituail-" t -..---_.- _ ' ------.-..------ , Three members of the select com- mittee which investigated the timber situation in the Province informed the House yesterday they had re. ceived letters from a former civil servant. Frederick Noad, which con- tained false and malicious state- ments. "This man," said J. M. Cooper. (Lin. Sudhuryt chairman of the committee. "tharges that he was denied the privilege of giving evi- dence. That is a premeditated and deliberate falsehood. We received several letters from him during the, . meetings and they were both scam; dalous and malicious. lie asked the' former chairman. lion. Mr. Leduc, if he could give evidence and was told he would be called after the witnesses of the companies and other interests had been heard. but he was not present when he could ' have given evidence. Dr. H. E. Walsh tCon.. Hastings Eastt said "I have never seen the man but as a medical man I know, after reading his letters. that I could place him in his proper cate- gory." "I want to cone ' with the other members." said Colonel Drew, "in saying that there was no action taken to prevent him, or any other irrational witness. from appearing. He sat in on the sessions for some time. like the ghost at Banquo's feast. lle heard a lot of the evidence, hut when he was not present when he could have appeared we thought he had decided his evidence was not . valuable." .