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ww momengerm ~~~ March 29 aini +0 WWiitegate j roprmmenitne weemmmemmimim ns ntice J ile Deli * ON PROCEDURE All major crime, with the excep--\ cases in 1943 and 19 in 1942; 171 tion of murder and manslaughter, burglaries, as against 90; 754 shop--. Ontario is still pressing the Do increased in 1943 over él:42. anc: Zggakixzig cas}';s ai) corlr:pared with hest * juvenile delingquency was per cen , and 996 housebreakings as com-- mimon Government 10 Sef a dake o read of the 1964 figures, according| pared with 913 in 1942. Robberies for a Dominion--Provincial confer. to the report of the Commissioner| with violence rose from 43 in 1942 ence to determine procedure before of Provincial Police tabled in the| to 72 last year, and auto thefts were matters of mutual concern are Legislature yesterday. The total,up from 374 to 538. There were 285 taken up in detail, Premier George nuimber 0t97juve(\1nile lg;e;inguents in| auto ga(i)ta]itiesg'lin 1943 as compared ¥ i e y s 1943 was 597 and in there were| with 305 in 1942. Prew told the Legislature yester 355. There were 26 RCAF. crashes in day. s In this connection Commis--| Ontario in 1943, with a death toll of "We are anxious to have it at the sioner William Stringer said: "Un--| 57. Twelve persons were killed in a earliest possible date. Some things til parents are made to realize that| bus--train collision at Aldershot, the are seriously affected by the delay, the first responsibility in traininglreport said. the Premier said. | their children is theirs, and not| The commissioner's report spoke He has suggested, he told the |that of the State, the church and|of a "lack of supervision" in some House, a Dominion--Provincial joint | tthe school, there is little hope of| work camps for prisoners of war in planning board "to digest the af-- ! improvement." Ontario. It cited an incident where fairs under consideration." But he There were eight murders in On-- a Provincial officer picked up 10 said he thougnt "the most impor-- tario during 1943, compared with 12 escaped prisoners many miles from tant question is procedure to be fol-- in the preceding year. The figures their place of employment.. The lowed in dealing with matters of| 'for manslaughter were 16 and 25,lprisoners refused to go back and common concern." f I 1respectively. There were 25 rape' were taken to North Bay jail. The statement was made in ienss omcs enc t c esc rerys enc in uce oo momenrnonmernmomimenir e ommmmmmmnmnntertorrt ontromimnt on o cmmommeomen o4 wl e m in apacnnepnondinaine! answer to a question from L:_iborl Progressive Leader A, A. McLeod, who said a news report indicated| Ontario and Alberta had not beenl represented at a preliminary survey in Ottawa. Premier Drew said he would have thought no unwilling-, ness could be charged since he had written Premier King Jan. 6 andi later. He had received "@a rather| surprising communication from Mr. King," he said, indicating he would| like to have a certain official sentl to the meeting, purpose of which was not defined. | Replying to Mr. King's letter of March 21, Premier Drew had said, he told the House: "IL am glad to know from your letter of March 21 that a committee of the Dominion Cabinet has been established to prepare for the proposed Dominion-- Provincial conference. No indica-- tion has been given, however, of the subjects in relation to which factual material is being prepared. For that reason I do not know what work is contemplated. We will give the proposal immediate considera-- * tion when we are informed as to . what is being done." He had told Mr. King that in the meantime information was being ac-- cumulated for subjects requiring an early understanding and that the most important question to be decided was procedure in matters of common concern, "before any at-- tempt is made to prepare the finan-- clal or factual details." A joint planning board should be set up "to initiate and co--ordimate plan-- ning in all fields of postwar re-- establishment and _ development where the Dominion and Provincial P Governments, have a joint interest, in view of the delay in fixing a date -- for the conference." s