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Show CANADA-U. S. SHIP CANAL IS PLANNED jSJORTH BAT, Out.. May 7. Tne international joint waterways' commission com-mission Jointly opened hearings today on the proposed St. Lawrenco deep waterway. Interests favoring and opposed to the project wero represented at the initial meeting. Sessions will continue through June at various Canadian and American centers. The plan of joint development by Canada and the United States of tho St. Lawrence ship canal is supported by the former country, with the exception ex-ception of the city of Montreal, and . by fourteen western and mlddlo western west-ern states south of the border. Newj York is leading the opposition, seeing in the scheme a menace to the New York state barge canal and possibly rivalry to the port of New York. |