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SE VENTEEN PERISH 11v ONTARIO FOREST FIRE

"A TALITIES MARK JE WISH- ARAB DISORDERS lFlames Ego With

ASSASNNATITIN ATTEMPT I S

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Four Bombs Hurled At Car Conveying Brit- ish Commissioner Edward Keith- Roach.

JERUSALEM, Oct. 11- (CP)-.i\n attempt to ass- assinate the British District Commissioner of Jerusalem and a fight against Arab outposts marked the bitter dispute today among Arabs, Jews and British authoriti- lies attempting .to restore order.

Four bombs were hurled at lildlvard Keith-Roach’s auto from the old city walls in front of the Rockfeller lluseum. Mr. Keith-Roach, in office since 1931, escaped injury as did occupants of two military escort cars and l. police cur which accom- panied him.

ltelnforcelnents Called Out

Reiniorccnlcnts of British troops were called out in northern Palestine to assist police ill oattllng on Arab bend near Mount Carmel where in biblical times Elijah offered sacrifices. Through- lllt the night British forces en- gaged the band which was llrengthened by the addition of lnanr Arab villagers. Alrforce Qantas were sent up to lllumlne e scene with parachute flares. Troops dispersed the Arabs at lawn. taking five prisoners and

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COMTNCI ‘EVENT!

"Tcllklcs-Morell Tuesday. L-227-10-11-1i.

"Tnlkles-Qt. Peter; Wednesday. L-227-10-1i-i .

Thurs- -10- 11-21.

"Talkies-Murray ‘River ii)‘. L-227 "T lk’ —Eld Frid .

a ms on L-gNI-IO-Il-Ii. "T lki M i W d sday» a 68' apequeL-ZTS-rill-IZ-li. "T lkl s-C d Tl l‘ day» a e mm“ LrNNS-slll-IZ-Ii. talkics Wednesday

"Borden

flight. L-239-i0-11-21. "Dance connn-‘ann. Monday). October 17th. L-fid-IO-IZ-l . "Dance ill Forest Hill Hall Nimrod-ll’. October" 13th. Webster's Orchestra L-267-10-l2-1i.

"Bingo and Dance lll Lot 65 HR"

tonight. Good music. L.-269-10-l2-1i. p

"Dance at Victoria Rink every Wednesdav night.

"Dance, ‘Tracadie Hall Otiobvr 14th. L-2Tl-

"Deuce at VVEICUIIIB Inn, Brack- .

l! Thereby 13th. ' mwb?.-28l-10-12-2i.

Friday. 10-12-21.

“Chicken supper Graham's Road Hall. Wednesday eveninfl. October 12. 2o cents. L-aoa.

"Klnkora Hall -— Dance Friday “£11. October 14th with summer- Ii Orchestra. n-m-lo-lz-ll.

"Dr. IoColuslei-e, Dentist, will be it Georgetown Oct/Oiled‘ 13th 17th Usivc. 11-272-1 -12-1i.

“l-lleh Tea 1n no or Cilarlotte- Hospital, Holy Name Hall, wwflssdav and

Th d . urlsh-NTIJ-IO-IZ-Bi.

"Rcmember Milton Church fileken supper Thursday, Oct. “hi “loner served o p. m.

11-322-10-8-21.

m lei) dancing Contut and Dance I 5t. Peters Hall Tuesday. October tam Also tap dancing y Joe Mor- "W L-2 o-lo-la-ll.

O In“ i‘? nsultsssrresrrsr “a 9 - nioo-lo-Yfisl.

0o “W Bot-om w. c. r. u. meeting

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ion. editor Whtto Ribbon Tidings. n-aoo.

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Freetown Exhibition Wins‘ Ch’shfp

(C. P. by Guardian's Spcclgl wire) COLUMBUS, 0., Oct, 11.. Ilolbr c. Lewis of Freetown. P. l3. L. won reserve grand Qhlmliloll-Qhlp at National Dairy Show today with his wear-old Holstein bull, Booker Fence the Great, and W" Pllflcd second in his clus lll the field of seven. This bull wu reserve [rand champion It this year's Canadian Na. tional Exhibition and at. Ion- don Exhibition and was [rand chfimlllon at. Charlottetown.

llllnllmo RESCUE or YilllNiL GIRL

FORT WILLIAM. Ont. Oct 11 —(CP)--Story of a 16-year-old girl who clung to a dead tree overhanging a 400-foot. precipice for nine hours and her rescue yesterday by Constable A. Francis of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was told here today.

Doris Cockburn and Rita Rape, both 1d years old. narrowly es- caped death durlng the weekend when they lost their way whiie de- cending from 900-Icot Mount Mc- llfay, three miles from Fort Wil-

am.

Miss Cockburn. trying to reach a. ledge, iound herself unable to get either up or down. Her com- panion stold her to hang onto a dead tree while she went for as- slstance.

Miss Pope left her companion at 8 o'clock Sunday night and after a. harrowing two-hours de- scending the mountain she reach- ed an Indian mission at midnight and brought a rescue plarty.

By the aid of flas lights, pol- ice flvm the foot of the mountain were able to locate the position of the girl and directed workers up the mountainside. Constable Francis was lowered 150 feet by a, rope from the first ledge o1 the mountain. Four constables held him as he pulled Miss Cockburn to safety, at 6 a. m. Monday.

Increase Shown In C. N. R. Earnings

MONTREAL. Que., Oct. l1—'I‘he Eross revenues of the all inclusive Canadian National Railways sys- tom for the week ending October 7, 1938 were $4,496,271 as compared with $4,309,844 f?’ the correspond- rl pero of 1 3 , an increase of $i%7,42'7.

tC-P. By Guardian's Special Wire) SYuNEr, N. 5., Oct. 11—Fore- cast ‘of action Llfiiiillh; with trade relations between the Maritime Hohhot... and Central Canada were made today b J. A. Morris, Moncton, N. B. at l. e opening ses- sion of the 40th annual me of the Maritime Board of Trade

ere.

Replying to welcoming remarks by Mayor G, B. Blaven of Sydney and Johnston Che-w, Glace Bay, president oi t-ile Associated Boards of ‘trade for Cape Breton Island the New Brunswick vice president urged an attempt be made to re- auce the unfavorable balance exist- ..l,, for the Maritime Provinces in .11.. l provincial trade.

.._ suggcsod the accumulation, under the auspices of the Maritime Board, of statistics tor the use of Maritime "exporters."

Following title approving of the minutes oi t-ae last meenn . the honorary secretary, F. ure nclanders, b81111. JOTIII, N. B. DN- sented his report for the year.

Reports of chairman D. B. hirn- bull, Halifax, of, the Transportodon Conlmlsslon which is supported by the governments of Nova Scotia, new nruilswlck and I-llilce Edward Island and of the manager of the ommioslon, Bond i-l. Mauleson. Moncton, were presented and re- oeived by tpe mfeune with the suggeslion tiot tie man er's re- portbepiacedtntlhehm oft-he individual boards in the three P"-

noes. Following luncheon at which '1'". H. Sexton, director of Nova. Scot.“ apprenticeship scheme and Pflniiliifll of Nova Scotia. Technical Oollefle. Halifax, spoke on ewrenticuhiv training and youth. the mae inB "- turned in st. Ltcsrgeb Hall where business sessions are being held.

l th afternoon session. F. v-Pltfifitl nil... n»... read . l»-

N N N Tl A R I llN TRllllPS GIVEN BIB lllEllIllME

Ceded Czech Border Areas Taken Over By Hungary Pend- mg Complete Settle- ment.

(A-P. B Guardian's Special Wire) t PRA UE, Oct. ll — Hangar-la.“ "WP! today completed symbolic occupation of two former Czccho. slovak border towns-Ipolysng and batoralja Ujhcly-pending complete settlement of Hungary's territorial “"1 mlnilril-y demands in a confer- cnce at Komarom.

The Prague Government, mean. While. Wfesllfid with problem; aris- lllg from German occupation of’ Sudetenland, artlcuiarly the res- once in Czec oslovakia of 0,000 lefllsecs from sudolenlnna,

The Bohemian provincial govern- "lcm lllllolntcd a committee of 10 former residents of ‘ ‘ land‘ m] mvvst-isnto re stration lists and dctenmine when fefllgceg cguh] b.- sent back to their homes without Personal danger,

RIOTOUS WELCOME

More than 4.000 residents of Ipo- lklfigldiile tilOfdCl‘ 5O miles 0 l1 R1998 . ng and danced to Hungarian nlltsiv? as the Hun.. 88mm troops took over at; 1.20 p. m. today. The occupation of the Czcchosim Yak lid-it oi tile border town of lblflglgifllla Ulhely was Compleed 1...;

{Iunglnlfln lYWD-i \\'1licll had been anflyfici at. the border lol- torcrftll ‘Jccllpfiililll. if necessary, were jubil- alll-ly welcomed in the lhlillt.‘ o1 about 1,000,000 Hullglirluils, till; "Tllliml-y dWQmIIS in an artu oi. more than 0.000 square miles de- manded by Budapest.

PIE-Sue authorities have indicat- ed 61¢)’ consider the demand cx- ccssive but tllc matter had been Dlaceu ill lilo llalltts ol .1 llClflg-JTTOIL headed by the Prime Mu cr otl

newly autonomous slot-akin, Dr. l Joseph Flso. for settlement at Komurom. '1 ilc Slovn i: part _ul'

Czechoslovakia was principally lll- volvcd ill Hungarian demands.

NEGOTIATIONS RECESSED

HOMAROIVI. on the CZ-(Btfiltlfiiih) Vilri-Hllllgilllilll Border, Ccl. 11 Ncgo l-llllullb‘ for tactllrntcllt of llutl-; Billy's demands 0n CZCCDCSTOYHTLH were recessed until tomorrow aftpr a brief zllterlum contlrcnct‘ wlllcn l1 Prat-lite delegate said ended ill deadlock.

It tvas announced officially both‘, d9~9i§iltluli5 \\'0ultl prtsellt C0llf.1'-‘ clilce data t0 their govrlllnlcllts lo-i right ill tile- ill erlnl briwovn talks.

Tile Hungarians. it was under- stood. WORK‘ msolnn. Cii to snlll oil territory including the ci.lrs of FFHMSTKIVB. Nara, Kasxa and Ung- 'ar_

The occupation last night and today 0f two frontier town», 1pc-

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Interprovincial _ T 1's Discussed At Annual Meeting Mar. Trade Board

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per on "The Truck Problem" ivlth pflIt-ULBI‘ utteilolcli lo Nth’ Bruit.- wlclk. ‘lllc pull-u. il-‘lil-llis’ QM abuses in that 12115111031, ovoktd uls- cusslon in which ‘llansporlatlotl Manager Matneson took port, read- ing {rum u memorandum sent by the Transportation Commission to the three governnlcn-s of the Marl- times with recommendations de- signed to eliminate abuses in that. business T

H, A. Rice, Canso, N. S., pointed out, following the transportation manager's address, the interference Wm, wgstal shipping services caused by the trucks, Particularly east of Halifax on the Nova Sootln coast was this true, he said. v

The enrol‘ UDJCCIAOII to trucks dzs- placing coastal craft according to the Canso delegate was the fact that. the truck service was seasonal and in winter the boats are needed to maintain communication with these more or less isolated laces.

Due to the_ during the su ever, he added, was not paying ship owners to run their boats and the result was a curtailment of service to these ports. He endorsed previous remarks by Matlleflon that re latlon of trucking was an "ab- soNlute necdWbut added that because of the convenience of the mode of transportation such regulations should not be too stringent, deal- ing mostly with safely precautions and fixl of a price scale.

conclud n? the discussion on mo- tor transpor , much action on which is deferred until the handlnghdoun of the decision of the evrlrl commission now sudying the ques- tion tn Ontario, n motion was put forward by N. T. Avard of Amherst. N, 3., cxpreasinrr the wholehearted approval 0f acticn taken by the ’l‘ransport Commrslon and pledging further support to its future net-

glitn off trade China W011 itejltlfifillifiidf —

Campaign“ For liIllY colllcll

Cancer Control

lProvincial Broil-Eh Of "Canada-lBY-Mw

wide Organization Formed , Last Night Under Leadership? Of Lt. Governor DeBlois.

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A Provincial branch of the of Cancer has been formed. The Canad an Society for the Oontroll Canadian Medical Association re- of Cancer was formed last night celves, from the Jubilee Fund, at an enthusiastic meeting of clt- $14,000 annually for expenses con- izcns in the City Hall board room. nectcd with this undertaking.

His Honor Lieutenant, Governor Dr, Maclvlillan, as assistant sec- DcBlois presided. retary 0f the Canadian Society.

Hon Dr. W. J. P. MacMiilan was requested to form the provin- assistant secretary of the Society ciai organization. He read the fed-

outlined the objectives of the 0r- cral charter and bylaws, explain- ganization after which a largo mg the objectives as set forth number of those present enrolled therein.

The bylaws provide that '75 per cent of the funds raised provin- ciaily are to be expended within the province. the balance going to meet expenses of the central or- ganization. The ordinary annual membership fee is one dollar.

Confidence was expressed as a result of last night's very encour- aging meeting. tint it would- be possible to obtain a large and re- presentative membership through- out the Province;

I] [WONT S TINMMENT ilN

as members.

His Honour the Lieutenant Gov- ernor has consented to act as a. Vice Resident of the Society, and head of the organization in this Province.

Mr. H. C. Bohaker was appoint ed Secretary of the provincial 0r- ganization, and Mr. J, F. Leight- izer Treasurer. .

Mr. D. A. MacKinnon was ap- pointed to accompany Dr. Mao- Millrln to the gland council of the Society which meets at Toronto on Nov. 1. Together they will consti- tute Prince Edward Island's re- presentation on the central organ- ization,

. Plans for extending the Society's membership throughout the Pro- vince “lore discussed by Mr. Jus- tice Arscnanlt, J’. W. Boulter, Dr. McGuigan. Dr, Creelman. Dr.

AMENIJS D06.

Routine Business, Transacted Al} Monthly Session. ll

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Routine business, including sec- ond reading of an amended sec-l lion of the by-law "relating tel dogs and the taxing thereof", was, conriuclcxl at a regular monthly" lnectinu of the Charlottetown City,

Council last night. Deputy Mayor‘

B. R. Holman presided in the ab. j soncc of Niayol- E. A. Foster W110‘, is on holiday to the United States. 'I‘llere was o. full attendance of. councillors.

Work at the new civic ail-port. was progressing very satisfactorily. it was said. Three more (lays- wcrk would complete the actual

cutting of trees and preliminary clearing on the newly acquired property" at Sherwood.

tllrcc tractors WOlllfl be in connection. with stulnping ope‘:-

atiolls to continue employment for . _ ‘ all areas lll the lT2I'

the more than 100 men now at

work on the project. Deputy May- 1

or Holman said. He

meeting with the engineer in chnruo of tile work. ilc told the council.

Councillor Henry Lapthom,

chairman of the employment and relief committee reported 411 men had been enlployctl on all civic projects dllriltlz lll’? mnnt-il 0f Scptclnfoor, 85 men had received employment since tlls- first of the year. ho continucd.

sow“ Dr" ‘mhnson’ J~ F" Might’ Of the year's c~.linlatcd tax col- IZM and Others‘ ' lcciion 6'1 1-2 per cent had al-

l“ opening m” meeting ms kl ready been “'\tllf‘"f‘fl into the City Honour stressed the increasing *1 i coffors Cotlll Ia (~ Chamlei. need for organizrrl control of can- (jhnn-“Ennuoli financi- t id A o

eel", as the death rate from this disease is increasing rapidly. It is time our people were aroused to the necessity for concerted act- ion in ro-operation with the med- ical profession, he said.

He cited the encouragcnlcili giv-

(A. P. by Guardian's Special Wire)

BERLIN, Oct. li-Celollel Cilar? les A. Lindbergh. silent on charges made against him by h group of llvolnincnt Silviet Russian aviators arrived today by plane to attend

meeting. 68 pcr cont of tllo c-"ti- mated expenditure had been tak- en up. llc announced. Collection of tax arrears was "rather more

ctory" while collection _ assessment was "not so good. particuialll‘ the lwrvnnal

on by the IIOCTCCTSTTPI‘ Institute, the annual pleating of tllc Llllen- . . . .. .. , . .._ which has made a grant: of $3 000,- thal Society‘ for Aerial Research. all‘,°.,l;‘,‘§,‘,‘fi°of“_§;,‘l_ 000 for the establishmen‘. of can- The nillnan declined to ccnl- 102mm, £32,1-. [Tn ‘ '" C01‘ clinics. in this Province, maa- mellt on the S;vlct fliers‘ accus Qthgy A 15mm, fpxmfting in. niiicent work has been clone in atlon that he beiitllcd the Rus- clu(1fl(l‘ a cow, ‘A A 119m fighting tuberculosis. and a sim- slflll air lOfPfidlllfl tllns cncournqz- uevqqc": n, y._é',,,.cpé.,lyv_' Co,“ ‘y llal campaign awaillst cancer has ed Anglo-French acct-police ,of E BIHWCHATTL m? and ugh,’ Cm“, become vitally important. Chnnccll" l-Ilil dcnlanrls for J T VIFK... D015“. Cmm “can, Holt, Dr. MacMillull explained Czeciloslov to '11 y Mcnahint. .,',,(i,.,. "Cmm ‘F C that; about half a million dollals I. I. Sikorsky‘, aircraft designer Dquqyqh‘ ' ‘T " i ' had bcen collected asla result‘ of and _lll.’\llllffl(‘l.lll‘Cl'. and W iwam, ropor, w“ rem, b‘, the 3511i?‘ Georg; V Sllvrr Jubllalie gonlllllsoll, lcscarch flier for hmm, 0m,,,.,._ Dr‘ B‘ C» Kmpin Can..r ililfi. T c trustees of ths lanscontlnental and Western mp1,“. mimlm. o; 1,031.), “ fund have entered into an ar- Air. Inc. also attenczid the Pots- D, 1'17 Cwken PM,‘ hi, rnpo rzingclnellt with the Canadian dam (iinllcr tfinigllt. C,'m;,,",,,,,',,,,,k ‘i‘,,}p...tio,f ‘T Medical Association, which has Sikorsky will (iiscllss “the large ‘ ' " '

T111112’ boat" at tile opening ses-

undertaken to set up in the hospi- sioll of the society tomorrow and

tals cf Canada cancer committees

of surgeons and physicians who Tcnllinsoll will give an address will devote special care tn cases the next. day on "high altitude of nlniiglznnt disease coming into fiyinlr observations and t"(‘flll0llll(‘ the hcpitnls. The work of these calculations." Lindbergh is not committees will include having flit.‘ scheduled to speak.

patients report at six months in- When Lindbergh attended the

tcrvals alts" ‘l’ " r " v> "roln Lilicntllai meeting in Munich last hospital. and also keeping elltbor- _vear the public spotlight was ale ca=e lusts“: ». lll cnvndian thrown upon him. PYGSTCfIIT; Karl Medical Association also undcr- Bosch of Heidelberg University’

called him a “man of high techni-

icok to organize in every Province ca-l ability and individual RCTITPVC-

a lay association to work in con-

junction with the doctors, and it meats, ill ciifferrnt fields who was for this purpose that the showed ills iaiilcrlnlld and the Canadian Society for" thc_Cont_r0 wh Wcrlzlwncyv possibilitics."____

LATE NEWS FlAsnEsl

AMHERST, N. 8., Oct. l1—lCl'l—l-\. J. blason of Sprlnghill, N. 5., was acquitted by a pctit jury of the Supreme Court today on a charge of manslaughter arising fronl the death of Nathan Stiles Inst June. Mason was operating m1 automobile that collided with Stiles‘ bicycle,

EDMONTON, Oct. 1l—(CP)--Plcuding guilty t0 a charge of mak- ing counterfeit Canadian coins, George Torjusson, 40, was remanded for sentence to Oct. 10 in police court today.

Detectives estimated Torjusson had placed approximately $2,500 of spurious coins in circulation hcre in the last foul- years.

OTTAWA, Oct. ll-(Clfi-The total of fully Qmlploynble persons on relief in August stood M. 124,000 in Canada, a decrease of six per cent- from the July tolal of 132.000, preliminary figures from the Department of Labor showed today.

NEW YORK, Oct. ll-(Ml-Frauleln Johanna Hofmann, 28, red- haircd alleged "pay off" agent for an international spy ring operating, in the United States, today lost ll. legal battle to quash evidence or seized by federal agents in connection with lie opening of an espiom age trial on Friday.

SHANGHAI, Oct. 1i—(Wodno|dly)—(AP)—‘l1ie Japanese forces tn reported to have cut the northern railway communication wlllflfifiiowfldifimilllfillnllltaneollsly to have landed troops in south China in preparation for a drive on Canton, the last big coastal clty in the hands of the Chinese Government.

OTTAWA. Oct. 11—(CP)-The King and Queen are “greatly look- in; forward" to their vlsllt to Canada next. sin-Inner. Ills Majesty said in a reply to a cable from Lord Tweedslnnlr expressing the 10y of the Can- rdllkllflpeople in the coming visit. The messages were made public her-q

on .

EDMONTON, Oct. l1—-(CP)—A Royal Commission composed of itlr. Jllltloe A, .A. McGllllvi-ny of Calgary and Major L. R. Llpsclt of Ard- TQY. Al“. to investigate the Alberta oil Industry, prepared tonight for any early opening of sittings to hear evidence and Investigate oil pro- duction coats and retail prices of oil to consumers. The first sitting ls expected to take place in Calgary Oct. 1'1.

ZEERUST. ‘Pl-annual, Union nf South Africa. Oct. II-(Afl-Gen- "I! h-n Sdnutl. Julilco Minllter of the Union of South All-ion, declared himself today against. binding the Union (lovcrnmentto gny pollcy n1 flat neutrality in n European war which might endanger the atatm of mandated Southeast Africa.

‘Ne’ near the tip of the Bermudas.

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Japanese Forces Take i

Sinyang

TOKYO, Ot . FZP-HVPHnes- vinyl-it'll‘) ——l)mnri. Japan- ese News Agency, reporter! t0- day that Jalpnnl-so forces llazl captured (‘hr Pclpinlz-llankosv ITITTWTI)’ town of Sinyaillz. 100 miles north of llnlikow. Chin- csc milii‘.:r_y' capital.

The . pzincsc have been l pushing ivestlvarll toward Sin- yuiig for many wet-km plan- ning to out thr- lino nml push snutlllvarrl along it to "LIIITHHV main objective 0f their central China drive.

Plans Indefinite l Premier King Tells Reporters

(C. P. by Guardian's Special Wire)

NEW YO Oct. 1i-Prinle Minlstcl‘ Mackenzie King and Dr. O. D. Skciion. Canadian under-t secretary of state for external affairs, sailed from New York 10-‘ night for a holiday in Bermuda; and the West Indies.

"Our plans still are indefinite." the Prime Minister said bcforcl sailing‘ aboard the Furllcss- Withy luxury liner Queen of Bor- muda. “I think we will stop a few days on Somerset Island. Fine‘ breakers there." he said ill (‘x-i plliinlng his choice of tile small‘

"Then I believe we will go on to‘

Jamaica."

The Prime Minister and Dr. Skt-lton. who left Ottawa last Saturday. spoilt tho last two (lays at Atlantic City. N. J.. in thr- com- pany of Holt. Charles Dullninl: and came to New" York by train: Just before sailing time.