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lllud G" i“ "m" onthe side of the Church? Then su-p uver the line yourself. - Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew

Charlottetown Guardian. Two Cents, llnrlillll Guardian, Ieuntlel IMI

RED TRODPS DIG INTO IMAPRDViSEB Th

ilanadian Sailors lrrive at Gibraltar

GIBRALTAR. July IB-(CP- 11g ERS) .- Canadian sailors 1m“; arrived here an rt of pt E-boatl ndtlntl the British naval force! of strategic hose.

The tlny boats ill-d a thriiln voyage from Britain, 15-100 “TIYCS tossing them around like corks. Because o! the restricted storage space for fresh food,_lt was neeesary to limit the two fllillTfl and 0 crewman aboard eat-h vessel o. ships’ biscuit and "bully beef" for half the voy-

nit‘.

L'l‘ho decision to send the ships-each of them osrrylng drplii chnr|el among other “filaments-wee "taken after till-Ir success against submar- Ines in the waters surrounding Britain

isolationist has inside llop on Roosevelt Plans

SALT LAKE CITY. Jilly lB-(AP) wRCDVlIi/ E. Wood. national chair- nlcn ol‘ the America First Commit- tee. told interviewers today:-

"l have coltfiderltiai information, whit". received just this morning thllt sidélit- Roosevelt intended to take over Dakar. Calne Verde and the Azores lust as he took over lrelnuri. but nrmv officials stunned lll and prevented the occubotion. Ami from reliable sources I also am ’ lllrvi lhnt an attempt to repeal ‘ulllullltv Act. will be made in ss soon. But it will be defeat-

. d. p sident of Sears. Roebuck lulcl rn outstnndinfl st. mode tlhe statement v: n hviclf pin-no stopover. He. is ie from Chicago to 1,05 An.

cries.

Weed termed the occupation of ic lifl "a rank. uniustifinble move ll‘; into war." ssserlinw the Hates i".i‘.l{ over Greenland ‘l American shores and oc- Icclnnd to protect Green-

I“\‘?v.'.“ he asked. "wiult is to lore- ‘e w. f-xovn tikiml over Norway i0‘ Lrctcrt Iceland?"

Ql'i IVS FUND VONTIEERAL. July l8 -—tCPi ‘ll.il total oi the Queen's Can- iiil-ln Fund for rlr mid victims was snlln-nlcerl lnnisi t no $469138, com- pared with 1450371 a week ago.

TOTALS

Coming Events

@0- Notices in this column I rents per word.

"Dance. Glenfimmn School. iiouuuv. July 21st. h-aaa-l-lo-zl. '_"‘lilli)c River Tea and Picnic, July lord. L-tllLl-T-lll-ll. "Duntxe. St. Teresa's, July 22nd. Webster's Ortfllestra. L-BZA-‘l-lfi-Zi.

"Wanted w buy Strawberries Chit-ken. Fowl. Island Cold Storage L-Blll-‘Pil-tf "Reserve Wednesday July 23rd.

1min Party at Bonsh-uw. L-Bdil-‘l-lil-ll.

"Dance and Ice Cream, Iyndaie

Bate for

School. July 23rd. Good music. l..-662-'l-l9-ll. "Scllozll Dance in Lorne Valley l-lall. July 21st. Webstors Oren- fsl-ifl. L-490-7-iB-2i.

"Dulce-Cardigan Hall Tuesday. Julv Iliad. Webster's Orchestra. L-54Il-7-l0-8i.

“"1128 Cream Festival in Cornwall-

flll. Tuesday evening, July 22nd.

Auspices of Young People's Union. 14-51141-19-22.

"Kinkora Hall Manda night. Jill‘! 21st. Ice Creun -e Mlscouclle Orchestra. L-5l0-7-l9-2l

mrwanted to buy-Bologna Cattle‘ Phevn and Veal Calves. all 5r es

one. write for nrloe. lslan Cold storm 0o u

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M"Buvlns Pigs at FNdOfk/LGD

citiiduv. Wednesday 1 P. M. Kelly's

lbgu-ss. Paying $8.00 for Pills over l2 - Knud Jorucnaon.

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sglzllust arrived. Onrloed of HM Niall. lgiellogw: 'é’.ifi'f.°.i“°e.{‘.ii°‘ biwwws. P. n. 1. lraes-Iv-ls-el.

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Julv 21st. Charlottetown Boys Ban

in e..l..‘a...‘.““i-.°§.a ‘ffi-titflf "District Convention ‘of

institutes. Belfast

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Pllblic meet.- L-bfl-‘l-lfldi. so i‘

Vidal glrstlgflldfporllafilllfntlag will‘ Traverse, Arm-us 0o Pst-morelsnd, ‘Lady an ‘films Plains Women's Institutes "mo. held in the Trvon B ‘ “A!

way. Alaska. on the ' er

Dutch Fire

Lightning Starts new Forest fires

flEA-‘ITLE. Jilly 1l——(AP)-—Hnnd- reds ed.’ new fires started by light- ning in sun-scorched forests of the Northwestern States and British Oolmnlyza brought urgent official a penis tonight’ for additional line- 1 liters.

1o drought, copped b sn un- prec ented heat wave when caus- ed nine death; in Washington and Oregon ilhis week, had made the fire situation acute before the lat- est outbreak.

Sound trucks toured the streets of Salem, 0re., culling for fighters to reinforce civilian conservation will" units battling the flames in the Williamette National Forest. Officials of the Wenatchee, Wash" National Forest Enid‘ ‘I00 more men were needed to ilelpthe 300 flghtng Wlvltlghtrtlglng-set ItlPGS there.

ore an 200 ires were r rted in Washington foresis-hsndeitgavel was banned in a. lthooo-acre area, because of the dangerous condition in the Rapid River section of the Sn llalmle Natlcnal Forest. It had 30 f res. The worst one swerpt 5.000 acres. reversed itself and sent many fire fighters fleeing into the river, T719 llfliiies destroyed several pnuzrlllps, hose line and other equip-

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Transooean Glosely tied With Nazi Party

WASHINGTON, July ill-JAIN- Asecrtlng that he was a former mnpioyee of Trzlnsicean News Ber- vlce, Charles E. Hewitt. J11. Nomi Tonalvanda. N.Y.. newsllalleiiiiflii. told federal district. court today that. Transoccan was clo=eiy con- nected with the German Foreign Office. the Ministry of Prrpasandu and the Nazi purty.

Hewitt testified, over defence ob- jections, at the trial of Trans- ocean on charges of fulyng to r118- lsfel- with the state Deporuueiii us an agent. of a foreign principal.

Tile New Yorker said he worked for Trzlllsccelln in Berlin in i933 nnci that its office was ncrr bend- qtlnrtcrs of the Gestapo, German sicret p:lice organization. Defence counsel objected especflllly to Hew- iLt’5 reference in the Gestapo.

Hclvitt told llle court that he now is treasurer and associate publisher of the Ncrth Tonawandu Evening News.

Tile two principal United States managers of Trllnsorean, Manfred zupp and Guenther Tomi, have left the country.

Although they faced the same chrlrzcs as the crgnnizatton witch employed them. they wcle released in exchange (or, release bv German authorities of two Amevcnn news- men.

Warns farmers Not To Sell Land

QUEBEC, July l8 —tCP) --Pre- mler Godbout cnilcti attention at a press conference today to the "alarming tendency of farmers in some sections of the province to sell their lands."

“In their own interest. I Ink them not to lei themselves beeome dazzled by t‘~~ attraction of n lit- tle mpltal," he said. "Motley does not last, but the laud remains and it can always keep alive anyone who cultivates it intelligently."

Hanson Opposes Alaskan highway Till After War .

PRINCE RUPERT. B. 0.. Jul 1B ilogdcr

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Bkag- ooae steam- noess Alice. on his WAY i0 make a short tour oi’ the Yukon.

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very desirable as a future peacetime undertaklna." H3" "Nobody in the United States malty went-s l . Only the Alaskonweonle are really insistent about it.

so. Henson would make no oom-

eed that if an attack were 6 , ".1 l th Unwed ‘$.22’ ‘this? wu... "-1 w-

t after the war. Mr. Hanson ls trave

0n Julv 24th. sessions at 2.30 P- I. _ bill-tidbit-

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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA SATUIlDAY, JULY 19, 1941

_ Great Supplies

NEW YOlR-K. July 15-0?)- Tlle Netherlands information bur- esu in a dispatch from London de-

clared wdey that reports have ruched the British ital of numerous fires. many of em nt-

tributcd to sabotage. having cans-- Bd glide dalmage in Holland rc- l1 y.

The London story declared the fact that acme of the blazes were known to hswe storied simultan- eously gave rise to belief they were the work od’ anti-Nazis bent on de. stiuyiiifl iii-Wile: taken over, or about to be taken over, by the Qer-

mans. "Iiwo o! the fires started almost simultaneously in the Naaidwiils district in the ‘coastal province o1 south ilolland. One of the fires, which broke out at Posldiik was illllfllily bmilflht under control but the other which occurred in the Zwactendlik auction buildings in the triw-n of Nasldvriik. destroyed aoooo oases of vecetables. Elston- slve German looting or Dutch veg- etwblee supplies has been under- wa/y ever since the occupation. "Flames also destroyed tine three top stories of a large gran store at Amersfcort recently. Fire also caused extensive damage to the Netheriand" Wire and Cable factory and warehouse in Amsterdam."

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Japs concentrate Many troop trains

SHANGHAI, July l9—(Saturday) --(A.P)-Forelgn dispatches from Peiplng said today the Japanese were concentrating trains there to transport troops either to Japan- ese-domlnated Manchoukuo or In- ner Monlzolia.

A majority of the troops which had been withdrawn from Shsrlsi Province were said to have been assembled at station west of Pei- ping, suggesting the possibility that they would be sent to reinforce Ja- pan's Inner Mongolian forces a- gainst the Russians.

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R.A.F. smashes lire continued

LONDON. Julv iB~tCPl--The Royal Air Force smashed today at objectives in oc-cupied France af- ter a night. oi bcmbing forays over industrial Germany which has lmd m rest since the Nazi attack cn Ruasiu June 22.

Cologne, scarred with the ashes and wreckage after repeated raids, was the principal target. of the night fliers. Again great flames sprang into the sky as super-bombs and incendlarles poured from the bays of British craft. \

Urges Normal Goal Production

GLACE BAY, N. 3-. July 18—(C- Pl- A return to normal production in the Cape Breton coalflelds was urged in a statement issued tonight by Silby Barrett, United Mine Workers international board mem- ber for District 26. President D. W. Morrison of the district said hB was in "fllll accord" with the state- ment.

For the last two months a cur- tailed production policy, formulat- ed by an outlaw convention of the miners. hes been in effect in the Cope Breton pits.

tluehee fully Behind fight

(m3 , a l lB-(CP) us- be? PTOVEEGI-YS llaiyders have Pie Bed their ulmosgesggggfzttghe Qlakheeixgl-lwlncces peoclg "i" 11!,“ Hitler in every ill-shim“ rm‘? Godbout told newfiiilllleme The Premier W88 "PM"! what. he said was criticism in I-fi unnamed Montreal newalilwi‘ °l \ |me¢h he msde recently at Olin. Que in which Quebec We "i" resefiikd as read to make every sacrifice in behaf of victory- “If the Premier of.’ ebecagriig; m” “w” m‘ “sh rlipeulte to the French Canadians} m m“ know who h W 5 P

‘g that speech." ".-‘§§,"f,'n..','$‘ on conscription hsa not changed any more than lle-s the attitude of our leaders at Ottawa. Prime Minister Kin! ti: the Minister of Justice, Mr. -

11.5 nee-tier said that m. Kins. during his recent tour 0f Wfllfim Canada, stated that, he would 0°11" suit; the peo le if he ever believes conscription as become neon-Bury-

. u; 1; will new!‘ come to that it voluntary enlistment in the other provinces continues ‘on the some‘ seals as irrtiutbfli.’ W-

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Japan sets Forth on new Secret policy

New Streamlined Cab- inet Free From Po- litical Ties.

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‘IOKYO. Jul 19-tSaturday)- (A?)-Ja an. ih s. newly BiTW-m- lined cab net free from political party ties and made up in half by three Admirals and four Generals. set forth anew today on her “im- mutnble" but still secret foreign policy.

‘The Empire's policy for coping

WASHINGTON. July lB-(A- Pl-Japans new government appeared tonight to offer scent hope of improvement in reinf- lons with the United States and Great. Britain or a lessening of tension in the Pacific.

The make-up oi the chiefly military cabinet. was analyved closely in official quarters hole for some clue to the direniozl of foreign policy but there was no comment.

with the international situation already has been fixed and it now remains for us to put it into prac- tice with decision and speed," said Premier Prince Fumlmaro Konoye last; night after the first meeting of the new government, his third. What action might be in prospect

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International lit A Glance

(Canadian Press) LONDON-Harry Hopkins tells Britain United States will produce 1,000,000 tons of merchant shipping this year, 6,000,000 tons in i942.

MOSCOW - Russians report heavy fighting all alonl the lint! and admit German left wing has reached a point. 75 miles farther east than previously reported.

BERLlN—Germnns claim cap- ture of Smolensk (Russians do not admit. lt.l

TOKYO—Ncw Japanese govern- ment to pursue “unaltered policy", thrust against French lndo-China believed likely.

Hundreds 0f Forest Fires Rage In B. C.

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VANCOUVER. Julv I-‘iref htlilll crows throughout Bvitisl Collnnblo lower lnnllll and Vancouver Island district night were battling hundreds small forest fires started by on el- ectrical slorln last night and several larger blitzes which have been burn- ing for nearly n week

the lflWCl‘ end of Vancouver island. hardest hit in the lilehbninlz storm. many oi l-he fires were hlitlnun on mcluntainsitics and fire fighters worked under difficulties because of their distance from streams from which water can be plumbed-

High Gommand Glaims Germans Beyond Smolensk

BERLIN. July lB-(AP) - ‘I'M German high command claimed to- night in a special communique that Nazi armored columns have smashed over and beyoiid u" strategio city of Smolensk on the most direct route to Moscow. iii“! bringing them to n point. lea than the Soviet capital.

230 miles from The German forces took Smol- ensk Wednesday. the hiiili 00m-

msnd said, and then claimed to have shattered repeated attempts o! the Red army to retake the vital rali and communications centre. (Fall of smote ls‘. has not been confirmed by Russia!- The Nani forces c turing the city broke the stalin lne between vitebsle and Mogilev and reached the elty over the broad land gate- we which lies between the wide Dneper and Dvins rivers. the Ger-

man high command claimed.

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Gol. ltalston At Amherst

AMHERST, NB.. July iB-(CP) —Oanad*a's Defence Minister. Col- onel Ralston. Stovfiped off here to- day on his way Halifax from Ottawa. to visit his mother, Mrs. B. W. Ralston. He will continue his {ourney to the Nova Scotia capital omorrow.

During the weekend in Halifax he will visit various military units and Monday he will fly to Prince Edward Island on en inspection trip and visit his constituency of Prince County.

Next week Colonel Ralsion will return to Halifax for an exchange 0d views with Mai-Gen. W. H. P. Ellsins, 0.0.0., Atlantic Command

The Defence Minister is accom- panied by his wife.

ll. S. continues Economic llffensive

wasnmorolv. July 1B —<AP>—- The economic offensive by the United States against the axis as- sumed world-wide proportions to- day as officials disclosed plans 101' "blackllstlnll" more companies 0°11‘ gidgred to be acting for the bene- fit of Germany and Italy.

The action of President Roosevelt in ordering a severance of all busi- ness relations with more than 1.300 firms and individuals in Isntln A- merica will be extended to certain firms in the far east and Europe to close all supply leaks to Germany and Italy, it. was announced by Dean Acheson, assistant secretary of state.

He said the government was Die- paring lists of firms in countries such as Japan, China, Portugal, Spain and Sweden through which gupplies might be reaming the axis.

Acheson, economic warfare super- visor at the state department. would not indicate how soon new 0-" 1i- mended blacklists would be issued or to what extent investigations n1- ready showed trade leaks to Ger- many and Italy.

interpreting The War llews|

(By Kirke L. Simpson. 55W" inted Press Staff ivritcr)

Russia's hflllfs m“ ti“ we“ thel‘ will intervene flgiiliisi the Nazi invaders are reileuied l“ Mggqgw reports that drench- ing rains have been falling in me central area of the vast. b“.§§‘°§’°'l‘§i..l... winter saved the country from Nilllfllfiiiii. downpouvs nnt uncommon in White Russia nnd the Ukraine could bulk Hitler's grandiose plan for annihilat- ing the Red army bfifvie the first. snow flit?!-

Juiy and August are the “wct." months in that pnvt of western Russia. Frequently in the past there have been delug- es in summer or enrly autumn, turning Russian roads to quag- mlres, fields to bogs. trickling streams to raging torrents. The “ average annual rainfall west of the Urals is about 20 inches and there have been times wnen ns much ns a fourth or even u third of that average has fal- len within n day or two.

However, it does not seem

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Power Attends British War Cabinet Session

LONDON, July 18—tCP Cubicl- Air Minister C. G. Power is the first Canadian to attend a meeting of the British war cabinet.

It. was learned today that he sot in on a meeting of the cabinet inst Wednesday, presumably discussing details of the Commonwealth nir training plan centred in Carlotta.

Tonight Mr. Powc! was a dinner guest of the Duke of Kent while Pensions Minister Ian MacKenzic. the other Canadian cabinet minis- fer in Britain, returnedto Iandon for Canada next. week.

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ll. S. to keep Sea lanes to loeland open

Roosevelt Sweeps Away Doubts As 'i‘o G0v’t Plans.

By Richard L. Turner Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON, July i8—(AP)- President Roosevelt today twept. away any lingering doubts that, at whatever cost, the United Slates government intends to keep tile sen

lanes to Iceland clellr.

At the same time, he sald he would throw his prestige fonnally and fully behind vopnsals for ex- tending the serv ce of draftees. national guardsmen and reserves in the US. Anny. A special message on that subject. he said, will go to Congress next week.

These developments came at a. press conference which. Mr. Roose- velt also made the rccllslon for an- other thrust at Senator Wheeler. (Dcm-Mnntannl, of the Senate opposition to his foreign policies.

Discussing the ocrupatlon of Iceland by American forces, the President said he did not care to comment on future troop move- merits. becnuse~and for emphasis

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"I don't thinks it's right that I should pull a Wheeler."

Vifheelev had already been my. erely critcired in administration quarter; for saying, in advance of

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Britain will Not submit to Jap pressure

SAN IRANCISCO. July l8-(AP) -Grent Britain ls anxious to pre- serve peace in the Pacific but will not submit to pressure by Japan even though occupied with a war elsewhere, Viscount Halifax said today.

“I need not tell you," the British Ambassador to the United States informed the Commonwealth Club, "that it is the settled policy of the British Government, as I have no doubt it is also of the Government of the United states. to do all in their power to preserve peace in the Pacific.

"Neither in the British Common- wealth of nations, nor I am sure in America, is there the slightest de- sire to pick i-l. uurrel with Japan and provided nt. the Japanese Government is willing to approach those questions which affect her in the For East with due regard for the rights of other interested pow- ers. I can see no reason why any

‘difficulties need arise which might

lead to a clttsh.

“But no one should make the mistake of thinking tlaat under pressure of the European struggle, Great Blutain need or will 311W llcr lcgltlnlnw rights and inicresxs in other part5 of the world to be ignored or set aside."

Huge gasoline Tanks explode

SEMTNOLE, 0kln., July iii- (APi—l'Ix]llndlng gasoline tllnks at tlll- nrnrlw Sinclair Oil re- finery sent flames shooting 2.- 000 feet into the air late tnliry.

Fire broke out with a series ofblnsts, and within an hour Bill Highland, Seminole pro- llu"? "Porter. said intense heat could be fell a mllr- from the nnt.

AnnNXimuil-iv 25 fnnlllics live in a nearby employees‘ camp.

Ambulances were sent to the scene, hut it. was not known immediately whether there were any injured.

The refinery has 30 storage tanks, eneh of 1.060 gallon ea- pnclty. Highland salll It look- ed us though "the whole thing is going up."

Vast military Preparations near Turkish frontier

LONDON. Jilly ill tCPlv-A dis- patch from lllc hlxcllange Telegraph Agency corresprndcnt in Istanbul reported tonight that vast mili- tnry preparations directed by tile German general st-nff were under way in Bulgaria. opposite the Turk- ish frontier.

‘Travellers reaching the Turkish side of the border were quoted as saying important events could be expected in Bulgaria. (Germany is reported to have asked 'I‘lll"l(t’Y for transit of supplies across that country to tire Rilsslrln Caucasus in ease Russia is decisively beaten