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‘All Sea Cadets are requested to report, in uniform, at H. M. C. S. Queen Charlotte at 12:30 today.

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05M. Cyril Holmes. fastest sprinter. has d retire from the season. When he is the army he ,'will devote his time to running the family oil business It Bolton in Lahcashlre

Holmes robably would have been an lylnpic sprints winner if the war hold not intervened. w

in e games.

Australia, during the B it

pire Games of 1938, he won both

sprint championships _ the 100

yards in 9.’! seconds and the 220 in

ll seconds. .

The 8-year-old rellw fireman iii

‘h, m, m, mm. hi, m, n- imasoan. Ont. May v-(oei- tmr middle-we m, clump- W. Garfield Case. Progressive Con-

servative member of the last House

for Grey North. Saturday was nom-

inated candidate for the riding in

the June ll Federal election.

Mr. Case defeated Defence Min-

datg‘ and

Pliils’ Rookie Sporting "High Batting Average. Inl First Three Weeks OfPlqy",

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' y ALLAN NICKLISON Canadian Iremlteff Writer LONDON, May 4—(CP)—Vince Hawkins won his 71st professional fight without defeatagainsta ring- master l6 ears his senior. lie also did a coup e of things he never had

e before.

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LT. ‘N. SAUNDERS, Commanding Officer, R. C. S. C. Kent.

Canadian Legion lI-E-liay Parade Veterans of all wars are to meet at the Arni- ouries this afternoon at 1.15 to join the mass par- ade in celebration of victory. Medals will be worn.

I. M. BROWN, Sec’y. Charlottetown Branch

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like uiir latest story resin. "i-inza. m‘; Yosgmg-‘iggmfi g; . iflllll“3'du"xl 2,11‘ Aggy-q-

kfgrino Peretti of Washington and. m“ es of 121s hum‘ flue: and a great rucoziteiu‘. 0pm.,“ u, m“. ‘ f8 lt- - iee w“ . “lb... it stirsgddffiehflrlt digs

y . s iirstiulli season‘ with’ New York Giants, al- zuboest commendable 2-1 aver-

Cetdier Bill sauna of Pi buiah m-

p . Haw , ed boy. never had been k

ed down before. Neither had he

— t LAID” C“EGAR ‘civil. been known to smile in the ‘ma; 15 ma“ h" i“ W‘ m" ' ' boxing master who, but for rarity»: o» £03m: ."£‘ii..'i€'{§. recriii‘: n'r'.°m"°sl°'“r"i§nis MERLE cannon t" "d" """"°'*P "l h“ 3" YMi m o o “game gave sllof the teams has been sharing th receiving -—- ,,,_ " h,“ m, gm, o, u, - A Real Thriller

mkht have taken the verdict was Glen Moody, Welsh light-heavy- Pressing close be the tfleld shorhfpp nag - -—"'-'——'-"—-—" “:- of ‘is’; Braves, a staniggdt ell their p ~ Sourle Thur. 8:80

Go rey, 0.0:. in e. by-election mt Feb . lent ch i . Th a isi :10”: ‘huh-HID Oil B 0C 0h. ialgelder. and second baseman Is

fs LOSS OF-

rounds was booed y

Albert Hall crowd but it was lner of Boston Red Box, with marks of .328 '

(Co tin ed Fr l) of sympathy ‘for the‘ n u 0m P“. 185 p0 had - __ d Prlsedreshmin hurlcr at the Jurl hittin _ . , l

mly a oeso -—-i——————i— fider man who, at unds, live from the disaster, as Esqui- a weight advantage of 4 l2 pounds. malt filled and sank within three Hawkins was a clear winner minutes after the torpedo struck mokment i?” Dave Forges, the ex- m “mush m” m er. tossed t ' " N ti so... A .... t. ..:.:. r... ..'...:...::"..::.:'".i i.“‘.i.i“‘.§.€.'." i. Jersey Gity

showed his unseen from the surrounding sea weaknesses as have none of his while most of the crew were asleep I . Wins Extra. I Inning Game

others, and the displa probably in their bunks. will make him underifligiln the When Esqulmalt left port on her betting for the middlew ht title (By The Canadian Prose) City Giants won out in

last voyage she canted 10 officers fight with the veteran Ems Rcd- and men. When the rescue ship, erlck of Liverpool. H. M.C.S. Samla, _reache_ci the Hawkins always carried the fight heavy-laden rafts with their piti- but revealed that his defence Ls} ful cargo, there were only 26 near- o en to a right to the chin and;dead men waiting for them. A- t at he has vet to learn how tn round them slumped the bodies oi act in a crisis. He went down for ’ i. the 10 inning of a see-saw strug- gle with the Rvoyals at Montreal yestercnyflpushing across s run in the extra rame to snatch the ball ame 5-4. Jack Bantu, on the mound for the Royals, walked Mike Sithemer

» iii ' lks Dil with I INN“ 0! - finmwgf a couple of safety pins. "r him the pins and he loo .mu,,d the placeéé /_ v "~i,,:.='-;,,Y.°“r3i§ ‘ill? 1.2. “h . . . l“. PM; this afternoon. so I gilt f‘ well sit in and give your gang rum rdvlce.’ I 5 ‘k 2WF$3m in? gto gall the way down the ’iirie. if} tells every Player on my e1 "m his betting weakness is and In“ he's going t; to . r ' \ i chlng at third base and '““...°.‘,”oi= is doing lust what y; said he was going to do. He's ‘o, Qygfybody on the team hand- "fled, and every time he gels rid g a batter he looks over at me lllli liusht- m 5K ii‘.

'7 "I don't think he was trying to Whigs psychology on us. but

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down with the ship, or died in the bitter waters, chilled to 35 or 36 degrees above zero by the great green icebergs that float down from Greenland in the spring. Sub Lieut. Kazakofl‘ had gone to his bunk before the torpedoing, and had been relieved by Silh- ' . Bruce Whitehead of Van- couver. Whitehead escaped the sinking, but died two hours later on the float, from cold and expo- sure like so many others.

Escaped By Miracle

Knznkofi escaped only by a mir. aclc, clawing his way from the ship through a Jagged hole in Es- qulmaltfis side left by the bursting torpedo.

Those of her crew-who could ‘make their way from the engine room or from their quarters for- ward, scrambled to the deck, which already ‘was canted at an alarm- ing angle as Esquinialt settled rapidly on her torn starboard side.

Only seconds elapsed from the struck until

MONTAGUI, SATURDAY 7:45 - 9:15 P-M.

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ARMY BAIIETS

All Army Cadets are to assemble at the Arm- ouries at l P. M. today.

Tale 0f A Shirt

(By The Canadian Press;

HALIFAX, May ‘l-‘Ilhis is a tale of a shirt.

Ideut. Robert MacMillan of Charlottetown, captain of th minesweeper Esqulmslt that w lost. by enemy action of! the Nova Scotia. coast last month. was the owner of the shirt.

He had become attached to the shirt, and it went with him through’

llarold Boyle Wine Pulitzer Prize '

.~ -.l\ Dir. dot-sir‘: slilrt batting order

l6 of their dead shipmates Survivors‘ Stories The dead were taken ashore for burial, and the living were brought to the big Royal Canadian Naval hos ital here, where survivors told ther stories after the shock had become a memory. Disaster struck suddenl for uimalt, as she and H. .C.S.

s. second or two in the seventh round from a right-hander that made him shiver from head to toes. A more experienced fighter would have stopped down longer but Hawkins rosi- quickly Further roof oi inexperience came in the round when Moody again caught Hawkins with a flurry oi Esq I “M” l“ viii“ ‘°"“°“ ‘° h“ sill“EH33ii2§§".r“'iif.“.il' orner or u ance. ro ng -~ c g -_--- lantic in search oi subs. One U- boat was lying in wait just bencziih the surface. and lashed out with a torpedo that struck Esqulmalt in her starboard engine room, just aft

i —_;—._—:____ _..-.»__-.;_-_~_-_= remember. No Loss Of Discipline

Even in the shock and confus- ion. there was no 1055 of dlsci line.

"No one left the ship untl ille Ca tain gave the ‘abandon slzlp’ or er-about one-half minute aft- er she was hit." said AB. Fred Mlmce of Montreal.

Mimee also hail been asleep. and was awakened by the shock. Es- quimalt was keeled over then, and his first thought was she had been ranuncd or had taken a bad list

saw YORFIIay '1—(AP) - Hsrold V. il-lali Boyle. Associated Press war correspondent, who told the day-by-day story of the Am- erican foot soldier in the battle for Europe. toda won the Pulitzer Prise for dis lnguished correspon- dence during the 1944.

Another $500 award went to Joe Rosenthal, Associated Press pho- mgrapgielicuiwiho made an epic l0.

l 0 in th States flag 01.1.8515: sJiéa. e U“ ted

Thi t - five - year-old Do v a ' Crowlreyi, former British light- weight champion attempting s.

most oi his sea voyages. Maclvlil. ian was wearing it during the siege

oi Tobruk in 104i when he was

what it was. Every batter 3

CHEW SEE.

l.'s

a]; faiced him expectedplbcgis to . hm u on eve .

{y git élé d!”

j "Dis crossed 'em all right; cross- - 'em by pitching to 'em exactly way he said he would. They gulaintvbelleve he had the nerve . o _

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I D1310 Walker. batting king of

major leagues, took a lusty out E

at the speeding white ball. His fl-ounce club met the pellet with scrlep crack that could be heard -|ll over llobets field. As the ball ‘suit booming over the right-field (Isl! for a three-run jliiin 16.000 wild-eyed Brooklyn exploded s joyous roar that

' ed the stands. y ‘lliere was double-benched 1 for joy in this eighth-inning E? l Wt the Dodlers aheed of ' New York Giants. 4-3 in s. re- t game, taming threatened de- eet iii-to ‘victory; and it proved the worried worshippers oi : er that their champ wasn't --liwnsh-"

iii it! l! loos. lean Dixie-most po ul joifilyh outfielder since the pdag of Zach Wheat-entered that

_' with U18 dWlfllBh batting f “IQ 0d’ .153. Th1! .151 in Iilfid I this seas’? was one heck

I ileum for e cocking South- ‘Jhloothad hammer: out .357 *€l§ll¢l* a year.

ihns. writers and even Dixie, begin

527% m‘ caught n‘ wtleh ‘tel?’ - u linear-old survivo p e

ll W0 he asked ma.

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tire before tlée game.‘ m‘ m.“ iii

Dixie m d this . "Y- he aexeplsined rigftgiftbeiesluuie h" not Polite to ask for extra Will practice at this stage of the ltuoh when the squads are large d" wry men wants his m ota of "licks" in the batting cage. m er readily granted his re- ' ~ iii MN-renta‘ e Hansen's ltluice recovery in gglnl-inlllathigt s walk “bulb. an: nWii°°ii°rrJ§"'° l: filigree with u; "m, , mher in the eighth. That blow- ~ 311611)’ Rosen and Augie g1“ ilreldv on base - caused mega? ito be yanked from the mmediately and tagged “NW-Bill! rookie with his first of the*seeson.

beau the in the fourth;

iii-leg;

“filth Bolt-spoken Doxle ma _t dressing mom after the y

t "WDQIIIDB lslhtbl)’ before the end

second in- -

in the 10th and he went to second on a wild pitch. He advanced to third when Layton's blooper fell safe in short right fleld and came home on Charlie Meadh long ily.

A surprising Monda crowd esti- mated st 4,000 turn up for the game. apparent because of the stores closing a r the new: from

"We.

Weird fielding and Frankl-lillers soft pitching combined to help Rochester score its first victory of the season at home before 53B fans, Red Wings defeating New-

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ark 8 .

Bobby Rausch led the attack on Hiller and two other Newark hur- lers by collecting five strai ht wins. Glenn Gardner held the ears to six hits, qruok out three and ls- sued nnry e walk.

Sports World Expects Swing Back To Normal

WASHINGPIDN, Ma. ’l—(AP)~-.. Unconditional sin-rep r of Ger. miUWJOIlIIKi the American sports World DOIsed tndey for a gradual swing beck to normal conditions. Bearing in mind that Japanstlll must be beaten ,tliese ‘ * y: develormenu were consider-

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Rfllilithll’! photograph, made for the wartime still picture pool was taken in February, 194-5, and

gible for a i944 award, but the rule gaghgdllfillggglendpléjfor “this distin- noggced. ' w“ m‘ e Piillt P

distinguishedeiiovgllzgf ‘igi-iflderiltufd John Hersey. for “A sensor Adano" “d i° Mary Chase for "Harvey" the best original American play.

CELEBRATIONS-

,.= lcggilrmeiaqniase l) m- ____-_=-__

their Loomplete and crushing vie.

d nowéiotzws." he told ie

I- "Wilde, “that lifter "lié.>'i.‘é‘°'...‘” mgtldnuous warfare this force ithe e armies) has accomplished its mission with a iinalitv achieved by

no other expedition in history."

Victory Luncheon

Mr. Churchill however, t lump on his countrymen tits“? Personal victory luncheon at 1o Do Street at noon today, the Press Association reported. Mem. bers of his War Cabinet and the Chiefs of Staff were tbs guests. The news hit Ilondon in mid-af- ternoon and the crowds swelled by

normally would not have been ell- D

the thousands. Buckingham Palace States

tt hedt th R 1N

RIrBrt-igtéffililtéfllhe o" aw m the

e youthful kl , .l f r. W. J. P. lslagbglixiarfioufsoilmgr Conservative Premier and pNsent Opposition Leader in the Prince Edward island Legislature, was a. board a small Norwegian whaler when it was dive-bombed and gunk near the jetty in Tobruk harbor. He was wearing the shirt.

The shirt and the skipper came through another bombing in the Mediterranean, this time ‘by high_ level enemy bombers. and the shirt was still with him when an enaelitny torpedo ripped into Erqul.

m . . “I'm going to r n k thi ” iaidklleuth Macltiilfiri in t-iiepliiligz-y a ere "i1 d aiiiuipbumitl“ n m“ ‘hm’

King Leopold 0f Belgium Is Liberated

WITH ‘THE 0.8. 7TH ARMY. May 8-('I‘ueeday) —(AP) — King Leopold of Belgium ,and his Queen have been liberated by the Unlred md 7th Army, it was announced

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was f l int f h i - ‘mallgéilu Lpo or“: e Lela-bra)

ll men and women of United Nations as well as mold-textile Em- pire milled around for hours. Planes roared overhead. The

"aim aueeirimirstabafiamiiauaeisn

of this mon . Dedication by M or Lea ue baseball of next Sun ay's doub e- headers to victory oyer Giermasiy; Announcement by the War De- t on its investigation of al- ations that 4-1!‘ professional a in have been discriminated lfieinst in the draf ' And. later, the return of some outstanding athlotu to the play- ing ranks under the army's system for dischargmg 2,000,000 was vete-

nae. Government circles oontln brush ssidoall direct questions-s- bout a resumption o racing, ut officials maintained they ed b moved

schedule opens. h substantial n ber players beck.

Baseball Results

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Grenadier Guards marched bv the Palace in.resplendent formation. Flags flew from homes and bus- iness ers wore little flags of red. whie and blue rosettes in their coat lapels. But throughout the afternoon, many millions of solemn workers stayed on their jobs and some did not actually hear the news until nearly nightfall. Evening brought a new lift to lhc festival. Pubs were jammed. vic- tory champagne was brought up from this deep cellars and long- hoarded whiskey and gin came out of hiding. Beer flowed by the bar-

ul . uPo% ood hdusmglicdly P wfint thro e crow orig ar n- ment Bteet explaining there would be no proclamation by m. church- Bimilinrly the news that .... spur-tear. “our t c e throngs in ccudilly, Trafalgar and Leisceeter Bmiares.

WAS NOT FIRST-

‘15 _*": ._.i _ _ them. Not only because his mem-

is good. but because he has come to grips with them far- ilurig places and therefore knows their ways as few Canadian Navy men know them.

is not because of their

establishments and London-i

They were found near strobl. eight miles east of Salaburg. l ‘The Americans had been told the whereabouts of the Royal party by civilians.

With the and Queen were l8 members of t eir staff ‘and four children.

All were in good health.

power German 8.5.

troops in order to make the rescue. They now are closely guarding the Royal parity.

to succumb. Neither Lieut. Mc- Millan. as commanding officeiaijicr his brother officer. Licut. Mike Kazakofl of Saskatchewan, spared themsel in doing what they could for the dying men. They cast longing eyes toward the dist- ant horizon but no ship came within their vision and the hours

. A515, one by one. men

l6 dead men and 36 more dead than alive. Rushed to shore and hospital the agling ihulckly recover- ed. Th , br efly, the story of the gallant litte Esqulmalt and her gallant commander, on that tragic morning out in the North Atlantic.

Lieut. MacMillan wee called to the Navy in May of i940. He had been on the naval reserve since i933 so it was only natural his services should be required. He spentbut a few months in Canada before be called England and from ere he went to the Mediterranean where he was ll'l command oi a minesweeper. There he saw action involving mbing,

comeback, made the card a veter- ans’ gala night.by taking a points decision from Al Phillim, recently beaten by 39-year-old Nel Tarle- ton for the British featherweight

crown.

The decision confirmed s recent victory on a foul and it was ob- vious there was hard feellng be- tween the two. Crowley took the gtlng from Phillips’ slvinillnl blows with a smotherins deffnitée and gained his points with e - hand gouging. especially durlns K

of amidships.

Her seaboat was smashed, and two oi her six carley floats were useless, so those who could scram- ble from the fast-settling vessel crowded into the four remaining floats. Lieut. MacMillan, who was in his bunk when it happened. scrambled topside and gave the “abandon ship" order when he saw his craft was doomed.

He estimated about 45 men rot

away from the vessel and reached

the floats, the rest were flicked

spurt in e fllllll_l'g~lll'_ldri_.__

s. I4 ‘\ Qilllli smnnnm

v‘7“"‘v '

time she was

he got topside Dempster

released by th

someone ivho because _i_iou_e____

membe a were fighting their way to the slippery decks. As AB. Ed- ward Dempster of Victoria put it, ' othlng flat.” dashed for the aft starboard floats and cut them loose as the water crept rapidly up the canted decks. The other floats apparently were e automatic devi [or else they were cut loose ‘by! thriv CCHVXRGQS irntclicd helplessly, e ,.

“in n

didn't live

in a heavy

Others dashed from their bunks, only half-clad and with llntliill); but their “Mac West“ lifcjriclzcis to protect them from the blncr sea. Immersed in icy water for much of the time-the four film's were so loaded that at times tllry were floating three feet beneath the surface of the water-many

to

died in the first two hours. WlliiG

After the first two hours, few

tligirvlvors could i died but all were close to death.

l- iiri uv GENE c-c-u- PARTS

"Boys will be boys" and in that process they often give their Bikes hard usage far beyond reasonable wear and

Mill’.

They soon get to know where they can have their "Bikes" "fixed", or obtain new long-wearing Dunlop tires and accessories and those all-

the thelr torpedoes against th his ships and twice he has been miracu ously saved. Once in the Mediterranean. when he was in ’ of a mineswee r oper-

important genuine C.C.M. spare parts. sign of the C.C.M. dealer. -

There are over 2,000 such dealers in Canada for

lNTEfi-‘TIONAL invariably “that place" is at the

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torpedoing, and whatever else the Germans and Italians had to throw at the Allied fleet, but he survived it all and returned to

‘drain d"

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8 t- e- ..? _ “w”! i0 mt reel worried because in” . Ions

llfltlmhl

was off-or something. now exactly what was

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"X illwred it was lack of . prac- mv but I wasn't sure. You see l m‘ "Ported late for s ring train- Mnléwiuu of s si ht mm “Mn ‘malldinl- And when the mwhenmmfltd. it seemed that the y, u“ we‘? Way ahead of me-

I was behind them.

l didn’ Wrong,

ll was the worst

beginning of s gen] lihad made since r start- mglww baseball. n m. 9 let-down after m I 011 last vear lt-iiown ' ' "miss

was a y good It was Ii terrible when I knew the fans B0 much of me. 9K 3K iii