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P. E. I. Total $2,552.000 Last Night

e victory loan total in gioqiince reached 02.503000 "W" “y, lsavlfll 0448.01!) to b! fib- ad between today and tomorr- siriithelelandistoattaduitsub- active in the Filth victory mau- gilziégfiptlllll: yesterday totalled 1 . ‘The fight has not been lost by any means and salesmen are putt- ing on a finish line spurt from how until the books close. They are doing everything possible to boost the total. Ail they need is the woperstion of subscribers who vriie their names on the dotted

line.

By districts the results last night (with nuoifl in brackets) were: sumzvwiclra, 8636.300 (550-000); Prince County outside Summer -' , wipe (ignfpfiipaghariottéetowiii.

300 : cop's ouri y l town B00

true tie . ma. iFé-gooohwr County, $16,850

fills

Three More llentros In King's Bounty

County dis- top” yester- Loan drive, their respec-

rlcts were!

alo‘.‘:°°...3“i°'t..§i“i.'$. day in Victory and passing

w: ob actives. The

Dundee: Mr. W.B. Creed, can- ve-usr. st. Petra: lav. D.W. Mec-

Piiereonj canvasaor.

Georgetown: Mir. W31‘. Wood. eunvasscr.

BIOQGIOIM. Nov. 4 - (AP) - Soviet Russia was reported by the Germans today to be sendin! ‘beautiful and intelligent" women Ipies behind the German lines - parschuting them down at night-

'1'lie Svenska Morgonbladet quot-- ed a- German war correspondent as laying the women carried radio transmitters.

(illlllllii EVENTS

00.0 uiiisifloo" rTdngini? orwii-‘ii-i-"u "Dance in Blooming Point

School, Friday. November 5th- ll-4-2i. urra Harbor South.

sllklii-M Y MOTIGII. MINING 3-“. Nlflfl’.

"Dance, Vernon l-lall, Monday. November Bth. Millviow Olrleiae-gtrjfl-

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"North Wiltshh-e Teiephvnv

OTTAWA, Nov. 4 -— (OP) ~11!- tional Loan Headquarters announc- ed wnilht that Quebec Province

oversubscribed its Fif Vic-

hy one per cent, in go over the top in the 18-day campaign for $i,200.000 000.

The ouncement said this automatically puts Montreal island over its 854,000,000 objective al- though exact figures were not im- mediately available. Impetus to P ebec's oversubscriptlon was given today by t a Sun Life Assurance Company's vestmcnt of 522.500.-

thc minimum objective.

day's sales totalled $72,879,700 well above the daily average of 868.666.- 000 required to meet the national ouots within the campaign period.

To Review i944 Fariii Program

. .__. OTTAWA, Nov. 4 —(CPl— Can- ada's 1044agriculturul program will bgrcviewed in detail and objcciiycs eatabliahedmt h Dominion-Provin- cial‘ conference here next month with Dec. 6 '1 and 8 as the tenta- tive dates. officials said today. Provincial and farm organization representatives will hear outlines of Canadian and United Nations‘ food requirements for the coming year. and in turn they will describe what their particular areas may be able to produce.

Buy Bonds To Apply Pressure

(YITAWA. Nov. 4 — (CP) - Can- adian soldiers in Italy realize that only "constantly increasing press- ure" will brink about the final coll- apse oi the enemy, Maj. Gen. Guy Sinionds. commander of the Can- adian ist Division now serving with the British 8th Army, said in a victory loan message addressed to “every Canadian" and released today by loan headquarters.

iiint Allies May invade The Balkans

LONDON, Nov. 4 — (OP) -- b" Albania “freed from her Axis FORE and restored to her indepehdelwe was pledged by Prime Minister Churchill in reply to o- question 1h the House of Commons today.

st the same time he iscimd that British liaison officers are 0P- erating with Albanian guerillas,

ETOWN, CANADA, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 5, 1943

37F AlilllY CAPTURES VITAL JU

Only Today “and Tomorrow Left To Supp

Quebec First Over Top In Victory Loan Campaign

National total passes one-billion dollar mark.

Grayilon To Visit Maritimcs Shortly

OTTAWA, Nov. 4 —(CP)-—Gor- don Graydon Progreslve Conser- vative House Leader. returned to Ottawa today after n western Can~ ads. tour on party business. l-le will later visit the ‘Maritinses.

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B! Kirke L. Simpson. Associated Press Was- Analyst Startling uewfaglmalea from Switzerland of t_he_ha_voc Rein‘ wrought,

igt

atcd citizens of the Reich at B.

in: winter holds for Germans. has from ltiilian as well as British bases

s yet to be reckoned with.

car-ii Hitler and all he stands for as a tends that the junkers must retain

awakening German public wrath. lie al resporislbilil. own people. it s asserted.

ion as to the course the Gannon mi

slble. Official thought in London and nlficcncc io the fact that it was the

German personalities of all walks to

This was stressed

time but also are ready an gressiveiy to

of the cumulative effect of ever

American of the situation.

New Record Raids On G

Ontario Potato Record

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ALLISTON. Ont. Nov. 4 — (OP) — Three South Slmcoc potato growers set an Ontario record this year, with crops yielding 500 bushels to thc acre. Average yield in Ontario is 98 bushels to the acre. The three were honored last night at a dinner along with l5 other growers who raised more than 200 bushels in their tested onc- acre plots-

ll. S. Blimp Lost 0n Routine Flight

WASHINGTON. NOV. A~(APl-- Io=s of the Blimp K-94 with he!‘ eight-man crew as a result of 8 fire was announced by the United States Navy today.

The craft was destroyed while on n. routine flight in the West Tn-

lea.

"It is known that the loss of this airship was not the result of enemy action." the navy s d.

No survivors were fcurid Aull of the men aboard are listen‘ as mis- sirie." and next of kin have been notified. the navy said.

M. D. 6 Reaches 122.3 Per Cent Of Quota

Meeting nod until Novem- who. he said, are counted upon to ALIFAX N , 4 _ w?) __ oer eta. iiso .M. ll-5-il- p,“ ma], Egrtmflrzhéuture mllirtgxry Pgsnnne; zséiiiiiory Distrlxctthii?! P‘ uuimage Sale ist and 2nd ‘an "u" It “ ‘ ~ T!" w‘ ‘l e

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lilil mAissoxéxiimnng vgilil “b: thrust into the Balkans coincided o friiliierstltugrgoirsaixwero still out in

bald Saturday. November o atuil with the ‘siummoninilrby fill-Mi“?! firsthpositign filth-rigid? téer

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‘Mock m thtLny Han ti}. liiinlsigi-l to the Puehrer‘! fr... élfrsgowegyiailsesecond with 153.3

"Paying highest oricel l" iseaduuariere. apparently for the per cent. Halifax fortress sliDDed

chicken and fowl. D. M. 140K10- purpose of demanding more Biil- into third place with 150.0 to too non. Murray River. 11'5"“ garlan divisions to police the turbu- charlottetownu 150.5.

"Wanted to buy live and dressed diickena and fowl. Pa ins ifli market prices. island Col 5w 750.. Ltd. li-ifl-ti dressed 90,131;

:."BiLvi.nl live and .l.-‘i‘.‘.‘i‘i.io.

. daily. Pa hi... Canada lbbu

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@0114?! Friday evening November 5th It ii‘.lli.'l.'.:'r‘:.‘.ll'.‘l,¥‘°'"“i.fl9i£

;"Pantry Sale lgennellbg China; s , ovem . gird- Qmi “ doc Cross ooitimd,

"Unloading car Riobliihood fit?!" cm 30.x; mglmw hudquum" ‘muunud having moved to Antigonlsh six “'4' "45"" w! Bicil Vokea commanded the "S" '0“- ..._... ‘i d hymn h, m “mm, Besides his widow and three "is smut Sea" Th?‘ m,“ “p; oanmmn dau hters, he is survived by two M aftornwllv gmm 1mm“ m, m”; “mm. bro s and five sisters and his m is and Mumoeirniioiimmi; M‘ '“‘Q"“' ‘h’ “M” 3§iii'§iiriiiiihw'm'm mm" m “i notice-fig‘ §,'",1},“,',‘_°"{1,‘L' °$“$§'6‘_fl “if”? ms funeral ‘will be held in Syd-

lcnt southeastern front.

it also coincided with the forth- coming meeting of the Turkish Fpredgn Minister Menemenciogiu with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and the United States Sec- retary of State. Cordell Bull, in Cairo.

Brig. Chris vim Sets liqmlnanii 0i Banailien Division

command of

permanent force unit.

a division Canadian

island-Born Man Bios At Antigonish

ANTlGONISl-l, N. 8., Nov. 4 — (OP) — Joseph W. Clarke, 5i, in- specter of Credit Unions for Novo Scotia since 17.45, died at his home

ncy on Monday-

in Sydney for more than b0 years,

not so tough

By GLADWIN HILL (Associated Press Staff Writer) LONDON, Nov. 4—(AP)—A great night fleet of British and Can- uuian bombers poured 2,000 tons of bombs into Duesseldorf in 2'1 min- utes last night with a record sat- uration attsck capping a blazing l8 hours in which British and An.- ericcn bombers her ‘rocked Nazi targets with a total of 4.000 tons of bombs, the greatest Gal'- night tonnage in history. _ {rho Dusseldorf assault was ces- cribed by the air ministry a3 "cori- ceiitrated and effective" and it left the Ruhr steel and armament city second only to Hamburg as the most heavily bombed soot in the w

orld.

Bombs fell at the rate of '74 tons a minute. The best previous dis- charge rate by the R.A.F. was 5i ions a minute in one of the raids on Hamburg.

This raid and related attacks on Cologne and other Nazi targets came in trip-hammer fashion ai- ter yesterday's American daylight raid on Wllhelnishavcn. in which a record 1.000 planes pated and 1.500 tons of bombs were drop" pcd. The air ministry said bombs dropped in other British raids yes- terday made up the 4.000-ton rc- co .

‘The Cologne dive ‘ cou led with the American daylight at tick 1'75 miles to the north on Wilhel- shnvcn a few hours previously. split thc Gcrmun aerial defence so efftctiveiy that losses were relatively small. From a force of possibly "I00 or more planes, the R- A.F.-R.O.A F. lost 19 0!‘ 1B5! B communique figure of l9 embracing simultaneous Mosquito raids over western Germany. intruder oper- ations ln France and mine-lay rig. Of the total. four of the missins planes were Cans an

losses in the last rnid on Dues- seldorf, June ll, were .

Flt. Sgts. Howard Alton of Hart- land, N.B., and JJ. Blanchard of Tignish, P.E 1., agreed that the “harppy valley“ of the Ruhr is not so tough nowadays.

Other Prince Edward Island sir- men participating included Fit. Sgt. Gus Johnson. Souris.

Chinese Paper (kills For Air Drive On Jops

OTTAWA, Nov. 4 — (GP) -- Nd- The Chinese Army newspaper Bso Tang Pao called today f0 an Billed air offensive against auan co- ordinated with a drive by lirnd and sea before the close of 1943. "The

it said “has now come for to skip thc islands and in an offensive against

ll y from ..thc mass Anglo-American raids on Wllhelmshaven, Duesseldor] and tion, a Berne weeklmam-the total of bombed-out or evacu-

io tiara]; "by, thousands c: trails of thousand“! h _ s sans a a e or ti m“ been routed from its homlis, yet aigrioiig ..i§h‘i°i.'i'u...§'5 ting?‘ gm,

arllcipation to make it a three-way attack on the roofless Nazi citadel

That German public confidence in Nul leadershi to its foundations cannot be doubted, although the 5w ss weekly disputes the assumption that the German army military caste is preparinl m ‘m.

for all the woes he has brought to the world and to his That does not agree with most British and American informed opin- the inevitable hour comes to admit d

his Nazi military stooges. who summoned recent conferences of leading

recently by Viscount Halifax. British Ambassador in Washington. He brought back with him tlsh authorities are prepared for anything to happen in Germany at any d determined to can-y the war forward al- the bitter end, however long it takes or hard the going, Former Resident Herbert Hoover capped that committee yesterday (Thursday) with the prediction that this probably woulri he the "last winter" of the war In Ehflilll. And the Swiss estimiitea intensifying Allied bombing attack; on German public morale do nothing to lessen the force of ihose British and

Tignish Airman said “Happy Valley" of the Ruhr

Evezy. ntevivodaied air blasting adds

hardly begun, Allied crossfi mbing still is to set in full stride, Russian

must be shaken

rciirulnury to ace feelers. It con- im to save t eir own hit-leg from

must remain the symbol of person-

litsry caste is likely to follow when

eat and male the best peace pos- Wsshington has attached rcat sig- almy high cumruanil, not it r- or

discuss the darkening war outlook. from London word that Bri-

before a. congressional

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nowadays.

iLlifliiflS 0f State And Bar Attend Funeral in Boston

BOSTON, Nov. 4-—(CP) — Fun- eral services for Richard E. John- ston. native of Charlottetown, P. E.I.. Attorney. former state 1e8- islator ant. member of the Boston Finance Commission, were held yesterday with a solemn Requiem High Mass at St. Cecilia's Church

Mr. Johnston was one of Mass- achusetts’ most rominent reimb" lican leaders an the outstandinll (“median-born man in the nubile 1i Bay State. He was the brother of Hon. J.J. Johnston 0i Charlottetown, former provincial Attorney General. Another brother Rev. John F. Johnston died Bev- glal gears ano in Prince Edward

an .

The political leader died sudden- ly Sunday night at his home. 1B3 Huntington Avenue, Boston. The funeral was held from a funeral homo. The Church was throriiiied

==—_.__——_—._-=-.—_—-_?-_=—_= (Continued on page 7 Col. d) _____i__

-0h’town Born Sir Robert Falconer Bead

TORONTO, Nov. 4 - (CP) —~5ii‘ Robert Falconer. 1c. distirilllilhed educationisé, died here tonight.

Sir Rrbert had* been ill only few days although he had been in

Reviews Work Overseas 0f The Rcii ~0ross

MR. JUSTICE GORDON

The people of gallant Britain and refugees from other lands look to Canada as to nobody else in the world, declared Mr. ilusiice P- H. Gordon, chairman of the Execut- ive Committee of the Canadian fled Cross, in thc course. of an inspiring address last night in St. Paul's Hall.

The speaker paid warm tribute to the spirit of the Briiish people in his address, in which he gave a lzraphic picture oi the Canadian Red Cross at work overseas.

Hon. Dr. W. J. P. lifacMlllan, O. B. E, president of the Provincial Red Crosg. presided, and introdu- cecl Justice Gordon as “the guid-

111E star of the Canadian Red Cross strong

Society." He also made y, appeal for more civilian blood don- ors-

Certificates Awarded

The chairman announced awarding of ‘ ates of merit to thc 1943 campai chairmen: Mr, D. J. Boririell. pro- vincial chairman: Mr. N W. ther. Charlottetown; Ml‘ . . MacPhee. Queen's County? Mr A. F. McQusid, King's County;

(Continued on page 6 Col. '1)

K. Of C. Supreme Knight Continues Tour

SAINT JOl-TN, NB. Nov. 4— rcPl-Contlnuinz a Maritime tour, Francis P Matthews. Omaha. Neb.. Supreme Knight nf the Knights 01' Columbus. left for Monctnn today Halifax ic- morrow. He made an official call at Saint John's Citv Hall today.

ll. ii. 0. S. 0uocn Charlotte Flies Four Pennants

Four victory loan pennants Were flying st H. M- C. S. Queen Char- lotte yesterday, signifying that the training centre had attained 1'15 per cent of the quota assigned. But the navy boys are not content to rest on their lazrois; they have hopes of reaching 200 per cent. As one of them said last night “$500 more and we will doable our quota’!

Willi a spirit like that in the ur- med services can civilians do less than match it? Especially when the purchase of victory bonds is a first class investment. The sacrifice would not be very great if the money was being given lo the gov- ernment. But when it is to be paid

failing health for several years.

Born at Charlottetown, P. E. I» the son of Riev. Alexander Falcon- er. a Presbyterian Minister. he re- ceived his early education at Queen's Royal School, Trinidad, British West Indies.

He studied at the University of Edinbulh. and at Leipzig. ‘Berlin and Mariburg. subsequently enter- ing the Ministry of the Presbyter- ian Church.

He was appointed president of the University of Toronto in 100i. The stability and prestige of the instit- uition today are in no small meas- ure due to his firm yet tactful pre-

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MERE MAN

By Noland Norgaard (Associated Press War Correspondent)

ALLIED HEADQUAR- TERS, ALGIERS, Nov. 4 — (A P) - Striking boldly in pre-dawn dark- ness, troops of Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery's 8th Army captured the vital road junction of isernia at the central hinge of the German line early today as the en- emy reeled back in ai- most every sector of the

Italian front.

The 8th Army pressed Y-hrouah

11 m,

in its drive on Isernia.

A Baillie battle was reported raging around the railway station of San Shiva at the Adriatic end of the front. where the British fiilht wing of the 8th Army gain- ed its original bridgehead across the ‘rrigno River. The G threw at least 20 tanks into furicu; counter-attacks, but at the and of a day ‘of bloculy fighting Mont. gomerys men were reported to have driven the back, gained gorge new ground and taken pris-

S.

Countless Air Missions

Allied air forces enjoyed one cf their busiest days of the war as they biased away at German troop concentrations and gun positions along m; entire front and raked supply lines in what headquarters called “countless missions.”

Light and micdlum bombers ex- ploded an enemy supply dumo near Cupello. southwest of Vasto on the Adriatic. and ripped up railway yards. airdromies. roads and bridges over a wide area. Ten Noll transport planes were de- stroyed on the kround at Aveszano. Two allied planes were lost from all missions against a single Ger- man craft shot down.

Higher ll. S. Fur Prioos~

CALGARY, Nov. 4- (OP)- Fur breeders in Canada nu lock for a sirens market in the United States his year with office of “rice administration setting cei ng prices that will show good. returns compared with last Yen's aver-aces. de- clued George II. Meyers If New York at a banquet of the Alberta Provincial Fur Breed- ers’ Association here last night-

While regulations are not ex- pected to be announced for another two weeks he said 0. P-A. ceiling prices Would be ‘T25 for top grade full silvers and $32.00 on extra dark male mink, top grades, with other

radea and color phases find- {m} their own levels in prelim‘- tlon to prices.

HAJJFAX. Nov. 4 - (OP) —T_he R- C. A. F. has urchssed nine ac- res of the Cora rook golf club property in the City's south enci for the construction of barracks and women's at Eastern Air Command Headquarters.

Loan Totals For Rural

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Tignish District Ovcrsuhscriheii its Objective

On Wednesda evenin - nish district haii only 44: imfifm objective but the local and chairman must Ne“ Working too hard to get Lima m send in the returns. Because on 171011503! morning when their m. tum! arrived the official; at u.‘ Victory Lorin office in Bummersid W"! doliBhted to see that 'l‘ignls glgadllgtrliet had subscribed

r _e amou t of . which 15 190 Der 681i“; of trict quota. And they are no] through yet-S

Loan Standings By Bounties

Loan Qtandlnge by counties: Prince:

Total in date, ILOSQSM. Objective, 31.15041“). Percentage of objective, Id. Queens

Total lo dale. ohesitsoo. Objective, 01.450000. Percentage of objective, as. King's

Total to date. $273,850.

Objective, Percentage of

.000. objective. 10.

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