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'Storm Delays »()ld Home Week Program; 3-Inch Rainfall Here

Visits Here 0n Tour 0i Seed Potato Areas

Winding up a six month agr]. cultural tour of North America in Prince Edward Island, a for- tunate young Scots farmer arrived yesterday for a five day's stay to find out something of our Is. land potatoes,

Thvt-nty-fivc years old and a "practical farmer", John Sinclair of Croggish, Comrie, Porthshire, has travelled the length and breadth of the U. S. and Canada on a Nuffieid Foundation Scholar- ship in Agricuiiurc.

The Nuffield Foundation was established six years ago by the well-known motor manufacturer, Lord Nuffield, for the purpose of providing a fund to enable re-

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Coming Events

i ._.__ "Dance. M: rell Monday. 92nd. Jiood

East. School, music.

"Come to the regular dsnce in Bonshsw every Tuesday night.

"Mau your l-‘ums to Gsrnbum Photo Studio. Charlottetown

"Dance, Orwell Hall. August 22nd. lvlliiview Orchestra.

"See Ray Iiittle Show in Wilt- shlrc Hail, 0n August. 23rd.

"Dance. Lorne Valley, Tuesday, August 23rd Webster's Orchestra.

"Dance. St Teresa's. Wednesday. August 24th, Webster's Orchestra.

"Dance in St. Hall every Tuesday night. Peters Orchestra,

Peter's Legion Cliff

"Harrington Chicken Supper Wednesday, August 24th. st 5 o'clock.

"Dance. Conan Ban Hail, Wed- nesday. August 24th. Melody Boys Orchestra.

"In stock, Ccmr-nt. Asphalt Shingles, etc. W. I. Bowman, Hun- ter River.

"Chicken supper, st. Charla Hall. Wednesday. August 24th. Dance after.

"Ice Cream and Cake at New London school. Tuesday, August 23rd. In aid of Institute.

"Ice cream Festival and Dance in MaoMillan Bros. new Ware- house, Conway, August 3rd.

"Ice Cream Festival and Dance in MaoMiilnn Bros. new warehouse. Conway, August 23rd.

"Ice Cream Festival, Springton School. August 24th, Part. of pro-

ceeds for Cemetcry.

"Ice Creams Festival,

Mad.

"Como to the open oi 010 It Rink Grounds. Aulust ma. Refreshments. spsnsoréa by

Cornwall Junior Fsnners.

"Come to Ice Cream social, New Glasgow Hall, Tuesday evening. August. xrd. sponsored Ladies Aid,

Christian Church.

"Don't miss s tins svenini 01 to be held st

Johnston's River School. August

mm and dsnce wit, st 5.30 P. M.

"Meet your friends st the 1M 011mm Festival on St. Mark's An- Rustico,

[ii Church grounds, M sy. August 22nd. _

"Hero's s show you have all been

Miokdy Rooney with no punches ban-ed. et McDonsld Bros. Thostro

wetting to see It's in "Killer McKoy"

tonight. Plus Shorts. "Aiuiuu Lesion HM

per. Bowling Ailey. vi Amusqnents.

in! It 0-00 P. M.

"The District Convention of the Mull. Iownsl

lou ormcross

11.34». amiuwr. Walnuts: Donsglt, Mt. Alston and Johnna":

Rivc, Women's Instituhs will hold in Mt. Kmart Orphans!

It ls lie province of kswwlotlge to speak, and it ls the prime" o;

‘Bingo, Games, Refreshments, Dance, etc.. North Rurtico, Monday, August

my. lforoll, August 34th. Chicken out»- Conteen ser- Dense. Hollie M oasis Orchestra. Supper start.-

The worst. rain storm in several years swept Prince Edward Island YBSlPTd-HY. when over three inches of rain fell in the twenty-four hour period up until 8 o'clock last even- ing. The rain was accompanied by a Z8 mile an hour gale from the north, gusts of which reached as 1118b as 32 miles per hour, blow- ing down trees and disrupting power and telephone services in Charlottetown and country dis- tricts.

Although the programme was canccllfld, the estimated 15,000 tons of ruin which fell on the Exhibi- tion Grounds stopped few exhibit. ors from loading their cattle for home.

At seven o'clock last evening the wind changed to noF-tivest and the barometer started to rise. The horse racing programme which was cancelled yesterday is sched- uled for today.

The heavy ruin and wind fiat- tened stands of grain and corn and soaked the stocked crops through and through. Orchards expo: to the storm, suffered broken li bs, and s conside able quantity of rip-

ening fruit is believed to have dropped off. Falling trees disrupted power

and telephone services in Char- lottetown. where the Brighton, Longworth and Weyrnouth areas were affected. About noon, a great tree at the corner of Fitzroy and Wcymouth Streets, dropped the Dower line on the phone csblos, leaving the Mount Ed- ward road area without power and telephone communication. Another tree fell in Cumberland Street. Some 400 telephones were out of commission in Charlottetown. Phone lines in the Montague and Souris areas were also disrupted. Power circuits were cut in the Millview and Chen-y Valley areas and crews were still repairing fai- len lines at Cornwall late last night.

Potatoes Helped

The rain will help the potato crops in the drier areas of Mount Stewart and St. Peters. states Mr. Henry MacLaren of the Seed Po- tato Certification Service, and It general. the potato crops are do- ing well.

Up until the present, the spread of late blight has been slow sress affected in Queen's County. Very little. if any. hu appeared in Prince and King's.

It is expected that after the ‘storm, when conditions permit, spraying will be under way in ef- fected areas.

Heavy Storm In N.S.

HALIFAX. Aug. l9 - (CP) — A violent wind and rain storm rock- ed mainland Nova Scotia today and

tonight,

\ At least two ships were in dis- tress off Halifax. Other vessels ap- Prfllilhlng the harbor had m sn- chor for a time. Sheets of rain

had a crack at Cape Breton Island s

ii. S. Consulate Closes As Reds ‘ Near Canton

By SPENCER MOOSA

CANTON, China, Aug. 19 -(AP) — The United States Consulate- General closed this afternoon and the Embassy planned to go on a commuter basis from the nearby British colony of I-Iong Kong m. marrow due to the Communist ad- vance on this Chinese Nationalist Capital.

Acknowledging Communist cap- titre of Tsyu, 1'70 miles northeast of Canton, the Nationalist Defence Ministry said the situation on that from was "unchanged" today. However. Tsyu's fall leaves vin- ually open an easy valley road to Kukong, '70 miles west.

Kukong is on the railway only 120 miles north of Canton, and military observers said the strug- gle for Canton itself could be con- sidered started when the Reds reached that point. Its loss would isolate from Canton the 200,000- man army of Gen. Pal Chung-I-Isi, now opposing the Reds near Heng- yang, 205 miles north of the cop- ital.

Washington

Reviews Potato Question

Beauty Contestants In Bills Squabble

TORONTO. Aug. 19 — (C?) —A squabble over meal bills today added to the troubles of the 1M9 Miss Cansda- conteliiiv"

Some of the 30 contestants, when checking out of a downtown hotel with their chapcrones, said they were handed meal bills. They said the hotel cashier told them that only meals served in the cafeteria were to be paid for by the contest sponsors.

Later S. ‘Radcliffe Weaver of Hamilton, promoter of the con- test, said the sponsors would pay for the meals. But, by that time. some girls had already paid the bills and left. -

Margaret Lynn Mann of Tor- onto. formerly of Vancouver. last night. was chosen Miss Canada nf 1949. Only 1,000 persons turned out for the contest. held in Maple Leaf

in Gardens which hos seating capac-

ity of 15,000.

Meanwhile, Edward S. ~Stock of Hamilton, former assistant execu- tive director n! the Miss Canada pageant, said i a statement that the contest. he cl in Hamilton in other years, could have been stag- ed this year in Halifax.

"Last year H-aligonians sent their ex-mayor all the way to Hamilton to implore pageant officials to put on the show in Halifax as part of the bi-centcnniai celebrations," he aid.

The fact that Betty Jean Ferg- uson of Halifax won the award last year was considered even fur- ther reason by l-Ialigonlans why

blotted out the coast as effectively u if there had been a. dense fog. Liverpool. 70 miles southeast of Halifax, reported 4.15 inches of

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they should have the show, Mr. Stock added.

The greatest earthquake of 1556 which occurred at Shensi, China, took an estimated 830.000 lives.

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By Nste Polowetzisy

LONDON» Aug. 19 —(AP) — Mrs. Richards Morrow-Tait. red- haired former Artists’ model and mother of s two-yesr-old, completed early this evening her ride arognd r1110 world in e sing-leeng ed p one. ,

It took her s. you end e. dsy to fly the long wsy from London bank to London-HMO mili-lbut she is the first woman to girdle the globe st the controls of s-n air- plsne.

The fi-yesrold aviator sot down her tiny silver Vultse twvnooter st 6:40 psn. GMT (2:40 pm.

With her was her navigator. Michael Townsend. M. of Cam- bridge.

Hor husband, Norman Morrow- Tslt. sn engineer living in Cam- bridge and doirq the dishes and billy-lilting these lut $06 days. rushed to Croydon Airport- 10 8N6! her. He took along their daughter Anne. now nearly three. _

Richards phoned him earlier is the day from Prsstwiok. Scotland. where she hsd landed to Isl u sf- ter the over-voter hop rom

svik. Iceland. e few persons were st. u: greet the pretty flier when sho ended the lsst three- s hour l . Wesrfig e rod-plaid shirt. frown

mu, on Monday, August ma. at no“ slacks d lieok fly! b W. Ii" ate an m“ _W s N?‘ myths mwngm d m. ‘vim m!

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British Woman Completes World - Girdling Flight

srms of her husband.

Richards then picked up her lit- tle girl who was frightened by {he propeller noise and was sobb- ng.

Mrs. Morrow-Tait looked tired but was full of plans to keep on flying. She told reporters st Oroy- don she is going to join the wom- en's branch of the R..A.1".

"That's the only flying I intend to do from now on," she said.

Townsend. a short. blond. stud- lous-looking young man. told rm porters there was nothing exciting on the ocean crossing.

"We hsd s

known on the Atlantic route."

e_d to produce s book,

wasn't all. . . "I went more family.” she ssid.

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gator had been held

girdling flight on verssry of its stsrt.

in N0 hours.

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Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, SATURDAY. AUGUST 2o, 194.9

RESCUE cum SPEED t0 in) SHIPPING 0w N. s. COAST

aanada Names Powerful Delegation For Washing!

Crack Trains Collide. Head On, 44 Injured

Stellarton Girl To Wed Man From Iron

STELLARTON, N. 5., Aug. 19— (CP)——Cccilia Brownrigg, 19-year- old silver bionde from this Nova Scotia coal mining town is engag- ed to marry the son of a provin- cial governor of Iran.

The engagement of Miss Brown- rigg to Kourus Sturap, son of Governor and Mrs. Reza Sntrap of Tehran was announced today. Mr. Satrup is an economist and statis- tician with the United Nations at Lake Success.

The marriage, which blossoms from a luncheon date on the cam- pus of Columbia University at New York, will take place here Wednesday. '

Miss Brownrlgg was crowned Queen Northumbrla at the Pictou lobster carnival in 1948 and par- ticipated in the Miss Atlantic beauty pageant at Halifax lost month. She has studied fashion designing at New York.

Post Writer

The Montreal Star curries the following despatch from its staff correspondent. Ed Hadley, on a subject of much interest to island potato growers:

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1'1 — The U.S. potato subsidy, which poured $67,000,000 into the State of Maine alone last year, is coiled "a. God- fl-by one of this capital's leading newspa- pers, the Washington Post. today.

In s. special review of a situation which has plagued relations be- tween the two countries through the last. several years, the Post is publishing a series of articles pre- pared in an on-thc-spot study in Maine by its chief agricultural writer,

"Our northern neighbours have benefitted in two ways," the writer

says:

"l. A lot of New Brunswick pota- toes crossed the frontier into Maine. Some observers assert that thousands of bushels of these found their way into the American purchase program. At. least, they replaced in the mar- ket, the Maine potatoes that the government bought.

"2. Millions of bushels from Prince Edward Island and other Cana- dian potato areas moved into markets served ,for ycars by Maine growers. Favorable freight rates and the high prices due to price support purchases made Canada a gift of those markets."

. Price Set

In the UB. subsidy program, the government sets s. price, fixed last year at 90 per cont of what is called "parity", at which it buys all potatoes offered by growers. Over the whole country, it spent $225,000,000 on the program last year.

As a result. U . prices were high enough to inv e Canadian im- ports, even over the U.S. tariff ivall, which the Post writer est.- imnied for last year at 10,000,000 bushels, nr about ten times the av- erage annual shipments of pre- war days. For the period from 1937 to 1944i, inclusive, the annual av-

straight-forward flight,” he said. "once out of Mont.- resl we itsd the best weather I've

‘Mm. Morrow-Tait said she want- snd that.

"You don't thlri I'd letAnno be

Mrs. Morrow-Tait and her navi- up by bod weather in Iceland. This prevented them from completing their globe- the first anni-

A you ego. when she took off. she had hoped to circle the world

The elapsed tune of the trip wss boosted from the target m0 hours to the full yeor by e series of en-

crage was 904.000 bushels.

The Post. writer. however, fails to mention in his Irtlcle that lust year's favorable situation for Can- adian growers may be affected greatly by a big reduction in the US. government's purchase price this year. which already has been

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Saysit Was iieds Fired 0n River Steamer

HONG KONG. Aug. lJ—(AP)- The Chinese captain of the steam- er Kisngiing Liberation says Com- munist shore guns~not the Brit- ish sloop Amethyst-shot up his ship during the Amethyst’: escape down the Yangtze River last month.

When the Amethyst escaped sf- ier being trapped for more than three months in the river, the Communists charged she had sunk the stesme Klsngling Liberation, causing several hundred deaths.

The Admiralty categorically de- nied the Communist accusation.

Information seeping from be- hind the Rod curtain vie reliable travellers quotes the Chinese osp- tsin is agreeing with the British

(By The Associekl Ki CANAAN. N. H, Aug. l9—'1‘wo crack Boston and Maine Railroad trams hit head-on today at a sid. ing- inll-lring 44 persons. Auth- orities were checking a report that _a confused brakeman threw a switch in error and brought the trains together.

At. Mary Hitchcock Hospital at nearby Hanover, authorities said the injuries were mostly bruises and some fractures.

The hospital list of injured in- eluded four Canadians. They were: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Henry Car- rier, Quebec; Pierre La Cassc, 17, Montreal; and Raoul Ovingct, Quebec. I

Robert A. Jones, Grafton Coun- ty solicitor, said he was investig- ating an eyewitnesses story that the brakemans slip opencdJahe switch and brought the railroads Montreal-bound Ambassador into a siding where the southbound Ambassador was waiting to pass on the single track.

Leon Barnum, a mail carrier who meets the northbound Am- bassador daily as it passes through his town, provided the first eye- witness account of ho\v the col- lision occurred. '

Barnum has the job of hanging up a mail sack to be caught a- board the northbound express as it rolls past. Canaan without stopping.

l-Ie said he was Z0 feet away from the switch at the south end of the siding when he saw an un- identified brskeman run forward from the waiting south-bound train.

,"Tl1e fireman on the southbound yelled at him but the northbound train whsflnskirig‘ so ~ much‘ noisier he couln't make himself heard."

Barnum said. “The brakcman ran forward and threw the 'switch. and the

northbound train just pioughmi into the other one. It all happen- ed in a twinkling."

The Boston and Maine had no immediate explanation. iilfikes" man for the railroad said it was the southbound brakemans dut)’ to throw the switch “and he musi-

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URGB YELLOWHEAD ROUTE vanoouvbs, Aug. l9 - tor) — A police motorcycle guard es- corted a. caravan of 50 Prairie and interior British Columbia automo- biles as it arrived today ending s tour from Edmonton. The motor- cade is organized to publicize the Yellowhearl Pass route for the Trans-Canada Highway.

(By The Canadian Press)

sr. ANDREWS, N. 1a.. Aus- 19- Strong opposition to the develop- ment of the long discussed Passa- maquoddy tidal power project dc- veloped this afternoon when wit- nesses representing the fishing in- dustry testified at a session end- ing a one-day Canadian sitting of the International Joint Commis- sion.

The Commission, meeting to de- termine the cost of surveying the project's economic feasibility and ultimate cost, will be at Eostport. Me., tomorrow to examine the technical aspects of the suggested developments. Hearings of the preliminary survey will conclude Monday at Eastport.

Opposition came from Senator A. Nell McLean, president of Con- nors Bros, Ltd, at Black's Har- bor, N. B., C. 1". Inches, K.C., Saint John. N. 5., counsel for the firm, end H. W. Welch. president of the New Brunswick Fish Can- acrs’ and Assemblors‘ Association.

Senator McLean lsld the pro- posed dam would be in the heert of an sres which supplies food

Pearson To

Fishermen Opposed To A Quoddy Power Project

nun 11in Head Group

OTTAWA, Aug. l9 (C?) — Canada today named a- cabinet- minister delegation to speak her thoughts at Anglo-Amerlcan-Can- adian financial talks whose im- plications shadow far more than the world of finance.

Prime Minister St. Laurent en- nounced that Finance Minister Abbott, External Affairs Minister Pearson and six senior civil serv- ants will represent the Dominion in Washington conferences pro- vokcd by Britain's dollar crisis.

He said, too, that "questions may arise which will make it. desirable" for Trade Minister Howe to join them. ‘Trade Minister Howe i-s ex- pected to be in Washington about that time for atomic talks.

Norman Robertson. Secretary of the Cabinet and former High Commissioner in London, will head the six-man team which will take part in preliminary fact-ifinding and technical discussions starting o. week from tomorrow.

The talks will switch to the cab- inet level Sept. 6 and may last an- other week.

No particular significance was seen here in mention of the three Cabinet members. Britain and the U15. sci’. the pace by naming their Financial and Foreign Ministers and Canada followed suit.

For Canada and for the Western World, informed quarters said here today, the talks have a significance that transcends the field of fin- ance. Their successes or failures or compromises could have vital re- percussions in politics. in defence and in western cohesion in the face of Communism.

v Informed‘ observers elsewhere have speculated that. they may -wetl settle" the date of the next

British General election.

The Canadian delegation. on of- ficial said, will "not; go down with any panaceas." A.l'i three delega- tions will know the sort of prob- lems to be faced. Canada will raise no entirely new angles.

Canada, he said, will probably try once again to act ‘in the med- iator or interpretive role that has become familiar. Her stakes will be tremendous because she will sit between the two countries, the two monetary systems that. tradition- ally have been the bulwark: of her trade.

“It is enormously important to us," the official said, “that har-

mony reign between them."

All three Ministers named by Mr. St. Laurent were out of town today. Mr. Abbott and Mr. Howe on vacation until the end of the month, Mr. Pearson until the end of the week.

tric power developments, there wouldn't be a power; dam in the whole United States."

He termed the Quoddy site "the most. unique in the world," with all the elements present for a successful power development.