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llalleyfield in Observe centenary

ilbieciili/Gl. authoritative l _ sources mo“ ttilergrgti lglilgoefglrgvxllacfi "Tel" i955" 00ft of Bre Wm“ w those hardy pioneers h°m° 0i hutze shipyards. mtteTTi

lei

a!“ settled one hundred years a lilrhe centenary celebration

Om,“- in the Va‘leyfield Unit

h i which Rev. Arthur churig the minister. Rev. A. E‘. Prlviflnal Of Pine Hill

yr, D. l1. glevinjtt~ Hall. to b“ morn it. is ill‘. [grttilic

Rev. svtinvi‘ ,1 til“ duct a B?“

Halifax. N. 8.,

on Monday eveninri. D M. Sinclair.

‘mom, ‘This Ytlorifguue dltttrclt Plioir will be in charge o

tlte _ lai-wq t ten.

wpm the district vtas first set-

ti.» 1- ‘vow immvn at; Dame's Rcad

"PM" Wil'l"l'l liferti" was the first 7"""i's.

eon. n“: was “re first white pprgzii] to sieco in Valcvfield b2- iiir left bv his father in a par- finished log-hottse. A grand- son of tit» first settler. M. D. Mar- tin. is sfl‘ on‘ the old homestead. ieyfield United Church

“rig l" W40. His

pkler, e no»: Mr

ileilt‘

citation ts made un

article.

'1 rl ‘ er

pan. \ ‘ria Crcss and Rand. Nvarlv all these

or afzcr tile year 1840.

Tirse districts were sett'ed by e 155g wan gqcth immigrants from the Isle She haszd. o! Skye amour. them being the 1. Made what is considered an

.. Mathesons. Bruces s. NlCllCYSOTIH and McPher hose descendants

FOP-i \

|pri=5'0l‘.<.

Valleviield and surrounding dis- illustrious got-ts and dauchters out into the the nurses. ¢ have been some of the contributions of the district to the rest of man» 3, End. A former Lieutenant Gaver- iicr of the Province. Murdock lVIac- 4

trials has sent many tirafcsslonol fields of doctors.

etc.

varhuts wot . Latvycrs.

‘e. men .. teachers.

Kin-ton is a native of the district Vitll-vflclti conrregation has been tr i

100 y .5. ministers from 1846 until the ores- ert. time: Revs ltiisvcnarv 1940-1850‘ Alex Niitrtro, lst. settled Minister. 1350-1884: Rcdertck lilacL-can. lltil6-i9072 Alex Stewart. 1907-1914: T. M. Mac- lrcri. l0lG-i9l9: J. A. Maclellan. 1920-1928; l’) M. Sinclair, 1928-19- 35 A. J. Ebbuti. 1936-.

'I'ltri present butkiing is the fourth church and was opened a- bou’ fiiiriv years 8510. It has re- r"“'\' ‘Win rc-riticnrated inside.

BIRTHS

hm ts-at the P. a. Island Hos- i’

pital. Aug 2nd. i940. to Mr and itrs Vernon Dennis, Charlotte- totttt. a son,

DOVER-At the P E. I. Hos- pita]. Attg 1st. 1940, to Mr. and Mrs Louis Dover, Dunstaffnage, a son

PENDHTION-At the P. E I litisitttttl. Attg. lst. 1940, to Mr. and iilrs. S. R, Pendleton, Kensington, s son.

MACLEOD - At Quincy. Mass. -lii‘-.\' 29. 1940. to Mr. and Mrs. An- iliis D. MacLieod. nee Anne Bruce, 8 son. Robert Angus.

HIGGINS —Af the Prince Ed- ward Island Hospital on August l, i940, to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hig- iins. Chariottetown, a son.

Problem Of 4O Recruits ls Solved

QUESNEL, B 0., Aug. a -to1=> — The problem of 4O determined i0 i-hc recruits was apparently taltcti here today, with the arrival rout Prince George, B. C.. of Re- til: Officer Maj. R. L. t . s staff.

'I“.ie men had been waiting at it's central British Columbia town

lin a lilo-mile radius in re- " in a call for volunteers — »_ to find recruiting suspended. Ttlc int-n, many of whom had ‘llztittislted jobs, refused to give to. and canto-id on the doorstep of i B. Campbell of the focal Can- iijan Legion branch. who has been " '_i'“ in assuring recruiting here. iurc..th=n the men havebeen hi. and lodged thrctigh a citizens’ tvtitnittec and an appeal made to lb-iiya. Conservative leader Han- ‘ii brought the matter up in the louse of Commons.

jar/ti Of Thanks

Ti" Rbyal Edward Chapter of the 0- D- E. wlah to extend grateful liihlfs to the “Trumps Club" for li‘ Rift of .5226.50 for war work, net "OPE-Pris oi’ the recent strawberry iativnl held on Government House “iiiiitis on July 11th. L-30l

Card 00f Thanks

M11. Mg

Hogan, and family.

001w Poin . wish to thank u‘1 her 0T

ind friends and neighbors owers. Mas! Cards,

lmiiiit-hy in her recent sad senator Dnnduranri. “mvemelii- Ir271-9-3-li- over mutterings from Conservative _.. bgnghea, said Senator Mcighcn WVAVuHHNP-“rvvm -. e ~ ~ nil r thought things were "going to the

dogs because he is not in power. N D M .. L Senate‘; lgdeelghfiin asked “$339523; e u as o . ac ea" (‘vyiehlauplace if he verilured to critia 1 i .. As i a the last war an UNDERTAKER laiarmanaggiinent; was concerned he EMQALMEg uked that the Senate keen in mind » that tioe last war was won.

Charlottetown and The debate sprang up lust as North Wtltahm the Bennie was about to adtourn on a request bv Senator John l-Iaig "l"! l“ w“; Manitoba) for information

ntf§taod

Hills “iltxrlleyfield District which

of the district and church will be held

the guest preacher at the 1...‘. "w! evening services and derstnod he will also give a

M.A._ of _ N. 5.. a former minister tiwlicvfleld church wi‘l c0"- iic service tomorrow af- United

music during the Centenary

d East and West. Heath- .l(‘\’ii(‘. Grand View, Up- per Mohtagtte. Kilmulr and,Brook- it crrnoriseti districts

fwd as Caledonia. Cardi- Whim districts war» settled a year or two before

are to he iottwi today on the farms of their m; islands‘ oil, tin and rubbetg

"id to by eight men in the T1~e following are the 5-

Alex Maclntvre,

letters cf

BRITISH HAVE

(Continued from pug; 1)

time traffic of 17,000

°hly a sample of ‘ooodfiflbfllttstrloi: "Oililht by British bombs dumped W (lily Imd night on hundreds of

docks and its bi _

_ Diane factory: tiievléliél xiii’ Will- helmshaven naval bases and

COlORne. continental traffimi-enc

ha" dmw" i! lflrile share oi rte‘

. tehtlon from British airmen carsy: “3.il‘°..i'”.i. i“

9 mbers returning from the attack on Leetiwardgn Fifiihrt lust missed a head-on c l ll-Sion with a German Junker; “.110 _ "““i‘i'l“tz from a cloud bank en

in all ti» British reported lam 3321b (11000 German objectives not zimiijifimveg; ‘$18.71 apott raids “pa; tn data g and import. s. they asserted. ls the anstv- er which is being given with in. f ‘WK-Slug vieor to Adolf Hitler's tl“""it of invasion. ‘ At m- i fill" P" thiliinharbirill: elitist-git"? art’. despite lmtlndlnn German "ltithlli-"h r-~-~~.iei,=_< and nit-Mass hfillg "my," qnlnhdy “t” aerial ivarfare stir-gin.’ has‘. ‘igirgleregirthr across htlze tChannel I sometv Sporadic forays. a may w

JAPANESE

(Continued

i!" “Ailfli-lc Monroe Doctrine." Thus, Japan has seized the present “gold. en Opliiitlilliiiil” to aDbiv to the southern orient the smile policies gilt- were employed in china during

ilmki-‘iild flsreelnent with the Neth- erlands East Iticiics‘ government Huurahteelng continued access to

Brought about the suspension of trade between French Indo- China and China placed warships in Indo-China waters and a mili- iflry naval inspection party in Incin- Chlna territory, won the right. to use Hanoi as a stop-over grid cross Indo-China with a Japan-Siam air-

line.

Concluded a treaty 0f friend- SliiD with Siam. Demanded that Great Britain close the Burma Rcad to China,| which was done (This agreement is in force for orfv thrce months). Completed military operations the effect of which is to surround Hong Kong, Britain's crown colony. Pans for a new Japanese state, based on far-reaching totalitarian- ism at home and committed to a foreign policy involving Japanese don-lnation over French Indo-Cliina and the Netherlands East Indies, were announced this week by the government of Premier Prince Fum-

.imaro Konoye. The government's statement did .n0t take Japan any closer to the

Rome-Berlin axis, but stressed a more independent attitude toward other western wet-s.

Closer relations with the Axis owers depend. Japanese sayon the attitude of Germany and Italy to the far eastern colonies of Francs, Britain and Holland. If the Axis shows signs of taking these territor- ies for itself. then Japan, automati- cally, will be in opposition to them.

Little Prospect

(Continued 159131)} 5L1)

King if he would consider "his long promised reform of the Senate at the next session.

"That is something I have been c.nsideri-ng all my life," Mr. King replied.

Finance Minister Ilsley, during the aftemon presented the first supplementary estimates calling for expenditures of S3.l97.458. di- vided among the Delifliiiiieiits "l Transport. Public Works. Revenue. Defence. Labor and External Af- fairs.

Members of the Liberal. 6.0.1“. and New Democracy parties spoke in the wheat debate. reviewing the past administration of wheat mar- keting legislation.

Trade Minister MacKinnon, clos- ing the debate on second reading, announced the British government had bought 100000.000 bushes cf Canadian wheat. His statement- conflrmed an earlier report from London.

Mr. MacKinnon said the amend- ments to the wheat board act had been decided tinon after long coli- sitPation with the industry.

H. A. MacKenzie (Lib. Lambton- Kent) deplored the amount of talk and political bickering in de~ bales. Next session. llC said. h" would move to eliminate mail ‘tanking privileges of members If members could not mail out free copies of their speeches. the sessrons would probably be short- ened by a month or six weeks.

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Debate Blows llp In Senate Over Mobilization

orrawa. AuB- 2 -<0Pi —Aii almost bitter debate blew up in the Senate today when Conservative leader Meighen demanded informa- tion concerning mobilization regu-

latiotrls and critictlicoexds the govern- men ‘A war opera . Cross fire reached its height

when government leader Dandur- and, answering Senator C. C. Bal- lantyne (Con. Quebec), quolcd the Defence Minister as saying Great Britain did not need men and continued that there was “not

a word of commendation" frcm Senator Meighen-"nothint; but desolation."

speaking

SYiElllIliZ. California. are visitine; the

The Central Guardian

This column is reserved ior nevn of local interest but advertising of I uvwlv nature mu he Inserted It 5 cents l word nrlctly pay- iiblr In advance.

SUN DAY‘ SERVICES -— Cross Roads at 11; Alexandra at, 3; I-Iazelbrook at ‘l. Violin- solo by Miss Prudence Ings at evening ser- vice. J. W. Hayter, Minister.

L-B03

RAILWAY MAN HERE —Mr. J. Roberts, Montreal, chief of motive Dower and car equipment for the Canadian National Railways is a visitor to the city at present. He is‘ here on an inspection trip andl will Sllend the weekend at Stan- hope Beach Inn. 'I'his is his first visit to this province. I-Ie leaves 0n return to Montreal Monday.

OLD HOME WEEK entertain- Httints at the Exhibition Grounds u1.l be Vwithin the reach of all.‘ There will be no admission at the Main Gate. but children under l2 have to be accompanied by parents. Admission to Grand stand for af- ternoons racing and vaudeville. 75c, children 50c. Admission to evening performances in front of Grand Stand 35C. children 25c. Scasonl Tickets good for eaoh and every prrfcrinatit-e of the four days on sale at all Drug Stores and Old Spain Restaurant, only $2.25.

1251-101,

Personals

Miss Joyce Canttvell underwent all Oiieixrton ‘for appendicitis Fri- day liicnlilli; in the Charlottetown Hospital.

is visiting ivitn Mrs. Bessie Dclaucj; of Albany.

Mr. Pope Murray has reiumpd to Meath Park. Sask, after at- tending his mother's funeral.

Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Anderson

0f Wiiiffifiivh. Muss. are on their

ilanriiual vacation trip .to the 15- n .

MYS Flvrrrice Sweet, Providence. R. I is visiting her old home in‘ Canoe Cove. the guest of her bro. iliei‘. Mr. Hugh McPliec. For the past wccl: she has been the guest of her niece. Mrs. P. J. Scntner, Parkdale.

Mr. and Mrs. Angus McPhall farmer's home at Atitzyic shore and l‘Pt]t‘\VillP,‘ many old acquaintances. Tilt‘? are nccompanicd by Mi- MacPhatvs sister. Mrs. c, Elliott, Haverhill. Mass.

John (‘foliitigs

i‘ . and r-. o; if-"r Mass. rtrcrtmtorititnl Tr and I‘ ‘s. ii. L T“h , . hfirkl

lttass. inter-d _v'e.=jt;.i.~_.'_., morning all" Slleliillhi! liiio weeks vatwtlon “'l'li Mi‘- Coiiinas‘ and Mrs. Finns’ father, Mr. Richard Cutting; of arson-u». liir. John ccrthss aha Mrs. ll L. Finn are ‘nter and brother of bits. Wm. Hctznn, Char-- lnt-teidvti.

Russia Creates 13th Republic

MOSCOW. Alli 2 -(AP) — The Supreme Council of the Russian Parliament unanimously adopted a resolution today creating the Moldavian Union Republic. in which is incorporated the largest! part of Bessarabia, recently obtain- ed from Rumnnia.

This 13th member of U, s s R. is made up of most of the old Autonomous Moldavian Reptiblic tlvcvivttsly a hart of the Ukraine‘. plus the newly-acnulred territory. The Cottncii voted the remainder

of Moldavia and Bessarabia. as well as northern Buchovina. also acquired from Rumania, 0-45 o!

the Ukrainian Republic

Josenli Stalin attended the ses- sion. its next meeting will be to_ marrow n f t ernoou.

Roosevelt Advocates Conscription

WASHINGTON. A118 2 —~(A.Pi -Prcsidcnt Roosevelt directly ad- vocatcd peace-time military con- scription in the United States to- day and his former Secretary of W61‘. Harry W. Woodring. opposed

LI am distinctly in favor of a selective service training bill nnd I consider it essential to adequate uetiohfli deforms." the Piesiuetit said at a press conference. em- phasizing his words by permitting dircct quotation.

"How any fair-minded member vi Corttzrcss." WOOdrlng said in a letter to senator Arthur Vanden- berg. Mlclllgflri Republican. who ls- sued it to the press, "could say that we have given the voluntary system of enlistment for the Unitetfsgai. cs army a fair trail and that it has broken down. and therefore we need the compulsory service, is be. yond my understanding." Meanwhile. the taxation sub- committee of the House of Reprg. sentatives Ways and Means Com_ mittee drafted legislation to pcr- mit firms which cxnand their nlants for the production oi do. fence orders to deduct from their taxable earnings 20 per cent of the expansion cost annually for five years

The Senate Military Committee polished the conscription bill for a filial vote scheduled for carly next week.

As the measure stood, it would require all men ‘ll in ‘i0 years old, inclusive-some 12.000000 in g,“ __ to reeister for the drove with m. emotions for those with depend- cnts tn sunuort. It also .would oer- mit supplemental voluntary one- year erilistments for all between ill and 35

Miss Alice Campbell of Rollo Bay Hiclc

.a burly man. lcss than a year ago

hlayor, and

' THE CHARLO'I”I'E'I‘UWN GUARD|AN

SECOND

(Continued from page 1)

told the press in his 1i ht! mes. 5886- “Germany has aiikedngfor it, and she will have to take it."

U. S. Citizens included

Several hundred United 5mm; citizens who crossed the Cflmdtgn border to loin up were sprinkled flmvtit: the big contingent and there were several Canadian Indians and negrces. The Americans came from as far south as Alabama.

For scores of Englishmen. Irish. men. Scots and Welshnien, it was a. iiCITPBCOmlXIF-l Es they arrived from’ tljigir new homes to defend their

o. .

As the liners dropped nnch0r_ a, welcoming committee boarded the shill that carried Gen. Odium and members of his headquarters staff and their was a round of informal greetings in the gcneraks cabin. '

Along with the ranking army andi naval ofticers of the area were Rear-Admiral Arthur Bromley, re- presenting the Dcminions office, L, B. Pearson, representing High Commissioner Vincent Massey and, a number of officers of Canadian military headquarters in Tendon.

Arrival of the contingent was a close military secret and a bare- handful of people was gathered in the streets near the docks to watch ihe_ sturdy Canadians march to the trains that carried them Off to their training camps. J

Among the Americans was Private Bob Brown, of Wheelwright. Ky., who said most of tne Americans in. one Scottish battalion had been WC_l‘klll[,' in Detroit "alongside Can- adians who were just like brothers

tts.’

Other Americans said they felt this was their war a5 well as Brit- ain's, and hat-i joined up with the Canadian forces to get. a crac

r.

Ono forincr member of the MichL, zan State Logislature among the new arrivals, said there were a sub- stantial number of Americans in his brigade.

“There would have been lots more if we had not persuaded them to stay at home and look after their families," he said.

Fornici- ltiayoi- Croll There Prominent among the soldiers was

His Worship Mayor David Croll o! Windsor. 0nt., now Private _Croil of the Western Ontario Battalion. HE ivas walking sentry duty when his unit sai ed into harbor. | He to.d newsman and press ph0to-, graphers, who ‘shot’ _hlm from ev- erv angle after learning he was a. a former provincial cab- inet officer, that the city _o1 Wind- sor had given him an indefinite leave of aLsence to “finish off this

Hitler iiiitizz." p ,

There were family combinations among the battle-ready warriors- Pipe Major Jock Copeland. his krlt- ezi banal skirting ‘fDonald l5 Alli! Ta tile War’ a8 his ship culled iii- \. uccctnizatiictl by his two sons, James and Robert.

Tract-e were three Gerouard broth- ers. of Ottawa. Corporal Harry and Privates Jim and Tedtiywelelmli‘ ing, totwvarri to a reunion with fl- iourih brother. Leonard, who arriv- 8C in Britain with the Isl: Division-

Also a, m; the Americans was Adam Kuvrztiakt, a Polish-born De-y troiter, iviio explained his service

i . :- m'*sI'il\<'~\"tJ\-.to brothers lost somewhere in Po and. I don't. know what's be- come of them. That's one reason- Annthcr is that this 10b 0i Bum"! Germany in licr proper pace frills be 1llliSliC(l, and I want. to helli-

Ccmtnanciing the division is Mat- or- General V. M. Odium. C. B» Ct- M. G... D. S O. Second in corn- »t is Lieut. Colonel Ernest G. _ l, M. C.. M., Assistant Ailjlltfllll. Gcticral and Quartet‘- niristu" General. He is a son of the late liiajot" W. A. Weeks, former- iy of Charlottetown. t

The second diviszon becomes part of Lirutenant General A G. L MacNaughtotfs corps.

At Embarkatlon

By E. L. Williams Canadian Press 5187i Will"

AN EAST COAST CANADIAN PORT. Aug. 2--<CP)—A giant gray bfli-tlcsilip, eased Slowly from her bcrili and headed seawards. he!‘ crew clieei-zitg. Three W85 5l'i°3‘i< themselves loose from lit?!‘ 811d steamed toward a liner heft-Mil nearby. The Lfth major contingent oi Canadian troops to sail sine! the war bcgan was on its wa-y over- i seas.

Safe arrival of these men over-

seas was announced today. It wts an hour after the battle- ‘ t when the last 01 T-hO a ottl, got undervttay. The battiltvhlp and leading lin-era in the convoy already were but specks on the horizon but it. seemed the roar of thousands of men cheerinfl still vclild be iicard.

Aboard ship vrcre lVLaj-Genvic- tor Odlumhis headquarters staff of the 2nd Divzsion. Canadian Active Service Force, and about every branch of the ailiiy-Rimy. service corps, signals, staff clerks. infan- try artillery, iiostiitnl units. engin- eers. hygiene ccutpaiticxs and even several ccmpanies of imperials. The latter were returning after escorting German war prisoners t0 Canada

Tumultloua Dblilltllro

It was a tumultuous departure. For days the liners had been swal- lowing tip troops by the hundredal

Ftrcm the train platform the men inarclicd into the pzer sheds and aboard ship, some headed by

l

were investigating the oomfoeta-of- their transport. i0 minutes after‘ their train had rolled to s stop

During the week before they sailed i-llcy made route marches; through parts of the city. drilled in the big sheds and staged sing- songs nightly that could be heard for blocks.

It. was just before six o'clock on a dull cloudy evening when the battleships lines were cast off by a Royal Canadian Navy party. As if by magic the superstructure of each ship became a mass 0f cheer- ing, khaki-clad men.

They cheered the battleship and were cheered backumchegerved the tuegboats and their crews and serenaded each ship as it moved out. into the harbor. They cheered anything and everything in sight. -evcn a fishermen! pcwcr dory

for this information. The senate should imow what was to be the.

Senator Meivhen protested that frequent reowsts had been made system of coll.

far as actual progress went

an to regulations ta be promulgat- under the mobilisation cot.

of taxes frcm some 1.100 civil ser- vants in Manflfiaba with an amend- ment permitting the itartiishca or calories of all civil urvmto.

the Senate. passed the act which] would make provision for collection I t

Q

chugging slowly past.

As oach ship began to glide slowly away, clouds of letters came lttoating down to the pier with cries of "mail this for us, will you