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lipid Sugar Supplieslmprove

WASHINGTON. Sept. 22- world sugar "Wu" hi" jmprnvtd ‘sufficiently in permit lifting of controls over inter- national trade in the commod- ity for the remainder of this year, ii. was announced today by the international Emerg- shay Food Council.

heretofore, the Council ai-. located the world's sugar sup- plies among various importing

countries.

Rev. K. C. McMillan ippcint-ed Assistant Priest lltlraoadie

The Rev. K. C. MacMlllan, of Charlottetown. has been appoint- pd Assistant Priest to his uncle, Itev. Kenneth C. MacPhelson, Parish Priest of Tracadle.

The Roman Catholic Missions .o_f florran Ban and Covehead have been separated from the Parish of rracadie. and the Rev. L. J. Ayers has been appointed Parish Priest si Curran Ban‘ and Covehead

These appointments will come into effect on October 1st, it was announced last night from the i-esi- dence of His Excellency Bishop Boyle.

200 Tons 0f Coal Burned At Wolfvlils

WOLPVILLE. N. 5.. Sept. n2- (CP) - At least zoo tons of coal in railway cars were destroyed hers today when fire swept the coal shed of R. E. Harris Fuels Ltd. and spread to an adjoining siding.

Loss of the coal aggravated the Iusi situation in Wolfvilie where eosi companies have had diffi- sully getting enough coal to meet demands.

Coming Events

"Dancs, Long Creek Hall. Tues- lsy, September 23rd. Aid of Rink.

"Buying 30 pound pigs daily at East Royalty. W. Wheatley.

"Dance, ‘Earnscliffe School, Thursday, September 25th. "Talkies - St. Peter's Bay,-

Ihursday. Zane Grey's Nevada."

"Dance in Launching School, “WHY. September 26th.

"silecial Show. Canoe Cove, wtdllvidlly. "Bandit of Sherwood Foresi" in Technicolor.

"Arrears of School Taxes in Howe Bay District not pal-d by Sept. 30th, 1947, will be collected by law.

"Chicken Supper. South Rustico Hall. September 23rd-—24th. Re- lreshnlents, Bingo and other games.

.. 9”“ Dance, Fortune Hall, Wtplomber 26th. citiioros

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Friday, Orch-

"Fhicken Supper, Bingo other Wiles and dance in Kelly's Cross Hall. Monday, sopioxnber 29th. -

"Special Show ~ Morell, Thurs- llsv. "Bandit of sberwsaa lid" I Technicolor. »

"Regular Dance st Burlington

Wrdflridav. September 24th. Bernard's Orchestra. "K108i County Plowing Match

llld Horse Show at Dundas. Sepi- mber 24th, For prise list and in- formation apply to Albert Acorn,

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"Tlhe Annual Bazaar at Rollo Biv will be held September soul and October 1st. Best yet. Don't lniss it.

"mum Wednesday. September Nth for Cape Traverse Church of ltlilllnd Chicken Supper in Caps havens I-fgll,

"chicken Supper at St. Teresa's

- Monday. September 29th.

P901" served from 5 to 10 P. M. Dulce after. Webster's Orchestra.

"Chicken Su in French River Hall, Wsdimsy, microel- flith. Proceeds in sid of Goddie lfernorial Church.

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""0! Producers -- Your atten- Wm is directed to advertisement of all Meeting of Farmers to be mil Mm afternoon. septembsr “h. Csnsdlsrr Legionlsli. Ohsr- “éfavn. sppasrias in this new

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OTTAWA, Sept. 22 - (CP) ... Mao men who took top roles h; Canada's war effort were honored today with United States decora. lions in s ceremony at the Us. Embassy. Hon. Ray Ahherton, U.S. Ambassador. conferred- the awards. Heading the list were awards of commanders in the logical or merit to Mal-Gan. 11G. (Bunny) Weeks, Air Marshal G.O. Johnson and Air Vice-Marshal Ernest W. Sted- man.

The Legion of Merit, degree of officer. was conferred on Lt-col. Donald Waldock of the Canadian (formerly of the British) Army; Wing Ckndr. David A Willis, and

Dr. O.M. Solandllpdlttirsnan of

awarded the Medal of Freedom Nth bronze palm. while the same award went to Emyln L. Davis" dfipllty director of the Defence Research Board and V. William Scully, deputy Minister 0f Recon- struetlm and Supply.

Dr. O.A. Mitchell, Dominion an. imnl pslhvloslst, cf the Agriculture

Scheduled To Speak

‘ In Charlottetown

TORONTQ Sept. 22 — (CP) — John R. MscNicoi. Progressive Con- servative member of Parliament for Toronto-Davenport, will leavs to- morrow on a speaking tour of Maritime cities, including Saint John. Moncton, Amherst, Truro. Halifax and Charlottetown

A member of the Parliamentary Reconstruction and Re-establish- ment Committee in 1043-44 and a strong advocate of economic ad- vancement in the Marltimes, Mr. MacNlcol will describe the pro- grams for Maritime reconstruction recommended by the committee.

Price 0f Macaroni, Cereals. Increases

WINNIPEG, Sept. 22 -(CP)- The price of macaroni. noodles and dry breakfast‘ ‘foods increased to- day in the Winnipeg area follow- ing last weeks deeontrol -of flour. cereal products, canned goods and other edibles and owrekespe Q said it. was "only the beginning" of a price-rising period.

Macaroni jumped three cents to l0 and 11 cents a five-ounce pack- age, noodles increased three cents for each five-ounce package and breakfast cereals rose one cent for each il-ouncs package.

CHILDREN COST PLENTY

DOS ANG-limm. Sept. 22 -(AP) Actress Joan Blondell asked sil- perlor Court today to require her former husband, actor Dick Pow- ell, to pay 014,000 a year for sup- port of their children. Norman 12. arid Ellen. 9. Powell has been paying $100 a month for each child. She was granted custody of the children, when she and Powell were divorced.

Canadians Honoured At U. S. Embassy Ceremony

Group Capt. Sheldon W. Coleman. : the Defence Research Board, was

Tourist Association Delegates In Convention

MIL-General E. G. Weeks

Department, receiver: the Medal of Iltreedczn.

The heads of the nine Canadian tourist bureaus representatives of five Dominion Government de- partments, high Canadian railway officials, and distinguished auth- orities on the tourist industry from the United States will be among those present at today's luncheon at the Charlottetown Hotel when His Worship Mayor B. Earls Mac- Donald welcomes to the City tho delegates to the 15th annual un- veptlon of the Canadian Associa- tion. of Tourist and Publicity bureaus.

The three-day convention opens at the Charlottetown Hotel at 8:30 this morning with the regis- tration of delegates and at 10 o'clock the conference will get down to business with President E. G. Rowebottom, Victoria, 5.0., presiding. It will conclude Thurs- day evening with a banquet at The Charlottetown, during the course of which Mr. J. P. John- son, vice-president Canadian Na- tional Railways, will address the delegates. His subject will be, "Let Us Observe Our ‘h-ibal Cos- toms."

Scattered throughout the throe- day deliberations will be addresses by men who can SDCllVV/lbli auth- ority on thellqchosen subjects. This

morriin, Mr. Cate Garth, New York, ireetor of the travel and trade department. Scripps-I-low-

ard newspapers, will ask and ans- wer the question: “Can You Make Travel Canadtrs Largest Indus- try?"

Other Speakers

Among others who‘will address the delegates during the conven- tion wlll be Messrs. D. Leo Dulm, director Canadian Government Travel Bureau, Ottawa; Mr. I‘. H. R. McNally, Toronto; A. 0. Rob- inson, Canadian Pacific Railways, Montreal; and H. S. Robinson, 0|.- laws.

It is expected that the talks given by the officials of the sev- eral Dominion Government de- partments represented atthe con- vention will prove of considerable interest and profit to the Associ- ation. Included among those who, it is believed, will ‘contrib-ite something of significance ta tbs

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Gale, Causes Damage. Throughout Ontario

today heralded the onslaught of winter in Ontario aa a shall) 5WD l" WP‘, eraturs followed an equlnoctrsl hat caused thousands of dol- lsra damage over- a wide srea dur-

The gale, said by weather-men to be the last gasp-oi the hurricane that recently buffeted the Southern United- States, also trailed in its wake the first acudding snowflur-

The roaring wind uprooted trees, blew down hydro and televhqh! poles, urlroofecl bullalnsl and wr- crop leases in the prov- swept from Lake Iris to the Ottawa River. No deaths

llS-mile-an-hour gale roared across ‘Toronto, life-savers wont s bu]! half hour rescuing "(lumen cellist in the squafl. ‘nae whole waterfront area was left in darkness Sunday nlsht when carrfllll’ transformers

toppled. . Heavy fruit crop losses were re- ported in the Niagara district.

In Port Stanley the fishing, ‘mg L. and S. was torn loose from her moorings and rammed against an- other tug wlthaonle damage ra- aultlnl. Upmoted trees blocked traffic en tnro Hamilton streets for several hours and at lleainington s highway was blocked by fallen high tension wires.

Near Chef-haul the w reached m! nNMrtioraa 6f a eye one which hi" sway the s-weiilna of m». and Mn. Ifloyd Need. The couple and their two Inall children hsd a cioaa esil.

In that same srss. 1'! miles southwest of Oflatham. tbs Olso- wood Orange Hail, largest inflicting in the district, was lifted from its concrete foundation and debris was scattered over the field-a for half

its. ‘zseooipdqingthabigblow was sdropintlilrpsrsture of-aaauaoh

Search For Slayer 0f Little Ciri

OWEN SOUND, Ont... Sept. 22- Through this lake port city and its surrounding srea, all district police combined tonight in a search for the slayer of 11-year- oid Betty Playford. whose body. the skull fractured by a blunt instrument, was found in a ditch just outside the city limits.

Police said there was evidence she had been criminally attacked. Betty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jamel- Playford and one of a family of ulna children, was last seen at a pm. Sunday when she left the borne of s. playmate on the next street. The body was found four blocks from her home, in a ditch at the side oi a back gravel road, by Gordon McLay. father of the playmate. No foot- prints were found in the sandy eight-foot ditch, soggy duo to rain, nor was there any sign of blood.

Mrs. Thomas McMann told po- lice that about the time Betty left the McLay house, she heard a voice talking "fast and loud" and then a scream. But since children often play in the vicin- ity. she thought nothing of the incident.

Betty's brother. William, said his sister normally talked quickly, as described by Mrs. McMann.

Mrs. McMann told police that she heard no sound of a car at the time. From the position of the body in the ditch it was ovi- dent it was placed there rattler than rolled from a passing oar, police said.

Plriyfcrd said that his sister u y returned home from play at ..L0 P.M.. indicating she had left McLay's house about an hour before any concern was felt for her safety.

360 Pounds Butter is Stolen in City

No arrests had been made up to a late hour last night in connec- tion with the recent theft of six boxes of creamery butter from Buntaln and Bell's warehouse at the waterfront.

lng 360 pounds. was valued at sp- proximately $230,

City Police said last night that the thieves had made their ent- rance into the warehouse through a rear door.

Power Shortage Iii Yarmouth Serious

YARMOtTfl-I. N. 5.. Sept. 22 — (CP) — The power shortage in this Western Nova Scotia town, due to an unusually dry summer, is so critical that Cosmos Imperial Mills Ltd. here may have to shut down the night shift with s, con- sequent loss of $6,000 weekly in wages, manager U. G. Dawson told the Kiwanis Club today.

Mr. Dawson added his voice to that or Town council, which al- ready has ordered a dim-out at night, by asking citizens to be as sparing as possible in the use of power.

August was the driest month in 50 years leaving storage basins behind the nearby Tusket hydro dams so ‘low that the generators have had in be turned off for a period at night.

MINOR GOLD IUD!

PORT II‘. JOHN, 5.0. - (OP) -~ Gold fever has infected (this northern British Columbia ccsn- inunlty. It all began when .a pros- pector displayed a quart measure of ore heavy with free gold. Be said he got ths "stuff" somewhere beyond the Timon boilndaay and since than a number of persons have been reported heading into the wilm back of Immi- Posh-BC.

The six boxes of butter, welgh-_

Prison Break Results

In » Three

OTTAWA, Sept. 22 - (OP) The officlahstory of tha Aug. l! three-man escape from Kingston Penitentiary was told, today in a Government report which disclos- ed that Deputy War-deli 1.. u. Ml;- la.rd had been placed on leave pending retirement and three oth- or officers have been dismissed.

Disciplinary action has been taken against five others for "dlBCkIlCSS" in the performance of their duties.

Whfie the report, made public by Mai-Gen. R. B. Gibson, peni- tentiaries commissioner. pinned. blame for the break on the “lux- ity" of prison officers, lt said it had not been established that there was "any collusion" between any of the officers and the three escaped convicts.

The escapees - Mickey McDon- ald, Toronto. Ulysse Lauzon. Wind- sor, Ont.. and Nick Minille, Ol- tawa--stil1 are at large with re- wards of $1.000 standing for in- formation leading to their re- capture.

The three officers who have been discharged are J. F. Walsh, P. V. Bedore and R. A. Roch. The names of those being disciplined are not being made public ‘oc- cause of possible effects on the actions of the prison inmates.

Gen. Gibson described the es- cape as "very cleverly planned" and told how the convicts cut their way out of their cells with hacksaw blades. gained access to the cell block roof and thence to the ground, snuggled through. a tomato patch and then scaled the prison wsll with home-made ropes.

He concluded with this state- merit:

"Steps have already been taken to correct the weakness disclosed in the administration which con- tributed to the success of the es-

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News Briefs

LESS FOOD TO COST MORE

LONDON, Sept. 22 — (C?) Britons today face the prospect of paying more for loss food. Re- ductions in British food subsidies are expected as a part of the government's economy drive. as- sociated with the anti-inflation program.

TURNS DOWN CUSTOM UNION AUCKLAND, N.Z., Sept. 22 —

(Reuters) - Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand, said today that the Empire customs

union proposed by Foreign Becre tary Bevin in his speech to the Trades Union Congress at south- port, England, this month is un- acceptable to the people and gov- ernment of New Zealand.

CONFER 0N EUROPE

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 —(AP) — President Truman worked to- day with top advisers on what to do about Europe. as a cabinet food committee reported agreement on food exports and i6‘ European countries at a Paris conference. asked S19,330,000.000 for a four- year recovery plan.

BEAVEIIBIIOOK EXPECTED

SAINT JOHN. N. 8., Sept. 2S- (OP) - Lord Beaver-brook, wb was installed last May as Chan- cellor of the University of New Brunswick at Fredericton, plans to arrive ln New York from Britain Qet. 1* and reach Frederic- ton Oct. s. it was learned here to- day. Following his arrival in the provincial capital he will visit Sir James and Indy Dunn at St. Andrews, N3. -

WOULD UNION!!! IOUSEWIVIS

TORONTO, Sept. 22 — (C?) — Margaret Carter of Toronto, Unl-

ted Automobile Workers‘ commis-

tee secretary, says she would like to see office workers and even housewives organized to help

maintain employment and salar- ies, but she doesn't lmow yet bow

it can be done.

liohct Flies Plans Across Atlantic

LONDON, Sept. 22 - (AP) —Coi. James Gilles lo and a crew of ll fliers an observers sat by with “absolutely nothing to do" as a United States Anny robot transport plane under his command completed a 2,400- mile flight across the Atlantic today — a flight directed by a mechanical brain. .

"We just pushed a button In the transp t at Stephenville, Newfoundland, took off and landed here at Brine Norton,” a Royal Air Force base in Ox- fordshire, Gillespie said in an interview. I

"The brain did all the work."

Over Brice Norton the‘ brain dropped the plane's landing gear and flaps and made a per- fect landing. Not a hand touch- ed the controls in the i'i'ght from 8:15 (E.D.T.) Monday to the time of the landing at 8:20 AM. today.

The brain, on which the flight division at Wright Field, Dayton. Ohio, has been working for two years. computed the distance and made allowances for headwinds and tailwinds.

_"About 100 miles off the coast of Ireland it had been set to pick up a radio frequency on a previously arranged schedule with the Royal Air Force, which had a wing comma ’ observ- er aboard," GllleSple said. "It did. and that frequency guided it to the perfect landing."

New Hurricane May Affect Atlantic Coast

MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 23 - (OP) -— A new tropical storm lunged at Southern Florida from the Gulf of Mexico tonight, pelting flooded lowlands with fresh downpour and raising n potential hurricane men- ace for the Atlantic seaboard. whirling out of the Gulf barely a weck after a disastrous Atlantic hurricane, the newest disturbance whipped the Florida coast between Fort Myers and Tampa Bay with winds up to 60 miles an hour. Although there apparently was little danger at the moment, Grady Norton or the Federal Storm Warn- ‘ng Service stair‘; the’ gales might ‘Imp to hurricane force when the

crm crosses Florida and enters .'.e Atlantic. ‘

A hopeful report came from the Weather Bureau at 5.30 P.M. i’ .D.T.) that the storm did not agpear as far advanced as indicat- ed earlier. The centre was describ- ed as “still rather poorly organ- ized," although squalls swept out for 200 miles. Its forward move- ment had slowed from about l8 to 10 miles an hour, indicating, the Bureau said, it might take a more nori-heasterly course.

The advisory said the outlook was that the disturbance would swirl into the Atlantic ‘Ocean in the Jacksc-nirille v’cinity tomorrow after hitting inland tonight in the Fort Myers-Tampa Bay area and sweeping across file Florida pen- insula.

By IYARCY _0'DONNELL

OTTAWA. ‘Sept. 22 — (OP) - Ioderal Treasury figures for the first five months of the current fbcsl year indicate that Finance Minister Abbott may complete the year with a. surplus as great, 1f not greater, than the $352,000,000 eur- plus for 1046-47. ‘Ilhs fiscal year ends March 81, 1048.

While Finance Department o!- ficisls are cautious about predict- ing the year's final outcome, one of their number said! today he be-

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In the first flvc months of the 1946-40 ilscsl year the surplus was only SIBLGOOMS. That figure grew to $302,000,000 largely as a result of $372,000,000 received from mles of surplus war materials by War Assets Corporation. These sales now are mopping off to a more trickle.

Revenues in the five-month pu-

To Be Retired

OTTAWA, Sept. 22. - Colonel E. J. H, Morrisseyi, OBE. ED, formerly of Charlottetown. P. E. 1.. Director 0f Organization, Adjutant Generals Branch, is shortly retiring from the Canadian Active Army after eight yealrs’ service.

Col. Morrissey was adjutant of the Prince Edward Island High- landers at the outbreak of war. In 1940 he was appointed Company Commander of the Infantry Train- ing Calntre at Aldershot. Nova Sco- tia, and served there until. June 1941. In i941 he was transferred to National Defence Headquarters, Ottawa, and, with the exceptionof a. period in 1944 when he served at Canadian Military Headquarters in London, has been continuously em- ployed as a senior staff officer in Ottawa.

Col. Morrissey was a school teach- er in Charlottetown priod to the walr and was actively connected with the Cooperative Movement. in Prince Edward Island, having being named the Manager of the Liguor- ian Cerdi-t Union. the St. Dunstan's Credit Union form/ed in Prince Ed- ward Island. He holds the degree of bachelor of ‘arts from Laval Uni- veirsity_