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m, regular monthly meeting of , m Knights of Columbus was held -. m weir home Tuesday evening ind was largely attended. Grand “wit, Dr. J. A. MacMilian pre- Mgd and topened the meeting f ‘m, prayers, which were offered i m the late Brothers William Mor- " In ‘m1 Charles L. MacDonald. 1m minutes oi the last regular ‘myth; were read and on motion Q; Gerald Murtash. seconded by .mhur Peters were adopted as

redifter the regular routine of business, Past Grand Knight R. E. Bmiiey read the financial report w, the six months ending June‘ mm ‘vhieh was adopted on motion M Mr. Bradley, seconded by Ger- lid Muriel-Zh- Mr, Lennard MacDonald. chair- ‘ mm of the carnival held at Vic- Wm park gave a re_port on the ‘. “mint-mi part of the carnival and| ‘ winked all who in any way help- “; to make it a success and the} yeport was adopted on motion of "ML Mat-Donald with Frank Mac- ’ Donald as seconder. On motion of R, p, Bradley a vote of thanks was irndereri Mr. MacDonald for ~~his efforts. This was seconded by j Eugene Cullen. i

Mr. Wilfrcd lifcKenno, chair- mail oi the orphanage picnic gave m5 rspurt on the picnic. The sin- w-e thanks oi the Council were tendered Mr. McKenna and his wmmIIIEQ for their splendid avork h this connection-

The matter of the annual han- quei was next discussed and final- [v agreed that the banquet would m. pm“ this year- as usual.

The Grand Knilhi DT- J- A- ttmiwillan and Deputy Grand knight Col. Leo F. MficDonaid then‘ thanked the members for their kindness in electing them to the high offices of the Council and romiscd to do everything possible to kgfl’) the Council and its activi- ties flourishing, calling on all members whether present or not to c,“ hehihd them in all their efforts.

The balance of the meetin! W05 turned over to discussion by the members for the good of the order. flier which the Grand Knight dosed the meeting with lmiyef-

liailway Workers ilalk Off Joli

(By The Canadian Press)

DOB-CHESTER. N. a. Scin- i" _.Membcrs of W0 CBMQP“ m“ iional Railwayl "ext" “n55 walked off the 10b 1191'" he“ w‘ dav io enforce their demands for, hirhci- wages, The crews were en- gaged ill laying gravel ballast a- long the railways main line.

is member of the railway! Dilb- iic relations department in Monc-. ion tonight ssidnearly 190 "l" were affected by the work stop- PQRL I-le was unable to say Whit demands the men had made. H01‘ what wage rate the men had been receivingi. .

Extra gang workers are men ernplrrvcd by the railway. usueliv

during the summer months, l" tarry out routine repairs and riainenance work on railway‘

tracks and sidings.

Past &Peak

LONDON. Sept. 10 —-Rieuters)— Scvrntv-one-year - old Frfidéfivk Harding started a two-yea!‘ BTW)". sentence for housebreakinz WOW‘ because. he said. he was "too deli ta hear the police coming, not fast enough to get away and past his] best years of crime."

He had 14 previous convictions.

OGSTAAD. Switzerland, Sept. 10 MAM-Georges Boiiy, Socialist member of the Belgian Parliament. has clccted president of the Eur- opean Parliamentary Union today. lit succeeds Leon Maccas. a form- er Greek Minister.

OIRTIS. MIIRRIRSES. DEATIIS

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MARRIAGES Masulll-L-roltp - At ‘hilt! llniicd Church, Charlottetown, 0n

. Aug. 30th. 1947. by Itcv, T. EIMC- Lcnnan. Geo. Robert MacNcill and Iianuah Jane Ford. both of Char-

ioiielown.

_._.___ji___.____. mourns CONSTABLE-At Long Rivcr, 5911i. i0. 1041, Miss Isabel Con-

stable, aged 78 years. Funeral from her late residence Friday at 7 pm. Interment Geddie Mem- orial cemetery.

R55“; _ M Lower heetowmlemployccs in the vault.

55f"- lO. 1947, Calvin T. Reeves.‘ ' Iicd O2 years, Funeral from his late residence Friday at I pm. Interment Wills-lot Valley cemet- ery,

CLIFFORD-At New York City. U- 5- 4-, on Wednesday. Sept. 10. i947, Mrs. Jean Clifford, IIQd 40- Filnsral Saturday in Nov York.

ll. O. MaoLean

UNDERTAKIR EMIALMER Charlottetown and

North Illtohlre ‘ PIIIO Ill

Ashby. Mass. schoolteacher

‘clubbed D11 the back of the head

_Mr. Beauparland dashed for one of the bank telephones as the lbandiia went. they had out the lines. l-ie rushed a block up the street to store there of the holdup.

Heart Hospital where five stitches were used tcclose his he originally reported to h ve been caused by a bullet.

to derive the bank. left bntilnd his revolver. a German Luger-type weapon. ‘Instead he took with him therevoiver belonging to Q10 hi!!! miller. _ “I -

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STRIKE RUMOR NOT VERI- FIED-A ru.inor that workers of Canada Packers plant here would go out on strike today in symp- athy with strikers in other centres in Canada could not be verified here last night. Management of- the local plant when interviewed had no comment to make.

ANSWER TWO CALLS - The Fire De artment was called out twice y sterday evening—at 8.80 and 0 o'clock-to the vicinity 0t the County Jail where children had started bon fires. The fires were extinguished and the children told to divert their activities to other Jess dangerous pranks.

SAD NEWS RECEIVED - Mr. Dennis Garnhum, city, received word yesterday of the unexpected death of his sister Mrs. Jean Clif- ford, New York Oity. Mrs. Clif- ford left Charlottetown some 2i years ago. to make her home in New York. Her husband, a veteran of the First World War_ prc- dcrcased her.

CARS 1N CRASH —- lbotensive damage was done to two cars last night when they crashed opposite St. Dunstairs College on the Mal- peque Road. The accident occurred when a local taxicab coming out. of the College driveway was in col- lision with a car coming towards town. ‘Ilhe taxi ended up in the ditch on the left hand side o: the road while the other vehicle came to rest in the right hand ditcih. Oc- rtipants oi both cscnped 1011")’-

Jew; Giving Plenty Trouble

HAMBURG. Sept. 10 - (AP) — British officials in charge of camps for the 1047 Exodus Jews said tonight the Jews were "being obstinate and giving ‘I15 Pielity 0f trouble."

The refugees themselves reiter- ated their detmriination to seek again to enter Palestine.

One Jewish lender said the ref- ugees vii-ho quit the Empire Rival yesterday tvitiiout protest did a0 because they knew it contained a bomb set to "blow the ship to hell" i0 hours nfier the evacuation start/cd.

A powcriul lic-me made canister bomb was found by Biitish naval personnel in a search of the ship yesterday", and it latcr exploded on the grounds sf a naval depot.

The Jcws were taken to two camps near Luebock where, one of them said, they will stage a sit» down strike to protest their poss- ible classification al displaced per- sons.

However. a hungrr strike by 100 Jews at Poppcndorf. ilrger of the two camps. was abandoned today.

Missing Teacher

‘ls Located

' ——- i CALAIS. Me. Sept. 10 -(A P)- Dorotihy T. Wilder. 48-year-old miss- for was

ing foe a week afieir lcnvi-rig Mount Washington. N11,

found at the Canadian border near ‘ here today, police said.

Officers said Miss Wilder was "located" but gave no further de- tails.

Police and forest rangers search- ed upland hcights of Mount Wash- ington last week aftar discovery of the teacher's automobile and her father's report that she bad writ- ten him a card frcm the mountain post office.

Miss Wilder had bccn believed headed foi‘ Antigonish, N. 5». W119i! she disappeared.

Seek Daring

Bandits In Bank Holdup

(By The Canadian Press)

HULL, Que, Sept. l0—Municipal. Provincial and Royal Canadian Mounted Police searched tonight for two youthful bandits who es- capcd with $3.000 after a noon-‘ hour holdup of a branch 0f f-hé Banque I-‘rovinciale du Canada.

The youths, both brandishing revolvers, escaped after slugllihll i! customer on the head with the butt oi a revolver and after un- successfully attempting to 100k another customer and two bank

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Romulus Beaupariant. chairman of the Hull police commission, was

as he entered the bank just as the bandits were about to leave. out- the door, but

drug- snd notified polic from 'I'hen" he drove to the Sacred

wound.

One of the robbers in his haste

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Sales

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Sons. Scuris Line Road, were the heaviest exhibitors and chief win- ners for Hereforda.

Mr. Clifford Townsend, Rollo Bay, who also won several prizes with his dual-purpose Shorthorns, was a big winner in the heavy horse entries as was also James D. Coffin and Sons, Rollo Bay.

The sheep entries were large and of a. high quality. Among the Oxfords breeders, Mr. Ernest Underhay and the Estate of John Norton_ Annandale, were the heavy prize winners while in the Shrop- shires, Mr. James A. E. McDonald, Little Pond and Preston Bryontoii, Rollo Bay. carried off the major portion of the prizes. Mr. Bryenton was also the chief winner among the Southdown breeders.

The poultry exhibits were large and of a choice quality.

The Exhibition was officially opened by I-Iis Honour, Lieut.-Gov- ernor J. A.- Bernard whose ad- dress appears below. Other speak- ers were Premier J. Walter Jones. Hon. W. F. A. Stewart, Minister of Agriculture, and the Rev. J. A. Murphy. PP, Sourls. All spoke in commendatory terms of the Ex- hibition.

GOVERNOR'S ADDRESS

The following is the text of the address of His Honor Lieutenant Governor J.A. Bernard, delivered at the opening of the Exhibition yesterday afternoon.

Mr. President, -Revercnd and Honorable Gentlemen, Ladies and Gentlemen:

"It is a pleasure to attend this King's County Exhibition and to look over the displays which the exhibitors have assembled here in friendly competition. I am partic- ularly glsd i0 know that this dis- trict is not troubled with the epi- demic whlcih was prevalent on your Hair Day last year and which caus- ed so many deaths throughout the province. I congratulate the offlo- era of the Exhibition Association on the fine work you are doing, and the exhibitors on the good showing you are making. By work- ing together in harmony you are advancing the.best interests oi your community. County fairs have a great attraction, and where there is so much opportunity of scelng what your neighbors are doing and producing there is very good rea- son to attend.

“Farmers of this province are fortunate in having so higii a grade of livcstock. Intelligent work and

I compliment the farmers who are she-wing their stock here today, because from my experience in ag- riculture I fully realize what pat- ience and labor is required to make a successful showing of this very important part of farming. It is pleasant to i‘lnd that there is a good showing of vegetables, fruits and flowers 0nd We also note with satisfaction the display o-f fancy work and the produ:ts oi the kit- chen. Success of such an exhibition as this dcpends to a great extent on the lsdics of the district, and where we see a goodly display sup- plied by feminine hands thcra is a realization that the women are supporting the undertaking, and where this occurs there is no such word as failure. There is, how- ever. always room for more exhib- its. This fair is educational as Well as agricultural, and we can all gain some knowledge by looking over the exhibits and applying the edu- cation so received to our own pos- ition or environment.

Rural Beautification

‘Last year I mentioned rural beautification to you, and now I wish to say that in 1946 a large number of our rural home owners entered the contest and almost $2,500 in prizes was awarded the winners. This year the prize money has been about doubled and rural schools and halls are eligible to enter the contest for the cash prizes and cups.

“Words of praise are due to- those who havemade sufficient knprovement to enter the contest, and I hope to be able to say be- fore long that every rural hcme owner in this province has done something towards making his property and his aurroundmgs mo" presentable. No other Osi- ian province has such a plan as Prince Edward island. Rural beau- tificatioh originated here, and the success oi the undertaking is re- marked on by our visitors and tourists. We have been first in many things but there are few things uflch are as pleasing to tlié traveller nor as well remembered by him than well kept homes.

"The matter of driving fatalities in our province this year gives us reason to stop and consider. The season is not near 0V8!‘ and cvcry- one knows oi the many tragedies which have taken place, of the homes which have» been bereaved and of the sufferings entailed. Oarelessness and recklessness on the part of persons who use the highways are terrible things, and until such who practice them while driving are removed from cur highways there will be no safety. Many licenses have been taken away, but there are still too many who do not drive safely.

"I congratulate the president and officers or the, Association for their fine work in connection with the Fair, and now. in declaring this hlieth Kings lbihlblilon formally opened I express the hope that it will be an outstanding success and that the exhibitors will-be deter- mined to build it t: sreatcr pro- pmportions out year." -

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Disappointing For. . Citizenship Certificates

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OTTAWA, Sept. 10-—(Spooia,l)— Are most Canadians simply men and women without a country?

This question arose in Ottawa today when tt was revealed that only 11.660 certificates of Canad- ian citizenship had been sold since the inception of the citizen- ship branch ui the Secretary o! State Department, In other words, less than one-tenth of one per- cent of the Dominion’: population is able to prove by document that they are bona-fide, brass-bound Canadians.

Officials admitted to The Guar- dian that the volume of certific- ates soid was somewhat disap- pointing. 1t was the more so on account of the high-pressure cam- paign iaunched by then State Sec- retary Paul Martin when Canad- ian citizenship was formally es- tabiished.

The campaign started ofi.’ with a magnificent inaugural ceremony in the Supreme Court of Canada with Chief Justice Rinfret presid- ing. Representative men and wo- men from every province were presented with their certificates while flash-bulbs popp d and noble words were uttered land ack- iiowledgcd.

Similar ceremonies were held all across the Dominion in court- rooms and city halls to stimulate national pride and to rejoice in Canada's arrival at the goal of independent nationhood» But the certificates are still not selling.

Reduced To $1.00

Original price of the Canadian citizenship certificates was fixed at s5, with war veterans with ov- erseas service being exempt from charges. But with high food and

documents found few takers at that price and the fee was drop- ped by BO percent to one dollar.

Even at this seemingly reason- able sum and in the face of a de- termined campaign by citizenship branch officials, the public con- tinues to balk at buying these documents which have been turn- ed out by the thousand from the presses of the King's printer.

It had been fondly hoped by l-Ion. Mr. Martin and his associ- ates that the citizenship branch would be self-liquidating. Facts have dashed these hopes badly. While only $11,650 has come into the department's coffers from the sale of certificates, the handsome sum of $155,075 was voted by Par- liament last session to cover the annual expenses of the branch.

In Ottawa there are 87 employ- ees of the citizenship branch un- der Col. C. A. Krug, acting com- missioner oi citizenship. Mr. Krug and his three top assistants are today in Quebec City at an “edu- cational conference." It is pre- sumed that the conference will discuss how far the new branch can go along the lines of educat- ion. Jurisdiction over which is

westcd in the Provinces under the‘

‘British North America Act.

In Ontario's great nickel and ‘base-metal mining district of Sud- bury where a large proportion of the population of 75.000 is for- eign-born, only two certificates have been sold this year. Daily inewspapers in Sudbury, Ottawa and Moose Jaw have recently [given the citizenship branch a sound editorial thumping under such headings as "official hokum". "waste" and “unnecessary agency."

Main reason for the lack of buying interest in the certificates seems to be that a. Canadian is

still a British subject with or without the certificate. For mil- lions of Canadians this title

seems to be good enough.

News Briefs

LONDON, Sept. l0 -R,euters)— Russian occupation authorities have seized the Brown Boverie works in Vienna, one of Austria's largest engineering plants, Ham- burg radio reported today. Russian officials said the works were seiz- ed as they had become German property after the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938. -

BRATISLAVA, Sept. i0-(Reuters)—Count Franz Esterhazy, former leader of the Hungarian minority party in the puppet Tlso regime between 193$ and i045, will face trial before the national court here Tuesday, the Czechoslovak news agency announ- ced today. Count Estcrhazy was arrested in i040, no reason being givBfl.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10—(AP) -The interstate commerce com- msssion today ruicd against an immediate freight rate increase for United States railroads by an- nouncing that shippers opposed to

,i'ive escaped with minor

the raise will he heard before a:t- ion will be taken.

OURAY_ 0010., Sept. l0—fAP)- Winter reached this southwestern Colorado mountain town today. In the higher reaches the season's first sustained snow fell, and mo- torists reported an inch of snow.

FREZDEILIOKTDWN, Mo, Sept. 10—(AP)-—'I‘tvo men were killed. another was critically injured and injuries in a. cave-in at shaft 18 of the St Joseph Lead Company mines here today.

TORONTO, Sept. i0—(C'P)--Eki- ward Yardas, general secretary of the council of C nsdian South Slavs. said today hat ‘almost 4.- 000 of Canada's 18.000 Yugbslavs have returned or are planning to return to their homeland. Two.

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THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

Protestant Orphanage Trustee Meeting

The trustees oif the Protestant graph-snags met in Charlottetown n Tuesday, September 9th, for the consideration of general business and especially for the planning of the fall's work. -

The reading and passing of ‘e minutes along with some mi items were first disposed of fol- lowed by a letter from the execu- tors of the Estate of the late John Coigan. enclosing the bequest of $1,199.51. '

The reports of committees open- ed most important discussions, and 'I'.he Adoption rqport showed s very large number of children to care for, with weii over thirty at- tending school. Many more appli- cations for admission were on hand so the problems of this com- mittee were many and far reach- ing. The Property report told that the properly was in good condition since some repairs were complet- ed. Production in the garden was very satisfactory and the winter's coal was ali in the cellars.

The Orphanage, for years has depended on one annual fail drive for funds to carry on their work and the trustees were now anxious ‘to hear of the advance plans and .the place where each could be of {most assistance. as Mrs. I-l. S. lI-fenderson. Chairman of Finances, uoportcd the organizing of Province for the annual drive for funds nearing completion.-

With ilie largest number of ichilziren in the history of the Or-

phanage and with prices so very ‘high and still soaring, slie stress- ‘ed the necessity of a generous iresponse to the appeal, Everyone ieall7ed. she said, that living ex- ‘penses were extremely high and she liad only to refer to the coal bill, which was $400.00 higher than last year, to understand that the nced was indeed great. not to mention the increase of over 50 per cent in the teacher's salary.

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campaign in Charlottetown and ual be guided in their ‘dates by conditions. Several trustees spoke of the gathering interest in their sections in preparation for the drive and when they knew of the extremely large number of children to be cared for, they believed that the extra effort would be made. since all felt the pinch of prices for all commodities.

The date for the ncxt trustee meeting was set for Tuesday Oct- ober 21st, and with the passing of the bills on hand for payment the , meeting adjourned but several ilingered to ask and answer ques- ‘tions particularly dealing with the ‘part they were to play.