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_ ynALL TONIC 1th vitamin ‘w; at Taylor DIUWZ 00.. KG!!- ion.

_ is 0d floor tiling in infill? colgs 5.111% designs. Order Braces. 4' nicriiirriau FROM MONT- “. _ Mr. Conrad Chan has re-

. ed to Sumnierside after spend- ,. some weeks in MontreaL-S

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_i,0.vG RIVER - Miss Vivian ,. We; of LODB River has t- , , phsliiori in Kensington. 1;; Eunice Camrpbell otf Long was a week-end visitor to mrigioii, -Mr. Harry Paynier “m; River is a patient in the ,- so couiiiy Hospital-Miss writs Campbell, _who has been mployed in Kensiiigton for the o, six months leift recently for 913360118 where she has ac- pd a pcsitioro-‘Ihe Misses m)“, FOIIIICI and Alma Paynter luie returned from St. Stephen, 1,5.

41B (MDETS RECEIVE RANK IYES -— During the Empire villi veek members of the recent- tiganlzed air cadet cor

lliiiiiiierslde High Sch

iruriripes. The following cadets qpiyoented with stripes lo act uiimdiiiniissioned officers, these militants are temporary and npdo the efficient carr ing out (M duties. Examinat (ms for list/lining of the stripes will be loluloiit at a future date. Air M! Flight Sergeant

Mint; Air Cadet Sergt Karl Mer-

iluiAir Cadet Sergt Clerk. G. A-

llin: Cadet Corporals.

lhiit Mollison, on

nlkiciiiird Merriam; Air av

Ilflplflfllt Corporal, Wendell (ggllt lid-S

liy Allowances

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itloiii with Mr. Dupuy had hem a1 decision was pian-

Hl. no fin It. Won Grsvdon (Con. Peel) ‘iced a Dlvposal for a plan mllllti for the benefit of men me forces t: bring their m. n, W I point at IEBSt within "able parity with the re- m the People on the home may _be receiving. M“ Pflrfllcivotiiii; in the debate gflalers Pay and allowances Hanson. M. J. ccidweli, - - ouse leader. Navy Ming. liacdonaid, and Clarence M, Cain Breton south). w; 4o well said some general | deflisrédrespect to leave should Some commanding or. ‘wave compassionate leave rio oioihalfffili $21??? f3! the end gall???) but in other places czar fr0m tug“? leavefm d” fonmglsm" whole e hadi leave is under review. been diffciultles in re- becflllsc. due to oper-

“ t to it m“ “swan. it Often had

MIDOIied.

“the Minister lmistilzi °l M‘... ., wves per-

vviiiice u the" Seocndents‘

m. N $108 reduced.

' $1 said the allowance a dependent mother lllillier than Q25

.. .‘ Ralston said the , “Hg: :1 Lgiother to an allowance , gether oh the ques-

ngf lvvliat she is deprived of [ment b’ reason or the qr.

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ii blem liiid ncoifgeiiqnetillehl; 0:51:35 else. settle that it would

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Navy mlfin. he said.

.~.i,_.d ,0 Macdonald re- ons between clam of the varia- 1mm m t‘ Pay and allowances i , wmcele navy and those in “Mn; cos.‘ The matter was i "evvv-"‘o‘l°'tili°‘l..blé’lt t“ c Qiiegelg! next week. x‘ " Wlmlf- the disparity llig m,“ 5° BMW A naval rat- litxhe, filo??- 0! quarters got e. o. ‘:‘°*..'ii..:“"i...:"..: . w ma???» received less. lhag w“ ‘officers received m h some instances e instances more than ngranks in the other

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—CONGIIATULATIONS Hear-tie“ congratulations m, hem; exmwb ed to Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Me. Neill, Kelvin on the arrival of a young son in i.r 10in 1m. me ma‘ °n W“

_ F BLAZE — Summers firemen, were called ‘out shortly a: ter 8 oclock last night for a, fire agave residence of Jerry Doimette,

a Street. There was only all ht dama e. Mr Doucette is g ummerside painter-s

—BETURNED T0 A N|)_ Captain Emmett GalllivnlntlNleft on $135153?’ morning for his home in

que. N. B. He had been in Summerside fixing u the schoqngy- Edward TTBVOY of w ch he is the captain. He received word on Sun- g ofie had been burn-

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neighbours wefie Elle datJ-nfly and 2281511523191; fléeh occurred and nothing mm - were was no insurance. the“ syrgpathgflla, filengs l extend ms 1m_s . slant in

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WEDDING

— BELLS - - ridge took place on 171M832; 23:11 23rd at the North Bedeque parson- ilg; aid/lbs lgausta Eileen, d

0 r. an Mrs. es of Freetown Bum

Rev. Mr. l-Ioddl t m‘ ceremony. Tllengrldpeflonned m’

lvely dressed in a tcdertgfispfiffiffil;

shades a2?!‘ and coat in accessor es. Mr. and figvyl-igrlir; Reeves were the attendants N115 R66 costume of black and ceremony the d to Charlotte-

. cvuggacloiugleldmgltore nner at the Char-

lfiilwlifmn hotel, Later in the eve- tey returned to their home

held f: gm VlgIBTE a reception was and 1 ha!‘ 0110111‘. many friends no plus calling to one; congratu ations. Mr. and Mrs. Stet- igléevtgvlvlnlhllliéffl their home in Lower

Personals

-—Gunner Ev tt M 1 lbent the week-ell? with relish Ila]: ents, Mr. and. fin, Summersidc-s '

Mrs. Wm. Maple —Mr, Harold MacDonald has tak- en a position on the staff of th Summerside Post Office. He is a. veteran of the First Great Wan-a

—-Miss Evelyn MacKenzle has re- turned from a pleasant holiday in Ottawa and ot-her Canadian cities. —S

—The Ml Geo lg Blanche Maclbsesg: were NWOCK-glxlig visitors to Moncton, N. B.—8

COL, RALSTON

(Continued from page i)

had laid foundations for the ex- pansion of the department from 10,000 men in 1939 to about 300,000 today and had handled total en- llstmenta of about 425,000. ,

e said the highest salary was that of Lt-Gen A. L. Mc- Naughton. Canadian amiy com- mander overseas, at $14,000 with- out allowances.

Col. Ralston said he had given a breakdown of defence depart- ment expenditures as far as pos- sible. and he was willing to give all the information he could con-

Answering questions asked by

John Diefenbaker (Con. Lake Centre). Col. Ralston said there been no reduction in the allowances paid to Indians in the service, but certain amounts of allowances due them were placed to their credit instead of being paid them. He promised to look into a re- civilian air observer schools’ employees wore uniforms which might be confused with those of the armed services.

SEES U. S. MOVE

swiftly mounting living costs in the United States should ease the ee- onmiic pressure on Canada and. in particular, should reduce lhn l.- mount of subsldlm paid o Can- adian producers as a res t of the {aground cost of imported mater- a .

Cordon said he saw no reason to su that Canadian ceilings m t be lifted to keep Canadian prices in ling with ilioee in the United States.

Follows Canadian Plan

The American price control sve- tem follows the Canadian pattern closely in many respects but ll. ae- parts sharply in oitiers. For in- stance. the ceilings do not extend to salaries and wages. a feature ex- pec w be under sharp attack in Congressional circles, particularly Moog thoee senators end Con-

ffll __e,n who have been agitating

or drastic lebor legislation such as m: abolition of the 40-hour week

President Roosevelt hopes to stabilize wages by mediation be- tween management arid labor oii

There ere two other major d ferences bet the two systems. ‘lhe American pan has no ccet of llvnig bonus and no system of sub- sidies to producers who are imsble to operate under a. fixed price eeri- lflltraeki-Ifult of the increased

Also News 8r Short subjects

Shows at 7.15-9.15 Matinee Thursday at 3.30

SUMMERSIDE

that might dlslocafe the price ma.- chinery are under government own- ership and control and the prob- lem can be attacked from that angle.

German Bases

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of Dunkerque, enemy alrfieids 1n occupied territory and enemy ship- i> I18-

Of the Cologne raid, the air min- istry news service said the assault was aided by exceptionally clear werulicr and briglii. moonlight, but that all Colognes antiaircraft guns and 120 searchiglits appeared to be in action, along with many night German fighters.

A squadron leader who four times previously had been over Cologne described this as by far the most successful of all attacks on the city.

“The whole citv was Said out be- fore us." lie said. “I could see its shape as tiiough 0n a map. We ran over a railway bridge and dwllped our bombs. Good fires were burning and when I say good. I mean good!"

The overnight attacks cost 1 British planes.

Jap Air Superiority

The Japanese maintalncd general air superiority for the protection of the 7,000 mechanized troops who are making the all-out assault on 01c east and for the rest of the 100,000 invaders in Burma. The in- vader‘s planes. swarmed over Man- dalay and all the Allied supply routes, bombing and machine-gun- ning a number of towns. Lashlo. al- ready evacuated by a number of ci- vilians, was viciously attacked.

In this desperate situation there was one lone hope of early relief for the A1lies-the monsoon, which brings the torrential rains of May. Today the first gates were NPOTWd whipping the dirt tracks to the northwest of Mandalay, ilrere were showers in various places and in the Allied rear the rivers were rising.

More Japanese Move At Coast

VANCOUVER. April Zfi-(Cm- Carpenters awoke echoes in sleepy British Columbia mining towns tc- day as they repared them for a second influx po ulatioii, brought about this time no a search for precious metals but y the war,

Some 7.500 ersons of JHDBTI-PEQ origin, most o them women and

will be moved from the

British Columbia

shortly to communities in the southern interior which were boom towns half a century ago but have reverted to the status of hamlets.

Kaslo, Slocan City and Sandon in the Slocan area about 300 miles east of here have been chosen as settlements for the evacuees. along wit Greenwood in the Boundary district farther west. Buildings left vacant when mining booms subsid- ed are being renovated for the new- comers.

Of the four Kaslo is the only one to retain a semblance of the pros;- perlty it enjoyed in the early S when, as “Gateway of the Silver Slocan," it welcomed thousands of fortune-hunters pouring in to seck silver, lead and zinc iii the tower- ing mountains of the district, and was the shipping point for the ore they mined.

Decline II 1898 Bv the middle of 90s Kane's

POD ulation soared to 6.000 (lwilflfihfid by many saloons) but the decline

0f the region had bifllln In 1893 Pr

when silver prices dropped and the Yukon gold rush of '98 lured away most of the miners. The po ation now is about 800 and wh e some

base metal ore is still shipped fruit m,

farming and the tourist industry are its mainstays now.

Greenwood has a more recent hls- tory. ridin high on a copper boom in the eary 1920s. Then it had e

PUIMJOD 0f 2,000, a hospital and

3 hotels. When mining operations "c" “a "dd we “:"°“t“':: Oreenwoo ‘s popua on roP e

about 120. althoush ll h" J1 ‘Md back over 200 in recent YER"-

Tho Japanese being MOW‘! these towns will include agfid infirm, and women and c ildreri whose menfolk have been moved to work projects where their fem- ilies are unable to follow.

BRAVE GUNNER GETS A MEDAL

MABLETITIROPE, En land. ADHI 28 -- (C?) - Bdr, Wiiinm Henri Sc . Artilleflr‘. who rim his life to rescue e. 1 lfvmhl minefield, has been awarded l- I George Medal. Although he his next step might be h s Scott walked through the mineficd end carried out the girl, unliilllg in an explosion ‘which killed er

playmate

more are rim..- r1311 400 511W"- m; holder: 01 the vicwrb cw»

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llipps calms Good results From mission

a N laud Norgeerrl Awaited" Preu sun Writer

LDNIDN. Aiprll 3—(AP)——Blr Stafford Cripps, rfliortirig on his m otiations in In la. when the na we leaders turned down m; Pmposab for self-government, told the House of Commons today that

could some

5MP 16 $631118 a solution.

‘The door is open now and re- mlllls olpen" to suggestions from Indian eaders as to how they would implement the war cab- inctsecrroposals which sir Stafford ""1 to New Delhi, Mr. Amery

said.

The mposals were for Domin- ion sta iis after the war, but In- dian leaders disagreed we; m, question 01 autonomy for the Moslem minoritxy and rejected the British terms or immediate self- iwgirmsient. i

r. me d h 1mm 8 110981111 srlysnsatfie 26ml?’ tlon of the All-India Congress Pa"?! members of the Madras leg- 15“ “re l0 PeCOEHIze the Moslem clgllm to autonomy,

h ho 1h th . effilvfse, mlgt offer gorlrlediifirtlegrgiiiive o! Britains plan received 3 shower

gold water from Pandit Jawal- h" '11 "fir". Congress Party Leader who declared in 9, message Nlewd by the India League that there "certainly would be n0 lullh" B-Dorcach from the Con- Srelfis to the British government."

iere was not a vvhis m1 - 171g of Sir Stafford wright? mag. m8 "Poll; lo Commons. Instead he him“ "W591! Praise-d as one who had laid the foundation for s. fu- til}? Indian cODSfIfUIlOll.

For the time being the“; is "Olhlllg further we ca-r do " 11¢ mid “We must be patient ‘a “ .'

and willing ti?“ open the In-

minded

any proposals upon wf-rch

dians could agree. But for the mo-

("mt We musl- ccncentrate upon

g1" dilly lo d0 our utmost for the

Aefenlce of India. a task in WIIICII gillgffa has generously offer-ed to

Cooperation Speeds roundup 0f vote results

TORONTO. April 28-—iCP)—Cu.n- ada’s newspapers and. the two ria- tional telegraph systems oo-operat- ed-through the Canadian Press- in iving the country the results of t e Dominion manpower plebis- cite in record time.

Two hours afici- the close of polls in the key provinces of Ontario and Quebec, The Canadian Press at. l0 p. m. E. D. T. flashed a definite ail- Canada “yes" vote-as balloting ended in Saskatchewan and Al- berta and an hour before polls closed in British Columbia.

The early report outdid the showin the 1940 general election when t e return of the Liberal gov- ernment was flashed at 8.47 p. m., E. S. T.—13 minutes before the glrtrilsgjflof the polls in British Coi-

As a national service the Can- adian Paclflc and Canadian Na- tional Telegraphs contributes‘. ‘IIOLI- sands of miles of ieas; .-.i to carry the results over a -"-l net- work to The Canadlai- .ess' 8D member newspa ers—viitlicut roll charfles. Pmgres ve returns were telegra hed from 243 returning uf- ficers a score or more of 1cm- piliiig cent-res.

The Dominion government for the first time shared in the cost. l-I transmission of returns. By a . cision of State Secretary McLai-t , thousands of dc uty returning o - ficers at rural p0 were authorized to telegraph or telephone the total vole at tieir polls to constituency riturgxig officers at government

e CP's com ilation task-wil- vided between oronto and Mon- treal bureaux-was vastly more complicated than in a general elec- tion. instead of half-hourly stand- ings by parties it was necessarv to cilmlllnle i}, Dfoilressive total of “ves" and no votes by constituencies and provinces. Before the close of the M71158 wires early today more than 4. 000 votes from every con- Slilliélefiélfiy ln Canada had been tab-

a .

Back of the CP ugariizatlon for compilation and transmission of re- turns and standings was the Can- ade-widc effort of ‘he individual newspapers which crganimd sub- divis ons of the country, gathered returns from every constituency and handed them to The Canadian ess to be transmitted by tele- printer over the cross-country leased wire for analysis and tabulation.

'I'iie Canadian Press tire lebiscite service available to median Boardcsstinir Corpor- ation and. through the CP's subsi- fllflly. Press News. Ltd» to private in dcasting stations in Ca .

Defends Location

“‘ w Of Battle School

OVITAWA, April 2B—(CP)--De- fence Minister Balaton told the House of Commons tonight that in selection of a. west coast site for lo- cation of the proposed new "battle trainin " ool for the army iinPortsnt consideration was all- year conditions, which were con- sidered more favorable for the pur- pogle there than elsewhere

e from

wee repl n ' uestian Clarence n ular reason why a anada site should be

chosen.

"Because it is e better country" suggested George Cruickshank (Lib. Fraser Valley).

Mr. Gillie s sted that inch a

Domi

ool. it ole n- icn. should be located in the cent- rel pert of Canada.

W.

In Memo riam

IRS. JAMES L. DUFFY

‘lfhe people oi Emerald were sed- dened when the news went around that Mrs. James L. Duffy passed peacefully away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Daniel Murphy, on ev of 18th.

Mrs. fy was tender n ttagbhcr da bier, and for led console. om of the holy churc

of which she was an exemplary member. She was B3 years of age, and was a life lori resident oi iilmerald. Her hus died 28 ears ago. She leaves to mourn the oss of s. kind and affectionate mother, two sons and two daugh- (tlekrs. Patrick Dami and John L

and ten grandchildren.

large coriege followed her rc-

mains to St. Malachiirs Church.

Kinkora, where a solmnn Requiem

Mass was chanted by bar pastor, Rev. M. J. Smith. i

The allbearers were Messrs. Jo- seph ainor, Daniel Matheson, Patrick Mccarville, Daniel Murphy genldcu McKenna and. Emmet

118 68.

But now all is over. Her soul is waited to a. region beyond the din. the turmoil and the sorrows of this existence. Her ashes will silently slumber in St. Malachlals Cemetery. but her name and memory will long remain in the hearts of her many friends and acquaintances. In ex-

ndin to her bereaved family heart- _e1t condolence, the writer desires to offer a two-fold prayer, one of gratitude to God for hav- ing given such an example of un- beindiig faith. the other one of supplicatlon with the church that her soul may rest in peace.

Desperate race With weather in~ Burma fighting

By Spencer- Moosa Associated Press Staff Writer

CHUNGKING. China. April 28 - (APH - The battle of Burma be- cam-e- tonight a desperate melee of demolition, evacuation, last-stand defence and reckless couPQr-attack by trapped or iieriaced Chinese and British defenders. fighting in the first sales and showcrsof the ap- pfOallllfi" monsoon to hold open the door tc free China.

The British and Chinese armies shortened their thin line of tired infantrvmen and shell-scarred tanls defendinir Mandalay while the Jan- anese armored spearheads from the Shari states advanced on Hsipaw and Lashio on the all-important Manda- lay-Lashio railway, ISO-mile steel artery in the supply system to China from ilre United Nations,

Maymyo, 40 Ijniles east of Man- dalay on the railroad. was evacuat- ed by the Burma civil government; i118 Chinese were moving essential suPDlies ‘from bombed. blazing Lash- io, terminus of the true mountain- ous Burma road to Kunming, Chl-

118.. Chinese Tear Up Roads

While the roads ahead of the Ja- panese drive through the shnii state. toward the railroad, were being torn up by live Chin-ass. three groups of Chinese troops on this eastern front, cut off from the main armies un- der Lt-Gen. Joseph W. Stiliveli on the Mandalay plains to the west, struck out valiantly to annihilate a Japanese battalion at Taunggyi.

They also conducted fierce guer- illa warfare around Lolkaw and smashed at Japanese communica- tions south cf Hispaw.

Price ceiling Glamped on in

“‘" United States

WASHINGTON, April 28—-(AP)-— (Advaiicc)-With one broad, inclu- slve order, the United States office or price administration tonight fix- ed wartime maximum prices for

“virtually everything Americans cat. be

wear and use" at the levels pieval- eiit. during il‘0 month of March. After May i8, under “the general maximum prioc regulation", no re- tailer may charge more for an ar- ticle than the highest nrlce at vihich he sold lt in March. The same zes- trictions will apply, after May 11. l0 manufacturers’ and wholesalers‘ prices and. after July 1. to a long list of service establishments such as laundries, tailors. auto shops, radio repair men.