MAXIM! MAmMS o, ‘I OI‘ A “IRE Mm MERE MAN . 777/” "’" w‘? “ The People's Paper "to?" ““' by Everybody itifdilziliiliiiriiii-PEZZ;ml»? Covers Prince Edward. Island Like the Dew Kai”; on,“ m, ' .. . _. oiil~~1’-"~l--==i-- M CHARWPTETQWN» CANADA. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 14.1941 1o PAGES ma.so-.:r-rr'::..':=i;:;::i; fir...

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fhampionships ‘ laced at show; fr close today

"y, Raoul Reymond 0f Southport Is Winner Of Grand phampiouship

Award. ti 1 and colder tem- tlhe thrd day of

l" ,. ~1F. Shcw at the ggqpfzdiliruflfil-ourxoixs find $5 “sun pretest increased as the Show W0’ 45ml, over 100 autcs were P813‘ gdgimillfl the Main Building yes- umy afternoon while the 50MB

occupant.‘ watched the judglflfl-

“s a day traugh-t with ¢X- temciit and ushered in by (pm- tiitous to decide the champions. ‘as meant. that only m? best es males and females, in the 591g classes oi registered sil-

would be ontthe gilblzcsipvhmg I

. no l i

ip]‘ce‘0:if thcgee foxes but it

m. t .._v tiiey were the ‘:"¢,.~°“.§...°5§Qw and therefore mpicn; that would fit in anv-

champion registered silver pup oi the show was won by out Rciitionds szuthport 339 V m Gordon McM 1lan‘s Cornwall Vieserve champizn. Mr. RPY- ods fox then met the cham- u adult male and defeated him s; became the champion N38- .er¢d male silver in the show with m... i/ieaiinan‘; fox aaaizi re- e champion. The champion female in the was won by Lowell H811- k‘s 54 U with A. L. Rogers 9 V rye champirn. 1n the competition for Grand Iimpion Registered Silver Fox in show between the champion le and female highest honors in went to Raoul Reymondb

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outh faces urder charge

JOLLIEPTE, Que, Nov. 18— Iiiih-Tivciiiy-twu-yecir-old ‘Adrien colic cl neaxby’ sie. Elizabeth Li charged w th murder lain TD- y ic/ilowing the inquest. into the

gun death of Jeanne D'Arc

lonmti-year-old Jolliette ser-

g . Pioiiffe was arraigned before a. tioe of the peace on the murder

ea short time after a coron-

_| Jury under Dr. Paul Lamarche

found him responsible for the ling woman's death.

Plouife was taken into custody

leer his home last night after a hour search through the thick-

wced Laurcutian Hills. Mis‘. ion dzed- Sunday night of iinds stiifered a short time earl- when slic was struck by a shot limit IZ-guage gun,

iew airgraph Service to begin

QFlAwii. Nov. ili-—(CP)-Flrst Emilie W so irom Canada to the till/iii Kuiguoni under the airgraph P“ c scivicc oi the Canadian l Oiiioc Department which “mi l°lll01‘1'0n' is a message of Will 110m Prime Minister Mac- “Zlt K111i: to ILL-Gen. A Ci. h. lfirrlllfiiltiill. 1e second message is from Post- liiislcr General Muiock to Rt. Hon. Bétgfilll/iorrison. British Postmaster

Nlifiilih messages, on forms Qjfibibe in post OHIOCS, are to be .\ train to Toronto, photo- PW "We. and sent by air to filwhere each message will be‘ u w SEIPgCIOPGG and forward. Dan has been in qsaration gzml-llh for letters u) men services in the d 1e East.

Coming Events

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Ilse aerial torpedoes Against Nazi tanks

IDNDOIN. Nov. 18—(OiP)-.Aeriaii tomcdoes are being used by Rus- sion assault planes against Ger- man tanks. t/he ‘Ives radio listen- ing post in London said tonight. One unit on the Moscow front is credited with dsetroying 350 tanks

during the 1551, month.

The listening said that the rojeetiles-lm torpedoes," as he Germans call them-are

launched" frun between the wings of the planes and not only smash through tank armor but envelope each tank in flashes. causing them to burst like balloons.

B. C., Yukon Alaska road Cost estimated

UITAWA. Nov. 13-(0?) — A gravel highway threaded through the mountain passes of British Columbia and the Yukon to Alaska will cost from $25.000.000 to $30.000.000, the British Columbia, Yukon. Alaska Highway Commis- sion estimated in a report tabled in the House of Commons today.

The result of two years’ exam- ination of remote territory by ground artles and air reconnais- sance. tie report said the moat feasible route ran north and west from Prince George, B. 0., and would involve new construction of 1.180 miles of road at an estimated cast of $18,000,000.

Improvements to existing roads and allowances for engineering and contingencies would brim! the total cost to at least $25 000 000.

The commission's wport is only a recommendation as to feasibil- ity of suggested routes

News Briefs

OTTAWA, Nov. 13—<CP)-Loans granted by the Canadian Farm Loan Board in the fiscal year ending March 3i. 1941, had a total value of $2,759.000, a return tab- led in the l-louse of Commons to- day showed.

l3 — (OP)-

OIITAWA, Nov, Board of control decided today to ask Wartime Rousing Limited w "broaden its scheme to take care of housing conditions generally" in Canada after studying a report in which 250 buildings in Ottawa were listed as over-crowded in relation to their assessed value.

NEW YORK, Nov_ l3—(AP)—A strike called for midnight Friday which would affect the American telephone and telegraph communi- cation system in 42 states and in Washington, D. C., was postponed tonight for at least a week.

CHICAGO. Nov. l3 - (AP Spokesmen for 900,000 railroad workers in the non-operati cate- gories announced today the. they could not tolerate the terms pro- posed by President Roosevelt's emergency board for settlement of their wage dispute.

OTTAWA. Nov. 13 —- (UP)- Prime Minister Mackenzie King said in a statement tonight the act-ion of the United States Con- ttress to permit arminz of Ameri- can merchant vessels and to allow them to enter belligerent port! ‘is the most important contribu- tion in the winning of the _wsr which has been made by the Un- itod States" since enactment d the lend-lease lwislatim,

IHLLTUWN, N. 3., Nov. 13-40?) --A.fter two weeks of idleness the Si». Croix mill of Canadian Cotton! Lid. remained shut today while up- wards of 000 employees continued to stay away from their jobs.

BER-NE. Nov. 18 - (A?) — ‘me

)_

Swiss telegra h 889m fled to- nikht rroni lgrade b. c so bei Serbs had been killed ain clshes

with regular. Axis-directed hoops in the last few days.

Expect to liefloat ship

UEBM. Nov. 18 — (CP)--A fre ghtor. aground in the-St, Law- rence River near Berthier. Que.. since a storm it off its course last Friday s smote-d to be reflected in a few days. naval officials said today,

The identity of the freighter was

not disclosed. Officials said the cargo may have to be removed bif- to an made to rl-

ifd. it "f" my i- north-east bore.

l . Moscow Front Alive

Thrusts

New offensive on Russian Capital may be in making.

__..__ (B! 5cm’! 0_ Cassirly Anoehiel Press Staff Wrltar] KUIBYSHEV, Russia. Nov. II- (APl-The whole of the central front about Moscow was alive to- night with exploratory German thrusts spparentl heralding one more 1 of snsive, military dispatches reported, while new Russian counter-attocks beat fur- ther baok the upper and lower arms of the current German en- velopment manoeuvre.

Heavy action involving large forces, said military dispatches, is in Progress only about Tiila. 100 miles below Moscow, and in the

vicinity of Knlinin. 95 miles northluvcst of the capital. Around Tula, the Russians‘

southern anchor. the Germans were reported driven back an additional one to two miles. beyond their five-mile retreat earlier reported, by soviet counter-thrusts: heavily

sprung from the southern aip- pronches to the foam All German frontal assaults at

the Tula positions. it was added. had ceased.

Upon the northern flank about Kalinln, fighting was violent in two sectors; one northeast of the city, where a new German push was declared breasted bv Red counter-attacks. and the other in the upper section of the city 1t-'

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Anxiety for Safety of Ambassadors

IDNDON. Nov. 18-(0?) —Brit- ish air ministry sources tonight ex- pressed great anxiety for the safe- t.y of Sir Walter Monckton, British information service Iiead at Cairo. Maxim Litvinov. new Soviet am- bassador to Washington, and the United States ambassador to Rus- sia, Laurence A. Sleinhardt, who left Knibyshev, Russia, by plane two days ago en route to Teheran Iran.

"We are hopeful that word may come at any minute that the plane has landed safely somewhere," they maid, "but we have no lnfoflnflilon concerning it eiooept press reports that it is missing."

Port. of the 1,300-mile trip from Kuibyshev to Teheran lies over the Caspian Sea, and officials have clung to the belief the plane en- countered bad weather and landed at some remote 1111109 W119" Wm" munications are lacking.

There was no official confirma- tion even that the plane was miss- ing, but this was interpreted as an indication of Russian and Iranian unwillingness to hei hten the alarm until they exhaust: war-time com- munication facilities between the two points.

The plane was reported to have left Kutbyshev Tuesday and was due the same day at Tehermi WM" arrangements had been made for the passengers to continue immed- iately to 011110.

Besides Sir Walter. one or

two

I other British officials were abroad.

" Control civilian

Ilse of Iilycerine

UITAWA. Nov. l3-—(CP) -R.e1;u- latlom for the control of glycerine supplies in Canaxia to conserve it for war needs were published in‘ an extra edition of the Canada Ga- zette distributed today.

All dealers in refined o: dyna- mite glyoerlne must be licensed by the chemicals controller in the de- partment of munitlms and supply. Glcyerine may not be used 101‘ ll!- lat-freeze.

Bupplies of glyoerine available to manufacturers during the year be- ginning last Oct. 1 will be held to 7o per cent of the amount consum- ed during the calendar year 1940. but this restriction does not apply w glyoerine used in manufacture of explosives. '

Goes on trial Cn arson charge

QYDNEY N8» "W. 13—-(UP)—- mm"... ‘viii-i a .

emcourt herowfor the latex:

upon neotidiin with a (In at a rival res-

t, in ril, 1M0. ‘agfgall who: convicted of the charge June 25, i940, and sentenc-

ed m rive penitentis y. 1 f llowed ti of Tm nwtfithzsuprergbagoiu of

owner orf th

merit, vnlils testified two pf, had been made the building in the same month 5nd that iii smell o! Ililflin! WIS

mil about u "AWN" em mm ‘

Largest Contingent 0f Airmen sails From Canadian port

A BRITISH PORT, Nov. l|_. hidaH-(CP Cable) - 31m- reds more (lanadlim ginnen and soldiers have arrived in Britain’ to strengthen the no- minions increasing gli- squad- runs a?! swzlllieutlhs powerful army ores y m"; | the front line of Brivainh d: fence.

Harry to be In the fighting zone, the Canadians speedily discmburked and bmrded troop trains inking them to dispersal points-the airmen to a Defy)“- a1 reception centre where al.- ready there is a large Canad- ian contingent waiting to b0 posted to s uadrons. the sold- iers to a sou hem England area. from where they will go to var- lous army camps.

Ground stuff and air crew members comprised the R. C. A. F. detachment, one of the largest to cross the Atlantic Silica the start 0f the war. The "my m!!! Wflre mostly ancillary {ilcrsunnel for units already

BT8-

AN EAST COAST CANADIAN PORT. Nov. 1a —~(CP)- Hundred; of aurmen drawn ‘from the far com. iicrs of the British Empire sailed from this port recently to put to the test over litirope the training they received 1n Canada.

Officials described it as the larg- est of all the movements of British Commonwealth Air Training Plan graduates to Britain from this Do. minion. It was a typical band of fit-looking Canadians. Australians, New Zealanders, Britons and lesser numbers of o.l'.er nationalities.

As they filed through the city to their ship, it was early night and their Cl1€€rlng and pinging “n; tllfvllgh the streets. Civilians stop- ped to watch this lust lot march- ing off to the wars with a defiant 5011K 0n their lips.

Fast Transport

‘Iheir transport, they found, was a. fleet, proud passenger boat that has evaded doom dozens o! times in bearing thousands upon thou-

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Expansion—o_f Il. S. activity is expected

WASHINGTON. Nov. 18 —(AP) —A_ general and rapid expansion of United States naval and military activity along the sea and air routes to Britainis expected in au- thoritative duarters to follow the revision of ate neutrality act.

With the navy all set to start placing guns and gun crews on merchant $1.115 as soon as Presi- dent Roasevett. gives the signal, and with the maritime commission ready to extend its routes of commercial operations for the first time since the war began, Secretary Frank Knox strongly indicated tonight the scope of enlarged operations.

Three Types of Guns

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 - (APl major types of guns are expected to be used in arming A- merican merchant ships.

Navy Secretary Frank Knox has said that». depending on their size. some sFlps will be given five-inch guns, others four-inch, and . others three-lncliers.

Some of the five-inch guns will be dual-purpose. for botl. surface and anti-aircraft firing. The ships also will be equipped with machine guns, effective against low-flying planes. Manning these weapons will be crews of 10 to l6 men under command of a petty officer.

War-ZS Years Ago Today

(By The Canadian Press)

NOV. 14, INC-British Bcaucourl: in continuation drive on Batpaume; nearlxstpllil Whim- ers yken in W0 Y! “In - Rumanlimg defeated st. Thgu Ju

“$1 ielgim civilians to Ger-

tured

MOSCOW :' g

New rail line connecting the Murmansk railroad with Arch- angel is an important aid link for Russia. Supplies can still be sent to ice-free port at Mur- mansk, then to Moscow via

Finns hold lower section of the line near Leningrad.

African - bound Italian troops Switched to Russia

ISTANBUL, Nov. 12—(Delay— ed)--(AP)-—An informed naval source close to Axis diplomatic

uarters said today that Italian

S, outfitted for tropical wa are in North Africa, are being rc-roufed at sea on Ger- man orders and sent to Piraeus, Greece, to be rev-outfitted for the Russian front.

Dlsorganizaiion arising from this was said to have contribut- ed to recent British naval suc- oesseg against Axis convoys. The British Admiralty has announced that two convoys were destroyed in one stroke by a naval patrol on Sunday and that two days later six Axis ships were sunk by submarines.

Cruisers assigned to meet the convoys at regular rendezvous points have missed the ships. it was said, leaving them fcehly protected. Two cruisers were present, however, for the Sun- day battle off Tan-auto.

Reiuforcemcnts which this source said hud been expected by the Italian general stuff in Libya: fnr flic past fortnight. had failed to arrive. The Germans, he said. upparcntly have writ- ten n" any Intention of an African offensive in the near future.

Conscription is debated In Commons

First "riTJTins Ses-

Aychange], dggpife [Mg (ha; ‘incnt answer that qucstion.

HOUSE APPROVES NEUTRALITY AMENQME

l Red Aid Link ‘

Accuse British Iiov't of missing Chance in Africa

Labor Member Eman- uel Shinwell Leads Criticism; Not Sure Of All Members Of G0v’t Declares.

LONDON. Nov. 13—-(OP)-—'I‘he Govcrnment was accused in House of Commons debate today of fore- going its chance to ease German pressure on the Russians by fail- 111g to upon a diversion war front ill North Africa.

Emanuel Shinwell, Labor one of the most; persistent critics of the war effort who was mentioned Yvcentlifl as a possible recruit to the cabinet and was disclosed to- day to have refused to accept ol- fws 111 May. i940, led the attack

The debate was on the repfy to the speech from the Throne yes- tBfdllv at the opening of a new session of Parliament.

“Why has the offensive in Libya been dela_vccl?" Mr. Sliiuivell ask- ed. "It 1185 llW-‘n expected many months.

"It would in effect have creamy a sectincl front, Let thc

"Next ivcek or next month an offensive in Lin“. “my not be as effective.”

lf the failure to move once more into Libya in duplication of the great offensive of (ten, Sh‘ Archibald Wavell last winter L»; dive ton lack of equipment, Mr. Sltinwcl added, their obviously it is idle to speak of invasion else. where.

Gen. Wavell‘ did not move against the Italians last year until Dec. 9. when he struck their flank at Sidi Barrani and ultimately

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217 Islanders Postpone service

OTTAWA, Nov. is --(CP) --Post. Ponemetits of military training in Canada totalled 35.042 to date. it was shown today in a return tabled in the CODiiIlOilS for G. H. Castle- den (C._C.F. Yorktorii by war 5gp- vices minister Thorson. This figure was exclusive of conscientious ob- jectors. who totalled 3'78 by provin- ces the exemptions were; Ontario 9,071; Quebec, 14,804; Nova Scotia 1,286; New Brunswick 1.418; Prince Edward Islanrl, 217; Manitoba. l,- 743: British Columbia. 3,303: Sask- atchewan 1,180; Alberta 2,020.

Huntzigefls - Last message

LE VIGAN. Unoccupied France Nov. 13_-tAP)—A solitary brie case packed with state documents, ftlliilti hanging on a tree near the wreckage of a transport plane, was Gen. Charles l-liuitzigers last mess- age to tnioccupied France.

The Vichy War Minister, killed with seven other persons yesterday ivhcti his tilunc. en route home lrom North Africa, crashed and burned iicui" iicrc, evidently saved the pap ers by throwing the brief case clear

sion Prominen t Members Of Two’ Major Parties Stand; Clearly Opposed 0n Issue.

(By Frank Flaherta (Canadian Press Staff rile: OTTAWA, Nov. l3—(CP)-— 0t

the first time this session promin ent members of the two major part lea today stood clearly opposed to one another in the House of Com l mons on the issue of conscription‘ for overseas service.

Hon. Pierre Casgrain, Secretary 0f State, declared his opposition and Hon. W. Earl Rowe (Con. Duf- fierin Simcoe) challenged Mr. Cas-

’a arguments.

“Now honorable gentlemen oppo- site (Conservatives) seem to want ocm ulsory enlistment for overseas se ce," said Mr. Casgraln. _ _ "I say the great majority o! the

Canadian people do not want it and I know the vast. majority of the Reputation of Quebec are acaiuet

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or the plane as it fell.

Gen. Huntziger had been on a ll1l'(.'€—'\\'£‘Ol($ tour of North Africa; and was rr-ttirning to Vichy to re-g port. to Chief of State Pctain onl he position nf the armies there and their coirimaiirier, Geri. Maximo‘ tveygcnd. Wlictiici" the papcrsin the

_brief casc- contnined his report waxy.» m, 1hr Camp.“

not disclosed, but. it was said they were intact.

Reserve man Acquitted on Murdercharge

SYDNEY, N. 8.. Nov. l8 (C?) — -A Supreme Court petlt jury to- ilay acquitted George MacPhcrson. 1'1, of nearby Reserve. of a charge of murdering Patrick MacPherson, 18-year-old Reserve youth. ‘Ilie jury ~nded the two-day trial after only half an hour's deliberation and Mr. Justice J. B. Smitey ordered Mac- Phersonts immediate diSCharge from custody. ls missing

LUNENBURK}, N. 8., Nov. 13-- (CPb-Pred Fox of Lunenburg received word today that. his son. Sgt. Fred Fox Jr.. of the Royal Canadian Air Force, is missing, The me e gave no details. Only last Satur ay his family received a cable from him sent from Malta.

Bgt. Fox. a former Nova scotian Interscholastic sprint champion. was a member of tracrr and field and hockey teams at Mount A1- ltson University, Sackvillc. N. B. some years ago. He also played hockey with Lunenburg in the

Gnvern- itnrssnge that faiiure to approve

T

Ships Free To Sail Anywhere; May Be Armed

Approval given by narrow: margin in dramatic circumc- stances; British public pleas-acct.

lily .I. F. Sanderson. Canadian Press Slalf Writtr

WASHINGTON, Nov. l3—t(.‘Pl—The end of an era true ii‘.il"il‘d lale today‘ in tense and dramatic circumstances WlIPII lire Htllhr of Representatives joined with the Senate in repealing all but inconse- quential sections of the United States Neutrality Act‘.

By the margin of l8 voles and after the administration had suung every influence it could bring i0 bczir, the lInuse passed the repeal resolution 212 to I94 and sent ii. f0 the White ilnusc for the signature of President Roosevelt. '