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Ceremony Will Take Place At Westmieeter Ahhey 0n ilovemher 20th.

Canada Fills Wheat Contract

OTTAWA, July 8l-(CP)_. Despite box car shortages and other difficulties Canada fill. ed the 1946-47 wheat contract with the United Kingdom which called for delivery of 160000.000 bushels, Trad; Minister MscKlnnon annurm- red today.

Huge Forest Fire Raging In liflti.

(By The Canadian Press)

GRAND FALLS, Nfld., July 31- A forest fire was raging tonight through vast. stands of timber owned by the Reid Newfoundland Development Cofllpriny in this Central Newfoundland area with hundreds of lumbermen and ev- cry available piece of fire appar- etiis fighting it.

The flaming area was made up of three great fires which merged after starting earlier in the week. R1111 which fell Tuesday night] was not heavy enough to be more than a slight check on the blaze.

Meanwhile, two mcn were con- victed and sentenced to i2 months imprisonment for deliberately starting one fire which cost the Reid Company $30,000 before it was extinguished.

Evidence brought" against the pair was that they started the fire by placing a lighted candle in inflammable scrub because they were unable to obtain employment with the Company.

There was no evidence that the fire raging near hcre tonight. was oi incendiary origin.

less Beans, e33? Peas And Tomatoes Plantetl

(By The Canadian Press)

OTTAWA. July 8i _ The late spring which delayed all seeding throughout Eastern Canada has resulted in ‘an eight per cent over- sil reduction "in the area of beans. corn, peas, and. tomatoes under contract for processing. the Do- minion Bureau oilstatistlcs an- nmmced today.

Total planted "area of these crops at July 9 was 12f» 530 acres. compared with the contracted ecreage of H1310 acres.

Coming Events

"Show Bridgetown Saturday.

"Dance 1h French River Friday. tugiist 1st.

"ice Cream and Dance, Iona "H". Friday, August 1st.

"ice crealm and dance. Mlllvole Moot. Friday, August 1st.

"St. John's Church. Crsimed. lnnunl picnic Wednesday. M18115! 1th. Everybody welcome.

"Picnic at Bt. Teresa's, Monday. August 4th. Sports 3 p.m. Supper l n-m. tiii s o'clock. Dance. Web- ster's orolaestre. ‘

"Don't miss big dance st Mor- ell Friday night. Aug. l. Rollie McKenzie’! orchestra.

"Bourie Hospital tel. Wednesd-w. August 0th. m1.

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"Dencs Emerald Hall Tuesday» Mic. uni. in aid ladies‘ softball Mm. Muliigenh orchestra.

“Until further advised 0t!‘ mill will close esoh Baturde! It noon. "divine s Boyle.

"lawn Party and Dsnee, Cenoe cove Hall. malty. August m. m ltd or softball teem.

"Collecting hogs Ior Canada "elm us by truck ery Thurs- "7- Phone N. A. Cute ffe, Fred- "l olwrihmqBLMcl-‘tow-

‘Matinee non-Tee Btnvwberry h" Truck. New Glasgow. Sutur- e‘ Ind entries to John m,‘ terthmIpnsAW-

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LONDON. July 31 -— (CP) '_ Princess Elizabeth wlll marry her Young naval officer fiance next Nov. 20 at Westminster Abbey.

Official announcement of the Wflfldinfl plans of the 21-year-old Princess and Lieut. Philip Mount. b11115". R-N-. came froun Bucking- ham PBIMS ‘will’ liter the King had formally consented to this Privy Council to the match between his daugthter and the former Prince Philip of Greece.

The wedding‘ will mark the ilril nuptials held at the historic Abbey sluce the late Duke of Kent was married there to Princess Marina of Greece 13 years ago.

_1t is expected that the Arch. bishop of Canterbury. Primate of England, assisted by the Dean of Westminster. wi-ll solemnize the marriage linking Mountbatten, now a commoner, and the heir pre- sumptive to the British throne.

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Further details of the wedding plans will be ‘announced later.

Today's neiws on the royal ro- mance-Jhailed by the British peo- pic as a. "real love imatch" rather than an arranged marriage- settled a number of details for in- terested Britons. The Princess’ en- gagement, announced by the King July 9, was formalized at Bucking- ham Palace earlier today when His Majesty appeared before mem- bers of the imperial Privy Coun- cll.

With Prime Mlnbter Attlefl. Opposition leader Winston Churchill and other notables on hand. the King went through the bricf ceremony. Rt. Hon. C, D. Howe, Canada's Recon- struction Minister, npreunted The Dominion among k ‘l8 members 0f the Privy council in attendance.

Before the ceremony, the King swore in Howe as a Privy Council- l0

l’. Then, bearing out London news-

paper gossip, came the wedding announcement. 1t was noted that the Princess

will follow the example of her two uncles, the Duke of Gloucester and the late Duke of Kent, who both married in November. The Duke cf Gloucester did not get married in the Abbey because o! the death of his bride's father.

Today's formalization of the eh- gagement had little bearing on the event. The King, in announcing the engagement earlier in the monuh had placd his stamp oi ap- proval on the match.

Today's was Hope's first appear- ance at a meeting of the Privy Council, "

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(By The Canadian Preel)

OTTAWA, July 31 — The ice- breaker N. B. McLean. corryins survivors oi the ‘Nascopie, docked at Churchill; Man, shortly after a p.111. E.D.T. t4 PM. A.D.'I‘.) to- day, about two hours ahead of schedule.

The Transport Department said they had received a brief flash from the port on the arrival, but had no other information. The passengers arid crew of the Nas- grpie will be taken by train t0 Jlgnlpeg where they will be dil- piitched by train and aircraft t0 their homes.

Hangings Terror To

JERUBALFAI. July 31 —-(AP)—- The hanging of two British serg- eanta and the booby-trap mutilat- ion of their bodies by n Zionist ve- derground gang brought a bloody response from enraged British troops tonlsht and five PQPIO-"l were killed and at )enst_,ll- d‘ ed by gunfire from smiored curs in the streets of Tel Avlv.

The blackened and bloody bodies of Lhe two DD-yesr-old Berger!!!"- Cllfford Martin and Mervyn Parse, who were seized as hostages by Irgun Zvei Leusni nearly three ween ago, were found today swing- m‘ gt m; and of nooses in an eucleyptus grove south of Nathan- ye. A booby trap exploded and scattered bits of flesh for 100 yards when the first body was out. dvwfl-

Foilowlng the finding of the bodies, the terror-racked Holy Land waited in fear that new eels of reprint and quarter-reprise! would fer exceed the violence of the lest few weeks.

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Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew

. CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, .FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1947

AMONG CANADA'S BEST

Pilot of the "Canso" seaplane sent to aid passengers and crew of the wrecked Nascopie, Wing Com. Harold winny, seen here. is described as "among the 20 best pilots Canada ever had." He join. ed the R. C. A. F. in the 1920's and later went into commercial aviation as one of the early bush pilots. -

Longshorenien Afraid 0f Ammonium-Nitrate

NEW YORK. July 3-1 -- (AP) - Refusal of Brooklyn longshoremen to load a ship carrying nznmcriium nitrate. the fertiiizrr that was car- ried by ships that cxplorifd in the Brest. France, and Texas City d‘s- asters, raised the possibility today that ship; with ammonium nitrate

6095 Refugees Front Baltic States Arrive

Delighted Willi Cllerlunitlee in Caeedet Expect Thlrll War Before 1957.

Report "Staggering" liail Damage Claims

REGINA. July 31—(CP)— Ill-ll ' companies to- day reported n "staggering"

- number 0f claims for damage had been received following recent hall storms, with one company saying it had re- ceived 1.000 claims in the last two days. While all three Prairie Provinces reported hail damage, oflicials said Socket-- chewan was the hardest hlt.

ldosquitoes Trouble Residents Dfliloneton

(By The Canadian Press)

MOINCTON. N. 3.. July 3i— Merchants meported today that they have been selling three times 21S much fly repellent this year as last season because of a plague of mosquitoes which has hit the Moncton area.

They attributed the swarms of

aboard may be barred from the port of New York. Fire Commissioner Frank J

Quayle sold 11TH unless ships load- ed with rnlmc-iiiurir llltfatl- can t0 "completely coltirolled" we might

July Was Warm Month In ltiaritim-es

HALIFAX. July 31 -(C Pi-A few months ago. when the Marl- ime Provi-nces were having one of the mildest winters on record. pesslmists were prellllciylflll m!" l reckoning would come in the 10ml of a cool summer. But an "account- ing of the month of Jilly felefled today by the Dominion Public Weather Office gave the ire l0 the prophets.

mu sections oi the Marltimes ‘had y, war-rm July, the Weather Office said, with coastal strips of Nova Scotiaand New Brunswick ex- periencing temperatures a little above normal whi-le temperatures in Prince Edward island and in- land sections of the other two prgvl-m“ ranged from four to eight degrees above average.

Rainfall was uniformly spaced throughout t-hc month, ranging from one half of normal in Central New Brunswick to near normal over most other regions.

Most of the moisture caime from an almost uninterrupted flow of humid air from the south which tagged in southern coastal strlpl llmost daily for the first three weeks of July.

Bring p New Holy Land"

ganlastlonsJn Palestine ‘were um- unlmous in condemning the terror- letlc action. COGLIIIGIID ranged from “we are horrified and condemn tt outright" to "it is a desecration of all that is sacred in the Jewish religion and an abstrnlnation to_all loyal British citizens of Jewish

faith." (in Britain public indignation ran high ls telegrams of condol-

ence poured in to the families of the deed soldiers. Anger. too. wee expressed 1n th House of Com- mons es Colonla Secretary Creech Jones termed the hangings s "cold- blooded and dastardly murder" and I Gvvemment source hinted at stern measures to quell violence il'l the Holy Land.

(Ci-each Jones said that he hop- ed that "this latest act will stir the Jewish community in Palestine to root out this evil from‘ their midst." He spoke after an impart- ent Cabinet meeting at which, Gov- ernment informants sold. the "Io- tire situation” in Palestine twee re-

‘go so for as tn bar from theport‘ of New York vessels laocn with had nearby marshes sprayed. were this highly explcsive commodity." not taken this year.

$100,000 norrrogo "t... N. B. Electric Storm

the inserts Lo the fact that con- ‘ditions ‘lave been more favorable for breeding this year and steps. such as those taken last year when the Junior Chamber of Commerce

EIDMUNDSTUN, N. B. July 31— (OP)—Damage was estimated at $100,000 tonight after a. fierce wind, rain, hail and electric stvm cut a path of il__..-uction through the rich farming district of nearby

st. Hilaire. v In less than 30 minutes the storm cut a tlwo-mile swath

through rich crops, demolished five barns, and damaged several more barns and farm houses.

In seven homes every window facing the storm as it swept across Northern New Brunswick from Maine were broken.

imss in farm machinery alone was estimated at $3.000.

Light and power lines were cut and were not restored until 9 o'clock tonight. - a

First. reports indicated that. only one person, an unidentified woman, “as injured. She was in a farm house kitchen when a high tree crashed through the walls. Extent of her injuries could not be learn- ed immediately.

The far-m of Adrien Daigle was the first damaged as his barn crumbled before the driving wind.

Tonight the path of the storm was a scene of destruction.

Trees were everywhere and the highways were littered with broken debris. Fields that only an hour before were waving in l summer breeze were flat and thek crops believed ruined.

Oldtimere said it was the worst storm in their memory.

HARTLAND, N. 3., July 31- (OPi-A heavy i-‘oln and wind storm swept over Carleton County today leaving several barns blown down. electric power lines cut and highways littered with fallen deb- ris.

Power company officials said the entire county was without power during the afternoon and again in the evening the lines were cut for 30 minutes.

Windowi in local homes end stores were "smashed and reports said "several barns" had been levelled. No estimate of the dem- age was available immediately.

By BOB JELLISON’ HALIFAX. July 31 1UP) llbr those wiho have served in the labor camps o! two totalitarian "lilo"! ‘With no reward except be- lns Permitted to exist, the pros- Dect of a livelihood earned in a, lumber camp with a" view to be- wmhli citizens of a democratic state is one of lnexpressfble con- sequence.

That was the consensus of the 995 displaced persons. natives of 3510MB. Latvia and Lithuania, who arrayed here today aboazd the‘ United States Army transport 691191111 M.B Stewart after a voy- age from American and British OCOUDlQQ zones in Germany.

Tonight they were be:i.g carried by special train to lumber camps in Northern Ontario,' where they wlll work for s minimum period of 10 months.

Men Without Countries

Politically speaking they ere men without countries, for tl'e Baltic States now are firmly within the Soviet orbit. But. strong tradition dccs not recognize the authority from the east and the immigrants still speak in terms of King Vit- old who united their trihes in the 14th century. »

They are proud of their herit- 389 811d of ‘lreir wuntres‘ con- ctant attempts to rnaintairi democ_ P1101)’ and w‘? exltresscd belief that some day, though maybe nit: in their lifetime, the Blltic States will agau- be free.

A few of the c-lder immigrants had been confined in both Ger- man and Russian concentration camps and saw little difference in the intimate outcome: o.‘ Nazism or Communism. 1‘hougii practic- ally noiie o! the group had been to h-is native country ior- three years. many were convinced their families have been taker. to Rus- sia. They themselves had been afraid to go home, feeling a slin- ilar fatt- inevitable.

‘Until the clirlllflllS came in 1941, we were thought of as a Llt-. tie America. Now we are poor as Russian serfs," said one swarthy Latvian.

When the Russians citased the Germahs from the Baltic States into East Prussia. life changed lit- tle for their families, sal-l a c-rie- time student 01 the University of Kaunas in Lithuania.

Foreoa st Third War

A third war will be fought in Europe before 195'! was the unan- imous iplnion of a runricm group of 20. interviewed in their ship's quarters

"Russia is re-arming new in German factories of the Russian zone," .aid c119. His information had come from friends who had fled the zone and rt was supported in broken Er-vlish from all sides of the gaiherrng.

I: the predicted conflict occurs, they said, they hope to wear the Canadian uniform and tight on the side of democracy.

"We have a st-oxe" to

settle in Europe," said one. '

Lightning-set Fire Destroys Church

OOWANSVILLE. Que. July 31- (OP)—A $300,000 fire started by lightning which struck the steeple during en electrical storm last. night destroyed the Ste. ‘Therese do Illtnfant Church in this East- ern Townships community.

The blaze raged for two hours before finally being brought under

total loss. Firemen from Drum- mondville joined the local fire hrl- gade in battling the blaze in which no one was reported injured.

Cure Antonio Petlt said church officials were only able to save a few ornaments and the Eucharist. The loss wss partly covered by insurance.

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Two Prominent Norwegian Fox Ranchers llere

Two of Norway's biggest "my. 511N111"! men in the persons of Messrs. Omar Brager-Larsen and RA. Owren. President of the Nor- wegian Fox Breeders‘ Association,

B" "leflvlhi Charlottetown this 1110mm! for New York. While here they were ghgwn

many points of interest by Prem- ier Jones who also accompanied them when the two fox men paid their respects to Lteut-Governor J. A. Bernard.

Mr. Bragcr-Larsen is still a Norwegian citizen, though, since i940, he spends six months a year in the United States. He owns ‘arge fox and mink ranches in Michigan.

Mr. Owren was president of the Norwegian Fox Breeders Associat-~ ion throughout the German occu- {ration and has been three times a member of the Norwegian Par- llamenis.

While in the Province the two foxmen met practically all of the prominent fox breeders of the Pro- vince. Yesterday evening, accom- panied by Mrs. Brager-Larsen, they visited Summerside.

Mr, Larsen informed the Guar- dian last riight\that he expects to leave the United States the latter part. of August for another visit to South America.

The fox industry in the Argen-

tine is not yet highly developed, he said. there being only a com- naratlveiy small number of fox farms in that country. South Arri- crica at the present time. he said. cffers no opportunity for either Canada or Norway to export pelts since there is an embargo effect- ive in most all South American countries on all luxury goods be- inlz imported. ‘ Norway. Mr. Larsen said. enjoy- ed some advantage over Canada in many of the European fur markets owing to the barter svs- tem which was in practice be- tween Norway and such countries as Czechs-Slovakia and France.

Complete Reading Grade 11,12 Papers

WOLFTILLE, N’. 5.. July 31- The reading of 42,000 examination papers by 98 examiners of the Common Examining Board of the Maritime Provinces and Newfound- land was cleaned up today but officials said the job still remain- ed of recording and filing the marks of grade 11 and 12 pupils of the three Provinces who wrote the papers iii June.

Officiafs said they could not say when the students will receive their marks.

MUSSOLINPS SON TO WORK

NAPLES, July 31 - (A P) — Romano lviussolini, youngest son of the former Duce. was ready to go to work today as an accountant to help support his widowed mother, after passing his final examinat- iOns at Naples‘ Gianbattlsta Della Porta Institute.

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The ugly threat of policmyelitis has reappeared in the Dominion. with the West so far bearing the hrunt of the latest attack. Up to the present only s couple of deaths

l have been recorded but total cases ihave reached more than 200.

A Canadian Press survey of Provinces making reports show British Columbia has recorded 9i cases since the start of the year and Manitoba b0. Vancouver alone reports 6'1 persons stricken com- pared with only one up to July 31 lest yeer.

In the greater Winnipeg area there have been 3i cases. Mani- tdbs has had tiwo deaths so far this year. and the victims were a boy and girl, both i4 years of age.

Alberta total reached eight cases, five of them in the Edson area and two in Stettler district.

At this time last year 19 cases were on record in Alberta.

As _far as Ontario ls concerned, Dr. J. T“ ahir, deputy minister of health, yesterday said the gen- eral situation is more reassuring than last year. He said there had been 38 cases of polio reported in the Province this veer but 24 have been of the abortive type with no paralysis resulting.

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‘ Romance which began in mtg. Jllid bmilghl JOYCe Reahii, now lifts. Warren Rand, seen here. to Viirmtoes to marry Mr. Rand of Hartford, Conn., who served with the Canadian army. She arrived 0-‘! Jilly 9. nflCl Mr. Rand drove filmy Hartford. July 15, their Wfiddlllg) day. He developed ap- DEIIdlCILIS and walked a quarter- mile to hospital and had it re. moved. Because it meant i0 days in hospital and he had to be back in Hartford on Aug 1, Miss Rea. hil brought the minister to the hospital for the cgrgmgny per, formed during visiting hours.

ilrges Immediate Entl To War In Dutch East Indies

(By The Associated Press) LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y.. July 31— Australia today demanded that the United Nations Security Coun-

the war in lndonesiafts ‘rtly af- ter Greece hurled direc charges of aggression against Albania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria.

Tho fast-moving developments thus dumped into the laps of de- bate-weary delegates the first two, direct complaints of aggression in U. N. hist ry. Both cases were submitted der articles providing for possible use oi international force.

Declaring that "the hostilities proceeding (in Indonesia) are not merely police action but are in fact warfare,’ Australia's Col. W. R. Hodgson said any delay was "not justified because of the loss of life being sustained."

Russia joined Australia in the call for immediate discussion and action, soviet. delegate Andrei A. Gromyko declaring:

“We must take into considerat- ion that there is a war going on iii Indonesia"