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letilite Move Made To Prepare For Election

Qfllwil, Aug. 1 — (CP) - Th; Government, making a de- ilnrte move to prepare for a ‘emu! election, has named seven "mm returning officers to mperintend voting among mem- bert of the fighting forces over- ms, it was announced today. The announcement has tended to revive rumor; in circulation mm days‘ ago that Mr. King would inure-ale when the next ehclion would he held when he addresses u complimentary dinner given in his honor next lilorrday night on the 25th anniversary of . m; assuming national leadership ‘ fl the Liberal party.

Tlm seven special returning of- ficers will cover must of the f

i009, includbng the Kfigltritlng forces in Ill K Mlle France, Italy. the Aliddie East, m; l-‘ar East including India and Austria, lhu Wesl- lndies an Newfoundland,

‘flip special returning officers Inn the Ylil-Inlf territories they rill supervise follow:-

llri. i-iit. Palmer, St. Thorms. Ont-United liingllorn; Capt. J-R. Giroux, Strathnroro, Que.- llrinland uf Franco under United nations control;

Ca . .lt. Webster, Victoria, -lt.rly and islands of Sicily. Sar- dinia and Corsica" o

Africa. and Lrlryir. . sqdn. Udr. John lil. rlckherson. lilcaford, Ono-Far East oom- prising Austria an-i India; g Cont. Charles A. lifcliennan.

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git-urn, N.S.—British West In» u. D.'l0rne Cameron. Murrliou,

lion-Newfoundland.

Turkish Ships Ordered Home

NEW YORK, Aug. 1 — (AP) — The BBC sold tonight in a broad- tlst reported by NBC the Turkish ovemmexit had ordered all Tur- ish ships in Bulgarian and Rom- lnian ports to return to Turkey immediately.

llilMlNfi EVENTS

"Show- Osnoe Cove Friday. l 8-2-8.

é “BHVII-CNDBM Ihrusday.

8-2-1 "Picnic, Lot

65 Wednesday. ifeals. Dance afterward. 7-3l-li

"D8036, St. P te ' Ba , Minis glam Clifford's eOliéhestrya. a 115i;

"Dance in Morcll l-Iall, Wednes- ‘BY. Aug. ind. New orchestras. 1 - -2l

. "Dame. Klnkora Hall, Monday. llkust 7th. rtefreshments. a 2 m

"Ztoserva Wedn- sday. August almléir Darllnuton eFestival and

"Now in stock Binder Twinc. Biuestone. Arsenate Lime and Oii

Cake. Dillon do Splilctt. 8-1-41. cgumrlilnual c _Plcnic St. John's Auzuwmh. lltpfllld, wedngsglog.

._.._Q. "Dance in Town Hail. WWI}. Thursday, tiers Orchestra.

George- August 8rd. Web- 8-2-11

"opelllllk Dance 5t J mes Hall ilnrunerilcld. Wed a a 'A ' "Id-special muslcne w’ r-ggyrirt.

“Ice Cream and Do V m"? H811. ‘Phlunday mirstalaor? Millview Orchestra. ' 8-2-7-8-3i.

"Annual Ico Cream Festival and Bum. Belle Rlver United Church - Willey evening. Agust

7- -2i.

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' Y 6h mera try

W! week. G. C. Green, Emerald.

8-1-31

andA Dantce,

. ugus a Good music.

8-2-11.

Bpeclall Gospel Ber-

"mOonw u, Mfjlogortgglluf Olaniréoh this “Why. “B ' ' fiffiffi?

"F00 Cream l»! our Ciru "Wlow Bank.

lute: due Ora sch ‘g b! 560M013)?!‘ llt Will b0 Y we: 31 13.1%. ‘°1'-i.§§1“§§’i§¢"si “Mim- ‘ o-r-ai "n"! Wednesda- 4 ’ . Sourisy “wuofilfi

- when struck by a bus while cros-

- said her condition was not serious

- pic's Party Deputies will a

_ lster Sukru Barac lu

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Ghurchill A n. Speak Today

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men-ow an address expected to

and revolt broke out in the German

my. Awaiting the comment of Mr. Churchill, s. man with an unusual historical perspective who can des- cribe todays events with words for the masses, is a world tensely aware 0f the tremendous change in the general war picture u a result of the Allied drive into France, the Red Army's latest thrust to rhe very threshhold of Germany and the disclosure that at least some [German generals apparently were ready to risk civil war to get peace. It remains to be seen whether the Pfimp Minister will amplify or un- derscore his recent remark to the troops in Normandy that the war "might come to an end earlier than we have a right to say." but the Germans at least seem to fear that he is going to say that and more. Nazi propaganda today swung full tilt into an effort to persuade the weary Germans that Mr. Chur- chill is so fearful of Germany's {Orthcdming new weapons that he l; insisting that the war must be ended at all costs by the end of lsetptogmber or early October at the a es .

Tropical Storm ilits iio. Carolina

WILMINGTON. N C. Aug. 1 - A tropical storm which bro ht winds of 60 miles an hour l ed this and virtually in- bench resorts Iran 0f persons were hastily evacuated. l0 pm., four hours after the furv of the hurricane - force storm hit, the U.S. weather bureau said the blow had passed inland sli htiy south of Wilmington. The wads. at that clone. were gradually dimin-

ishing.

At the height of the storm, with refugees crowding hotel lobbies and ever-v available housing space. the cltv had s. 30-minute bower failure and was plunged into darkness Every block of the city's streets éwerruehiittored with fallen trees and

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Four Airmen Killed In Brash

8'1‘. THOMAS. ONT. Aug. l- (OP)—Four airmen from the No. 4 Bombing and Gunnery School. R.

. . ., Flngsl. Ont., were killed when the training plane in whlc they were flying crashed tonight about eight miles wmt of here. Next-of-kin have been notified and names of the men will be re- leased shortly. "

Dorothy ilix Injured

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ASHEVILLE, N. C. Aug 1 — (AP) — Mrs. Elizabeth M. Gilmor, known to newspaper readers as Dorothy Dix, was injured today

sing an Ashevllie Street. She was treated for cuts. bruises and shock at a hospital. Doctors

LONDON, p) .... Prime Minister Churchill will de- liver in the Home of Commons w-

be one of the most important or his careen-his first comprehensive re- view of the war situation since the Allies smashed the Atlantic Wall

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The People's Paper

Read by

Covers Prime Edward P18181141 Like the Dew cuxnwrrcroww. CANADA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST z, 1944 s

potentialities. If not in size, as the north and south of that ‘

eastern front must become u fluid

Further sweeping Nari retreats not already in progress, but with

make its next stands.

to within gun range of its suburbs

out of would

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To Extend Runways

NEW GLASGOW, Aug. 1 -- (CP) -Runways at the local airport. will be extended 600 feet to make the le h of the runways equal to those a the Charlottetown air-pod . Air for both mail and pass- was inaugurated between centres several weeks ago.

President 0f- Philippines liios

SARANAC LAKE, N. Y.. Aug. l. -<AP) - Manuel Quezon, es. exil- ed President of the Philippine Commonwealth who fought un- ceaslngiy for the freedom of his native land, died today at his sum- mer home.

Csuse of death was given as pul- monary tubercuiosis, from which Quezon suffered for years. At the bedside were members of his fam- ily who escaped with the President in a submarine Feb. 20, 1942, as the Phlll pines fell before Japa - ese inva ers.

Plans for burial were not com- pleted tonight, but it was indicat- ed services would be held in Wash- ington, D.C. Sergio Osmena, Philippine Vice- President, tok the oath of Presi- dent today ln Washington. "

Long a. prominent figure in Philippine political life, Osmena was s eaker of the first Filipino Assem ly in 1907 and continued in that post until 1916.

Formerly on opposite sides of the political fence, Quezon and Osmena Joined forces in the Na- tionalists party.

Soldier Fatally Injured At St. John

SAINT JOHN. N.B.. A118. 1 — (CP)-A soldier station in this district died in hospital tonight of burns and shock suffered when an aerial signal set touched n high- pawered wire near Dipper Harbor this after-noon. Two other soldiers were sliglhtlv injured in the some accident Their next-of-kln have

angers the two

and that she was expected to I

d_isiirarged__in the morning.

preached an apparently imminent rupture of her relations with Ger- many, gambling at last on the chance that the Nazis are shackled sufficiently by European develop- ments to revent full-fledged re- prisais an hoping to win cheaply a place at the peace tablel.

Turkish action, irrevocably wid- ening the breach caused three months ego by halting shipments of steel-hardening chrome to the Axis, was expected within the next 36 hours. The decision is generally expected to come at the Wednesday meeting of the Grand National ssembly, when the m; the course of action set by est- dent Ismet Inonu and Prime Min-

A clean Turkish rook with the Axis probably would rovlde the powder- for a eneral low-off in the Balkans. w ere the Nazis have been forced to use vitally needed troops to force continued allegiance from their war-weary satellites.

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The German POlltion in the

Turkey Approaching Rupture lVif/r Germany,

i LONDON. Aug. 1 - (A?) - the Berlin admission of fresh with- Turkey tonight sole ly ap- drawais on the eastern front

been notified and the names wil released illqrtly»

which sent the Russians closer to

w thretirhtrenlnkg‘ Pass-gs. way oug e - athianr into Hungarian-occupied utheola.

(The Budapest correspondent of the Turkish News A oncy reported a cabinet crisis in ungary u sli army lesver were cancelled_ and 5g. “men patrolled s ee .)

Pro-Russian Bulgaria also show- ed signs of final withdrawal from her Axis partnership. Unofficial reports reaching here laid Rural: and Bulgaria. were getting together on an agreement for reopening Russian consulates at Vama and Burns and withdrawal of German forces from the Black Bea coast. Bulgaria has never severed dip- lomatlc relations with Moscow.

It was considered like hero‘ that the 'I‘urklrh action mfg t coin- cide with Prime Minister Chur-

chill’! appearance before the House of Commons tomorrow wi his

War situation Last N-ight l

By Kirko 1.. tmpcon, Associated Press War Analyst

American armor lru broken through the Avranchu gateway into Brittany to fan out in a new advance which fl ll significant in military

gripped Warsaw and is boring unchecked through Nail defences both bastion on the. Vlstula.

German demolition activities in Warsaw foreshadowing its ultimate abandonment by the foe u untenable are reported. With its fail the

France under sustained Anglo-American pounding.

Ilitler’; reorganized and completely Nazffied high command hopes to

Envelopment of Warsaw seems in p south. The surge up the east bank of the River that carried the Russians

the angle of the Bug-Vista]; confluence northwest of the Polish capital. At Radzyidn. a Russian spearhead that appea to be try-passing

War-sow is within close striking distance of the crossing of the lower Bug

that would if Russian-forced, mean outflankirrg from the south of the

Whole Gennan front north of the Bug and east of the Nor-cw.

l A Russian break-through at that point to plunge north-westward a-

‘iong the corridor that leads to Danzig. the old Polish corridor fashioned

Canada Taking Over U. S. Airports In

b. value such as barracks and other,

Russian onnuh in the east that has

and unstable u that in northwestern

on both fmnta nre to be expected if no clear indication yet as to where

both to the north and the

has pushed on beyond Praga toward

‘ " of all east Prussia.

/ North ormwx. Aug. 1 - (c?) —'I‘he

closed airports in Northern Can-

000,000 was made known today as Prime Minister MacKenale Kins announced terms under which the government has arranged to take over all United States ‘nteresis in permanent wartime air line install- ations.

The actual cost of the eblisbtivn assume’ by the Canadian govern- in Canadian funds is close to $120,000.00). This covers, the northwest stagln route from Ed- monton to Alas s, a telephone lino from Edmonton to Alaska. and the northeast staging route, details of which have been closely- wraprwd military secrets until now.

Parts of that three-pronged north- east route to Europe are United States-built airports at Fort Chimo 0n Ungava Bay, costing 9,886,420; at Frobisher Bay on Baffn Island, costin $8,066,700; at South -- ton Is and at the northern end of Hudson Bay costing $7,043. 200.

Included also in the settlement is a $3,027,980 United States-built alrlwrt at Mlngan, Que. on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River Opposite Anticosti Island.

The giant airport at Goose Bay, Labrador, was built as a Canadian undertaking at a cost of 89.950300 and forms o. unit in the network of air lines now disclosed as thread- ing over the unpopulaood places 0f Northern Canada and designed to enable planes to move to Europe by a variety of routes or go out to strike an in- vader approaching America. on] either the northwest or the north- eastem corner.

Announcement was previously made that Canada would assume the full cost of permanent instal- lations on the northwest stagin route and the Edmonton - Alaska telephone line.

Mr. King tabled an exchange c1 notes with the United State; gov- ernment covering this and the northeast route as well.

The settlement involves a pay- ment to the United States of $76,- 811,551 United States funds, us reimbursement for expenditures al- ready made by the United States on work of permanent value in Canada. The Canadian govern- ment is not paying $13,800,000 cx- pended on works of non-permanent

existence of four hitherto undls- 1° oda, each costing more than $7,-<

WalkouE-To Be Effective At Midnight

MONTREAL, A J. E.

midnight tomorrow.

vote of 3520-78. whether the union would

was immediatel

ficiais of the umways Company.

by a majority report the workers‘

the board.

The first strike in March 1943 brought union recognition to the C.B.R.E. and the second strike in February of this year resulted in the appointment of the concilia- tion board which settled all points of the dispute except the union shop clause. The February strike was precipitated when the C.B.R.E. members refused to take out cars with members of an Am- erican Federation of Labor Un-

n. . Ballot boxes remained open all night to permit all employees to cast a. vote for or against the strike. A crowd of tramways workers gathered around the hall where the ballots were being counted and cheers broke out when the result. was announced over a public address system.

A, R. Masher. president of the Canadian Congress of Labor. an- nounced that government officials at Ottawa and Quebec had been advised of the result and added that all workers had been instruct- ed to “remain at their posts" un- til sdvised otherwise.

With the announcement that the strike would begin tomorrow night. the union immediately appointed strike committees to organize the workers of the various divisions for the strike. However, traffic tonight continued normal.

LONDON. Aug. l Russian lst slashed the last road and communications between the North

olatlng two German armies

powerful Soviet Army groups cap- tured Kaunas. pre-war capital of Lithuania, and closed a steel arc of siege around burning Warsaw. The trap in the Baltic was being closed by Gen. Ivan C. Bagram- ian’s men. who seized Tukums, rail centre nine miles south of the Gulf of Riga and 30 miles almost due west of the city or Riga. Six other railway stations were among more than 100 taken in that drive. the Soviet communique announced. de- scribing the threat of German catastrophe in a single sentence.

“Thus our troops have cut all roads lending frcm the Baltic to. East Prussia." l I-Iow many Germans remain tirere, Ls uncertain, but their numbers arc‘ believed to be large. as both thc 16th and lBth armies, once totalling, 350.000 men, were assigned to thw

buildings.

Canada has already spent or un- dertaken to “spend $34,700,000 on projects relo to the whole def-l oe scheme on the understanding at the United States would reim- burse the Canadian government. Now the United States is relieved or out: obligation to pay for these wor .

IONOI NORWEGIAN TIACIIIIIB

PRWDORIA —-(OP)— The Tran- svaal Teachers’ Association has sent l. csble to the Norwegian gov- crnrnent Iondon paying ‘humble and solemn honllqe’ to the teach- ers of Norway. whole heroic suff-

ring, ill 000i! an h glue i: the annnnyof the prom!-

’ even as the escape routes narrowed‘ n

Estonian - Latvian defence nrrl pave no indications of pulling uu.

West of’ Biedlce. in the. Warsaw,’

direction. the Russians report cap-l ture of another Nazi general. Lt-l Gen Franke of the routed 73rd In-l fantry division, alon with all his staff. Frank; is the ficer captured since the Russian‘ summer or‘ ' r1 opened June 23. Eleven generals have been kil .1

the Soviet custom when great cp- erations are in a process of devel- opment.

ting Warsaw to the torch in pre-

istoric Army resredt nth ortheast , suburbs o! thenlgmsh 233m“ m“ ionaie had candidates in every con-

th latest diplomatic and military re- port.

hind a cascade of bombsand shells.

118. l - (CP) — Magulre, National Secretary of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees, announced to- night that employees of Montreal Tramways would go on strike at

The workers held a strike vote last night and today and came out in favor of a walkout by a

It was not immediately known accept anfv further effort at conciliation be ore the deadline of the strike tomorrow night. No announcement available from of-

The strike vote was called af- ter e. conciliation board rejected

request for o. union shop clause in the bargaining agreement. This request was twice turned down by

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Two German Armies Trapped In Baltic

-(AP) -The “ Baltic Army tonight,‘

Baltic states and East Prusslméi-i n . tonia and Latvia, while two otherl

Everybody

oners from the broken rank While the armor drove

Tessy Sur Vire, seven miles n

Torlgny for D. steam-roller alnst the key city of Vlre, lying

a t five miles farther south. In the sector around

Caumont, and Roger

Associated Press Correspondent,

reported they were squeezing Ger. man forces in a powerful vise.

In the Canadian sector" on the eastern hinge of the SO-mlle Allied line a new offensive erupted south- east of Oaen. Tilly La Campagne

LONDON, Aug. l -— (CP) _ American troops have captured Mohtzothier. eight miles south- east of Avranches, a Router-g News Agency dispatch from France said tonight.

changed lmnds several times. The

hold iour miles south of Caen, but. fell back after a strong counter-at- tack. The Germans are super-gen- sitive in this sector, which points toward Paris.

It was disclosed that four Carr- sdlan regiments engaged in recent Iightim; in Normandy were the Black ii/atch ritoyui Highland Re- giment) of Canada, from Montreal, the Royal Hamilton Light infan- try (Wentworth Regiment); the Calgary Highlanders and the Royal lgglgtrment of Canada. a Toronto

The roster of Nazi prisoners for the first eight days or the offensive mounted to 18.587 by official count and it was disclosed that seven divisions have been lzrccrated to a point where it will be impossible for the Ggmans_to__recor_rsrruct them;

1 Allies Drive ' liearer Florence

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Duration for s retreat as the Red‘ “T”? "mnlmmms "mil" 00°" lm‘

ROME. Alli! 1 — (AP) -—l-‘ivc German divisions drawn in a tight arc south and southwest of Florence lashed buck bitterly today at Brit- ish Bth Army forces punching their; way methodically toward the great art capital through a succession of, enemy strongpoints. ,

"It is clear the enemy is deter-- mined to make a real stand us long: as he is able," on Allied snflkér, man said. The Nazis. having dEC-l larcd Florence an open city. are. expected to wiihdrlnv without a. street fight hnce their last rlefensesl south cl the Arno River are plow-W edunder; I

33%; on res

its own with a powerful inlan

break-through German resistance was crum bllng

At the some time, cast oi the Vlre r : ——- -- Rlver. Britain troops swept into the German stronghold of Fe Bony», Bwatle and pushed beyond rt. join-l lng with American forces south of. drive

Cuurnont, the British forces were enveloping Villers-Bocage, seven miles east Oi‘ L). Grecnej

Canadians srriasned into the strorrg- K

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