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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA. SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1932

‘AT LEVEL

statesmen Of The Commonwealth Of Nations Will s I N

Formally Complete The Sig nature Of A Series Of l

Agreements Today, Ringing Down The Cur-

tain On

Chairman

Imperial Conference Such As Has Never Been Seen B efore

IT. HON. STANIILY BALDWIN

Chairman of the United Kingdom delegation at the Imperial‘ Eco- ililinlc (‘onii-rence.

ANNOUNCEMENTS, COMING EVENTS, MEETINGS, ETC

"Willi"? Mines Screened Coal $7.75 Ton. Run O‘Mine $6.75 to any destination in P. E. I. J. F. Con- nolly, Pin-k Street. Phone 373-1..

5087-8-13-31.

"Show min Dance Morell, Mon-

hv. oi-riii-stm. 509541-1941, RFSliow and Dance St. Peters "kt Tllmdlly- 5113-8-19-31.

"Dance in Iona Hall Monday, d, in nid of School Fair. 5126-8-18-21

"Cake Sale at Moore d: McLeod! “than. August 20m. Bunbury w- M- 5- sooi-a-ia-ai.

Orflce Cream Social and Dance iii Mil cove Hall, Monday, August ""- 5148-8-2-11.

m"Vl'sit the Dining Room under m0 lGrand Stand for a good hot ti! at the Exhibition. lil27-8-20-ii.

{Donations for Exhibition Hos- g"! Aid Luncheon may be left at "mild Stand Dining Room or at l‘ Fitzroy Street. 5127-8-20-11.

II ‘ ho Calilllian Club loading lambs. n85- Ylionday afternoon, August ,nd. List Stock with Secretary, E. - Mlmimtl- 5135-8-20-11.

“with Dinner 40c. Suppers 36c. will"! of Cross Hall Exhbition “i” "Tim Tuesday ll o'clock. "ck Service. 5188-8-20-21.

"Delicious home 1e; Rgad w. M. s. Misuse ion.

cooking at Pantry Sale McDonald's. Saturday, - 5139-8-20-11.

"A dance will be hem 1n no“. Hall, st. Peters, Monday m s’ 22nd. under auspices St. Pet- mm 011th Womens Institute. Ad-

on 25c. Lunch served free. music and good floor. 5097-8-18-31.

I‘ ‘ wullg-is Rosamund Duff, National ristlhciietary of "l!" Women's m, an atﬁemiierancc Union, will Bu" M ress in Hearts Mentor- " a pm onday evening, Aug, n, ~ - Como and hear this tal- ‘M-kﬂ- sire-n

(By George Hambleton, Canadian Press Staff Writer) OTTAWA, Aug. i8-Aftcr nearly forty years, Ottawa tomorrow fin- ally sets her seal on Empire preference. Stainsmen in the Old Land. and India will gather in the chamber of the Domlhliill

of the House and, in public session, will formally complete the ' ‘“ e of a] series of l-s- ‘ ' "' "l"! "m" ' "If! S’ ' ' t’! "i"

l Empire, preference t“ . .. I “d i ada's fiscal system ever since.

en the existing preferential field. In agreements which the United

Ailfingdom will sign with India and

all the Dominion: expect the Irish

Free State. the 91d Country ex-

tends her existing preferences, eith- er by tariff or quota, to foodstuffs

' which have not carried a. preference

wince the repeal of the corn lows. She receives wider preferences in l return. And the Dominions will sign ‘trade agreements between them- selves-Canada with South Africa, ‘Australia, New Zealond, Southern Rhodesia. _ / Five Year Plan The general idea ofithe agree- ments ls a five-year plan, which may then be terminated on notice or extended: and preferences granted under the agreements will

Tomorrow's agreements will wid-l

preferences within the British Commonwealth of Nations.

Thus closes a chapter opened’ in Ottawa in 189i. For it was at. the when the Sydney express crashed Ottawa colonial conference of 1894 that a Canadian delegation ll-id flit-O 8 "Kilt m0t0r tfllﬁk driven by down the principle of Empire preference. It was in a budget presented , to the Canadian Parliament three years later that the principle was recognised in tariff rates-o p-lnciple which. of gove-

‘has ‘ ‘part of Cus-

prcferences by claiming equal priv- ileges under most-favored-nation \treaty will risk notice of cancella- tion. -

Decision of the conference in this

regard is two-fold, namely:

‘ (1) No future treaty obligations x shall be allowed to interfere with mutual preferences.

(2) Empire countries will free themselves > from such existing treaties as might interfere with mutual preferences.

These decisions are of especial importance as applied to the Brit- ish market. For the United King- dom, over the course of many years, has concluded most-favored- nation treaties with almost every important trading nation in the world. _

Memorable Event

be protected from foreign assault.‘ The Russian dumper, who played such havoc with Canadian wheat and lumber in the British market, will be checked. The foreign nations which endeavors-to negative the}

And the curtain drops tomorrow on an Imperial Conference such as has not been seen before. It is the

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Home.

‘ SAINT JOHN’, Aug. 19—(By the Canadian Pressl-In order to have, as he put it. " a jolly good sleep and rest," Captain J. A. Mollison, in Saint John tonight after making a solo westward flight ovcr the At- lantic Ocean from Poi-t Marnock, Ireland, airport, will not take off for ‘his original destination, New York, until 1.30 o'clock. Atlantic Standard Time, tomorrow after- noon.

when brought .to saint John this afternoon from Pcnnfield Ridge, N. 3., where he landed to- day, hevhad announced he would bring his plane hero tomorrow, re- fuel and take off for New York at nine am. '

Civic Welcome

In the meantime ,whiie his plan

is being overhauled here wlnorrovnl

Intrepid British Flier Successful

In Ocean Flight

Capt. Mollison Lands In New Brunswick After 30 Hour Hop From Ireland —— This Afternoon For New York, Leaving Later On. Return Trip

Will Take Off

i \ he will attend an official civic

luncheon tendered by I-lis Worship James W. Brittain, Mayor oi’ Saint John, at which Hon. C. D. Rich- ards, Premier of the Province, and other prominent men will be guests. Tomorrow's luncheon is e:- pected to take place before noon, in order that the intrepid young aviator may have an hour or so to inspect his ship before taking the air at 1.80 (AS312)

Captain Mollison slid tonight that he had received an invitation from officials of the air pageant being hold at Montreal to stop off in that city tomorrow on his way to New York and make a brief ap- pearance at the air show.

He said he did not know yet just what he would do. but in any cue would “reply to their very kind in-

e vitation" early tornorrbw morning.

SAINT JOHN, N. B, Alli. ll-lﬂ

tor Die, When Syd- ney Express Crash- es Into Motor Gar —Driver Tried To Beat The Train.

(Canadian Press) NEW GLASGOW, N. 5., Aug. 19. —Mrs. Kenneth Cameron, 36, and her daughter, Isabel, were killed

~Kenneth Cameron. the husband and father, at Little Harbor rall- lway crossing late today. Cameron ' is in a. critical condition.

He apparently thought he could get his truck across before the ex- press . b -‘ the crossing. He was proceeding along a hlg way paral- lel to the railway track as the train sped for the crossing. Motorists

lparked at the crossing, frantically ‘signalled the oncoming truck, i The locomotive caught the truck ‘as though it had been a box of matches. The ten year olo girl was hurled against a telegraph pole and never spoke. Her mother was thrown fifty feet further on her head and still breathed as she was put aboard the train, but died be- fore a hospital could be reached. ‘The father got on his legs immedi- ately as he struck the ground, staggering in a daze. l Cameron had a small farm and was a butcher. He is the ‘father of two daughters, Eleanor l4 and Pearl l7.

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BATHURST, N. 13., Aug. l9—(By The Canadian Press)—A verdict of not guilty was returned by the jury

Mother Illhl Daugh-

Signing Of Agreements

OTTAWA. Alll- Ill-(By The Canadian Preach-Signing or Empire agreements has already begun.

This morning, trade ﬂgreg- ments were signed between:

United Kingdom and India.

United Kingdom and New- foundland.

United Kingdom and South Africa. ' "Med Klncdom and South-

ern Rhodesia. ' The Anglo-Canadian m”. ment and the agreements be- tween the United Kingdom lmd New Zoaland and Austral- ia have reached the stage oi‘ ‘ final draft. -

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OTTAWA. Alli!» 19-(3? R- K. Carnegie. Canadian

Press Staff “7i‘it0i‘)—Th0 following are the principal ad-l vantages which will accrue io the (Tzinzidiiin farmers as the result of the United Iiingdom-Czinada trade agreement which _is all but completed-the figures being changed to Canadian money and therefore approximate: ‘ Applcs—85 cents a hundredweight preference in Unit-

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Great Metropolis Swelters In One 0f Greatest Heat Waves In English History.

LONDON, Aug. 19 — (By The Canadian Pressi-Inndoners, to whom a temperature oi 'l5vdegrees fahrenhelt is hot weather swelt- ered in one oi the greatest heat waves in English history today. At 3.00 p. m. the thermometre mounted to 99, just one degree un- der the London record for all time. set in August, 191i. All western‘ Europe suffered from the same amazing wave of heat. In Paris 95 degrees were registered, the hottest day since i923.‘

Three London suicides were at-l tributed to the weather. So great was the interest of the populace

at 6.28 p. m., after slightly more than two hours’ deliberation, in the , trial of Joseph Norman "Rufus": Pitre, of Beresford, Gloucester County, charged with the murder on April 20 last of George B. Smith, aged South Tetagouche storekeep- er. The trial has been in pro- gress here since Tuesday, before Mr. Justice A. T. LeBlanc, o.‘ Moncton. in the Gloucester County Circuit Court.

VIENNA, Austria, Aug. l9— (A. Ill-Former Chancellor of Austria, Johann Schobcr died tonight at a snnitariun. at Gut- enbrunn, near here. lie was 58 years old.

Scottish Anzac flying from Ireland to the United States brought his plane down in a New Brunswick meadow today and politely asked a Canadian farmer if he might leave it there for the night.

Casually Captain J. A. Mollison flew the North Atlantic Ocean from east to west-putting his name up- on aviation‘s record as the first man to achieve that feat alone. His little: Puss Moth plane "Hart's Content," left Port Marnock, Ire- land, at 5.85 E. S. T. yesterday morning, and landed in Raymond Hawkins’ pasture at Pennfield Ridge, N. 8., at-11.45 E, S. T. to- day, 80 hours and 10 minutes after the take-off.

Will Join Husband

Tomorrow the Captain, who has created records between London

and Capetown and Australia and

New York, there to await the sr-

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in the heat that recording cameras pictured the frying of ‘two eggs atop a local office building. They were pronounced done in six minutes.

Late in the afternoon the tem- perature dropped to 94.5 degrees. Weather observers predicted that the wave would continue tomorrow with possible cooling shovacrs in the southern counties.

A,» 1|] pfgrleww-ﬂnce Reco rrl Set i-

OURTISB FIELD, N. Y., Aug. l9 —Two young matrons zoomed right through the 123-hour women's re- fueling endurance flight record to- day, and piloted their "Flying Bou- dolr" on into another dusk.

At 5 p. m. Eastern Standard time Mrs. Frances Marsalis and Mrs. Louise Thaden establshed unoffic- ially the new record of 124 hours, the required 60 minutes over the old one stipulated by the Aeronaut- ical Association of America.

The pair will “keep right on fly- ing," Charles S. (Casey) Jones, manager of the airport, said. But he added they "had no such ambit- ion as to better the meifs record of almost 27 days aloft made two years ago by Forrest O‘Brlne and the late Dale, Jackson. The women's record was made by Miss Evelyn (Bobby) Trout and Miss Edna May Oliver in Los Angeles, January 9, 1931.

V1719 Young women have been up since 1 p. m. Sunday. and were on their sixth day tonight. They made a first attempt Friday, which end- ed the next day after 17 1-2 hours,

ered from the refueling plane rip-

ed Kingdom market. Butter-IS percent ad valorem preference. _Bacon—A quota designed to increase the prices to. United Kingdom farmers with Canadian farmers enjoyingl the same advantage. Cattle-Present restrictions to be lifted giving Can-l adian cattle the same conditions as ‘have prevailed in thel past in regard to cattle from Ireland. This has been urgedl by the livestock interests of Canada. Cheese-IS percent ad valorem preference. Potatoes-Embargo to be lifted on Dec. 1st unless in meantime an examination by United Kingdom experts of the handling of the Canadian crop proves that there is u danger of potato bugs being carried to Great Britain. Wheat-Approximately six cents a bushel preference. The foregoing provisions were learned on excellent authority today.

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in"? flguiézl are subject i‘) last lH. H. Stevens, Minister of Trade mm" 9 Vi“ a ‘ms- and Commerce. ‘ Most of the final decisions werel The preference o; 35 cents a

delegates from Britain and Canada ‘ barrel for apples Shipped m Such] met in a lengthy conference. Can- containers and a corresponding. ado. was represented by Premier R. lammmt for apples shipped in baxes‘ B. Bennett, ' Hon. Robert Wein] Minister of Agriculture and Hon.

Charged I With

Serious Offence

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Boyd u Wants I Companion- l

With $8, 000 i

(Canadian Press)

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Annual Subscriptions Delivered ".00 B! Mull Canada Ind U, 5. A. 31,50

Cowanferlegwncewgloses Successfully Today Bennett ___0_p_ens Way to ar-itﬁﬁ A OTTA WA SETSHERSEALTWU mm] ON EMPIRE PREFERENCE

riculturilm Markets

Terms Of Agreement Highly Advantageous To Canadian Farmers

(British - Canadian Trade Agreement Will Open Wider Markets For Canadian Apples, Butter, Bacon, Cattle, Cheese, Potatoes And Wheat.

Presided"

PREMIER BENNETT

reached yesterday when official ‘hundredweight which is B5 cents a Sponsor and Chairman of the 1m-

pcrial Economic Conference, which concludes today at Ottawa with the signing cf trade treaties of far reaching benefit to the ‘Em-

pire.

Nfl’d. Governor Is Re tiring

AMHERST, N. S., Aug. l9.—Mar-_ garet Jackson, a nurse, was arrest- ed here today on charges of being implicated in the death of the in- fant child of James Corbett of Maccan.

The child died early in May whil: Miss Jackson was employed in look- ing after it and Mrs. Corbett. A post mortem indicated a poisonous disinfectant had been piresent in its milk. An older child fell ill at the same time but recovered.

Aviation News

Today's news in the world of avi-

_ atlon included:

Capz. J. A. Mollison, young Scot- tish aviator, lands in New Bruns- wick, 30 hours out of Ireland, first person to make solo westward flight across Atlantic.

Mrs. Frances Marsallis and Mrs. Louise Tliaden better women's re- fueling endurance fight record of 123 hours and keep on flying over Cllrtlss Field, N, Y.

Women's altitude record o: 34,000 feet claimed by Marysc Hiltz after flight over Villa Coublay, France. Stratosphere flight in the Hudson Bay district of Canada. planned by Prof. Auguste Piccarcl for next sum- mer.

Three killed in plane crash at Toulon, France and two more at Ponte San Pietro, Bergamo, Italy.

Stole Hearse

(Canadian Press) WESTVILLE, N. 5., Aug. lit-A hearse, a hearse, cried H. A. Mc- Quarrie when he found a vacancy in his garage. Police arrested a man named Schenncll driving the hearse and held hlin on a charge of driving a motor without the

lied the wing fabric of the plane Ind they were forced down.

owner's pernilssion.

(Canadian Press Cable) NEW YORK. Ave 19—<A-P->—‘ LONDON, Aug. 1e. _- sn- Johr Cﬂilf- J- Emil Boyd. 0f T°Y°m°fMiddleton is granted permission u

Ont, who has been in New York for some tme cndewvorlng to raise [funds to finance a round-the-ivorld flight, resorted to advertising to- dny as a means of obtaining the necessary backing.

Capt. Boyd, who flew to Europe. two years alto in the "Columbia" with Licut. Harry P. Connor sorted the following advertisement‘ in a local newspaper under the cap-l ticn "Flying to Eiiropet“ l l "World famous plane. p loted by’ ffnmous trnnshtlaiitic fiyr-r, reaelv ‘to leave on long-distance non-stop gfllglit ‘to Europe. Requires COIN-- l pnnlmi. Applicant must invest $8.000. have good reputation. Ship ready t0 go and all plans prepared."

Make Hop Sunday Morning

BARitE, Vt, Aug. lU—iA.P.)— Clyde A. Lee oi Oshkosh, Wis, and John BUCllkOn of Brooklyn, N, Y" planned tonight LO begin their pro» jectctl flight from the Barre-Mont- pelier airport to Oslo. Norway, Sunday moming. weather permit- iliig.

‘The iii-st 16!. they said, would trike them to llarboi" Grace, Nfld. '\\'ll.‘llK‘i? they would make the ocean hop. Their equipment will include n rubber boat, a kite, and s snu", the latter to be listed to :~il\\‘ nxviiy the motor in the event they are forced to land in the wat-

Ncgnunne, .\'l.l‘ll., ulm eanzc here with Let‘, and who uus to have acted as co-piini. would not make the trip, Lee said. When llorhkon was considered as a third lllilli, Robertson refused to make mo trip. Boclikon would act

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give up his post as Governor oi lNeilifOllllflllllld, it was announced tonight. by the Domlnions office. lHe will leave in November for a lmonthks furlough prior to his re- tircnient.

Governor of “the eldest colony“ since 192B, Sir John is oiﬁcially stated to be retiring for private reasons. l-lc is 62 years of age. He was acting colonial secretary from 1908 to i913.

The Weather, Etc

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