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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST s, 1941

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“ABEGWETT” REPORTED our AT BORDEN FRIDAY

Ottawa Fire: Causes $250,000 In Damage

ilve Firemen Are lnlareli; lllsirlet Fire Chief Karrewly Escaped Death liy Electroeutlon.

iilrow Tomatoes And Stones At Mme. Peron

ZURICH, Switzerland, Aug. 5- lleutersi-Jt; two separate incid- rno. Senora Eva de Duarte Peron, ulie of the Argentine president, has been the target oi ripe tom. lltoes and oi stones during the fist two days.

Yesterday after her arrival at Born onfiln official visit. Com- nunisi demonstrators hurled tom- alocs at the visiting Argentine fir-t lady, and today at Luceme, stones were thrown.

in neither incident was Mme. Peron hurt. The offenders were arrested and are to be tried, police aoiri. .

Comi: r Events

‘ ‘Show Eldon Friday.

‘ Show Morell Thursday.

'flce cream and dance Grand. VlPW Hall Wednesday, Aug. 6th.

"Salads, pies, cakes, soft drinks, Thursday at Harrington dance.

"Chicken supper Corran Ban ‘Wednesday. Aug. 6.

"Dance in Morel] East School August 5th. McKay's orchestra.

“Como to the Ice Cream Social. in<htown Hall. Monday. Aug. ll.

"Dance in Forest Hill llall Tilursday. Aug. 7th.

"st. John's Church, Crapaud, annual picnic Wednesday, August 3th. Everybody welcome.

“Dance and ice cream at Gra- lnlnis Road School, Wednesday

August 6th.

"Legion dance in Cardiganllall WPflllPSdly. Aug. 6th. Webster's srrhestra.

"Ice Cream and Dance in Emvvale School, Friday, August iith.

"Dance in gt. Peter's Harbor school Thursday night, August ‘lth.

"Open air dance Rose Valley Cornel- August 6th. Good music and refrcrhnwents.

"Ice Cream and Dance. Sourir ilnc Road south school. Friday, Aug. 0th. '

"Dance Emerald-Hall Tuesday, final tth. in aid ladies‘ softball tlnnl. Mulligans orchestra.

"Georgetown. Georgetown. Geo- frcloyvn.“ Alld lfovri i6 minus 1-15 days, _

"Ice Cream Festival. Rose Val- lPY Church grounds. Friday, Aug. i3 Proceeds for church repairs.

"Dance. ice Cream. Bow'ing. ‘sinnott Road School. Thursday, hi8. 7.

"Come to ice cream festival and entertainment, Wheatley River rail, Friday, Aug. 8th.

"Ice cream at Southport school Thursday night. Women's Insti- lute.

‘WT- "Rcgular dance tonight Sea Bfleezc Pavilion. Dancing from 9 ti l.

"Come to chicken supper at Herington l-fall mursdsv. Aul- '1- Starting at s pm. Dance after.

"ice Cream and Dance. (lien- llnnan son-n. Thursday? Aug. r. 000d music.

"Hampshire United Church Pic- nic todav. Home cooked meals ilfved after 6 o'clock.

“ice Drum Social. north ltiv- granule», August 0th. In aid o!

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"Dance in BelflutJ-lall. ‘Phara- avk night. August '1. in aid of

"ice Dream god Dance In my‘: Gross nail, arriday, August

“Dance ‘the . August 1th. 21am! em. ulldlnl. S0!

(By The. Canadian Press)

OTTAWA. Aug. 5—Tvvo firemen were infured, a district chief nar- rowly escaped death from electro- cution and ‘damage tentatively estimated at $250,000 was caused late today when a three-alarm fire blazed through the Butter- worth Building in downtown Ot- tawa, putting at least six busin- esses our of operation.

The ilre started when a pot of grease boiled o'Ier on the stove oi the kitchen of the Tea Garden Restaurant. Flames quickly shot up a flue and broke through the roof of the three-storey building at Sparks and O'Connor Streets and almost every piece oi fire equipment in the city was called Lo the uene.

District Fire Chief Carl Dun- ning was knocked unconscious when clearing debris in the dark c~f tho flame-swept restaurant and ho grasped s. live wire believed to have been carrying 250 volts. l-fe was thrown to the water-soaked floor.

The District Ohici was taken to hospital in a fire department em- ergency car .lnd officials said only fllS rubber boots and coat saved him from electrocution.

Fireman Nick Ostapyk was "treated ut hospital with severe hand burns silifered while chop- ping a hole through the gravel- coated tar roof. oi the burning building. l-‘lzeman Percy Reid rc- ceived trcatrllent for a deep gash on the bridge of his nose,

A number oi other firemen were treated for smoke-sickness suffer- cd on the roof of the building from which dense clouds of yel- ‘ow acrld smoke poured and spread for a m'ie over the city.

Besides the Tea Garden -R.eat- aurant. i-he buildingnhoused Laura Thomas’ cosmetic Shop. Ronfrew Fur Shop. the Belgium Glove Shop where smoke and other [damage was evident. There also was con- siderable damage to the Willis’ Business College which occupied :\vo top floors of the building

It took firemen more than an lrour to brirlg the blaze under control.

BERLIN. Aug. ii-illeutersl- British troops will stay in Berlin as long es Russians, Americans end French remain, Brig. W. R. N. Ilinde. deputy director of the British Milliarv Government in Berlin. said today.

rcavrvns nnorrrrm

Because Gerald Lemay, ll. paid attention to his lessons in school. his brother, Wayne, two, is alive today. Gerald pulled Wayne out of a shallow well at their farm home near Barkway village, in Muskoka, and applied artificial respiration until the boy regained consciousness Gerald was taught the rudimcnis of resuscitation by his school teacher. Miss Benn, dur- ing e. first-aid lesson.

Poultry Exports To il. S. Aids industry

OTTAWA, Aug. 5 ——-iCP)—Akrl- culture Department officials said today that applications for per- mits to export 4,300,000 pounds of live and dressed poultry to the United Stats had had the effect cf strengthening prices for heavy chicken and fcwl on tlha Montreal market.

The applications were received since last. week when tiha United Kingdom's ban on poultry imports from Canada brouhgt a lifting cf the 1944 ban against Canadian ex- ports to the United States.

Tile officials said there was a poor demand for lightweight chicken and fowl in Canada and the United States and they urged that these birdg b: kept off the market until they weigh five pounds or more.

Roundup Of Jewish

Leader's

By EDWARD‘ CURTIS

JERUSALEM. Aus. 5 — (AP) British authorities’ today began the biggest roundup of Jewrn leaders since underground resistance-turn- ed the Holy Land into a battlefield —a roundup punctuated h)’ R 1G1- rsl- bomb whroh cloned oft ihei front of the. labor Department building and killed three BilllSh

"Festival and dance at Darling- ton school ‘Thursday. Aug. '1.

"Kelly's Cross Dramatic Club will present their co play “Aasbn Slick Frommagumpkin Crick" in Cavendish Hall on Thurs- day. August 7th.

"Reserve Monday. August lltfi for‘ picnic at Vernon River. Sup- per served on grounds. Danes in tail. at night. Sponsored by O. W. i...

"On account Seuris Tea being held on Wednesday. Aug. 6. dance in Matthew Ar McLean's ware- house will also be hold Wednes-

day.

"Don't forget the Dance in the community‘ canteen. covehcad Iiaco ‘hack. Thursday. Aul. '1. Mclienailvs ' Orchestra, Acoordaon and Drums added. Music starting at I o'clock.

"loading live Hogs ‘lhurads! as follows: Summarside till 1.30 P. M. lteruiruion till a. P. u. Borden. Banal, llurltsr River, 'I‘hur|day‘all day. Elmer Wlsmm Breadaltane. ‘rhursday till train time. Trucking service wnsn roads permit. Maeliwen and cavalry.

"collecting tog: 'fo.r Canada Packers sac-ll Friday from ‘Iryon Albany, Carleton, Scarlet-own, Con- tral B-ldequl form- Bedeque, gin-lore. Newton. Oaps ‘harem and Augustine Cove. Meals. b. n. men-on and lens. alum Alb-

Underway

Accident

21» Killed When Trucks Collide

WAXAHACIIIE, Tam, Aug. 5 —(AP)—I.3lther 2i or 22 per- Iona were killed today when a gasoline tank truck and a truck loaded with Negro work-_ ers collided and burned. Four others were injured.

Nineteen bodlea were recov- ered and the fragments of two or three more bodies were found trapped under nrloulder in; wreckage.

The condition of the bodies was such that officials said they could not determine ex- actly boy? many persons had been pinned beneath the trucks.

The trucks. bathed ln_ gaso- line, biased for hours after the crash and officers had to close the heavily-travelled lilrhway, rerouting traffic.

Eighteen of the known dead are Negroes. The 19th was a white man.

Polio Continues To Increase Across Canada

i .__._ (By The Canadian Press) Pollolllyellils cases are increas- lug across Uahadll, a Canadian bless survey indicated today nut medical authorities in many large centres where several polio cases have been reported within the past few days insist that there ls no danger of a general epidemic

less tllall iu the period in i946

In Montreal six cases were re- ported luring the week-end. mak- ing a. total of eight to date com- pared to last. year's 111 cases at this time. '

In Saskatchewan two cases h ve been fatal with a total of 35 p io victims reported throughout the Province.

Manitoba reports a total of 12 cases this yesr with 31 in Winni- peg. seven in Brandon. five in Portage La Prairie and the ra- mainder scattered in smaller cen- VYES. .

In Ontario bl cases have been reported and only one of these has been iaral. Pivc-year-old va- cationing Penny Joy/ of Cornwall, Ont... was the victim. dying at Kirkland Lai-"e Hospital while on a vacation. One other case has been reported in the Kirkland area. Iast year there were 64 cases and

corresponding

pc-Zicemen and probably en Arab watchman.

More than l0 prcmincrlt Jols were sexed l2‘ the awmp by tire military and Palestine police. Son s were said marked fcr denortatlor.

Among those reported arrestli

were dissident members o.’ Haganr.

illegal iewisn defence olganizatior. who had oppcsed the organize- ticn's ing terrorism. and the mayors of

the fou: all-Jewish citlor of Tel Aviv, Ram at Gan. Pcfai-l Tikvah and Na-Lanyu .

T-hc lnoycr o-f Nathonya. Oved Ben Ami. who not with troops to the eucalyptus grove near Nat- hanya where the bodies of two "executed" Brllish sergeants were found swinging in nl/ues last week. had repeatedly appealed to the underground to releare the two soldiers.

moderate" policy of oppos-

tlve deaths in the same period in Ontario.

In the Mariiimes. l4 cases. one "f them fatal. have been reported. iew Brunswick and Nova Scotia “ave had sen-n each while Prince ‘dward Islav d. which counted d8 roses last veer has so far been “cg of the disease. The one fatal- ‘ty was in Nova Scotia.

Forest Fire Threat s Antlgonlsh Station an

A2\"I‘IGONIBH_ N. 8.. Aug. 5- (OP)—A small forest fire which broke out iatc today was threaten- ing the radio towers of station CJFX Antlgonish tonight, about one mile from this university town. Volunteer firefighters were hampered by a stiff breeze in their efforts to control the blaze.

and that lmmllerof cereals-

Among those arrested were top officials or the Revisiolllrt Party. accused by the Government last year of being the forerunner of ll-gun Zvai Luiiflll, the underground organization.

The bomb which torn off the n-crlt o! the Labor Department building in the Street v of the Pfflphltg exploded just after a telephoto call had warned "the building is mined."

BWOBD MUIIIDPLE BIRTH

-Boasie, a Holstein

KYIVHENIIR. Ont. Auz. 5 —(CP) owned by lei-man. Crewnan, let what On- tarlo Agricultural College author- itier regard as a world record when she gave birth to octupiota - ll'l stillborn. Bedlea of the cllver will‘ be prescrved in alcohol at the ecl- lege in Guelph. Bessie is none the

FOIII‘ lniuretl In Cal‘

Last Night

W“! Dersopz,_one of them in a serious condition, were rushed m the Prince Ed-wardt Island Hospital yesterday- evening after- their p“ had overturned at tin; juncture of theuneln highway and {he mad leading to Beach Grove Inn.

Th‘! iflllircd are Shirley Bigger, 18. daughter o! Mr. and Mrs. sin..- l9? Bigger. Tinarlottetowrr; Leona museils 20- daushte. of Mr.. and Mrs. rloward Doucette. Tignish; George Green. 22, sc-n o; Mu and Mrs. Mtrrill Green. Kingston, and JflmBS Bllchallllny 24, Quincy, N1855- ion of Mrs. Tertics Harper, 53 BBYI-Eld Street. Charlottetown. I! is understood that Green, the driver "i the car was trying to make the turn off the mail’. highway Whrn 7-6 lost control o: the ca)‘ with tile result that it turned‘ over three times before landing in a near-by file's. ,

erations. that she was 5‘il] “mm... scion-s. and that her condition was "not good."

Aviation inventor, Pioneer Inuit 69

NEWTOWN. Pa, Aug. 5 —(AP) —-Frank Russell. 69, inventor and aviation pioneer. died yesterday. A for-mi‘? Barrera] manager oi the Wright Brothers’ aircraft Flint at Dayton, 0.. he sold thr. first military plane to the Govern- ment and was first to apply the “group engineering" technique to dfivelviling new-type airplanes. Russell directecflthe building of the NC-d. which orosscd the At- lantic Ocean in 1919. and racing planes flown to world records by Gen. James Doolittle and Mai. A) Williams.

Famous British Evangelist Dies

NEWYOIRK, Aug. s —(AP)_ Rodney iGIPSY) Smith. s7. British BVWHBEUS! died of a heart attack aboard t-he British liner Queen Merv at 1 om. Monday. it became known when the liner arrived here today. _

A fow hours before his death he had insisted on being carried to the top deck of the liner to grget some friends.

Mrs. Smith. who accompanied the noted Evangelist, said her nus. band had made the trip for his health. Elle said that the last time he preached was last year. and that he had hoped to preach during his visit in the United States. "Gipsy really belongs,

world.” the Widow said.

Two Killed Near Shediae

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Memramccok. and his s-ivl. muss.‘ c-f Lynr. Mass

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rear. The car swerved, crashed into a culvert. fie-w '75 fret through the air, crashed against anol-ler cul- vert and then rolled int) a ditch.

the accwient scene.

Beurgcou of Fox Creek, NB.

‘lilo chief clerk Just had time to halt s Plating annorcd ear and fha police were trying to ling‘ the bomb out ot the hailw y when the . ~ . explosive let to. Qlla the 00H"- mm was killed outright; two oth- ers were buried under the debris.

1hr building's Arab watchman also was mining andgrras believed to have been crushed to death.

lornd Jewish quarters believed the blast was a retaliation for i!!! dynamitlng et s. house in Givat Shard late‘ yesterday b! i100!" who found a cache of arlna there.

‘iihe rather-isles at once announ- eed that the dusk to dawn curfew on most oi the Jewish quarter of‘ Jaruealom. to have been dftsd to- nl|bt alter 1e dayu. would be re-

rroru for the ‘experience.

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Justice AI‘. laeBlanc. Mtncton.

—A highway accident nelr Shrdiec .

this afternoon took two lves. The g§féinrf§éreé'o,t,f,.gf,fl”de in ‘m dead wart Gaspard LeBlarc. 80, (Lenable m, "Abegweiy- .0 dock 551e, - ly at either pier would not require u

Tihey were in a car driven by the 3°11 U"! Pfflciwdin! tOWJTd smfifl Marine Wharf. It was learned last FJPYIOHS! LP- nlght that preparations will begin N5" Blane, a brother of the cider vio- today to put the Wharf

A tire bled out on a carve about, the hlgtgry-mgklng event, a half mile from Chapman's Cor-

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Expgglg-[I-Tu Heatwave

Visit Ch’town Next Sunday '

OTTAWA, Aug. 5—(Speclal)— The new Prince Edward Island car ferry “A-begweit" will steam out from Quebec harbor tomorrow morning bound for Northumher- land Strait. Commander C. P. Ed- wards Deputy Minister of Trans- port toid The Guardian's Ottawa correspondent at noon today.

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Thunder-showers promised for Wednesday may bring an end to the heaifiwavc which has gripped. Quebec and Olltilfil. - "llcng with most cf the northern ps4! of the‘, continent - f r the last rwo days‘,

with temperatures in the 90's att many points a break in the wan-i ther was expected by YOYQCZIStrq-gl tc-ziay in the east. SkIPs were al-i ready clouding over before sunset‘ five o'clock this afternoon SXldITIlBSGay night and thunderstorms‘ will board the Albegweit tonlghtfilwere looked for in many places, he said. “The ferry is scheduled to 1 uiith a. prcbabiliiy of cooler ucai? leave Quebec about nine o‘clock|ther following. 1 ' in the morning and will head; Tororuo citizens silteltered in‘ down the River and Gulf of Staiiemperatures that soared in many‘ Lawrence. sections past the official maximum‘

"Inspection of the hull of the cf 86 degrees. i vessel revealed it to be in first- Storms with cacler wcather_ fol-l class condition and no repairs were lowing were generally forecast‘ necessary other than the painting ‘Jar the cast. Saskatchewan and Al-| lberta rmd ‘already got A taste of‘

While hospital authorifes said 0f the bottom," the DElJuf-Y Milk

last night that in.- injunes to ister said. He branded as "com- cooler weather following high torr- Green, Buchanan, and Miss DO“. pletely without foundation" re- peratures that included offlcil cette are not serious, the-y report-l norts that there had been any marks it 94 degree! Bi- R-“Blha iii-i ed that Miss Biggnl- 15 Surfenngi damalze to the Abegweit or that 9i at vlnnipeg.

from serious mjuries about; the any defects had'been discovered. This cooler air ‘vrom the west. head wrlicn lllCllidP multiple inc- accordion to the Wfifllllvr chart.

was do. to reach mos‘ 06m‘; points Wednvsday and Quebec a

"it would delight the heart of little later. any shlpmaster to see the way the , car ferry behaved on her trial U~5~ Gfls Brcilr l run from Sore] to Quebec," he , said. "I tell you when those 13000 CHICAGO. AuE- 5 -— (AP) -— A horse power engines go full nu‘ break developed today 1n ~he year’! forward or backward and from worst heat wave as the number cf ahead to astern within 40 seconds heat rleatils ‘n the United States it's an experience worth remember- rcse to :.i least 17. ing. Not only does the Ahegwei‘; As thermometers in molly mid" live up to advance expectations west areas touched the IOO-deKYEB hut is even better than we kne-v ,n1ark fol the third consecutive she was." day. a sold all" front fr-‘nn Canaia

Commander Edwards said that brought relief f0 P3115 i‘! Mime‘ the new erry will continue spec- I-toia. tile Dakotas and Nebraska. ial trials in the course of the runi Haw-yer. the main corn bcli, ini from Quebec to Prince Edward Is- ' need of B 800d Simkhl! Hill". K85 land. It is expected that she will not expected to receive any Wider‘ berth at Borien for rail tests at Spfcadxelef.

the clocks there on Friday. Subsequent to successful com- I T|IIIIKS Abbott ‘lo Succeed‘ Mr. King

"Better Than We. Knew"

pl lion of tests at the Borden ter- Yn rials. the shin" will be turned over to the Canadian National Railways as operators.

In the course of the voyage from Quebec to Borden, only ‘Transport Department officials headed by — Commander Edwards and F. A., (By The Canadian Press) Willsher, chairman of the board‘ VANCOUVER. AUB- 5- — H011- of steamship inspection and ofii-| Douglas Abbott Canada's 48-year- (‘lfllS of the builders and C.N.R.l cld Finance Minister, is the lead- will be aboard, Commander Erl- ing contender to succeed Prime wards said it was with some re- , Minister Mackenzie King in the iuctance that he had to turn down 1 leadership of the Liberal Party. applications from prominent; James G. Sinclair. Liberal mem- Prince Edward Islanders to make} lier of Parliament for Vancouver the trln but since the ferry had! North, said today. no night accommodation except. Mr. Sinclair told the Canadian for the crew there was no choice] f-regs that, he thought all cf the in the matter. ‘ 3.1x younger Cabinet Ministers "yvere contenders but Finance Minister Abbott is at the moment . the logical successor-all the way."

Prsmi" "has rwelvad a leir- Lost night Mr. Sinclair told the gram yesterday afternoon from Ot- vancouver Ynung Libgfglg Associ- WWP Mk1"! 111m l°"'D199-59 m’ etion that the Primo-Mmister was vertise" that the "Abegweit" would (xpec"ed by 1115 cabinet colleagues arrive in Charlottetown next Sun- to resign by next 59mm day morning at 10 o'clock and that "when M,’ Km; as )5 expgc[ed_ the public will be free to inspect, ‘esmns next 50mm the gmphflglg i‘: m“ d" and m"? mm‘ Wm be on ynnth when his succes-

. . u f‘_ . ..Abegwen,. sor is chosen the 3a year 01d

How long the willi have to remain in Charlottetown- vancouver member declared‘

cannot be definitely stated, Prem- ier Jones informed the Guardian

Due l-iere Sunday

Euro KILLED-

yesterday, but he said it was his . __ . HALIPAX. Alli 5 -- iCPl opinion that ine necessary adjust- Twmyeaanold Judm‘ s._a,_,enwhfle

of nearby Blutiliel-‘s Point 1185i killed instantly tonight when Shel was struck by a -rassens<~r-freleht~

piers to

more than a couple of days.

The '“Abe5|weit" will dock at the h" 3W1"