gharlottetown Guarrlhn. Two Cents

flaming Guardian. founded llll.

Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew

Do not run up against a hungry msu unless prepared to feed him.

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MERE MAN.

CHARUOTTETOWN. chums, sxruabav, Artur. 26, 1941

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Subscription Delivered $6.00. lhll $5.00, other Provinces i U. l. A. H.011

fillers lid Ts ILI. Potato Growers

FREDERIOTON. April 25-Au- ll‘ ncement was made by Agri- culture Minister Taylor, at the final meeting of the New Bruns- wick Legislature's committee on supply. that the Provincial Gov- cmment was prepared to match. dollar for dollar. contributions from pofate growers for prompt- ion of the industry, provided the producers would form a province. wide organization. '

Ship To Sail For Churchill July 20

REGINA. April 29 -tQP)__A Churchill-bound ship of the Dalgel- Lsh Line will leave Newcastle-on. Tyne about July 20 with a, stock lcr the Saskatchewan Liquor Board l-iid-Defhfl-llu -—- 2.000 longwaitcd telephones ordered in Britain by the Provincial Telephones Depart- monl, trade; services officials said today. *

Coming Events

"Now in stock. choice Peace liver oats. McGuigan and Boyle.

"Dance in Little Pond Hall, iiondav nishi, April 2am.

"'N0i‘i-h River Women's Institute, huction Sale, '1 uesday, April 29th,

"Dance, 1s‘. oi C. Hall, Souris. Tuesday. April 29th.

--"R"-Il!i1il-Ie. Sale. at Si. James Hall. Saturday’. April 26th,

"Coke Sale by Group One Zion Women's Auxiliary. Maritime Elev trlc. Saturday, April 26th, at 2.30,

"Play. “Tho Deacon Entangled" ln Valleyflold Hall May 8th. Aus- pices Valleyileld Y. P. U.

"See "Lavender and Old Lace’ by Vernon River Players in Eldon llull. Monday, April 20th.

“Dance in Ernyvale School, Tues- day, April 29th. Luncheon. Good music.

"York l-lall. Wednesday and Thursday. May 7-8, one-act plays by Women's Institute. Specialties.

"Just arrived car Western Seed Oats. No. 1 Banner, No. 1 Victory. llialutthew dc McLean Limited, Souris.

, E. I. .

"Gulf Garden Lodge Rummage Sole, Saturday, April 26th, 4 P. M. Ives Show Rooms, Great George Street.

"Loading l-logs for Canada Pack- rrs Ltd., each Tuesday at Vernon River. G. Lea.

"Loadlna Hogs at Cardigan Sta- mion each Thursday ior Canada Packers Lid. Norman McKenzie. Cardigan.

"Loading Hogs at Peakes Bta- lion each Thursday for Canada Packers Ltd. Merlin Devine.

"Loading Hogs at Modllue Itatlon each Thursday for Csasds Picker-ante. s. c. pro-Leah. Phone

"Receiving Hogs st Crspsud for Canada Packers Ltd., every Tuesday sntil i1 A. M. R. N. Dawson.

"Loading l-logs for Canada Packers Ltd.. Tuesday until further iiotlce. Dingwell and Boliter.

"Loading Hogs for Canada Pack- Ira at Vernon Bridge each Tuesda afternoon. while truck rosd closed. W. Crane.

“Canadian Northern Grown Clover Seeds. Supply limited. Book Nit orders st once. Roland Benton, care Beaten a Macltafsl/lill. Wlm aloe. Phmo 2214-3, -

Odd libllows Hall. Monday, April 2a. by All ltars hockey

"Dance, Montague, Baonsored team.

“Annual meetidg o! West River lhorthorn Association at Dan MoNeilPs on April 80. Full st- imdsnes requested.

"Loading Boga for Canada Pack- srs at Mt. stnsrt. each Tuesday iliitil train time. while roads closed to trucks.

lined Earl Jay.

‘ logs ior Oansda Pack- Irs st 8t. tors each Tuesday until "h . while roads or»; t.-

rmis nan.

JERUSALEM.‘ April 3B-—(AP)— Two Jews drove a stolen Post Office truck laden with explosives into one of the most heavily guarded police compounds in Pal- estine today, and 20 minutes later

ish police officials and wounded six others.

The Stern gang, whose victims have included a. British resident minister of the Middle East, claimed responsibility ior the ex- plosion at Sarona, a suburb oi Tel Aviv. The new outbreak of violence raised to 13 the number of killed in the last 4B hours in avowed "blood-for-blood’ reprlsais for the executions and suicides oi six Jewish underground members.

In other violence five armed Jews kidnapped Morris Collins, a British businessman, from the terrace of a. fashionable hotel in Tel Avlv last night, but released him unharmed in 15 minutes when lt was discovered he was Jewish.

The Stern the smallest of the three

gang, regarded as but most desperate Jewish underground organizations, sent a communique to a Hebrew newspaper admitting the Sarona attack, whose dead victims included one British pol- ice inspector and four constables. Of the six injured only one was reported in serious condition.

An official account said two Jews drove a truck seized earlier on a Tel Aviv street up to the gate of the police compound. They posed as telephone repairman. and a search of the vehicle dis- closed lt was carrying a ladder and two coils of svirc.

The truck wrfs permitted to enter the camp and at 10:55 am. the two men walked back to the gate carrying the ladder and coils of wire. They said they wanted to go outside to repair wires lead- ing into the camp.

Twenty minutes later the blast occurred with such violence that it shattered the telephone ex- change and ordcrlv room and broke windows in buildings for. blocks around. The destroyed buildings were of reinforced con- crete construction.

a shattering blast killed five Brit"

Figures Tabled

OTMIWA. April lib-l Economic importance of the tourist traffic 1n Canada equals that of the fishing industry or the gold mining industry, Trade and Com- merce Mlnlster MacKinnon said in a statement today citing figures o: tggist expenditures in Canada in

1 .

Revised figures of expendltltres of travellers to Canada last year, the minister said, established a new high of $221,000,000. representing an increase oi 33 percenirover 1945 and ‘I133 percent higher than the total of

Tourist entries into this Maritime Provinces last year represented an expenditure oi $13,500,000 or 6.3 per- cent of the national total. Average expenditure per automobile of tourists visiting the Maritime Prov- inces ior the year rose some 60 percent over hhe preceding year to a total of $58.35.

N. Y. Heads List

New York headed the list of summer tourists, with 242,528 cars bearing New York licenses entering the dominion for the year, and New Yorkers travelling by automobile alone left $10,254,485 in i-he tills and. pockets of Canadians catering to the travelling public. The V rmonter ViSlting Canada. spent the least averaging 16.90 per auto- mobile and visitors from Oregon spent the most at 51115.50 per car.

United States visitors to Prince Edward Island last year totalled 12.000, and the number of persons visiting the Prince Edward Island National Park increased from 47,- 088 in 1945 to 48.416 in 1946.

Today, 13, Leo Dolan, Director

of the Canadian Travel Bureau

{said he expected the volume of

tourists visiting Prince Edward 1s- land this year would be at lei-st as high as in 1946 and probably much. higher.

"If the Pzince Edward Island car ferry is in operation Cfll‘ sched- uled time," Mr. D-olan said, "I I11’)- surc it Will stimulate tourist traf- fic to Prince Edward Island this season.’ MT. Dolan said he blsed

"to, hio.?<i’“o¥{“€§§€5' cot-F

The rightful driver oi the truck had been halted at 9 a.m. in Tei Avlv by a Jew wearing the uni- form of a Palestine constable. Eight men surrounded the vehicle and forced the driver and a pas- senger into a taxi. The two were bound and held prisoner in a wooded area just- outside Tel Aviv. Their guards left after the ex- plosion and the two men suc- ceeded in freeing themselves.

Wins $48,000 But Dies Within Few Days

BAiL-ITSBURY, Wiitshirc, Eng, April 25- (ll-Bitters) — An elderly watch and clock repairer, who won £12,000 ($48,000) in a foot- ball pool this week, will never realize his life-long ambltion—-to buy his o\vn home. William Chat- field. 77, died in hospital tonight, Just three days after he had been

Two Montreal Children Burned

MONTREAL, April 35 -(CP)~ A fire which swept through a two- storey house on the outskirts of suburban Ste. Dorothee today claimed the lives of two children. and sent a third child to hos-vital with critical burns.

Dead were Cllseiine, four. and Yolande, three, children oi Herve Lajeunesse, 26-year-old farmer, The third child. ll-month-old Marcel. was saved by his father shortly before the house cailopsed but was burned critically.

The children were alone when the fire began and, trapped in the second storey, were unablc to escape through the dense smoke before they were overcome. The father was working on a. nearby farm and the mother had $0M t0

told oi his good luck.

"Belting of all widths, new and used Rubber Traces complete. Nickle mounted driving Harness, new tea-m Harness. Estate of Clinton Morrison. per W. B. Mor- rison. -

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"The stock which 1 bouaht from K. E. Jones. i-lasclbrook, has been turned over and will not be cafYY- lng on the business as formerly stated. G. Henry Jones.

“Hag: w, n, Shaw speak on future farm problems of Prince Edward Island. on Farm Forum program. OPUY, 8.15 Monday cv- enlng.

"The Annual Meeting oi Marsh- lleld-Dunstaiifnagc Rural Telephone C0,, will be held in the Marshflvld l-llil, April 29th. at 8 P. M. A full attendance is requested to decide what will be done wit-h the line. So please attend.

'4 P r Manda. at Fred- crlcggglllficsdaly, 9 A. M. ‘Brookfleld, l1. Charlottetown. 1 P. M. Yorlr. '2. Ballard. 3, Mt. Stewart. 4, Water- vale. 5. Vernon River. 530, Pownal. Wednesday, 0 A. M. New Glasgow. l0, Whcatley River. 11, Holmes Cor- ner. 1 PM. New Haven. 2. Bonahlw- 3. Kelly's Orors. 4, Emerald. 5, Clin- ton. cs0, Kminswn Cattle P")- Paylng $18.00 a pair ior 800d Pill’! over 22 lbs. esch. Will buy any $1M

a neighbor's home ior milk.

To Build 1 8,000 Homes For Veterans TlsisYear

OTTAWA, April as -‘ (or) — Reconstruction Minister Howe pre- dicted in the Oormnons tonldht that 10,000 homes for vcteruw wtii be built this year under the lim- giated housing plan. throudh which the contractor is guaranteed a sale.

Another 7,000 to 8.000 1.011598 Wm be built under the Wartime Hom- ing Plan, the Minister added.

Mr. Howe also announced that steps were being taken to decrease the proportion of‘ lumber being eX- ported to provide more for domes- tic construction and said further announcements would be made.

He also ‘placed the 1947 produc- tion o1 rails. one of the most crit- ically-short of building materials, at 1.400.000 kegs and reported that the supply of nails now was not fla- frcm the (RBI-ud-

Mr. Blows explained that all sv- allable nail wire could not be used in the production of nails because this would affect the output oi other products, such as agricul- tural implements. Nail wire was being used the "belt way possible."

Ha said it was ,lanneti to retain controls on steel and time! until supply could meet dlmsnd. Steel production was N-vBr-cent higher under controls than it would be if this industry were control-free.

VEGETABLE-ANIMAL The sponge was once believed

on boar! us mu as weii- Knud Jcsqemosr.

lo be a combination oi both ,plsnt and sni

‘- Borden Train To

Leave City At 6.30

Beginning next Monday the Charlottetown-Borden train will leave Charlottetown at 6.30 a..m.. instead of 8.45 as formerly. The change is made necessary in or- der to make connections with the mainland trains which will also be operating on earlier schedules.

Orwell Cove Farmer Dies Unexpectedly

John A. McLeod, 56, prominent farmer of Orwell Cove, dropped dead in his own yard Thursday night just after returning from driving a neighbor home,

It was about 15 minutes past 11 o'clock when members or his ram- 11y saw the horse and empty wagon in the yard. Upon investigating they fotmd the late Mr. McLeod lying on the ground. Dr. HP. Stew- art, was summoned and pronounced him dead, presumably from a heart attack.

He is survived by his wife. three sons, and tlwo daughters.

Dr. I. J. Yeo said last night he considered an inquest unneceary.

Canadian llousewives Urged To Coasfrve Fats

(By The Canadian Press)

OTTAWA. April Lib-Finance Minister Abbott in the Commons today appealed to Canadian housewives to conserve fats and luse them‘ where possible in their own homes.

I-le made the appeal after ‘Har- old Tlmmins (PC-Toronto Park- dale) asked whether, in view oi ‘the soap shortage, the Minister would consider rte-establishing the oils and fats collection campaigns which operated during the war.

Mr, Abbott said this method of collection had - not provided a great deal of fats and better re- sults would be achieved if indiv- idual housewives would save their fas and use them at home.

Man Drowned While Crossing Canso Strait

PORT HAWKESBURY. N.5-. April 25 - (OP) — Cari Cameron, 31. was drowned ho"'ght when he fell from the deck oi a ferry cross- ing the Stmii oi Canso.

Chief engineer Michael Ness plunged into the swift current of the strait and was able to hold Cameron until a boat was launched but the young man had ded of shook.

He was s. PBSBCTIQCL on the ferry.

Believes Woods- Fire Incendiary

ICENTVILLE, N.S.. Arpril 25 — 10?) — Budd D. Bishop, chief tor- lest ranger for Nova Scotia, said

tonight he believed a gale-fanned

fire which burned more than 200‘

acres of wood-land three miles west oi here yesterday was of lniend- iary origin.

Mr. Bishop claimed that While firefighters were battling the blaze in one section, another (‘re began in a second section, and still an- other ln a third. He said it would be impossible for the gale to have

direction.

Several fsrm bulldirgs were titres-toned by the fire which was brought under. control by the Kentvilie and Waterville Fire De- Ptftrnentl. aided by volunteer work- crs who were led by Chief Rdnger Bishop.

lard, rice.

carried sparks to the other places‘ as it was blowing in the Wliositej

Tourist Traffic i Airmen Are Safe After Y Prorogation 0f Three Weeks In Woods i

EDMONTON. April 25 —(CP)_. ‘live ma: missing in the vast wil- derness oi Alberta's Peace Rive;- dlstrict for almost three weeks. were reported safe today. The men, Spencer Addcman of Calgary and LJ. Blakesley 0f Bismark. N.D., walked into different northern settlements within 24 hours oi one another, after hope of finding them alive had been virtually abandoned,

The Associated Airways Aircraft, 1n which they took off from Ed- monton on April 5, ‘was en mute t0 miibflfroi. Alta, north of Fort McMurray. WytEH they failed to reach their destination, search planes were sent to investigate and an intensive search by both RCA. F. and civilian planes failed to lo- cate either the men or their air- craft.

The plane was piloted by Adde- man, a veteran ferry pilot of the second World War. Blakesley, an American businessman, was the only passenger.

First indication that the imcn were still alive came last night when Tom Fox, manager of Associ- ated Airways here. received a mes- sage from Little Red River, 400 miles north of Edmonton. The mes- sage. signed by Blakesley. said "am at Little Red River. Will send mes- sage in morning. Please stand by."

Today. a message was relayed from Fort Vennillion over Canad- lan Pacific Ah- Lines transmission facilities, telling of the arrival there of Addcman with an Indian guide.

The trading posts are about 45 miles apart. Airways officials here believe the two men separated after their plane Was grounded, one travelling cast and the other west.

Ship With Injured Seaman Speell§"llll”"'

HALIFAX. April 25 -—(CP)-—Thc British freighter City of New York, steaming towards Halifax with an

injured man aboard, had increased 1

speed tonight and was expected to arrive here at 10 p.m. AST tomor- row instead of 2 p.m.

The ship reported no change in the condition of the unidentified seaman who has been unconscious since he fell into a hold Tuesday. Yesterday directions were given by radio to the ship's officers for treatment.

The ship will be met by an am- bulance irom Camp Hill Veterans Hospital tomorrow.

New Slant 0n Cost 0f Living Figures

OTTAWA, Allfll 25 —(CP) The Dominion Bureau of Statistics

‘confirmed with figures @0001’ W“

any housewife knew a 10118 V1110

‘ago: That the cost of keeping the

larder fillcd, the body clothed and the house furnished ‘s crlflsldeffiblli more thrn the official cost-of-liv- in: index.

Between August, 1939. and the end of 1946 the official increase was 26.1 per cent. By l-a-st month it had risen an additional 2.8 per cent,

But ulille these figures F9111?- sented ‘he official average ad- vancc, they did not give much in- dlCBilOn of some of the tifngs housewives have been howling about. Egg prices arc 70 per 66M highe: than they averaged in the period 1935-39. Im the same class are rheese, round sicak. rolled rib roast, stewing beef, veal, bacon. beans, corn syrup and lemons. The Bureau computes its index by averaging the weighted representative price fK-ture for each o! six main essential-item groups: fuel, rent, foods. clothing, heme furnishings and services and mis- cellaneous.

The food group advanced 474 per cent. clothing 31.1 and home furnishings and services 28.2. Fuel moved ahead 10.3 per cent. rent (computed before the recent in- crease in domestic rentals),-9.2 and miscellaneous. 12.0.

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The ‘Quality Tea

A i ORANGE PEKUE

Legislature At Noon Yesterday

The fourth session of the 45th General Assembly oi the Province was prorogued at noon yesterday by His Honour Ueutenant Gov- ernor J. A. Bernard after His Honour had given his assent to seventy-four bills. m unusually large number, to which assent was given yesterday to seventy-three. One bill, imposing a 3 cents ox- trc. provincial gasoline tax, was assented to earlier in the session.

The House had been in session nearly six weeks, constituting one of the most strenuous held in re- cent years. Prorogation came after an, all-night discussion of the Estimates which did not termin- ate untll nearly half-past four yesterday morning. Day was dawning as the members disper- sed. to meet again at 11 a.m. yes-

terday in preparation for the closing. Accompanying His Honour ‘if.

the prorogation were his aides. LL-Col. P. S_ Fielding. IVLM" E31. and Lleut. Robert C. MacMillan, D.S.C. and Bar, and Dr. J. A. MacMilian. private secretary.

A guard of honour from the 17th Reece Regiment under Capt. Vernon I... MacDonald, M.C., and Lieut. Lloyd G_ MacNevin was lined up in smart formation at the entrance to the Provincial Build- ing, accompanied by the regi- mental band under Sgt. T. M. MacFarlane. l-lis Honour review- ed the guard after closing the House with the following tradi- tional speech: _

"Mr. Speaker, and gentlemen oi the Legislative Assembly ofPl-lxice Edward Island.

“At the conclusion o! Ybur leg-

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N. S.,Couple Flies To Malartic Mine

‘Where Son Trapped

WENTWORTH, N. 8.. April 35- fCP)--Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Mzc- Donald, whose 19-year-old son John Gunn is trapped with 10 other miners in the East Malariic gold mine, tonight flew to the Quebec pit-head to keep vigil with relatives and friends oi the other miners.

John Gunn. a. sandy-haired, medium-sized youth who had ncver worked in a mine before, was among unemployed Novu Scott-ans who accepted. jobs .n the hard rock mining areas of Northern Ontario and Quebec.

His parents will be joined at the mine's mouth by two Went.- worth boys, Wallace and Ralph Hunt, also employed at the Mal- artic.

Mrs_ Arthur Betta, an aunt of the missing youth, said tonight that previous reports of s, young- er brother. Buddy, being empmy- cd in the mine were untrue.

Mrs. Betts said young Mac- Donald had worked for a month in the United States. and for short periods in nearby Truro. but had "never been away from home for any prolonged time."

ly when showered in the annual "battle of the bills" as members, ‘threw arqubd 51G accumu- lated during the session.

He heard royal assent given to

Unexpected Visitor

Lord Bcavcrbrook

PREDERICTON, April ZJS-iCP) ~Lord Bc-averbrook was an unex- pected visitor at prorogation of the New Brunswick Legislature today, marking the first time 1n at least half a century for such a visit by a peer.

He was greeted by applause as ho moved to a settee, to the right cl the Throne. set aside for distin- guished visitors.

Premier McNuir welcomed him as "a son of New Brunswick who by native ability and hard work has reached a lIOSltlOn of preeminence throughout the Empire and the world." ;

The Premier commented on Lord Beaverbmok‘; beneiactions to the Province and the University of New Brunswick.

The visitor paid close attention to the proceedings and grinned wide-

two of his actlons—establishment of a Memorial Park in Northumbcr- land County and vesting in ihc University of New Brunswick title to lands he had. purchased in Fredericton.

Shipping Controls 0ft‘ Butter, Cheese

OTTAWA. April fi --(C P) —- Transportation companies no long- er need permits to ship butter and cheese between provinces. the D8111’ Products Board announced today.