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Navy Team

Ekes Out

10-9 Win OverAll Stars

Coming from behind in the last half of the ninth 11111113‘ last night a Navy team from a ip in rt defeated Bruce Stewart's All-Bﬁrs 10-9 in a friendly exhibition soft- ball game at Victoria Park.

Navy took the lead in their bat- ting half of the first inning when Sitter. their first baseman, hit a homer with two on. But All-Stars came to life in the third, getting five runs on seven hits, a wal and an error to go into the. lead 6-3. Their lead was short-lived. however, as the Tars camé right back in their half of the same inning to tie it up with three runs on four hits. Another run in the fourth gave the sailors the lead again 7-8. Stars came back in tiie sixth with a three-run out- burst to take the lead 9-7.

The navy added one to their score in the seventh to make the count 9-8. and it was that way going into the last half of the| ninth when the sailors got the Going and winning runs. i

Them were three homers in the; game which \vas played by both‘ teams in a iionchalanr manner.~' Sitter and Adamson of the Navy! each got a four-bsgger. and, Haughey hit one out for the All-i Stars.

Because of the carefree manner,‘ havy

in which the boys were playing.

HTR. cilrz; Doubles A Tennis Crown Decided

Albertans Bat Heavily 0n Horses

CALGARY. Aug. 31 -- (C?) - Race horse wagering through pari- muiuei machines in Alberta was the highest in many years, officials of the Alberta provincial secretary's department said today. Betting at Calgary for 24 days of rlclng total- led 31.360138 and for Edmonton's 10-day meet almost $000,000.

K. 0f C. Tinnis

Only one match in the Knights of Columbus tennis tournament was played yosterda . In the lad- ies‘ doublos Misses Blanch- ard and Barbara Coyle won from Misses Eileen Landrigsn and Eun- ice Condon 6-1. 6-4. A mixed dou- bles between Joyce Cantweil and Cyril ‘Callaghan and Miss Bina- dette Murnaghan and Earl Nich- olson was halted by darkness and will be finished today along with other games scheduled.

Junior Tonui

Boys doubles, C. Dowlfng and H. Pineau will play F, Sfgsworth and J. Smith; Miias Ethel Trainer plays Mus Phyllis MacMﬂian: Mas Mary Gillis plays Misa Teresa Murnaghan; and the winner of the former match will play Miss Bethany McDonald.

Baseball lls ults

AMERICAN Washington 4; New York l. Washington 3: New York i. Detroit 4; S: Louis 3.

INTERNATIONAL

Syracuse 6: Jersey City i. Bali e "~ Newark a

errors were frequent, i6 being com- mitted. However, the game was better than a lot played in the Senior League.

Haughey pitched the first two innings for the All Stars and Stuli took over from there. For the Navy it was Gavin hurling the first five with Mowatt relieving him in the sixth. All Stars made. u total of 10 hits while Navy gam- ered fourteen.

A feat seldom seen in the regu- lar City League schedule was double play. Last night's encount- er included two. both by the Navy team. The first came in the fourth inning when McKirinon hit out to Navy third baseman Dunn.

catch I-fenncssey- off base. The second double was in the eighth; frame and retired the side. Gavin | at short for Navy caught a fly, from Cecil Ward, then threw t0| first in time to get Gauthier off» base. i Irving MacKinnon playing short. for Ail-Stars made I1 brilliant catch ' off biowatt iii the fourth inning. coming all the way from his own position to about fifteen feet back of second base to make the out.

Line score: . Ali-Stars 105 003 000— 9 l0 '1. . 303 100 10?r—l0 l4

Rita Gallant and Muriel Trainor annexed the girls‘ double crown yesterday afternoon by defeating M. Maclean and C. Miicdoiiald. 7-5. 7-5. Other matches produced keen competition, and splendid tennis was exhibited in all sets.

Following are yesterday's re- suits:

Semi-finals rboys’ singles): Allan Macdonald defeated Joe Coyle 0-2. 7-5.

Men‘s singles: E. Smith defeated D. Macdonald. 6-1. 6-2; J. Henries- sev defeated A. Peters. 8-1, 1-6, 6-0; W. Cullen defeated P. Kays 6-0, 6-2; D. Larter defeated G. Murphy by default.

Girls‘ doubles (finals): Rita Gal- lant and Muriel Trainor defeated Madrfen Maclean and Claire Mac- donald 7-5, ‘7-5.

Boys‘ doubles (semi-finals): A. Macdonald and A. Doiron defeated R. DeCoste and L. McInnis 6-4, 6-8: I. Doiron and L. Doiron d feated J. Ford and W. Purcell 6-. 6-1.

Ladies’ singles: Mrs. (Dr.) Duffy defeated Mona Moran 8-4. 6-1; M. Morgan defeated M. Coyle 6-1, 6-0:‘ Ci. Coyle defeated R. Callaghsn,~

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who g JAMES CRAIG threw to Sitter on first in time to '

, MONTAGUE—FRI. 8.30 EM.

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THEATRES

One of the best men's doubles (matches Pllyod st the Charlotte- town Tennis Club courts in some time was witnessed by a large i ﬁi°‘i">"oi‘t"s’t'éit‘.”ii.‘i°°l Chin?‘ hut of Fulton Pier:e_and M‘:

g Swing i Shift.

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59" 911011811 t0 Drove the resence i' °1 Wggéngeiéitlytlliﬂlétetgteld] p tennis‘. en erce an

(15011. 7-5. Ind in the decid- Gooddt and Phair won out

ﬂying in darkness which dfficult for both piny- spectators to follow the

It is expected that the ff the ladies’ singles and doublrelghiairi: ‘ possibly men's doubles, will be ready for play on Saturday after- noon. Results of

ANN SOTHERN

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rm; GUARDIAN

g Great Tennis As Finals Approach In _ Ch ’town Club Tourney.

J. Phair 0-0, 6-1,

Do Goodge and Jack Phair won rom Fulton Pierce and M. Richardson 12-10, 5-7, 6-2, Power and 110. Lawrence won from l". Hansen and N. Wren 611'. iiiiwu f

u son won rom Mar Campbell 6-4i . y

Doris MacDonald and G. Bar- bour won from N. Simpson and S. Stevenson 8-6, 6-3.

Bill Moreside and I. Reddin won by default from D. L. Eagles 3nd V. Barry.

Today's Schedule

4 p. m.: S.-L. Power and F0, Lawrence vs. Don West andJohnny Squarebriggs.

51 P. m.: Doris MacDonald vs. Ruth Wilson. Winner of this match ‘to play Gwen Barbour in semi-fin- als, the winner of which will meet Miss 1:. Bourke in the finals. -5I30 P- m.: 1!. Mcreside and I.

J. Phair and D.

G0“! Story '— Good Music CIF-‘ﬂf-‘liy- Thrllls- Romance Nancy Simpson

‘Gwen Barbour won from Mrs.

MONTAGUE RAT, - 730 l 9.46 P. M.

SOURIS 8.30 EM. MONDAY “ MATINEE

I3 Florida Negroes Sentenced To Die

Remember when

_ By The (Bansilian Press Sir Malcolm Campbell, then 9 "nov " 1 cc 0a iver,

9C1 Wood‘ t record at Locarno. sswliigetiiiﬁtiiti they “PM ‘ ZLYeBI-old white

seven yea“ ago today Wm‘ anlvvoman at Zunlloint.

. _ . , . Verdict of death was announced 51/913416 9d 1 125.7 l noun Him bolgted £5 zfyfgglgfglin the street by loudspeaker to

3.1;" ye mii22*strnztzzrs"fornicate" holdgmi-heyfatgg rgordEnyiil/lixihd airiwivi “n”! W“ ‘he ""1"" "m" m e ~31- " n: i?.".‘i§i..i“‘§.l1i..ii‘§£l'“l°. it"; ___________ . o a prison at Raiford. Fla., where the condemned will remain until exe- cution date set by the Governor. Bach pleaded guilty as charged when court opened.

;5,DDO Polio Cases ‘In ll, S. This Ysar

NEW YORK, Aug. 31 — (AP) — Mediating unat. tn break of nropo

United tions seoond only to the Polio ,epidemlc of i910, Dr. Louis I. Dub-

GAINESVILLE, ma, Aug. s1 (AP) Three Florida Negro were condemned to death by elec- trocution today, after admitting in rrillitia-guarded circuit court that

Nazi Ammunition Dunips Ara Boinbsd

LONDON. Aug. 31 — (CP) - Hundreds of British and Canadian heavy bombers and American med- iums ripped German ammunition and flying bomb fuel dumps in the channel coast area today in the path of encroaching Allied land armies and also struck twice at! tiny Cezembre Island whose Nazi‘ gunners are preventing Allied use of St. Malo harbor in Brittany.

Poor weather restricted daylight

G Miss Eleanor Bogrkg lwon from I

Report Capture Of Lyon Seems Imminent

distance of 70 miles) the Germans to and are delaying and Malheavycostinmenandeduib- ment.” ' eastward out of Lyon appeared des- Their escape route would lend th thr the old French fo Bwb front from L . oolrusrm 11R Paris to intercept the beaten en-

emy forces. was last ‘Dizier. only 110 miles from Beifort.

oodge. -

Lt. Richardson and Jean For- sythe vs. D. L. Eagles and F, Prowse.

RDME. A118. 31 —— (AP) —Allied capture of the great French cit-y of Lyon. l’? niiles from the Mediter- ranean eac _ peered immi t

“as. mafia? “""

Nice, largest of the Rivlerrs famed playgrounds, lcll without a fight to an American iui-oe dri- ving out inward the Italian bor- der, about ll miles '. a

uluiion was virtually unrlaisnued except for Nazi demolitions in the harbor area.

in today's official EIumUHCBIHCIIi. that ffrom the vicinity 0t‘ Livron to Lyon (a

are w cre are,‘ t fighting h they f\rced

Pew of the Nazis at. north-

tlned to reach the fatherland.

orugh rtress city oi.’ Belfort near the northern fer-loo 1 , hard miles yon Ari Ame

armies.

reported at

0-1. 6-1

Mary Walker. 4:00 origins y 5:00 p. .. Walker match vs. G Coyle.

Loo and Ev. Doiron vs. donald and A. Doiron.

vs. J. Hennessey.

I. DesRoches vs. ‘B. Callaghan and R. Callaghan.

i..." of the Cull

Murphy and A. Covle vs. W. Sheli- hard and B. Hughes.

operations after night blows byl British Mosquito bombers which. swept through low storm clouds into Germany, loosing blockbust- ers on Frankfurt and battering rail transport leading back into‘ the French border area.

‘Today's Schedule

1:00 p. m.: Carolyn Kenny vs. m.: Men's Singles match, scheduled for Thursday. m ' Winner Kenny- 5.00 p. m.: Boys’ doubles. finals: A. Mac-r

D. Larter .

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Baptists Plan Centennial

00: Men's singles, Mixed Doubles: 11‘. DesRoches and p. m: Men's Singles: Win- 4 oclock match vs. W. G.

s“ WOLFVILLE, N. 5., Aug. 3i — (CP) - Plans for a centennial ob- servance of the United Baptist con- vcntion of the Maritime Provinces were begun today at the opening of the convention's 99th session.

The centennial celebration was set for 1046, and a committee was appointed by the executive to pre- pare for the observance. The com- mittee includes Rev. W. H. Elgee, Fredericton, and Rev. W. C. Mac- hum, Saint John, N, B.

A record attendance was on

6m. 6:5 p m.: Mixed Doubles.

Junior Softball

Knights of Columbus diamond

owurredsin tih

He said 27,000 cases were reported in 1916.

Three the Royal Canadian Navy have been al

lin, tisticion of the Metropolit- an Life Insurance Comlm-rly said today been r in the country date. Of the total. more than 4.000 have th July

Eisenhower ‘ls Confident

waves .

SUPREMI . .HEAD-

ALLIED . QUARTERS. Aug. 3i — (C Geri.‘ Eisenhower, bronzed smiling, tonight voiced anew confidence that a victory over Ger- many is possible in 194i

Underscoring Gen Eisenhower's word, at a, press conference was a‘ huge battlemap behind him blaz-l ing with red arrows indicating the latest Allied advances toward Bel- ium and the German border in an nvasion which he declared was already fully five days ahead of schedule.

I._ o, n. s. Chapter To Supply Vessels

N110, Aug. 3i — (C?) — hundred and three shins of

coated to the Imperial Or- der Daughters of the Empire for adoption bv chapters from the Yu- on to Prince Edward Island, it was axinounced today.

I O.D.E. chapters will supply

Special Privileges For Thrice Wounded

was the setting for two junior soft- ball games yesterday. The Cubs and Larks furnished the competi- tion for the first, the Cubs win-

these vessels with Rramophones, washi... machines, games and sports equipment. The ships in- clude aircraft carriers. destroyers,

hand today, it was announced, as the sessions opened undcr the leadership of Kenneth A. Wilson, Saint John, convention President.

OTTAWA, Aug. 31 — (C P) -—-

Arrives guvarssas

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Sgt. Navigator W. Glen Curi’ has nrriverl safely ovcrseas assert‘- ' "ivtd by iii"

Bay, P.

Ruby Currie, Green

Special Show’ Meeting i Of The Cliarlottetowngiiieiinel Club TONIGHT AT cLua-nooisis-s P. M All members requested to Ibe iii,att-endance

DOG SHiOW _ Charlottetown’ Forum FRIDAY, SEFTEMBlER v8, 1944

JUDGE t (All Bree ) GEORGE T. KANE, S . John, N. B.

For entry forms write Show Secretaigv, P, ()_ Box 64 or Plioine 848.

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General Montgomery having arrived by his own plane to attend an Army and air staff confer

' y lit-Gen. Orerar. — (Car. iiophoto).

is driven off the field adian Army—-W.I.B.

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frlgates, corvettes, fairmiles, mot- or launches. sea-going tugs. gate vesse and submarines the I O.D. E. unoarnent said.

Members of the Canadian Army wh-i have been wounded three or more times, other than trivially will be permitted to apply for service near

ning out easily 22-9. Beavers were st home to the Larks in the second fixture and after nine innings were completed both squads were tied

The chief speaker was D1", H. H. Bingham of Toronto. General Sec- retary of the Baptist convention of Ontario and Quebec.

Modern war and ancient peace strongly con-

9-9. The line-ups:

Dr. Bingham warned the dele- gates that “we are living in rev- oiutloiiary and changing days, when the peril of forgetting our faith in

Cubs J. Burke, C. Fields, C. Burke, C. MacDonald, E. Cla-rkin, G. Quinn, Don Trainor, W. Hen- that which is passing is very real." tiessey, A. Tulle. Rev. W lvlachiim, General

barks: P. Murphy, F. Coyle. A. Secretary of the convention, re- Zakem, G. I-Iowatt, C. Ready, T. sented the executive report. w icli Harper, A. McCallum, J. Ready, called for the raising of an an- F. Zakem. l nuai denominational budget of $70,-

Beavcrs: D. Traiiior, H. Pineau.\000 and the raising in addition E. Ward. M. MacKenzic. J. Friz-fduring the next two years of a sel, J. Nicholson, L. MacDonald.;s120,000 centennial fund. a total H. Hartinger, B. Stanley. ifinancial objective of $260,000 for

The next game will be this eve- the two years. ning at 8:30. . The report endorsed the pro- 'posed Canadian Council of Churq chcs, and representatives were at»,

pointed to sttcntl an organization

be givrn the oppor- meeting to he held in Toronto. - volunteer for duty in Announcement was made in the Southern England to relieve war-l report that a committee on rural ﬁll the flying bomb areas. ____‘,pi'bbloms had_been_set__up.__'l‘he

onnssow - to?» - Part-time wardens in a 11111111361’ of Scottish

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Tommy arr, eir-Britis Empire chtiphn box- or, referees one of the main bouts of tii- Boxing

Landry, Monetcn, show staged by the Canadian Central i) lllﬂCl‘

Photo).

Depot iu England. "Break it up," hs shouts to Oun-

ner Luck Abraham, Truro. N. 8., and Ciir.

their next of ldn. Defence Head- quarters announced tonight.

The privilege, which is dependent on the exigencies of the service may also be accorded those who have been wounded twice and have had more than three years’ continuous service with the Canadian Army overseas.

Capture Outpost 0f Cothic Line

ROME. Aug.-3l - (AP) —Pollsh_ troops of the British 8th Army in=

two days of fierce fighting with‘ ~ infantry and tanks have SlAJIYl1€d1DuchesS of Wlndsor

and captured the German Adriatic Undergoes Operation

stronghold of Pesam, an outpost of the Gothic Line, and with Brit- ——f-— NEW YORK, Aug. 31 -- (AP)- Dr. A. Cle of Roosevelt

ish help hm forced crossings of

the Foglia River along a 16-mile

front inland from the sea. Allied Hospital said late today that the

Headquarters announced today Duchess of Windsor was "entirely

; .~;.-;—-.~~ _ —.- - . .— comfortable“ after an appendect-

committee memb include Rev. gmy performed this morning. The duke. as he left the ho

John Linton. Sussex, N. and

Rev. O. A. Brittsmygjpque. escorted by a plainclothes pa man and his chauffeur this after- noon, said:

“ Duchess is doing very well, very l1 indeed, thank ou. 'I‘here was a report that she h 10 r0oms.. She hasn't any special treatment that any other patient hasn't got. She has one room and one nurse."

ILAGB FLY 1N POLAND

W, Aug 3l-(AP)—Am- flew in

at Lublln at the unveiling of monument to Red army fighters.

POULTRY

We are now prepared lohsridle any quantity live or dressed poul-

trastcd as eitizms examine tank stopped before

try. Proper killing sud cooling faciliieu at your service. _0orrect grading and prompt returns. Bhipl or lnlng your llvs poultry to un.

Swift Canadian Cs.

ll. I. Canadian Anny Overseas l-SO-I‘

Billy ' (S)

Explosive repercussions act off

acceptance of Allied peace terms arc iieailed on map ural oll.

above as follows: (l) Romania quit

|troops reported battling Hungarians .vanla border. (a) Hungarian army reported in re- Premier Dome Sstoiay dissolves all political parties, prepares ruthless suppression of opposition. King Michael's peace proclamation stresses Ro- mania's determination to recapture northern Trim-

sylvania, taken from Romania by Hitler decree. (i)

iisaians continue drive into Romania, threatening,

volt.

Ploestl oll fields, Hitler's largrst single source (if 11?. (5)48) Bulgaria,1 already il°11""1“ma(&~ ‘war; Romanian‘ in newly precarious position bcttrcen liostilc 81' on Transyl- mania on north"and pro-Ally Turkey (111 ruull“ ‘vi’ Karim-is reported in Ankara, "Piirkeiﬂ sﬁekm“ "$1,;

terms. (7) Romanians reportqi fighting ("Film"-

liy Romania's

Black sea poi-t of CnllStnn .1, m) Encirc-lullilfﬁif threatens German forces ln i ‘rsece as W“ “l. 4.; in Bulgaria and southern Yiidaslnvia. (9) B1l1*"‘n"',n said to be withdrawing tron; = frQm Yuwsmv ' , anticipation of surrender to URI-- i

Not/re Dams. - (Canadian Army-JWIB Radlophotoi__