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London Market‘ Prospects Reported Mitch More Promising

Tariff Parlay Talk Approved

Dec. 13 - (GP) —

OTTAWA, Word fronrwashinkton that the United States has invited 14

countries, including Canada, to a round-table discussion designed to reduce tariff barriers and expend world trade seemed to be well received in official circles hem to-

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“Xvi was unders Canada would accept the invita on to participate in such a conference.

Coming Events_

‘meme —- Montague Seturdey.

12-11-41. Pllnloadlng Wheat t. Mt. Herbert. L. llgDns-ooll. 12-14-11.

"York Friday National Film 308K! MOVIE 5 13.111. 12-12-31

table stock potatoes day at our warehouse. l! Sm, 12113-2.

COB Court "cumulus Concert m Emerald l-Tnll, Friday, December 21st. 12-14-11. Concert, Carts-bl y. December 12-14-11- Come to Grundview (lhrisimas Concept, Gmndview Hall, December Nib.‘ . _ 12-14-11. "Wsntedflihirkeye. cede." mo... Chickens. Eastern Peck-

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Bouris

"load Hogs Fmm Win14 a Decunber 178i? ohn J, Beck

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"Buying daily all kinds of live snd dressed poultry. Paying to market prices. Signed Davis Fraser Ltd. 11- -

"We require a lot of dressed Doultrv from Dec. 10 to 20. Will Div highest prices for Rood boui-

. R. L. Dlckieson.

12-8-6i

"Auction Sale at the farm of l-leber MacLean Clyde River is Dostponefl until Monday, Dec. 17th. st one o'clock. 12-14-21

"Livestock Marketing Board loading hols at Morell ‘Puesdav m: lwBth arfternoorar fro-in

-. e so c your be onasro Morel! Cooperative. 12-14-21 Market-

"slmilll — Livestock in: Board loading hogs of. Mur- lifonday Dec. 17th.

rav Harbour advise our agent,1 Ray

Piessc Brooks.

"Next loadin MmdB-Y. Decem 8T8. gram llaoigiock A. M. c. away

date for hogs. 20th. at Albenv until 5 P. M. All. . 21st until 11.30 Green. 12-14-51.

s-"E’“'“§‘.§‘f§i' Malibu Téfie "Id glut-y some Men-lime Elec- Sahmlsy, December 15t1t5_24_2l

Klnkore and

"Farmers Miliview. Viclnitv please call me and if weds m passable will be ma to Rive you trucking service. Please list stock early. Ted, Crane 12-14-21

12-12-51. hogs at Hunter River y . 18th as usual. d weather dvrevented giving farmers Proper. ezthis week. It roads‘ 5° will

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. 100,000 pelts available & obliged to cut

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“Wlth regard to the 1948 BT05- pects for silver fox skins on the London market it is my consider- ed opinion that there will be u fair and steady demand through- out the year at prices which should at any rate be on a more remuneratlve basis than when business more or less closed down in‘ 1939,” said Mr. A. J. Aahford of Anning Chadwick and Kiver mo, of London. in an interview at Summerside yesterday.

"Pelts which were then fetching around 815 should, for instance, bring around , and better grades in proportion," he stated.

Mt. Ashford is visiting the fur houses in Summerlide lfter an absence of five years due to war conditions and ho said he was glad of thc opportunity to impart a few words relating to the future of the London fur trade. He

accompanied by Mr, John R. Cobb,‘

a director of Messrs. Annnig Chadwick and Klver Ltd., and holder since lDBrof the world's land speed record of 360 miles per hour on the Utah salt flats. They plan to leave Summerslde on Bun- day for Montreal and New York before returning to England.

Reviews Prospects

Mr. Ashford states that ho ll no prophet but he has had consider- able experience of world markets over the past thirty years or more and judging from the business London has - been able to put through since September lest he feels fairly confident that the ss- sessment made above will not be far out; To uid him in summing up the situation Anning Chadwick and Kiyer Ltd. have recently had the pleasure of a. lsit to Landon of both their orwegian and Swedish agents and are informed that from Norway it is expected there will be not more than about this year owing ‘to the fact that they were down production during war years.

From Sweden the quantity ex- pected has not so fer been disclos- ed but in any event it is not ex- pected to exceed the output from Norway and may be conside ably ss.

In_ Canada there should be ap- proximately 150,000 pelts marketed so that the sum total of the lot is unlikely to exceed much more than 25 percent of prewar produc- tion nt most, which will provide a very necessary steadying influence on prices obtainable. .

London Auctions

Mr, Ashford also says that it has been decided to make a start again with the London auctions, the first of which is scheduled to

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British’ ‘Summons Approves Loan

LONDON, Dec. l3 — (Reuters) -The House of Commons tonight approved the United States loan to Britain by s vote of S45 to- 90. Thane were many abstentdons.

Winston Churchill, Opposition leader, and many Ministers who served in his Cabinet refrained from voting after the wartime Prime Minister declared during debate that a heavy Opposition vote would injure British inter- csts in America.

However, about ‘T0 Conservatives and a score of Government mem- bers defied the party whips to vote against the loan agreement.

i. Withdraw Troops From Syria, Lebanon

I! 10H WILLIAM!

Almost etely blown off ‘lguubmg in be rebuilt as one of the world's

shows Cdwpf-ry after the Gennan

Says Meyer

Molure ilrges Park Highway. Tax Revisidfl y

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OFITAWA, Dec. l3—(Special)- Construction of a highway to give access to the Prince Edward ‘ls- land National Park is n subject of negotiation between the Province and Federal authorities, Minesund Resources Minister Glen told W. Chester S. McLure, Progressive Conservative member for Queen's. In reply to a question asked by Mr, McLure in the Commons the Minister gave assurance. that his department was anxious to give every facility for public use of the park and to provide every neces- sary road.

"Is,the Department," Mr. Mc- Lure asked, "considering the build- ing of a highway so that tourists can reach the National “Pork? I understand that when the park

partment was to build a highway to provide easy access to this beautiful national park,"

Fur Tax

The Queen's member renewed his discussion begun lust week with Finance Minister Ilsley on, the subject of the revised tax on fur brought down in the budget". The new tax, Mr. McLure con- tendcd, can easily. work out to more than the former lmpost of 26 er cent.

“ w furs of a value of may S200, go into s certain garment," the.Qucen's member argued. “On that $300 we pay l0 per cent or

"When those $200 worth of furs are ‘mode into a garment, ihst garment from the wholesale man to the retailer will be worth at least, putting it low, $500. On that $500 you place a $40 tax. "That $40 is a tax on the same furs on which you have already collected $20, Therefore we are

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Plan Centre F: Amputation Cases

TORONTO, Dec. Lil-Toronto Control Board nimoual, recom- mended today that approximately , be provided by the city or the cam ign by the Am utst- ions Asloc ation of Cans o to build a recreation and health cen- tre 15ers.’ flsoclfitign officials 231d the on.‘ o o nae e remeininl "£000 needed by ul> lic subscription and by dons one from Federal and Ontario Govern- ments. ~

llopo Sen. Patton wm Walk Again -

Ordered Prisoners.

was laid out, the idea of the Dc- -

the earth by German texworistic

compl the 1M0 blitz, the hlsfnrk: town of Coventry. England, will

finest modern cities. Photo above raids. A-t right is a model of the

city ea it wmldwppeor rebuilt according te present plans.

i Personally Shot _,

AURICH, Germany, Dec. (CP Cabin-Canada's first wu‘ crimes trial was thrown into a turmoil here today when the pl:- lecution read l atatementre ort- ing that S. S, Mai-Gen, Kurt oy- cr personally gave an order which resulted in seven Canadian prison- ers being. murdered’ at his head- gusrters in Normandy, June B.

944. - Meyer is being tried by a Con- adian Military Court on charges of direct or indirect responsibility for shooting of 48 Canadian pris- oners of war captured by the Ger- mans during the early stages of {an invasion of France in June,

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The evidence presented by the prosecution late today caused the biggest sensation yet seen at the trial, which opened here Monday in a former German naval bar- racks.

The fourth day's session was dragging to e close when LL-Col. Bruce MacDonald of Windsor, Ont, chief prosecutor, read the statement by Jan Jesionek, a Pol- ish soldier who served at Meyer's headquarters in the ancient French Abbey of Ardenne,

He sold in the statement that he escorted the seven prisoners to Meyer's headquarters on the mor- ning of June 8.

Meyer yelled at Jesionek and according to the statement order- ed the prisoners shot and then sent them one by one through on opening leading to a park where they were shot from behind.

In his statement Jesionek said that the prisoners were "English" but the prosecution explained that all soldiers other than Americans were English to this Witness and that he meant Canadian, as will be indicated in tomorrow's testi- mony.

llew Industry In Prospect In ll. S.

(B The Cnnllltln Pres!) HA AX, Dec. IS—A new silica

‘marrying industry was in gros- cct for Yul-mouth County, rov- qcial Mines Minister h D. Currie announced here tonight. A‘ rock

_ Portsmouth. NIL, New York City, 5:,*,’,°,*;,",'§,,,3,’;*g°§g,',';, P°'“',,h°°{‘,, Baltimore, Md.. and Samoan-b. supply the nee a of Eastern Can- GI» l" "id-

ada for mnny years.

“Quarrying operations in all probability will be Atelun soon,"

emoid "and will be u new in- dustry 'in Ynrmouth Count em- ploying a considerable num of men for an unlimited time." ~

Th; Dominion Stool and Coal Corporation at Sydney became in- terested in the deposit and the, Dc ment of Minn forwarded lu winter a BO-ton sample fun llQlllllIb purposes. The test. let of silica rck gave excellent results. The company now was on in mining and shipping a ton unmet. The complny on 12.0?) to of quartzite annually, o

no manuf ct e b ut 1,000,000 lilicl gang 5.35-- inothe ates plant at 0y.

Destroyed In l S'si|ie'“Fire» »

ed to the Government during the war. which was torpedoed by the Germans as it was carrying mun- itions to India. Plants to be ser- viced by the shins are imsted at

Lobster fishermen feared tonight the continued pound westerly tides had caused extensive dam- "; to Lrnp set by inshore fisher- men.

expected in many scores of individual ihhennen from

were being washed ashore from Port. Maitlsnd to the Tulket I lands.

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32 Coffins

A fire that could have been dis- astrous as there was s. stiff wind blowinx was discovered about 5.30 D411. last evming in a. building on Water Street, Summerslde. own by Mr. Percy Bounces . cupled on thu? ground" floor by Wright and Bell. radio and elec- trical mechanics. It hul got a considerable start before being dis- covered and firemen fought it for

_an hour before it was under con-

trol. The or-igin of the fire ls un- imown as yet, but it badly gutted the upper rear section of the build- ing and S2 coffins stored there by Mr. Bowness, who ls on undertaker are a complete loss.

The second floor front is oc- cupied by Mrs. GP. Grady and her daughters and her apartment. suf- fered considerably from water dam- age. Wright and Bell will also have considerable loss although they managed to transfer some of their stock and equipment before the water began to pour in. No esti- mate of the total damage could be made last evening.

This was the second fire alarm vesterda-y. At four o'clock firemen responded to a call from the re sidence of Mr. Walter Gallant. North Market Street. This blaze vras caused by a. defective flue and there was only slight ‘omega-S

Gypsum. Bu. Buys Two Steamship:

BUFFALO. N. Y. Dec. 13 - (AP) - The National Gypsum Company has purchased two 10.- OOO-ton ships from t-he Canadian Government to brlnl; Klfbslun rock from its quarries in Nova Scotia to its Atlantic seaboard plants, midterm Melvin H. Baker said

g .

Mr. Baker told a meeting of man- agers 01f the company's 20 plants that the ships replaced one loan-

N- S. Lobstermen Fear Heavy Loss

YARMOUTH. 5., Dec. 13-

ing of ti o

gale against incoming

The damage to lobster pots was cuol to force

the industry for the fall" season. some pots were shifted u much as lnve miles and ed traps

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King George 50 Years Old Today

LONDON, Dec. iii-mentors) -'l‘he King‘ will be 50 years old tomorrow. '

Although this is his first blrthdly since the war ended no special functions have been “ranged. The King's birthday is officially celebrnted ln June, when the weather 1a usually more favorable for outdoor ceremonies.

In the evening there will be a small gathering of members of the Royal Family It Buch- inghun Palace to dine with the King.

First Officer 0n ‘John Cabot’ Badly Injured

Mr. John Green, St. John's, Nfid., first ofiicer aboard the 8.8.

“John Cabot", was badly iniurefl yesterday morning when he went into the hold of the ship tocmakc more secure a bull which he um- aidered had been allowed too much space. In some manner the angry beast succeeded for a moment in pinning Mr. Green into a corner. The horns cf the then infuriated animal tore the first officer's left arm and side and made an uziy laceration across the left side of his chest, Rushed to the Chor-

lottetown Hos ital, the injured man had over stitches token in hi: arm, aide and chest. l-Te is

returning to Newfoundland on the "Cabot." which is expected to leave for St. John's this morning.

Rearing Resume In Halifax Murder Base

HALIFAX, Dec. li-Preiiminnry hearing of Frank Lima, 6S- r-old Italian plasterer charge with murdering his neighbor at Bout- ilier's Point, near here, Nov. S, continued here today with the Crown calling 1b witnesses.

Job‘ Organ, Halifax longahore- man and Frank Keeping of Lewis Laks testified that Lima was in possession of I .32 mlibre Smith and Wenon revolver of i911 man- ufacture, n other weapons-

(Al. a previous hearin . a bailisi tics expert of the R0 Canadian Mounted Police tea ed five lul- leta he had examined had been fired from a .82 Smith and Wewarm revolver now in the hand: of the

l e. poThc hearing was adjourned until Dec. , indicating there were "quite a number" of

1% Ho

Srmpaign-To. Raise“ v With 1. L. waerneribnlis Gen- eral ilhairman.

spital Plans To Double Pres\.e\”t Capacity

‘Siliiil-Dlliflllliiaffill...

The ‘Trustees of the Prince Ed- ward Island Hospital have now definitely decided to more than double the present capacity of the hospital. They have also decided to ask the public, in a campaign to be conducted in the first week of March, to provide three hun- dred thousand dollars to defray the cost.

The people of this city and Pro- vince have always been most gen- erous towards the provision of hospital accommodation, and pro- grcsa has been continuous over

the sixty years since the Prince,

Edward Island lispitol was started in n small way in its first unpre- tentious premises on the St. Pct- er's Road.

When the present magnificent hospital was completed Ln 1933 many were of the opinion that it had been designed to fill needs for beyond its time. Instead for many months past it has been continu- ously overcrowded and the list nf those whiting until rooms or beds are ready to accommodate them frequently runs up to twenty-five or more.

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prosecution witnesses still to be call“. '

Indonesians In Sumatra Back “Republic” Demands

By VEIN IIAUGLAND

BATAVIA. Dec. l3 — (Al?) — Indonesian leaders in Sunmtra expressed complete solidarity to- day with the "republic" oi Premier Sutan Sibh-rir in demanding full independence from Holland.

In battle action in Java, mean- while, RAF. planes machine- gunned vehicles-fleeing from a village fired by the British forces in n. reprisai raid.

The village set aflre by British Indian troops was Bckassl; the scene of the massacre three weeks ago of 22 survivors of a plane crash. Bokesel is about l2 miles south o! Bai-avla.

As the village bumed fiercely. British Thunderbolts and Moo- qultos machine-gunned and cui- ncnaded fleeing motor vehicles, destroying four trucks and three passenger cane. Twenty Indo- nelslans escaped from one automo-

e.

Electrical, Radio Workers To Strike

NIW YORK. Dec. 1s - (AP) - Returns from i-he 17.1.0. United Electrical. Radio and Machine Workers union - wide striha vote in Gmernl Electric, West Omani

OD, DISABLED F IN STOR J

Five chin Reported in Difficulty

(By The Associated Press) BOSTON, Dec. lIl-—Tho Coast Guard reported the freighter Pierre L‘Enfnnf sent out u call fur‘ medical assistance for a man a- board the vessel tonight and the

frigate Emporia was sent with moriicai aid. Th» Emporia, already en route

to old the Boston trawler Goic, aground ofl’ Sable Island, N, S., was diverted to the Pierre L’- Enfant.

Five other ships wer grounded or partially disabled in $111111 winds and heavy sens on the North At- lontlc.

The fishing dragger Hazel ._B., with a crew of l2 aboard, was list- ing badly in heavy seas ofl Nova Scotla after Tuesday's gale pound- ed her and smashed two lifeboats.

A sister dragger, the Rosemarie M., was standing'by the Hazel B. to render any assistance necessary as the disabled craft rode out the seas.

The Argentinian vessel Indepen- dencia, which grounded within sight of Nantucket Island Wed- nesday night, was floated tonight by a strong westerly wind and a high tide.

Coast Guardsmen ‘reported the ship, a former corvette with a Canadian crew of 46 aboard, would be taken into tow as soon as she drifted into water deep enough for waiting service craft to approach and put a line aboard.

Before she floated ofl the roof, the In-‘ependencin was reported taking water.

The Boston lobster smack Pan- nie was out of fuel and adrift 100 miles southeast of Cape Ann and

' a Coast: Guard cutter- was headed

for her.

once to the trawler Gale, which left Boston Dec. 5 with a crew of 17, and was reported aground ofl Sable Island, N‘. S.

A sister ship, the Breaker, was standing by the Gale, according f0 a message to he: owners, the Gen- eral Seafood: Corporation of Bos- ton.

Members Tackle Pay Boost Bill

OTTAWA. Dec. 1S - (GP) — Members of the Commons tackled today the delicate task of voting themselves an increase in their indemnity, and it was indicated the legislation would pas with slight opposition.

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MEITBORM1OGGOAL. OFFIQ. Toronto Dec. 1S - (CP) - Min- imum and maximum temperatures: Vancouver 30. 40: Edmonton zero. 12: Regina 9 —; Winnipeg 4 be- low, ll: Toronto l2, Si; Ottawa 4 below 15; Montreal bero, ll: Que- bec 11 below, 7; Saint John zero 12: Monoton 2 below 10: Halifax —; Charlottetown 2, 9; Sydney low l2: Yannouth'l2. 22.

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Lower 8t. Lawrence: Modem‘ to fresh winds. shifting to easterly; mrtly cloudy followed by light to moderate snow; quite so cold.

e St. John: Pair and cold followed by llgflit snow at night.