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CHARLUPTETOWN, cannon, FRIDAY, iviAYOWis-O; 1942

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Annual Bublcrlptlon Delivered, $5.00 B: lalli P. v |.. 04.00; u out» Provinces and us. egos

llaritimes Affected By Proposed Change In

(Air Training Establishments Soldier

Serious Gas liortage In ominion

orrAwA. my IP-WPJ-Fl- gmn an abundant supply of e is available at some dian centres, a_ iwrlolll ‘ si shortage prevails across country, an authoritative puree said tonight. mam of the shortage came jg s time when gas lt-lvflllll diieials throughout the Dom- im w"; gnfflgtid in reclaasily- jg‘ motorists as to the categor- hip which they were placed ‘pm rationing started April l. _|g was stated in some sections (u; s * ‘ ntial" number of niion cards were being called hfor reallocation to lower cate- pries- Some sections reported pro- Ilii shortages as only tem- y but in one arcs retailers F’. major oil company said ltey were obtaining only Ell-per t of last May's deliveries. As » ||esult they were selling only _'b persons in commercial or es- vasiial ration categories. . in mother centre it was said astorists then might find lsnselves with ration coupons lispare at the end of the sum- atr but unable to buy gasollne "itesase there would be none to

' lin the liouse of Commons . Iiinitions Minister Howe. said tjial. frequent new peg-reports I proposals to tics’ oline ‘t ion units were “be ' or the oraie." W hen it became neces-

Iv 1.1;“ reduce ti; gllivlillluiliz: .1“ "9 la- ii. IVM applies might be equitably da-

oated action wvould be taken

once without warning,

(There has been no out in the blue of gas ration units but Ire hlgh-cntqory books had lien called in wnen a review lsclosed that many had been

rd unnecessarily.

l"lI l had to do it all over will l would givc everyone an . lloursil category ration itok and make se arate provis- Jtafor those leg tlmaicly re- mrlng an extra ration," said

ldl’? i t ‘ en we ssue he new looks late this fall, for 1943. we have a much better system.” v lllesulis indicated that in ‘llirli. the first month of gas ilttonlng, consumption was re- "il l1)’ about 40 per cent ovcr Jlrmal for that month.)

ear ferry Prince Ezinrard ‘ls- . which left recently, has ‘ 0d hcr destination safely, it ‘ announced last niizht.

F lflry is ln drydock for her "u overhaul.

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N—lCP)-1t's the WhO Days.- A Y0lll1g airman _ leave. charging women the talent of five cents a kiss (‘ol-

By Frank Flaherty (Canadian Press Staff Writer)

OTTAWA. May l5 —(OP) — Concentration of Canada's elem- entary and advanced air training establishments in the inland pro- vinces and the conversion to other uses of airdrcmes and facilities in the Maritime Provinces and Bri- tish Columbia is under considerat- ion, it was learned today

The question comes up as a re- sult or the present movement to in- crease the home war establishment of the Royal Canadian Air Force

. and to carry on additional operat-

ional training for alrcrevvs in 0on-

ma.

While the matter has been under consideration, it is learned no new policy has yet been settled and i116 decision wii be held off until after the united nations air conference whim meets next week.

Home Defence Airports

In the House of Commons this week Air Minister Power said a $42,000,000 program for construct- ion of home defence nlrpports on the two coasts ls under way. He also disclosed that. due torecent changes in the air war situation, aircrew graduates of British Com- monwealth Ali" Training Plan schools will receive mucli of their operational training in Canada. Formerly these men went overseas on completion of their advanced training and took their operational training there.

This development means the creation of more operational train- ing" schools in Canada and i118 logical location for such schools is on oij near the coasts where con- ditions ~are -slmlla.r to those the-

alrmen will encounter in actual

war operations either overseas Oi‘ in defence of Canadian coasts.

_ The navigation school which for- merly functioned at Penfield Ridge. N. B. has already been transferred to Rivers. Mair, where the original school is being doubled in capacity. Pciinfield Ridge, Ma_l_ Pc-zver said» will be used for operational train- ing.

RAJ-i Schools involved

Not many R.G.A.F. schools would be affected lf the earlier stages oi air training were removed from the coastal provinces but there are a number of Royal Air Force schools which might. be involved and it is presumably about these that the R.C.A.F‘. wishes to consult vrith British Authorities who come here for the all" conference,

schools which llllgllhllfl affected are the elementary flying training schools at Mormon. N. B.. and Summerslde. P.E.l. and an RAF. establishment at. Debert. N. s.

The removal of training inland would make the sites of the train- ing schools available fol‘ Billie!‘ home wai" establishment units or do aovay with the need of obtai- ning new sites and building more airdromes.

Picked Up After Drifting For Days

an near E5371‘? oANAAIEAN fiiiilifér ngleysiili-‘vlvcrscfrdmim sills’: ship topedoed in llie Atlantic sev-

eral days ago have arrived here after drifting several days in life-

‘ ' to at a Spitfire Fund dance b° ts

ftomlng Events

n. "'°" h! lotion ta this eeiann I cents pg} m,"

| "Tflklol-Sourls Monday. . ‘ 0-15-2i. I

l "Nines-Moron ‘Tuesday. 5-15-31.

w ry -

“PM and slo mes eh

is it ususwi norm-y strolls}: s- - .

every Tuesday ve Houses. Justin ‘WHIP’!

Cra- . usual route. Ben fl-lo-l

1m

“loans ‘Iris: '

851F311 groom route to

I u >1 "but: _ klllgertziotlcs I will

‘hi! i0 unload car o - "but. May 14th. "lfiueslgly- Avogrlil disap-

, "aw _____ s-ii-oi. has, Aggeetmi Charlottetown hi’. ‘" °=i>§lro§€°‘6ii‘f.2‘ 9&1‘; _ "Hits 3 P. u, '5. Elma"! hoes as usual for the

no "b; milllths. not you n '0 l“ Albany anti G. .

be insn already an

G 11,. ' raid. b-d-Tdl-W-T-M-i-i fit I

a . s rvtvors reported i1 of the ship's eohlipany were lost after s tor do pmnged mm the vessel at ght. They were sighted by a plane whlfi guided s. rescue ship to when till! were drifting.

immobilize 3 French Ships

1i —(OP)-

ABHIN ‘ION Ma 0 the Frenm

W . i mm pvwerful units of

ed at the Punch lslan que, it was mported here indaY lfl res nslbls quarters.

egarding protests and "PN- sentationa from the Vichy Govern-

agreement reached to immobilize mos in June.

Other details of th

will be announced l ie The

1940 . e negotiations

France. When the Bearn git

Fort De France. the crate Planes were set out in the open and 1t l8 presumed by now they are omit-Y well tireless. Anywayjihey are too old and out of date _to be conlidflw!

or ovlnbat.

ussian Armies

Base Belief 0n Line From

Diary

Ships Might Be Sup- plying Raiders In North American Wat- ers.

By J. M. Roberta Associated Press Staff Writer

NEW YORK, May 14—(AP)- Germany may be usln huge sub- marines, bhree times t- her Deutsrhlaxid of the First Great War, to supply her U-boats nests along the Atlantic coast of North Amerioti. ‘ _

One line from the diary _ a German soldier in Africa, received here tonight. contained

whole field of s cuiatlon.

Picked up by ritldi troops on l Libyan bai-tlciiield. the diary con- tained an entry referring to the work of traitors and spies in tip- ping the British forces to German activities, mine-field locations, and the like. And there was this phrase, dated Sept. 5, 1941:-

"The same thing happened in Bardia Harbor. As soon as the dililit-ton supply-carrying U-boat came in, the Tcm-mies bombarded the harbor.”

The diary was signed by Sgt. Mechanic Ball of the 20th EH81?!‘ eerlng Battalion of the German Alrlka Kor s. Id ‘Ball knew vmat he was taking about. and if the German figures he used actually translate into 6,000 tons, then he has given away a secret which the Germans had protected from every- thing except speculation.

There has been talk for years of great, cargo-carrying submarines under coustructiqvn in Germany but no definite information,

Gemmny has such vessels and is prepared to use them any number she may inlrcdure a 112w and important factor into the war.

For months last year lt was not dear how Germany. even with hcr known aerial transport and surface ship acfivli-y, could equip and enlarge her Lbyan army at liie rate she was moving. Ball's submarine, and many others like ihcm. could bc the answer.

And now, with her 1.000 and 1.- 500-ton undersea ships opera vng in packs outside Norlh America's har- bors, such mother raft carrying oil, ammunition and supplies would give her a tremendous increase in striking power. ‘The ingest known undersea vuarcraft was the 2.880- ton French Surcouf, recently sunk

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News Briefs

UUAYAQUIL. Ecuador. May l4 - (AP) — The worst earth-

persons.

Slaughter, United States

Consul, and his wife.

OTTAWA. May l-t-(CEH-Trans- port uepartmeiit ofi-ciais. com- menting tonight on a Washington announcement that the army will take over control of all domestic air line planes, said no similar action was contemplated in Canada.

VALETTA, May 14—(CP)—

Multan aeieiices destroyed eight enemy air raiders and damaged live others today, continuing to score heavily on Axis air forces which have raided the island fortress more than 2,300 tiinq since Italy entered tne our.

(YITAWA. tal disclosure of St. Lawrence River brought comfort to the enemy but was released with the definiw intention of making Canadians realize that the"wii.r now "is definitely at our door, Ci- . Lash, director of public information said in a radio broadcast tonight.

vvAsinivuToN. May ia-la P)--As almost 1 000,000 auto- mobile owners in the eastern United States made ready to go under card rationing of gasoline tomorrow with non-essential automobiles allowed only three gallons a week. the r d curtail- ment system was ex nded to- night to the Pacific northwest- to be effective Juno L

lp sinkinlle in the

Paratroopers And _ == Air Transports

bee the three 191- warrliips that took refuse at W" De Pr"

OTTAWA. my 14 -(<1P>— Al’ Mllntstcr Power today told the Housg of commons his department has Plans for transport or troops by slr transport and for transport

by'g ers.

' But. trans rt planes are one of m, mics-st hlngs to come by." he added

The minister was reply“)! W questions from several members who wanted t0 know ll "l? Plrfl" troop {ruining wag planned.

He said paratrocp formations an‘ not planned at the moment.

M l4--(CP)--0f!ic- °

In Surpri barge Nazi U-Boati Pihazgyplici As Mother Ships

War Situation Last Night

(lv KIRK! L. SIMPSON, Associated Press ‘Var Analyst)

Marshal Timoshenko’: action ll: hurling powerful segments of his

Ukrainian armies against Kharkov

is of first significance whether it

represents s, diversion to relieve German pressure on his Crimean front 6,000 - TOD UYIdBFWZtGP or a major offensive on his own hook, as Moscow contends, It reflects strikingly the relative strategic values he sees in holding

the Ker-ch Isthmus and in achieving

a break-through at Kharkov,

And those values rest not so much upon Kharkov itself as the access “I Nvlllitlre would give Red Armies to the Nazi communication network

south and west of it. e a

Russian incursions which lay-passed Kharkov to this smith in p”. Dlratlon for the assault on the city already have seriously hampered - German north-south direct communications. The Kerch-llielitopol- Kharkov railway ls the prime link supporting the Nazi Jump-off posi- tions in the Donets Basin and the Crimea. The main stem of that line had already been out by the Red Army Southwest of Kharkov. There have been insistent reports in the last few

to Dnelpropetrovsk.

At that point, on the northern curve oi’ the great southern bond of Dnelpcr, the. east-west railroad connecting Stalinq in ths- lmvgr

the Donots area with the west gnakeg

size 0f weeks of Russian cavalry dashes or gueriiLa operations perilously close

its river crossing. It intersects the

Ketch-Kharkov north-south line a short distance past of Dneipropctrm-sk,

a

an off- "mm"! a Vllfl"! lmlloriant Nazi communication route for a Whig sector ham reference which 0mm up a of the Donets front south of Kharkov. U

t t

Tru“! m" “n "Y mall» "l6 “mofillfinlto drive at the Kharkov pro- tective bastion for Nazi communications seems grooved to reach or threaten Dneipropetrovsk in an attempt to paralyzg the N“; southern

offensive before it even gets going

full strength. Red recapture of the

city and an advance sunthwestward through the breach to the Dnciper

could force a German retreat in the lower

tack

Donets instead of a major at-

Spare Outlines Of Huge Nzlzial Race

New Edition of “Jane's Fighting _ Ships” Gives Some. Idea Co‘ Great Struggle For Sea Supremacy,

(By ALFRED E. wliLL) (Assooaawu tics: atoll writer) ldvivuUiv. lviay ia-uil-J-Spare

outlines oi the greatest battleship building race in rust-cry, ma» lic- tweeii one embattled huvies of me united States and oalian, are skct- ched by the new lam tuition of Jane's righting amps, tlic auction- tativc naval annual made puonc today.

‘lo previously known details of the Japanese Ciipitiil ship program. a huge effort in relation to Japans resources, tile new edition acids tne names of lik‘ last tlirce oi ii group oi live lighting monswrs of "more than 40.0w ions."

Two o1 the live. the Nissln and Takamatu, are completed or near completion, the annual indicates. while the other three. now ldenii- Led as the Kii. Owarl and Tosa. probably are not i211’ from ready. the last having been laid down z l-2 years ago.

Record Program

Against these the new Jane's de- scribes progress on 1T tremendous United States battleships B110. six battlecriiisers, _

"Never before has such a quantity of _ capital ‘ship _ construction been

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One Dead In Train Wreck

SOUTH RIVER, N5. May l4 — (CP)— Fifteen cars and the engine f a mixed freight of steel rail-v. coal and live lobsters left the track here late today, killing one man. injuring another and tielng up traffic along the main Canadian National Railways line.

The dead man was a transient, who was buried beneath a ca: laden with steel rails. lie was not identi- fied immediately.

The fast freight. westbound from 8 dn , left the rails on a curve a: th Antlgonlsh County village It tore up about 600 yards of track.

Most of the derailed cars carried rails and coal. Two of them were laden wilri llvs lobsters bound to market from the Oape Breton fishing grounds.

The injured man was rear brake- man Dan Fraser cf Stellarion, who was treated for facial cute and

at Antigouish Hospital and later released.

B "Qt. S

LONDON, May 15—tFridn_vl-— (CD-Bullets came close to the King and grenades uml liiiirl mines exploded a icw "unis n- way as he was watching Bri- tish troops engage in ii sham battle with live ammunition, it was disclosed today.

The King saw one nenrhv soldier wounded severely in the font by a grenade and another wounded in bM-h arms by shell fragments.

MEXICO CITY, May l4-rAP)- 'lt"e Mexican government. in 1 note addressed to Germany, Italy rind Japan, tonight demanded "com- plete satisfaction and a guarantee of damage reparations" by May 2B for the sinking of the Thou-ton Mexican tanker Portero Del Llano. threatening otherwise lo "lake a position in accordance with Mex- ican traditions."

OTTAWA. May l4—lCPl—l')e- fence Minister Ralston announ- ced tonight that disciplinary action was being taken "ln re- spect of personnel concerned" in the escape of two prisoners of war from the Bowmanville, Ont" prison camp lust May 5.

Flood-Situation Seen Improving

OAIBARY. May l4 -(CP)-The flood situation throughout southern Alberta. was reported greatly im- proved today.

The worst is over at the Crows Nests Pass towns of Blairmore and Coleman whlfli wereisoloted from the rest of Alberta when the flood waters were st their height. Rail and highway traffic has been re- sumed.

Marooned since Monday after- noon on a patch or lnnd about a mile west of high River. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Pratt were still unable to reach the town today.

‘They took refuge on the high land when their home, later washed away, was first threatened by the flood. An R.O.A.F‘. plane dropped a tent and provisions and the couple are in no danger.

SmoolhSailinq For All yourBcikinq When you use

Bruise

CANAUA

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Fourteen liivio Employees Get Salary increase

Rurteen permanent civic em- Plvvees and all laborers working for the cily will receive an in- crease in pay. it was decided at a special meeting of the City Coun- cil last night. The meeting follow- ed a two-hour "committee meet- lns of the Council” which Mayo!‘ Holman insisted was not a "caucus" or “hole-in-tlte-corner" meeting. The whole matter of increased salaries was thoroughly discussed during the committee meeting.

Al approximatelv nine o'clock lhe Council was thrown open lo ihepublic and the resolution auth- orizing the increased salaries was unanimously passed without dis- cussion. Another resolution nounced the promotion of stable Lawrence Mclimls lo rank of Lance Corporal. Still zin- other resolution authorized the

$150 to defray the expenses Coun. B. Earle MacDonald, Con- troller of Fire. who leaves Satur- day lo attend nn A.R.P., course at Amherst, Mass. Fifty per cent of this is to be refunded by the Dom- illlOll Government and 25 by the Ffi-ovlnclal Government. fvillou-ing ls the resolution auth- Oflllllg the increase in pay and the names of those who are benefit- llug by it with their former salary in brackets: “Resolved that. the salaries o1‘ remuneration o! all officials amd employees listed . the annexed schedule are as from the first day of June 1942 settled Mid flXed at the several amounts per Veal‘ 01' Del‘ day in said schedule set out: I. Y. Rmldm, foreman and tlm-ekeeper. increased salary $1700, present salary ($1.020); Alfred Frizzell. fire hall engineer, $1 ‘$1.080 plus $75)’, Earl Burke, sistant. fire hail engineer. (W00): Samuel Crockett. mechanic. al foreman, $1.300, ($1.242); Ablfcti. mflrPlTlO operator, 181.080): G.A. Cudmoro, market clerk. $820 r5720); wank Tear scal-"s clerk. $960 ($900); Wallace McRrio. park caretaker‘. $560 house 155001; Senior Sergeant Allan Mcllmis SL350 ($1200): Junior SPVJPHNL Watson Higgins $1.320 ($1.999): Lance Cornnral Lawrence lvlcIiinis. M290 (KLHO), ggnjm- Ccnslablc A. J Dovrling SL201) ($1.140): Senior Constable A .1.

stable Gordon Poole. $1,260 ($1.140), "_All lnbnrcrr. hOWCYQl‘ en

mm‘-

se Offensive

LaancFOrive On Kharkov As" Key To South

Red Army Shock Troops Reported Still Advancing; Russians In Fighting Retreat In Kerch Area.

(By HENRY C. CASSIDY) (Associated Press Staff Writer) MOSCOW, May 15-— (Friday) —- (AP)-Recl army shock troops supported by heavy tanks and

C22: anti-tank “stormer” planes still were advancing the early today on the great Nazi-held industrial city

of Kharkov in the Ukraine, but the Soviets ac- Clli’ Clerk to usue a encour- ror knowledged a new “fighting retreat” of their arm-

°' ies on the narrow Kerch Peninsula in the Crimea.

In what probably is the greatest Red army of- fensive of the wan-the fan-like movement upon Kharkov-fiche Soviets said they had knocked out not less than 150 Nazi tanks in two days of hard

fighting.

In the northwest "severe |osses" were inflict- ed ori the Germans, a communique said, and one

a 10-day operation.

n single Soviet unit killed more than 4,000 Nazis in

KHARKOV IS BlCi PRIZE

But lthe most vital Red action was the drive

on Kharkov- After fighting a five-month retreat at

the beginning of "the war, the Russians hurled the

Rgfezgll Germans-back in their big winter offensive and

now have had the advantage of choosing their own spring offensive target-Kharkov, a key to

8nd the entire southern Nazi military structure.

MOSCOW, May 14--(AP)—Tiie Russian armies were

s spreading out

forming forivnrd tonight on the outskirts of Kharkov and faniike within the

first defences of

that great Ukrainian industrial city in what probably is Lund $1,260 (mum; Senior Oon- the greatest Red army offensive of the war.

The sudden.

dramatically-timed onslaught by hiat-

Drcsclit daily “Yagg plus 2° “$.35? shal Scmeon Timoshenkos massive and well-equipped southern command ivas aimed straight zit the pivot of the whole Germain southern line and was intended to demolish all the carefully laid and slowly developing Nazi plans for a vast offensive toward the Russian Caucasus.

driv."

The resnlulion was rrnvcd bv Conn. EC. Douean and seconded by Conn. J T McKee

‘Mast-lliglfllzdd Throws Japs Into "Panic