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Labor

Scheme Useless To P. E. Island

Province “Not Even Interested” Wires Premier Jones, After Learn-

ing Wage Rates,

Gets Pilot's Wings

Amongst the Marltlmers who re- Oltly graduated as ilots at No. I l-liT-S, C ry, A . was LC. Holman... Char ottetown. Prior to

stmeut he attended Queen's nnvsrlty. Klngsto

Extend Order lle 0ranges

UPTAWA. July 80 - (C P) - ollllits originating in and import- ed from countries subject to inter- mediate or senersl tarifLave ex- Iﬂlvt from customs duty of as Nllts per cubic foot from Aug. l1 to Dec. a1 this year. the Prices Board announced tonight.

The Board said this constitutes sn extension of the cancellation of My which took place last Decem- ll" u part of the Board's program to hold down the prices of import- lllt food commodities. The cancell- lllm would otherwise havs expir- td July 31.

The new order-in-council makes rolssible continuance of the present gagaogllglxlltgggeallllldef which a re-

o consumers was "looted last December.

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BINDING‘

Prince Edward Island cannot ac- cept the wage conditions imposed under the federal scheme for using details from army units to relieve the farm labour mortage. Premier J. Walter Jones informed The Guardian yesterday.

Yesterday it was announced fro Ottawa that the scheme "may be i operation by the end oi next week". If so, it vrill have to be without this Provinces participation.

When the plan was announced at Ottawa last Saturday. it was stated rates of pay were being fixed at which the farmer would engage the soldier's services, but the sci-d- ier would continue to draw his re- gular army pay. and any allow- anoe to his dependents would also continue. After return to his unit he would be given any additional money which he may have earned over and above arrnv pay and al- lowances.

In announcing acceptance of the Dominion Government's offer on Tuesday, Premier Jones stated the soldiers should receive $36 to $40 a month. with exception lly good men getting as high as $50. These rates. of course. included board. He informed the Federal Department 0f Labor t0 this effect. with the request for 400 men on these terms.

In reply he received word that the arrangement calls for the pay- ment by the farmer of $9.00 a day to each soldier.

“Not Even Interested"

Premier Jones wired back, stating

this Province is "not even interest- ed in soldier labour at three dollars a day." r The Provincial Government, he states, will “stand pat" on this issue. It had previously made ar- rangements to have soldiers‘ pay collected from the farmers through officials of the Department of Agri- culture, and turned over army ,. ymaste n, in accordance with the federal plan.

It. is understood that. objection is also being taken in Nova scotia and New Brunswick to the "three dollars a day" rate. as being ruin- ous to farmers in this section of Canada.

"So our farm labor problem re mains unsolved. and it is a very serious one." Premier Jones com- mented.

He said some forty citizens had volunteered to work this coming Sunday and Monday on the farms. In view of yesterday's noun-an». oi wet weather he doubted if there would be much work for them to do.

Ralston Hears Of 1st. Division's Work

LONDON. Julv 30 --(CP Cable) ...Col. J L. Ralston. Canadian De- fence Minister. today visited the Canadian forces in the field in Britain alter being brought up to date on the 1st Division's work in Sicily by military leaders here. l-fe lunched yesterday with lit-Gen. A. G. L. McNaughton. Canadian Army

Expect Army Labor To Aid Farmers

OTTAWA. July 80—(AP)—A scheme for using details from army units to relieve farm labor short- ages may be in operation by the end oi next week. Arthur MacNu- mars, ‘ ‘ oi National Selective Service, said today.

Last week-end Labor Minister Mitchell sent to nil provinces u tel- egram asking their cooperation in a scheme which had been outlined in broad terms to the Commons Saturday by Defence Minister Ral-

ston,

Today favorable replies have been received from seven provinces. Quebec has acknowledged the min- ister's wire and is expected to B1"! its reply shortly. Ontario has yet

to reply.

Further details of the 111811 i" being iorwared to the provlnoes by airmail today and if the outline is agreed to lt will be Dllt into 0P6"-

Sgj/ / The People's Paper (lovers Prince Edward Island Like the Bew

CHARLOTPETOWN. CANADA. SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1943

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Northern Sections Of Axis Line Crumbling

B! Daniel De Lilo;

Associated Press War Correspondent

ALLIED UARTEJRB N NORTH AFRICA. July 30 —lAP)_ A powerful American offensive against weakening northern sections of the Axis from, slammed forward today over the rugged highlands of

lcily towards Messlnu Strait while the Canadians advanced in bitter. hand-to-hand fighting in the ceisitre, d b k

Purre y " eel? tiki "

°f Ll-{ish- George 8s? rgitorifdiil: Americans knlfed into Axlg p05“,- lons and threatened to beat in the goons of Axis defences hinged on can Stefmo on the north coast and Catania on the east

The Americans advanced in "sev- eral vlwssivasterday. a terse com-

e-s

rnunlque declared. while Canadians llI the centre drove ahead against powerful opposition and British troops fought successful small en- Ealzcments below Catania.

San Stefano, already strategic- ally outflanked by American capture of Nicosia. 10 miles inland, still was officially in Nazi hands, but U.S troops were near its gates.

With the British 8th Army hotly engaging the largest portion of the German armv on Catnnla. plain and the Canadians crashing through a‘

series of tough rearguard actions|

by the German 15th armored dlvis~ .on, the Americans are in position, to swing back of the enemy around,’ the north side of Mount Etnas two mile high crater.

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tie?! the provinces approve of our plan we should be in’ operation by the end fldf next week. ’ Mr- MBQNW mara sa .

In ex lalnlng the plan Col. Ral- ston sad details from operational units would be restricted to 10 flﬁl‘ cent of the strength. No men will be detailed from training centres.

In addition to particlpatln! 111 this plan the army ls continuing its policy of alloy/m; ﬁ0llll3l1551°lY ate leave to individuals who are required at home to assist in har-

vesting.

ll.S. llas No Word 0i $3.00 Rate

HALIFAX. July so - (or) Nova. scotia Agriculture Minister John A. MacDonald said tonight his department had not yet informed by Ottawa of the wage rates to be paid soldiers under the new federal plan to relieve farm labor shortages. but he felt some “suitable plan" would be suggested.

l-Ie said he had infcismed the ‘Federal Lat-or Department the province would be "glad to co-op- erate in any reasonable arrange- ment that could be worked out."

He add-ed he has been given no official notification of the $3 a rlay

"a

wage rate which Premier J. Wal- ler Jones of Prince Edward l'=land reiectrd in a statement from Char- lottetown tonight.

llo Stopping lied Patches

By R055 Murmo Canadian Press War Cu- respondent

NISSORIA. Sicily, July 27- (Delayeﬂ) — (CP Cable) — The Germans now are calling the Canadian lst Division troops fighting in Sicily "The lied Patch Devils". The battle patch worn by the Canadian troops here ls a bright red rectangl carried near the shoulder.

One prisoner told a Canadian officer today: "We see the Red Devils comln and we fire our mortars hard. But the red patches just keep runlng through the fire.

“I can't understand it. Other troops we [ought lay down and took shelter when the mortars fired right on top of them. The Red Patches are devils. They

Commander, and lit-Gen. Kenneth Stuart. chief of the General Staff.

keep on coming."

‘Find I1 - Year - Old Boy Caused Little Girl ’s Death

SAINT JOHN. N.B-. July S0 - (CP)— Accepting the testimony oi lryear-old George Bertramnclark that he "didn't. mean to hit little Barbara Seeley when he tossed 5t stick in her direction, a Coroners Jury here today decided that the girl's death. although “the result of being struck on her head by a stick thrown by George Clar was "purely accidental."

During the ccurse of the enauirv. which opened st l0 o'clock in th_e morning and lasted. with an hours adiournment for lunch. until G110 o'clock ln the afternoon. when the Jury brought in its decision liter 44 minutes’ delit ltlon. a total oi 11 witnesses. s few oi whom we." recalled to took the stand.

At the conclusion of the inﬂuest. officials a reed that there were still scvera "unsolved mysteries‘ in the case, one of them due to the fact that a certain dog, some anim- al. at least. m\|st have figuml largelv in the circumstances sur-

givc further evidence. ta

roundlnl the child's death. A strip

off Barbara Becky's sunsult is miss- ing ns yet as is the stick which Georae Clark said he tossed in her dimticn; and it appeared that the

body must have been moved after ;

it was last seen bv George clerk and before it was found by search- ing parties.

Although the inquest. which had been postponed several times before it actually got under way yestemay. is all over now, the 11-year-old lad who figured largut in the investi- gation is still held at the R.C.M.P. Detachment Barracks at 5t. George in "voluntary detention." Mean- while. the attorney-general was not certain last night what action. if any, his department may next ks in the case.

Highlighting the evidence offer- ed by all witnesses was the startling story told by young George Clark of his participation in the events of sundny. July 1i. when threeyear- old Barbara Beeley-she would have

been four years old this September

-met with her sudden death.

An abnormal and significant deg last night the purpose of two surpr se British war cabinet Lllllllllll llllllllt 11" d“; but other circumstances left. small doubt that the break which could take Italy out of the war was close at norm,

American and Canadian troops are storming the main central seg- ment ot the Axis defence line in Sicily. They are well beyond captured

War Situation Last Night

By Kirk: L. Simpson Associated Press War Analyst

ree of official retlcence still covered buddies in

Nicosia and Agira, almost within reach of a break-through that would i

cruinplc up the

north r-ua ‘ as Allied

whole Etna position.

Its collapse from Catanla so the ‘ blister s ‘ ‘ v kgy junc- n

st is lions behind it 111W Cell!"- Randazzo, Rﬁgillbulo and Adrano in perfect- ed application of the Allied theory of the tactical function m‘ aviation in l

support of advancing ground troops.

Meanwhile, _liowever, a more ominous threat of events lo come on the Italian mainland itself was being registered. Long-range bombersl. iroi-r Sicily or even from across the Mediterranean were concentrating .

on Axis airinsluliations across the

They met virtually no alr opposition

as they blasted or burned out field

Grounded enemy planes were frequent far ets. T is k oi vigorous organized resls ance eady has been largely pulled out of south-

Itallan pilots and ground crews have little stomach to

c implies that Nazi air power a ern Italy and that

keep up the Ilglii, whatever the ordersfrom of the Allied air attack on the mainland ls a surc prelude to vaslon of the Italian mainland itself unrler rover of bursting alr

ping-up Allied n

bombs and shrieking shells from naval guns if Rome

surrender ultimatum beamed to its isenliower.

Ii and when surrender comes. however. there is small doubt that it ls Gen. Eisenhower. acting under broad directives, who will dictate. the

armistice terms.

whole Italian boot south of Naples. and only sporadic anti-aircraft fire after field to report easy going.

is highly significant. It Rome. The apparent step-

fails to heed lhe government and people by Gen.

LONDON, July Ilfk-(CPJ-The German radio. in a report on fighting on the Russian front. told its listeners at home tonight that the war “has turned into heavy work" and that no more special w... . yes couiu be n.4,... Special communlques were a fea- ture of the German High Com- mand during the period of light- nln war.

T e broadcast, recorded by the Associated Press. said:—

"You at home, you must expect no more special communiques. You at home must realize that the war has turned into heavy work and you must read your news from the eastern front with new insight. Stalin has turned the fighting in- battle oi armor. a_battle of attrition.

“You have no idea of the immense

extent of the minefields here. The work of our soidigrr- . . . explod ing mineficlds bunt. into the road- sltlss yard by yard with utmost precautions would have been worth victory fanfares at home. You must hear these fanfares even if they are not being played."

Big German Radio Station Goes off Air

IDNDON. July 81 —(Baturday)— t0P)_ T‘ chlandsender. the main German long wave radio station. faded out early today, the Ministry til’ Information said. This was an indication that, allied bombers again were over Germany.

OLD ETNNS WORST Catanis, in Sicily, was complet- ely destroyed by earthquake in 1000

Finest for Flavour

Germans Told War Has Tamed Into Heavy Work

News Briefs

A L L I E D HEADQUARTERS, SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, July 31- (Saturday>-(AP)—Altled by tanks and flame throwers. American troops yesterday pressed closer to the vital Japanese airdrome at Munda, New Georgia, after hurling back a counter-attack by the hard- pressed defenders. It was the lirst time the use of flame throwers in this urea had been mentioned.

WASHINGTON. July 30— (AH-Navy Secretary Knox indicated today that the pre- sent Amerlcnn strategy of limited Island advances in the Pacif ls hut preparation for powerful and decisive thrusts against the strategic strong- polnts of the Japanese empire. PORT ARTHUR. Ont, July 30- (CPi-CD. Howe. Minister of Munitions and Supply. said hero today in a luncheon address he be- lieved the war was B0 per cent over as far as the time factor ls con- cerned. Mr. Howe warned, how- ever. that “the other 20 per cent is going to be tougher," and ad- vised the country to be patient with hardships on the civilian from.

OTTAWA July 30 -- (C?) -’l‘hs Nat onal War bor Board announced tonlfm that effective this date sl ship- yards under its Jurisdiction paying less than the full colt- of-llvinﬁ bonus of 84.25 weekly

now wi pay the full amount.

reak-Through In jentra

Islander Graduates As Air Gunner

Air gunners who graduated from No. l) Bom ng and Gunnery School, Mont Joli. P.Q.. included IIarry Charles Clay. Montague, I‘. E.I.. who ls shown above.

Fruits To Be Placed tinder Price Geiling

OTTAWA. July 30 —(CI’)-- The Prices Bourd announced tonight that pouches, plums and pears will be put under “de- flnite" price ceilings when they come on the market and that steps will be taken to ensure

that "some portion" of the crops is canned. The announcement said the

action was being taken because of an "acutc“ shortage of fresh fruits antl "correspondingly high retail prices."

The Board sold it also is con- sidering controlling the priog of apples and is planning during the periods of shorter supply in winter and spring to put a ccil- ing on storcable root crops such as carrots. beets, turnips, pars- nips and cabbage, This action will lir- laken at "an appropriate time."

Discussing vegetables gener- ally, the Board said that with Canadian-grown vegetables enm- lng on the market and victory gardens being harvested, the sup ly of fresh vegetables ls ox- pec ed to he "ample." Prices are dropping “fairly rapidly." and the immediate outlook, from the consumer's point of view, is “greatly improved."

0f the fruits being placed under the ceiling, the Board

sa :—

"Prloes will be i-oiuslderably higher than last your hecausc It would lint he possible fnr growers to harvest their great- ly reduced crops unless they can get some compensation for the damage done by the severe win- ter- But prices will not bc per- mitted to get completely out of hnnd. The peach crop, for in- stance. is estimated to ht- only one-quarter to one thirtl of what it was I year."

arch?) srcrpv Sicilian terrain is so ruggtd that

it is 20 miles from Razusn to Com. iso by rail, but only l0 miles by

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MAXIMS

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MERE MAN

The essence of divlnlly- the es- sence of godlikeneas ls Just the wil- lingness to stoop. to take the part of a servant.

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WAR DEVELOPMENTS SOON

lmgicily

British War Cabinet Told To Stand By

LONDON, July 31—($aturday)-(CP)——Bri- tish cabinet members and heads of the fighting services have been ordered to stand by during the week-end "for war developments apparently in con- nection with riot-torn Italy. it was learned early today.

One London newspaper, the Daily Mirror. car- ried a streamer headline saying “ltaly may be out of the war tomorrow."

Prime Minister Churchill's war cabinet was called into a hurried consultation just after mid- night Friday, generating conjecture that ltaly had approached the Allies with a white flag.

However it was understood late last alight that nothing was known in the capital of any Italian ap-

proach for an armistice.

No. 10 Downing Street kept sil-l ent ex" t for the bare disclosure that Mr. Churchill summoned theI war cabinet members from sleep in; the middle of the night for one meeting and then conducted a sec- 0nd session by daylight. i

But from neutral listeninll insist and Axis radios streamed news and propaganda of grave developments in Italy. Marshal Bncioglids troops were again reported in a dispatch‘ from Madrid to have clashed inl northern Italy with reinforced‘ German divisions - - which Axis

BERNE. July Zill-MAIU-The Italian people, torn between the. desire fpr pence and re- gulations of a new government.

outwardly insisting on Wnr as usual. heardnr new warning in-

brcadznsts said were manoeuvringi night to pri-‘Pﬂfl’ 101' R P05- sitnply as Allies of the Italians. l sible Allied invasion of 1'0"- . "111 1131)’. border dispatches Madrid advices sold the Ger- ‘ Shill-

mans had established a guard Th? 51-11 Ilmly (‘llmmalllll-‘l’ over five Italian submarines lewml a proclamation Id-

vising of the danger of an A1- lled invasion in Latium_ Tus» cany and Umbria. jOminous Statement ' From Berlin Radio

which they found berthed at

Flume yesterday and were as- signing Nazi crews to man them for use in the. Adriatic st any Allied attempt to

lwontinued on Pagélif Col of

Enemy Sub Shoots Down

NEW YORK. July fill —t(‘I’l —An ominous statement that Germany was “looking with particular interest towards northern Italy“ was made to. day in the Berlin radio,

This propaganda lino may precede a full scale German occupation of northern Italy where German troops are moving in according to Swiss and Madrid reports.

WINNIPEG. Man. July 30 - Crop deterioration has increased over large tracts of grain growing areas this past work as temper aturrs were higl: and rainfall neg- ligible. according to the weekly cro; report of the Department of Agri< lculture of the Canadian National ‘Railways Even generous rains now would nvall nothing in some dis. 1V9 assaults on stittnarines bviilrelgiis; Qlélllﬁduggl (Lhglirrilllnz blzmps. which are armed with rrapkxnlld mu‘ il:“‘-t(da y“ machine guns and depth charges. Enmsd ha“ i,“ ‘vinodnlgﬁ, Pqgcﬁggé Kiumiil. E.“£§““JL‘§.“.° 323i Li?“ °'°"__"‘ “l "1"" "Wiﬁi- iacking the stibmurine. and as the restilt of a hit. was forced to make a landing on the sea." 1. The airship, the war bulletin said. l of its crew m" b"rs » 7.. Oil s s mate. Samuel Stcssel of Brosklyn. N.Y. Normally there are ll men aboard. This action was the first officially

WASHINGTON. July 30 —tAPl- An enemy submarine employing the latest’ Nazi defence tactics against, America's aerial lJ-boat hunters re- cently counter-attacked and shot down patrol blimp K__74 50mg- where in the Atlantic, it was aﬁ- nounced today.

The battle was the first repoi-tedf between an airship and a diving bcat in which the aerial craft came off second best. There have been several unofficial reports of effect-

li (Alias Mom"; touaace ‘f0 Aotvlvi ‘lHAT You ARE waohc. " ‘THAN to lNSlST

reported in which the new German

sub defence was so clearly illust- You rated. The new method l5 sjiﬂply m R\QHf stay on the surface and fight it

cut with an attacking aircraft. 1 Y

May Extend

To ‘New Age Groups

B JACK WILLIAMS (Cans Ian Press Staff Writer) OTTAWA. July 30—(CPJ-'W1th

the available pool of men in age groups now eligible for compulsory

service almost exhausted, early ex-

tension of the call-up to new

xpected. Officially there has been no for- mal indication that the mobilizat-

o groups is e

Call-up

| Durin the last three month; Derlvd. t is understood the asked for something over men. Selective Service came within 900 of meeting the requisition but since the pool is steadily being ex-

Hlgh tide tonight at 1l.l'l and tomorrow morning at 11.30. Sun sets this evening ht 8.29 and

hausted. it will become incrcasln -

11y glfftqtiltl to “train such 0 . rises tomorrow morning at 5.44. e ves tin ess new groups of men CAR FERRY SERVICE a “m” “mm” - DAILY axunrr SUNDAY

I-‘rom Borden - Leave 8.40 aJn.

much longer to fill army requisit- ions from the defence department.

Proclamations so far issued under the mobilization regulations apply to sin le men and childless wid rn in the years i902 to 10-

and to married mcn. or wid- owers with children, born in the years 1017 to 1923.

Expectations are that there will be an extension at both ends-a lowering of the eligible age from l9 to l l2 or possibly 1B. mid in- clusion of marr (‘ll mun in the 2i- to-3ifl age group. It is not consider- ed likey tiat the present limit of 40 years for single men will be changed.

"SALAIIK

TBA 8: COFFEE

Quality of ﬂavour is of prime importance to-day when quantity is limited.

of key men wa and other emential industries.

l‘ requirements of the armed for the present fiscal year

171,000 but allow- in fo the return of some men from the forces to civilian litr- the net drain is estimated at about

.000.

Enlistment of women is also like- ly to reach a point where ll will make noticeable inroads on civ- ilian employment. The enlistment quota for women in the three iorces stands at 65.000.

en placed bv defence Min- - lston at

1.45 p.m. and 4.55 pm. LeaaiCape ‘formentlno 11 s. m 3.25 p. . and 8.30 p. m. DAILY All! SERVICE (EXCEPT SUNDAY» Charlottetown — summers-us —

oncton Leave Charlottetown 1.50 s. m 12.30 m. 4.30 In. Arr ve Clarion-town 1.10 p. m 5.45 p. m. 7.05 p. m. I’. E. L-N. S. FERRY SERVICE DAILY INCLUDING SUNDAYS

Leave Wood Islands - 7.00 l. Ill and r1 a.m. and a p. m.

Leaves Caribou - 9.00 a. III. and I p.m. sud I pm.