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v o, ,, r Mlixms The life of s pious minister h vis- l I p ,,/ .,,/ "w. v \\“\ i» . The Peoples Paper ".41. Read by Everybody ~ ____ _y __ Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew ll:.'.'.':.‘."t':'.':.?.t'.'t£.'.'.;.frl..°;'" CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, THURSDAY, APRIL 1s, 104s _ w a

ALLIED AI

Gov’t To Aid

P: Stepping Stones for Invasion?

i cndefrenell rir iirire I163, hirssd Millfillllll, and was bombed and actu- pird by Ito/yin slimmer of, i940, Once famed Ipr itreol- orlul bandits, Cornea today

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Trench Corsica, now axis-occuple’, and Italian Sardinia are two potential stepping stones for invasion of southern Europe.

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dire cast 5r north- errr Sardinia

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harbor here

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do the coasts of France and Italy, they would be ideal bases for attack if seized by the allies. The parallel islands are alreadybe- ginning to. make news with tlieJeopriLraid on B05113". Sardinia.

Hitler In Conference With Ion Antonescu

_ Latest Step In Hasty Axis Diplomatic Efforts To Keep Balkan Backdoor Locked.

INTERNATIONAL AT. A GLANCE

Tunisia-Allies announce 84-3 ltriiil victory in operations aliliniii Rommel‘: base in Sicily and other actions; British iith Army probes Eniidavilie defence! and lat Army. American and French troops man- oeuvre for coqprdinatei blows lllihit enemy.

Western Front- Great waves oi heavy bombs s cross channel from Britain; radio stations go silent as ilr sfluth u Switzerland, indicat- ing widespread raid in progress.

. Bossier-Germans thrown back with heavy losses in attack on Red Positions south of Kharkov and 0" ihc vollihov front southent Leningrad.

Australia-Allies announce 30 of

more than so Japanese aircraft which raided Milne Bay yesterday Ihot down while their own ofion- "le lIfl-inlt enemy shippin con-

ii _ "u? sinking of a o, ton

British Commons Iillurovss Budget

jbupou, April l4 —(0P Cable) m": House of Commons after mud“?! of debate toot £- m hills bisaut Midget n -

biog-calling for sxperldt.

hire or g5] no *4 m“ ya“. .000 during the 104s

Coming Events

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"Talkies _ M“! Tmiliit lllokii‘ lgeriaiyilfilyli

. _._ rsflffggiiiis two: this Week Albany 1.“, "n". afternoon: Ermeraid Pri- ~ ‘use e triers

By JAMES iii. 1.01m _ Associated Press Staff Writer LL/iVDuN, April 14——iAP)-—HiL-

ler has held a. two-day conference with Marshal Ioll Alilollcscu oi Runlillila, it was disclosed toiilgilt. c. the latest step in hasty Axis oip- lolnatlc efforts oi the last two week? to keep the Balkan backdoor 9o Europe locked against the mount- lllg lilellnce of all allied tifleilsive. The official Nazi version of the meeting Monday and Tuesday as broadcast by the German radio, was of another tri-partite love- feast combined with a nel) talk against Boishevism. But this was regarded by observers here as ob- viously fill‘ short of tile actual sig- nificance of the recent call-up of Balkan chicftalns to Berlin.

Met In Berlin

An lnnouncement by thc rop- a anda ncy, D. N. B. date lned, “rom Htiers headquarters," re- ported that Hitler had met An- tonescu in Berlin and was token as suggesting that Hitler, who earlier

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Alberti Tar Sands

$500,150 To Be Spent 0n Plant

Iy JAMES McCOOK Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA, April 14 --lCPJ-— The Dominion Government has appro- Piietled $500,000 to spend on im- prvvliik a plant taking oil from the Alberta tar sands and hopes to re- cover costs from paving material produced for the Alaska highway, Munitions Minister Howe told the

House of Commons today.

In a detailed review of examine. tlons oi the oil possibilities of the tar sand area, the Minister said difficulties remained to be over- come before extensive oil produc- tion could be expected. A process fordeveloping the tar resources was Sought, and the present plant, with improvements, would be used as a pilot plant.

Tar sands development has been discussed by the House on several occasions durin the last two ses- sions, and Mr. owe today read s report of investigations conducted for the Government by the Consol- idated Mining and smelting Com- pany which advised continued ex- ploratory work in the area to as- certain the richest, deposits of sand from the oil production standpoint.

Discussion of oil development programs, which started on an tn- come tax resolution Tuesday night, continued throughout the after- noon.

Esster Recess

Prime Minister MscKenzie Kim! noted the possibility the Easter re- cess. scheduled to start. on Friday, mlféht not. belzin until next week. He said 1i, did not appear at. pre- sent as if the bildgei. resolutions would be through the House in time to receive royal assent before Friday. It might be necessary for the House to sit into the coming vireek. and begin the recess at a later date than had been proposed.

Llgunri Lacombe (Cdn. Laval- Twn Mountainsl asked when the Cmvcrilment would take steps to

obtain from the House all expres- sion of’ confidence 0n the enforce- ment nf ordcrs-in-council author- lzin": the sending of men called for compulsory military training to "overseas" points such as Jamaica and Newfoundland.

Mr. King refilled the Step5 would be ifll”‘l svheil tile occasion arose. if It did arise.

Sulphur Problem

Mr. Howe said in reference to the tar sands that "not the least 0' the problems" was the high sul- rh-u- content of the sands’ pro- dlirt.

"N0 method of removing the sul- phur has been discovered except

F-iflfnilriihirl ‘T; pl-TPTIYESFEF Is lie-Elected Head Cf C.P.

TORONTO, April l4 —(CP) - Arthur R. Ford. editor-ln-chief of the 147M101] Free Press, today was re-elected president oi the Canadian

Press, Canada's Clo-operative Nat- ional News service. Senator W A. Buchanan, pre-

sident and DlIbllSlIcl‘ oi the Lath- ‘oridge Harald, was re-elected first. vice-presiccnt and F I. Ker, vice- resident and publisher oi the {limilum Spectator, second vice- president. _ Henri Gagnon, president of Que- bec Le Soieil, was re-elecied honor- ary president.

Officers of the new; dissociation were chosen by the Boards of Dir- ectors following the annual general

.meetirig of members.

lilazi Planes Snoop Over Swedish Naval Base

Urge Fanners To Store Feed Grain

(YITAWA April l4 -(OP)—- ic- iiliurc Minister Giifdlilel‘ gal in the House of Commons today that eastern flamers should make every effort to store feed grain in quant- ity this summer in assist in inter feeding programs.

Aftfo were being made to move substsnt al usntities of western feed grains o the east There was no shortage of such grains; the difficulty was due to transportation problems.

The Minister was answering H E Brunnelle (Lib. Champlain) who asked what was being done to us-

peared to be s scarcity.

B JOHN COLBURN éAssoc ated Press Staff Writer

TOCKHOLM, April 14-tAi> - Three or more German bombers prying around the main Swedish naval anchorage at Kiirislrrons to- day were engaged by anti-aircraft fire and Swedish fighters but onlv after one sot a closeup view with- in 125 yards of the marine base and another made a prolonged flight over the ares.

The one making a low-flvinl pass over the concentration of much of Sweden's greatly engulfed fleet was driven off immedia iy by anti-sir- crait fire at 7:10 min.

Another plane nuns over the Knrlskrona-Iiandskrons ares to the west of the main base and circled for nearly a half hour before it was driven across the Baltic I77 Swed- ish iivllier Sililildffifil-

Early reports mentioned only

the”. two planes but later another ~

wa. rr-po slat eastern farmers in oiltaininlltotiil mny have been feed supplies, of which there ap- one \‘-'hl(‘l'i wn- seen

rted In the vicinity and the four. inciudinl

living extre- mely low over Landskronl.

riitler la engaged in a

receive notice of their quotas.

erican piutoeracy.

War Situation Last Night

By tilenn Babb, Associated Press War Analyst

_ campaign to recruit the garrison of his huropean fortress to the greatest possible strength before the ‘Allied armies begin to hammer at the walls. One by one his luciiiess junior partners are being summoned to "the Fuehrefls headquartered-which bwitzerlaul hears is safely tucked away in his Berchtesgadcn retreat-to

The latest to answer this summons is Marshal Antonescu, chief of perhaps the roost servile and most unfortunate of’ the satellites, Rum. ania. He spent Monday and Tuesday in Hitler's presence. Before hlm in the procession were Boris of Bulgaria and Mussolini of Italy, Premier Nicolas Kailay of Hungary is believed to be next on the list, probably to be followed by a Croat, a Slovak and perhaps an assortment of Quislings and Coliaboriitionists from the conquered Stairs of Western Europe.

There is even talk of an Axis conference which might give the whole plan a. more voluntary and cooperative aspect. There also are predictions oi‘ a charter of Europe embodying Hitler's pledges-for what they are worth-of the benefits to be showered on the lesser members of the new Europa when It is freed from the threats of Bolshevicm and Anglo-Am-

Wiiiing or unwilling, all in Hitler's power must. help mall the breast. works. Calls for unity are convincing proof nf the psychological strrsses which threaten to pull the “new order" apart from within, perhaps even before the fortress la stormed. The Germans can not forget what sim- liar stresses did to the central powers in I018.

Cross

By ERNEST AGNEW

Associated Press Staff Writer

LONDON, April 15—(Thul'sdayi— tnPr-I-Icavy R.A.F. bombers foi- loiving up an attack ‘Tuesday night on the Italian ilaval biisr- of Spezia, flew across the Strait of Dover in great strnegth for an hour and a iullf late last night and early today.

Minutes aftcr the first planes had crossed the channel, residents on the southeast coast heard a heavy roll of tvhnt ivns apparently intense anti-aircraft fire from the French coast, then tile Axis-controlled ra- dio siatioils~i>itris, Calais, the Deutschlallriscntior, Frankfurt and Breslnll-left tile air.

Zurich and Basel in Switzerland also were reported to have had alerts, possibly indicating another raid on Italian territory.

Observers said the force 0i’ bomb- ers, clenrly visible in the bright moonlight, tvas "one of the largest which has crossed the strait in weeks."

London had its first night alert since March 8th with some planes reported over the far outlying sub- urbs, and some slight, scattered

Tzmsnrzfirzz-rifijsi ‘s? Defer Action Cn “Church 0f Cod”-

lnoorporation Bill

OTTAWA, April 14 — (OP) —'I'ile senate private bills committee to- day deferred action on an ap- ilcatioii by Bishop J. A. Harris of ancouvei" ior incorporation of the "Church of God."

Objection was expressed bv sev- eral senators to the llamc oi the church and senator William Duff (Lib. Npvo. Scotitl) said lie saw no iecessity for a religion being in- corporated by act of Parliament. sponsors of the bill were nskedto provide the committee with full iii- formation on the organization oi the church.

The committee approved a mea- sure to make changes in the qual- ifications of directors of Canada Northwest Land Co. Ltd. of Tor- onto.

Tlle senate blinking and com- merce committee approved. with minor amendments, a. bill incorpor- ating the Ukrainian Fraternal Society of Canada with headquart- ers in Winnipeg.

CAPE FIGHTING FAMILY CAPE ‘TOWN —tCP)— Th1!!! are six fighting Malans in the fighting services of the King and Empire. Mrs. Evelyn Malan is the lat/est recruit. She joined the South African W A Al“. as an CW2.

Her eldest of five sons serving is Grourp Capt. A. G. (Sailor) Maian. D F‘ C who his destroyed 35 ene- my planes.

Join the Host of Home Bakers who

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Channel

R.A.F. Raids Expected To Be Heaviest For Weeks; Follow Attack On Italian Naval Base.

3C Cf 80 Jap Planes Downed In Latest Raid

ALLil-li) IIEADQUARTERS IN AUSTILALIA, April ll’ — (’l‘iiursda_v)—((ti’l—— The Jap- ancse lost 30 out of nlorc than 80 planes they sent ill Wednes- day's raid on Milne Bay, New Guinea, an they pressed their bid for the air supremacy which Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur has said will decide the war in the western Pacific, the High Command announced to- day.

The raiders, striking at the Allied base on the southeastern tip of the Papuan Peninsula, hit three small Allied Ships, one of which was beached.

This new hlow. hitting at the Allied base on the southeast tip oi’ the Papuan Peninsula on New Guinea. followed closely upon warnings by Gen. Dom!- las MacArthur and by Gen. Sir Timmiis Blzimey that the Jap- anese were apparently propor- lne new offciisivns.

(‘uriin declined tn comment on the statement yesterday by 111i» Ilrrltcil States Secretary of tho Navy. Frank Knox. that there was no indication the Japanese had gathered tire sea power necessary for an alt-ark upon Australia.

B Drowned At Saint John

SAINT JOHN, N B , April i4 —ICI')— The greatest toll of lives ever taken in the history of Saint John harbor was rc- corded today in the eapsizing of a small naval craft. Six men, three from saint John. were reported to have lost their lives in the tragic acci- dent which occurred durlng a tour of duty in the channel nff Partridge Ilzind late in the afternoon.

While naval officials here and at Ottawa had no official statement to make immedi- iitely-riolntinir out that rein- tives of all victims miirht uni yet have received notification of the rcspectlv~ deaths-it was learned that three ofthe you"! men were, if not Saint John born residents of this city.

They were Lawrence Jasper. 243 Lurllow Street, Went Saint John and Michel Frliiot, and Joseph Knodwell, whose ad- dresses were not available.

/Mr LgUAll n .we5r

iCommandant 0f 'P.E.l. Area Command

LT.--COL. J. R. PATON, M C.

Lieut-Col. J. R. Paton, bi C, pf Charlottetown, iftbOVC) who has been promoted from the rank of Major and appointed Commandant

Command, with headquarters at Charlottetown, Announcement that. lPriilce Erlwilrd Island has oracle on area comlilaild within Mili- tary District No. 6 was made in vesterrhlyfls fiilartlirlrl.

This Cfiilliildllfl will include the iviinlc lslilllil province with quarters‘ a1 (Jllalltlttctilivil. Tile ls- llilld tllus lwcillilvs to some extcilt separate lllilitarlli’. reporting to the district officer commanding at Halifax but carrying on under its own (‘MTllililii\lfilll_

LicllL-Coloncl Patton's duties vsill be similar to Klimt‘ oi other Area ctkllirliilldzlilis, for instance Niagara Area Coinuiaiitl UDLCI‘ Brigadier" G. E. McCuziig, C M.G., D S.0., that is, zldlninistrulioii and truliiiilg rind the like. but he will also perform the duties of the National Resources Mobilization Act, representative of the D.O C._ M D. No. ii for Prince Eilivnrd Isliiild.

Ill Civil life LlcuL-Colollel Paton was manager of the Charlottetown branch of the floral Securities Corporation. He served in the last Great. War as a private, winning commissioned mnk in the ficlc in December, 1915 Hv served in Frnilce with the 26th lidiiallflli, C.E F., ivimling the Military Cross during the Bottle nf Amlcns in Ailyust. 191R. i-ie iviis iv-iuniled in the left tvrisi and Icll IvLf.

After (‘Ictllill lion in 1919, he returned to (‘In mletoivn. In 1921 he was nppouuxl to (hit P31

‘lrilillllilildflfs, N l’ A M :15 quaq-tey- ‘master. llllfllilllltl the rank of Cap- tniil In i924 lie was promoter, ;Vln_1or four ytWlFS lair-r but sim- -SC(lll(‘illi)' ivr-ut on the Cnrpg r9. > “is ti.‘ Oiii.’ s 11s Ciultnin. On the‘, nuf trcuk of Will‘ hr‘ “'11s appointed‘ a l‘f‘l‘l'lllilfll{ officer Ill 1hr- mllk 0f Captain. He became D O C '5 re- i)l‘f‘.“i"lll.’lll\‘i‘, lll Prince Edward Is. land and visas promoted Major in i940

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rEnemy Says Canuoks Fight Iln Tunisia

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Planes

By wes o

aerial superiority, Allied

isia today and the bases Meanwhile the armies

ately trying to supply Ian

fidaville was spread from

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, RICA April 14—(AP)—With virtually undisputed

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On Allied Side

' Greatest Aerial Blows YetDeliverecl’ In African Theatre.

ALLAOHER

(Associated Press Staff Writer)

NORTH AF-

airmen were tearing a-

part the thin Axis air transport cover over Tun-

on which it rests, an of-

ficial announcement disclosing the destruction of 84 enemy planes at a total Allied loss of three.

aground drove into Axis

imountain defences protecting Tunis and Bizerte. The destruction of enemy air power desper-

d forces now being press-

ed behind a mountain line running west from En-

Tunisia itself back to the

great rearward base in Sicily.

“Air operations," said the Allied communique Iaconically, “were directed largely against enemy

of tile Prince Edward island AreaIfllFfIBldS"——-and it was left to a spokesman to tell

1 the story of the greatest series of blows yet cle-

American heavy bombers led a tremendous asaiult yysterday. Thundering over the Castclvetrano and Milo airfields in Sicily they cauillll. 112 big enemy air trims- iwris on the ground at the first and 106 Axis planes grounded at the second. In sharp actions, 51 enemy transports were destroyed at Castclvctrnno and many others badly damaged; at Milo ill‘. least 22 enemy planes were smashed and fires from a blazing gasoline dump were set leaping among others.

(Continued on Page u, Col‘fl_ .___i_______

Simondsr T0 Command Division y

OTTAWA, April fence headquarters late tonight. sn-

bwi‘ iivered from the sky in the north African theatre.

,New Car Ferry Discussed By Board Cf Trade

Quarterly llleeling Held Last Night.

Decision to press further for a new car ferry steamer and to have the committee already ' fr! retained to interview mefnbera at. Ottawa during Easter holidays. iii-as Illlitll‘ at quarterly meeting of the Charlozte- town Board of Trilde Inst gilt. The pilrpofie of 1llli‘l‘\'l("»\'l2\I 'l‘." federal I‘(‘i)l‘CS(‘l'i‘.flll\‘l‘S is In ‘l!- certain when the pllllls for‘ .1 llFW boat. will be completvtl. A rnmizwlou to the above effect was fld/lilb r1 on motion of Cnl. G. E. Full, socorld-

nouilccd the appointment of Brig. Gil. Simimds of Kingston, Ont. as general officer commanding a Cillladiar} Aruly division overseas, and his promotion to the rank of major general.

Gen. Guy Granville Simonds has had extensive experience, both as a commander-and a staff officer. said the defence department sn- nouncemellt of his new post. ,

Geri. Simonds, who will be 4o on I, has been a permanent‘

I 1

[April Z4. force oifcer snce he was raduated from the Royal Mltary ollege at.

Kilgston, n 1925.

Born at Bury St. Edmunds, Eng- land, he was. educated at Ashbury College, Ottawa. and RMC.

Defence hendquaru-rs sad that at 39 Gen. Simollds is tile youngest major-general in the Canadian

army. l-le succeeds Mal-Gen. J.H. Roberts ivhose appointment to command all Canadian army re- inforcement units in Britain was announced earlier this week.

LONDON. April 14—<CP CABLE) "jciibi. Liltitvlg scrtorlous. Chi-mail military commentator, said todnv ill :1 bronilrzisl. over the Berlin radio that the “British nre using Cnli- ‘liflliillil and Highlanders ill the fight- ‘llnt; at Oiled Ziirgha, in the Med- qez El Bub region of Tunisia.

Previous German l-r-fcrrilces to! ‘Canadians ill Tunisia have ‘ jtcrlilcd by National defence head- quarters at Ottawa as "lISllIlliI cx- 1 lcdltioils“ by the (il'l‘llliill$ lo auin 1

nowledrze of Canadian uliliiary. dispositions and strcilath. 1 A small dotnrhnlcilt from the l

‘Canadian army in Britain reached lNorlll Africa in January and saw ‘action aizaiilst the Axis form's yvllilc ‘attached to various Allied units. The purpose was in izivr the Cnn- Iadlnns, officers and lion-commis- sioned officers. actual front-line ex- perience.

CNJI. APPOIYTMENT

MONCIYDN. April l4 --E. M‘. Sherwood hiis been nilprllnied lil- spector of station !~;(‘l'\i(‘t"S and claim prevention for the Cnundian Nat- ional Railways at Moncion N.B.. lic- cordinrr to on announcement bv W. ii}. Robinson Itoncrnl svuwrinterl- ilciii or Il’1ll\‘|‘ll'I‘lllttll lil‘l‘i‘. Till‘ firgflllllillvlll. is retroactive to April

l Street,

Wind Storm in Moncton

MONCTON, up, April H—(CP)

-Old Father wind blew nff a lot '

of siczim ill the Moncton area to-

been . day to bring what old timers report I

one of the worst windatorms to visit. this district in several years. Strong gilsts dilrin the morning had var- ious things lowing about. the town -women, children. advertising sighs and hats.

Two women are patients in Monc- I

toll Hospital following breezy" ne- cldents. Mrs. Minne Grey, '14 High

suffered a possible hip fracture when blown off her feet R. Colburn, ,

on Main Street. Mrs. Le

iurgey Avenue, is suffering from 1

head injuries received when struck by an nriverttsln sign blown from a side of s bull lng.

‘VAR-CONSCIOUS AT I02

TORQUAY, Eng. _-tCPl__ Tor- quay‘; oldest inhabitant, Mrs. Sa- 102 but she s'ill makes cushions nnd artificial flow- u-ar IIIPWS. silo has two grrilitisoils serv-