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Path Through ,Yagoslavia

A Would permit easy access to Greece and aid to hards pressed Italians.

liov’t to name Motor vehicles tontroller

mantra, Feb. 13 —(CPi — finance lilinister llsley an- nounced tonight that the gov- ernmcnt will shortly appoint a motor rrltirlcet controller to lifeguard trar production a» pinst civilian demands for au- iomobllrs.

The Diinisior also announc- ed that the total prohibition lgalnst importation oi new pas- migcr cars, imposed in the war exchange conservation not last Del-ember, will be lifted and a limited number oi imports al- lpwgd on n quota basis.

In a prepared statement the llinlter said the government had hoped lo make the desired raving in foreign exchange by a complete prohibition of the im- portation of passenger can.

lt was now apparent. however. that this prohibition. in aft-Eit- lon to creating hardships. had led some companies to consider letting up ntauuiactnring facili- ties lu Canada “at o. time when lllilcliiuc tools and labor are ex- tremely scarce."

it now is proposed to allow importation under permit of n.

‘ limited number oi passenger cars. The quota for the quarter tiitiiiig Ilinrrh Iii ucxt. will be t0 per cent of the value oi cars imported on the average for the moo quarters in 1938, 1939 und

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liruis not prutlutilng cars in ‘ Canada prior to Doc. 2, 1940, will not lu- pcrutiitcd to produce more curs limit they could ob- tain utulcr import quota.

Brown Prince lllav passes Through Moncton

MONCTUN, N. B" Feb, l3 --En

lllsll to Halifax and Norwegian units in lfillltll-Iiirg and Liiverpaol.

flora scoiin. Crown Prince Olav of ‘Ill-it rl..‘l Princess Martha, his git. raocsi tlirotigh Moncton to- ll’ over the Canadian No-‘ltntal

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the Crown Prince were Commodore or colon naval attache "ll- D-C-i LL-Col. Ocst- _ '-C.‘.li1D to the Crown "TQM. ‘Airs. Ocstgzaard. Be- “ll t_ lil.~i iit Moncton the Royal l ‘El-t "wt by His Worship, v of Mortctoti and com-

ers of the R. C. A. iie district with their - Willi-t which the party ‘ l0 R._C. A. F‘. Depot No. rd i}; ll "}5'.“”l°°l‘-‘l “We are eut- m; “to itiwn Prince and Prin- vet- -ri‘s. Slots-y prcsetited h bop-

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Coming Events

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1v- 55- llnl souizht an escape for hi! tffltlml

BELGRADE. Feb. 14.—u-11day)-— (AP)--R/ED01‘i-S that Germany ta seeklniz passable for German troops throuzh Yugoslavia and Bulgaria in order to itet a chance at Greece and the eastern Mediterranean shores reached diplomats here early today as YIIROSTWINS premier and foreign minister bcizan “reouest" conferenc- es with Nazi leaders in Germany.

Diplomats with usually reliable sources of information in govern- ment quarters said Premier Dragisa Cvetikovic and F orenzn Minister Al- ksander Cincnr-Markovlc will dis- cuss passatze of German troops from Romania tliroutzii the Ytuzoslavlan railway iunctlon of Nis, thence by rail down the Vardar River valley toward Greece and the important Acizean seaport of Salonlka. i

There ‘were _unconflrmed_ reportsl that King Boris of Bulgaria might fotlotv the Yutzoslavs to Germany o av.

In any event. Sofia dispatches said that Bulizarla. with Italian und German‘ backlnc. now is trylntl to Ret British-allied Turkey to promise not to flzht if the Germans start throttch Bulgaria. toward the Dar- daneYcs.

Boris saw Hitler in November. but nothlmz came of it Cvelkovlc and Clncar-Mnrkovlc

strnse to a summons to confer with l Hitler, presumably ht Berchtcstzad- en, where the fntc of so many Euro- Dean stale: has bccn settled.

The absence of any unusual mili- tary mccistircs in Yuccslavla. was 1n- terpretecl in diplomatic circles as menntnz that. whatever Hitler ex- pects of this country. Yugoslav statesmen are ready to concede. In Rumsnia. where 000.000 Ger- man troops are reported massed. civilians began movinz from ‘the Nazl-rlcminated oil fields and strut- cnlc rvtrts aloha the Danube rlvg‘, opposite Bultzurln. as c. preicnutt

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acolust possible British at-

lacks.

Corvette refuels In Calif. port

SAN DIEGO. Calif. Feb. 13 -—- tAP) - 1-1. M. C. S. Agassiz, a Co:- retle type vessel, entered port today and proceeded to a South Bay oil

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‘lltc single-stark warship, smaller t-lirtn a (ls-strovcr- had one gun tiiouutccl forwultl and carried a crew of 50 men.

A ister ship, the Wetaskityin, 3'35 expected in port. later in the

Ill’.

Oh Not‘. l8. 1939. the British light. critlsei- Carodo: called here for rc- fuellrng - the first warwiip to eu-

the European war.

Australian Prime Has Crave

Franco, Petain‘, Pupil, Master Hold conference

MONTPELLJER. France, Feb. l3. --(AP)—Gen. Franco. 0f S0810- roundcd out a series oi Spanish- Italian-Frcnch conferences on the future course of Mediterranean events in a three-hour talk today with his old-time military school- master. Marshal Petain of France.

Franco crime here from a lonR nariev with Mussolini in Italy. fol- lowintr which Spanish and Italian communiques claimed a complete "identity of views" on the future ‘cotnrsemoi thlelr tgnscist and Fulani!- s re mes n e WHY-

After a luncheon and talks with the Marshal. he left for Spain.

In some pditicai quarters it was believed he had been invited iv Mussolini to discuss the pmelbiilly of either direct Spanish military na- sistance in an attempt 0 reduce Britain's Gibraltar. or zrantinit of free unssaize of Axis troops in an attempt to block the wes em Medl- terranean atralnst the B tisb fleet- Iu others it was suizizested Musso-

ln Libya by way of French and Spanish Morocco.

‘rho important utiestion was what hnnco had replied to Mussolini.

While Franco and Petain met for the first time as chiefs of stale. their foreisrn ministers. Admiral Joan Darian and Ramon Serrano

Suner. conferred separately.

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Fatally injured When hit by Sleigh in city

Miss R0 . _ Charlottetoyfii viroasyefigltdilg “lured Yeflefdfly aitemoon when she was struck by a horse drawn vehicle on Queen street opposite Nlllrtlns Ell-Tillie. She died in hos- pital about one hour after being “Sifts”. ‘iifili’ "P “i;

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by Maurice Hennesesgy wVz/‘lzgdrlxyfi delivering an 1800-pound cargo of coal to one of his father's custom- ers. The horse was travelling at a walk when the accident occurred l" 2135 D-m. Hennesscy was ppQ. ceedihg north on Queen, Oilig m- Welds Euswn. at the tme. He told Police he did not notice the yyoman until she was under the ortvnrd left side of the sleigh she suffered internal injuries. '

When first noticed by William Connolly and Ray Steel of Char. lottetown. who pulled up in their car facing south on Quee street; at the time or the acct ent, she W38 Dflmv under the front of the 161i 5181011 runner. It is lllrtltsllllaettnoy have been tin. by the Connolly and Steel i in i1 rushed the injured worrliimetoa ten: Charlottetown l-Isopltai where she received medical attention. hour later she passed away. Coroner Dr. I. J. Yeo ordered an lllqllesi- A Jury was impanelled and the hearing adjourned 2530 P-m- iodllY- 0n the jury are Messrs. M. W. Rear-don, Rift. Henry Hardy, George Ben-l. gan, James Brown, Reginald Jen. kins and Byron Brown.

Although several persons were near apparently there were no ac. tual eye-witnesses. It. is thought the Wvmfln was crossing the street and did gli. The horse

M158 Smith was n daughter of l Duncan Smith. 33 Upper Hillsboro Street. l-Ier father is

dead. She resided at home.

Greeks make . 3-mile_gfiain ~'

three-miie advance toward Valona. in the bitterly contested southern coastal rczzion of panic-d by a tzeneral attack oycr a broad central sector where t‘.ie liai- iaus also yielded iZIClllld. tvns re- . ported in Greek dispatches today. Greek ltcadttuurlers stilcl thr their repulse of the counter-nt- tncks in the pnst month had caus- ed tlic Fascists to fall hack to the

defensive and prepare a new lire from Valonrifo Ecrati. This apparently i“-l‘Ziil.'< the Itol- .

tans intend to abandon all the Tcn- ‘ elina awn, where Greek fiultters have iufiltrlrcd. aloha the mountain- rirlucs unli‘ they are on both siclrs 0t‘ that kcv town.

The ltnlintis stubhorify rirlnulr-d their positions in hcishtls lVa"i:1. on the Admit‘. was rritortctl. but s" ‘losses from an intense artflerv ibcmbnrtlmcnt. and yielded beioe Grr-"k bayonet chart-res.

The Greeks previously have been utepcrlerl near the snttthisrn side 0ft lvalom Bay. which is about t-‘cht =tniles wide. (British artillery bntizcr- , file-s have been shellinsz the city. say Yugoslav border

points). Acting

Warning

SYDNEY, Australia. Feb. l9 -- (CP)- An extraordinary wanting. that. "the your has moved into a new stage involving the utmost gravity" tyas issued today by acting Prime Mini tier A. W. Fadden and John Curtln, leader of the labor op- position in Parliament. and the war cabinet and service chief: arranfled to meet tomorrow.

Mr. Fadden, who leads the gov- ernment in the absence of Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies on an African trip. and Mr. Curtiii issued their declaration at the close of a hurriedly uutjourncd meeting of the war council -an adjournment tak- en pending tomorrow's war cabinet conference.

They announced that the council had "considered cable messages dealing with recent, developments in the international situation."

“What the future has in store is not precisely clear." they id- ded. "What is clear is that Australia's safety makes it n- tiential that there should oe neither delay nor doubt about the elsmant (crying) need for the greatest effort at prepared- nen thin country has ever made.”

The people of Sydney awoke to- day to the unexpected presence of the 0.D00-ton cruker Sydney, which came home in the niqhi at the end of a year's service u‘ sea durlna which she sank the ‘hart crul=er Bartolomeo Golleoni. teamed an aggregate of 00.000 miles. fired an aggregate of 4.000 thelis and surviv- ed 00 bombing attacks. Among those invited in tomorrow's meeting of

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might be neighbors. A opinion which mitzht prove embar- "l rasstnz to those who are meaning

ATHENS, Feb. 13. — (AP) -— mdej.

Dominion To Stop Direct

Relief Mar. 31

lluebec Gov’t Opposed to Waterway plan

QUEBEC. Feb. 13.-(OP) — The legislative Assembly today defeated a proposal to resume debate on the proposed St. Lawrence water tray development after Premier God- bout expressed opposition to debat- ing it at the present time.

“At the present time. there is one thing more important" than the wnteiway development and "for the success of which we need the help ut sold. “so it. is the duty of every citizen to do awav with any debate which entagonizinz to those We must not ttlve an

well now."

The premier. emphasizing that

u war considerations come first. said: ‘mt l“lf we fall under Hitlers

mom-cw the St. Lawrence William ‘be Worth anything to us."

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The Premier. replying to demands

from the Union Nationale opposit- ion that the government resume im- medlalely the debate on canaiizat- ion which Was

udjeurned three weeks ago after opp-"sition leader Maurice Duplessls ipoke. said "we pent v0 express an opinion based on ac s."

“I don't think this is the time to discus the question. You can

bc sure we will take a decision. We haven't taken any attitude ye‘. but in clue time we :hall take an atti-

tude in accordance with the best

interests of the province."

"The legislature of Quebec," Mr. Ditplossls said, "should be something else than the echo of the federal government. We t _ ‘.1 make 1t known that Queizc doe n‘t want the cannllzstlon which would be a nnxfnnal crime and national sui-

A motion that the debate he re-

Aibanm mconb ‘surncd was defeated by a vote of

19-11.

Power says Lacroix not irecting Dept.

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.141 n - (Qttebic Moulnior- “it not dire-stink the policy of departuicut, ncycr has done so and never will."

In hi racity as no»; is fcuze mil tcr lviaj. F .v.cr vyus ask- cd if any nciion had been taken cu .1 teporled rcqitcst from Mr. La- croix that a Highland light infan- try battalion be removed from Val- cnrtler following s. brawl with Que- bec city police last week.

“If the Highland Light Infantry is removed from Valcartler it will be in the ordinary course of opera- tional policy. and not because oi anything Mr. Lacrolx said," Maj. Power added. "Quebec 1's a. part of Canada. and any Canadian regiment can be stationed there as well as in any other province.“

The Ifichland Light Infantry unit was popular in the municipality and there hnd been no complaints from any other source, the Minister ‘Bid.

The infantry unit and Quebec city police clashed last week and a tiumber were injured 0n both sides. A board of inquiry was set up and Mai. Power said he expected a full report shortly. .

War—25 Years Ago Today

FEB. i4, Hi6 -A-=trs made 5901i pledge to ilght cn for the restora- tionof Belgian independence. Milan, Italy, bombed by Austrian airmen. Geranium captured trenches from the French east. oi Seppon in Alsace.

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OTTAWA. Feb. 13.--(CP) —Dom- inlcn contributions for direct relief will be discontinued March 31. Lab- or Minister McLarty announced t».- nllrht.

On the present bask of 40 _per cent. contributed by the Dominion, 40 per cent. by the provinces and 20 per cent. by the municipalities. it is estimated direct relief in the fiscal year 1941-42 would cost the Domin- ion government $7,000,000 as acnmst an actual outlay of $13.200,000 in the present fiscal vear. the minister told a press conference.

Relief rolls had been s0 reduced. however. that the estimated expen- diture of the provinces and. the mu- nicipalities in bearing the wlirle cost would be 52.800000 le~s in 1041- 42 than they were in the fiscal vern- ending next. March 3i. with the Do- minion mdkiniz its contribution.

News the Dominion Govern- ment would discontinue contri- butions for direct relief on March 31 was a. "shock to ntc", Mayor B. Roy Holman declar- eci last night. While the num- ber on relief rolls 1n Charlotte- town was less than at. the local: years it was not reduced n proportion to some other places, Mayor Holman said.

In Charlottetown there had been no work more than last year since construction on the airport ended in the full. The airport job was t-he only jcc‘. which absorbed large numbers of workmen here last summer, he continued. Many former recl tents of relief not 0n the rols this year were dependents of “ten who en- listed in the armed forces.

No orders for war material have been given firms here and consequently the situation in Charlottetown was not chanced much from tyhat it. was 1n recent years so for as employment went.

‘The provinces have repeatedly pledged their desire to cc-operritc with the Dominion in matters es- sentlal to the prosecution of the lwar,” said a prepared statement ‘issued by the minister. l "In the opinion of the Govern- ‘merit this co-c eratlon can bc ex- tended and wil be extremely help- ful if each of the provinces assum- es the responsibility cf such un- employment ald as may be neces- sary in the comlnliz year." Immense Domin on expenditures for war purposes and on soc services in other ways, coupled with a. shrinkage in the number 0i unemployed due to war activities, were iven by M1‘. Mciinrty r1 rea- sons or the step which will bring t0 an cntl 10 years of participation

employment and agricultural dis- tress.

Iinst _vcar Parliament trolled $15,- 4500011 for direct relief in the pro- ‘sout fltttztl y‘c:tt'_ but Mi‘. hiciirtrly said the cxpsutiitttre would run to

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200st of living ‘Advanced four Per cent in ’40

OTTAWA, Feb. 13 —(CP> -_-Cai'i- 214a’! cost. of living, reflected in the index compiled by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, advanced iour per ccatt during 1040, the Bureau reported today. A 9.9 per cent lu- crease in clothing cost. was cited as an outstanding factor in the boost.

Utiring Decetuber, 1940, the Bur- eaus index stood at 108. This coon- parczi with 1011.8 for Dccc-tnbct, 19- 39 and 100.8 for August. 1939.

All groups included in the cost- of-llviug index contributed to the increase. Home furnishings mount- ed 6.3 per cent to 110.7. Index of

cent, bringing the total gain rec- orded ln this group since August. 1939, to 9.9 per cent.

The smallest advance over De- cember, 1940, levels wtas recorded in the index of miscellaneous ltcms, which gained only 1.5 per cent.

The cost of living index ls "welohted” to balance the effect of larger expenditures on one commod- ity group than another, and vol- ume of goods in the ml cellrineoiis group was heavy enough to reduce the average to our per cent.

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Senate group Approves 15-8 Lease-lend Bill

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—(AP)- The Foreign Relatnons committee today approved the lease-lend bill, i5 to 8, and urized its passatze with .a tleclaration that it _“is not a war lllfillfilfv. but a tiruulicel safccuard nintcdot keepins out of war."

l flklnt: a formal report to the Senate. the committee mfllCfliVhliltl liliB welfare 0i the United States ,can best served bv a foreign lpoilcv based upon the two funda- Jllfjlllfll principles that:- l The Utilted States must strive in all roars reasonably possible to stay at. notice with all the vyorld: and .1110 Untied States must, in its nun llnterests. supply effective matterlal and to those countries whose defence l ‘IS vital to our defence." “Your committee believes,“ the itcnort added. “that tyithln the icrnts .of H. R. i776. as amenrtcri. nrorl- $1,011 l5 ntmily. safely and cousfittt- ltonallv made that the forcirm nail- Cv 0f the United States shall con- tlntte to be guided by these 1w ‘ principles. l “To the end that we may have n-vnce, t-hc bill attthorir/cs aid to hot ciycn Yiwiliilifv. to viz-o nations‘ \\“""“ t"""1\.~c is vital t’) curs. , “To the errl that we may have fM-rtlrtu, the bill casts the strenctlt l of American industry into the. strum? asalnst forces which may‘ bf‘ tlllTfChkl azainst us. Your com-l mltlee wishes strnutrl" to (‘mvyltn-i sim- lts considered (“nylctlop that I H. R. i770 is not n war mcasurml

kcopinc u< out cf war."

Steelworker ' Gharged with murder 5

NEW GLASGOW. N. S.. Feb. 13.! -—(CPJ—Clareticc Gill. a. socclwork- . er 01' nearby Trenton. was arrested itoiiiclit. on a chrrruc 01' itiurderinu _Waltcr hiuss. of New Glasgow, wvliose charred body was found ll days auo in the ruins of ii burnid , house here. '

City Police Chief James Moon -- swore out the nturdcr tyurrant filial‘ t ‘a coroner's iury haul returnccistvcr- wiict 57151111.! the 35-year-old Waltcrl ~lvlcss lmti died tin-ouch “foul p.:ty.",' ~Tl1e lury also cxpi s cl belief the‘ ,fire in lvIrs. Dolores MucGillivrayis l lliome had been set.