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Attendanceliecords Broken At Dundas Fair Yesterday

Two Hurricanes Are Reported

MIAMI, I-‘ia., Sept. 21—-(AP)- lwc growing hurricanes‘ spawned far npart in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico today.

One cocked a threatening fist at the Texas coast. The other twirled through the Caribbean toward the Dominican Republic, with winds reported up to 85 miles an hour.

Hurricane-warning flags flutter- ed in both areas as residents ashore bsttened down and prepar- sd for the big blows. Ships were cautioned and small craft ordered lo remain in port.

Coming Events

"Dance in Pisquid East School, Friday. September 23rd.

"Chicken supper in Greenfield lchool Monday, Sept, 28.

"Dance. Iom East School, Dri- day. September Zird. '

"Dance, community mil, Moi-ell Rear. Thursday, September 32nd.

"Regular Dance at Skyline, New London, each Friday night.‘

"Show. Morel], every Tuesday. Friday. Saturday, 8.30 P. M.

"Mail your Fllml to Gsrnhum Pbom Studio. Charlottetown.

"Reserve Thursday, November 24th, for Zion Tea and Bazaar.

"Just arrived shipment of Fail bulbs. Halifax Seed 00.. Charlotte- town.

"Come to Chicken Supper in Klnkora Hall. Thursday, Sept. 22nd.

"Now btwing timitily seed. lieg- Lstercd, cleaned or uncicsned. Mc- Guigan 8s Boyle.

"R. B, P. 005 Kingston in lodge room Friday, Sept. 23rd, 1949 8.30 p.m. Degree work.

"Show at New Glasgow tonight. "Forty Thieves" featuring William Boyd I ‘lopalong Cassidf?’

"Bean flapper, North ‘fryon School, Friday. September 23rd- Wornelfa lmtitute.

Grand View Hail.

"Dulce. Cliff

Thursday. September 22nd. Lilly's Orchestra.

"DInCO m. Stewart Leliiifl lisll every Thursday night. will“! by Al Blanchard

"Kingston Lodge room Pride)‘. Sept. 13rd sso pm. Dorm We'l- George l-l. Beer, Clyde River, PJIJ.

"Notice - There will be no Dlnce islanders country Club Travellers Rest this Thursday.

"Booking orders for car New)‘ Hog Grower to arrive soon. In stock asphalt shingles. roll roofing. etc. W. I. Bowman. '

"Ullflllllll bulk‘ Whllt TIC‘ U! and Friday at I03. Cllh Q the car. Bring bags. I. I. M14?-

Dougail, Vernon.

"Hampton I-laii - l-lsar Ch" Cooper and his country cousirn on Tuesday. Septzmbor 11th. Sale o! lunches by Women's Institute.

"Meeting at. Milton frail tarnish‘- at sso P.1d. Rear . Dennis, dir- ector of Cooper-at ve Union P. E. I. and other speakers.

"Provincial affairs broadcast Hear Douglas MccParlsna 0W1‘ Cl-‘CY on Thursday, Sept. 22 at 7.45 pJll. en behalf of the CCT-

"We require f "earloads of Itby seeds. graded or corroded- lighest market prions paid for sood seed. lotteiown. - a

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Fltful showers failed»- to dampen the spirits‘ of the record crowd of over 6,000—1.000 over last year-- WM enioyed a well diversified pro- Eramme at the Provincial Plowing Match and Horse Show at Dundas yesterday.

Plowing teams and tractors, said to be showing "increasing pm. UCIPMY from year to year" by the IWIBQ. Mr- W, W. Baird, superin- tendent of the Nappan Expefl. nfintal Farm, vied with a host of other activities to hold the spot- light, most of them finally giving "P iv the step-dancing competition which drew the largest and most enthusiastic audience of the many attractions.

The Red and White Show suf- fered from weather trouble, only half of the 60 entries showing up. The three Ayrshire Calf Clubs made a "splendid showing" said Mr. L, W. Roper the judge. Sing- ing trouhadors. tho P. E. I. Regi- mental Bsnd-to say nothing of n battery of expert plbers~tarm ma- chinery exhibits, u fine horse show and keenly contested sports, which

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sue, all combined to make the afternoon's entertainment more than most people could comfort- lbll! take in. Indeed. some of the directors were considering the possibility of runninS it two days next year.

Lieutenant Governor J. A. Ber- nard declared the day officially

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ceived a special ovation from the crowd on the occasion of their wedding anniversary. 1n n well-re- ceived address which appears elsc- where in this issue, ills Honour congratulated the president, Mr. Leslie Hunter and the officers on their increasingly successful event. He dwelt on the sense of security" afforded only to the good farmer in these disturbing times.

Mr. Dollgald MncKinnon, I\I.L..»\.. Point Prim, suggcsted that home arts and crafts should find a place in such a popular gathering. Mr. George Seville, M.L.A., introduced as "the weatherman" declaimed nil responsibility for the lnclemency of the day.

Tractor Competitions

With almost 507a increase over last year's record tractor entries, the 30 big machines dominated the glowing competition with Allen

acLeod. Mount l-fope winning tho three-sod tractor class of 12 en. tries and Jim Betton, Upton, the two-sod tractor class of 18 en- tries, Young Claude Matheson of Forest Hill, who distinguished him- sclft lest year in the same event. again won the tractor class for boys and girls under 1d years '.in which a couple of girls competed.

Considerable criticism was heard at the Boys sndGirls tractor com- petition regarding the coaching of the young compctl‘ n by the adults. Mr. Baird commented to The Guardian "It's all right to get than started but it should be left at that." One competitor had s.n adult passenger during his plowing

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Labor G0v’t

Senaior Pirie Sees Good Prospect For Potato Prices

GRAND FALLS, N. 3.. Sear. 21 —-(CP) — Senator F. W. Pirie, who grows and ships more potatoes than anyone else in Canada, said in an inter- view today that prospects for marketing the 1949 crop are "very satisfactory," especially for growers in the Maritimes.

He cited a combined decrease of 94,000,000 bushels in Canada and the United States — more than Canada's total potato pro- duction in any one year. Pur- chases under the Canadian Government price support pol- icy last year were far less than the 1949 decrease in yield.

Another factor tending to create more orderly marketing was the Government's an- ' trounced policy of supporting the prices of farm products.

Devaluation of the Canadian dollar would also be s vital factor and re-act favorably in export markets.

"On the whole," Senator Pirie concluded, "I can see absolutely no reason why the market demands, both domestic and export, should not be substantial. and consequently think there is no reason what- ever why the grower should not be able to obtain a very satisfactory price for the cur-

rent potato crop."

People’s Republic Formed

Freight Surcharge ls lie-insiaied

MONTREAL. Sept, 21 -(CP)—-A fiX-Der-cent surcharge on freight rates between Canadian and Unit- ed States points, suspended during the period of parity between the Canadian and U.S. dollars, has been re-lnstated, railway officials said today.

The surcharge was in effect dur- lng the previous period when the dollar was at a discount but was suspended when parity returned in 1946. It was reinstated by the railways filing new tariffs with the Transport Board effective yester- day. when the Canadian dollar was devalued. -

The surcharge is based on an average haul over a Canadian line to a U.S. point'to enable Canadian railways to pay U.S. lines their proportion of haulage between the two countries.

PRIIVEE MINISTER TO SPEAK

OTTAWA. Sept. 21—(CP) — Prime Minister St. Laurent will be guest speaker at a banquet next month. during the ninth annual convention of the Canadian Con- gress or Labpr. The convention will open Oct. a and will continue to Oct. 7. M.J. Coldwell, C.C.F. qeadcr. will address the convention Oct. 5

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Railway Officials 0n Visit To Province

Mr. Robert B. Graham. General Superintendent of Transportation for the Atlantic Region, C.N.R., acE-cvmpanled by Mr. C. T. Mont- gomery, Superintendent of the ocal division. of the C.N.R, and se eral C.N.R.. mechanics and engineers are carrying out s. routine in- spection of the Islsml lines. Yes- terday they travelled by special car from Borden to Tignish and back to Charlottetown on the first lap of the inspection. Today and to- morrow it is expected they will view the Souris and Murray Har- bour lines. Mr. Graham and his party are travelling by special rail- way oa-r. They will also inspect the company's facilities at Sackville and Cape TormentLne before com- pleting their five day inspection tour. .

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 21—(AP> -A'chartered plane carrying the entire Puebla, Mexico, football team was reported nine hours overdue tonight on a‘ flight from Guatemala City.

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IONDON, Sept. 21 — (OP) - The .msn who decide the Labor Govsrrlrnentu election policy are watching the country carefully this week to gauge the public reaction to devaluation of the pound.

At the moment, it is safe to say, the bulk of voters have not made llp their minds. In this they're not alone. Even the loaders of 01'8"‘- iud labor said solemnly last night that they "could not pass judg- ment" on the basis of information so far available tovthem.

Nor do the Conservatives seem to have decided yet what line thlfil take when they get a chance to debate devaluation in the House of Common. For the moment, the Government has the advent-ere. like a man who explodes a bomb and leer/U bystanders stunned nnd

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‘nee Communists and their i01- low-travallars have been the first to collect their wits and open an attack on the Oovammentk policy. not: line is that devaluation is a trick which ills-government will use as an aleulo for not permitting farther oss- .

The Government takes the ltna tbstitaetedintbeirlurestseftho working man when it reduced the dollar value of sterling. ‘the only other way of lowering the price of Iritisfl goods abroad. its spokes- sacn say, would be by reducing ‘amused creating unemployment

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Labor's election propaganda - nnd all political statements now must be regarded in the light d the impending general election - unquestionably will harp on this line.

The Government's main concern will be to limit any rise in prices. It already has been announ ’ that bread will go up a penny a loaf and Sir Stafford Cripps, C an- csllor of the Exchequer, has aid other adjustment may be neces- sary later, particularly where goods originate in dollar countries.

But unless the cost of living is kept down, the Government will be hard put to deny demands which would add millions of pounds to the wage bill of industry. and in- crease production costs according- ly. -

It already has ordered a five- per-cent reduction in the price of cheaper-grade clothing. footwear and household textiles. This polity may be extended to other goods. perhaps starting with furniture and hardware.

The Government arguments against wage increases at this time of economic crisis would be strengthened if it could point to a downward trend in living coats.

The Conservatives are saying the Government may will cell s snap election this autumn, "in ease things get worse" during the win- ter. Labor spokesmen deny this - bnt than they denied there was any likelihood of devaluation. risht up in the last minute,

African Stowaways Worry

Will Say

MONTREAL, Sept. 2i -— (CP) - Likc any other absent-without- leave husbands four African stow- aways, shivering in Canada's Sep- tember chill, were wracked by one big worry tonight: What will their

' wives say when they return home?

Because that's where they‘re go- ing to go. these four of the six latest stowaways to reach Montreal, back to the sun-drenched settle- ment of Takoradi where people don't wear shoes and never heard of socks,

The men reached here last night on the freighter Cargill, out of the Gold Coast by way of Dakar, and told of burying all but their kinky black heads in the ship's black manganese cargo to escape detec- tion,

They lived on water and seven coconuts as long as they could. then gave themselves up to the crew and learned they ‘were Can- ads-bound.

Cooled Off

None had ever heard of Canada before. If that news excited them they were zest-strlPPBd fast by September's winds which left them quaking in their bare feet while awaiting transport to immigration headquarters.

"I never knew a country could be so cold," said one shoeless shiv- crer. "Where we come from it is hot all the time."

Three of them had never worn shoes. The four recalled somebody gave him a pair but that was long, long ago and anyway, he threw them away.‘ Too uncomfortable. Socks? Never heard of thorn,

Looking for Better Pay

When they left Tahoradi tbq hoped to reach some place where a manganese miner can get more than so cents a day. Evan in Tak- oradi it's tough to keep a wife on that, they said.

They all have wives, And they all wonder how the missus is go- ing to feel about their sortie to this cold land which they'll leave two weeks hence as daportces on the Csrgiil. .-

Por the record, they were ident- ified ss Emanuel Okai, Philip Amuah and Edwin Ahlnu, all M. and 21-year-old Bruce Mush. With Herman 'I‘rott and Leslie Fleming of Bermuda who arrived on the freighter Pcndccn they brought Montreal's stowaway score this year to 30.

‘the ease of Trott and Fleming. was under investigation in deter- mine the truth of their story of spending 1'! days in g Pendeen lifeboat with only some hard bis-

» cuit to eat. The Pendeen was out

of Swansea where the Borlnudsns said they stowed away after sim- ilar trips from Bermuda to New York and thence to mglsnd. Trott and flaming left the ship safely but lntar gave themselves up. They spent the day in the hands of Salvation Army authori- ties while immigration authorities probed their ease, indicating the stowaways will go out on the Pan-

dean if that's bow lily earns into Canada. ,

(By The Associated Press)

The Chinese Communists, with more than half of China's 457,003.- 000 population under their Red banner, yesterday (Wednesday) an. nounced establishment of "The People's Republic of China."

The long-expected announce- ment was made in Peiping by Red leader Mao Tze-Tung, 55, g, pegs. cat's son who 2'7 years ago helped to found the Chinese Communist Party.

An early bid for international recognition is expected. This Com- munist rcgimc now holds dominion over roughly half the land mass of China proper.

Mao declared in an address that

the "People's Republic" must unite lntemationally “first of all (with) the Soviet Union and the new democratic countries." He- meant the Soviet satellites of Eastern Europe. Mao spoke before the opening session of the "Chinese people's political consultative conference." The conference was called to set up the central government.

The broadcast was heard in San Francisco by the Associated Press.

The conference's 636 delegates are a mixture of Communists and non-Communist politicians. They enabled the Rods to raise the fac- ade of a conference representing all phases of Chinese life.

The conference will select the "government council" of the "Peo- ples Republic." and adopt its "org- ariiutional statute“ or constitu- tion.

Nationalist observers in Canton expect the Communist Government to be proclaimed formally Oct. l0.

The Soviet Union and its follow- ers are expected to recognize the regime. That could lead to a chal- lenge of the Nationalist delegation now accredited to the United Na- tions.

Britain also is understood to be anxious to recognize the Commun- ists ln order to get their consider- able trsde in China going again. The United States counsels cau- tion.

The Communists now hold all North China and Central China down to the Yangtze River. They have thrust deep into South Chins. and“ are driving into the north- wes .

T0 PICK LEADER

SASKATUON. Sept. 21 —(CP) — The Saskltchewan Progressive Conservative Party will pick a new leader st a convention in Regina Oct. 11-12, Elvin Hamilton, party organization director in Saskat- chewan, announced today.

Ce Direcior-lieneral

0i ll. N. F. A. 0. Outlines Plan

Five Billion Agency Would Move Farm Surpluses To Needy Overseas.

By Ovid A. Martin

WASHINGTON. Sept. 2f —(APl —.A new 35.000.000.000 world food agency for moving farm surpluses to needy areas was proposed today by NE. Dodd. director-general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

The plan is designed to help get around. the dollar shortage which is keeping many countries from buying food they need in the United Slates and other countries in the dollar area.

Such countries could buy sur- pluses with their own currencies. Or if they paid for them with dol- lars or currencies of the exporting wimirles. the buying countries would get the surpluses at cut-rate prices.

Deals would be handled by an in- ternational commodity clearing house under guidance of the FAD. It would have a $000,000,000 cap- ital contributed by member count- ries ln their own currencies.

The proposal was supported by H.H. Hannam of Ottawa. president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture and of the Internation- al Federation of Agricultural Pro- ducers.

He said at a press conference here that he will commend the F.A.O. report to the board of directors of the C.F.A. "ln the confident hope that (it) will en- dorse lt and make prompt repre- sentations to that effect to the Canadian Government.

Hannam noted that a "proced- ure quite similar to this" was re- commended by the I.F'.A.P. at its meeting last June in Guelph. Ont.

The plan was drawn by s. com- mittee of trade experts chosen by the F.A.O. from all parts of the world and will be laid before that organization's annual conference to open here Nov. 15.

Dodd. a fonzncr United States Undersecretary of Agriculture. said thr- plam would enable exporting countries to put their surpluses to constructive use. The cost to them would be fa: less than "if they chose the painful alternative" of restricted production with all its "depressing consequences."

The plan was advanced at a time when the United States Govern- ment either holds or faces the prospects of acquiring surpluses of wheat. corn. ollseeds. cotton, lard.

dried eggs, dried milk, and butter.

Devaluation

LONDON, Sept. 2i - (CP) - Threats of s strike movement by workers protesting higher prices rumbled in Britain and France to- night in the train of currency de- valuation.

Two more countries — Portugal and Luxembourg -—- joined the devaluation column, which now llsis 24 countries.

Western Germany's cabinet also decided to devalue. but the decis- ion must be ratified by Allied au- thoritiel.

More growls of anger at the steepness of Britain's pound cut last Sunday, when she devalued sterling from $4.03 to $2.80 U. S. came from Europe. A Belgian fi- nancial expert said the sudden British move was selfish. Finan- cial Minister Maurice Pctschc of France had called the SOIl-per-cent

British devaluation "commercial war.” The European Parliamentary

Union, s private body of legisla- tors of ll countries, proposed in convention at Venice that Western Europe establish a common cur- rency based on the gold standard. The action was suggested by Fer- ruccio Perri, former Italian Pre- mier.

Heavy weather faced Britain's Labor Government on the political front. The higher cost of living re- sulting from devaluation, coupled with the wags-freeze policy, threatened to divorce the Govern- ment from many of its 8,000,000 unlonlsetfsupporters, although it is safe to say many have not yet made up their minds.

A Government spokesman said he no longer expects a Conserva- tive motion of censure in Parlia-

merit.

Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer. was reported disappointed at the wslt-and-sce attitude of the Trades Union Con-

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Reaction.

News In Brief

LONDON, Sept. ZL-(Reutorsl- The Ministry of Supply tonight raised ihc selling prices of the copper, lead, zinc and aluminum which’ it supplies in British manu- facturers, in full proportion to the devaluation of sterling.

OTTAWA, Sept. 2l-—(CP)- The movies naked in 009.619.1130 in Canada lest your. The figure Wll a record, the Bureau of Statistics said today in n preliminary re- port. In 1947 box-office returns

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