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mericicms

Sacrifice Lies

Ahead for All

‘Idea of normalcy and business as usual must be abandoned; N0 war profiteering tobe permitted.

Violent storm Brings death To 36 persons

ND FORKS. N. 1)., Milli‘ llt-(AP) — A violent Wliltliltflfm that struck with- out warning Saturday night brought death to at least 35 persons, crippled comniuni- rations and caused much sui- (fling illlii propert damage in eastern North akots. and westrrn Minnesota.

Most of the deaths resulted from exhaustion when pos- srngers loft stalled automobiles in an effort to find haven from the strong ivinds that at times miclicd a velocity of 8,5 miles on hour. Little SHOW MP0!!!‘

“ind (he wind. Temperatures rapped suddenly to around the itro mark from spring-like readings that had prevailed

In the da . duiinxgious frielids and relatives besieged authorities to search ior pi-rsnns siili missing today. lilghu-ay department crews were busy rescuing stalled auto- mobiles from ditches where the

drivers had left them after running oii the road. .\ian_v cf those forced to

spend the night in their stalled automobiles and in farm build- ings suffered severe frostbite. A Mr. and Mrs. ivelner of Langdon, N. D., with their six year olil daughter and baby spent the night in a sheep- ihcd and thc mother and in- fant may tiic of frostbite.

IN DIANITOBA TOO WINNIPFIG, March ill —(CP\ -—-

Manitoba's worst blizzard iri sever- ll at least four deaths

m1. spread

Manitoba border to take a toll of lite 1n iho United Stains, disrupt- ed communication services. trans- lletiou s toms and blocked - i-urnl districts.

. i Jcnzen stud her six- iiglitcr. Marie. of Win}:- ~ 1'. Mans 75 mfcs southwest of Wiilnlpviz, and Isaac I. Fast of Niv- rruile. 23 milrs south of here, (llafi ln snowdi-iiis in sub-zero weather. All till?“ bodies were found today.

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Yllill spend two llillion to aid ll. S. Apple Growers

UiTAlVA, March 1o. - (c?) - i"

ttmmnii with the kirllt‘ Mnrlrettnir Board Limited un- Wmvhicii the Federal Government mniisslst in the marketing of s _mum or 1.500.000 barrels oi ap- m; iimWn in Nova Scotla during d 1041-42 marketing year was dis- “ig ‘Ohlizht in an extra editionof anndii Gazette.

ngulfltiléd cost to the Dominion ‘ "rrnmvrit will be 82.000000. the ‘Jpn-council coverinz e agree- unmsaid. o WOIZTNH s. cori- M dion of the arrangement in ef- h urinrr the past two years. un- mtulhorllv of the War Measures m," a food. conservation meas-

Nove Scctia

Coming Events

M for Notices in this column I cents per word.

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By RICHARD L. TURNER Associated Press Staff Writer

all, President day night made a “total victory" over the dictators‘ the ‘objective of an American “total effort," un- fiaggingly sustained, to replace the implements of ivarfarc in the hands of nations resisting aggres-

sion.

“You will feel the impact of this gigantic effort in your daily lives," lie said in an address be~ fore the White House correspon- dents association. “You will feel it in a way that will cause you many inconveniences."

The country must be prepared for lower profits and longer hours labor, he said, The arm: program must not be obstructed by "un- necessary strikes." The idea o1 "normalcy" and "business as usual" must be abandoned. There must be “no war uroilteeriniz."

Ends Appeasement

The President hailed the passage of the Lease-Lend Bill by Conizres as a. decision ending "any attempts

of urging us to net alonil with the dictators: the end of comvrflml-W with tyranny and the forces of 0D- presslon."

The President was enthusiastic-lie spoke almost with pride — in h praise for the couraizo of the Britls people, who front. line of civilization" and of their “brilliant and great leader. Prime Mini ter Winston Churchill.

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llev. J. S. Bonnell To aid start of Spiritual Union

TORONTO. March 16-031’)- Rev. J. S. Borinell. minister of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York, siiid yesterday he is going to Britiiln shortly to aid in some way the start oi a spiritual union ct EnBllsh-speaklng nations which will be headed by Britain and the United states.

Dr. Bonnet‘. has been officially delegated to represent all Protes- tant denominations in the United states on a mission to Britain to study religious conditions and pre- are for what he described in an nterview here as s “colowsl task" the post-war reconstruction period. I-ie will leave for Britain in May and expects to be there six weeks.

WASHINGTON, March 16. ' —(AP)—-Warning that sacrifice and inconvenience lie ahead for Roosevelt Satur-

o; armed service

at appeasement in our land: the cud,

are “fighting in the‘

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Britons to Register for War Industries

Labor Minister Bevin makes special plea for workers

LONDON. March 16 — (CP)_ Labor ivflnlster Ernest Bevin in- formed Britons today that April 5 has been set for the nation's first registration oi civilians for war in- dustry.

Mr. Bevin emphasized need par- tlvulsrly for workers tn ship-build- 1118 and marine engineering and for women as auxiliaries to relieve men for fightinrduty,

_He told the nation he was con- fident it would respond to calls for discipline and sacrifice with stability and determination “that will far transcend anything Hitler or his Nazi regime can bring ag- ainst us."

In the first registration of civ- llians April 5, he said, persons be- tween te ages or 41 and 45 will be canvassed, and men 41 and 42 who are not employed in certain, industries win be the first called. _ "By this registration." Mr. Bevin raid. “we shall be able to ascer- tain who is not on essential work. It has been decided that existing wage arrangements will continue until March 31 but from that date we are going to make a big change- over and people in training under the government scheme will paid proper wages."

Mr. Bevin issued a special ep- peal to men with low physical rat- lags who have not been called for to volunteer as munitions workers.

He also made a special appeal to women. saying “we must call for a great response from our women to run the industrial machine."

"There is a. very urgent demand on the shipbuilding industry which must be met immediately. We must get back to the industry as many us possible of the skilled men who have left it during the past 15 ears. There also is a special need . 9r marine engineering which must be met."

>Hitler boasts After Roosevelt Tells of purpose

BERLIN. March lfip-(APF-Hltler boasted today that no amount of ad- ditional outside help ior Britain can wre t final victory from the Axis.

Gerrnanys armed forces. he claim- ed. will take the lead during the sprint: and summer from the Itali- wlio bore the bnint through the winter.

liitler changed position only to turn the paizes of his manuscript. Once. with an emphatic gesture of his riirht hand and in a raised voice he boastedz- -

“No power in the world or added support can change the outcome. England will fail."

(Hitler's speech followed by only a day President Roosevelt's broad- ca t Saturday night in which he de- clared that Britain and Greece will rzct ships. Diaries. food. "tanks and guns and ammunition and supplies of all kinds" from the United States and udiured. Americans to beck an “all-out effort until our vlctorv l.=. won.")

Germany. Hitler contended. is en- teriniz the year i041 “cool and de- termined to end that which started the veer before. It is quite imma-

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Britain

CYITAWA. March 16-40?)- Oerisda end the United States must do more t0 help Britain sweep the seas of the submarine menace which. is growing e day, Sam Robertson. Superintendent of the Iondon Bureau of The Canadian Press said Saturday night over e

ctlonel hockup of the Canadian ocdcastlng Corporation.

Britain can't afford in lose ships now. slid Mr. Robertson, n- ads for I brief vacation after mrre than a r in the war zone.

"Any lng and c/verythtn tint 01m be done must be done," said "And that ccrtclnl goes for our A ' cousins

"The brave people of the Old country are s- full of thanks for what the United States has done already that anyone arriving from there is treated like s visitor from heaven. ,

"But the United States and Can- adcmuotdcmorefllbilsndlweet

Needs

Aid To Combat‘ A U-Boat lhreat

an reslly needed. Will Take Money

"It iljbiilfl to take s lot 0d inm- to combat this threat-your money and mlne—a-s well as the million; of pounds tho British peo- plq are pouring into their gsveni-

needed to build destroyers and other anti-submarine craft, to build fliRSSiVQ bombers and fighters to clear the rec and sky of Germany's raiders.

"And wnember this, they can't be built any faster than your dol- lars come ln."

Corvettes building in Osneds will help deliver knfckcut blows to the submarines "which Hztler seems certain to throw into the Atlantic tn ever increasing numbers in an

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50,000 Italians Out Of__Action

Fascist offensive in Albania fails to move Greeks

A'l_'dlENS, March 18.--(AP)—At least 50,000 Italians were pu action in the seven-day Fascist offensive personally directed in Albania‘ Wiitcr Simply.

by Mussolini, authoritative Greek cent. of their strength.

thrown book.

Fascists) .

Strategic town In Ethiopia Near capture

CAIRO. March 16-(AP)-Pxe- ceded by bombers and fighting planes, British forces which rum- bled into Ethiopia from Italian Somalliand over the Mogadlsclo- harbor road 11 dn. s ago have drawn close to the stra lc town of J1- jiga, a British communique said today. > At Jijiga the road turns west to Harhar, 50 miles distant and 35 miles south of Dlrede/wa on the Addls Ababo-Jibuti railroad.

This road, military spokesmen said. is the immediate British goal. While other British land forces from Dolo and Mega in the south marched north on Addls Ababs it- self, the troops in the north were

reparing for the assault which lbely hoped would isolate the cap- ita . In all these southern sectors. a communique said today, the Bri- tlsh forces made rapid advances.

In aerial preparations for the at- tack in the north, a communique said, the South African Air Force raided Dlredauru, destroying eight Italian planes.

From the west, other British forces were headed for the capital. and today's communique disclosed that these troops incl-uded Bel- gians who took part in the recent capture of Ascsa, close to the Su- dan frontier.

In the Gojjsm district north- west of Addis Ababa native Eth- iopians continued to harass the Italians. _

In Eritrea, a Royal Air Force communique said, British filers bombed and machine-gunned lt- alian troops and gun positions near Ciieren and burned between 30 and 40 trucks on the Cheren-Asmara road.

Graok train Plunges into ilhio River

BADEN. Pa, March 14 —(AP)—— Ari engineer was killed and more than two dozen persons reported injured when a crack Pennsylvania railroad express train jumped the tracks and plunged lnlo the icy Ohio Btvei-mecr this western Pennsylvania town tonight.

The train wps the Buckeye Lim- lied, bound from Cleveland, 0., to Pittsburgh.

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FISHERMAN PICKED ‘UP

IDOKEPORT. N. 8.. March 1&- (CD-Aiter spending a night on the fishing banks in a dory, Ben Grace, 42-year-old Newfoundland fisherman, was picked up Satur- day by s. schooner and brought to

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th port.

Grace strayed from the schoon- er ‘Pippy Tin Friday. ll miles oii shore-He anchored to await help, and around dawn s motorvessel from this port picked him up.

Captured Italian officers said, the Greeks reported, that Italian di slons engaged in the offensive averaged losses between 40 and 50 permml

The Greeks said the Italian offensive efforts dcgene ntfid into weak?" attacks after the heavy assaults of last

(The Greek radio in a broadcast heard in New York by Columbia uroiidcasting System, said Mussolini had returned to Rome from Albania "with his prestige weakened and his authority shaken." The Greek an- nouncer said the offcusivo was crushed with "terrible losses" for the.

J. A. MaoMillan In Montreal

One of the most well-known arid

DODular citizens of Chcrlottetoivri

passed airay at midnight, March

14-10, in the person of Mr. James

t ‘ M A. MacMlll-aii, manager of the office °'-' of Commissioners of Sewer and

n i_l health for some time, Mr. MacMillon went recently to Mont- vi- real, accompanied by Mrs. MacMll- llan. to have ii check-up in the hos- , . On Thursday night he under- went an emergency operation, WlllCll Mll€£laf£l1l&1_illl\'. w r. ac 1 an was born in cod Friday Wereilsliind about 5'1 years ago, a son oi the late Hector C. MscMillan (for- |merly Engineer of the Provincial Department of Public Works) and Isabel Fraser. His parental ances- tors came from Ari-an, Scot and. in 1808, and i115 maternal ancestors from Inverness. Scotland. on ship "Polly," iii 1803. to Belfast. The deceased was educated in the , , public schools and in Prince of The Greeks earlier had said bins-aunties 501mm V and about 40 years scllrii gave his Albanian generals an ago cook a Dqsmm Wm, me sewer, ultimatum to do something by and warm- Supply Department o; last Saturday. __ _ _ , Charlottetown, Subsequently he Ell-y Authoritative Greek soulces _Sfll(l [mind me 51mg m“; through 11,-; their troops. lncreasmslv Confident obihtvanri fidelity. steadily advanc- ofiinal HICOCSS. had named the 1111- ed until ill 1011i he became manager. tlative over the Italians. _ pf its digflfllfged one dunes o; ma; w. mg; gggitxlizirgloiatlhe Stiifalblifiiéfimilt sitioii conscientiously. arid effect r l '. ‘"2'-.i§12§..ti;'~=v r so m 0 s c - o were reported killed or captured. The Greeks said thev had further.

announced tonight.

Thursday and

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administration, l ut of the citizens in general, vrho held him in the highest. regard.

front in an armored. car “rt-link i115 athletes in the Maritime Provincesi commanders to .'mash throuflh the, As a member o; the Abcgwem cm Gfeflt frlml- at 111W 605i’- 111 an 5mm’ he staiTcd in football and hockeyfl t0 011511110 the COIIYSQ 0f the W31? and in later years played basketbalLi

The famOu-S Ibflilflll 11th B11113? was A‘ a runner he was outstanding and‘ 581d t0 have N811 111i? $0 hlmi i113,“ lield the Maritime championship for.

Nazis stiil fear

in... man Shot; Guard is arrested

1ve._ari'es‘.ed Wllllilliil [he commendation not 3113111 011 a 911F189 0f mum”

of Halifax, a winchman at a grain M M M“ be I jelevzitor near the occgnktermluzzfis,

r. aciananumrcyeerildbcc _-lt‘1h a e evidence that Mussolini toured the agq was one o‘; me most promineiilkzlikilt-rancen tlompld? 23E ac ne Y

b ial constable who a few weeks ago brought about the capture of escaped German airman prisoner licrr, was booked on a change of murder at police headquarters. He

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Death of Mr. [Mechanized Units

Said Arriving; 300, 000__Planned

Belgrade sources report British to take offensive against Germans; Believer ,Soviets.

By Robert St. John

Associated Press Staff Writer N

BELGRADE, liliircli lo‘ —,\\- P) — The diplomatic mo. ages claimed tonight that. a British mechanized division was disem- barking st the Greek mainland ports of Piraeus and Volos.

(There has been no confir- mation iii London of any troop HALIFAX. hiflTCh 15 —-iCP) movements to the ‘Midilti- East

‘A iratcrlront worker was shot and m. me gaikam, “m, “u. 0X. ikilled near a pier here late Satur- cepgion 0g hi; v3.43“ 1m- coy. and City police immediately nouncemcnt that some Atlslrfli-

Hn armed Wai/irlrom Ian and New Zcalaiid troops

d 33 had been moved from England

to an unspecified point in tho Middle East. Officials maintain- ed complete silence on the lat- est reports.)

Police said Ronald McDonal

15110611 (Paddy) F811‘. 45. It 5158' Balkan sources claimed Saturday that. almost 100,000 British (1001):! —vanguiird of a force 0f 300000- alreudy had been lilildfd in (‘mecca with all equipment necessary for

war, including llflfii0-i-lll‘O\\'(‘l'S,

fill

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it was necessary to reorganize with strong reinforcements.

Despl losses, it was o to continue fighting

The government spokesmen the Italians Saturday nicked their wounded and displayed activity otherwise.

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Six reach shore Scare adrift

MARQUEITE. Mich, March l6 --tAP)—Tu'o ice floes bearing six persons drifted ashore tonight‘, near skanne. while coast guards- men patrolled the Lake Superior shore for sight cf a score of others reported adrift in a storm.

A floe bearing five men drifted into Huron Boy after night fall and a second bearing one man came near the Huron Mountain Club. 10 miles from Skanee.

Those still believed afloat be- tween the shore and the Huron Islands included two women.

international At A Glance

LONDON-Western England town pounded in overnight attack; Brit- ain, Reich, exchange blows during week-end; submarine Snapper lost.

LONDON—Labor srt; April 5 for first registration of civilians for war industry.

l BERl.lN.—lll_tl;r boasts that flnnl‘ ‘voctory for Axis assured.

CAiRO.—Bl‘iTi-sh troops approach‘ strategic Jijiga in Ethiopia.

BELGRADE-British mcchl-niled division reported at Piraeus. Volos. Greek ports.

WASHINGTON-Roosevelt, in n week-end sddrors, makes "total vic- tory" objectlvc of "total effort"; $'l,000,000,000 cash outlay for British aid approved.

ATI-IENS.—50,000 Italians put out of action in abortive seven-day Fus- clst offensive presided over by Mus- sciini

WANTED T0 BE SAILOR!

TO , March 16—(CP)— Mir-s, H, I-lowes of suburban York Township left for Trenton ymtcnicy morning to bring beck hei- lt-ycar-old son, Murray. and his friend Desmond Smith, l5. wh: ren sway frcm sdiool yesterday in- ifridlnz to become sailors at Hal- ax. .

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Minister Bevin hi

bear the loss oi a husband,

United States’ ,

_ l-le also helped to win hlilll athletic honors for the Charlottetown Fire Depart- ment when he was a member cf that

was arrested at his post shortly af- ter the shooting

Fnrr will be arraigned tomorrow ‘before Maaistrate R. J. Flinn, po- lice said. Detective Thomas Ken- nedy snir‘ tonight he had made no statement.

An autopsy determined that one bullet had entered McDonald's back the Charlottetown Rotary Club. ‘and pierced his heart and one lung.

He loaves to mourn a widowJor- it was announced. lie died instant- mery Miss Hazel Hughes, daughter 1y oi the late Hon. George E. Hughes. four sons. Allan in Montreal: Fro. - er. a student at McGill University; Donald, wth R..C.N., in Halifax. and George at home; also one brother, Hon. Cyrus Maclvlillnn, Dean of the Faculty )1 Applied Science, McGill University‘, aiicl a member of the Dominion Parliament; and two sis- tcrs, Miss Cliristena ill Charlotte- town and Mrs. E. D. Bigelow in ivi-oviiiencn, 11,1 war and a member of the Royal

T0 tire beffiflvfld relativism the Ulster Constabulary during the Ir- Guarduan extends sincere sympathynls-h 111111511135 of i922, had been ‘ r waterfront guard since shortly >11- ERIBUE FROM MAYOR HOLMAN I ler the outbreak of war

5 Farr was directly responsible lilSl

‘Cliarlottetoivn today. by the death Jun. 22 for the recapture of one ill

péretiiénfiamlc/isaripigxaclgfil1m figitgptwvz) l Nazi fliers who escaped from . l .

glorks Branch of the City Corpora-la B concentration o! prisoner‘ on,

my.

Heuivas a member of Zion Pres-

byterian Cliurcli. rind chairman of

the Board o1‘ Trustees for a. number

of years. l He was also a past president of

Earl Grey, who operated a can- dccn for slcvedores near the scene of the shooting, told police he had heard a single shot. He looked out of his window in time to see the yictiiri fall.