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m? Average Price For Platinums

MONTREAL. Sept. rli -— (Spe- dal) - Second section Platinum p.m, with s2 per cent sold. brought an average price of 001.0! at the cnnadlan Fur Auction Sales Com-

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Inferior platinurns. M per cont sold, averflfied $10-34-

Pearl Platinums were withdrawn n; were also the white marked all-

BIS. VODG-llfllf in three-quarter silv- ers were 26 per cent sold at an av- qqe of $10.3.

Regular full silvers with a pes- cent sold. M01180“ an LVQTICQ 0t

Mo. ' “Interim- typos were sold at $1.06 .1 which 4.2 per cent of the offer- ing was sold. .

The above information was re- geived from Mr. George A. Callbeck. managfl‘ of the marketing depart- mcnt. Canadian National Pox Breeders Association.

Coming Everlts

"Kings County Plowing Match inn Horse Show at Dundas, Sept- itnber 24th.

"Comrto the dance. Wiltshire Hall. Friday, Sept. l2. Sale of lunches. '

"Talkies — Wood lilands, Mon- day. "Kiss and Tell," starring shir- ley Temple.

"Ice Cream Social in Tryotn Baptist Hall. Monday, September 15th. Proceeds in aid of school.

"Talkies - Sturgeon Ball, Tuesday. "ltiastasad Tell" starring Shirley Temple.

"Dance. Orwell Cove Rail. Tues- day. September 16th. Lunches lerved. .

"Dance. Belle ‘Eiver Hail, Iri- dav. September 19th. Eldon Orch- tstra.

"Dance. Afton l-lsll. Friday night. September l2tih. Refresh- ments. Music bv McNeill.

“Dunn at Long Creek l-lall. Tuesday. September 16th. o1 Rink.

"Chicken Supper and Dance at Bciievue School on September 17th. l! not line following night.

"Lady Argyle L_ O. B. A. pantry sale at Rogers Hardware, Septem- ber 20th, at 2 P. M.

"Lot 65 Hall. Tuesday, September 16th. llot (Zhicken Dinner. Bingo and Dance.

“Pantry Sale at Hollnsns, Sat- “YdBY. September 18th. l in aid of North River l-lall.

"Until further advised Oll‘ mill v-ll close each Saturday at noon. ldcGuigan 8r Boyle.

"Regular Hospital Dance. Mon- ilsue Gin-ling Rink every Saturday "ilht. Webster's Orchestra.

"Pantry Sale at Rogers Hard- ware Store, Saturday, September 13th. Kingston L. O. B, A.

over 119,000 Tourists Visit Province

More than 9.000.000 was spent in the Province this year by tourists, according to estimates released Yesterday by the Prince Edward Island Travel Bureau. LieuL-Colonel W.W, Reid. D.S.O.. supervisor of the Bureau, stated that between Jan. 1 and Aug. 31 Iliihiiy 0V" 119.000 persons visited the Island. Of these, Col. Reid es- timated 96.100 were tourists of whom approximately b11000 were Canadians from other Provinces; 20.000, Americans; and 100 were visitors from other countries.

The average stay of the tourists.

Col. Reid estimated to be one week with an average expenditure of $5 per day resulting in a total tourist expenditure of approxi- matcly 03,365,000. That sum, he said, represented on increase over the tourist trade for the same per- iod last year of $108,000, Col. Reid said that while tourists are still arriving in fair numbers there has been a marked falling off with the opening of the school term though there are a consider- able number of bookings for October. He added that a number of the hotels on the North Shore are closing or will close within the next week or two.

18 Killed In Explosion

BILIMST,‘ Sept. 12—(Prl- dayh-(AP) - Eighteen men were killed and 34 others “terribly burned" by an eng- ine room explosion aboard the refitted British luxury liner Reins del Paclfico last night, a doctor who attended the men reported early today.

BELFAST, Sept. ll-(Reutersl- Two tugs and a lifeboat carrying doctors and nurses tonight were proceeding to the aid of the 17.- OOO-ton British liner Reina Del Paclfico after an explosion on board in which about 60 people were injured.

The explosion-reported in the engine room-occurred this after- noon when the liner was off the mouth of Oskselfast Inch.

The Reina Del Pacifico. flag- ship oi the Pacific steam Naviga- toin Company, reached Liverpool from Rangoon with more than 2.000 service personnel. She was re- turning to Belfast for recondition- ing and redecoration on being taken out of government service.

Completes Maldes Voyage HAJIPAX, STpL-ll - (C?) —

passenger-freighter Nova Booth entered port here today on her maiden voyage from Liverpool.

Ens- . Th, Nqyg scotia. built to rep ace

the liner of the same name lost

during the war. will be put first:

service between ‘Liverpool, "Pantry Sale by Hampton John's, Nfid., Halifax and Boston- W. M. s. st Batman's, arouses. Tho 'l,000-ton lune was llill h!

Stntcrnaer soul. at 2 P. u.

"Cake Sale, Maritime Electric. Biillrduy afternoon. September l-laseibrook Women's Insti-

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"In stock. Cedar Shingles. Cedar Post-s. Asphalt Shingles, Barb Wire. Blue Stone and Lump Lino W I Bowman. lfunter luvsr, r. n. r.

"Don't forget dance at Leo's Dine and Dance in Denim. Pri-

i-Y- loot. ma. oooe time. oood music.

" Ih-Bwlnslsseand - "v daily. royal; highest market kiw- u. A. rm». smut Wldios. Gisriottstown. .

"Willeilns hogs tee Canada gacksrs Ltd by true! mrv Thurs- ». Phone u. a. couture. nos- alvtw. or write as. o. I. llabew-

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Britain To Close Gap Between Exports, Imports

B! FRASER. WIGITON

LONDON. Sept. ll-(Rcutani- Ezsport production targets which Sir Stafford Cripps. Eoard of Trade president, will announce in London tomorrow as the British Government moves to beat the economic crisis must ha achieved before there is any relaxation of spartan domestic conditions, auth- oritative quarters said tonight.

In an hour-long speech Friday to 2,000 representatives of both aides of industry-employers and employed-Sir Stafford will tell British hard currency-earning in- dustries the exact contribution which they must make tcBritaink drive towards solvency.

If the export iBClUSLIIGk-Wlhiflh include the textile, motor and lux- my, trades—achieve the stifl tar- gets aet them. Britain's financial crisis will be reduced to manage- able proportions within 15 months. The sequel will depend upon the United States Marshall Plan.

If the Marshall Plan collapses and no co-ordinated scheme for European reconstruction is forth- coming. these quarters said Brit- ain will not shirk further domes- tic measures, however drastic, so that she can close the gap be- tween imports and exports.

Five people will act in supreme direction of this ruthless British drive for financial recovery. They are Prime Minister Attlee, Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council, Foreign Secretary Bevin, Hugh Dalton," Chancellor of Ex- chequer, and Sir Stafford Crlpps.

‘These five, the hierarchy of the cabinet, were described tonight as certain to be excluded from any cabinet reshuffllng that might take place in the near future.

This disclaimer notwithstanding, political quarters pointed to the continued spotlighting of Bevin as the..obvio s leader if Attl de- cldes to and over the fins _of office.

One notable effect of the crisis has been to vary the influence of inner cabinet figures. Hitherto, popular impression has been of a cabinet spearhead of three with Attiee as apex and Bevin. and Morrison as equally influential

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Prime Minister Not Thinking 0i Retiring

OTTAWA. Sept. ll — (C?) — Prime Minister Mackenzie Kin! indicated today he has no immed- late thoughts of retirement W! said "I am lust going to K989 "Slit on working."

Rgturnhlg to the capital from a “.04” ylslyflto his cld hcsne in the Kitchener. out. area. MX- Kins was asked by the Canadian Press whether there were any develop- ments ln his plans for retirement, indicated in the 1945 election cam- algn. , "Oh, I have nothing to say about that," said the Prime Minister. "l m. just going to keep right 0h working."

At the same time. he also dis- counted speculation abaut the pcss- lbillty of a fail aespion of parlia- ment.

,"I haven't seen those relwrll.” he said. adding: "And 1 haven't any thoughts of a fall session."

8y Max Boyd CAIRO. Sept. 11 -(AP)— Th! American Consulate was stoned without any dsmlle belnsdone-the statue of Ferdinand do ‘MssePl. Sues Canal builder. damaged and an attempt made! to burn the Brig; Port Said Egyptians protest- ing at failure of the United Nat- ions Security Council to oust Brit- iah troops from the Nile Veil!!- Other crowds at Alaxandriattédhs-gw roch at police and were rou y gunfire over thlir beads. Cairo it- ulg n; queers wag-maintain- ed hes tr ton "lips: sbuttars of the Amer- ican consulate harm was doll

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"A special ‘fvrnpsrsnee Rally will be held in Charlottetown Baptist Obumh on messy. lvvtlhbvr 10th at 1.30 P. M. The speaker will be Ill. l. J. Langley of lt. John, N3, General lseretarv 0:1 till will" ‘reassurance radars ens. will» r invited to than lnoortsnt tussl-

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Angry Egyptians Protest Failure To Oust British

stones and bottles at Port. Bald. when rocks also were thrown at the Queen Victoria Memorial

Imintalm at the British school snd~

attthe Britannia Club.

Crowds of youths shouted "down with the Security Council." "down with Britain.“ "com with hw- lslist. rrsnee." "long live mat and the Sudan." and "long live Russia. Poland sud Syria" as they marched at Port Said and Alexandria.

The omwd at Port Said in the Canal lone first. tried to attack the British consulate. then tried to march on the British camp on Kitchener Street. but was turned back in each instance by 400 marshal-s

ltlcet will! tho! ‘damlfid the statue of the Hench engineer. Police oladied wltn 4.000 marsh- ars at Alexandria. whm workers at a large more factory went od strike as a protest. and diaper"! than with lusts over the people's heads. A ntlnbsr o! police did

outcasts-store were taken to boa- pltall.

Labor Party Retains Seat . In Edge llill

IJVHIRPOOL. Sept. 11-40?)- The Labor Government, which has not lost s seat in a Parliamentary by-election since it gained power two years ago. today won by a. reduced majority the important. working class ccnsituency ofgfldge Hill. Maj. A. J. Irving, la London lawyer, was elected by a margin of 2,000 votes over Conservative candidate Reginald Bevins. Three other candidates trailed far behind. Irvine, who previously had fail- ed ivwice in attempts to enter the House of Commons polled 10R’! votes to 8.874 for Bevins. a local business man and member of the Liverpool City Council.

The vacancy was caused by the

death in May of Dr. Richard Ciitherow. who served with the Northwest Mounted Police in Can- ada from 1919 t0 1922. Labor's margin was cut almost one-third. In the i945 general elec- tion Dr. Clitherow was elected by a comfortable majority of 6.039 votes in a poll of some 20.000.

Today's by-election was watched closely as a test of public reaction to the government's handling of the economic crisis. The Conserva- tives had brought ‘up their big guns to break the Government's hold. Anthony Eden, Deputy leader of the Conservatives, inter- rupted his holiday in Ireland to ad- dress Edge l-lill voters Tuesday.

Press Search For Gunman

(By The Canadian Pres!) sent? s-An early arrest was expected tonight .as police pressed a. widespread search for a young "ruthless" thug who early today shot and seriously wounded 41-year-old Morris Sing- er on the verandah of his west- Central house. While Singer, who operates a

tobacco and news stand, lay semi-conscious and in serious condition in hospital. police

rounded up a. dozen persons and questioned them about the "trig- ger-happy" gunman who shot. ,Slnger in view of several persons. most of whom, police said, stood sack awed by his pistol.

A reward of $500 was posted for information leading to the arrest of the blond gunman who fired two,shots during the holdup and is believed to have escaped with $100.

Mercy Mission llalted By Fog _

HALIFAX. Sept. 11 — (OP) — R.C.A F. search and rescue unit here reported tonight that heavy fcg had forced the unit‘! high-speed launch to turn back from its mercy mission to Sable Island, 100 miles due east of Halifax. while a De- partment of Transport worker is seriously ill with blood poisoning.

Search and rescue personnel said that since weather forecasts show- ed increasing fog in that area for the next 48 hours, medical advice would probably be radioed to the small spit of land. EH. Stoddard of Jeddore, N.S.. who has served on the island for the last year, is suffering from an unspecified type of poisoning.

The launch had expected to reach the dangerous shore of Sable by 10 p.m but it turned back about an hour before that time. A doc- tor and a fiok bay attendant were aboard. prepared to operate If ne- cessary.

The 00-foot craft is not to be confused with the Canadian naval destroyer Nootka.

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Men 0n Strike At Local Plant

Pbllowing several other Provin- ces in Canada, Prince Edward 1s- land yesterday became directly affected by the meat packers’ strike when approximately seventy employees of the Canada Packers plant here went on strike at 8 a.m.

The plant was plcketed by the strikers all day yesterday, but there was no show of violence. Farmers arriving with livestock were ad- vised that the plant was closed.»

About twenty employees on straight salary were allowed to remain at the plant yesterday to handle a. quantity of meat for shipment which otherwise would have mulled. A superintendent and foreman- will remain indefinitely to look after supplies for the hos- pitals and sanatorium.

Strike action was decided upon at a. meeting Wednesday night of the recently organized Local No. 282, United Packinghouse Workers of America, i010.) under the direction of Romeo Mathieu, Mon- treal, International representative, and '1‘. P. Wendelbcro, Moncton. Maritime representative. It is re- ported the meeting took a un- animous vote to strike until wage rates are made uniform through- out the country at 92 1-2 cents per hour_ with a forty hour week.

Average wage paid at the local plant, it is understood, is 60 cents an hour. The rate asked for will therefore mean a basic increase to local workers of 32 l-2 cents an llill“: . . l .~ - a osebri strike include butchers. meat cutters. meat processors and laborers. The office staff are not affected.

Canada Packers officials had no comment to make on the situation yesterday.

Mr. Mathieu. international rep- resentative for the~ unionsr stated the plants on strike so far are at Vancouver, Montreal, Winnipeg, Peterboro, Monctcn and Charlotte- town. Toronto workers were expect- ed to strike today (Friday). He said the strike would continue until the wage demands were met, and pre- dicted there would be 14.000 on strike shortly throughout the coun- try, including em-rfloyees of in- dependent packers as well as of Swifts’, Canada Packers, and the Burns Ctrnpany.

Dlaclsims Responsibility

Yesterday, in connection with a telegram stressing the hardships imposed on Island producers by the strike, Mr. W. Chester S. McLure. MP, received the foliowing- wire from Hon. Humphrey Mitchell,

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Princess Margaret To llead Bridal Attendants

IAWDON. Sqit. il-tfli-Prhs- e3 Margaret will head l0 brihl atterfdants-eight bridesmaids and two pages-at the wedding of her sister, Princess Elizabeth, to Lieut. Philip ‘ ountbatten in Westmin- ster Abbey Nov. 20, it was announ- ced at Buckingham Palace tonight.

Besides Princess Margaret. they are: Princess Alexandra of Kent, Lady Caroline Montagu-Dcuglas- Scott, Lady Mary Cambridge. Lady Elizabeth Lambert, l-Ion. Pamela Mountbattcn. Hon . Margaret lylphinatonq and Diana Bowes- Lyon. The pages are Prince Wil- liam of Gloucester and Prince Michael of Kent.

The attendants are representa- tlve ot the top level of British so- ciety. Besides the two Princes molt are distantly connected with the

Royal Family.

Seven Provinces Now Affected By Packers Strike

(By The Canadian Pro.)

Thd fast-spreading strike in Canada's ‘packinghouse industry now involves 6.570 workers and two walkouta scheduled for today will boost the total to almost 9,000.

Meanwhile, strike votes by s... other 0.000 employees of Canada Packers, Ltd. and Burns and Oom- pany are nearing completion. All are expected to decide ln favor o! strike action, increasing the prQ5. pect c4 a Dominion-wide tie-up - and a serious meat shortage - by the week-end.

Canada Packers and Burns and Company last night ao- eepted a formula, drawn up by the Ontario Department of Labor and based on conciliat- ion, for ending the spreading meat-packing strike. But re- jection of the plan by the United Packlnghouse -Worlsers

of America ((11.0.1) appeared certain. The settlement plan, sn-

nounced by Louis Fine. chief conciliation officer of the On- tario Labor Department. call- ed for striking meat packers to return to work while mat- ters in dispute were placed between arbitration or concil- latlon.

Some 3.500 employees of the Svdft Canadian Company in six plants across the country have been on strike since Aug. 27. The other waikouts, which started this week, are in Canada Packers and Burns plants.

In all cases, the strikers are members of the United Packlnfl- house Workers o-f America (C.I.O.). Their demand is a basic minimum wage of 02 cents an hour, which would entail an average _,lncr_eass of 17 cents an hour. Swift has of- fered a three-cent increase. Cen- ada Packers and Bums a five-cent hike. ~

Yesterday's walkouts both were in Canada Packers plants -- 200 workers at Peierborough, Ont, and '10 at Charlottetown. They brought the total to 8.570.

Strikes scheduled for today are by 1,900 Canada Packers employ- ees in Toronto and 500 Burns work- ers in Calgary. A U.P.W.A. spokes-

llominion Asked To Take Initiative

OTTAWA. Sept. l1 — (C?) — A request that Canada take the initiative in calling a commonwealth conference to discuss-ways to help Britain in her crisis has been sent to Prime Minister King by Solon Low. leader of the Social Credit Party.

Mr. Low disclosed today that he had made_ the request in a. letter yesterday to Mr. King and released the text of the letter today.

"I un convinced that it would be a shameful betrayal of all that we owe to the people of Great Britain if we failed to go to their assistance 1n the crisis which they are facing as a result of their sac- rifices in the war." said Mr. Low.

LAKE SUOCE-ifi. N‘. Y.. 899i. 11 -(A.P)-~'I'he Balkan controversy flared up in the United Nations again today when the Unitod States proposed that the Security council call on the general assem- bly to find a solution to the dis- pute between Greece and her Sov- iet satellite neighbors.

The United States manoeuvre was intended to remove technical obstacles. under the UN. charter. which might stand in the way of assembly action. 1t was expected to run into immediate opposition from Soviet RUIN. whiQ last year vetoed a lrnilar move to ask for asscnbly action on the lpau- ish question.

The ohartar jn-ovidsa that the assembly may discuss matters which are under active considera- tion by the Security Council, but may not then act on them with- out a Qscific request from the council. '

The United States had been ex- pected to follow the procedure fin- ally adopted in the haniah cass

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h! strike the Balkan question from

A General Sansom Nominated For gYork-Sunbury

GEN. E. W. SANSOM

FREDERICTON, Sept. 11-(0?) -1>rogressive Conservatives of York-Sunbury tod-ay chose Lt.- Gen. E. W. Sansom. D.S.O., retir- eticanadlan army officer, as their candidate in the Oct. 20 Federal by-election called to fill the parliamentary vacancy leftby the death of Fisheries Minister Bridges last month.

The contest will become three- cornered with selection of Liberal and C.C.F. candidates Saturday. Dr. Milton-F. Gregg. retiring pre- sident of the University of New Brunswick and successor to Mr. Bridges in the fisheries post, is expected to be the Liberal stand- ard bearer.

Gen. Sansom was defeated by Mr. Bridges in the 1945 general elastic» after tile Conservative party had held KYEHi-Sun ufy since 1921- A C.C.F‘. candidate trailed in the 1945 vote.

The names of 12 men were of- fered ln nomination today and i0 were withdrawn. Geri. Sansom received a majority vote over Ford Messer, former York County member of the New Brunswick legislature.

Gen. Sansom promised his sup- porters “a real fight. until the last ballot is cast.“

Speakers compared the by-elec- tlon with those held in Grey North and St. John-Albert when Garfield Case and D. King Haz- en, Progressive Conservatives, de- feated Llberai candidates "drawn from the Progressive Conservative ranks."