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CHARLOTTETOWN. CANADA. SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1942

ovicts Announce Imposing List 0f Yigtories

Japs

Burma Drive

u Headed Towards China

_ Chinese reinforcements stream down

Burma Road in supreme attempt to block back door threat.

Moon Staff Writer

qnuuckiuq, oilins. May 1- _ h , dangeied as u) F!“ c mt JTPRIICSQ back-

. uliorcemcfl

urnli Road today‘ in a supreme Mm p, step t e Japanese coi- ,,_ n; mglng through northeastern

I r. in due north from captur- Nyiél-llfc. where the Mandalay , mm meets the twlsti .. t; through the moimta n5. ipanese readied tlie vicinity “t, 32 miles northeast of Lash- b.1911; thc Burma road. 11.. Chinese high command said . -. t that. the Chinese defenders ._. holding steadfast in the Hsen- gctor tinder heavy pressure, and . the south-bound re-

flom Gum's Yunnan Pro-

‘ llcaded For China.

411mg appeared m doubt. now. tut the Japanese were going all tut to reach Chlnifs Yunnan bor- fir. which is 40 miles east. and 55 allies north c! lscnwl.

trot some time informed outn- ion his inclined to the belief that the Japanese drive through cast- crn Bum-u was aimed at China. rather than in preparation fol- a rstward lliitRCk out Intvga. At their

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great ire H-enwt (Continued in page 9. Col a)

ar—25 Years ltgo Today

(By The Canadian Preaa)

MAY z. tom-British destroyer Ink by mlllc in English Channel Iilh ion oi 52 llvcs French and Oerlmn gullllcrs engaged in heavy "till"! duel on the Aislie and Itrlh of Relma >

"A? 3. " ‘sh attacked .. Canadians captur- ltFrcsnoy and Bufecoort fall- if‘! to tile Australians: counter- ltrclti by two dlvsicns of one

Slllll Guard repulsed with m? ibfiifi-i N-zw Greek cabinet ‘(Pd with Alexandra Zalmis as lftmlcr.

totningql-Edvcbts

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Wik? P M at E-lvc Houses. Justin ' m5 L-lllfinu.

"Rulllw-‘XB istvlTihillity social [ll iillS (Wtllitlg 6.15 5-2-11. ‘Baldy and Dance at St. Teresa's “m, “5- Mfly 5th. Webster's

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lnl;'bfi“°§lalti liimcrald Hall’ Wed- mflrau Augmgegl. clMulliglhla-n s 0r- c-so-st.

"Cherry Valley Y. a u present gins 3.305 °°mtoy Uncle Josh Ber- che" v cdnesd . Ma 0th at

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Forest fires lieliberately Set, belief

BOSTON. May 1 --(AP) - Reports piled up tonight that a score of flrcs which broltc out. suddenly In New England wood. landa within a 24-hour period were deliberately set.

Damage was estimated unof- ficially ut well above $2,000,- 000. Even before all cf the blazer were reported checked, at least tomporriiv. the army Intelligence, federal and stale officials sent investigators Into the burned areas,

Governor Howard McGrath 0f Rhcde Island. after viewing army aerial photographs of the worst fire. which awcnt a 40- aquarc-mllc area In the south. western part of that state, said he was convinced the fire did not originate from a single blaze.

Massachusetts’ conservation commissioner, Raymond J, Kenney, declared that hla ag- ents had found evidence that some oi‘ the fires in the state were "deliberately set."

New Hampshire state police Ilrcbed the possibility of in- cendiarlsm ln flrcs near Peter- boro and Swanson after they found a balloon with an extin- Illlshed candle attached to it.

At least l4 fannsteads and summer cottages and 1,500,000 hoard feet of government-star- erl lumbc were destroyed by flumta which raged for hours lhftlllffll the Coventry-West Greenwich acctlon of Rhode Is- land. Governor McGratb [flac- r-rl ‘"47! those towns undcr mar- tial law.

Coleman becomes ti. P. ll. President; Beatty resigns

MONTREAL. May 1—'(CPI-D, C. Coleman today brcume Pres- ident of tlic Canadian Pacific Rall- way Company succeeding sir Ed- wird Batty in ore of the biggest transportation 1o s in lhcfworld.

Sir Edward. who resigned be- cause of l.i-.’ic:-i-". reulaliis chair- men ct’ tle brawl.

Speaking of sh- E word's illness viii ctl brgali lna:c lll:li a year ago a company announcement. said it was bvcuglit on "by over-exertion." Hwcvel- tticre had born a marked lmtrcvcmenl in recnt months but his doctors ad s11 h'm that cem- plcte recovery covld only be reach- ed if he abitiriclvti some nf his rrspiusbllllies.

Anton Kfriiléli“ Bomb Jap ’Dr0l1le

UNITED NATIONS HEADQUART- ERS. Australia, May 1 — (AP) - Allicd arirnen swept. down on an enemy airdrome at Lae in New Guinea Th1 , bombed and machine-gunned 30 planes lined up on thc ground in a surprise attack and roared olf after start-mt num- erous la ge tires, a communique a11- nounced tzday.

In another raid on Balamaua, I0 miles to the south. other Allied bombers shot down three Ja ancse dcfendlngu planes. and then un cadecl 1.33:: exp oslvea on ground installat-

Allied losses were described as slight In the commlullqize from Gen. Duglaa MacArthurb headquarters. ltmentioncd no opposition by the Ja anoac at Lac, indicating thc ra dera found the Japanese un- DYBPMed despite almost daily Allied will on the area.

Minors want Blast probed

N. 5., Hay 1 -

MUILAI/ION, t (OP)—MlMl‘s 0f the Allan Shlfi

loalon occurr Mines Minister today they would not a “thorough blalt

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held.

The mine has been Idle nlnca the

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ance of further gaa. No!‘ one was lniured tn thc explosion.

VIII

tilaim Hitler’s Spring plans lire punctured

Spring Drives Were Underway By This

Years.

B Eddy Gilmore Aaaoclaied Press Staff Writer

KUIBYSHEV. May 1-0.?)- ‘Hie guns; the bombs and the bay- onets of the Red Army hi"? punctured be 0nd repair Hitler's vaunted spr ng offensive plans. the Russians declared on this May Day in announcing an imposing list of new Soviet victories by land and sea.

To the sountrws workers arid fighters Jowph Stalin broadcast a message of confidence. the army newspaper Red Star praised the armed forces for “converting into a fable" Hitler's early offensive preparations and the Moscow radio announced these victories for Bov- iet arms:-

‘Ilie sinking 0f a. German bat.- tleslilp-the first thus far by thc Russians-by the Red Navy‘; Bai- tic fleet.

A total or 58.000 Germans killed or wounded and 24B enemy planes destroyed in April on the Innin- grad front alone.

In a resume of the Baltic fleets operations-presumably since the warts start-the radio announce- ment listed 44'? German ships de- stroyed, including ttle battleship, a cruiser. 16 destroyers, 18 submar- ines. 1a torpedo boats and 114 transports.

The name of the battleship re- ported sunk or the date of its de- struction was not. given.

tlcships. two pcckct battleships.»

Sc-vlet. almien and anti-aircraft were

gunners of th~ Baltic fleet credited with having downed 72! enemy planes.

Rod Stal- tauntingly recalled that in the past German spring drives were under way by May 1 and pointed to the lack of grand scale operations now.

It- added that. no doubt. the Ger- maiis intend an offensive stme- thus bllt that so fer as any saving thrust ls concerred it. is only a myth.

30 ‘French Officers Reported Executed

MOSCOW, May 2~(Saturday)— tAPi-Jfhirty French officers have been executed In Germany as sus- pected accomplices in thc escape cf Gen. Henri Giraud from the Ger- nlali prison at Koeliluut/cin, a Tass élsoatch from Stockholm said to-

ay.

’illc Moscow radio broadcasting thc l'(‘|l0l'i. stlirl a special Nazi com- mission headed by gcstapo chief Heinrich Himmler arrivcrl ‘irr Dre:- dcil to inquire into tlic circumstan- ces of General Girautfs escape.

(Giraud has been reported in Vichy since his escape vla Switzer- land. hilt Vichy officials have re- fused to confirm or deny his prrs- cnce thcreJ

News. Briefs

OTTAWA. May I-(Cfi- Conservative members of the Commons will await the count cl‘ the soldiers’ vote before caucualng on the attitude tho official (apposition wlll take as a result of plebiscite, It was learned from Informed Conservative sources today.

OfITAWA. May 1 -— fCPl-‘Net revenue of tfie Canadian Na- tional Railways for tlie first quar- ter of i942 was 84.500000 ln excess of the same period in 1941, R. C. Vaughan, C.N.R., president, told the railway and shipping commit- tee of the House of Common late today.

RIO DE JANEIRO. May 1- fAPl-Trcsldent Getulfo Var- gaa suffered cuts which re- quired hospital attention in an automobile accident today while enroute from Vllfllrb! Pctropolla to Guanabara Pal- ace bore.

atom-amp. my 1-—(¢P>—'1‘he Queen's Canadian Pond for Air Raid Victims. "at the desire of the Department of National War Services". will send 813-000 i0 All!" trails to bring aid to Canadian refugees there. it. was announced 00d!!-

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egpngps England _. (c p) __ 14x11 policemen on their beat; arc proudly J (""011 bruised and battered are" l" g bod u, ace, Members of l Clvl Defence unlt._thcy repulsed ‘if

mmmanoo raid on the

headquarters and mapped up "(if "friendly" attackers lli hand-t - band street fiahtinl

rAt last accounts Germany had three bat- building and bwo

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War Situation Last Night

41h

(By KIRKE L. SIIVIPSON. Associated Press War Analyst)

Pcrtents cl’ the Hitler-Mussolini meeting are clear even If doubt re- mains as to what was actually said and done.

_ In Ilne with every_ Illtler precedent, the Salzburg session must be

Polmt out G e r In a n vlelvcd as a curtain raiser for the Axis effort to regain the Initiative ln

the European war zone, primarily ln Russia. It means In all likelihood

that. days at M081» P611111" only hours, will elapse before Hitler shows

his hand.

_ This May day week-end would sec the onset of what even Nazi Tune In F o r m e r spokesmen now admit will be an Axis “last supreme effort for vilcloryl’. That was the way Hitler's labor captain, Robert Ley, put it i111 a. May

day appeal to Gen-min war workers. t t l

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Hitler's reasons for summoning ‘his Italian vassal to Sulzburg for orders instead of granting him the appearance of equality by staging the conference on tbcJGermau-Italian border would make interesting reading if known. It ls a. striking departure from custom, for Lie-r.

ever since Munich, has sought to an ally, not a mere Nazi puppet-

prescrve the fiction that Italy “'11s

Il Duce came and went at Salzburg, then announced to the uurld what. lt had no reason to doubt-that. there hat] been a complete meet-

ing oI’ minds on Axis strategy. That was a foregone conclusion there was only one mind Involved-dimers. I Q U i l

In fact that Salzburg. not historic Brenner

since O

Pass or some ulllcr

Gemian-Italian frontier site. was the conference point distinctly dots not tend to sustain rumors of such extreme war disaffection {tn Italy that an Italian separate peace move might be stirring. Had Hitler had any reason to fear that. he would have lost no chance to window-dress his meeting with Mussolini in some fashion to bolster Il Dune‘: prestige

at home, not. weaken it. Kc might stead of Austria.

have culled the session in Italy lul-

Thc Axis conferem met with Joseph Stalin's May day order to Red armies to achieve victory this year ringing ln their ears. U II Ii I I U

Stalin proclaimed that the Russian armies

were stronger today

than when the war started, both ln trained manpower and in fighting equipment. It was. he said, Germany and her puppet allies. not Russia

which had been bled white in the

struggle. He was wholly complaiccnt

over the flow of Anglo-American war aid‘ to Russia for all llltler has

been able to do to stop it.

There was a highly significant absence of mention either in the Stalin May day oulgivving or at Salzburg of the Axis third pafly—,]3p3n, It is to bolnferred that whatever llopc Berlin and Rome may have hull of immediate Japanese intervention against Russia has waned. Prob- ably that depends on how the great Nazi offensive against Russia goea

when it does start.

Report Marked Change ’

In

President i“

Rooseuiélit

NeWSpapernien report F. D. R. bubbling over with good humor; Gives impression has

found solution to problems.

(By J. F. Sanderson. Canadian Press Staff Writer)

WASHINGTON. May l—-(CP)— Wusiiiligtoli newspapermeli who sce President. Roosevelt twice :1 week at his plcss conferences agree that. lli the past two or three weeks a marked change has come over him-tie is bubbling over with good humor. lie fairly exudes con- fidence and lie gives tile impres- sion of a man who finally has secn through the toughest. prob- lem he has evor faced.

This clizingo in thc Preslticili became noticeable t-wo Ol‘ three wccks ago but today it is in- anyclie who has bet-n in contact with illm for u period of months or years. He gives all the cuuvard sizns of a man, charged vrit-li terrifying re- sponsibilities. who has found the solution to tils problems, a man who sees thc road ahead straight. and true to his g0al.

Reasons for Good Splrlts

1t. is impossible to list all the factors and clrculilstailcrs that brought. back the twinkle to the Roosevelt eye 01' thc reappear"- ance of the well-known Roosevelt laugh but among them are the following-

1. The United Nations finally are out-producing Germany, Italy. Japan and their captive states in essential was" supplies.

8. The military and productive machines of Britain and the Un- ited States and of Canada and the United States have been meshed.

3. Despite the acknowledged seriousness of the military situa- tion, particularly in the Far East and the question marks over- bacE§_tbs__Ru=s1iri_-_f12nt. and

(Continued on page I. Col b)

PDIIIDE EDWARD ISLAND VOTES 5 to 1

0n April _2'lth, 1942, the recorded chmoe of Islanders Ina 5 to 1 tn favour of Enter- Proof Indeed of

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llzlttlcsnake‘ Bob hangetl For murder

SAN QUENTIN, cant. May 1 __ itlPj-"Illvy housed ‘Rdltlfislithlte today for the lmudcr oi ills

lie rilctljust as lie said lie would ——.lripassl\e, ticrvclcss, with a ilait smile. -

“He was Robert S. James. 48. coll- vlcied llrLos Aligcles of slzlyuig his sixth wile by drugging hm‘ an‘, K111115001: tier foot into a box cf rat-Llesnnkcs and, wlicli that. failed to bring death. drowning her in n bathtub. The body then was placed face-down ill a garden p001, slmu. latms drowning by accident. The state said lle liopcd to collect $21.- 000 in lite lnsuralice- ‘Fliey llad been married tnrce months,

‘A prison coitlll rested against the wall as a guard led James into the execution chamber. a few seconds alter the scheduled exectltloti hour

0 a, tn. Tile guards and. tile ilmlkmall worked swiftly. At 10.011. hours the trap was sprung. Jfllfles died without. a struggle.

Eight Women Killed in blast; 10 are injured

MCKEEBPORT, Pa. May 1—-(AP) -—E'.ight. women were blasted to deem today and 1U others were in- Juied in an explosion which gutted tile mixing plant of thc Central Railways Signal Conlpany in w- joining Versailles borough,

A nuxture of potash and sulphur, which the 20 women in the steel and concrete, one-stores; building were making lnw torpedoes fm- railroad signal work, let, go n, 3,37 p. m.

Two-thirds of the BO-foot-lc roof were blown out along with the windows. Parts of bodes were ircatfiredi éaniomjandinl on the

Ill 0 111113 Baitimo mg‘ Obi? aaliroadh d n

V0 0 C mut. All bodieg we" taken to the Allegheny County morgue in Plttsbur . Two women died after being ta McKeem port hos ital.

A six victim. Ellaabeth Slaney. 19. a recent graduate of Mel! rt l-fiulh School, was identified by her fat. or Frank Slaney. superlntend. out of the plant.

36. and Roost. 30. both of Versailles, died in hoapltal of “shock and complete burns over tho entire bodiu." the mor ue

One of the bodies at was identified tentatively by er ‘ ‘ u Helen Bodnur.

An

Interest in Scouting may Set record

MR. J. E. STILES, DLBJZ.

“Scouting is going stronger than over." was. ‘.210 confident as- surance given by Ml‘. Jctlll _E. Stiles. LLBE, Ct-tief Executive Commissioner of tile Boy Scouts ili Canada, who arrived in Char- lottetown last. night. He is oll tcur of Eastern C-aliadn and came hero from Saint John. NB.

Stating that the iEITIDO is in- creasing, iie IJIJQGlCiICi that “i942 will be the greatest _vear in the history of Canadian scouting." A.- rendy there is evidence of a _35 par cent increase over the activity ci last. year, which was the busiest period. with the DLESIlJiG exception oi the summer the King and

- Queen visited here.

Commissioner Stiles also mint- ed out at. more attention is be- ing pai to the training of boys in those services matte necessary by the that‘. Re spoke of the im- portalicc of tile work being done by the boys to aid in All‘ Raids Precalltioll work. In blliS connec- tion. lie referred to the forth- coming visit of the four Bl-ltlsii Boy scout; who arc due to ccmc to this province Julio 25. They \\'lli spsuci several clays here and ltlcir talks should be of great in- terest to tilosc who hear tlicm. 1ft‘. silos pointed out that the four Scouts are typical British boys and lillvilig gone through the blitz "klicw “nereof they speak“.

Tile visiting CDIIIIIHSSIODPI‘ re- ferred briefly to some of the work done by thc Scouts to assist ill Catiadas Will‘ effort. He men- tioned particularly‘ tile gathering of an immense quailtity of medi-

cine bottlcs for tlic army, which

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(Continued tn page 9. Col B)

Boar]? requests S. S. Lovat call At this port

The Cilarlotletoivn Board of Tracie will press l0 have the S. S. Ulvat. make Cllarlotlntotvn a purl of call this sltlllnlcl". it was vltcltlcd at. a Council lllECiill: held ill The Char-lottctmvli yesterday afternoon. Tile steamer operates between Pic- tou, N. S.. Snuris. P. E. I. and the Magdalen Islands.

Iii former yours the boat made ollc trip each month to Halifax in addition to the lcgttlar run. This year. however. tllLq trip lit-ls bet". cancelled and ln licu of this the call to tilts port is requested. On sug- gestion of Mr. R. B. Mulch it was decided to ask to have the boat call at Cilarlottctovlli once racli week. alternating with a Sourls call. Up until present the boat has been calling at. Sourls twice a week. Un- clcl" the proposal it would only call once. and would call hcrc also once a week.

On motion of Mr. J. P. Crockett seconded by LL-Co. G. E. Full, the Board decided to ask thc Federal mpresciitatlve for Queen's County to endeavour to liavLillc steamer-

(Continued on page 9, Col 5)

Winnipeg Mourns Death 0i Lin-Col; J. L. R. Sutcliife

WINNIPEG, May 1 -(CPl -- Wtllnlpeg tonight. mourned ilie death of LL-Col. John Louis Rob- ert Sutcllfie, 44. officer commanding the Winnipeg Greliadlers and com- mandcr of all Canadian forces a‘. Hung Kong before its fail Dec. 25. 1941.

A telegram received by hi; will

ow, Mrs. Kathleen Jane Sutcllffe of Winnipeg, from the OfflB!" in charge 0f records at Ottavm incre- ly said Col. Butcllffea death from illness while a prisoner of war had been reported by the Internazional Red Cross from Geneva.

(Defence Minister Ralyon sn- nounced at Ottawa that. further- in- formation was being awaited.)

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Boston Bombers

Are Escorted By Fighter__Planes

Enemy activity over Britain was

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results l-t'ta.in-

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