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Has

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;Aid Great Britain f Would lease ti‘; materials un- der scheme; Details not settled.

landon hears llazi invasion jls scheduled

TOPEKA, K8!» Deo- 11- idPi-l-‘ormer Gov. Alf. M. Landon asserted today on his return from a Washington trip that "from reliable official source. ' was advised that Hit- ler pl i0 invasion the middle of Feb- ruary," The 1938 Republican presidenti I nominee said in an "interview e iqirid "a definite- y disturbed fee g in admin- ..sii'ation circles in Washington regarding failure to co-ordinate national defence activities."

iilar——25 Years Ago Today

7- (By The Canadian Pressi

D00. 18. INS-Intense artillery banlment on the Western t. Field Marshal Viscount

relinquished command of

British army in Flanders. French

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(BY 5- c- Silfi. Associated Press taff riter)

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WASHINGTON. Dec. l7—(A.P) —Prcaident Roosevelt tonight m- nounced a sweeping new plan go;- hilbtng Great Britain under which the United States Government would take over future British war orders and release the mater- ii‘.?.té%2.“‘°..:.'i;°i2 ti; “ m?“ °' kind after the war. ‘lewd m

Under the plan, planes and eguns, 101' 8x11111018. would be leas to Britain. After the war. if the were still in good condition. ritnin would be expected to give them back- If they had been destroyed. she would be obligated to furnish the United States with equivalent Wefllfions. The President likened it to a. mun lending a neighbor a hose to put out a fire in his house.

In a long discussion oi the pro- posal at his first press conference

since he returned from a. Carib-‘

bran cruise. he said it was still in the exploratory stage and would require time to work out both here and in London.

He did not go into details about the cost of the plan to the United States. except to soy that tnc Pnitteditstates has sufficient money o

o .

stressing that the best defence 0t’ the United states is to aid Greet Britain. Mr. Roosevelt dc- clored emphatically that his pro- posal would not take the country nearer to actual participation in the war.

Congress Will llear It

The plan, or something like it. he said. would be presented to the

cruiser destroyed Germ . plant at Catifa. on itie Syrian.

Coming Events

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"fairies-Spurn; Thursday. i L-459-l2-17-1i. "flames-Montague Friday and hturday. L-459-l2-17-1i.

"'Buytng poultry daily. dressed itllly. W. l. Bowman, Hunter River.

"Christmas Concert. Uigg School Kali. Friday. December 20th. L-517-12-18-lt.

"Bt. Catherines Christmas School Ooncert Saturday night, December itii. L-513-12-iB-li.

‘ "Orwell School Concert post- lloned until December 21st. L-5l0-12-18-1i.

"Mus River School Concert. Dec. .1901. Not tine. Decembe 20th. * L~390-12-14-18.

"Canoe Cove School Concert. fluidity. December ism. L-ZSG-IZ-ll-lii.

"Buying live hogs Friday, Dec. will. Mervin Bulman, Ray Bug- nail. Humor River. L-533-12-18-zi.

"Hunter River Christmas Con- Wi in the Masonic Hall on Friday. Wcfillbfil’ 20th. L-5l0-l2-18-1i.

"Come to Christmas Concert in

Fredericton Hall Thurd v Dec- ‘mbti 19th. L-ASS-IBIlZ-IT-Zi.

"Wirtstmas —Concert at North Wiliihiir. Dec. 19th

'L-534-l2-18-2t.

{Tcme to the Christmas Concert “metals Hall. Friday. December

LrlD-lfl-IB-ll.

"Plarisville school Christmas (ioncerti I-I tsi d

Miiibernaarhr. v n‘ Igiliillxgihillag:

ll h Christmas Concert in Bradal- ‘at’: H111 Wednesday. December -1f not fine Friday. L-WB-IZ-li-IG.

"(Min u htiae Co. w a atfili- huvlnz ressed pouitryfalli l. ton pr oes. Trv us

Ir-TGI-li-fliito Dec. :1

"Reserve P's-ids Dec 20th for chllitmas Concerz at Mt. Herbert °°i~ I! not fine Dec. 23rd.

[ri068-l2-2-18.

“Eldon School Co t a 1r t 811i. Friday Dece- lxaleoeritlthe air "°““Y- following nixatrlnt.’ '

L-sai-ia-ia-u.

"Mt miss Brackley Point

. Concert Thursday Decem- . Ii stormy Friday.

14-152-12-7-18-19

. °- °- Given. nis.‘i'ra?"°"" ‘many’

P “Buying n__%'

- ve and dre d poul- Ii¥.i1_a%fl€m:5-h;17£f?dly.ssl§ecern:ier Blamed A“ Murghysmmefiket pr ce. ' Is-Qll-ll-‘iil-li, C

has“ hive advanced ices on "l

Pd hi ‘or “fiimqlfttiolfinldt. Igwfiicireilelso: L-ciii-ll-lt-Si.

new Congres convening in Jan.

‘nary. But he said it involved no

changes in the Neutrality Act or the Johnson Law which forbids loans to debt-defaulting nations. The President described his ob- Jective broadly as the elimination oi the dollar sign in connection with help for Britain and substi- tution of u gentleman's obligation. Refusing to be drawn into a dis- cussion on whore the title of the goods would be. he declared that that is something ior the lawyers

Says Lloyd George declines Ambassadorshlp

LONDON. Dec. l8 -(Wed- nesdily) — iCl‘)- The News Chronicle said toslay that David Lloyd Georgr- had declined the ambassadorship to the United states, although pressed strongly by Prime Minister Churchill to accept.

Mr. Lloyd George, the paper said, refused the post in con- sifleratloli of nis advanced ago -'78.

Lang, night, an authoritative source said several days might be required to iiml the "idea!- ly suited" mnn for the job. uihirh was vacated by the re- rent death of the Marquess of Lothlan.

Ickes Claims Nazis Plan To CrippleIIze U.S.

Secretary of Interior says

sabotage and propaganda will be weapons.

NEW YORK. Dec. rt- Harold Ickes. secretary oi the Integer, ciiarsecl tonight that the Axis p n! to cripple the United States by 88- botalze. no sap it by propaganda abréd w drive a wedge of susptcionuun- tween the United States and -

Nfnarfipcccn before the Columbia University institute of Arts 11nd Science. Ickes arsed enrogéidwgshans-

5c . eriuins whom 1c ‘him he named

asers. Amonl Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. W110!“ he called a. "peripatetic eppeiwei‘

il urreuder his

Yiificwififi tiiiidi. ivt i: demanded.” Last September, Ickes said. 1-110 Nazis ln Los Anrzeles. at their meet- ing in the Deutsches Hans. offered their nomination for the president“! g; w‘; States to Col. Charles . ll - ~ "or course. I do not sov that the Colonel accopfrd 0F eve"

suited about this precious t.

Beaverhrook Sees invasion Before Spring

Asks Plane Builders to “Roll Out the Bomb- ers” to Help Meet Threat.-

LONDON. Dec. 17.— Beaverorook. Mlnlste Production. officially wamed Brit- ons tonight that Hitler is making preparations to invade Britain be- fore next spring. and called upon his plane builders to "roll out the bombers’ to help meet the threat.

Britain has won day-time com- mand of the air over the United mnsdom. uoru Beaverbrook said.

“ tn hlsproadcast he disclosed that

whirlwind" fighter planes had been aooed to me cpitnres. Hurri- canes and Detiams. which halve met the German air force. Nothing was cuvitseu about the new plane be- yond mere mention of its name and

type.

Lord Beaverbrook said the people oi lsritain are “much too confident" and that "ever-confidence" is not lustllieo now.

Germany is "making preparations for invasion of England before the spruigtune- by land and sea. but principally olcok declared.

‘mere are sure and certain signs o1 a ICVCYIcIhGGVCIODIXICIIE in alr- crlnt production in the Reich. he added.

"so we are warned. We know that saute measure 0f preparation was carried out in Germany last winter, ‘tanks and dive bombers to destroy the french; the some thor- oughness wilibe employed against us when the time comes."

Lord Beavcrprook. IUJAUXIR to the futui'e._sa.to 20.000 United States- puist Dishes win have reached Brit- ain uv i942.

he sato funerlcan Dlanes am ar- rlviuli now ‘in an increasing flow, very, very many of lilem." and praised, tne planes. especraty the Curtlss r-ail. wmcu he described BS iiiu equivalent 0i the Spitfire.

was con- eyes.‘

_tlie same iour AJDIILDS August-No- wmocf was ucupre mat oi. the same period last year. All aircraft lust uuruig inc iour months of the ba.tle of nritaln nau ocen paid for with suouc contributions.

"flllt. the main flow of money has been from overseas." he added. 'ine primeneed is ior more bomb. 9.8. lhat is where we wont to see lelltitv“ records. so roll out the bomb-

The Whirlwind fighter is one of , BHCXLIIS "hush hush" types and be- t ucveu one oi the fastest planes in i me world. Llltfi can be said of it . except that it incorporates ates. (li.‘Sli£llS_ and new features.

But it iS geuezally Dleblcted ln London that the name will becoite

by air." Lord Beaver-h

At iiume. production oi planes in .

m5 llilrty are safe."

his Ottnlra home. Em l’ lillliglii, n. dcslntzih from

u household word like Spitfire an; Hurricane.

een i1 Well-kept war secictoi which the Press As Donllent say.. "‘It is only one 0f the new type fighters and bombers which Brit- ain will throw into the forthcoming battle with the Germans"

Woodsman Drowned

INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn Dec. l7 -fAP) -Three Canndlai woodsmen drowned today when their truck, loaded with wool. broke through the ice oi Rainy Lake. One man escaped.

The dead: James Kimmons, 26. Fort Fhances. Ont, driver oi the truck; Fred Green, 20, Fort Pran- sg, and Ronald Gundrrscn, l9 La-

_ . b Existence of the Whirlwind has . Suggest

ution‘s air corres- -

Instead Of

Says big plant For Trenton

HALIFAX. Dec. l7--(CP)—Pre- micr A. S. ltiacMllltan said tonight he had lnfumatlon from Ottawa indicating $13,516,000 in capital ex- penditurc would be JWGSLEG in Trintrn, N.S.. in a plant for the manufacture oi war materials.

am aserelv statin a significant fact. After all. iindberah has been the proud possessor of a Hit- ler decoration for several years and his recent utterances, both at home and abroad. have not been oi a was that would persuade Nazi sym- pathtners in this country that he would not be susoeptllne to the flattery of a ‘nomination’ ior presi- dent at their hands. however ab- surd such a sture miaht be tnthc eyes of pat-r otic Americans." “The Axis plans are far-reach

and world-wide. The dictators pro- pose to cripple the United States ii

they con. One wav oi doing this goon: pe to damage the Panama ana

"If that were done. our fleet would be bottled up in one ocean and one of our coasts would be at the mercy oi the enemy. The Axis powers eye the canal with hungry,

The Premier said his information was that the plant would have an annual output valued at S2 801,000.

(The Premier dd not indcate whet/her or not the Plant would be a new one. t alterations have bcen underway irr some time st the Trenton Steel Works. owned by the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company.) '

Premier MacMillan also said con- tracts amounting to 94.615000 had been let among Nova Scotta con- cerns ior the manufacture of shells and other munitions work. The contract- went to the Trenton Steel Works. the Maritime Steel and Foundry Limited. at New Glas- gow and the Robb Engineering Works at. Amherst.

STUDENTS GET PAMPHLE!‘ '

MONTREAL. Dec. '1 --(CP) - Students at McGlll University said tonight the pamphlets attacking Canada's war effort had been dis-

salad‘ it hail been learned nuihnritntliciy that Ml‘. lioul- hurl I l ' u . - . . . , i. ‘a.

sue y ill n. Butlsir port. Bclurc that, anxiety hull bran linifig hourly in W p5,. the absence of official word of his safety.

CHARLOTTETOWNiCANADA, wapNEspAmIIpEcsiviBaR 1s, 1940

traumas “ENRUUTE T0 new

Canadians Safe

MUNITIONS lillNlSTEll. c. p. nowa

OTTAWA» DPB- 17--(CP)-—l’rin1c Minister Mackenzie King- tonight received definite word from London that Munitions Minister llowe and three of his department officials, passengers aboard the liner Western mm" when 5h" W“ lflffledoed last Saturday,» are safe.»

A spokesman said that "we haven't much definite information, but the Prime Minister hos received word from London thni Mr. Howe and 'UOIlill’lOl‘|\V

lie sold that the Minister. and his three executive assistants ('nl. W C. i-Voorlwnrd of‘ Vancouver, lion. Gordon Scott of Montreal and E. I‘. 1313101‘ 0f Thrvhiii. "have not landed yet." l _ Th" lllflil-dclaycd news from London ivas a joyous climax lrime Dilmstcrs 66th hirihriuy, which ire

to titl-

Tiic Ctinuallzul I'm-as London bureau

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Wage

Increases For Labor

OTTAWA. use. l.'.—iCP)-A sys- tem cf ‘rost-of-ilvnig" bonuses in- s...io cf page IUCIcJSEsJBS a ltl0ll1l$ o1 lnotcutrng worker's from any sllnrp use ill tile acst of tsseilnrus. t5 recommended in an order-m- council flu-oiludll 1-. the Jbyvaht-ll of conciliation pcnrds and muclc pub- llc tonight bv moor Minister ulc-

natty. The order accepts present page leve.s as "reasonably adequate‘ nnd

presciuoed the nvertsze evcls ior ivzo-zo inclusivc. or ‘any htiziier levels since established. \vi.h cei-

tain exceptions. as the basis for re- commendations by boaros set up under the industrial dlSpui-vs "W95- tigatlon act.

These principles are recommend- ed by t-he government “for lncusiori ln all agreements negotiated oluiing

the war."

The new order is. in effect. a wartune measure. It evidences. ec- cording to the official announce- ment. "the government's concern to forestall a runaway rise in prices."

The wartime prices and trade

board. set up at the start oi the war. has power to control and reg- ulate the rise in cost oi living and the new order is an effort to bring about conditions which will keep wages within reasonable bounds. yet sun-rd a the worker betnil the vlctlrn of high llvingoosis. " The order speclficalv states that no lowertna of wages from present levels should result ivy reason of any oi the principles it sets out.

Boards of conciliation set up under the Industrial Disputes In- vestigation Act shall be guided l1! the recommend tit-r.» contained in

tributcd to many of their number .

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LU§SU

CANADA M

LOUR

Ll BAKiNG

‘British place Financial cards 0n the table

LONDON. Dec. 17——(AP)— (Alfl-London political circles tonight interpreted the news that Britain has asked the Un- ited States for financial aid as “merely pursuing the policy of

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placing our cards on the table."

The British viewpoint was that “financial aid" was an "unfortunate" c h oi c e o i phraseology for what really ‘V would ‘ o “ ' cn- __ . . . "W"

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Annual Subscription Delivered, “.00. By Iails lhlJ-s “.005

ITALIANS

Canada and ILI. Q00

British-“Iirive Continues On Italian jail

Mechanized units reported to be attacking Bardia;

operation between the Britisl Empire and America."

It was suggested that such “co-operation" might take the form of buying from Britain large quantities oi rubber and tin and paying for them in ad- vance or granting credits to the Canadian Government.

One point on which general qreemcnt was expressed by British sources was that Bri- tain has ordered presumably as much as she can pay for with “hard cash" and the abil- ity to “pay across the coun- ter" is reaching a visible end.

First Maritime Air Training

i‘ School at Mon

celebrated quietly tnrluy in m

arrived .

School ‘to open

cton to Commence Opera- tions Next Week.

Word has be l _ lJ sartmcnt or N.iticna.._ uJo-lttct; Littiiinél. tllfli. me first Air Fiviiiiilii-

. - . .- _ biilltllil to no client-u lathe t\“t.i.i_ time rruvnlccs. ulltLl Lne butch l Air ‘tiailllilu Hillil.

will common _ Nu, 8 cicrvice __ _ sunset at wiouctcn. Ne- will recent. ‘l.s lust nss of siuuoni bllvih 011 annual". lJc-C. 2.4 iiirsc students» "ivll. time comuieted tile l)l‘lilltll’\' ‘stage oi their illciu tnslrucilinl at; ltllt,‘ nlciueiltury sums: llflliiilil-f .~ s_ uno will, oi uirilctcn. iam- upon intermediate and Ad- tYilliltllll. for a pcriori Q1 l2

drool at Mouutsn ilus been ‘u us a uiiiuiilg centre cx- ‘ h» iul luturc Ucliltifi’ pilots. ‘uracil ltlLillla tnut ill; rttLCriitL with . . , _ , , . - l WlltCil llic cttlUUi is cuuipuui ib it"! lAVro AtlSOllJl tuuli-ehuiiicd. plnnc cl lsiltlsn design. the Anson. ‘ a most stable alrciait. Will tarry Hi. |cicw oi three or icui at n Lops 1 of loll miles uu hour. Willie in. tof l .lie AllSOlls now .11 use in panama lnerc ulicillv c1‘ party bllllL ill Ian!- iand. arrangements have been made recemlv for their construction in canurnun aircraft factories. i Any official ceremony in connec- tion Willi the opening of the school uilbc deferred until some time in January. v (the schcol is one of l6 Service Flying Training schools. to which class the one now lleilfllli! comple- .ion at St. Eleanors belongs)

CD051‘

NEW YORK, Dec. 17.— (GP) —- The “terrible urscncy" of increasing war production in the United States if ureat Britain is to receive ade- quate aid m time. is beuul driven into the American consciousness.

The words "terrible urgency’ were used by William B. Knudsen. fence Commission Production Chief at Wuhtmton, in demanding “ impossible" of UnitcdStates industry because the situation demands it.

The import of two words has had an unmistakable effect on the Am- erican citizen's attitude toward the aid his country is giving Brita-tn.

It has been brought home to him ,

that bottlenecks exist in the de-

fence program, that Britain needy

more help and faster help. Today's news. both from London and Washington, confirmed the ur- zoncy of the situation and. dramati- cally. was heralded by President

Roosevelt's plan for leasing or.

mortgagina United States war equipment to Britain. a plan cer- tain to stir controversy across the country.

This news was written against a

background. not of British success ‘

lIl Libya and Anglo-Greek success

in Albania. but of significant slate-

manriliii.

CfifilIHANl. w l'.‘._"'rii’ BURDEN

Brig-Gin. Eric fit

McC tiaig. com- Peta wawa military

camp. has been transferred to the pas: of ctminanziztnt at Camp Bor-

_ __ I s en received tloui llic |

announced at Ottawa Loo. now commandant will remain lilere for The announcement

had become Cari-

Windsor would Accept position

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Dstl. 1T. —lAP) —~ s “Jllfiii L0 wave ..c nuke of Wind- nu Muillfl accept the

ttlllcllt at a press - . u Axel Wanner-

it QUULHCYI] Cross. stiort- oil tile return voy- ‘lhc yacht brought t. uticmss licrc a week

apparently lulv re-

covered it n the major ciental 0p- , crittlon tliut necessitated their

visit

here. stood pesidc the Duke on the

‘deck to ucknowledue the

partinR

carers of u large t-royrd on the bier.

itv oi lvliumr Band struck up "God . ‘slave tile limo,“

Both stood erect as the Univers-

uncl the United

Lillie.» NllllCllfll Anthem lust as the

vIéQOI-I Urgency of More

Aid to Britain Knudsen’s W655 having

effect on U. S. Citizens attitude towards questi

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rnents that Germany would not

wait until spring to attempt an in-

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O11.

. ‘Sharp advance

In fur prices At Edmonton

I1DMONTON. Dev. ll-till’) —sliarp advances in fur prices were registered at the fur sale conducted by the Edmonton Auction Solos. The sale was attended by buyers from New York and liaistrrn (fanadn.

The silver for collection was G5 per cont solrl at an average advance of about 25 “per cent

nvcr December. ... prices Selected full silvers reached $515.50: regular full and three- qunrtcrs S‘!!! to S38: inferior Si] in SIG.

Sr-rw-viyv-t-iclii prr rcni of

thi- mink. VI'l‘l'i\~l‘5\l<f‘li cnlicr- lion “'11s solri. advancing in nrii-r- about 5 per cont. Extra forge and largo reached $20.50. .\\'r‘r.'l'ff‘ lots Si! to S16.

l’ win iiti\'""r".‘ri '25 ner cent with top- sclling at $1.38. The

' entire collection was sold.

Frontier Forts fall.

NEW YORK. Dr-c. l7—l.\l’) —-'l‘lie Columbia Broadcasting Company's correspondent in Belgrade declared in a broad- cast tonight from that Balkan capital that more than 50.000 German troops have moved quietly into Italy presumably to embark for Libya and Albania. to aid Italian forces, accord-

ing to information reaching highly reliable sources in Yugoslavia.