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THREE - POWER CONFERENCE ENDS IN FAILURE

Four S‘side Citizens See “Flying Saucer"

Report-downing Street Takes Pessimistic View

(ly The Associated Press)

IONDON. Jilly 2—A high Gov. ernment source said today that Downing Street was extremely pessimistic despite plans of Brit- ain and France to go ahead without Russia on the United States program of economic aid to Europe.

This source frankly admitted the possibility that an effective program for continental recovery might easily fail without the sup- port of Russia and the Soviet-or- bit countries. '

As s result, he said, Britain lg ready to slash "really drastically" her entire overseas buying pro- gram if the plan of State Sec- retary Marshall falls through

Shortly before the break-up of the Paris meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison an-

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Coming Events ‘ "Cardigan Picnic, July 16th.

"Movies Bresdslbsns Thursday night.

Wednesday,

"Cardigan Picnic, Wednesday, July 16th.

"Ice Cream. dance, Iona Hell Friday night.

"Reserve Tuesday, July 16th

"Collecting Hogs for Canada Packers each Tuesday. Earl Jay.

"Talkies St. Peter's Bay Thurs- day, 3rd. "Forever And _A Day".

"Show — Bridgetown Saturday, “Girl of tha Liimberloat."

"Regular Dance tonight, Sea Breeze Pavalion. Dancing from 9 till 1. i

"Indian River, Kenslngion play advertised for Kinkoru, July 4, is postponed.

"Reserve Wednesday. Aug. 6th for Si. John's Church picnic, at Crapaud.

"Reserve Wednesday. July 16. for ice cream social in Cornwall Hail.

"Dance. Baldwin's Road School Friday, July 4th. Webster's Orch- estrs.

for Canada afternoon

"Collecting Hogs Packers each Tuesday W. Crane.

"Ice Cream Festival and Dance in Si. Ann's School July 4th. in aid oi Soft Bail Team,

"Open for Business Harness Repair Shop. Panker, Nortih Wlltshire.

--- Shoe and Hhilllp

"Picking up Hogs at Penkcs Sta- tion each ‘Thursday for Canada Packers Ltd, Merlin Devine.

"loading Hogs at Montague Station each Thursday for Canada Packers Lid. S. C. McLean. Phone

"Annual Meeting Dundas Cem- etery (Acorn) Wednesday, July 9th. 8 o'clock at Cemetery.

"Loading Hogs at Cardigan Sta- iftioo each Thursday for Canada Packers Ltd. NOlmlll McKenzie Cardigan.

"Indian River and Remington Girl Guides Concert in King George Hall. Thismiav. July 3rd. 8.30 P. M.

"Collecting Hogs for Canada Packers "eudlmTifPifilY- $181116 David Pratt.

"Bee Csnoa Cove Players present ‘Danny Boy", North Wilishire Hall. ‘Thursday. July ans. Dance after,

r - ‘misusing Board loading Hogs at Charlottetown Thin-sday afttnoon and Friday morning this week.

"Don't miss the big dance in MacDonald Brothers‘ new theatre. Mt. Stewart, Thursday. July 8rd. Rollie "MacKeusiefii Orchestra.

"Rfltiilll-r Dance. Monffllll? Curling Rink ovary flsursdny- Al- Blsncriordu Orchestra. Modern and Old Tine.

"Collect Hogs cad! ‘Tamil! for Cmoda lckrrs from Vernon River, UQ, Elliotvale, Surnrr-Of- vlle, , vond Ill Gloygqyg, ‘ Len. Vail’!!!

Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, rriuasoAy, JULY a, 1941

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Bishop Boyle To Attend Congress

(GP) — Most Rev James Boyle Rey. GL. Landry, Bishop of Hearst, Ont. will return to their native diocese i0 porticipat» in the diocesian Eucharistic Congress at nearby ‘rracadle Aug. l3. announced today.

iiov't_ Upheld In" Commons Vote

OTTAWA, July 2 -- A minor Government bill to authorize the Crown-owned Canadian Commer- cial Corporation to buy supplies for the Defence Department ran into strong Progressive Conserva- tive opposition today and plunged the Commons into time-consum- ing legal argument and a record- ed vote.

The division came when Pro- gressive Conservative members op- posed second reading of the bill. but. it passed this stage by a count of 110 to 42-lndicatiniz ap- proval of the principle-with the C CF‘. and Social Credit groups voting solidly with the Govern- ment. .

The bill lriter received third and final reading

Leader of the opponents to the measure was John Dicfenbrilzer. la n l; y progressive Conservative lawyer-member from Lake Cen- tre. who argued that the corpor- ation did not have the power to make the Purchases en ,_i-he legislation-mould enable’ Gov- ernment to "circumvent" the Civil Service Act and “evade” the vet- erans preference.

u. s. ilas First Surplusln i7 Years

WASHINGTON. July fl—(AP)-— A $763,787,060 surplus, the first in 17 years, was chalked up by the United States Government for ihe i947 fiscal year ended Monday.

Treasury Secretary Synder aa- nounced today that the surplus was applied on the notional debt, helping to reduce it to $258,375,- 903203 as of Monday night.

The nearly $764,000,000 excess of Government income over spending during the last 12 months was an improvement oi belier than $21,- i00,000,000 over the I946 fiscal year.

ANTTGONIHH, NS., July 2 _

Bishop of Charlottetown, and Most

it was

Four citizens of Summersida ra- port sedng a bright luminous ob- ject. travelling at great hail in the air on Tuesday wooing which could have been one of the so-calied "flying saucers" report- ed having been seen a few days ago in the Western States and Western Canada.

The four, Dr. and Mrs. C. K. Ounn, and Mr. Roland Phlli-pson and his daughter, Miss Ann Phi1lpson_ were travelling in an automobile on the paved highway at North Bedeque when Miss Philipson spied the object in the sky. She called it to the attention of the others in the car and they all saw it quite plainly travelling in a. southerly direction.

Mr. Philipson described it as being s. shapeless object that glis- tened and gleamed in the bright sunlight. He said it appeared to be from two to four thousand feet in the air and was visible for fully thirty seconds before it dis- appeared in the distance.

Mrs. Gunn said that her hus- band stopped the car and they all viewed it for about a minute. I‘ passed through a small cloud and looked like a, large silt‘ ll l‘. travelled across a clear sky into the distance. It made no noise they said |and distinctly did not.

have the appearance of an air- plane as they noticed a plane shortly after.

Both Mr. Philipson and Mrs Gunn stated that. all four oi them are sure that they saw something unusual but they cannot explair. what it was. They had read of the "flying saucers" that had startled some people in the West and thought that it might be one of them.

Mr. Philipson. is manager of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board office in summerside and presi- dent. oi the local branch of ihe Canadian Legion. Dr. Gunn is supeilnten eni. of the, Dbiiiinioe Experimen al‘ Fork Farm here.—S.

Halifax To Build Ships For Argentina

BUENOS AIRES, July 2 —-(A1') -A $7.000.0o0 contract for ti: construction in Halifax, N S. fr the Argentine Government oi th to cargo ships with passenger accom- modation was signed l-leiw.» today The contract was signed by (la Eximia C0nil7dny of Buenos Airis on behalf of the Halifax Ship- yards, Limited who will build ihe vessels. and by the Navy hiinistr}, on behalf of Argent-ine...

MORE BRITISH HOUSE

LONDON, July 2— (Reuters)- Latest figures in Britain's hous- ing drive show 16,174 homes built in May-highest monthly total since the end of the war. MHY’: figures bring the total since the building drive started in April, 194.5, to 87,819 completed houses.

In ‘U. S.»

WASHINGTON, July 2 -(AP)— An ail-out coal strike in the Unit- ed States apparently was averted, today when John L. Lewis and] negotiators for a large pert oi the

"Indian River-Kensington Dra- inatic Club have postponed their play "The Luck of the Irish" in Kinkora Hall from July 6 h July ll.

"Attsnd Hospital dance held regular Thursday nights. Matthew Ar McLean's warehouse. Souris. Old time dancing,,Chaisson's Or- chestra. Modern dancing Cliff Peters’ orchestra featuring Les Alexander.

"We cannot accept any more sawing to be done before we close our mill for repairs except what we have booked at present. As soon as repairs are completed we

will be sawing as usual. James Smith, Clinton. "All interacted in securing a

doctor for New Glasgow and sur- iroimdingwlistrlcts please attend the mesfinfl It New Gllsircv: Hall Fri- day, July 4th, at 8.30 P. M. A good prospect in view. Blamed Com- rnlttw,

"Leaking Roofs. When attending the Circus Saturday. PM" 7°" order for U. B, Asbestos Roof Coat- ing Cement. Black. Red and Green. Plastic Cement, Exterior House and Barn Paint, Asphalt Protective Oil for wood shingles and posts, Paint (in, mrponiine, Vnrsol and Roof Brushes. J. J. Stewart. 0 P061"! Central Creamieries, (lhsrlot town. Distributor United Builders Stqrrar and Connors Products fa Prinm

Edward Island.

“Believe Coal Strike

ls Aves-ted

bituminous indiuitry reached a tentative agreement granting Lovrlg big concessions. ,

However, many other operators still were balking at the torrm and the prospect remained that their mines would stay closed when the miners’ present holiday ends July 8.

Mtar secret moses-anus h a br iei room, tsha iollowing mooni- meni. was issued:

"Negotiators ior DOrHTITI emi- mcrcisl coal operators and the captive mines. together with rep- resentatives of the United Mine Workers, announce that s tentative agreement in principle has been reached subject to the terms o! a written con-tract and subject to the approval oi the parties."

A Union official said that chase parties produce about one-tihis-doif the country's annual output oi 620.- 000,00o tons oi’ bituminous The captive mines radon-ad to in the aternsnt are mines owned by steel composites, which use the coal in making steel.

The terms of the tentative agree- ment were not announced but were understood to grant Lewis's full wags demands. and perhaps other concessions.

He asked for‘ a SB-cent hourly pay increase-from 811.65 to $13.06 a day-for one hour's less work each day. Under his plan, the Qiift would be out from nine hoius to eigiht hours, including the one hour allowed for imdergrotnd travel at time and one half.

The tentative accord followed conferences between Lewis and representatives of the United Stat- es Steel Corporation and the Pitts- burgh Consolidation Coal Oom- pany, the world's largest bltlnirs-

lilystericus Death

Valulr Vnndebelt COCIMANE, Ont., July 2 - (OP) - After four hours of grlli- lng, police said today that five persons attencing a party which ended abruptly with the death of Valair Vanclebelt, 22-year-old Tor- onto nurse, were “not c.ear” on what occurred.

Indicating their iavestigutlon is reaching a climax, police said they would announce soon whether a charge will be laid 0r an inquest held. They said they were satis- gied 1W9 persons previously arrest- ed and released — a lumiberjack and a "belrllfd transient" —had nothing to do with iihe girl's death. Miss Vandccelt Wfls discovered a week ago Monday in swampland near S’lver Queen Lake 20 miss north at this railroad town. Po- lice said the was strangled and her face was badly bruised and scotch- ed. '

Two Boston Women ‘Stabbed Tc" Death

BOSTON, Jilly 2 - (AP) — The saeetiheart and estranged wife of o truck driver were slashed to death today in separate slayings 20 minutrs apait and police quot- -d the diver as saying he wouldn't. contradict his Ciippliid mother's statement that she saw him in ore attack.

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Women's Institutes Convention To Open llere This Morning

S’siile ‘Senator Introduces llets’ Loan Legislation

The 34th annual convention of the Women's Institutes of Prince Edward Island opens this morning in the Prince oi Wales College Auditorium with registration of delegates beginning at l0 o'clock.

The delegates will be officially welcomed to the Oity by His Wor- ship Mayor B Earle MacDonald

Two speakers, the Hon W.F‘ A. Stewart, Mnister of Agriculture, and Mrs Earle Matthews, Baltic, will address the afternoon session wihiie the evening meetiog will hear addresses from Mrs. A.C.. MacMillan, national president of the Wxnenc Institutes; Premier J. Walter Jones; und Mrs. Mary Donald Deans of Keene, NH.

This year, besides being (he 34th anniversary of the Women's ln- _ stltuies of P a. Island, ulSn marks "Shed l" i! Partnership WSW“ the golden jubilee of UTE national, ig§pvxvcn<hlm by ‘he Pflrmfi" organization i ,_~ , .,

Mrs Jillian Herring, provincial‘ This We“ “f leglsgflfig 5”‘ president, wll‘ presided at today's‘ “WT R°bm5m qecmre’ B's em “hue sessions extremely beneficial to veterans l and has done a great deal to aid them nstablislhing themselves fiivm- ly m business or professional life."

"To dale some 2,200 loans have been made to veterans under the act, involving a sum exceedlfid $4.- 000,000. Chief purpose of the bill is to make the Act apply in certain cases not envisaged by those who drafted ihe original legislation and

OTTAWA, July 2-(Special) — In the Upper Chamber today Sen- ator Brewer Robinson of-Suimmer- aide assumed the responsibility of piloting through the House of a gov- ernment bill to amend the Veter- ans’ Busiiiess and Professional Loans Act.

Principal amendment to the Act which is part and parcel of Can- ada's “Veterans; Chairter" is to en- able a guaranteed loan to be made _io u veteran who is already estab-

licminiclis (iffice

Relations Office

to obviate any unintentional dis- crimination. '*— The Senator went over ill!

measure clause by clause. HRSWQF- ing question and making explanat- ory comments.

Chinese Army Takes Beating At Szepingkai

(By John Roderick)

SZEPINGKAI, July 2— (AFF- Prohably no army since the Chin- ese i-ivil war began suffered so frarfully or struggled against such odds as did the Chinese 71st. in i-ts hopeless defence of this import- ant Manchurian city.

By JAMES McCOOK

LONDON. July 2——The Domin- ions Office in future will be known as the "Commonwealth Relations Office," and Viscount. Addison will' become the first “Secretary of‘ State for Commonwealth Reint-l ions." Prime Minister Attiee today told the I-Iouseqof Commons.

The change. which has the full approval of the Prime Minist=rs of Canada, South Africa, Airstreiia and New Zealand. becomes effect- ive tomorrow when Lord Addison. present Dominvins Secretary. takes on his new title.

Attlee said it had been clear "in rcrtliin oiirtcrs here and over- seas" that. ihe pri-"ant title was not appropriate and gave e mis- leading imnrssion M relations be- tween the self-ruling common-

Booked on suspicion of murder. Iloliis C Tupper. 3B. was ieillilfed in a wild struggle with DOlICE early, today and later taken back to iucel

his ' 64-year-old mother. Mrs. Charles Tuppei, bedridden; with arthritis. l

‘Iihe mother officers maid. told,

police she tiuew herself out.of‘ bed and across the body o1’ Helen‘ Kiminsk‘. 33 petty Brookiine nurse, when the woman foil at her bedside. .

She said shc saw her lim nlilnse

tou ord the nurse a hand which h;ld "someiing shiny. like - a knife . “ \

Not more than 2O minizies alter the son rushed out or his mother's house. police found in an 895"‘ ment about n mile away the hack- ed body or his estrungid wife. Katherine. mother oi a 11-year-old daughter. ,

'I‘u_ppe1 mid ‘police hie “didn't remember" last night but that af- ter confronting his moi-hiir today and hearing the pclice account of what she told him. he said‘.

"Anything my mother.. slid is true.”

Tupper "wanted to marry" Miss Kiiminskl and had been refused a divorce by his ivlfe mm whom l"

1nd been separated for several years, police svl-ld- ' ‘rulppm’ is scheduled f0! nrrllln‘

meat tomorrow .

Career Bsr Isr Gees Back To _P_r sali

PTPISBUROH. July 2-H?)- Millard r". Wright. who has r991"- 15 of his 38 ymrs behind bars, wont back to prison today after g judge bra 'ed ss a "publicity stunt" the b n operation M underwent to curs his "criminal tendencies."

Judge J. Malcolm McDonlld sentenced the self-styled “career burglar" to two to l2 years for l0 robberies committed in 1945- Wrlght voluntarily submitted to the surgery, performed last. April ll with court permission.

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ANNAPOLH RCYAL, N.S., July I-Rylight saving time will be adopted by this Valley commun- rty July 6 as a result of a Town Council special meeting. Fast time will end Aug. 31.

Other rural centres in the Mar- itimsa which have set their clocks ahead include Sussex. ll. 3., and

o1,‘ commercial producers.

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Undermannedmnd badly shak- en’ half of its 88th Division, which‘ bore the burden of Szepingkafs defence, were raw recruits with only one week of training.

All accounts indicate that at least two-thirds of ihe original 25.000 defenders were wiped out.

On the other side of the scale, ihe Chinese Communists must have suffered heavily also. flow- ever, it is probable that Govern- meni estimates that 170.000 Com- munists participated in the assault and suffered 50.000 casualties are high.

(Holiingten Tong. Government spokesman, reiterated in Nanking Wednesday that the Communists received outside support. He de- IlRYCd the hesiegers for i8 days threw shells into Szepingkai at (he rate of 10.000 a da_v-"more artillery shells than all the Com- munist-controlled arsenals to-

~v=~ith units

"he eidstiiig Dnwiinvins may (‘all ‘horns-elves isnnflflffirlih what they please.’ he added.

NO EFFECT ON CANADA

OTTAWA, Jiilv 9-(flPi-fiecls- ion of the Pritlsh Government to change ‘he "Pa of Dominion Oi’- "ce and its Secretary of State for Dominion AqfllTS in sivb=titilte "cnmmfllwealth relations" for "do- M'n"~n" will have no constitut- ‘onel efTect. on Canada. e snakes- mmi for the External Affairs Dc- ncvfrnen‘ said tndav

No official comment on the move was lmmerhatelv available. hut it is expected "(tar-mi Affairs Minister St Tciirrnt. may make a statement. in the (‘ommnnii icdw on the cbanizc. known to be im- tlrr consideration for some time.

Strictly No Passengers On Abegweifs First Runl

OTTAWA. Jul)’ I _-(5peciel)— B! lzraernmit betiwoen the Da- Pflflmefll 0f TYVHSPOrt and Marine Industries Limited, the strict rule‘ of "no passengers" will be ob-l served when tiie cur ferry Abcg-i welt makes her maiden voyage tn|‘ Quebec and Charlottetown The Guardian was informed today. .

This week's trial runs of the} new vessel are being continued‘ with special attention being given‘ the wiring and electrical equip-l ment. It is admitted that engznetns} have run up against "a few minorl H185" l" Operation of the fel'ry.~ but are confident that these “ill be eliminated in the course of ihe next ieiv days. l

Present schedules call arrival of the “Abegvi-elt" at QuQ-l b" C513’ 0" Jilly 9. when she will. S0 into dry dock for a stem mi stern inspection of the iiull. Sincel ll"! ShlD has been in the water since last fall and has experlcn-l ced extremes of temperature and been frozen at her moorings this inspection is regarded as of first importance.

For the voyage down the Gulf "Om Quebec to Borden, the Abeg- wei-t will carry in addition to her crew, steamship inspection offi- cers of the Transport Department. engineers and specialists of Mar. ine Industries Limited. Although numerous applications for passage 'on the ferry have been received here by the Department all have been turned down.

There is no fear of any unio- uard incident happening on the mfllflell Wyflgl’. Transport Depart- ment officials said. But in view 0f the large sums spent on the 5M1) and the importance of the Project. they are taking no chan- ces and are reducing risk to s minimum.

NEW TARlI-‘FS

OTTAWA, July 1_ (Sp9Q1a])_ Announcement of the new tariffs l-o be‘ charged on the car ferry "Abegwei-t" is expected mo-men- tarily from the Canadian National Railways, the Guardian was in- formed here today. Moreover they will go into effect as from the day the new ship goes into ser- vice from Borden to ‘Tormentlne.

While decision on the freight and passenger rates lies within the jurisdiction of the railway company which operates the ves- sel for the Government of Car.- ads. senior officials of the C.N.R. were guided in their decision by submissions made to them since the first of the year by members of the Commons and Senators representing Prince Edward Is- land st Ottawa._

In conjunction with his col. leagues of the House, J. Watson MacNaught. Liberal member for Prince submitted briefs for the lowering of the existing rates and advanced both legal and economic arguments to buttress the case for Prince Edward Island.

While exact figures of the new rates have not as yet been releas- ed by railway heads. it is antici- pated that they will he "at ieint as reasonable! as ihe rates now

Expect Crop In

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prevailing on the Wood Islands- cririhou rim.

Valley Apple crop KENTVILLE. N. S. July 2—(CP)

Annapolis Vail y orchards, which last year pro uced 2.000.000 barrels 0f apples. will fall far short of that figure this season, it was indicated tonight.

Grower George Chase of nearby Port Williams said today that "ft-om observations. my guess is that We will not have more than 50 per esnt of the 194G yield." Other es- timates place the yield at about 1,- 500000 barrels.