“fl ‘In Onto. 1 CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, MONDAYySEYfEMBER 11, 1944 >.Z/W/’ The People's Paper N‘ Covers Prince Edwardllsland Like the Dew Read Everybody ' AWA. S pt. 10 - 0111» bgiligiirlete Ilsley o ns a new, ‘ma: ofi-oopomilw for tho eventh (CP) — described as "the minimum ob- . ve."18 $100,000,000 above the iwiectlve of the Sixth Victory mo campaign which last. May qpmd ol,40'l.54'l.660. _ .1; his announcement Mr. Ilsley ' the borrowinl requirements h- the current fisml year still at the 53.200.000.000 figure timated in his b d night have to ‘m; of war expenditures. i-mdlvidual subscriptions have an - tctive of $600.000.000 in the tober campaign. a $75,000,000 tfoasa over objective in the th Loan. In his budget speech Mr. Illley cod the cash requirements oi ' Dominion at 06.000.000.000 for M45. ari increase of 00.000- lw compared with the previous gar. In his a ouncement. to- ht he recalled that he had d expenditures for Canadian forces in Europe could not be itcurately estimated. -“l went on to say that I con- flder it not only probable but ccr. 11in that swiftly moving events of the year would require greatly in- creased expenditures - expenqi- lures which no one for a. moment Illllld hesitate to make." he said. “Even yet we do not know the uact amount of our requirements but developments of the last few months make it probable that war expenditures will have to be in- creased by some $500,000,000. "At the time oi the budget we look the many uncertainties into consideration, and indeed made provision for thcmdn estimating that cash requirements are likely l0 exceed S6.000.000,000. There ls 11o occasion to change the csti- mate o! borrowing requirements which l made at that time of about 53.200.000.000. which is $320,000,- than last year. liilirililli “EVENTS 000 more "mow Malocque Wednesday. l 9-11-21 l .__ i "Show. Bradalbano. Tuesday. 9-9-21 "Chicken " I Han. semwgiii. “d dmifiuiiii "Dance Ions Hall M nd '. lept. ilth. 53.1131 "Don St. 16111.01 1 Sailfish‘? El?‘ "Dime Lorne v ‘fixedly. eels New High Everything alley loot. l2. Webster's Orchestra. i 9-11-21 ' hicken supper at Bt. Mar- fietk Hall Tuesday evening. t. 12th. _ n, "We Traverse. Monday- Sept. 1 Mauve ms 5- PM ional Film Board’ ovies. a 30 n m. 9-13-31 I "Buying young pigs and fat‘ will at Fredericton Monday. Knud Iilensen. 9.9.11 “Victoria. Tuesda . S t. 12 Free u. r. n. Movhas 3 88nd aaso "0 o-a-ai "Y" flock nuantit Bel M 1 m“ Hog Grower” 011E511’. e15‘ liar-v Outcliife. 0-9-21 "Pence in Emyvhle School marry. Bébiblnber 11th. o " C. "Hwbltal do M g- ' ' Warehouse Montfiieie Wgdntfiifvs Member 13. Webster's orchgaérgi d Party and Darlce. 8t. l Um limes‘ 1i ca. i1h“‘hi‘.‘:‘;“l‘.°.5“il‘i;d.‘°£“h¥ llilrfleld Credit Union. o-r-ai u “i aluf-‘tivlacegneggzy, Stewart Legion “W91”! orchestra. um __* l m ulvlellwtévéunty Plowing Match 5m aoih. six mrrow m r motor}: °8v1e!ccr:toryw' "Th ....__ digs?" . an “N. ifasant GIOVQMII?“ n Sept. ilth. Don 9-11-11 . Creed. o-il-ii ""0! Producers Freetown — filth?‘ C. Gardiner, Freetown. Tum uck hogs to Kensington each u“ I; forcnoon until further no- ,1“- lflrmsrs requiring this ser- "Mlle arrange two days in Lin Livestock 1mm ood by three daughters. Mrs- -1i French had pushed on through ‘the Fleasant Grove At Sydney SYDNEY. Sept. 10 - (CP) —— Wnlter Flynn, 65. a liative of Pleas- ant Grove, P.E.I., died silddeiily at his home here Friday night. Io h“ I ey for the last 45 years and was battery fore- man at the coke ovens department of the Sydney tsrteel Plant at the a . time oi his de -~ Besides his wife he is susrvlveél Myrtle and Mrs. Brank d two sons. John and Gus. 8y ney. His stepmother, Mrs. Elifllbeth lglynn, lives at Pleasant Grove. .E.I. The funeral will be held here Monday. French Troops i6 Aiileo From llolfort ROME, Sept. 10 - (A?) —~ French troops have struck with! ogigsiioythand are gaged in t r I H8 88¢ 8 Germans defending the gap lead- ing into the black forest of south- western Germany. Allied heed- quorters announced toniflhi- I ‘The battle raged near the vil- lage of Balamont. 10 miles south of Belfort and 36 airline miles from the German frontier. The Thurber. 4 Weaver. Sydney; Jura Alps after taking the lages of Pont De Rlodo and 5t. Hi polyte. merican forces striking toward Belfort from the southwest had driven along the Doubs river to. Canadian Ambassador Arrives In France within 24 miles of the sentinel the diohneo %0OVOIE hi! "Qhay" T. rams. sent. 1o - 1GP chills} -Maj.Gen. George-s P- V0111"- Canadian representative to the French National Committee has arrived in Paris from lzfilldnn: thfi‘ first Allied Ambassador to lcnc 4 France since the liberation of the French ca ital. _ _ A few ours after l11s _nr1'1val Friday Gen. Vanier gave his first press conference and as the con- In 7th Victory Loan goes without saying. At this moment Gas Consumption By Provinces WINDSOR, Ont, Sept. (CP) — John Marshal said Sa urday in an Ottawa dispatch to the Windsor Star that official figures of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics show that average r- Mon of gasoline per reg- istered motor vehicle in Quebec in 1943 was 508 gallons, 116 gal- lcns more than for the next high- est province. The dispatch gives the follow- ing figures for the average con- sumption in in other pro- vinces: British Columbia 300 gal- lons; Saskatchewan 305; Ontario 305; Prince Edward Island 334; Alberta 341; Manitoba 345; Nova écotla 300i New Brunswick 392. The Bureau's figures show con- sumption of gasoline by all types of motor vehicles and the num- ber of vehicles. including trucks. buses. passenger cars, motorcycles. and so on. the dispatch says, adding that figures are not available for passenger cars alone. ference opened Premier Drew of Ontario arrived from the Belgian. .- a - -_l 1.1.311 the, Etugghcliillinr? lfiiiiiylcfolljitles ‘arid the RCAF. in action. ‘ l The Ambassador said: ‘It is’ most interesting to me whose an-l cestors left France in a very dill-i ferent ship from the nilship n. which I came today. t0 bl‘- 11°19 watch and if Possible. hell!" 1n building of a new France. "As Ambassador-Designate to the Government of liberated France I om anxious to co-ordin- ate nll Canadian activities in Paris and in France," he said. He said that Yves Lamontagnc of Ottawa had been left in Al- gicrs to close thc work 0i the Canadian Embassy there and would arrive in France within a fortnight to assume his duties as Trade Commissioner. "We'll soon have the Canadian flag flying over our new Embassy in Peril." Gen. Vanicr sold- M present we are looking‘ for o. sult- ahla embass building.’ t0 the I To Extend Gall To llov. ll. ll. Buntain WHTVILLE. NS. Soot in - (CPl-St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church here. at a congregational meeting over the weekend. decided unanimously to“ nxtand a call to Rev. Herbert .Buntain, of New Back In Canada HALIFAX. Sept. 1o - (or) __ Bkltjil 111 Canada to take instruction- ol posts or for medical and com. passionate reason, a group o1 31 Nova Sootinn and Prince Edward Island soldiers reached Halifax Saturday night after arriving from overseas at an undisclosed port. Men included in tho rouo wen: Pte. J.S Affleck, Be c ue. P E. Mliltgnr? Eyii-P North 11. . . .: . . Barnet New Waterford: ‘ Pte. A Hayes, Westvllle. Pte. G F‘ Sgt. B. l-l nr Ptc. M. McIntyre: Pie. . Neil. Pte. G E. Strongman. Tor. I.W. Wm: (addresses unav- affable). London. PILL. to become pastor. was 1r‘ rh- d fial. , War Situation Last Night By Kirke L Simpson, Anecdotal hen War Analyst ‘ The last outposts of Hitler's rooflela Reich are groaning under moun- ting Allied-Russian pressure out, west and south. There is every indic- ation that long before the first snows of consequence fly anywhere in Europe, the decisive break will come somewhere and the United Nations march to Berlin belin. True out on any European map tho extent of the front dwindling German manpower with waning war stocks and an all but force are trying to hold. The foot that the strain is fut rising lo abrasi- ing tension is too clear tn be missed. That front cannot be more than thin- ly manned anywhere. That is the genius of the Russian-Allied master plan of cumulative. all-round attack hatched at Teherals and only now coming into full play. . _ _ While battered comrades to the out, wont. and south stumble backwaru under Allied and Russian blows of steadily 11101111"!!! 9901M If"! 110W"- strong German forces must stand restlve and idle along the northern coast line from the North Capo of Norway to the Sheldt Estuary ln Bel- gium. They are pinned to their defence stations uncertain what new Avalanche of Allied power may sweep down upon them in Scandinavia. For all practical purposes those German troops are as much out of . action for any other purpose as if penned 1n Allied war 1111"!!!" 1051i At thin September week-end, there wan ominous evidence for the foe that for all his bitter retreats in the west, the east and the south in hone of "stabilizing" shorter defence fronts, his last barrier beyond German frontiers on nll three fronts was about to be caved in Yet only three at most of the half-dozen or more Allied armies avail- ‘ able for the final blows in the west have yet reached the German .ront in force. The others, the 1st Canadian army in the north and the Franco- Americun 7th army in the south, still are busy mopping up as ihtly 0d- vance methodically to their assigned stations. I By German report a powerful Russian reconcentrat critical Vlstula-Bug-Narew sector in Poland just north of lyarsruv is harn- mering its way close to a break-through down the Danzlg corridor. German advices say a new Russian army has been orsflfliltfl M14 10PM"! [n10 action than. to supplement the already tremendous red power con- verging against the relatively narrow gap between the Warsaw ‘WW1 01 tlio Vlstula and the Masurinn lakes sector in east Prussia. That it is a hand-nicked force equipment for swift blitzkrie! oner- ations once the break-through north", s that the first decisive rupture of over-strained German defence lines guarding the approaches to frontiers to come. wzNazis Report Yanks In Great Drive British 2nd And U. S. 1st Armies Linked Up: Canucks Enter Zeebrugge. implant air of forces in the of the Vlstula has been achieved there, in north central Poland. of Germany itself seems most apt to the nature of be held when the two lead. within the grass-covered walls of the citadel. uebec is fullof correspondents speculation is running wild as discussions to S INCH Principal Topic’! But the general belief is that one main subject will be plans to bring about an early end of the iiilhtin; in Europe without dermal-tins: too far from the Churchill-Roosevelt coniercnoe in Casablanca. It is behaved that declaration will be revised if it seems necessary in order to save further sacrifice of Allied lives in fighting against an already beaten enemy. many quarters there is belief that the “unconditional surrender” demand may stand in the way of an appeal from Germany that might lead to an ce. There is evidence that the condor- encc will cover diplomatic as well as military aspects of the war, hut it is believed the task of quickly ending the fight in Europe and alp- plylnp, full pressure on Japan will be the iriain topic. Statement is Issuer! The statement Churchill's arrival today announcing Mr. the LONDON. Sept. l0 — (CP) - The British 2nd Army and the American lst Army linked 11D 0°‘ day on the Albert Canal north of the Belgian city of Hasselt and American forces drove the open- ing wedge of liberation into Lux- embourg to highlight the Allied eastward march toward Germany along a IOO-mile front. (The Germans asserted the Arn- ericans had launched a great drive all along a lib-mile front from east of Liege to the southern bor- der of Luxembourg aimed at piercing the heart of the indus- trial Rhineland.) Two columns of the American 1st Army probed within 8 l-2 ‘k miles of the German border, cap- turing Verviers, 15 miles east of Liege. In northern Belgium the British 2nd Army gouged out additional gains across the Albert canal at two bridgc-heads. They were fighting in the streets of Gecl (Gheeli. two miles north oi their bridgehead 25 miles east of Arit- werp. To the cast they were en- gaged in a stiff battle around Hechtel after a four-mile push east of Bourg-Lcopold. The 2nd Army has captured l2,- 135 prisoners in three days. Allied Supreme Headquarters confirmed field dispatches saying Canadian patrols had entered the Belgium port of Zeebrugge, which took them within three miles of the Netherlands frontier. Mountbatten invention‘! NEW YORK. Sept. 10 —- (CP) - Walter Winchell. radio com- mentator. in s broadcast tonight over NBC. said that thanks to an invention of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten the Allies had no need of a port through which to supply their armies in North- ern France. Winchell did not indicate the nature of the invention by the former Commando Chief who now islAllied commander in southeast As a. had been in action But. he said heavy artillery in France CANADA FLOUR since D-Doy. B10530 y Canadian cast coast port said:- Churchill has arrived in Canada, accompanied by Lord Leathers. Minister o; war transport, Lord Cherwell. uaymastermeneral. and the British chiefs of staff. Mrs. Churchill and Lord Moran are also travelling with the Prime Minister. “The British chiefs of staff are: First Sea Lord. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Cunningham. Bart. C. C.B.. D S.O 1 chief of the Imper- ial general staff, Field Marshal Sir Alan F‘. Brooke. G.C.B.. D S 0.; chief of the nir staff. Marshal of the R AF Sir Charles Portal, .C B D S O M C. Tignish Soldier Killed In Action Word has been received by Mr. and Mrs. Claude Klnch of Tignish — that their eldest son Bobbie was killed in France Aug. 11th. The out to the bereaved family. sympathy of the community goes Mr. and Mrs. Klnch have two others in the services. Paul in the Navy and Sgt Jenette Kinch with with the C. W. A. C. Halifax. 15,000 Planes In i Action Yesterday LONDON, Sept. l0 — (CP) - 'Nearly 5.000 bombers and fighters from Britain and Italy blasted en- emy targets from the Channel :0 Germany and Austria today in one of the heaviest dawn-to dusk assaults since the invasion of the continent. These blows followed a 8 PAGES Grinning delightedly behind a big Clgifll’, Prime Minister Winston Chur- ch ll big transport this afternoon and with Mrs. Churchill left an hour lat." er for Quebec to confer with Presi- dent Roosevelt. cheered the Empire war leader and his wife observation platform of their spec- ial train. and the smiling Churchill led them in song after song up until the train pulled out. group naval and air officers. Two special trains were required to carry the full personnel of the conferees and their advisers. attractive Wife ‘Von the hearts of the crowd, who began gathering at waterfront vantage points ‘Sheri the big ship carrying him moved 510W- ly up the harbor. Time alter time wave of his cheroot was the Prime wore the semi-naval Trinity House uniform. dark blue with gold but- ~“— ed turban of gray and red. ‘rhea is no solution for notional problans except in men. MAXIMS OIL LIKE MAN By C. R. BLACKBURN Welcome At HALIFAX, Sept 10 - (CP) — stepped ashore i’ rom a A tumultuous crowd of hundreds as they waited on the With i-he Churchills came a of high British military, Win Hearts nf Crmvd The informal Churchill and his the throngs called the Churcliills out of their car. A V-ior-vlctory sign or a genial Minister's acknowledgement of the welcome. Mrs. Churchill smiled. waved and sang lustily. The Prime Minister. as is hisl custom when he travels bv water, tons. His wife wore a rav tailored travelling suit, topped y a flower- As the couple left the big liner, cheers of hundreds of servicemen lined along her rail and perched high up in her rigging sped them on their Way. Churchill acknowl- edged the farewell of his fellow voyager; with tllie V Sign. As he appeared at. the door of the pier shed, flanked by police guards and high-ranking service- men who were on hand to welcome him, a roar of cheers swept down from behind barriers that were holding the crowd about 100 yards from the pier, The Churchiils walked b0 their train, about 20 yards away, and, after disappearing for a moment, Yeflplleared 011 the platform. The Prime Minister took one look at the eager welcomers straining against police lines, and then waved them toward him. Members of the police cordon were almost trampled in the m5}, for the trainside. Each time the yiolice tried to form a new line Churchill waved them . til the front line of Hide‘ m‘ hundreds was within him and his wife. Cheer after cheer rang out, and kept oc- the pressing 10 feet of the Prime Minister was busy waving and saluting in Lnowledgement. "heavy and concentrated" attack by the R. A. F‘. on Muncheri Glad- back. big RhlncJand rail centre. Saturday night. More than 1.100 American heavy bombers fanned deep into Gennanytohit the Dalm- ler Benz motor plant at Gag enau. southwest of Kra sruhe; aircr t and tank factories in the Stuttgart. Nurberg and Ulm areas and a large airport at. Giebelstda/zlt" south of Wurzburg These attacks cost 12 heavy bom- bers and l5 fighters. said a United States headquarters communique. ‘The escorting fighters and other long-range fighters shot down 51x German fighters and destroyed 110 on the ground. R. A. F. heavies battered bos- ieged Le Havi-e during the morning and again in the afternoon. - Accidentally Shot W (CP)-Allan Golding, ville, N.B., l4 miles wcnt- olf Golding loft home o the position of ml o l Heavy Fire Loss Britain-based I OODSTOCK. N.B Scot 10 _ 36 of Oak- from Wood- stock was accidentally killed yester- ln ‘Halifax Saturday HALIFAX. Sept. i0 -- (C P) - A spectacular three alarm fim Bat- urday almost completely wiped out the plant of the Piercey Supplies, Ltd . one of the largest milling and building supplies plants in Nova Scotla, with a loss of $450,000. The flames roared swiftly through eight buildings and stacks of timber spread over eight acres. menacing many private homes and the ad- joining barracks of H. M. S. Stndscona II, Naval training estab- liehment. only one of the Piercy buildings to escape was the office. Tho oth- ers were of wood construction ex- cept for a brick machine shop. in which 360.000 worth of machinery was destroyed. One private home caught fire and was gutted badly. Origin of the fire, one of the‘ most spectacular here in the last day when the rifle he was cnrrlvxing‘ Ali- l two 0.010“ m me ammoml and certain, too, just where the flames was found about seven o'clock l-“rom the body it is believ- od that while getting thruuuh a fire apparatus. as well as fence t-hc rifle went off striking P- personnel in Halifax. him in the head and killing him in- poll _ . M10 gill-l. fiil): other Provinces ‘b 0.8.5- ll-Ol. rs Delivered. 85.00 1111111311111. 111z1uz1mw§0u1izy1zuc12 R.:!!.t‘:;i:'i1:‘a::f QUEBEC. Sept. 10 - (CP) - Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt are expected to meet here in a matter of hours to plan for a speedy victory over the AXIS and the making of a permanent peace. Mr. Churchill, accompanied by his wife, his personal physician, Lord Moran, one of his ministers and the British Chiefs of Staff, arrived at an Eastern Canadian port. today and the news was given out at a press conference at 5.30 p.m., E.D.T. Hil movements, like those of President Roose velt, are secret until the arrival in Quebec. _ It will be the 11th and perhaps the most significant meeting of the two leader-I since Mr. Churchill dramatically appeared in Washington in December, 1941, soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor drew the United States into the war. will be their second meeting inBuebec in a little more than a year. Churchills Get Warm Halifax It 1 Prince Street. has received word her husband, Lieut. Thomas . Keefe, is officially reported injured in action in Italy, Aug. 31, Lieut. Keefe has served in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy with the West NOVa Sootia ent He was previously reported wounded on Sept. 20, 1943. Mrs. T. J. Keefe, 09 Upper at J Ghurchills Receive Welcome At Moncton MONCTON, N.B.. Sept. 10 _ (CP) - Prime Minister Churchill received a tremendous ovation tn- night. from thousands of Mone- tonians who gathered at the rail- way station to sea the Empire war leader. A l0-car special train carrying the Prime Minister, his wife and members of the British Chiefs of Staff. stopped here 30 minutes en- route from Halifax to Quebec City. 1 Qliese 11cm wosnerwa scene. 1o Mum, ' curse I “our a High tide this morning dt 5.3a and this evening at 7.30. Simsetsthiseveningatlaoan rises tomorrow morning at 6.3a. New moon Se t. l7 0 3'! um. er than Charlottetown DAILY All SERVICE 11.30 1.111.; 8 p.11: A45 p.m.; 8.40 p.m. SUNDAY SERVICE l Leave Charlottetown II Moll. Arrlvo Charlottetown 5.45 p.111. Charlottetown - New Glugovl ibaily except Sunday) Leave Charlottetown 1 pm. Arrive Charlottetown $.50 p.111. 25 years, was unknown. It wag un- lfl I The blaze brought out all city T Alufilno P. E. I.-—- l DAILY INCLUDING SUNDAYS all A R Leave Wood lslanrls-‘HO A. bl f m m M Service l 113g A. M. 3.00 P. M. ce rom e ree cos Wm uv Cari —- 9.00 A. M. l. lwodsh. b Lmciiomns. _f.v'>§_p¢“nl tde 1a minutes lat- Ch-rlottetown — Summer-side - Moneton Leave Charlottetown ‘I n.n.( Arrive Charlottetown 12.46 p.lJ N. B. PCB-RY SERVICB