MAXlMS '0IA MERE MAN nose whonredeapiaelnro wont to return the dlafwour in lrind plus intends a g,’ Th, Guardian. Three Centl lump.‘ Daily Founded Ill‘). fr- 693 Bushels 0f Potatoes From Acre '"?.{‘".L‘.ll°;.i Silt cliafflii "m °° "la "was “be Th“ gilt ~'...i district is Ontario's w" m“ P°“"bl° bl’ i“ “m” won int points out of a 500 in a contest sponsored ontar» (‘rop Improvement byt Says Opposition‘ lo Freight Rate Boost llot Strong OTTAWA. Nov. i9 -(CP)-Only of Canada's has .in- creascs. a Canadian National Rall- be- fore the Board of Transport Corn- h Sllllill Proportion freight shippers and industry oppncrd railway freight-rote hays counsel tieclared today miswont" All. l ". sssislant lvllClior t.’ thr- C.N.R., advanced this tllllll lilicn l5 lic opened l-hB final stun-nation for the national lino ln its application for j 30-per- criit rult- lllCTPJSC, llo spoke st the cud 0i n J i-Q-day address by Hugh fYDoiincll. senior C.N.R. counsel at thr l-zir" Mr. lt\'.~.ii't concentrated his argu- ment. on i\\'o yaolnls: 1. that ilie opposition to in- creased freigiht rates .was not i-rprcsc/ita ve of the users of riiil tluflllspfixll. ‘J. 'l‘liiit rzitc increases today would create inuoh less of a burden lllllli at aiiy other time in the history of Canada. “Those ivito would be most af- tContiiiricti ondPage 6 Col. '1) TltA-{PLED BY EJRSE siikl‘ JOllN, N.B., Nov. 19- t0l‘l--i1\»=i'clt Wood. 56. 0f Shank- ‘"‘ ' lucni. died ln hospital ht of injuries suffered at noon ‘-\.'ii ll he was trampled by a hDlfi‘ Hi5 brothel‘ Albert, 50. also ‘flirt 1'! lll at-ttmptiiig to control lhr iugliteried horse. was reported lli lair iroiidltion at the some hos- p.la.. . Coming Events “int-J to-nite, Country Club, Ylllrlirs liest. "Anirtii Meeting Hamilton We‘. ‘lliiglit. "iii "illlllg Grain daily. Bell Bro.‘ . t. Peters Road. Parkdsle. ‘uuirti-‘f’. 1on3 Hall.‘ Tiiunaiy, lvovtuiificr 20bit, "blzvics l-lunter River. Thurs- Mi’ "his of Forgotten Sins." “To nrrivc this week. Carload Ollcrikc Meal. McGuigan s; Boyle. "biovies - Bridgetown. Satur- lsy. "Flower of Barbary Coast." n -_ w Address inquiries about 0.0.1’. Provincial Office, Bedeqlle. “unmn Slipper and Dance i-n aid 5t Lawrence Church, Moi-ell, at maggot-x: gfioseph Walsh, Friday. Hawerlelv Concert, Sea view l- Mvlidév. November» 24th. Sale ‘l pies. Aid of School. ma???’ 5110i) will be closed until “bug notice. James Craig, Brad- / 4 "Dense and cocci-chimeric 52'5""! Hill. Friday, November - Rollie McKenzie! Ordiestra. "NW1! — Loading today car ‘filo’ Meal. Bran. siiom and ura- “age. Also ihog grower 18 per cent, .- hundred. G. C. Green, Emu- "Nailonnl Rflm. fl figmmunuy Mmmlioxdflilions an H Lorne Val- 130 Polk‘ l Novesnber gist. - - Speakers cm b "imvli v! Alfloultiro. .__._. "W! "Wire iso pig, so u, 1s “Wis each or over. All pigs u," I limo with coi- office so "din: dates. ete., m” be l yield o! irianager, Brenton l-fowatts ener- to the acre. his exhibit possible As- lutltiililil at the Royal Winter Fair. general Yesterday, the second of the Provlnciay Fox Show, was a heavy one for exhibitors and the judge. George A. Callback. From short. ly after 9 in the morning uiitii after 4 o'clock in the afternoon, with a short interval for lunch, there was a continuous parade of getic efforts and the constant ad- vice he lave to exhibitors regard- ing the next class to prepare for. The types on display wers stand- ard white marked silvers and standard platlnums. ldult males, adult- femules. puamales and pup females. These are all registered, - or have registration applied for in the case of pups, in the Canadian Nations] Livestock Records at Ottawa and the best of the ex- iiibits have s. genealogy orpedi- gree extending back for many generations. They are the descen- dants of the blue bloods of Prince Edward Island's original best silver types. In the case of white iiiarkéfl. they have been crossed with Western Types. mostly Ollie MacNeill, Fort QirApelle, Sasha. whose foundation stock came from McLurs and MacKinnon Silver Fox Farms Ltd. The platinums originated in Norway and in Quebec, where they were brought to prominence by Dr. J. E. La Forest. Crossed on P. E. Island silvers,“ they have (Continued on Page l-lq-(J-oijyd)‘ Enjoyable Fox Showllinner Last Night The annual dinner of the Prince Edward Island Fox Breeders’ Asso- ciation held last night at the Charlottetown Hotel, was one of the largest attended functions of its kind held iii recent years. Mr. I... K. Lockerby, Summer- side, president of the association presided. The first speaker. the Hon. Dr. W. J. P. MacMillali. gave a brief history of the fox industry in the Province and commented oii the fact that the price obtained by the late Sir Charles Dalton for one fox pelt on the London mar- ket had been the highest ever obtained for a single pelt. Dr. MacMillan. said no one believed such high prices would ever be received again as the fox indus- try since Sir Charles‘ time liad spread throughout the temperate regions of the world. At the resent time. the market . foo fox urs was down but. he| would not advise the fox breed- ers to be too discouraged. With- in a few years the business would be likely to take an upward swing and when that time came he knew (Continued on Page 6 Col. 5) MUSICAL PRODIGY \ Souris Man Found Seriously Injured HALIFAX. Nov. i9 - (GP) _ Michael Shcchlsn of iollfl, P.E.I., tonight was undergoing hospital treatment for severe heild lacerations hut police were unnhie to find out how he came by lila injuries. He was picked up on tiie street unconscious last night and was taken to hospital. ls Critical 0f u Plan To Ease llollar Shortage HALIFAX, Nov. 19—(CP)- Fin- ance Minister Abbott “would have been hard pressed to find a less democratic method of solving his crisis." R. L. Sianfield_ president of the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Association, said in a prepared statement tonight con-i- nienting on the steps taken to ease Canada's dollar shortage. “The Canadian ‘public ls, of (‘Lllll'St‘," lze-sald, "confused and disillusioned. In order to meet a crisis which the Government per- mitted to develop, Mr. Abbott has derided to substantially raise the prices of automobiles. radios, re- lzigcz-ntors, most types oi’ electrical appliances and other amenities of life which he descrbies as luxury ziiid lion-essential products. "As a result of the taxes Mr. Abbott is imposing these goods will he so high in price that only the ivenltiiir and the well-to-da uili he able lo buy them. ‘They will be beyond the reach of the ‘little mail‘ for WllOm the Liberal Party has expressed so ch con- cern. . ." , .. .. '.-. :»#e-. As for tariff changes. ‘was not yetgposdblc dofliudgenvhetliei‘ their clicct iiniilcl on the whole be briielir-ial to Nora Scotians but some thlrlus were clear. "We ‘do ,irnow, for example} that the‘ fresh fish industry will not be liclpcd. Wc are all nervous about the eventual effect of the loss of the British preference on the Alfiinpalls Valley. and we hope that the reduction iii the duty on soft coal does not mean the loss of Central Canadian markets for Nova scotian miners." Lleut Mountbatten To Wear Naval llnlform LONDON, _ Nov. l9 -tCP) — Lieut. Philip Mountbatten will wear ordinary naval uniform at his wedding to Princess Elizabeth to- morrow. The King also will wear liavnl uniform. but the full-dress variety with an admiral‘: cocked lint. Both the bridegroom and Hrs Majesty will wear swords. May Be Shortage 0f Motor Oils In Ganaila TORONTO, Nov. i9 —(CP)— Executives of motor-oil companies HIZNDON. Mlddiesex, England-— (CP) - sevcn-year-oldiPaul An- thony played hls own signature tunc. “Opus 1." - which he start- ed when he was 5 1-2 - on a movie organ before hundreds of child- ren. l predicted today that shortages would result frcm the ban on hi- portatioii of United States oils and- disclmscd that a delegation will visit Ottnwn to di-scuss this aspect of Canada's new regulations to con- serve US. dollars. OTTAWA. Nov. 19 — (CP) — HA. Gagnon. one of Canada's ace police officers and the man who played the major part in cracking Ithe soviet spy ring nearl two years ago, died unexpectedly here today at the age of b4. He was Deputy Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Po- lice and had been slated to. take over full direction of this Federal force in the new year when the present Commissioner. S31‘. Wood., goes into retirement. He died in the R.C.A.!'. hospital in suburban Riockcliffe, where he had been receiving treatment for a heart aelsure and pneumonia. Hc apparently had been recovering when pleurlsy developed and he died suddenly after breakfast this Ilwrning. ' Mr, Gagnon received his ap- pointment aa Deputy Commission- er iut March after several years I vostlgation, t s post in which he directed the ong inquiry which ‘led to the arrest and conviction lmnmi- N0 Piss lass than I0 lbl "m": in this mo.’ livestock KCHC’. r q of a number of Soviet-fostered ag- Spy Investigator Dies Pnexpectedlly ents operating in Canada. For his work on that most out- standing of all Canadian criminal cases, he received the 0.83. from the King in July, i946. Little known to the public, part- ly because he personally shunned publicity and part ly because of the nature qf his work, Mr. Ctagnon was a slight. fair man who looked more like n scientist than the comnionly-held conception of n police offier. But his life. even when he him- self was not a Mountie, had been spent close to the R.C.M.P. His father. the lute Superintendent severe Gagnon, had been one of the original members of the force and his blrthplacelwas the 3.0.- M.P. barrdcirs at Regina. A veteran of the First World War. he enlisted in the 12th Bat- talion at the outbreak of that conflict and sowed with distinc- tion, returning horno in i019 with He was appointed an ROMP. inspector in i930 and served in many parts qt Canada, including --Winter relief up to a total d _ flW,000.000 for Franco, Italy an of service as Director of Criminal the rank of major. Mum‘ w” appmved b, M“ gm. Ito Foreign Relations today-with curbs designed to safe- Reaci ybody Covers Prince Edward ‘Island Like the Dew: CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2o, 1941 Royal Couple Take Vows Amid Traditional Pageant In 0cm Today. the months of preparation for the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Lieut. Philip Mountbatten culminate in a ceremony that adds one more page to the history of Britain's royal family. A royal wedding is of necessity a pageant to satisfy the demands of tradition and the desire of millions of Britons and thousands of visitors to wit- MAXIMS OIA MERE MAN Inlnwfndgnseutolnpenanbe notaeeordlngtohhpoaltlonnrhow rich he la, but according to what mnnnerofannlnll. 24 Paces CRISIS FORCES RESIGNATION 0F FRENCH P White Marked Silvers And Platinums Judged _ At Fox SyhowYesterday monwealth liapital ness the ceremony. The route of the wedding procession. starting at the Palace and ending at Westminster Abbey. will be thronged with people from all over the world as well as native Londoners. After the wedding, tradition allows that the royal couple may disappear from pub- lic gaze until the end of their honeymoon. n, JACK ssrmr LONDON, Nov. 2O - (Thurs- ‘ day) - tar) - Hundreds of thousands of laughing, singing, frolicking - people surged through London's rnlaty street: In n carnival of Eliot! 8B "l0 royal wedding day broke. Bursting bonds of austerity, great crowds began congregat- lng early last night from Buck- ingham Palace to Westminster Abbey and through historic Whitehall In the biggest. nois- leat pub/lie celebration alnoe the 1937 coronation. Twice during the night Prin- ces! Elisabeth and her fiance. new His Royal Highness. the Duke of Edinburgh. appearrd. with the King and QIIBBII. 0n n flood-lighted balcony of Buck- ingham Palace and waved to the cheering thousands massed outside. Philip drove off from Buck- ingham Palace and hla bride- to-be about: 10 pan. last night for the last "bachelor night" party. ' - I The Prlncesa stayed homo with her pl!‘ ‘ llitl Iflllllfll‘ sister Margaret. _ Philip planned to spend thb slight, after his party. in Ken- glngzon Palace where hla moth- er. Princess Andrew of G . la staying. The wedding evo. the Proaa Alaoelatlon and, L ed out bigger crowds In London’: bomb-peeked street: than even the national victory eeiobraflel. Senate. Committee Approves Aiil Plan _i- WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 —(.N!3 Cdifmlttel nvpplisa at home and keep the Far North. - an eye on how the money is spent. LONDON’. Nov. l8 - (AP) — The King tonight awarded the Dukedom of Edinburgh to Lieut. Philip Mountbatten and decreed that the young naval officer shall be known henceforth as "His royal hlghriess." Thus it. will be "His Royal High- ness, the Duke of Edinburgh," who will be wed tomorrow to PIIIIBESS Elizabeth, heiress presumptive to the throne. Restoring Philip to the royal rank he renounced when he sur- rendered the princedoms of Den- mark and Greece to take British citizenship, the King also made Philip the Earl qf Merloneth and Baron Greenwich. Simultaneously. the King aw- arded Philip the Order of the Carter, one of the United King- dom's highest decorations, and one which the Princess received only a short time ago. He also was invested as a knight. Kneeling before his future father- in-law in the privacy of Bucking- ham Palace. he _wa| touched on each shoulder by“a naked blade held by the Sovereign, Philip's elevation to the style "his royal hlghneas" raised im- mediately the question of where he will stand in the order of social precedence at state functions. The present order of male pre- cedence ll: The King, the Duke of Glouces er. third lmsuccesslon to the thr he. the Duke of Windsor. the Duke of Gloucestefs two children, Prince William ~and Prince Frederick, and the two sons of thrDuchesa of Kent, the Duke of Kent and‘ Prince Michael. There was no authoritative guid- ance but mrponsibie court infor- mants said Philip may follow the Duke of Gloucester, which would place him a step ahead of the Duke of Windsor. Britain's dukes not of royal blood are styled "his grace.” ' The King's decision to prefix "his royal highness" was a aur- prise to most well-informed per- sons at court. They had expected Philip would be given a princodom as well u a dukedom, which would (Continued on Page l Col. l) Excitement Pervades London 0n Eve 0f Royal etloing Huge crowds A King Awards Dukedom Throng Streets - To Lie-ut. Mountbatten I Princess Replies To Message From Lieutenant Governor The following cable was sent by Her Royal Highness Prin- ceaa Elisabeth In reply to one from LieuL-Governor J. A. Bernard conveying to Her Royal Highness greetings and beat wishes from the people of the Province. “l thank you for your most kind mesnge of good wishes with which l am delighted. Illflbeth." r .ike Olrl Times n Pageant-starved ‘British People By NOR-MAN CRIBBENS LONDON. Nov. i9 — (CP) ‘tendon-dirty, foggy. bomb-scar- zrl and austere _ tonight stirred rid awoke to celebrate a tradition lie has known and loved for near- y 1.000 years - a royal wedding rith all its pomp and circum- italics. To Britons everywhere the pros- >ect was enough to make them Iorget rations, hard work and the grey aftermath of war. Tense and jubilant—wlth groups. if Londoners singing "Every Nice Girl Loves a Sailor" in honor of REMIER f » ton Transcript #5 Subaorfptlon Delivered $0.00. If!!! 85.00, other Provinces & U. l. Blum Will Seek New Gov’t By Louis Nevin PARIS. Nov. 19 —tAP)—Pi'etmler Paul ltamadier, unable to stem a. dangerously increasing national crisis of Ccmimunist-iinspired strikes, resigned tonight as strikes in- volving nearly 500,000 Frenchmen kept the country in a turmoil. A Socialist spokesman sold Ramadiers socialist colleague, Leon Blum, had received a mandate to form a. new government. President Vincent Auriol, who naimed the then little-known Ramadier to the premiership 10 months ago. received the resignat- ion with regret and immediately set about the task of formally ap- pointing a successor. The President thanked the 60-year-old economist and lawyer for the “courage and spirit. of sacrifice" he displayed as premier. The 75-year-old Blum, elder . statesman of the Socialists. headed n. temporary, "caretaker" ment when he stepped Jan. 17 and was govern- out last succeeded by (Continued on Page 5 Col. 6) May Spend Million 0n Moncton Airport OTTAWA. Nov. l9 -—tCP)—A senior official of the Transport Dc- partment said today he did not yet. know how much money would be spent on improving the Depart- ment's airport at Moncton, N. B. terminal of Trans Canada Airiinesl planes on trans-Atlantic flights. He was commenting on a Mona newspage story- whiah quoted a Department of Transport spokesman as saying that a $1.000.000 expansion program was planned for the airport. ' The official here said the estim- ates of Department expenditures for the 1948-40 fiscal year now were being drawn up and it was 11°F Yet known how much would be the bridegroom the ancient metropolis prepared for the nup- (Continued on Page s Col. l) EAmFAX, Nov. is -(CP) — Pounding through heavy seas and gales, the grimy Norwegian whal- er Olaf Olsen tonight was headed for the Grenfell Mission centre of St. Anthony afbsr a daring‘ res- cue of 4i shipwrecked sailors from isolated Sacred island at Newfoundlandh northern tip, 25 sea. miles north of her destina- tion. The iloughty crew of whalermsn risked their lives as they crept close intothe rocky shore of Boc- red Island to pluck from their freezing refuge, the 41 survivors of the 43-man crew of the grounded and breaking British freighter langleecrag. Earlier the British freighter Em- pire MacCallum had made a res- cue attempt and temporarily lost a lifeboat crew of i4. They were swept to sea by the howling storm. Hours later the lifeboat was re- ported safe at Cape Onion, lo miles to tho southwest. As the 400-ton Whaler stood alfahuo living shelter. a brooches Daring Rescue 0f 4'1 Shipwrecked Sailors line was shot ashore to the island and the survivors started the dan- gerous rope-buoy journey to the offshore rescue ship. When the 4i were all aboard the Olsen repo ted that eight had suf- fered bady frozen feet. during their long hours on the island and would require hospital treatment. Others suffered minor frostbite. The two men lost - Ordinary Seaman Fi-ancls Anderson and Able Seaman William Lama-lick Coiling, (home towns unavailable) —were washed overboard and drowned as heavy waves broke over the battered freighter as she piled aground. Today's rescue came just time. Without shelter and with their food supplies short the survivors had huddled on the barren shore of the island. seven miles wast of Capo Bauld, five days while land and sea search crews hunt- ed for them. Worried that the Langleecrag in spent at Moncton. Plans did call for the expansion of the airport, however, which was considered the Atlantic terminal. Sca-ne of the work had already been clone but there still was more to dc. if usso to B: 11v: Lint: use sciiooi. liousv. t-tow n‘; (its ‘Liffts his‘ m 4a: Sciiooi. house! '3.‘ l TORONTO. Nov. 19 -(OP)— Minimum and maximum temper- atures: V. ncouver 3i, 41; Victoria 34. 47; Edmonton i6, i9; Regina 17, 20; Winnipeg 7, 20; Toronto 36, 45; Ottawa 21, 38; Montreal 30, 33; Quebec 32, 33; Saint John 35, 39; Moncton 32. 35: Halifax 38, 42; Charlottetown 3d. 40; Sydney 37, 40: Yarmouth 38, 4'3. HALIFAX. Nov. 19 —(CP)—Of- ficial inland forecasls issued by the Dominion Public Weather Of-i fice at Halifax valid from 11 pm Wednesday until midnight ‘Iiiurs- dev- Synopsis: Therc was rain or driulo in many regions of the Maritimes Wednes- day and during the evening therl were still a few snowflurries. ‘This weather is caused by s. current of moist cool air sweeping in from the North Atlantic. An are: o! h pressure covers Onta/rio and as moves eastward Thin-aday the winds will decreue and clearing weather ls forecast in the more westerly regions. Regional forecasts: Prince Edward Island: Intermittent drizzle and scatlbfid snowfiu/rriss tonight and ‘murldl! morning. Cloudy in the afternoon and evening. Little change in tan- pei-ature. North winds 15, deerell- ing Thisrsdsy afternoon to light northerly winds. High Thursday at Charlottetown 38. High tide this afternoon at LI and tonight at. 8.10. aim sets this afternoon at L21 and rises tomorrow morning at 7.05 First quarter moon Novembef 20th, 4.44 P. M. Simimerside tide eighteen imias o---—---i--i— (Continued on Page 5 Col. l) utea later than Charlottetown. To Form.