us. .:..._.’ 11'? u. n. 1a.... c o»; -‘ Accountants‘ ll Grafton Street Professional Gerda i _ ' Lm-lgltitp! I feared the Victory ‘Belle Ami the strong lads marching} by, With ml! own lad dead in some foreign placg ‘ kind nobody near to cover his face . . . ‘And nothing to mark the time, or space Praise God! I hear the Victory Belle Our lads are on their way! ' I will Believe mine is marching along, Sharing their song . . . ~ For his sake, arm God, ,4 Peace-that holds-strong! —Ruhamah Scheinfeld Frank Don't Your Know? ow= "w! I Ellen School. m. lloll education should n; “miller! and a general iflfllolnation in games should Charlottetown ‘ be encouraged. Supgnlggfl no“ 1% i108 N‘! filly it! an education in ggndslnb I Manning. 0.A. itself. » , ‘Hand Company: ' " .-. . .. - CENTRAL GUARDIAN n, r. snonlsnio i m cum ‘___ t reserved r cm»- -»~---- i "' if: "mo. u.c".--'-..IJ5 --- M “M'- ::..:'.:. r.:'.':.:.."'* "m", - -. Mom" rmzuwzrsmfm \ I JVEHHA ——- o‘ ph- €é_____:__ slfélfqrcelnenanou ms ‘m. ‘ Q~< McLeod 0 Bentley w. n. BENTLEY. n. o. J, A. BENTLEY. K O. gu-rflterl and AttorneYl-IF LII 1M Prince Street - mouse-loom.»- i=1~ ___ Richard B. Johnston Attorney M l-II at Rockford Square at l P. M. 5-8-11. NEH. scheduled for ‘Iuesda, ev n- ing has been postponed ongsugeeg: - -1 Tar. ANNUAL MEETING of the Charlottetown Y. M. C. A. schedu- led to be held this evening st 7.80 is postponed (mtil one week hence at. 7.30. 5-8-11. All-MY CADETS WILL AS- semble at the Armourles at 1 PM. Oamniuioner for Deeds. Etc. fol l .- "web's"- .u: .*.::;=:'.:**"."' w’ "s Late Richard B. Johnatoni a a‘ "n 905mm om“ h!“ lam. M,“ 8""; 2?“; ‘ghuyigsgay afternoon. Masya-lloi B.A. iii. illoiililGAii, IAIRISTEB. . . OTARY SOLIgITOI us. McPhee B. A. K.C. NOTARY fie. BARR! STEB SOLICITOB llley Building PALMER i? HASLAM A. J. HASLAM. B.A., LLB. BAIIRITER, ETC. Charlottetown, P. E. I. MONEY TO LOAN Barrister, S-oiicitor. Notln. Etc liiey Building. Charlottetown “ Attorne nit-Law toms y‘ - PROPERTIES COLLECTIONS Charlotteotvrl. P. E. I. __._., . nun _ GLASSES FITTED A J. S. TAYLOR OPTOMETRIST ‘"1111!!! by Appointm htl Phone Residence I01; fis-iliifiiiiifi l Cbnriotteown Iank of Nuva Scotla Chambers BELL oGMKTHEfiFN 0N CITY AND FARM Corner Kent and Queen Sta. " Phone i956 P. E. I. PRESBYTEBY was to have met today. but owing to the IOfleAlA-nkl’: d tpcned till Th ug as en s ura- day at 111 amlroin Zion Church. VISITS BEAVER. CLUB-Sgt. B. L. Home of Charlottetown, was a. recent visitor at the Beaver Club ifi-IDlldOll. England. The Beaver Club is curreméy operated by the Canadian YM. .A. and is one oi the most popular leave centres in London. VICTORY THANKSGIVING ser- vice st Cross Roads Church to- night st 8 p. m. llb/erybod wel- come. Rev. Stirling Stucghcuae, pastor. y ' il-ii-ii. 17TH ARMOUBED Regiment Parade. All ranks of this unit in the Charlottetown ares are asked _ _ 1g t assemble at the Armouries in '3'” “ ' ° °" disc .21.. ‘-.°'§i°.°*.s sect“! Charles R. McQuaid ode. o-a-u a A TIIE PBESBYTERIAN Church in Canada-Che Presbytery of Prince Edward Island will meet in St. Andrew's Church. Montague on Thursday. May l0. i946. at 8.00 P. M. for the purpose of inducting the Rev. Randolph MscLean, 3A., into the pastoral charge. 5-8-11 . . . GIRLS’ CHOIR HOLDS PARTY _Undcr the auspices of the Acad- ian Girls’ Choir, a well attended bridge party was held last week in L" ‘ n Hslig’ Summer-side. The indies of the choir served re- freshments of ice cream and cake to all those present and the ici- lowing are the prize winners. Lsd- ies’ first, Mrs. Guelda Bincquiere; second, Mrs. Ted Perry, men's first, Mr. Leonard Peters; second, .Mr. Syivere DcsRoches; consolat- ion, Mrs. Earl Hickey. S Frederic A. Largo BABIIISTER, e-rc. I82 Great George Street l Phone 1048 l’. O. Boa “it ....‘_::_. CIIARLOTTwI/vlv" t’ E. l. ‘i - I;'1‘5-.' U7‘ 71”" By Ken Reynolds . .51‘? ‘l still n. Qlardian ACT mnnliiin Ir it would have been easier to look in the int Adp for a furnace repair nan!" AIR. csnsrs wnn. ASSEMBLE THE BOARD 0F TRADE DIN- B-il-li ' llllriments ,Victoty Bells ma: » . ._ By ALLAN NICKLESON i Canadian Press Staff Writer - LONDON, May 4-(0?) — TheA King and Queen rejected plans to evacuate the Royal Family to the country from London when Ger- man invasion was imminent back in 1940. They wanted to share the the dangers and hardships with their people. ~ Now peace has come to Europe and with it the revelation that! probably no King. and certainly no Queen, in Britain's history has been closer to his subjects at war. The only occasion on which the Royal Standard did not fly from Buckingham Palace or- Windsor Castle, both within the Greater London air-raid area was wjnen the King was visiting inspecting war factories. When bombs fell almost nightly on London during the blitz the King and Queen drove-sometimes n Acheer the homeless amid ruins of their houses and in streets filled with still-blazing debris. Six times enemy planes dam- aged the Palace. Their Msjesties spent many nights in a deep un- derground shelter while enemY THANKSGIVING SERVICE will be held in Central Christian church st 11 obiock today under the leadership of Dr. M. E. Cienge. All members and friends of the congregation should be present this devotional meeting. with grati- tude and humility. Joining in the notion-wide expression of thanks for end of hostilities in Europe and the hope of better dnys to fgllaovl/i FURTHER PARTICULARS-Mr. and lVlrs. W. i... gins, 16 Kent Street have received o. telegram informin them that their son Tpr. We lace Leltch Higgins, pre- viousl reported severely ounded in ac ion, is now reported suffer- ing from shell fragments in the neck, chin, lcit nrm and thigh, with a compound fracture of the left ankle. .__=__.. SSRD BIRTHDAY-Mr. G. H. Taylor, 9 Upper Prince Street was receiving congratulations yesterday on his 93rd birthday. Mr. Taylorl is enjoying good health and is‘ able to be up and aroimd every day and fakes a keen interest in current happenings. It is only u few years since he retired from JCMVE participation in the Jewel- lery business which still bears hie name. us‘... s. n. Burnett, n.o.n.v.n.. returned from overseas on leave inst evening. 0,5. Russell ll. Flood. R.C.N.V.R.. has arrived home on a thirty days leave with his mother, Mrs. Kath- erine Flood. Douglas Street. 0.8. Flood left Saturday for Ottawa to visit his brother. Mr. John P. Flood, and Mrs. Flood. Island Featured I ately is forces or ,8 n splinter-proof automobile-to . - Grove, closed on January Si. wards it; planes and later flying bombs were overhead. In one daylight raid by piloted planes the King and Queen. wat- ching through a window, saw the bombs foil from the raider. In another, the Queen's private apart- ments were wrecked. Of several thousand windows: in the Palace oni a iew score were leit un- bro en. Windsor Cutie. however, escaped damage from enemy ac- tion. ' Scorned Danger When the Germans indiscrimin- bombed Coventry the King motored to the stricken city and walked through the streets with igneirploded time-bombs lying a- ou . Five times His Majesty left Bri- tain to visit his fighting men and few days before D-Dny motored the south coast to review units of the invasion nnnads. It was, just l0 day; after the first Allied soldier splashm onto the Norman- the King ws sited Holland and ium last October. Previously e had ingested the British Expe- ditionary rce in France in 1960 and went to North Africa after firs] Allied landings, and inter to, ay. w .____‘ in them-literally and otherwise... Prohibition is still in force and "things are worse than ever" ac- cording to many Islanders. They say "better prohibition than no liq- uor at all," but prohibition and no liquor are rapidly becoming one and the some thing here. Scripts are at a premium and some doc-i lbrs now refuse to handle them; due to criticism of (Jhe way they, handed (hem out... , The "western C11pitill"—Summer-‘ side-is hot in ilhe news wit-h the statement of on official that the airport there is undergoing ChimgEs which will make it the No. i ‘drome in North America Security pre- vents mention oi the nature of the changes. P.E.I. 2s three R.C.A.F. training stations ut n couple are: ikely to fold any time now. Theo Island's only training dopot, Bzschl .9. of 4,000 Msritlmcrs and becers receivli their bosic~ training at the Grove since it was] established early in the war. The Provincial Government will be given first choice in mud-lasing trucks. machinery, etc, no longer needed at the military camp. ‘Iihe Government is very much interested in providing rural elect- rification and is believed to have its eye on the airport power plant at Mt. Pleasant should the equip- ment ever become lable. Lest word of the new five million doi- iar ice-bra: car ferry (to re- place the late "Chariotteiowrfil un- der construction at Sore]. Qua. is met delivery "may be disappoint- ing". This likely means n0 new ferry until 194d although the con- tract calls for d-elilsry this year. Meanwhile. the old "Prince Edward . converted to oil is doing a greet jobmSo great has been the teacher shortage in the Island that the prvinciai department of education has had to introduce In Maple Leaf ‘Ilhe following il from the Bei- gian edition of tfbe Maple Leaf, (he Canadian Forces newspaper. It was headed as follows: “Little Old Island like the Slhara” Iy Sgt. George Powell (Maple u Leaf Bares ) Cl-I-ARJDITIIPOWN. PILL - No great influx has swelled the lsland- capital's population but houses and apartments are touih lo find just (he cam-c. service per- sonnel on subsistence have snaff- lcd all in s ht and those who have correspondence courses‘ in rural cornmunit without adequate num- ber of tea ers. Courses are now going out to 140 schools... The sport picture was bright (his a ‘good senior hockey league operating. A bunch of for- pros iuyed with Summer-side and Charottefnwn RCA!" in a league with Navy and college squad,- frtkn Si. Dimsion’: and Prince oi Wales. Pete Kelly woe with the was I w of Inst oificlsl luv-e. from wré showed PEJ. leading all Cwvda any kind are from: A lg gmncorrsrowuu rsusnp King (Qlleeinf din _..Wartime N ‘loo-mile journey from’; Izeilhrlcjzut; the north inspect the Home Fleet and led the great ships out to battle practice as they awaited B11 811cm who never came. 9 K118 and Queen‘ crossed to Northern Ireland bv cruiser in_ June. 1942. b0 make their first in- spection of the advance guard of the United States armies. At- var- ious times they reviewed units of the Canadian _Arm_v which pre- pared so long in southern England for invasion. and also visited RC A11‘. squadrons. Cllllililng At P113“; | Scores cf Canadians were among! the thousands oi persons who re--, ceived decorations from the King‘ at regular investlturcs held in one cf the magnificent rooms cf Buck. ingham Palace. By the King's conmiimd everyone attending an lnvestiture was allowed to bring two guests so the Palace doors. Bilarzled by the colorful Yeoman of the Guard, have been opened during the war to a greater cross- section of people than ever before. T119 King. wearing uniform al- most every day, kept in closest touch ivii-h the dsylto-dav prog- ress cf the war. He, had frequent issued showed the Island trailing all Provinces except Quebec and Saskatchewan but actually it was m fir: lrad all slug-being in MD. 6, Islnnd army enlistmerits were credited to Nova Scotia, loc- ale of MD. headquarters" Say the Islanders: “These sta might have been news to the rest of Can- ada but certainly not to us!" iiess Room Ghatter; a ii/TITH TILE recurs‘. ovm-f $355. MW ~ (OP) - Aerial Photographs taken in the Wescl brlcgeneacl urea at l0 a.m. on the dfll! st the Rhine war, crossed by‘ the Canwdian Spitfire Reconhaih. sancc Wing were delivered to Bri-' tish troops across the giver at 5 iron. the same day. Capt. Knob-by Clarke, photo- interprster of inc British 6th Air- borne Divisions - commander, wouldn't believe it at first. The picture ‘gave Lost minute photo -proof the location of each German, aok-ack battery where his troops Wteelifi going to drop almost immedi- "Best briefing material we ever had" Caipt. Clarke later inld the recce wing. "Morale in the divis- ion really lumped when the word spread that we had been provid- ed with such up-(to-(he minute intelligence." In one do)’. Just before the Rhine crcssin. was launched, the Canadian mo lie field photo sec- tion attached to the Spitfire squadrons turned out 37,000 prints claimed as e record for any Al- lied front. "Sgt J. E. Jaw sonic. doesn't llim to think of this eytrde in his flying career: his nizatft caught fire willie he wats trap_::d in his rzsr gun tur- e l’ The incident occurred just after l-ihyncs had damaged a Messer- schmiti 109 over Hanku. Germany. The Lancaster vibrated es shells from i-‘r/ enemy plane hit tlhe rear cf the fuszvlsge, and (hen the fire started Haynes warned the crew (he machine was ablaze. Then to make matters worse. the plane piufn- metted 4.00 feet before the ima- iish nliot could bring it under control 7.7.19 wirilers c-csrnicr and the fiiv-i-lt engineer combined to beat out the firs. then cut n door n in perzentaae of enlistment; in (he anned services. Ilium Previously 5}”. o i Moosel lYld c1 nwiihl Aiilcd leaders. 1111 (‘mesa v wth Prim _ ter Churchill whol has elixcllliiesd with "111 K1118 atieast once a week 111111118 his premiership, Excgpt; when one or the other was frtizmxlsondon. eusin! any special privileges, Their Malesties and the Princesses hold ration cards and clothing coupons like anyone else and have kept strictly within the allotted Quotas. Flower gardens nt the Palace and other Royal residences were given over to growing oi food and production on the Royal farms was increased greatly. Their Mclesiies. in murs of Eng- land. Scotland and Wales. visited hundreds cf war factories. inspect- ed parades and talked to thous- ands cf war workers nnd members of the services. There was little time for relaxation but occasion- ally the King might be seen a- round Windeur Castle in n tweed lounging suit. It was the King's hand, writing "George RI." at the bottom of a. parchment scroll oi the Declara- tion War at a Privy Council which placed the nation in! war. The same Royal signature on an- other Privy Council proclaimed the defeat of Gcrmnny. Haynes who insisted on taking the place of the wounded mid- upper gunner. Because a Mitchell mediumq bomber continued to iiy on onei engine and 229 flak holes in its fuselage, f0. David Pudney of (4668 West Second Ave; Vancou- ver is going home. .Now at R.C.A.F. repatriation depot after completing a tour of operations with an R C.A.I<" ' squadron, Ehzdney" iigilLLs he's s‘ mighty lucky gent, indeed bombing the squadron we Venlo bridge in Holland when the port engine was hit by flak and disabled. Forced totum out of formation right over the target, the aircraft r-rccivcd full attention of the ack-sck defences nround the enemy-held bridge. Fisk ripped through the fuse- lage almost like water through a sieve but Pudney flew the cripple aid its four-man crew back to so Another “8ecret" away m, ti; world has been world. JIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII. k ‘IIIIIIJQGIIIIIIIIIIP ~ PROCLAMATION By the Grace of Almighty God, through the medium of our gallant leaders and men, of the Nazi gangsters. I therefore proclaim Tuesday, May 8th to be a Civic Holiday, that all may offer prayers of thanks to Almightyfiod for this European Victory; let us never lose‘ eight oi the price which has been paid in human lives. the sacrifices been made that we may enjoy Freedom. May God hasten the day when Victory over our Japanese enemy will bring a lasting peace to this War-tom JAMES E. wIIlIIIIp/lllarnvarr/II I l PAGE THREE 412s freed of the scourge which have final BLANCHARD, Mayor rIIIIIIIIIIIIIIp-i‘ l B! A. I. GOLDBERG H1121. AUSTRIA. May 6 - (Ari-Pbrmer French Premiers Edoumrd Dalndler and Paul Rey- naud and Generals Maurie; Game- lin and Maximo Weygimd were! freed from months of Gennail; political imprisonment Saturday. when two battalions ofthe Unitedl States 36th Infpntry Division fought their way into ltier Castle. (The BBC, in a broadcast heard,‘ in New York CBS. the Blue= Network and , said that Kurt‘ Schuschnisit. former Premier of Allflirla. Leon Bium, for-trier Pre-i mier of France and hiartin Niem- oeller, famous anti-Nazi German pastor. all were rescued by the Am- ericans farther to the south near. the Brenner Pass, after having been! removed from the same prison thati loomed Daladier, Gamelin, Rey-i naud and We nd.) l The world- amous four French leaders were among n. number of 0- thégedfflmflili persons who were lib-| Among than were a sister cf , Gen. Charles De Osuiie .a fornlcr; heed of the French Trade Unionsq fashion, of the castle at noon to ring word to American troops of the plight oi those imprisoned. Eleemnis of the 12th Armored and zoom Divisions and (he 53d Iiank Battalion figured in the re- lease of e famous figures. (In Paris it was announced that, Andre fisncois Poncet, former. French nmbas “ to Be and, Rome, had been liberated by French] troops in South Germany. Albert: Surrsut, fonner president of the ench Council, and Francisco Nitti, president of the Italian Mm- isterlnl uncli, also were freed.) The Americans la house in the woods just below the castle when Borotra came up the rood, accompanied by a guard, to fell how a German Bil-MM. gun had knocked out. an Ameriacn tank which had made its way to the ens- tie n-idnv night and had shelled the castle Saturday. I-ieJed another company‘ 01 111E battalion back up the road to sur- <TnTFf>iTixiifiiighrfpéidl 31x11‘; pilot could drop out m hurry. The theor was expressed that the pilot wou d aim the bomb snd then parachute. On the other hand t/here were reports the Ger- mampion Jean Borotrs. 1g Three Former French PTCITIIBTS Are. IFreeci’ round the Geimnn defenders. "I've been waiting two vents t; get back into uniform," the ism. ous bounding Basque said. To Bet to ihe United States for- ces he waded a river, posed a5 s refugee ,a_nd came through the German lines. A brief splurge of resistance ae we rounded a corner ium the little settlement near the castle gate was subdued quickly, however, and in we rushed, to be greet-ed by Dulu- dler and Leon Jouhztux. head of the French trades unions. who were standing in the doorway, surround- ed by 1d German sold‘ 11s. Besides Gomelixl, Wcgand, Dulu- dicr, R/zynaud and JQUHJUX, those freed included Aiazizlme Wcyg M. and Mme. All ' ‘ ' ' Dc Gziuilcls bi" ' sister: Michel Clemenceau, 51m of the First Wur French Premier: Mme. Augusta Bruchlen, secretary to Daladier. Col. I-‘raxicois dc lo Rocquc, head of the Crcix de Feu. who was arrested bv ‘.112 Germans in 1943 on an Pspimulge charge; Mme, Christine Mabirc. secretary to Rsynaud; and Marcel Gramger. a brother of Gen. (Brand's son-in- w Most of the prisoners said the? had been in the castle for two years after periods in the inicmoun Oranieubuig camp, at Hamburg and elsewhere All were in good health and said they had been well fed at the castle Reynaud said he was kept solitary confinement in Oranicn- burg for five months. He protested repeatedly and finally was brought here. Weygand said the Germans seized him as he was on his way to con- fer with Marshal Petoln. All those freed were in well- kept civilian clothing. but Gamelln Y 11i- 5 111-1111’! wore lemhcr puuees. For Foot iiibnents CONSULT u. J. A. BIEURVN. or Orthopedic GIIIRfPODIST 143 Great George Street CHARLOTTETDWN. P.E.l. mans planned to use suicide pil- ots. Weapon Uncovered By WEB GALLAGHER “VITH THE U. S, 9TH ARMY‘ IN GERMANY, April 26-(Deiay- edi-—(AP)-One of l-iiticrs last secret weapons-a piloted flying bomb-has been uncovered by the 9th Army advance. 'I‘he new V-ueapon WM like the V-l except that. 12 from the tip of the warhcadJhere was a small cockpit rnclcsed in glass. It was cramped and had a simple flying instrument panel, B. F. iiutoheson & Siiii OPTOMETRISTS “Specialists in the fli- ting of glasses for the correction of ocular dc- feels." 53 Grafton Street ‘ R in the rear turret to release 5w . ierenn in San Francisco were on M. Molotov. Red Star of UNCI. Whether he was listening intently to other delegates‘ smiiingiy chatting at s press csnfc-reure. o: stand oncontrcvsrsisi matters. most '* speeche crrnrwv pleading Russia ' 1' itions Col r Viacheslt 3 n I: Scvic: Some observers hnve remarkrd ‘ms resemblance to Thee don Roosevelt, apparent in the candid camera photo above. h