flharlafllhwl l! Homing Gus-Gilli. Iolnlol llllo U. s. ARMYiFkbBE‘uY1NG SA IslanderAdds liew Slant To Observations Further confirmation of the ex. lstence of mysterious Objects cross. lng the skies at treinendom speed, was given on Saturday by Mr, Elven McNciil, Village Green, who called at the Guardian to report his observations. Mr. McNeil] said be was sowing green feed on his farm st flpprgxl- nmtely 5.30 on Thursday afternoon, when his attention Wu at. lraeted by a very bright light 1n the skylt was brighter than the sum, ho said. The liglht seemed to come from a black object immediately ahead of the light, and behind the light hhere was a long plume which ho estimated f0 be two miles long llhe height of the object he believ- ed to be about 40,000 feet and it was travellln almost due east at tremencfgus speed. Asked if it in any way resembled 76.55515 Om niaTeofr Coming Events "Lot 55 Picnic, July 23rd, "Show Malpeque Tuesday. "Movies -- North Wiltshire, Tuesday. "Show Murray Harbour North Monday. "Ice cream and dance inJono Hallflruesday night. "Dance in Emyvale school Mon- day, July 70h. Good music. "Reserve ‘mesdcy. July'16th for Rollo Bay tea. . "Kelly's Cross Picnic Wednes- day. July 10th. "Dance and ice cream. Donagh school, Monday, July ‘lth. "Axmniai Picnic in aid of 5t. Brigid's Church, Lot 1!, Wednes- day. Juhl 9th. '"Auld's Store, Harrington. will be closed on Thursday afternoons- untll further notice. "Dance in Horton's Hull, Mur- ny River, July 1th. MacKenzws Orchestra. "Remember Knights of Col- umbus Carnival at Recreation Centre, July 17th. c ..__.. "Coma to the ice cream festi- val at Stcmhell School Wednes- day, July 9. , "Dancing tonight. country Club, ‘Iravellers Rest. Music by Prince County Pioneers. "Get your ticket on the blcf Citcstcriield Suite, Knights of Columbus Carnival. Jul!’ 17m- "Collecting noes each W941i» day morning for Canada Packers. Rcbt. Dawson, Crcpaud. "Dance Curran Ban Hail. July ff. Rollie MacKs-nzies Orchestra. Dancing 0:30 to 12:30. "Collecting Hogs for Canada Packers each Tuesday- 51811“! David Pratt. ‘"Danoe in Brae Hall, Tuned!!! night, July 8. hm orohdtfa.‘ Lunmes served. Admission 25 tents. "In stock. asphalt shlnilles and roll roofing. N. Aubrey Gui/clim- hedericton. "Dance and i0! cream. Donllll School postponed until Thursday. July 10th. "New in stock. Asphalt Shin!- fgg Roll Roofing and all sizes in Board Nnlll. W. I. Bowman, Hun- ter River. "Eastern District n. v. P. s. may on ruemy. July 9- It Mlll" ray Harbour North Presblflfifll" ohm-en Sessions at 3 PM. and 8 P. I. - "so ttendlnl mush" vi Oolumgiiis ‘damp who have not I09 stiles in ‘their apllllfllllflll. r101" aw to u aochforc at. or plum! "Ouniiay School convention of 56.3"“; queen's 1n Cornwall Church. ‘ffiursdey. July 10. After- noon session ,8 o'clock. Inning mo. Everybody “leew- ‘voeueoupi new and: Tunic! for Cumin solvers from WNW River, Utg. Elliotvlh, lufnflfl‘ vlle. Hcfllittfl. awn-hie 1M Indoch- foet yawl is George "Girl Pat." lame. Greek Freighter Abandoned 0n Sable Island HALIFAX. July 6~—(CP)—With part of her crew safe on Sable Island and the others on a salvage tug hound for Sydney, N.S., the Greek freighter Manbasset was abandoned today and left to Join the scores of other ill-fated ships clutched in the shifting sands of the lslnml Atlantic "graveyard." Efforts to free the ship yester- day and today were fruitless, with her boilers useless, her engine room wracked by an unexplained explosion and her radio smashed by the steady battering of the heavy swell, she was abandoned. Twelve members of her crew had previously been transferred to the island and the Yugoslav chief engineer. injured in the engine room explosion was flown by air ambulance to hospital in Halifax. Today the Halifax salvage tug Foundation Frnklin, standing, by to make a possible rescue attempt. gave up her towing efforts and took the remaining fourteen crew members on board and headed back to her home port at Sydney. The soul-laden freighter, en- route from Newport News. Va, to st. John's, Nfld. ran aground on the tricky sand bars of Sable Is- land, 100 miles due east of Hali- fax, late Fri-day night in a dense fog. "District convention of’ local Institutes will meet, New Clas- gow Hall. ‘luesclay. July ill-ll. 3 P-lll- and 8. Music and National Film program at evening session. Hear (Jody Myers. Everyone welcome. "C. 0. ll. Public Meetings: Long River Hall, Wednesday, July 9; Bea View Thursday. July 10;, Ifiederictcn, Friday, July l1. A11 meetings at 8:30. filmnker. DOW- las Mcciirlen. Provincial Ortlll- lzer. "Come to Glasgow Road vm- ety concert at' Hnrtsvllle Hall. Monday. Jul! ‘"h- umuqstlm hen for Canada Packers 1M by truck ma diure- day. Phone N. A. Cuteliffl. Pred- erlcton. or write me. D. L. mDcw- all. "A special |eneral meeting of the shareholders of the Murray Herbotfl‘ South l-lall Oompan Limited will be begun s; Hazlitt: wfidllfi“. l I . hour c! elphwclock P, If, At this mating a resolution to cal the Hall poperty will be Ifilied QIQIMOQ all Lav v"u‘ than. Nether: mint. Pmidwl- Sailing Atlantic clone in 39- Osborn of Osborn left U. S. Counts 427 Dead In Holiday Week-end Read by Covers Prince Edward Island like the new (IHARLOTTETUWN, CANADA, MONDAY, JULY 7, 1947 Sails Atlantic Alone . Dover. Eng. without warning. Two crow members couldn't. get aboard. NEW YORK. July 8 - (OP) — Americans tonight flooded back to their homes after a three-day July 1 holiday week-end which claimed at least 427 lives throughout the country. with good weather prevailing throughout much of the United Slates. roads were jammed all through the xveek-end and 206 per- ~sons were killed in traffic and olher automobile accidents. 1n:- flc fatalities. however, were con- siderably under lest year's 241 deaths. As holidaying folk swarmed into summer resorts and lake, river and nr-enn beaches, drownings provid- ed the second most numerous group of fatalities. From B RM. (local time) Thursday until late tonight there had been 138 drownlngs and five deaths from fireworks. Small nlune crashes also took their toil and there were ‘(I deaths from various accidental causes apart from automobile ao- cldents. drowning: and firework mishaps. The highest Independence Day toll in the last 20 yearfwu 194i when 628 persons were killed in three days. Tonight the return of the greet- endey jammed holiday. bus and plane terminals as much as the exodus last ‘Thursday night had. Travel was sn great that scha- dulee on some lines were aband- oned tonight an on the night pre- ceding the holiday. It was estimated that nearly i.- 500000 persons jammed Coney Island beaches alone in the New York area. during each day of the week-end. Spaniards Vote Yo; For Succession Law MADRID, July tl-MM-Bpan- ieh voters badly ratified by In apparent majority ofmncre than B0 per cent the law conflrmlhl Generalinimo Francisco fiance u chief of state and establishing procedure for selection of a kinl or regent to succeed ill-m. It was tbeiirlt timo in 1i ylcru that balloting 1nd been permitted in Spain. or nearly mambo votu tabu- lma are tonight by the Associat- ed Pun. 2,069,704 were "rel". 103.776 were "no" and 51,08’! were blink. \ There was no ofllclll announce- meat of the mull cf the billet- Ing other thin a statement h! m- tcrior In Peru that the succession fur had been ‘ap- proved by "In overwhcimlq ffll~ lority." probably greater than O0 pct cent. I ‘more was no. indication either how many of the 10.1mm res- istered voters had remained’ away y from the pollqrranco had ber- mitted no organised carnal!!! by the opposition, which was ea- rectefl to show its utroncth in the number who refund w his. rem promlnd to release om- plete results Monty afternoon. 4101111 of gasoline today plunged into Local Boy To Attend World Scout Jamboree Paul Oudmore, son of Mr, and Mrs. Harry Cudmorc of this City. has been chccen to represent Prince Edward Island at the World Scout Jamboree of Pence to be held near Paris, fiance, which commences about August 7. and lasts for two weeks. Paul leaves for Miller's Lake near l-fali- fax, July 27th, where he will Join the rest of the contingent for c week's training. after which they will embark on the H. M. C. S. Warrior for their ocean trip to the continent. Paul is a member of the St. Paul's Scout Troup of Charlotte- town. and is a King's Scout, nav- ing the green and red cords to his credit and is within a few badges cf obtaining his gold cord. lfe was chosen from among three King's scouts on, the Island as having the highest qualifications to represent the Province. Two Barns Destroyed At Victoria Gross Mr. Eugene Dunn o1 Victoria Cross. a few miles from Montague suffered a lbvere loss Saturday nlsht 1n the 108s by fire of two blml. A horse and two calves died in the barn. Considerable farm machinery was lost also, including r binder, hay mower and potato digger. _ Origin of u-e fire is unknown. It broke out shortly before l0 o'clock. Mr. Dunn was away from home at the time. One of the chhdren said he saw the light from the fire and thought a car had driven into the‘ yard. When he went out the main barn was on fire. Neighbors gathered quickly but could save little from the barns. They go‘ out n sow and some small pigs but were unable to get near the horse or the calves. A bucket brigade was formed and w.-ter'pcur- ed on the house until the heat fr:m the barns began to lessen. One of the burned buildings was only about 40 feet from the house but. the wind blew the flames away. EVFn at that the walls o! the house became quite hot. and steamed as the water was kept on them A pump in the farm- yard supplied water. Flashes lit up the sky and many came from nuies a-way. There was nothing they could d0. however. =1 by the time they rmched he scene the barns had been levelled. n. was not learned immediately whether there was lnsurcrte, Plane Crashes Into Houses QUINCY. Mass. July 6 - (AP)- A two-passenger Urfltcd States Navy "l-lelldlvcr" bomber with a full a row of three homes on a take-off. killing its pilot. seriously injuring s passenger and leaving a trail of burned wreckage. sin, Georle Ii. Curley of Boston. Hugh I‘. Aherll. l nlvymln I160 0f Bolton. suffered a broken jam. in- ternal injurim, and sdvere cuts. The plane knocked a chimney off one house. stove in the roflf and ehIllOd off the upper back end 0i the second in linl. thtii wished in» to the side o! the third when fire subsequentl, gutted the four-family residence, Deputy Fire Chief fhcmas German estimated dnmbll at ecoooo. BROWN!!! AT Pill- HAUFAX, July 6—(OP)—-h~n- est West, l8. was drowned hen today when he fell into the water near pier I where he wn swim- ml!‘ with eight companions. I0 was ‘believed to have struck his head in the ml, knocking himself unconscious. time the tourist trade shot in the arm. worker: stories about our; over 5weden~or is your mem- cry so short?" position that the ilvinB The plot was identified as en- like New Branch Manager, Bank 0f Nova Seotia Mr. T. F. Mitchell who has ‘taken over his duties as manager of the Charlottetown branch of the Bank of Nnva some. Mr. Mitchell succeeds Mr. W. R. Adams who ls retiring 0n pension after more than forty-one year; service with the Bank. Mr. Mitchell was formerly man- ager of bile branch of the Bank of Nova Scohia at Leihbrldge, Alli. where he was prominent as I member of the Board of ‘Trade council, the Y.M.C.A. hnarci of directors and the Rotary Club. A native of Leith, Scotland, Mr. Mitchell joined the Bank of Non Scotia at Vancouver, in i914. He served in the Western Provinces at various branches’ including Re- gina, and Winnipeg. and was man~ agar at Star City. Saslc, and Swift Current. Saslc, before removing to Lethbrldge. Overseas View 0f “Flying Saucers” LONDON, July 6 — (AP) —- Don't mention those flying sauc- ers on this side of the Atlantic unless you're DrePHrHl T01" B" rrgument about your sanity. Maybe they have been seen by sober citizens over a vast area of North America, but liturcpe won't believe in them until somebody lassoes one and has it photo- graphed by Prank Sinatra. the British Ambassador in Washing- mo and five supreme Court lus- tlees. “America's reply to the Loch Ness monster." chortled today's Sunday Dispatch. referring to Britain's hoariest tall story-ma vast serpent that is “see-n" rump" lug in Scotland's Loch Ncss every needs a scoffed the Communist Dally "You remember those rackets streaking (Swedish military headquarters announced inst Oct. 10 that radar equipment hnd detected some kind of but that "lt proved i the basis _ ciric the nature of the things’) rockets" o er Sweden. possible. on. to de- "about cf indications. Europeans generally took the SMICBTR. rockets." Sweden's “ghost would go away if everybody took a good stiff glass of a directive preparation and the that order. Gail Highway To Panama Ila Mistake plot, I WASHINGTON. July 6 - (C?) o wartime project of trying to link the United States and Panama Canal with an all-weather high-way was termed I multimillion dollar mistake todav special we: investigating committee. by the Sanait‘! AnhOmjhe hiihway WM to have been gompiettd in May 1M6 at a total cost of SIMINJJOO. the invest- igating group reported lt "is not M yer, ha! completed” and "will now colt at lent $139,000,000." Bl FLOUR l? l" r ll f.‘ n r/ v essay CANADA ‘Chevrler, .M.nlster Eve 12 PAGES Will Make F Well Known Island-Born Engineer Dies MONTREAL, J a _ _. William s. Lea, voqfbolonsmtlggpin. gin-ear well known from coast, to 15°33. died Saturday at his sum_ mfir home at nearby Senneville. Born at Victoria, P.E.I., he was educated at Prince of lVaies Col- le8e in Charlottetown and at Mc- Gill University in Montreal At one time he was engineer-m. ChF-YSB. Department oi’ Waterworks "Kl Bridges of Vancouver. He was responsible wholly or in large measure for design and con. sbruction 0i large scale Selwgrage and Sf-‘Wlllze treatment schemes for MQ-lll-Fflfl-l. Winnipeg and Vancouv- er; for water supply systems or ex. l-ell-‘rlfillfi in these cities and ~ in scores of others; and for hydro electric developments on me win. H1998 River, Lake of the Woods. Coaticook, Point Rouge and 615$ where, At the time of his death he ‘ was consultant to the city of Mont- lreal 0n the St. Pierre River sewage pumping plant design. The late W.S. Lea was held in high repute in his native Province as an engineer and his advice was lsoughi 0n many occasions by the Provincial Government. He was one of t-he engineers engaged by the Dominion Govemlment s. few years ago to make a report on the practicability of constructing either a luau-rel or a causeway between Prince Edward Island and the mabmlancl. It was at his suggestion that several changes were made in the alterations to the piers at Tor- lmcntinle and Borden, The lute Mr. Lea was a full broth- er of the late Hon. Walter Lea. former Premier of the Province. A half-brother and a competent cri- gineer also, Richard Lea. died about a year ago. Mrs. W.F..A.. Stewart. wife of the Minister of Agriculture. is a niece and Dr. Gordon Lea, Charlotte- town, a nephew of the deceased. The late W.S. Lea was well known in his college days as Rn Millet-e and was especially proficient at football and hockey. He was a mem- ber or the old Victoria Club when it was in its heyday as an athletic organization. Abegweit To Gail At iibarlottetown The new car ferry "Ahegweit", now undergoing her final tuning-up] preparations at Quebec. will make Charlottetown her first part of call l before going on the Borden-Tor—[ plentlnlt route, The Hon. Lionel‘ of Transport, informed Premier J. Walter Jone: by telegram last Saturday. The reason for the Charlottetown call, the Minuter said, is to give as many people in lhe Province as possible an opportunity of insilffil- ing the Ship before she goon on he!‘ regular schedule. Querled as to when tho ship may be expected, Prrmln- Jones said it was impossible to name the exact d“; but that it was hie opinion the "Abegwell" would not arrive before the latter Dart of the month- forwanLnoftcnshaumonenm-y of yolr but Iucoesoea cnmehto your-mind. MAXIMS ' OIL MERE MAN Asclhnluyeuelaflhkoasby lnbnrhlpn Delvered use. llnlUMotfnecProvhcadU-LA-UM erry Loading “Extremely Difficult” OZTAWA. Jul? 6- (Special)- Ln the closing minutes of the week's session of Parliament, Transport Minister Ohevrier ad. mitted to W. Cheater S. McLure, Progressive Conservative member for Queen's that it would be "ex- tremely difficult" for the new car ferry "Abegwelt" to load 1nd m. load at Borden while repair work 1! in Dfflzress at the Borden ter- minals. * "The contract has been given iv repair the terminals and the 8ND must dock at these termin- ils. the Minister explained. "I understand that arrangements are being made to dock the ship in the usual way but it is going to hold up the work." Mr. Chevrler told the Queen's member that two contracts had been awarded for repair of the Borden terminals. One was for $747,512 awarded to the Canadian 1779389 and Dock Company and Lhe other for $1,409,571, awards-j to the Foundation Maritime Lim- ited. ‘He admitted that a smglf additional sum might be required ir order to complete the termin- als job. Cu- Ferry "Dcfldt" M1‘. MCLllfe Mid Nb‘. Chevrler again clashed on the moot ques- tion of the Prince Edward Island F8!‘ fr"? when the former to-vk exception to the word “deflclw 1n reference to operating costs or ma, lerrv- Holding up the hluehcok containing the Transport Depart-- ment estimates, the Queen's mam. ber asked: "Why should the word ‘deft-cit _#____._______ __ (Contlnuedaon Page 5 Col. 3) - ..._________._. Pleased With ‘in. Election” Forecast OTTAWA. July 6 --(CP)—-Sever- al members of the Commons said W438i’ they and their colleagues were pleased with Prime Minister Mackenzie King's statement Fri- dlly l-hll “l do not think there will be a general election before them is another sitting of the House af- ter this session." They said that the statement came as somewhat of a surprise, be- cause prime ministers as a rule were careful about predicting when an election might or might not take place. While the life of the present parliament does not expire un/tll 1950 it was not taken for granted that no general election would come before that time. Expect Slash 0n Balkans Question LAKE SUCCESS. N. Y., July 0- (AD-Some United Nations dale- gates said today there was a uns- sibility of a. clash between Russia and the Western Powers this week on the Balkans. They expected it when the Sec- urity Council votes on a United States proposal calling for a seml- permanent U. N. border commission to watch over the Balkans and settle any disputes that might arise. Kai - Shek BY AROLD K. MILKS NANKINO. Jul p — (AP) Generailssimo Chang Kai-Slick in a bitterly-worded radio address to- night told his people the nation would die unless they conquered the Communists. ' Speaking on the eve o! the 10th anniversary a.’ the Japanese in- vasion. the Chinese Government Chieftain declared the long war with Japan would have been "fought in vein" lmlelq the Gcverrment re- Chinese term for Manclzurla) and amured the lntesflfiy of all (Xiinese territory, The Communists. he declnrerd were “carrying on the erltage o! inuperiallstlc acflvltes let over by the enemy and their puppets."- The Chinese people, Chlang said in his ltd-urinate talk, have these alternatives: "Romain aloof from the present Itruggle and watch the nation die. o! realise the Communist impen- _,_ acknowledging covered the northeast provinces (a l-llc Is Bitter Against. Communists air effort to defeat them." As he spoke, his Government was new Communlstj successes in‘ important Shantung‘ Province Meanwhile. Walton Butler- worlh, United States Minister t0 China. was on route by sir to Wash- ington for conferences which may decide American policy vital to the Chlang regime onion; asked his people to con- sider the civil war “an extension cf the war of resistance against the Japanese, with the slme aims and same necessities." Admitting defects in the Govern- ment, he promised irnmcdmte econ- nmic and politics; refonm in rc- lurn for support of his new total mobilization ordcrl. saying every Chinese had a duty to "pzevcnt est- ablishment of a proletariat; dictator- ship in China" . Earlier Premier Chang Oh-un is- sued through the ofllciul Cfinlfll News Agency a statement that the new total mobliiistlon was aimed not only at "suppression of rebel- UCERSiil/IYSTERY Work On ‘Borden Piers ~__..dn Fast Planes Ready To. Chase Discs By The Associated The United States Army Air Forces put Jet and conventional fighters on the alert sunday on the Pacific Coast in hopes of 0111151!!! and explaining the mys- tery of the "flying saucers" which in l2 days has baffled and in. trizued people in many parts of North America. Gen. Carl Spaatz, Air Forces commandant. was in the Pacific northwest, where the majority o! tge strange objects were rcpom e Others have been seen in Chn- ada on both coasts, at Vancouver, some days r180 and near Sum- merside, P. E. L. Saint John. and Ottawa more recently. An Air Force spokesman in Washington said Spaatz had not gone to the Pacific Coast to in- vestigate. out merely to speak mi Seattle and inspect an airfield ai Tacoma, A P-80 jet fighter at Mu army air field in California an six fast regular fighters at Port- land. Ore._ stood ready to take off on an instanlfs notice should any flying saucers be sighted in those areas. Some of the planes carried photographic equipment. A cautious attitude marked both official and scientific comments, but Capt. Tom Brown of the United States Air ‘Forces public relations staff in Washington acknowledged that. thc Air Forces had decided "there's something to this" and had been checking up on it for 10 days. “And we still haverflt the slight- est ldea what they (the discs) could be." he added, First sighted June 26 and greet- ed generally with scorn, the ob- jects have been reported every day since by observers in 38 states. Most of the objects were re rted seen July 4. A few were re- ported Saturday. David Lllfenthai, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, said they had nothing to do with atomic experiments. and Army and Navy officials also entered posi- tive disclaimers. A Lcs Angeles newspaper story quoting an unidentified Callforni ‘(Continued on Page 5 Col. 4) _ TORONTO. July 6 — (GP) _. Minimum and maximum temper- nlllres: Vancouver 56 ‘l2; Ed- monton 54 82; Regina 48 84; Win- nipeg 59 U1; Toronto 08 ‘I9; Ottawa o0 7'7; Montreal 64 '19: Quebec ‘I8: Saint John 52 62; Moncton 57 ‘f5: Halifax 5B 71; Chaflottetcwn B 3f‘: Sydney 56 78; Yarmouui 54 HALIFAX, July 6 —(C P) -- Woather synopsis and official in- land forecasts issued by the Dom- inion Public Weather Office MI Halifax at midnight Sunday. The weather was fine over the greater part of the district on Sunday. However there were e icw shflwers in New Brunswick and Prince Edward island. The fog over the ocean began to drift in the south along tihe coast. some places remained in the low sixties. A dis- turbance over the Great Lakes is moving eastward and ls expected to ca intermittent rain by Monday ‘even ng in the Mnritlmee. Prince Erinvard Island: Variable cloudinestsvndth n few showers be- coming overcast with lnlcm-lilclvt rain by evening. Continued warm. Winds light. bormulllfl south 15 by evening. lilgh Monday at Char- loitclcflm 30. High lldn this afternoon at 12.49 and tonight. at 2.21. sun sets this evening at 7.46 and rises tomorrow mcrninl l9 4.31. ‘Last quarter moon ml! ll. 5-" am. iallstic ambitions and Join in the lion" but at national reconstruction. utes later than Charlottetown Summer-side tide eighteen min- a N c_o;‘i:-_\~,