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‘CHARLOTTETOVITN, CANADA. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1947

ing against the danger or centrlization of power at Ottawa u n. . expense of-the Provinces was wuil cd by Hon. John Bracken, ,_ "m1 leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. in the course of an inspiring address delivered at The Charlottetown on Saturday

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Coming Events

"Talkies _.. Eldon, Friday.

“T311419; - Malpeque Tuesday. "Don't Pence Me In"—Roy Rogers.

"snow iradalbane Hall Tues- dul- "Reserve ‘Tuesday. Sept. 9th.

for bean supper, Emerald Hall.

"Talkies — Morell. "Don't Fence Me In."

Thursday,

for Canada Earl Jay.

"Collecting Hogs Packers each Tuesday.

"Dance. Valleyfield l-lall. Tues- day, september 2nd. Refreshments.

"Talkies - Canoe Cove Wed- nestiay. "Don't Fence Me Ln"—Rory Rogcrs.

"Legion Dance in Cardigan Hall. Wednesday, Sept. 3rd. Web- ster's Orchestra.

"Cardigan Hall, Chicken Sup- per and Dance, ‘Tuesday, Septem- ber 9th.

"Dance. Ions. I-Iall. Iiriday. Sept. 5th. Millview Orchestra. Dancing 9 to 1.

"Collecting Hogs each Wednes- dev morning for Canada Packers. Robt. Dawson, Crapaud.

"Collecting Hogs for Canada Packers each Tuesday afternoon. W. Crane.

"Carnival at Borden Arena, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. September 2nd and 3rd.

Canada

"Collecting Hogs for Signed

Packcrs each Tuesday. David Pratt.

"Don't mlse the big dance and refreshments in Vernon Hall Thursday 4th.

"wlicat - Now unloading car of bulk whcnt. $2.25 cwt_ Bring bags. P. L. Morris. Kinkora.

"lflmngash Church Picnic. Wednesday. Sept. 3. Meals served ell day. '

"Dance and Sale of Novelties. Vernon River Hall. Wednesday, September 3rd. Millvlew Orchestra.

"Chicken Supper at St, Mar- garets Hall, Wednesday, Sept. rd.

"Dance to Don Messer and his Ofthrstra at the Bright Spot. September 2nd. Canteen service.

"Reserve Tuesday. September 16th for Annual Meeting of P. E. I. TS-‘iillcrnnce Federation ‘in Char- lottetown. Special speakers.

"Melon Supper and Dance. in lforcil Hall, on Wednesday, Sept-

. ember fird. Supper served from 4.90

till 9. Also refircshiments and amuse- merits.

"Picture show at Afton hell. ‘Illesdayr, Sept. 2nd. also some local talent on program. Sale oi’ ice cream. Dance after.

"Collecting hogs for Canada Packers Ltd by truck every Thurs- flay. Phone N. A. Cutcliffe, Fred- glictori. or write me. D. L. McDow-

"Collccting Rog; each Tuesday h!’ Canada Packers from Vernon River. Ulgg, Elliotvale. Summer- “llr. Hermitage, Avondele and gmfoe. Cell Ralph Lee. vet-rim

"Binding m. Hogs ‘lhursdny ll follows: Summer-aide till 1.80 P- M. Kensixigton till s. r. n 3°16“. Bag-ml, Ilunter River Thursday all day. Miner Wlgmore lreadeilmie. Thursday till train IIIM- Trucking service when roads lmmlt. Maclilwen and Oneley. "'1!" Annual Convention of glrkdeie. Harrington. Spring Park. ‘"501! Point, Bprl-ngvale, South Wlnsloe. North and South Milton.

‘I. West and Central Royaltiee Women's Institutes will be held in Community Hall, East u 2aovpcnullib-iday. September 5th.

A jrvative Leader t Local Colleague noured At Banquet

Mr. Bracken was guest speaker at a large and enthusiastic gather- ing sponsored by the Progressive Conservative Association of the Province. Associated with him as guest of honour was lVlr. W. Ches- ter B. McLure. M.P. for Queen's, whose work during the past two sessions of Parliament was the subject of many complimentary re- marks.

Mr. B. Roy Holman, president of the Provincial Association and vice president of the Canadian Assoc-

iation. presided. I-Ion. Mr. Bracken arrived in Charlottetown by plane shortly

after noon on Saturday. Yesterday he called upon His Honour Lieu- tenant Governor Bernard at Gov- ernment l-Iouse. end made a num- ber of other visits before leaving yesterday morning for Nova scctia. During his stay here. accompanied by l-lon. Dr. W. J. P. MscMlllen. Provincial Conservative leader. and Vlr. R. R. Bell, M.L.A., he visited the area ofthe proposed Brighton bridge project and expressed him- self favorably in connection with this undertaking.

Prominent Conservatives from all parts of the Province attended Sat- urday's dinner function. including Hon. Dr. MacMlllan, Lt-Col, J.D. Stewart. D.S.O.. Acting Mayor. Mrs. R. s. Sutherland. president of the Ladies P. C. Association. Mr. Thos- DeBlois. president oi the Young Men's Association, Senator J. A. MacDonald, Mr. H. F.‘ MacPhee. K.C., Wing Cmdr. Angus Mac- Lean. Lt.-Col. E. H. Stronl. We presidents of the different County associations and the Conservative candidates nominated for the next provincial general election.

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Recalling his visit here durin: the last Federal election campaign, Mr. Bracken read excerpts ficm the report of his speech in The Guardian of May 12. 1945, stress- ing the transportation claims of this Province under Confederation. He did not believe in offering bribes in the wiiy of promises to any Province or community, but he had been impressed then. as he is today, by the fact that Prince Edward Island had not been fairly treated.

Mr. Bracken repeated his state- ment, made in i045. that the water route between Borden and Tor- mentine should be regarded as a part of Canada's transcontinental national highway system. and that tlie same transportation rates should apply. '

"That is what I said then; that is what I say today; that is what any honest, sincere public man should say." Mr. Bracken contin- ued. "Justice to any Province can- not be objected to by anyone. Fail- urg to get justice can be objected io by the Province to which injus- tice has been done. Where the spirit of Confederation has not been carried out, I will do my best to see that It shall be.

"l think that Prince Ed-

ward Island should be regard- ed as a part of Canada-not as n foreign state with trans- portation ncroee the Strait equivalent to a tariff against ion. 3 "That means that It should not colt you any more to get. your goods ncron that. stretch of water than it would If you had a highway between any other two Provinces of the DO- mhln.

Brighton Bridge “I saw today that you have to (Continued on Page ll Col. S)

Britain To Refuse U. S. Grain Allocation

(By June Bnlnrldge)

LONDON. Sept. l —(Reuter|)— Britain will refuse her September grain allocation from the United States. it was learned today, and most likely will turn down her October allocation, too.

Although Food Minister Strachey said in Dundee Sunday l-Illi III British food imports from the Un- ited States hed been temporarily suspended. some believed that wheat, ea e basic foodstuff, might he exempted from the suspension. They learned today. however. that this would not be so. 4

Britain's share of the United States September grain allocations was 50,500 tone of wheat and 12.- 000 tons of wheat flour out of total allocations of 884.000 tons of wheat and 254.000 tons of wheat flour. '

The only higher allocations were

Warns Against A Carrying Cut 0f Proposals

JERUSALEM. SGDt. i -— (AP) -_ The Arab higher committee of Pal- estine said tonight that any ai- tempt to carry out either the mul- crity or minority proposals of the United Nations special committee on Palestine would "set Palestine and the Arab east. on fire."

The announcement was made‘ after a meeting in Cairo of He] Amln el Husseilll. exiled Mufti oi’ Jerusalem: Jrmal El l-lussclni. de- puty chairman of the Arab com- mlttee. and other members.

It said the "Arab nation in Pal- estine and sister countries" would act decisively to "repul'e the cat- astrophe which Zic-nist and Im- perialistic ambitions are attempt- ing to inflict on e sacred Arab na- lion."

"The committee is completely convinced." 0h statement contin- ued. "that th sacred country. maintained by a determined people and watched over by 70.000000 Arabs and 400,000,000 Mosiems, will not be effected by unjust decis- ions. whelcvcr the source and whatever force is applied to carry them out."

The Committee demanded "an end of the British mandate over Palestine. stoppage of all Jewish lmmlsfation. and the establish- ment of an independent Arab

(Continued N} Pyle ll Col. 1)

to the Anglo-American zone of Germany-BLOW tons of wheat and 55.000 tone of wheat flour- nnd to Italy of 127.500 was of wheat and 21000 of wheat flour.

The French allocation wee the some as the British.

"Britain's refusal of her alloca- tion will be good news for any wheat-importing countries with enough dollars in buy additional wheat. Unfortunately we , cannot quite think which of these coun- tries might be." grain circles re- acted.

"We fear that. on the contrary. several more countries soon will be forced to follow Britain's ex- ample due to l similar lack ef dollars," they added.

Fears that Britain would be for- ced to make proportionate cuts in

her food imports from an other

sources were discounted.

_ A_ lronr-fo-reor view of the wrecked Eastern Coocli Line bus m which four persons were killed and 2Q Injured in Saturday's leveI-crossingmccidenf _on_ the M,urruy'.¢liser»liood“in"rile Wilmer buslwos. en‘ route to District of King's County. The bus was completely turned around,

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its roof n sides srlnltwhn srrifck by tli

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No. II46 northbound from Murray Htrbor to Qliei-lon¢i-9wn_ Th;

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Drowning Tragedy lit Saint John

SAINT JOHN. N.B.. Sept. 1 .- (OP) — Leaping frantically into the St. John River as gasoline-fed flames destroyed a motor cruiser near I-Iampstead today, a 31-year- cld Saint. Jcihn woman was drown- ed. A companion was rescued from the swift-flowing river as fire razed the 28-foot craft to the waterline.

The v-ictfm, Miss Eiien (Nellie) Henley. and James Keenan. 30, also of Saint Jc-hn. were caught by flames that swept over the craft as a shifting wind sent sparks from the galley into gasoline fumes.

Miss Henley. unable to swim. struggled wildly In the deep and strong current while Keenan swam to her side.

He was unable to hold her In the current. although a good swim- mer, and the woman Elipped from his grasp.

Near exhaustion, Keenan was taken from the water by two boat- men who had witnessed the trag- edy.

Mink Disease Under Control

FORT WILLIAM, Ont" Sept. I_ (CD-A disease identified as coc- cidoses which for the last six weeks had been threatening nearly $1.- 000000 worth of mink in this dis- trict has beenbrought under con- trol.

At the peek of the epidemic. the disease was killing an estimated 15 per cent of the mink on dis- trict ranches. Now it has been stamped out on all but three ranches where the end or the trouble is in eight. i

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WASHINGTON. Sept. 1 —(AP)-— President Philip Murray of the Congress of Industrial Organiza- tions said today that the United States is heeded for a "severe de- pression" unless there is a reversal of whet ihe called the trend to high- er profits and smaller purchasing power.

Murray spoke from Kansas over an ABC network, saying that "American working men and worm- en celebrated Labor Day today in a fighting mood.”

At Chicago. meanwhile. President William Green of the Atmcri-cnn Federation of Labor said that or- ganized labor would figlht its foes "not ivil-h ill-considered strikes. but with ballots."

Both labor leaders attacked the new Taft-Hartley labor law for its restrictions ,on strikes and othcr union activities.

In another Labor Day address. David A. Morse. under - secretary of Labor, said in a New York‘ b. adcast over CBS that United! States workers should resolve i0 achieve three things in thc year ahead:

"1. High production and pm- ductivity;

"2. Maintenance of balance In price-wage reletionmii-ps; and

"s. stability in iabousienag merit relations.

Murray. in his angrily-worded gpqech, said that organized labors position in favor of continued price control had been proven right by "the high prices and enormous profits of today." He added:

"I we/nt to say right here—and say most emphatically-that the nation is heading toward another depression-e. depression lthat could easily make the last one appear to be only a minor economic setback.

"I M71 not saying that. another depression is lust around the cor- ner. I am eeying that the present trend of higher and higher profi-ts and smaller and smaller purchasing power must be halted and reversed if we are to avoid economic chaos in the future. Of this you can be

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Fisheries Portfolio To ll. N. B. Head

By George Kitchen Canadian Press Staff Writer

OTTAWA, Sept. 1—(CP)—Milton F. Gff-‘BB. V.C.. soldlerly president of the University of New Bruns- wick, has accepted an invitation by Prime Minister Mackenzie King to assume the fisheries portfolio in the federal cabinet, ‘Iihe Canadian Press learned authoritatively to- night.

Mr. Gregg now is en route to Ot- tawa. and likely will be sworn in as successor to the late lion. Frank F. Bridges, who died unexpectedly three weeks ago, following hi; er- rival here Wednesday.

As the new fisheries minister Mr. Gregg will stand for election to the House of Commons as Liberal candidate in the fedcral by-electlon called for Oct. 20 i-n the New Brunswick constituency of York- Sunbury, the funnier Conservative stronghold wtm by Mr. Bridges when hc went into lllc Commons 11nd the cabinet two ycars ago.

Mr. Gregg, 55. won his Victoria Cross in the First World War.

While his appointment was dis- closed here tonight by sources close to the government, the Prime Min- islets office replied with a terse "no comment" to queries about Mr. Grcggs selection us the new cabin- et minister.

It was expected the official an- nouncement would be made by Mr. King Wednesday after Mr. Gregg is sworn in.

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Accident

With the succumbing of M Picfou, N. 5., of the Montague H death toll of lust Saturday's rroi

The other dead ere, Roy Kee

tie Harbour Rd., N.S., ond middle New Glasgow, N. S. The Iofe Mr. Keenan, who we

roy River, and the late Mrs. Kee

Charlottetown is o brother, and cron, City, a sister.

Isabelle Murray died about

iniuries of approximately the so lslcind Hospital.

Seventeen others were inluredl in. the crash which, for casual- ties involved, was the most seri- ous traffic accident ever to occur in the history of the Province.

The tragedy occurred at the Murray River Road crossinz M31" Wllmot about 1.1.5 lest Saturday afternoon when the Eastern Coach Lines Wood Islands-bound bus from Montague was struck by the “m; c, N. R. freight train No. i146 on its way from Murray Harbour to Charlottetown. The impact practically smashed the bus into kindling wood and dc- railed the locomotive. -

BUS DEMOLISBED

The crossing where‘ the acci- dent occurred is partly obscured by bushes and none of the train officials saw the approaching bus until within a. split second of the crash. The power and momentum of the oncoming train ripped both sides as well as the whole roof and top of the bus off and threw the power unit into the ditch some 80 feet away. Other parts of the bus were thrown in vari- ous directions a. distance of 80 feet. What was left of the vehicle, after being turned around, came to rest about 30 feet. away

on the north side o! the track. The locomotive tore up and other- wise damaged the railway tles for a distance of l20 feet before go- ing off the rails.

UNAWAIl-E 0F BUS

C. N. R. Engineer J. J. Leight- lzer said the whistle of his train started to blow some 200 yards from the crossing and continued to sound until about a car's length away. Seated on the right side of the cab, he did not see the ap- proaching bus. Neither did Fire- man Stanley Watts nor Tralnman Edward Warren see the vehicle until it was practically upon the onrushing train of which Mr. William Jay was the conductor.

Within a. relatively short time after the accident four Char- lottetown ambulances and several motor cars from Montague rushed to the scene to convey the injured

to hospital. Doctors L. Brehaut. Murray River; George Inman, Montague; Preston Maclntyre.

Montague; and R. G. Lea. Char- lottetown, arrived quickly and rendered emergency medical treet- ment.

. Tl-IE INJURED

The injured taken to the hos- pital were: Mrs. Mary Moore, Lit-

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Is Seen As

LONDON, Sent. 1- (Reuters)- Police in seven European countries -Britain, France. Belgium. Holl- and. Sweden, Denmark and Eire- today began a combined search for a mysterious Frenchman who. they believe. is the "master mind" behind e gigantic threat to world currency.

Described es being between 96 and 45 "with wavy brown hair and honest blue eyes" he ls well educated and speaks English so fluently that he could easily be mistaken for an. Englishman. Us- ually he is accompanied by e beautiful dark-haired ,gir1 aged about 25.

For months past, large numbers of counterfeit benknotes have been in circulation in various ports of the continent. Yesterday they ep- peered for the first time in Dub-

lin. lilire's capital. and today the

To World Currency ,

Threat

search concentrated there while special agents and customs officers kept a close watch at airfields end seaports to frustrate attempts to smuggle forged notes into Britain.

Origin of the false notes has been traced to Henrich I-limmlere wartime forgery workshops at the sschsenhousen "luxury" concentra- tion cemp. set up by the Gestapo to raise money and spread con- fusion. ' r o

Here, according to evidence now in the hands of Scotland Yard. 400 expert forgets were employed by the Nazis. All hardened criminals, they were recruited from various countries in central Europe and Germany. Because. after the war. they might equally have used their skill against Hitler, they were to have been executed by the Gestapo but they escaped when American

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ISLAND T RAIN -BUS CRASH TOLL NOW WFOUR

Demolished Bus In Level -Crossing Accident

Many Iniured In

Saturday

In Kings County

rs. Henrietta Llewellyn, SI, of ospitul lost Sunday evening, the n-bus crush in the Wilmot dis-

trict of King's County hes been brought to iour.

non, 34, Murray River, driver of

the Eastern Coach Lines bus involved in the crush; Isabelle Mur- ray, seven-yeur-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Mtlrruy, Lit-

-oged Mrs. Ambrose Mitchell oI

s thrown more than 6O feet from

llie bus, was killed instantly. The son of Mr. T. A. Keenan, Mur-

nun, he is survived by his wife,

the former Sylvia Hooper of Abney, F. E. I., and two children, Faye and Wayne, ages eight and two respectively. Clifford of

Venilo, wile of Mr. John Cum-

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5 o'clock lost Saturday evening

in the Montague Hospital cind Mrs. Mitchell succumbed to her

me time In the Prince Edward

Youth Strangleii In Cell Block

BOONVILLE. Mo" Sept. 1 -_. (AP) - A 14-year-old youth was strangled In his solitary cell block last night al. the State Training Schocl for bolus "where 68 escapes were made during August.

Louis J. Sharp. acting silpcrin. tendent of the school, identified the youth as Donald Trclkclrl. and ‘glilfl his assailant was Jerry Owens, i7. another prisoner. Owens is b.»- ing held at county jail.

The two bows ilad been placed in solitary confinement in adjoin- ing cells. Sharp snid Owens dug his way Inio Treikclds cell, and. added: "Apparently no trouble had occurred bef/lvcen the tin-o bpyg and I know of no reason for the act."

School officials were attracted to the cells by the ghoiliirlg of other boys in the sclitary confinement ward. ‘Iihrelkeld was found lying with a cloth around his neck.

Dies lit Hall-fax

HALIFAX, Sept. 1 _tCP) _< Placlde Dcveaux, 75, of Dundee, P. E.I., died at Union station he" fllirly wdfly when about to return to his home after a three-week visit in Halifax.

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HALTAX. Sept. Weather synopsis and offic-al in- land forecasts issued by the Domin- ion Public Weather Office here at midnight Monday.

Synopsis:

Labor Day was a fine clear day

througihoui, tihe iilari-times and northern regions. Tonight with a threat of frost in vnllcys there la a suggestion of autumn In ihé BI!‘- Exccpt Immediately adjacent to the coast, minimum temperatures are forecast in the thirties or low forties. Tuesday cloud will unread ovoi- the western region by after- noon butthe remainder of the district will remal-n clear and cool.

Forecasts valid until midnight Tuesday:

Prince Edward Island:

Clear with not much choose IM temperature. Risk of frost in WI- leys early in the morning. Light winds. High Tuesday at Charlotte- town 68. -