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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1941

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Annual Biiblorlptlon Delivered. 85.00 u: mun r m. |.. $4.00. Canada nnil u. a. mod

iliirlsii GIVE iiiizis TASTE or AIR OFFENSIVE

Air Raids 0n

l yhodes Continue

A Third successive-night fortified

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iliims blockade liy bring Franco, fritain to war

‘ Lennon. Morel: ill-TU?)- Mm-glo l't'lflX the British ‘mud, or France may mean .2"; between France and Bri- Mn, the l’ i radio said today 1.5mm st quoted by the ‘plush Broadcasting Corpora-

M- : ww, are putting before Bri-

m, the choice of peace or war villi France." the radio was l MM as saying.

ill transfer osquito fleet i Britain

. WASH T ‘l, lllarch 13 — 4m - Ciingrc nail sources aid today it is rtnally defin-

htiiat 30 lfiiitcd States "mos- plto fleet." torpedo boats would htranslcrrcil to Britain in the lar futuri- and some legislat- lisaid they had heard reports hi some of the smaller sea- ‘ units of the coast guard _. might he transferred.

l ‘lilo house iuival- committee Imibers reiterated that do myers and other small naval All“ might be turned over to liitiiip us ltlst as new replace- , ltiils iirc dc cred to the fleet. {Titty poiiiirii out that l3 lic- liiroyers nrc si-lieiliiled to be Qumminioui-il between now rind Jllyl nuit that might rclcaso 1n tquzil uiuiibcr of average de- “WFETS. iii’ which the navy in approxii itcly '70 in coin- fliixsiou. Twenty-four more de- lilllyers null ll submarines are l° be Wllllilr-tnil in the year liming July i.

Legislators who conferred llib the Prcsiili-nt on the lend- im program two (lays ago, as-

lrlrd lllt‘_\' luiil been given no pacific list of vessels to be hnsierrcd,

robe attempt i damage train

' ' Conn.. Nlarch l3- Nriv Haven rcgistol‘ wit‘ lihll, Canadian investi- li lfllllimtl officials and the w‘ hui iu of investigation hid ‘ led l1 nscl‘

' i dscoveiy that one car hadl

fwd taro hot boxes. one of ‘Egon-sled the cnd of a Journal h y All . was made in New Ho.

m 1c linzn. ihcn cmnt)’. W85 k s irlxlllllvi to Canada. The reg- “ A Cfliiiullsn officials had I ' lilc ivnsie with which the

“' lounml boxes nan been it.‘ l" be returned for examln.

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, ming Events

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r: ‘"- galr-dfvlgrsgigitcalire Slants l; ll!‘ BY, ETC _ ladies of Trinity Church. i Ir-bbtl-S-lf-Qi.

l “lhlv W‘ .-~ M. "lsstlns p.21. Poul- Mnrcilm- Afliculturai Hall w m‘ 14th. Charles Worth. ‘ti M aslliel’. Albert Carr. 14-554.

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[talianzrlsland under attack.

CAIRO. March i3.—-(AP)—I-Ieavy bombing attacks Wednesday night on three airdromes on the Italian fortified island of Rhodes, largest of the Dodccanese. were announc. ed tonight by the Royal Al: Force

It was the third straight night Rhodes had been bombed.

The Wmmllnluue said a large formation of bombers made the at- tack. and also dropped bombs on targets on the second largcstof the islands. Scarpanto.

Describing the attack on Rhodes. the communique said that at Mar- tlza. all bombs fell on nirdrome run- ways or amoni! hnnIZRIs. with sev- eral exploions caused bv incendi- arles. V One flrc started bv the bombs was visible 20 miles away. At Calato and Kattavla. the communique said. “all bombs fcll on sirdromes."

“All our aircraft icturned safely.” the communique added.

The Middle _East command an- nounced that in Italian Somaliland British forces continued to advance “in all sectors."

In Libya. where London military circles said there “posslbly" were parts of three German divisions. a general headquarters communique said there was nothing of import once to report."

Adding pressure on the Italian colony of Eritrea. the Admiralty rin- nounced in London closure oi the small strait of Bab el Mandeb. at the southern end of the Red Sea. to bottie up any Italian ships remain- ing there.

FY0111 Nairobi the British com- maud reported that their Ethiopian allies had captured Yavello. of‘.- bombed Italian stronghold I00mi1es inside southwest Ethiopia.

Members killed

BOND HEAD. Ont. March 13- (CPi_Six members of the Royal Air Force were killed today when two Avro-Anson bombing planes from the ILA)“. nlr navigation school at Godcrich collided in mid- air near here and plunged into the ground with terrific force.

Eight. men were in the two bomb- ers. The two who survived were seriously injured and were rushed to hospital at ‘Barrie. 25 miles north of hcrc. Bond Henri is about 40 ml‘es northwest of Toronto.

Scvcn \l't‘l'v believed at first to have (lied when the planes touch- ed wings or lnils rind spun dizzllv t-o the snow-covered farmland be- low. Al. first nine men were be- llevecl to have been in the planes but it was established early tonight. that thcrc were four men in each machine and two had survived, al- though critically injured

Identification of the bodies had riot been completed earlv tonight. One of the survivors told men from this vllfucc who rushed to the scene of the sound of the crash that his name was John Flow crs. that he was n radio oper- ator and that ho did not know how

TPlano becomes

Flying ambulance

A 30- - I . Bisadam“ s. fI-lshe to the Prince County liens‘ " erase‘

V m if by flying flltlilllfllllflfl. lie received severe n ei-ml in uries while employed as section and on the Canadi. In‘? National lino live mile< from f 5 him"? Vlilfliw- Qnly chance or his life was an lmmgdlgt, “wmmlnv l‘ W“ Said- and a. call was sent to Charlottetown for a

Diane.

Pilot CarlBurke and M b ‘ REIT!’ Barrett left almost 1m. "fefllaitly for the North Prince County village, They new . Lalmdlil" Alfwllys ski-e ulpped Dragon and landed on r ver ice ll- Usnish. The fifty mile flight to hospital at Summer- side was accomplished in twenty minutes.

Tllfiillillred man underwent l" vmflircney operation imme- dlfll-qly after his arrival sit the hospital. Last night his con- ditlon was described as "fair."

Seven men Feared dead

BONDHEAD. Ont. March 13 — (GP) — Seven men were believed to have died today in the wreckage of two big bombing planes which touched wings or tails m the lr and uiummettcd to the ground on a. farm just north of this village this afternoon.

Bondhead is about. 35 miles north of Toronto.

"Exact details of the personnel involved are not yet available hut will be published as soon as pos- sible." Sqdn. Ldr. E. E. Vielle. offic- er Commanding the Goderioh school, sold in a statement.

“The aircraft were engaged in a. navigation exercise, the track of which passed near Camp Borden." the staiecnent said.

The planes collided on the farm of Robert Gnmmersori and one of them crashed near his brim while the other turned upside down and exploded in a field a quarter of a

GODERICII, Olit., March l3— (AH-Names of seven Eng- lish members of the ltnynl Air Force who lost their lives to- day in a crash which followed collision of two Avro-Anson bnmbc a near Bond Head. Ont. were released here tonight by officials of the air training school at nearby Port Albert as follows:

Flu-Sgt. M. Dodswortli, York; Sgt. J. C. Bell. Durham; AC. C. '1‘. Douglaii, Sherwood; LAC. M. G. Solkard. Leeds: LAC. I. W. Jackson, London; LAC. S. Porter, Liverpool; and LAC. D. A. Rundcll, Bristol.

c- Officials snlil .~\(i. J. L. Flow-

er of Eustleigh is listed as seriously injured.

mile away. The two men who survived were

in_ them plane whichnlnndcdym near

the collision occurred.

Request

Employees fooled By clothing with Suitcase bombs

IDNDON. Mamh 13—(CP)-~Dirty clothes. shaving materials and old Turkish newspapers packed with two disgul ed suitcase .bombs fooed British diplomatic employees into leaving the bombs with their lug- gage, Georgie W. Rendel. former British Minister to Bulgaria. re- ported to the foreign of flce today.

One suitcase contained twobombs which resembled radio batteries. They exploded Tuesdsv at the Pr?" hi? PM ’“ “‘“.'.‘.%“ii.u‘§i‘.ii‘ii'

R our persons . but leaving Rendcl, the intended victim. unhurt.

Mr. Rendel sold that; the suit» cases were placed with British lull- gage in Sofia a- the legatlon staff left following breach of relations be- tween Britain and Bulllaria. Whfifl the party changed trains at a Way station n check-up Was made and n0 owner could be found for the base-ii

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"Island Dairymen

Cold

Storage Facilities

' Problems of Il-I-a-l-l-Stry discussed at annual meeting-E. C. Holm of De Sable elected President.

Island dairymen in annual ses- sion here yesterday decided to 15K the Dominion government to build. equip and operate a cold storage plant at Borden to be used to store Island butter. Under the present- plan, doirymen complained, butter produced in this province la sent to Montreal for grading and storage. During the winter months it means producers must Ply I01‘ QllPPmE butter to Montreal for grodlns I-nd then for brlnillll! 1i b!“ l” m‘ Atlantic seaboard for shipment if it ls for export overseas.

1mm w-operallve oreomerles and cheese factories are not equipped with cold aromas fwllltlfl- "is "#- olutlon pointed out.

Without storage eqllipmfim 1|‘ land producers were forced to cell their product immediately. filled“- ly during simmer months. and o1’- ten when the price was lowest.

The dalrymen elected E. C.

officers include. Vice r1

is also dairy superintendent the. province. The meeting

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Holm of Desable president. Other lderit. J. Lincoln Dewar. New Perth; 806N- tory, Warren L. Brenton. 19-0161‘- ed. of Charlottetown. Mr. Brentém or

opened yesterday morning with Vice-president E. C.

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Move to form ls. Federation 0f agriculture

Preliminary steps for the tonna- tion of a Prince Edward Island Federation of Agriculture were tak- en yesterday at the annual mreting .f the Islands Dairymeng Assoc- iation. A resolution was adopted authorizing formation of a com- mittee to carry out prebminary work.

committee's member-snap will

I The ~ ill all‘ lifflSll ..iri.l.ids.;.u...r.sslsritareas?

men's Association. and one repre- sentative from each of the follow- ing, the Sheep Breeders Asociation. the Swine Growers Asszciatiori, the Central Farmers Institute, the Po- tato Growers Association, the Co- operative Live Stock Marketing B05111. ‘The Credit Union League, the Women's Institute, the Canad- ian National Silver Fox Breeders Association and the Prince Edward Island Fhx Breeders and Exhibitors Association.

The committee was instructed t: proceed immediately to draw up a constitution and by-laws and report at a general It1€€tll1E0fliifm€T$.Thl3 meeting will be held during the early summer. lb was decided.

The resolution auhtrrizlng ap- pointment of the Committee was moved by Captain J. L. Road of Brden and seconded by Allison

Five Bombers

In

Uvernigiif Raids

Nazi raiders over Liverpool in second successive night.

LONDON. March l4-fFriday)- ICP)—Five German bombers were reported shot. down by British "round defences overnight as re- lays 0f raiders returned for wide- spread attacks.

The Nazi raiders roared over Liverpool for a second successive "light attack but its heaviest. raids seemed to be concentrated on a northeastern British town where "cream bombs such as were used in France last year added to the

din

The hours-long attack was said

to have been the worst of the war for the northeast town. The flashes of its fierce dcfen- sive barrages could be sccn 3O miles away. The f‘ft‘ri l]f‘ll’ll'JZ‘l‘ be."- ged was reported she; town in this area; two others fell on ‘he east coast and two on the south "has! bringing to 17 the number of Ger- man bombers reported downer since Wednesday nifiht.

The Press Association credited alert. ground defmces 11nd night fighter planes with preventing ex- tensive damage in Liverpool an": the Mcrscyside area.

In tho northeast. the barrage of defensive gunfire was so hot thui the flashes could bc sccn 30 mi1c~= away.

London. too. find an air raid alarm. last night but. little gunflrr

was heard here. Hostile iolanes were over many other areas of England.

By the time of the attack in the northeast. four of these night raiders had been shot down; two over the east coast. two in the south of the country.

Profitt of Freetown.

The meeting discussed the move for an hour before finally voting unanimously to proceed.

The proposed organization will have aut-hmliy to speak for and to represent the agricultural interests of the prcvinqe, it was decided.

Frets suggestiin fcr in.- fo ma- tlon of a Federaticn cf Agriculture was made earlier this winter at a nuetlng of the Prince Eldwarzl Island Credit Union league.

Three ll. S. Cabinet Members endorse

_Aid program

(By J. F. Sanderson, Canadian Press Stuff Writer) WASHINGTON, March 13-(0?) -—Three cabinet members today endorsed a $7.000.000.000 appropria- tion for the British-aid program and disclosed that figure had been arrived at after an analytical study of British needs as submitted by

London.

The officials were state Secre- tary Cordell Hull, Henry Stimson, secretary of War. and Navy Sec- retary Frank Knox. Their state- ments before an executive session of a House of Representatives sub- committee were augmented by testimony from Gen. George C Marshall. army chief of staff. and l-lnroil D. Smith, director of the budget.

Chairman Clifton Woodrum of the sub-committee proceeded to the House floor and with a minimum of difficulty obtained a. unanimous consent agreement that the meas- ure should be taken up Tucsdnyz with o. full day of general debate and a final vote on Wednesday. l-Iouse hearings on appropriation bills are always in executive ses- sion and usua ly no word of the testimony is given out until the blll is presented to the chamber proper. Today. however, in the presence of the sub-committee Woodrum sketchlly described whal had taken place because. be said. of the widespread general interest in the subject.

The cabinet members "endorsed the blll definitely and enthusias- tically," he said, and "showed that these estimates have been arrlvcu at. not by uess work but alter very dc lberate examination thought and study, by the arm.\ and navy.

Teachers salaries & health problems Under discussion

The Provincial Government yes- terday received delegations from three different organizations, name- ly. the Teachers Federation. the Tuberculosis League. and the San- utorium Commission.

Increase in salaries for toaclfcvs throughout the Province on a grad- uated scale was requested by the Teachers Federation.

The Tuberculosis League asked for a. grant from the Government for the purpose of carrying extension work in tuberculosis treatment outside the sanatorliun.

Consideration of these requests was promised.

The Sanatorium Commission presented their financial report for the year 1940. and discussed their budget and other problems cov- ering the present year.

Says Anti-Axis Feeling grows In Yugoslavia

LONDON, March l3-—tCP)-—An- kara radio said m a Ffllllliltlllflil on the Balkan situntzoi tonigh that. anti-Axis feeling "Z5 growins in Yugoslavia,” the Britt-h Broad- casting C rporaticn reported

"The Yugoslnvs are reFoliIt-cly dc- termincd to roman ltCillffll. the BBC quoted the Turksti commen- tator as saying.

Discussing the Greek situation. the commentator said that German uud Italian aims differ as regard. (iuece, “Italy wants to defeat Cucece with German as- rwlfiilfg to secure tcrr.t llill gulps ivhile Germany hopes. as a reward for bugging the war t» on and. to rblainf mil dyblisea in Grcccr- for llf‘!’.~i‘l .

"But Italy does not want to give up hcr claims on Grwcr."

rue commentator addrcl that Ger-

iiuiny Ls "putting the pressure" on

{Greece to end the Greek-Italian _ war.

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Yugoslav Leaders seek Way out

Seek to Appeasc Nazis Without Joining the Axis.

BELGRADE. March 13.-(AP) -— l.:.l£l9l‘5 of this Balkan kiiifltlom conferred at length today in an ef- lori: to find a way to appease Ger- inanv without lashing their nation to the Berin-Rcme-‘Iokyo Axis.

Regent Pr‘ Dragisa C‘ Dclujc Pnlzicc. but what conclusions they rcaclitd were not disclosed.’

Earlier Cvctkovic conferred with Dr. Vladimir Macek. leader of the Croats. and lesser politicians. _

Only along the short_ Greek frontier could Yugoslavia till count on non-Axis friendship. and access l0 that IOU-odd‘ mile gateway isthc principal obiectlve of German Dres- sure.

Greece. which has declared she wi.l continue hcr fight against the Axis regardless of Yugoslavras de- cision. fortified Thrace ailauist _at- uck of a German army 0n net Bulb. ' 1 frontier and csntinued to "ins out of the line

Dis ccoiubat. Turkey ivatched the dtuatlon

almly. but. with warlike preparnv Newspapers advised the nub-Y

..c to be calm. and assured the na- .on that zlcfcnccs are adequate tor uiv contingency. _

In German quarters in Belg?! there were reports that. Berlin " '.;l‘O\\'ll'll1 impatient for Yuaoslzivius l isiou rind might demand a quick inc "invitation to u

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ilnclicate _l/Vhat U.S. Aid Will Mean T_o_Britairi

Berlin areas left in flames after fierce raid; Other sections of Nazi territory hard-hit.

(By Robert E. Bunnclle, Associated Press Stuff Writer] LONDON. March l3—i.\Pl—Britain's pilots. thankfully the campaign of caution imposed upon them from the start of tlii- ziar by the Nazi superiority in supply, rode the air lanes over (lernum terri- tory today in a great developing offensive made possible by thr- l‘l‘[‘ltl('(‘-

merits of aircraft expected from across the Atlantic. l The counter thrusts of the Nazis. meanwhile. zippeaveil to br flitting badly. Sixteen German raiders, most of them expensive numbers. had been shot down hi a period of some 24 hours. up to midnight tonight.

in an informed quarter it was made plain. with restraint-ii cv- .uli.atlon. that the days of Britain's "pennriously defensive" strategy in the air are over and done‘. that. by President Roosevelt's signature of the United States lease-lend blll, Britain is able at last “to launch a really offensive war in the skies.”

Explosions rolling across lbw

ilvuppirg

English Channel this afternoon signalled a broad daylight British bombing attack upon the Nazi-

lt l‘ th ltlflél Fgeniib Ccolasit which ivasdcen-é a 1'8 a Oil ll ii S. . II Bil‘ FOIIIG I

gFresii troops

there was heavily hit. it. was an- nounced officially. and bombs burst upon grounded German aircraft. British fighter planes swept the lchanur‘; areas and noifihern France

lat zibnut the Sllillf! time. destroying

Willkie calls Nazi Story incredible

NEW YORK. March 13 —(APl——

O11.

Wendell L. Wlllkic today described as “lucrcdib1c“ stories in the Ger-

lliilll. p1‘ s ivhlch alleged that a Jew y “New “m! more powerful hem”

.-ie for Willkies grand-

tizat. my grandfather naught my fnlhcr a deep and abiding hatred of German auiocrncy and militar- ism. a passionate love of liberty. and a \'.".li'l.ll and sympathetic un- zlcrstnndlng of the problems of the Jen" h people and of all minority groups.”

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German DOITIDCI‘ which had sought. io cross the English coast. It xvds the 12th Nazi raider rc- povtcd downed since last nightfall.

In all this operation, which cap- ped n long assault of yesterday and last night from Boulcgnc to Ber- lin and from Norway south to the Belgian ports. only one British plane was lost.

Berlin Bombed

.crs"-—tlieir names not disclosed by ithc air ministry-ivelit into action with the heaviest explosives in the British arsenal.

Berlin. the ministry said. was left. alight with tremendous fires; s0, too, were the main German

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Meeting

Approves Scheme

For Ma rketing‘.

General farm problems under dis- cussion at open farm session.

"’I‘hni. this meeting go on record

as favoring the marketi scheme as approved by the rovincial Marketing Board with suggested

changes mndc by Capt». John Read“ was the wording of a resolution passed last night at the Open Forum meeting of the Island farm- (‘vs hold in the Board of Trade