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EUROPES ECONOMIC SITUATION GROWS BARKER

Gregg Takes Over As Fisheries Minister

mTAWA. Sept. 8—(Special)— plrberles Minister Milton F‘. 9,153, v.0. today entered on his nirninistratlve functions in Ottawa. lolloxving his being sworn in as e. member of Prime Minister King's cabinet. on Tuesday,

Brigadier Gregg formally took pvfl‘ the office oi the Minister of fisheries on the West side of the mt block of the Parliament buildings and met a number oi ranking officials of the Depart-

[Ioming Events

"Dance at Bonshaw, Friday night, cancelled.

"Movies at Ciavehcad Friday, Sept. t. at 8.30 pun.

"Movies at Hunter River Thurs- day, Sept, 4, at 8.30 pm.

"Dance in Bonshaw Hall. hlday Lhe 5th. Music by MacNcilPs,

"TJlkiCg - Bridgetown, Satur- layj "Don't Fence Me In."

i "Collecting Hogs for Canada l Packers each Tuesday. Earl Jay.

"Dance in Allietori Hall, Friday, September 5th. l a "Dance tonight, Modern and Old Time. Traveller's Rest.

"Dance, Campbell Bros. build- ing, Sea. View. Thursday, September ith.

"Reserve September 23rd and 24th for (Thick/en supper at South Ruslico linll

"Cardigan l-Iall, Chicken Sup- per and Dance, Tuesdsypfleptem- bet 9th.

"Collecting Hogs for Canada Packers cach Tuesday afternoon. ll‘. Crane.

"kings County Plowing Match ind llorsc- Show at Dundas, Sept- ember 24th.

"Piirtry Sale at Rogers Hard- wni-c Store, Saturday. September lifli Kingston L. O. B_ A.

"ix-inning, September 8th. Woods liilil Lunch. Cthaissons Orchestra. 50 rants.

"Tfilkl-rs — Wood Islands Mon- da": Gilda, starring Rita Hay- worth,

"Loading hogs at Montague Elation each Thursday for Can-ads Pdsliers Ltd. S. C. McLean. Phone

"Booking orders for car Cedar ‘ll-Hares to arrive soon. W. I. Bowman, Hunter River.

"Collecting Hogs for Canada Packers each Tuesday. Signed David Pratt.

"Picking up Hogs at Penkes Sta-

llon each Thursday for Canada

Packers Ltd. Merlin Devine. "Dance. Iona Hall, Friday,

5PM 5th, Millview Orchestra.

Dancing 9 m 1,

"Pnniry Sale, Holman's Store, Saturday, September 6th. 2 P. M. llll-‘liiccs Cross Roads W. I.

"l-nsdlag Hogs at Cardifll Ul- Ion eacl Thursday for Canada Packers Ltd. Norman McKenaie, Cardigan,

"Women's Institute District Con- vention at York, Thursday, Septem- b" 4th. at 2.30. Public meeting llslit o'clock when interesting Films will be shown.

"Notice - No .4 'Whoat $2.10 "It. Bring your bags. Asphalt lllliisles. Spanish red and forest Imh. 210 lbs. $8.25 sq. Also roofing nails. paper and eunqnt. G. C. ""81. Emerald.

"Collecting Hogs each Tuesday l" Canada Packers from Vernon liver. Ulgs. Eillotvsls. Enumer- "1 Hermitage,’ Avondslo and mum. Call nsiph Lea. vmicn

"Companies wishing to demon- ate farm equl, ‘ or household lllbllances at Kings County Plowing Mimi on September 24th, please contact Albert Acorn, Primrose, re- , Ilrdlng space.

"Th! Annual Convention oi

' hrirsuc, Harrihginii. Bpring Park. , Iy Point, Bprtngvsle, South l “tiller. North and South uiiton. M. West and Central Royalties "men's illlmiitll viii be nus in ‘l i-iall, ram

Community _ "Friday, September 5th,

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ment including Deputy Minister Stewart Bates. and the superin- tendents of both eastern and west- ern fisheries. The new Minister also conferred with Edouard Bosse, who has been private sec- retary to three previous Ministers of Fisheries, the late Hon. H.112 G. Bridges, Hon. Ernest Bertrand, now Postmaster-General, and Hon. Joseph Michaud, now a judge of

the Supreme Court of New Brunswick, leaving Ottawa late today by

plane, Brigadier Gregg returned to Fredericton where he will clear up unfinished business 'ss Presi- dent of the University of_ New Brunswick, and later plan the outline of his campaign in York- Sunbury. Until October 20, date of the New Brunswick by-election. the new Minister will spend al- most his entire time in the con- stituency, coming back to Ottawa only in case oi emergency or for special meetings of the Dominion cabinet.

The ‘Guardian was informed here today that should Brigadier GreBB be defeated in York-Sun- bury, arrangements have been made with the Government oi New Brunswick for him to be ieinstated as president of the Provincial University,

Three Killed In Private Plane Grash

KENTON. 0-. Sept. S - (AP) - The wreckage oi a private plane which disappeared Monday night on a flight from Cleveland to Dalton was fcttnd near "hers tc-' day. with three of the four oc- cupants dead.

The lone survivor. Charles Cor. mtw. 91-year-old University of Ar- izona student. regained conscious- ness today and walked and crawl- ed to a farmhouse for help. Gor- man directed authorities to the wreckage.

They found the bodies of two women. Mrs. Raymond C. Siotis and Miss Mariel Talbot, 20, still strapped in the plane.

Tito body of the pilot. 22-year-old William Stroetp of Dayton. lay about 15 feet from the demolished plane.

German/a former fighter pilot was suffering from shock. a broken left arm. abrasions and possible in- ternal injuries. Physicians describ- ed his condition ae "fair."

Greek Strike Gated 0ft

ATHENS Sept. 4—(Thursday)— tePl-A threatened strike of ‘l2,- 000 Greek civil servants was called off today after the government granted 25-to 50-per cent wage in- creases as a last-minute conces- sion, it was officially announced.

If the civil servants had gone out on strike the operation of the Greek Government would have been virtually halted. Such a de- velopment, a government official said earlier, would have had dis- astrous results at a time “then the Government was waging a cam- paign against leftist lulflllll in northern Greece.

It was learned that the Govem- inent has agreed tn dismiss 15.000 civil servants within six months to comply with the recommendations of the American aid mission for economy.

Suggest Gov’t Setup Gentral Selling Agency

HARTLAND, N.B.. Sept, 3 _.. tCPl-Suggestlon that the Federal Government set up a central sell- ing agency to fix prices on all ex- port orders of seedpotatoes and then allot orders to the various ex- porters on a quota basis was made at a meeting here by members of the New Brunswick Potato Council.

J. G_ Taggert, chairman oi the Agricultural Prices Support Board, gave opinion it. was unlikely tho Federal Government would do this as it would set. a precedent which others mlgiht want applied to their: products,

Farmers said they were not ob- taining the maximum return from seed potatoes sold for export be- cause of competition and price- cutting among New Brunswick ex- porters.

Grim Search r For Bodies Nearing End

By Jack Aveson Canadian Press Staff Writer

DUGALD, Mam, Sept. 3 —(C P) —Wrecking crews are expected to take over tomorrow fro-m the dust- begrlmed workers who have been grimly searching for ahe scarred remains of a still-unknown number of persons missing since the Cun- adian National Railways Win- nipeg-bound campers special crash- ed into the locomotive oi an east- bound transcontinental passenger tral-n at this small flag station Mon- day-night,

Twenty nine bodies have ‘recovered from the.» ed wreckage-only four of them identified-while an unofficial list oi the missing stands at 32. The death toll ls believed to be even

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night with an east-bound transcontinental passenger train standing at this flag station should have taken to a aiding.

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tonight.

G. A. Stone of the Board oi Transport Commissioners. which earlier announced it would inquire inte the disaster. Iblfl at Ottawa tonight. that the transcontinental had the right of wa/y as a “superior train" and added: '

“Somebody was certainly at fault but it ‘is too soon for a full report."

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Railway officials said tonight that the careful sifting of the ashes. blackened wood stumps and bits of metal remaining from the 13-car holiday special will be com- pleted within the next 24 hours.

The wrecking crews will H1811 take over, clear-ring the mill-n line track for traffic. Friday normal operations will probably resume along the line.

Railway officials. meanwihile, are pressing their investigation into the collision, but so far they have divulged none of their findings. Wednesday nlg-ht R.C.M.P. officials announced that they were holding Donald L. Ledlie,telegraph operator at Dugald, on a coroner's warrant as o, material witness. Since than they have given no elaboration,

Department oi transport inves- tigators are also probing the U0- aster.

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Bandits Escape With

Loot From

Ont.‘ Bank

"IORONIO, Sept. I — (OM-A gun pressed in bis back, the man- ager of a Royal Bank of Canada branch in suburban lttobicoka pre- tended today that he was unable to open a safe and two unmasked bandits fled with lcas than 81,000 scooped from the tellers cage.

The gunmen escaped in a stolen automobile which later was found abandoned in west-end Tomato. it bore a licence plate stolen from a second car.

Al the robbers entered the bank. one vaulted the counter and point- ed a revolver at manager L f-i. Dunsdon. The other covered W. Ii. Norton. teller, and Mrs. M. Peter- son. the lone customer. _,

The first bandit. tall and ap- parently the leader, gnbbed less than $1,000 from the telier-‘s cage

and put it in s paper box. Then he stepped behind Dunsdon and ordered him to the vault. The manager was forced to unlock a grilled barrier at‘ the entrance to the vault but said he was "un- able" to open the safe inside.

"When I told him I couldn't open the safe he finally pushed ma aside," Dunadon said. "i-ie looked at the lock and said, ‘Oh it's prob- ably just chicken feed,‘ and order- ed me out to lie down en the floor with the others.”

‘today's bank holdup was the second in ‘Toronto's west-side sub- urbs in nine days. Two "nervous" bandits held up a branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce in bong Branch Au..- ‘s and escaped in s car an»-.. _ ~ "-'rd rnsn. The loot was so»... ,.,L.).

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' HON. DOUGLAS ABBOTT

l GPRCONTO. Sept. 3—(OP)—The Toronto Daily Star said today in l glass: rom Hamilton that Finance Minister Abbott has been i: 9° e Y i! sentlemans agreement of the federal cabinet" to succeed rime Minister King as leader of the Liberal party. T119 BQWSPBDEr said it had learned from "a source close to the

Government" attending the Young

ventlon, it added.

Mentioned Successors

RI‘. HON. LOUIS ST, LAURENT

Liberal Federation conference here

that Mr. King would resign from political life next April. Ehrtirnal Affairs Minister St, Laurent would head “a caretaker Gov- ernmen until Mr. Abbott was formally chosen leader at a party con-

Seven Accident Victims Still

Seven victims of last Saturday's train-bus crash in the Wilmot district of King's County are still undergoing hospital treatment.

Of the seven, four are in the Montague Hospital where they are making steady progress toward re- covery. They are: Mrs. Mary Moore, Little Harbour Rd., N. S_.; Vernon Acorn, Saint John, N.B.; Marie Mitchell, New Glasgow, N. S.; and Joan Herring, Murray River.

The remainder-Miss Edith Gil- ils_ Halifax; Walter Murphy, Hall- fax; and James MacGulgan, St. Mary's Road-are in the Prince Edward Island Hospital, Charlotte- town. Officials of that institution

said last night that all three pa- tients, were making good progress.

ls Eleotrocutetl

CHESTER. N. 5-. Sept. 3-(0?) -Ottis Meister, 2d, of nearby New Ross, was electrocuted today when hc came in contact with two high tension wires.

Meister, a power company line- man. was repairing s line dam-

the- accident occurred. An inquest was held and coroner R. C. Levy announced a verdict of accidental death. s

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mmiontarorl. eeni- 8 -t0P> -New Brunswick forests, clcsed to travel since Aug. l8 because oi fire hasard. were re-opened when Hon. RJ. Gill. minister of Lands and Mines, tonight rescinded the order cancelling forest travel permits and banning forest travel except under special cireianatanc

aged in last night's storm when,

Charlottetown Loses War Assets Department

MONTREAL, Sept. 3 -- (OP) —- Wa? Assets Corporation announced today the closing or‘ its Charlotte- tcrwn field sacs office. This is the second branch of the corporation

John's, Newfoundland.

The Charlottetown office closed Aug. 30. Thereafter all soles mat- ters affecting Prince Educnrd Is- land will be handled through the Moncton, N.B. branch and a sales- man from that branch will visit the Island every fortnight to com- plete transactions.

Other changes reducing office 598cc are taking place in Halifax where the office of the Maritime regional sales manager has been moved from separate quarters to share those occupied by the sales larnncti in the Masonic Lodge bulld- rig. (The Charlottetown branch 0i the War Assets Corporation, loca- ted in the Barbour building on Euston Street, was in Charge t)! former Squadron Leader Clarence w- H1881"!- D.F‘.C., who at present ls on vacation. It ls understood that Mr. Higgins will join the staff oi the War Assets Corpora- tion branch at Mflncton. Another member of the Charlottetown branch, Mr. GP. MacKenzic, for- merly Commandlng Qfflqar o; H, M-C-S- "Queen Charlotte", ls now in Moncton where he is in charge of ship sales for the Quebec East division of the Corporation).

Drink Wood Alcohol; Eight Prisoners Die

annui- GLADE, sir... Sept, 3.. fAlv-Agonizing death from ivooa alcohol claimed eight prisoner; nl “m” Prim! camp no. ii today, and a ninth man lay unconscious, near death, after the group drank l! Poisonous coffee-cocktail.

Camp superintendent w, g Granger said 1o negro ~ccmvicta were found writhing in varying d... areas of stomach cramps after "mliumlllg I hint of painters

alcohol at a nocturn l " t, '- l their quarters. l wry n

Six died during the night. and two more succumbed today.

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Bar Association Accepts Suggestion 0i P. E. I. Delegate

OTTAWA. Sept. $—(Special)—A suggestion made by Walter E. Darby, KC, president of the Prince Edward Island Bar Society, was accepted by the conference of commissioners on uniformity of legislation in Canada and today confirmed by the Canadian Bar Association.

Mr. Darby's suggestion was that in conditional sales, (sales on cred- it), when the purchaser's guaran- tee to pay was backed by a third party, that the goods concerned could not be repossessed until both the purchaser and his backer had adequate advance notice. Mr. Dar- by’s resolution to this effect was unanimously accepted by the com- mlssioners and embodied in their report to the Bar Association.

It is anticipated that the sug- gesilon will be incorporated in amendments of Conditional Sales Acts recommended for passage by the Legislatures of the nine Prov- inces.

At the opening luncheon of the Canadian ‘Bar Association this afternoon, chairman John T. Hac- kett. K.C.. Progressive Conservative member for Stanstead. confessed that he did not know just what to do with the Prince Edward Island delegation for the afternoon ses- sions. Delegations from the other Provinces had been assigned spec- ial study rooms for discussion, but since the Island Province has only one delegate this year, no special room had been set aside for it.

“Now I don't know exactly what to do in this case." Mr. Hackett said. "Here we are with no room tor Prince Edward Island, and yet. the Island cannot be and will not be ignored. But perhaps the dele- gate from Prince Edward Island

noon."

Mr. Darby had many offcrs from fellow legal lights to accompany him at the chateau Laurier bar, but declined to accept the chair- man's proposal.

Suggest ll. S. Divide llp Fort Knox Gold

SOUTHPORT. England, Sept. 3- <CP)-Foreign Secretory -Bevln addressed a British commonwealth customs union today and tossed out the suggestion that the United States divide up "the Fort Knox gold".

Speaking exteunporaneovusiy be- fore the trados union congress. Bevin advanced the commonwefllm free trade plan "purely on my own responsibility" but indicated the question had been considered by the cabinet without any decision being reached.

(At Ottawa. Canadian Govern- ment sources viewed Bevin's pro- posal with skeptical interest. Un- official observers felt Canada's close trading relations with the United States would preclude her entering such an arrangement.)

The foreign secretary said his suggestion to split up "the Fort Knox gold" would "increase the purchasing power qf the devastated areas of the world!"

In his address to the represent- aiives of 6,000,000 union woflwl. Bevin also asked a last-ounce Dro-

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HAMBURG. Sept. S-(AP) -A wartime pledge to an outraged House of Commons that "these foul criminals shall be tracked down to the last man" wsa ful- filled today with the sentencing of 14 Gestapo men to the gallows for the mass murder of b0 allied air- men, including six Canadians. who had escaped from a Nazi prie-

01!. A British military court senten-

- ced one other Gestapo man and a

German police inspector to life terms and two other Gestapo mem-

' bers to i0 years each.

All had been convicted or com- plicity in the killing-upon‘ person- al ordera from Adolf Hitler-of the b0 airmen who escaped from the infamous Btalag Luft Iii Prison Camp at Sagan, Silesia, in i044 only to be recaptured and put to death.

The testimony was that the air- men were led cut to lonely side roads near the camp and mowed

down by tummy-guns in the hands

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special session of Congress may be emergency.

uses such as the purchase of fcod.. their resources simply to survive.

Lovett's disclosure of s. rapidly- (ieteriorating situation abroad came a. few hours after Foreign Minis- ter Bevin proposed at Southport. Eng, that the United States “re- distribute the Fort Knox gold" asla move to jack up international pur- chasing power and eliminate ‘these constant recurring crises.”

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Lovett withheld comment on Bevln's suggestion, although h said that both the State an Treasury Departments have been studying the possibility-as one phase of the Marshall plan-of creating a "dollar pool" for Eur- ope. The main purpose, he said. would be to stabilize European currencies with American dol- lars.

Bevin did not elaborate on his "Fort Knox gold" proposal, nor explain how it would work out, but. the aides‘ drew seanlwntppcrt here.

I.ovett's emphasis on the mount-

pictures yet painted by the State Department, drew calls for a special session of congress from some senators and representatives. Some others thought such a ses- sion unnecessary.

Lovett indicated new proposals

to help Europe might be tempor- ary devices or permanent meas- ures-presumably either some kind of interim financial assistance or a speed-up in the whole timing oi the Marshall plan for Europ- ean recovery. ‘This plan calls for European countries to draw up a program of self-help, with the United States giving what help it deems feasible.

Lovett said temporary devices might include such steps as loans by the world bank or the export- lmport bank. assuming that worth- while projects could be presented to them for financing by Europ- ean countries.

Officials generally agreed that any new American financing out- side the Marahall plan would. like that plan itself, require congres- slonal action.

Lovett said the State Depart- ment expects a first-hand report in the immediate future from its top policy planner, George P. Ksnnan, now en route to Wash- ington from Paris, where he con- ferred with members of the l6- power group planning the self- help and European-needs pro- gram under the Marshall pro- posal.

Metal telephone poles are used in loath Airloe because white ants

Oli- WOOGQIX MIN.

14 Gestapo Members To Go To Gallows

of Gestapo guards.

Erich Zacharias, convicted speci- fically oi the slaying of Gordon Kidder of St. Catharines, Ont., was one oi those sentenced to be hanged. Besides Kidder. the Can- adians murdered were George t. McGill of Toronto, James C. Wen- liam of Winnipeg. Henry Birkland 0f Clliftfy. George W. Wiley of Windsor, Ont., and Patrick W. lengford, Field, B. O.

In court today the defendants stepped out one by one in the dock to hear the sentences. They stood stiffly at attention between two military police and only their eyes betrayed their feeling as they heard their fate.

The sentences are subject to eoniirination by Sir Gholm Doug- las. British commander in occup- ied Germany. If he confirms them, the it men will die on the gal- lows in the ancient town of Bam- eln, (Hamlin) fenied for the legend of the Pied Piper.