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North Koa-can Reds- Lausscla Two Attacks

By RELMAN MORJN roxvo. Aug. n-('rueaday)- (AP)-North Korean Reds attack- ed again today'at both ends of Korea's western front, but failed to crack United-Nations defences. The Communists pulled back after sharp fighting with American infantry, U. S. Eighth Army head-

Coming Events

"Mail your Films to Gunhum Photo Studio. Charlottetown.

"Dance. Iona Hall. Tuesdav.

August and.

"Reserve Thursday, August 31st for Big Carnival at Borden.

"Clam chowder. bingo. games. dance. atc.. North Rustlco. Wad- nesday. Aug, 23rd.

'Dsnce Corran Ban Hall, Tues- day. Aug. 22nd. Alf McKearney's Orchestra.

"Dance every Tuesday night in

zsg.pre:er'a Le ion Hall. cur: Pet- - .1:,,,Icsv-at-e '”Coms to We 's lnstltule's ice cream festival North Mil-

ion Hall. Tuesday. August ”22nd.

"Chicken supper and dance. St. Charles.-Hall. Thursday. Aug. 24th.

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"supper and Icaicrsam, Beach Point school, Augugi; zoth. supper 60c Ind 25c. ; 1

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"Dance at Gordon Dodge every rriday night. Dancing from 9 till 1 Music by Western Ramblers.

"see st. Margaret's Vlllay at Tracadie Cross Wednesday, August 23rd. Dance after. ,

"Now unloading carioad Brant- lord asphalt shingles and siding, roofing, etc. R. L. Dlckiaton. New Glasgow. '

"Dancing every Tuesday and Saturday night. Islanders Country club. Travellers Rest. Art Gallant.”- Melody Boys ave piece orchestra.

"Grand lobster supper. St. Mark's Church, Lo: 7. Wednesday. August 30th. Games etc. Reserve the date.

"Regular Dance at Skyline, New l.ondon every Tuesday night. Dan- cliig from 0 till 1. Good music and canteen service.

"see Loraine Day and Kiri: Douglas in "My Dear seoretsry' plus Serial at MacDonald Bros Theatre. Mt. Stewart; tonight L45

"Dance. every Wednesday night at North Riustloo Hall. Modern: and Old Time. From 9 till in music. George Ohappell's orchestra

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"Come to Ice cream Social held on law of Mrs. Wm. nail, Found's Mills. August 28rd. Upon- sored by North Granville Women's Institute.

"Sandy's Theatre Under the - Shows every Monday Wednesday and Friday nights. gslrnservice. sandwiches and soft r is . .

"ice Cream flestival. Bingo and

times at Mt. atswart Canadian Lesion i-rail. followed l) usual irsdav.

6- oh ll D Au&"..'.lm1."”” um"

"collecting Hogs by truck for Canada Packers every Thursday.

beginning May 4th. Phone 31-ill '

Hunter nnivsr Exchange, 0. I. II Hall. an Oil! Misti. Its

as leaves 1.-as. 'r. .

at Dance. Wlnsloe station sadly. August 15th. l.'ast chm pnoya Oriitadltrl co. Admission 130-1130. Bill that Inc

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-.-an?-A-.m4........ qusrters rdporlod. They left he- hind more dead. to add to a oas- ually toll already estimated at more than 15,000 Red: In four days.

Tanks led a battalion of Reds at 4:30 am. (2:30 p.m. EDT Monday) in an attack on the U. S. 27th Regiment protecting the roads from the north to Taegu. a com- munique reported.

Several Red tanks were knock- ed out by this crack American re- giment which smashed a similar assault on its right flank Monday morning with the aid of a speci-

' acular phosphorous-lighted air and

artillery barrage.

On the southern front. where the next big Communist offensive is expected to develop. the 35th Regiment of the USS. 35th Divis- ion besi back another morning at- tack in a four-hour battle without loss of ground, the communique said. i Other sectors held by American troops were reported quiet during the night and early morning.

Americans launched two count- er-atiacks around the llaman communications centre in the southwest. Stan Swlnton. AP con- reapondent reported.

'.He said a fierce light was being fought r this morning for mount- ains near Sobuk "which the U. 8. Fifth Regimental Combat Team was trying to retake.

A new battle was undrr way for bloody Battle Mountain which has changed handsfour times in three days. The 11.8. regiment was try- ing to take it back.

way. Sp

The era a p - south Kbrea June 3!; -were lng desperately to-carry out the public orders, of Northern Korean Premier xim' ll lung to conquer the Americans and South Koreans by Aug. -si. But their punch had lost much of its steam.

some Americans cautiously speculated that the forthcoming drive might be their last major effort. A Tokyo headqusricu spokesman said the enemy was "badly off balance" and probably "much worse hurt than we imag- lne."

NATIVE RING BEGINS EXILE DOUTHAMPION, Aug. 21 -(AP) -Seretse Khama. King of tin Bamangwato tribe, arrived bv plane today with his white Queen and their three-month-old daught- er to enter an exile imposed by the British Government. Khansa has been barred from the tribal area in Africa's Bechuanaland be- cause of unrut caused by his mar- riage to Ruth Williams. 24-year-

whila these hghis wet; unde:,.

lleporis Delayed By Smashed Communications

HALIFAX. Several vessels were believed in trouble off Nova Scotls's hur- ricane-blasted coast tonight as the

the season's first big blow.

A telephone report from sydnev said there were rumors that a number of trawlers were in distress off Louisburg. east coast Cape Breton port and a major fishing centre.

These reports could not be check- ed beeause of disrupted communi- cations. E. C. A. F. Search and Rescue centre in Halifax had no information on the rumors.

The sloop salute Charmel cat, out of Rocirport, Me, reported missing earlier in the midst cf the

southwestern port of Yarmuuth. 1-fer four crew members were not injured.

its fury around noon Halifax.

Tonight telegraph lines were still down to Cape Breton and New- foundland. Telephone calls were subject to a two-hour delay.

At midnight temporary service had been restored as repair men worked through the night to re- pair the damage.

Trouble to Prince Edward Island was cleared up earlier but tele- phone service was being maintain- fd over a shaky llrse with long de- ,aya. V

The Canadian Press, teietype circuits out to Caps Breton and Newfoundland. called in the army to help movie news to newspapers and radio stations.

Copy to Newfoundland. was re- routed through New Yortawith all lines from.-Nova scotla out. -. After .ti.e-uuup blast

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Halllar Lucky

Even at that Halifax was lucky The winds reached'iBmiles an hour but the centre of the disturbance remained so miles off the coast.

First reports reaching heredfrom Cape nreton over makti-ahlft communication circuits told of scores of telephone poles being dashed down.

Heaviest damage in the Province was reported in the l Annapolis Valley wherebumper apple and grain crops were hard hit. Harvesting of the important apple crop-estlm- ated at i.aoo.ooo barrels--ls due to start in two weeks.

Tops of apple trees were ripped off by the roaring wind with the earlier variety of fmlt suffering the most damage. The loss was reported as "fairly heavy” but a complete check will not be avail- able for days.

Ships in port hare rode out the

Cape preion

old London typlst.

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New Russian Dam To B:

(By Eddy Gilmore)

MOSCOW. Aug. 2,1-(AP)-The Councll of Ministers has announ- ced that it intends to build with- in the next five years one of the largesi. hydro-electric power sta- tions in the world, Work will stast this year. the announcement as .

The project-much bigger than the great. Dnalper hydroelectric power project which was built by Russia with the aid of American engineers--is to be constructed on the Volga in the Kuibylhev ros- ion.

"Show at Brsdalbane tonight at are

"National Films, Seai-leiown Hall. tbnlght. ,

"Unloading car Albion Nut coal Tuesday and Wednesday. K. W. Doull. lrladalbane.

"Dance. New Perth llall. Thurs- day. Aug. it. cut! I..lllei!'l niche estra.

Wsnance Wood Islands aaai school. in . August ssae.

red by :m.wosmi'a Insti- fute. lala of-lunches.

"come to loo oroaai Social In

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,,,,,,, One” Of Worlds Largest ,

its announced purpose is. among ll

other things." to furnish power to major cities such as Moscow. Kuibyshev pnd Saratov. It will also provide power for ' further electrification of soviet railways.

One,of the most important func- tions of the station will be to provide water for irrigating the productive trans-Volga agricultur- al lands. The dam will support a trunk-line railway across the Volga and also will be a means of improving the big Russian river as one of the Sovlet'a main transport arteries.

The Kulbyshev dam will be one of the most ambitious engineering projects ever attempted in Bus- sla. The station. which the Coun- cil ordered finished by 1065. will have a Power of about 2.000.0tl) kilowatts and a production of about ioooo.ooo.ooo kilowatt hours in an average year.

The Dnelpar dam now is the largest In Europe. The only dam which can be compared valtll the

rejected one at Kuibysh is the

rand Coulee In Wat inston State. which eventually is to have a soul power capacity of 1.014.000

hilowatu. The Rulbyshav will lri-Into

1.800.000. of d. - :32: with thO.1ml::ruc:3- ved by the Grand denies.

The aanounesaisntdle not aim

Aug. 21 -(UP) - .

Province counted the damage from .

hurricane. turned up safely at the"

The storm reached the peak of . A.DT. in A

with its

Makes Itself

Strike Mediator i

Prof. W. A. Mackintosh. Gov- ernment-appointed mediator be. tween the unions and the railways in the eleventh-hour efforts made "to avert a strike. Prof. Mackin- tosh is vice-president and clean of

Approaching Strike

p far as North Bay,

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Felt

(By The Canadian Press)

Even as Rail and Union heads soucht to hammer out their dif- ferences at Montreal, communltlga across Canada prepared for the in- dustrial paralysis that a big rail. Wily strike would surely cause.

As the strike deadline of a A. M. lccal time Tuesday neared, it be- came apparent that even a last- minnte settlement would not avert disruption of the country's econ-

onzr. s early as 9:30 LID. T. Monday night. with conferences still going on the Canadian National Rail- wsys announced the first of its P355CnKer train cancellations. It was the transcontinental that leave: Montreal nightly for Vancouver. The C. P. R. said its westbo rl transcontinental would go only as Ont.

limbai-goes on express. freight shipments and all mail but first- elass and air-mailed parcels had already gone into effect. Telegrams were not accepted unless filed in time to beat the deadline. officials said telegrams and cables on band would be forwarded by special de. livery mall. '

Every phase of Canadian indus- try snd business expected to feel the effects of the wages-and-hours

arts at Queens University, King- aton.

Approximately 50 men working steadily last evening en- daavoring to clear up some of the damage done to electrical lines throughout the Province by yes- terday's storm.

Lines were down from Char-

were

lottetown to Borden and from Charlottetown to scui-is. and sim- ilar -news from other centres was expected as soon as telephone com- munications were again establish- ed. Most of the damage was caus- ed by trees and branches of trees which had fallen across the wires. and although the more serious damage was expected to be repair ed .. . .. n W” .. . that it might be three or four days before every home had its electric- ity restored. i

Many circuits were cut off dur- ing the day and a number of in- dividual residences reported that trees had torn down the wires stretching from the roadside. The northern section of the City was without lights for an hour at noon yesterday, and at 2:30 a tree at the comer of Sydney and Pownal Streets fell and cut off the ser- vice to the major part of the bus- iness sectlon. This circuit wls not in operation again until almost 5

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in. Last evening almost fifty percent. of Charlottetown's street lights were not working. but these were being left until service to all res- idences had been restored.

Predicts Power from Uranium Vlilliin ilears

BIRMINGHAM. llnglsnd. Ana. at -(Ari-nntain may be mnklns 91- ectric power from uranium within five years. nut it -vie-on an exiierlmentll basis, sir John cocin-oft. head , or the atomic energy research estab- lishment at Harwell. said today. Sir John prepared a statement exhibited here with is small quant- lty of uranium at an "mars: In The Service of Man" display. i He said it would take about five years to make the first machines which would burn nuoieahfuel and convert it into electric power. "mm: the following fig ms. opsrai axparlCll0Q Ill! ,. ' ed and the first full-seals nueladr saatuosrs can be daaiansl."

-Damage Widespread , Yesterdayls Storm

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dispute between the railways and ........A.A.;mm..... (dontinued on Page 5 Col. 2)

Yesmh;?& goulhgxh , . ' , tdrrnsnyi yeti? Idle;-tiipied telephone and el- ec r o g connections and flood- ed out several families resident in "10 10W-!.ving parts of the City. it caused similar disturbance thr;ougholul. the Province. washing ou a cu vert at Milton and furth- er delaying the Borden train

' ward

- Sgt. E F. Nicholson.

New Hurricane. ls Discovered

MIAMI. Fla.. Aug. 21 --(APT - A new tropical hurricane develop- ed 100-mile winds overnight and caused hurricane warnings today in the Leeward and virgin islands and an alert on the big. ,.opulou: island of Puerto Rico.

The small but dangerous storm was discovered by the steamship Maurieenne only to miles east of Antigua Island-the same general area where the hurricane now off the Maritime Provinces formed lo days ago. .

It appeared to be moving west- northwestwsrd. a course which would carry it into the Caribbean Sea toward Puerto Rico. its rate of forward movement was estimated at eight to lo miles an hour

Hurricane warnings were flown from Guadeloupe to St. Manin. in the Leeward Island chain. and ll'. the Virgin Islands.

Grady Norton. chief storm fore caster in the Miami weather Bur- eau. sald the storm at presert has a diameter of only 60 miles but shows unusual force in its esrlv stages.

Local llecruiliiig Team Takes Over

The mobile recruiting team from Headquarters Eastern Command. Halifax. and headed by Capt. D. W. Shanks has been recalled he- csuse of the pressure of recruit- lng in the Sydney. C. B. area. They will leave today. Sgt. W. Spinney and Cpl. E. Yorke are the other team members.

Recruiting in this Province will continue through a local team. appointed by Brigadier W. W. Reid. D.S.0.. E.D.. and trained hy Capt. Shanks. The team is headed by Capt. E. R. Burke. Prince Ed- Island Regiment (17th Reece). Other members of the ieam are Capt. M. Maclfenaie and

y-h.”Thep learn huislll be in Sumgneilv .1 swing . w tomorrow on n Alberton. dursday. it will re- turn to Charlottetown for Friday and Saturday. Next week the team plans to visit the eastern end of the Province probably Georgetown, Sourls and Montague.

Another group of recruits for the Active and Special Forces will leave by air at noon today

which had been retarded due to the car ferries being forced to re- main in their docks at Tormen- tine and Borden for more than an hour yesterday morning.

Sections of the City affected by the flood included Green Street, Spring Park Road. the east end of Grafton Street and a block on Water Street near the railway station. Furniture had to be re- moved from lower floors in some cases. and clogged manholes caus- ed miniature lakes through which cars vied with difficulty.

One cable containing 800 pairs of telephone lines, running be- tween the telephone buildlng and Water Street. was put out of or- der when the underground man- holes flooded. About one hundred other telephone lines scattered in various parts of the City were out of service temporarily.

Government Pond ovei-ilowed its banks and flooded residential sec- tions in that vicinity. A crew of City workmen ripped out the gates at the pond in an effort relieve the condition. -

Still Unservlceable

Between four and five hundred pairs of telephone lines. put out of service by thefloodad man- holes, were still unserviceable late last night. Telephone crews were repairing as many as possible throughout the night.

The Charlottetown Hospital was left without telephone service for a short time due to the flooded manholes. An emergency line was strung up to the hospital. The Railway Station was cut oi! from phone service. By 10.20 last night one line was back in operation.

Water in the flooded sections had receded by last night. The water had pretty well run out of Government Pond and most of the streets were dry. City employees today will have a few sidewalks

(Continued on Page a Col. iii.

gr Liner in Fringe Hurricane

NEW YORK. Aug. 2l-(AP)- A buffetlng by the fringe of hurricane gave the Queen Ellin- bsih. world's largest passenger ship. a "corkscrew shake" early today off New York. passengers and crew members reported on arrival here. One crew member said the Cunard llnsr developed.

a mail such as he never ex- psriea '- . "It was like a m I.” he raid. Capt.

”saId there was no

for Halifax. it will be the fifth group of volunteers to the Can- adian forces from this Province. Personnel leaving today are:

Active Force: G. J. Cobb, Char- lottetown.

Special Force: S. D. Macheod. Charlottetown; C. R. Young. Hope- fleld; W. Walsh, Bedford; F. J. Coyle. Charlottetown; W. T. Murphy. Summerside: R. E. Mac- Kenna. Glace Bay. N. s.;-J. P. Hogan. Rocky Point: M C. Moly- neaux. Charlottetown: G. R. Perry, Charlottetown; J. L. Haggerty. Charlottetown; G. F. Carroll. Charlottetown, W. R. Arsensult, Charlottetown: H. A. Arsenault. Charlottetown; W. B. McAulay, Charlottetown. ,

o'I'rAWA, Aug. 21 - (CP) - Joint loans under the National Housing Act averaged more than ll.000.000 a day during the last three months, Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation said to- day. The.loa.ns, joint ones made by the corporation and approved lending, institutions. totalled al- most sieo.ooo.ooo for the first seven months of the year. up sss.ooo.ooo fer the. same period of 1949.

YARMOUTH. Isle of Wight. ling- land-fCP)-Workmen repairing a blocked sewer pipe found a live- foot conger eel which had worked its way along 70 feet of pipe be-

iiAILWAY STRIKE BEGAN IN MARITIMES AT 6 A. M. TODAY

Several Ships, In Trolublg In Wake OF Hurricane

this morning promptly at 6 o'clo

WI!

Labour Union Hall.

locking up. "Are you

fore becoming tightly jammed. It was still alive.

(By The Canadian Press)

LONDON. Aug. ll-Twelve Ai- lantlc countries meet tomorrow to total the dollars and cents needed to finance a bigger Western re- armament program against Com- miinlsm.

Several ways of financing the over-all Western effort will con- front deputies of the I2-country alliance. All stem from the as- sumption that the United States. as the richest and strongest pact member. will provide basic ma- terial and money aid.

(in Ottawa. informed quarters said Canada has devised a plan whereby it will offer to supply North Atlantic countries in But- ope with "free" armament.

(if acceptable it would mean that Canada will transfer to West- ern European countries some of 'her guns. aircraft and other mil- itary equipment such as tanks from other Atlantic countries. pre- sumably the United States.)

L. Dana Wiigress. Canada's High

porter. "I'm through now," The day shift wor work.

Newfoundland workers

their iobs I I-2 hours earlier. 1 The strike call was set for 6 am. local standard time

but Newfoundland workers apparently took this to mean I

daylight time and quit their a.m. N.D.T.)

Rail officials here said there was little doubt workers ,

throughout the Province had

The Dominion Atlantic Railways despatcher at Kent-

ville said workers there had