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NES BOMB TOWN CLOSE TO RUSSIAN BORDER

Heavy Rains Enclanger Alberta Grain Crops

Mystery Deaths Traced To Ergot Poisoning By French Scientists

llON'P-SAINT-ESPRIT, . France, .-t.r:. 30 - (Reuters) - French Government experts today con- firmed that the "burning death" that has killed four people and driven 25 others to the brink of ntarinlxss in this quiet village is a o'1s'c:isc almost unknown since the middle ages-crgot poisoning.

They said the illness was caused by eating diseasedrye, and that the bread of Pont-Saint-Esprit - tnr "bread of madness"-had sontv-how become infected. At the some time, suspic- tor. grew that the epidemic rtucltt be the work of an un- 'nr.ou'n criminal. Police were considering the fact that the v:Cilms were all in one town. and that the contaminated flour was found in only one of the town's three bakeries. Jean Brland. whofiboked the fatal bread, said he had received from. Saint Nartl Al fiiviere. 250 m:les distant, a shipment of flour which "looked like a powder and ftit strange."

One other theory was being canvassed-that dirty handling may have contaminated the flour.

200 Stricken

Police Chief Gaston Blachet to- day gave the figure of those

Coming Events

"Dance. Orwell Hall, Septem- ber (ird.

"Dance. Glonroy School, Friday. August 31st. Lunches. Burke's Orchestra.

"Dance. South Melville School. Monday. September 3rd. MscNoil1's orchestra.

"Dance at Gordon Lodge every Friday night. Music by Robichaud. Dancing 9 to I.

"Novice-Buying live every Monday. Highest 3. C. Green. Emerald.

poultry prices.

”Sm'l:Il Evening. Tryon Baptist Hall. September 3rd. Polo Game- Girls wear your slacks.

"Chicken Supper. Bingo. Dance. Bl.':'kc's orchestra. Tracadie. Labor Day. September 3rd.

"Chicken Supper, Dance. Ions Hi-1. Monday. September 3rd. Sup- llfr s-:.vcd at six. '

"Now in stock. Potato Top Kill- er and new improved livestock Fly 5l1:.'1v. l)il1on 65 spillctt.

V"l'.ust dance of the season at :h.1lttrm'k School. Friday. August JiSl. Dancing 9 to 1. Good muslc.

'Wvmie in and talk over our Puvznn Finance plan. for your horn and poultry. Dillon & Spillett.

"For Snapshots that will not fade mail your Films and Nega- l-Vf-' to Garnhum Photo Studios Charlottetown.

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stricken st 200. of whom 25 were mentally affected. He said eight of the victims were children, one only five years old.

Blachet sald.the first victim was a Spanish laborer who leap- ed to his death from a second- floor hospital window. arms out- stretched. shouting. "Look, this is how a Jet plane f1ies."

Epidemic Receding

The epidemic. meanwhile. ap- peared to be receding. For the fourth successive day there were no new victims, and five hospital cases reported in grave danger showed improvement. .

Others in straitjackets or simp- pcd to their beds to prevent sui- cide leaps were reported to be calm.

identification of the disease as ergot poisoning came from French Government scientists working in Marsellle under the direction of Professor Henri Pierre Olliver, who conducted post-mortem ex- aminations on two victims earlier this week. They had no medical records of case histories to guide them. except for vague and "sup- erstition-riddcn" accounts of an outbreak in 1007. I

The scientists said their diag- nosis was confirmed by the 153' covery of a vegetable alkaloid like ergot in samples of the flour from which the village's bread had been made. p

Ergot is a parasitic fungus which infects wheat and rye during wet seasons.

Gov'l. Names Transport Controller

OTTAWA, Aug. 30 -(C1';- Ti-snsport Controller Roy Wil- fred Milner took office today and immediately began plans aimed at moving 200000.000 bushel! Of Western grain through the Great Lakes before the winter freeze-up.

He plunged into a series of talks with wheat and shipping repre- sentatives immediately after Transport Minister Chcvrier ap- pointed him to the shipping post. W. Jackson Fisher, of Calgary. 40- year-old traffic chief for the Can- adian Maritime Commlsson. was named as his deputy. .

Mir. Milner, 59.15 a. native oil Brampton. Ont.. though he has spent most of hm life in Winnipeg. first as a. grain company executive and later as president of the Win- nipeg Grain Exchange.

Wool Prices SE; Al Australian Sales

SYDNEY, Australia. Aug. 80 - (Reutera) - Prices dipped slight- ly again today in the fourth and last day of the opening series of Sydney's annual wool auction.

Best wools closed about five per cent below yesterdayis lev- els. with inferior grades holding fairly firm.

T0 S-M-A.KE PLANE PARTS

DDTROYF. Aug. 30 -(AP)- The Hudson Motor Car Company today

nounced it will engineer. tool and manufacture rear fuselage and tail sections for the twin-jet B-0'1 Osnberra night intruder bomber for the United States Air fibres.

Two Luxury

Pll.1NCI:'nUPl:R'r. B. C.. Ann. 30 - (GP) - Two luxury cruise

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No one was reported injured In the grinding crash Mtwun Cana- dian Nsfional Susrnshlpr Prince Rupert and Canadian Pacific ltosn-iships' Princes Kathleen. 1 Th Kathleen was badly holsd whls the Rupert reported she was slightly damaged. Forcs of the impact threw many of the 0!) passengers on'ihs two ships out of their bunks. Both ships arrived here late ts- Ksthlesn had taken user in her forward hold and was listing to zest. m P "M" n w e a 5 s with Kathleen and th 1.000-ton Rupert ground together off Lord-Rock.

The Rupert was northward-

to the company of Iclals later dulled this Both ships made part under their own power, It greatly reduced s

known until the all tried in dmioak. salvage officials flew hers Vancouver to make a preliminary survey of the damage.

Slow illpenlng. Brlngslhreai A

From Frost

EDMONTON, Aug. 30 - (OP) - Heavy, sustained rains today brought new fears for Southern Alberta's bumper grain crop. In Saskatchewan a three-day rain- fall halted harvesting operations and made many roads impassable.

In Edmonton. the Weather Of- fice promised that skies would clear in South-Central Alberta to- night. and in Southern Alberta and Saskatchewan early tomorrow.

Crops Late

But in Southern Alberta. where crops are two to three 'eeks late already. the further dairy to rip- ening increased the danger that grain crops might eventually be severely damaged by early fall frosts before they are mature en- ough to harvest.

In parts of Southern Alberta it has rained eight days out of the last nine. In the foothills of the Rockies. Pincher Creek lumped its banks and poured over 9. high- w8l'-

The steady raln iu Saskatch- ewan brought a. plea from the Saskatchewan motor club to motorists to stay off the roads wherever possible. Bus service was cancelled in some localit- ics.

But while the excessive moisture soaked grain fields and halted all

.l'1arveating. farm experts saw some

good for Saskatchewan in the downpour. Dr. J. B. Harrington of the University of Saskatchewan said it would help fill out crops where previously there had been insufficient rain. And the rain was welcome as moisture reserve for next year.

Need Dry Weather

However. in both Alberta and Saskatchewan. there was an ura- ent need for warm. dry weather to bring the 01.000.000.000 crop through the last stages of ripen- ing. . The rain replacedfrost as the farmer's No. 1 immediate threat. The cloudy skies protected the crops from frost damage such as played havoc in August 1-I year ago.

Dr. Harrington said that as far in Saskatchewan was concerned frost now would not bring any re- ductlon in yield - the grain is too far advanced - but it could lower the grade and the cash re- turn. In Southern Alberta. the threat of frost was more real be- cause of the 'extreme backward- ness of the crops.

Consider New

Area Possible

Army Base ,

HALIFAX. Aug. 30 -- (CF) The Canadian army's search for a vast new training base - the big- gest in Canada - now is being concentrated in Nova Scotla's King's County. it was learned re- lisbly here tonight.

Aerial and ground surveys are now underway and it is reported that the district is considered more suitable than other sections of the Maritime Provinces which have been studied.

If selected. the Nova Scotia base would cover some 3.000 square miles stretching from lerwiok to Alder- shot. and from the Bay of Fundy shore to a point near the King's- Luncnbnrg count1es' border.

Cruise Ships

Collide Off B.C. Coast

bound for K'tchiknn. Alaska. while the Kathleen from that port. Both ships spend

was heading south

ships collided almost bow-on to- the summer season on Alaskan day in fog-curtalned Chstham cruises. Sound. 29 miles northwest of this There were 300 passengers

aboard the Kathleen, 155 of them 1rom San Francisco. most of then. womcn travelling party.

in a specie!

first reports said the Kath-

ean's passengers were transferred Ru art by lifeboat: hut.

Both vessels are equipped Wt'tl

radar but it was not known wheth- er it was time of the cram.

In operation at the

intent of damage will not be an exam palsy and from

-A million dollar reconstruct- ion job is to be done at the Mar- ine wharf, Summerslde for which lenders have just been called. It is expected that the work will commence this Fall and continue into 1952. Mr. J. Watson Mac- Naught. M.P. who has been not- ively engaged in promoting this project with the federal officials at Ottawa. yesterday expressed satisfaction that tenders have been called and explained what will be involved in the extensive plans that have been prepared.

The work will consist of recon- structing the outer end and both faces of the wharf as well the dredging of berths on the west and cast sides and erection of a new transit shed. Lost sum- mer -a new frost-proof storage warehouse was built and now the second shed on the wharf will be torn down and replaced.

The wharf will be widened to 196 feet for the outer 612 feet.

Cape Breton

Rocket Plane Claims New" Altitude Mark

EL SEGUNDO, Cnilf., Aug. 30 - (AP) A tiny rocket- powered plane has reached new heights. hitting a speed of about 1.000 miles an hour in its climb, the navy announced tionight. The mark was set Aug.

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The exact altitude to which test pilot Bill Brldgeman took the Douglas Skyrocket was not made public. But the navy-'s statement made clear it topped the accepted world's record of 72,394 feet set by U.S. Army Captains Orvil Anderson and Albert Stevens in R. balloon be- tween Rapid City and White Lake, S.D.. in 1985.

The Skyrocket. with Bridge- man piloting, is the same plane which the navy last month announced had gone faster and higher than any other air- craft. Flgurca were not made public at that time, either. but aviation experts conceded the craft had topped the 1,000 m.p.h: pills credited unoffic- ially to the experimental Bell

X-1. and its 88.000-foot altit- side. The officially - accepted

world's speed record is 070.981 miles an hour. set in 1948 by A North American F-B6.

OTTAWA, Aug. 30 - (CPt - A government - labor - inauagemcnt committee is to be set up to deal with the growing unemployment problem in the automobile city of Windsor. 0nt., the government an- nounced todny after meeting a civic delegation.

HALIFAX. Aug. :10 - tel”) -- City Council today closed schools. churches. theatre or any enclosed public buildings to children under lti due to the sharp increase in the number of polio cases in the city.

OTTAWA. Aug. 30 - (GP) - canada has taken the first.. tent- ative steps towards getting the United Btatasv okay on this c6un- try going ahead alone with the sll00.000.000 St. Laurent seawsy project. External Affairs Minister Pearson. disclosing this move at a press conference today. did not indicate what attitude the U. S. is taking.

TORONTO. Aug. 30 .- (CF) - Settlement of the Hollinger Con- solidated Gold Mines strike at Tlmmins. 0nt.. was reached today. it was announced. Details of the ..ttlement were not available im- mediately. The strike began July 0.

POPE SLIGHTLY ILL VATICAN CITY. And. so -(AP) Pope Plus is suffering from a slight ease of lsryngltls. A spokes- man said today it is so mild that His Holiness is going ahead with scheduled audiences. sic. has examined him and reported

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Million Dollar Project At Summersjde Wharf

Gas And -Water Threaten 10,000 Miners Quit Jobs

. to be sealed off because of water

News In Brief s A monster rally oflihe striker-sl - has been called for Sunday at

will have my baby." she said. "Theylll see." And "They"--the anxious doc-

tors and Angelina scltncfer had is healthy seven-pound girl yesterday.

schaefer and her husband Charles

Jumped from a third-floor window to escape

her broken and shattered heel. and said the be born alive. body out for

PARII. Aus. 20 -(AP)- wert' European countriel today an-

ndunced they would try to increase during the next five years

strengthen their aggression. The decision was taken

supplies Of coal.

gradually reduced to 108 feet o-ve? the next 182 feet, and continue this width for the remainder of the 374 feet length of the ap- proach. steel sheet pile wall will be driven along both faces of the wharf and across the outer end and will be anchored with steel tie rods. There will bes. concrete coping wall above the steel sheet pile wall and creosoted pile and creosofed square timber fenders will be placed along the faces of the work. All interior spaces will be filled with stone and sand.

The dredging called for will be quite extensive and will be done on both sides of the wharf. The new transit shed will be 4-19 feet; long and 60 feet wide. This will be about 170 feet longer than the present shed.

This proposed rebuilding jobwill be welcomed by shippers particu- larly those engagcd in the ship- ping of potatoes because the pres- ent wharf is in pretty bad con- dltion.-S.

Mines As

NEW WATERFORD. N. 5. Aug? 30 -(CP)- Poisonous gases and? water trickled into Cape Brelon's major mines tonight as officials held night sessions to end the walkout of some 10.000 miners.

Meanwhile, in Truro. N. s., pres. ident Freeman Jenkins of District 25. United Mine Workers. told the distrlct U.M.W. convention he would issue a statement tomorrow on the uncalled strike which spread through Cape Breton: coal fields today.

when workers came off the mid- night shift Wednesday. the other shifts didn't report. And the men gave no reason for their failure to report to work.

The big Princess Colliery closed tnnlkht. adding 800 more minors to the walkout. All pits are down in the Glace Bay area. with only maintenance men remaining on their jobs.

But the big trouble is right here in New Waterford. The mine vanes have been turned off, letting water and poisonous gases seep into lower levels. Machinery would be

ruined it the men do not report before long. Mine official said tonight that

even if the men returned tomor- row it would be several days before mining operations could be re- sumed.

Delegates from the local attending the U.M.W. con- ventlon at Trura have been in- structed to press for the conven- tion's adjournment tomorrow. If the convention falls to adjourn. they will return home anyway.

Most locals were holding sessions late tonight in hope of ending the strike before the mines would have

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Has Baby Despite Serious injuries

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nurses--did when Mrs. Less than four months ago. Mrs.

the flames which de- stroyed their home.

Doctors shook their heads over hip. fractured pelvis

baby. by all the rules. would not Mrl. Schoefer was taken from I the caessrcan de- livery.

PLAN PRODUCTION BOOST

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their production by 20 per cent in defence against

by 18 countries It I muting yu- terday of the council of the organ- isation of European Economic co- operation. The countries allied especially for increases in the electricity and

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -. (AP) -- The United States Air Force said today that rail lilies from North Korea to the Rusian mil- itary base at Vladivostok were cut by the United Nations bombing of ltashin, 111 miles from the Soviet border. Saturday.

An Air Force spokesman said preliminary reports indicated also that all rail and road communica- tions south of Rashin (Najln on some maps: were put out of oper- ation.

First Raid in Year

Saturday's raid was the first at- tack on Rashin in a year.

The key transportation and port city on the northeastern coast of Korea was left untouched for more than a year on direct orders from Washington.

At Senate hearings, Gen. Doug- las MacArthur said he had been forbidden to bomb the city on grounds that an American plane might mistakenly fly over or hit Russian territory.

The Air Force said preliminary reports said that 91 per cent of the bombs dropped Saturday from the B-20 Super-Fortresses landed in the niarshalling yard target area.

The Air Force spokesman said Rashin has been used by the Reds as a stock-piling nnd tran5-ship- ment, point for arms and equip- ment. He declined to say whether Rashin will be a target for fur- ther air attacks.

Heavy Red Attacks

U.S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD- QUARTERS. Korea, Aug. 31

iFf'idEy) - (AP) - Savage 85- saults by reinforced Communist troops in Eastern Korea were

ihrown back by United Nations forces Thursday.

The Reds launched three attacks north of Yanggu as an estimated 10.000 fresh Communist troops dug in behind them. A new division of about 8,000 men. presumably North Korean. was observed northeast Of Ynnggu and another group of some 2,000 men was seen moving south in the area northwest of Ysnggu.

The fiercest Rod attack lasted 13 hours and was supported by mortar and artillery fire. The Reds

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OTTAWA, Aug. 30 - (GP) - Canada has completed negotia- tions to build up a stockpile of 14,- 500.000 pounds of imported but- ter. about enough to bring stocks to last year's level, the Agricultural Products Board announced today.

Of the total imported. l0.000.000 was purchased by the Board and 4.500.000 by private trade. Butter imports by private trade were ban- ned by the government, starting Aug. 1. but it agreed to allow priv- ate-trade butter into the coun- try if the transaction was carried out before that date.

No Mention of Price

The Board gave no indication what prices it paid. It disclosed. however. that the 10,000,000-pound purchase, only 3.000.000 will be provided by New zealand. The re- mainder will come from Europe: 3,000,000 from Denmark, 3.000.000 from Sweden and 1.000.000 from the Netherlands.

The butter will be delivered be- fore Nov. 15. Negotiations are con- tinuing to get options on further amounts, but no definite commit- ments have been made, the board said.

The purchases will almost meet. the deficit in stocks. which on Aug. I dropped to 45,568,000 pounds. 15.127000 below the 60,895,000 on Aug. 1 last year.