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TWO DCZd, 3 IIli€fOSSi1wlfig Crash Ngwfgupdland Leader S993.

Believe Missing French

llir Supply Line To Berlin Breaks Record

BIRLIIN, Aug. 4—(A l‘)- The Unit-HI ltates air supply lino to Berlin broke its own rr-cord again today. carrying 2.104 tons of supples into the Russian-blockaded city.

The tonnage was brought In

v by 303 flights. Unltezl States Air Force headquarters said. 1n a similar 24-hour period tllr R.A.F. made 2i2 flights to thr- rlly carryflng an tstlnlated 1,000 tons.

llueenh ileiehrates Birthday iluietly

LONDON. Alli:- 4 — KJPl -—Tl"’» Qncer. celebrated her 48th birth- day quietly today.

A §n\al1 roynl-falmily dinner at

Bilcklngham Pillow mlfkcd the occasion tonimht. Nu official celebrations were

hOdIlHQTHlUlBtOTY messages NM" in [lflllf in Ytstefdily and contin- nwt in greater volume todav. Flowers and needlework were sm- nn; the birthdBY nlits- '

Coming Events

"Dance Mount Stewart every Thursday. Eastern Rhythm Boys.

"Nelvson re-union picnic at

Daivay Friday afternoon.

"Bridgetown. Movies, Saturday. "Son oi Rusty"

"lmnce in Crapaud Hall. Thurs- Ii.\\‘. Ailgust 5tll. Proceeds W. i. Ex. ccllellt- music. Dancing 0 to 1.

"ice cream and dance, Brook- vale. Lot 30 school, Friday. Aug. 6. McNeilVs Orchestra.

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' iiig Dance. Contcen Service. Fillllfllflffifild Hall, Friday, August e-h Music by 1-iickey Bros.

"Come to (ioxchcad Road new day night, August 9th.

the big Dance tn school, bion-

"Dance at Coles' workshop. Now London, Friday night, Aug. 6 Music by Bill's Orchestra. Can- lrm; service.

“Modern and Old Timc Danc- iuc. Union Road School fQueensl.

'l‘lllll'sday', August 6th. Rollie Mac- ‘

Kcnzies Orchestra.

fllance tonight and every ,. (‘Ollll-

Club, 'l‘ravellrrs cstra Prince County Pioneers. l I

"Unloading car bulk oats Thurs- iifil’ Mid Friday. $2.90 hundred. Off

var price. Bring bags. Dillon dz Splllctt. i

"lee Cream Festival at Cross Floris Sohool Thursday evening,

Mlzllst 5th, in aid of women's In- rntute. If not fine, following ev- Pnlrlg,

"The Bonshaw Choir and ‘Male Quartette will present -The Good 5htfllilerd" in story and song in the Bonshaw United Church. Sunday. Aulzust nth. at ‘rm P. M.

"Yefs Theatre, Montague. Aug. 5m. "Her Husband's Afiairs," with Lucille Ball and Frsrlchot Tone. Sponsored by the Montague Ten- nis Club.

"Unloading bulk car No, 1 Feed “all. $2.05 per hundred weight. Mlnut 5th and 6th only. Bring Your empties. Clarkb Feed Ber- "lcl. Mt. Stewart.

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"The regular monthly nicotine 0f the Hope River Branch of the Canadian Legion will be held at the home of Sterling Campbell limlllht at I p.m. All membe u Ind veterans please attend.

"NOW in stock. All kinds DUI‘ Potato Spray Material. Peronox, Calcium Arsenate. 2-4- 9 Weed Killer. etc. Also "Green- sheaf" Binder ‘hvlne. Dillon d: Bplllett. Charlottetown.

"Unloading car whole barley War. sums 2nd. until rllurr- dl! neon. Off 0a: Price. $2.05 "\- Wfth own bus. Will [find

into bar-lemon, iso extra. Bring flu. Dillon s; Splllett, tlttetgyy-L

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Flying Boat Sends SOS

PARIS. Aug. 4 —(CP)- A sec- ond cali for help from the giant French rum; boat missing since sllndfly raised hopes tonight for the “lei? of the 52 persons aboard.

The French weather ship Lever. Pier reported she received a feeble SOS from the 73.wn flying boat, Latecoere 631 down somewhere in the Atlantic off the west coast o! Africa.

A United States Flying Fortress call from the missing plane which carried 4o passengers and a crew of 12,

Tile weather ship reported it heard a. signal this morning pre- faced with the cnll letters “BCR." Marconi identification of the miss- ing Air France craft.

Ships and planes have been thrown into a search for the six-

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engined plane. It disappeared on a flight from Port do France. Martinique, to Port Etienne, Maur- itania, French West Africa. The plane was last heard from 1,200 miles oif Dakar.

Railroad Earnings iieaeh iiew iiighs

OTTAWA, Aug. 4 - iCPl —-Re- flecting l-lle 2i per cent. freight.- rate increase, the earnings o! Canadian railroads reached record heights ill May. But so did oper- ating expenses, the Bureau of Statistics said today.

May earnings totalled \7l,000,- 800, compared with $66,854,000 in May, 1947. Freight. revenues were up 7.8 per cent -—- from 352331000 to $56,067,000 — despite a 5.9-per- cent reduction in tons carried and a Mil-per cent drop ill revenue- toll-vniles. Average freight receipts inf-reused from 1.018 cents a ton- mlle to 1.288 cents. Passenger rev- enues fell from $6,802,000 to 86,- 369,000. '

This was the other side of the

pictufe: Operating expenses increased from $58,576,000 in May. 1947. to

$63,03i.000. Net operating revenues were reduced from $0,288,000 to $7,970,000 and operating income from $4,752,000 t0 $4,337,000.

Hotel tharlottetewn lias Busy Season

MONCTON. Aug. 4 -t-The Chal- lottetolvn Hotel has had all ex-

meptionaily good year so fur. Rou- icrt Summer-ville. general managtr .of Canadian National Hotels slid here as lle passed through ell route to Ottawa from an inspec- t'on tour of the company's ‘notes in the Marltimes. The Charlotte- tolvll "is completely sold out during Old Home Week and nss a large reservations list for tn: next five months," he said. Busi- ness at Pictou L008? ‘Us “We” ahead" of last year at this time and the Novh Scotlan Hotel at Halifax “has been extremely bus; this you.” It. Bommervills mil.

‘Soviet Bloc

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(By The Canadian Press)

LAKE SUCCESS. AuI- 4—D=- spite comlnform attacks on Mar- shal Tito, Russia ‘and the Ukraine today backed Yugoslavia in a fight. with the west over Trieste.

There was not the plighlest sign in the United Nations Security Oouncll of the rift. in Communist circles caused by tho bllltl 0i U" Communist Infonmation Bureau against the head of the Yukolllv state.

It. was the first clear-cut. indi- cation here that. the party strug- gle had not. dented the solid Billy front. in mnnlcls with Abe outside world.

Yugoslavia brought up the coun- cil fight by charging Britain an the United states with violating the Italian ace treaty. Dr. Jon. vllfan, Yugo lav delente, said the Western Powers are tryinl to make their lone of the Trieste territory a. province of Italy.

Blr Alexander Cadonn of Irit- ain and Dr. Philip C. Jesmp. United States deputy, replied that

by R/CAF North Star aircraft for

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To Investigate Tropical Island In Barren- Land.

THE PAS. Man. a- 4 — IOP)— Game officers of Man- itoba and Saskatohe ‘an are going to investigate "tropical island" which dapples the mon-

otonous grey of th barren lands with the vlvi green of grass and boasts t I ing tirn-

hers.

The island was discovered on an air trip west of the Hud- son Bay port of Churchill, It is in a lake about one mile long and its trees are repcrted to be so large they cannot be cut with the light camp axes carried by natives and the few white travellers in the region.

Pending investigation, actual location of the oasis is not. be- ing announced. But Harold Wells, supervisor of registered traplines for Manitoba, describ- ed it as being “not for north of Manitoba's northern bound- ary."

Mr. Wells expressed the opin- ion a mineral spring or deposit must supply the Qegetation with powerful fertilizer to permit such luxuriant growth in the short Arctic summer _ and on an ordinarily treeless waste.

Whether the tlmbered oasis has attracted odd strains of animal or bird life is also to be investigated.

EARLY ATOMIC RESEARCH

The first atc-m was split by man in 1919 when Rutherford changed a small amount of nitrogen into OXYRCH-

United

In. Fight Over. Trieste

Yugoslavia had no foundation I01‘ the charges.

Jessup called them “flimsy" and "utterly devoid of substance." I.-Ie said the United States la proud o! its record in Trieste.

He and Sir Alexander said the! were surprised that such charges should come from s government which, in administering its acne of the Trieste territory, had paid no,hoed to international obligat- ions and had not. even made a report to the Security Oouncll. They said the Amie-American administration had made complete reports.

Alexandre Parodl, France, called upon Yugoslavia to submit. s re- port to the Council. 111st. touched of! Blav fireworks.

Dmitri Z. Manullsky, Soviet Uk- rainian Foreign Minister. said he was "astounded" at attlnpts to put. the Yugoslav charges aside by all kinds of irrelevant and leo- ondary consider " . Re said it would be inappropriate to broaden the ease to inquire into the Yugo-

Twenty-five Royal Canadian Air Cadets left Canada August 8rd

a two-week visit to United King-

dom, and an equal number of 'Britlsh Air ‘Raining Corps Cadets will Canada.

Spud Island representative on Gay. of 330 Myrtle St... Summer-

Sgt. Gay ca be seen above chatting with S/L. W. H. Dunphy. RCAF R.C. Chap n from Cherry Valley, near Charlotte- l-QWII. P-E-In during their 5 ay stay at RCA!‘ Station, Trenton. erside squadron Air Cadets.

lP.E.I.\Liberal Delegates i Erltertallned At Ottawa

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OTTAWA. Aug. 4-(Special) - Headed by Premier J. Waite: Jones and Senators John E. $1.‘.- clair and J. P. McIntyre. both of whom are veterans of the 193 convention, the Prince Edward Island delegation to the National Liberal Convention opening hcrc tomorrow, arrived in Ottawa by chartered Pullman early this af- ternoon.

Some of the delegates. who are housed in the Chateau Liuflui‘ and the Lord Elgin hotels. i.r.- mediately went to the Ottawa Coliseum, registered and received their crimson delegates‘ badges. Others made the rounds of no.ei lobbies, chatting with fellow-dele-

gates from the Maritimes and other provinces. For St. Laurent?

Present indications are that about 80 percent of the Island delegates will cast their ballots

for External Affairs Minister Ln-v- fs St. Laurent as party leader. un- less their present views are alter-

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‘Metal Blast Kills line, injures Two

(By The Canadian Press)

SUDBURY, Ont, Aug. 4--An explosion of mloltcn metal in the converter building of the Inter- national Nickel Company today fatally injured one man and ser- iously injured two others.

David Van Norman, 22-year-old son of the manager of the Bank of Toronto here, died shortly af- ter admittance to suburban Cop- per Cliff Hospital. He had been employed at. the plant as a samp- ler helper since Aug. i3, 1047.

James A. Merrlfleld. l9. another sampler helper, suffered second and third degree burns about. the legs. arms and body, while Vin- eenzo Meandro, 25-year-old con- verter puncller, suffered facial outs and second degree bums.

Six other workmen suffered minor burns and were released from hospital after treatment.

The explosion occurred when a ladle oi bessemer matte tipped on its side as a crane crew was pre- paring to move it away from a converter. As the molten metal spilled on the floor it exploded.

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Gar And Train REL-Newfoundland Trade

Meet liead-on Near Piotou, N.S.

(By The Canadian Press)

PICTOU, N. 5.. Aug. 4—Two persons were killed near here to- night when the car in which they were passengers reached s. level crossing at the same instant as a train.

The dead:

Mrs. Fred C. Kennedy of Halifax.

Joseph Plotou.

The injured:

Fred (L Kennedy, for whom little hope was held by hos- pital authorities.

Mr. and Mrs. John Emberly of Pictou.

An inquest will be held tomor- row.

Eye-witnesses said that as the car and train converged at the crossing the car first slowed down and then picked up speed. The collision was almost head-on and the car was hurtled against a telegraph pole, Mrs. Kennedy was thrown clear on impact.

The men were steeplejacks and had just completed a repair Job on the towers of the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches here. It. was believed they were en route to nearby Laurdes in search of employment.

The locomotive was damaged and was held up at the scene of the crash for several hours.

W. Bourgeois. of

Metropolitan Opera Cancels Next Season

Aug. 4 - The world-renowned Metropolitan Op- era today cancelled its 1948-49 season because, it said. demands for union wage increases could not be met.

Ii the cancellation stands, it will be the first time in 50 yuars that the "Met" has felled to pre- sent. a season of opera,

Tile Opera Association said its decision was caused by “failure to reach agreements with all of the l2 unions representing the em- ployees." '

Shortly after the announcement. local 802 of the American Feder- ation of Musicians IAFEL.) said it had reluctantly withdrawn de- mands for a wage boost. in an effort. to reach a settlement with

NEW YORK.

the Opera. This union said the only point it had‘contillued to insist c-n was establishment of

unenlploymellt insurance and old- age benefits.

The Opera's stars had not yet signed contracts for the next sea- son. A spokesman for the Met said this was one matter which was held up by the wage dis- putcs.

I-iotvcver, most of the soloists who sang last winter were ex- pected to be signed again. Among them were Lily Pons, Helen Trau- bel, Laurltz Melchior, Jan Pearce. Lawrence Tibbctt, Bidu Srtyao, Ferrucio Tagiiavlna and Leonard Warren.

If there is no opera this sea- son, New York will be deprived oi one of its most glittering social events-the November opening night—-and also of one of its most popular entertainments.

In recent years the Met. has usually played to many standees.

DOUGLAS SUE!)

SASKATOON, Aug. 4—(CP)-A writ asking $100,000 as indemnity for damage to the "reputation and credit" of Walter Tucker. leader of the Liberal Party ill Saskatchewan, has been served upon Premier T. C. Douglas. Mr. Tucker ltlleges he was slandered by Mr. Douglas during an election speech.

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iiirowdedllapital Awaits llpening 0i Liberal Show

By GEORGE KITCHEN OTTAWA, Aug. 4 -— (GP) The political pulse of this capital quickened tonight as more than 4,000 visiting party supporters and

a city-full of onlookers a-waited the opening of Canada's No. 1 political show -— the National

Liberal Convention. A new plat- form will be hammered out in de- bate and a new man chosen to lead the party into the uncertain- ties of the political future.

It will be s historic party oc- casio-n -_ the third National Lib- eral Convention in p, history that reaches back beyond confedera. tion and the second since Prime Minister Mackenzie King, about to put aside 29 years of leader- ship, won the party top spot here in i919.

The big item in convention gos- sip is the vital topic of the party leadership and a fresh flurry of speculation swirled about the three men who thus far have placed themselves in the running - Ex- ternal Affairs Minister St. Laur- ent, es, Agriculture Minister Gar- diner, 55, and i-ion. C.G. Power, 60, Wartime Air Minister.

There was talk, too, about the possibility of late starters getting into the race, Those who might run include Health Minister Mar- tin, Transport Mlnister Chevrier, Trade Minister Howe, Finance Minister Abbott, Defence Minister Clexton, Premier Mrlcdonald of Nova Scotia and Premier Garson of Manitoba.

Boom For St. Laurent

While the leadership speculation centred oh no one candidate as

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‘RIVIERE DU LOUP, Que, Aug. 4 - rCPl - iliaurice Lebel, 32- year-old hackwood trucking oper- ator, maintained his innocence to- day when committed for trial for the Dominion Day murder of two Trols Pistoles men on a descrted country road l0 miles east of here.

A crowded court. heart label's sister-in-law testify she washed his blood-stained ole-thing utter discovery of the battered bodies of hanker- Louis Philippe Breton, 53, and Wilfrid Dumais, 47-year-old taxi operator. Her evidence clim- axed the Crown's case.

"I am not guilty." Lehel said in a calm, clear voice, when asked by Judge Alexandre Mlcrhaud if he had anything to say prior to his cornmital.

Mrs. Adelard Lebcl of nearby

St, Morleste, about two miles from

O'I'I‘AWA. Aug. 4 —tSpeciall-~ There is no reason to believe that the present trade between Neu- fcundlancl and Prince Edward is- land would be adversely affected by Newfoundland becoming the tenth province of Canada, Jos- eph Smalllvood. leader of the Newfoundland Confederation group in the recent referendum told The Guardian today.

"Our imports of livestock _ancl foodstuffs from Prince Edward island is a trade which has flour- ished for upwards of 100 years,” Mr. Smallwood said. "it is firin- ly established on a basis of qua‘.- ity and mutual satisfaction and i see no reason why it should not continue or even expand."

The Newfoundland leader said he had heard there was appre- hension in certain quarters Ll Prince Edward Island that the big Canadian meat-packing firms located ill Montreal and Torzmfo would "cut in" on the Newfour - land-Prince Edward Island trade. He did not believe this would? oc- cur. a “it must be remembered that

the big Canadian packing firms such as Canada Packers. Swill. Canadian and Wilslls have been firmly established and have had distributing branches in New fnundland for years. They wk. continue their operations and

Prince Edward Island will continue to supply us with livestock and

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Prices Commission Adjourns liearing

OTTAWA. Aug. 4 —(CPl -'lne Prices Commission, concentrating mainly on technical aspects of the fertilizer business. today colli- pleted its examination of Canad- ian Industries Limited. It tncn adjourned until next Tuesday.

Quebec Trucker Denies Double Murder Charge

where the bodies were discovred in a ditch, said the accused roused her from bed late in the night. lie demanded sCme of his brother‘: clothing, asked her to draw the blinds and to wash his clothes, she said.

The witness said Lebel told her he hrlcl been with the "Trols Pist- oles hank manager and another fellow“ and that they had stopped oll a nearby country road to pick up three illicit-hikers with whom they later had a drink,

Lebel was alleged to have de- scribed an election quarrel be- tween the six and to have told the witness:

"Olle man who was for the So- cial Credit >hlt the bank manager over the head with a bottle. Be- fore getting kiled, I fled. When 1’ lcft. the other two appeared dead."

MONTREAL, Aug. 4-—A youth- ful gunman who fumbled a small- tlme holdup attempt killed him- self today when cornered by pis- tol-flring police. -

Tonight police identified the bandit whO couldn't face a second kick in the stomach frcm the cid- erly grocer he sought to rob as Jean-Paul Nsdeau, m,

Nndeau was chased -for several blocks by police before he holed up in a third-story shed.

But before the would-be robber turnqd his gun on himself bullets

< flew fast for 10 minutes. endang-

ering police and the curious or innocent bystanders near the three-storey apartment building where, in s back shed. he for u time held police at. bay.

A bullet grazed the shoulder of one bystander. '

The shooting began with the attempted holdup of Damien Bert.- rand‘s grocery-restaurant where the gunman. waving a revolver. told Bertrand to "hand over your

- money.“

Instead Betrand circled his counter. Then he kicked the g-un- man in the stomach and sent. him

Would-be Hold-up Man Kills Self When Cornered

retreating to the street after hav- ing fired a wild shot. Bertrand! son, Francoise, took up the chase and called in a. passing motorcycle police captain.

The gunman refused to stop o! the police captain's warning and instead drew his gun. saying "If you want to play. we'll play."

"! pulled my own gun and fired a shot." laid Police Capt. Gerard Brodeur. ,

The gunman returned the fire- wildly agall—nnd raced into s lane and lilence to an apartment dwelling. He climbed to the third

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his own hand.

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