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A oar, proceeding from Ober- iottetown to Summerside. slid into ‘freight train on In icy on the main high“! linnsn about 7 o'clock last but the driver and his two pu- ggngel’: ascaped serious injury. The imnt part of the car was badly damaged, one observer romarkinl that it had the eweormoe of luv- ing been through a meat grinder.

Alatander McDonald of Chari- loiteiown was driving the oar, l. Buick sedan. With him were Bom- ard George of Blooming Point, who was take-n to hospital but did not remain and Joseph MacAskill. Mr. George was shaken up‘ and bruised. The driver saidhedid not see the train until the "last minute" and ihen when he applied the brakes the cm- slld ahead and into a box tar. The train was an extra freight.

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WOODSTOCK. N.B.. Doc. B -— (CP) — Leo Clark. 28, died in hos- pital hcre Saturday as o. result of exposure and injuries suffered n wedt ago when he was pinned un- der his car all night after it left the road and overturned. He re- turned from overseas war service s year ago. A son of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Clark. Victoria no

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"Movies at Borden to-uipht. "Madam Doyel. Endings. Pear- ion House. 225 Water street.

‘tili-oolcfleld soho-iol concert Fri- day. December 20th, at s p.m.

"W-llestlev School C o n e or t, Tllllffillly. December 19th.

"Christmas Concert. S o u t h Melville School. December 2o.

"Earnscliffe Christmas Concert. Earnsciiffe School, Decqmlm- 20th

"5l~ Catherine's School tcrt December Zlst.

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"Christmas Concert, North Wilt- llllle ‘llall. December 19th.

‘fllillrlnstoh School Concert, Fllilfiy December 20th.

"Christmas ‘Cojojert. Shamrock 561001. Wednesday, Decensber 18th.

_ "Show. Mt. Stewart, Tuesday T°m°d°" Plus Serial. '

I '_'9P1‘fl to buy car-loads of can- s?!‘ cattle. Write or telephone “l callllltbell. Kensington.

d "'Dance. Fist River Hall. Tues- ‘ali D06. l0th. Refreshments "W1. Proceeds Fist River W. I.

"Come to Warren Grove School

Concert i Dec’ 19m‘ n North River Hall,

pxPoiifnsl Christmas Concert ln u; "l" Owls: Hall, Friday, Dec.

. . . “ofilllllvlns 800m. st Albany at» ml- "Ilgllld pressed hay. Book L l‘ Yequuentents now. L, D .Mao- "ll 4* Sons. Victoria.

"llmms vuloI - cert in Covehesd Dec. ll, at S

P111. oth uvehead zmlzooisltlos. in aid of

"Eula"! Willi-l‘? on Monday £52503’ and Wednesdly of each hme-ry lfiltlueuon hand few sets oi North Rum‘; Peters Gdllont,

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r. r. l. with the»; Those considered By Selection Sounittoo.

(By The Canadian Press) SAINT JOHN. N. 3-. Dec. 8- Erskino Carter. Saint John, was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship for New Brunswick at a meeting Saturday of the provincial selec- tion committee. A unique coinci- dence is the fact that his father. Arthur N. Carter, KC, and uh‘- cle. Erskine W. Ireland, Toronto barrister. were Rhodes Scholars. Mr. Carter, former University of New Brunswick student. now is studying law at Osgoode Hall, Toronto. A Canadian Army officer in the Second Great War, he was transferred later to the British Anny and was with the British airborne forces wiho made the gallant stand at Arnhem.

Other applicants for the schol- arship were John P. Archibald. Sydney. 10.8.. a student at ‘Mount Allison University: Stuart 113a:- ‘ter, East Saint John. Universitv, of New Brunswick; Robert H.‘ Beech, Cotes Island, NB. U.N.B.: David M. Dickson. Saint. John and Wrodor-i/ethvl, ‘INF: N"“""\- lel II. Mair. Georret-twn. P. Ill. 1., Mount Al"son. ahd Robert. FJMc-

Gowan. Fredericton and Saint John. U. N. B. Awarding of Rhodes scholar-

ships was resumed lest veer after wnriime suspension. ‘They have. a value of £500 per venr for two vears, with extension for a third veer conditional on satisfactory work and conduct. They are ten- able at Oxford University. Eng-

hlunitions Bump Al; 4 Shanghai Explodcs

I (By The Associated Press) SHANGHAI. Dec. B-Intermit-

.tent blasts continued late tonight‘

st a Chinese army ‘lmunitions dump which began exploding Sat- urday afternoon.

An oflioial Chinese statement attributed the disaster on the northern outskirts of Shanghai to a hand grenade accidentallv drop- ped by a soldier, but this did not. diminish public suspicion of sab- otase.

The Giinese Central News Ag- ency sald at least one company (about 200 men) of troops and an undetermined number of coolles perished and that damntle was due to total several millions of do1lars.(U.S.) s

Ne one who ventured near saw any bodies, however. and the as- sumption was that anvone killed must have disintegrated.

Fire irigodes still were tuiflo to get close enough to fight d- fectively.

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arr-awn, mic-ms of a polslhlo ‘general election in i041 is being board again on Parlia-

spaoulatfon has been ro- lllt IIOI DY lnllic Mlltdll. Ub-

orsl member of p-rliamon‘ for Wlnabog south. that a gonersl

m". election ls possible within the

nest sis months if the Liberal Govdrnuuont loses its wot-kins tnslority in the next two by- elections.

tfon was if“ l?! ' later (lint tut month in a ltsoeb st Moi-den. Ian.

Mr. midi‘! reference to bv- elections canon-nod tho some Richelieu-Vacuum

Ship Safe In

Montague Port

(By The Canadian Press)

HALIFAX. Doc. il-Whiis m; RCMP. cutter Irving and four U. S. Coast Guard lirplanes searched the ocean betweenPs-ince Edward Island and Newfoundland for a 00-ton freighter overdue i0 this. the vessel was dibcovered 10018111: moored snugly in Souris, P. E. I. harbor.

slilmbwhd. the ship ErnestG. had been sheltered in a cove n- long the Newfoundland coast un- til Saturday. She then sailed for Souiis and arrived st ll am. to. day. -

However, the search continued over the gulf and among the Magdalen Islands until tonight when‘ advice was received ‘the Ernest _G. was safe.

T011119!!!’ the Canadian Navy Fall-mile M. the ship. unable to 11010101111168!!! with Sourls, remain-- ed elmht days in the tiny New- foundland port of Bourgesult be- cause of storms, blowing odsbore.

During that time her captain. George lake, was unaware an sir-sea search was underway. When the weather cleared suflic- ienily.5uturday he set out for Sourls where he discharged the cargo of dry salt fish.

The owner. Albert Griffin in Montague, P.E.T., did not com- ment otlter than to ssv (hi5 Ern- est G. had “turned un" safelv.

Among members of her crew are Fred Lake of Ottawa. Jimmv

Jlrdlns of Belle River. r. m. 1-1"!

and Paul Mosher. Geflrse Alfored. Gear-ore and Chester Lake. all of Newfoundland.

Shugar Acquiticd In Espionage Base

(By The Canadian Press)

UITAWA, Dec. 7—Po1ist1-born Dr. David Shugar, wartime anti- submsrine expert, was cleared Saturday of complicity in Can- ada's espionage ring.

Marking the fifth acquittal out of a dozen completed spy‘ ring trials, Judge A. G. McDougall ruled the 31-year-old Efiutzar not guilty of conspiring to communi- cate secret and confidential in- fomidtion to Russia.

Thirteenth defendant to go into the dock, Bhuizar won his second victory over the crown in Satur- day's verdict. He appeared last April before Magistrate Glen Strike, who at that time refused to commit him for trial on the ground of insufficient evidence.

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AMHERST. N. S.. Dec. S -(CP) -Dri.ilers seeking oil st Nsppan, three miles from here, have struck unfavorable-looking strata at a depth of more than 8.000 feet, it was reported today.

Progress at the project owned by the Bun Oil Co. of Philadelphia. has been slow in the hard shale but tho American concern has been in the district for more than two years and officials report that drill- Q may continue during thg win-

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Rumors 0i Federal Election Next Year

sent death of W. C. MacDonald. sitting Uberal and plrlhlllentlry assistant for naval affairs. Date for the Halifax by election has not yet been set.

Loss of thou two seats. how- ovsr. would not necessarily foreo an election as the government now bu a working majority of four and their ion would only reduce it to two. Those figures do not tabs into account tbs Speaker, a government utdnbor. who votes only in the sou -of a tied veto.

‘fliers still would be little sot- uaiidsngor of tbs government bo- lng defeated on a llamas vote as few of tho 3 ‘£1.01. monitors could be expected to vote with the Prolmsivo Conservatives and

the Uocill Creditors to tum tho government out.

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111 Bead In Worst Hotel Firc In ll‘. S.

ATLANTA, Gm. Dec. 8 — (AP) -The charred. gaping wreckage of Atlanta's Wineooif Hotel resisted today welimiusry efforts to deter- mine the origin of s, fire which kill- ed at. least ill persons and injured more than 100 other: Saturday in the worst hovel eonflbgratlcn in United States history.

While investigators probed the soggy remains of the presumably “fire mist t“ iii-storey building. Red Oross casualty lists tabulated 105 identified dead and six uniden- tified. The figures represented a downward revision from a high of 127 Saturday night as duplications were wooded out.

Two Torontonlnus in the hotel escaped "by a miracle." Basil Wolfe and Morris u’ ‘ an, both well known in Ontario racing clr- cles, lowered themselves from their sixth-floor room by bed- sheets. A few minutes after they reached the ground "our sheets went up in flames," Wolfe

said.

‘Fishman, former boxer and ioc- key. is one of Ontario's leading trainers.

The swiftly-spreading blaze razed the brick structure on famed Peachtree Street early Saturday. Scores of guests were trapped in the upper part of the hotel. They were burned to death or suffocated in scenes that an eyewitness said "chilled you to the depths of your

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M. , . Today. relatives of missing guests toured mnrgues tud mortuaries in sad prooeesi i, looking at bodies which still were nazneless. Oine or i-wo may never be identified. FlNmen examining wreckage found an inside stairway. intended as an auxiliary, actually had served as a fiery chimney instead.

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MJLP. Leads In Elections To llppor House in France

PARIS. Dec. a - (AP) — The Mouvement Republloain Populsire of Georges Bidault won a smashing victory in today's electoral college balloting for Parliament's Upper House. but whether the triumvh l! conclusive remains to be seen.

mgr-o will be 315 seats in the Upper l-louse. called the Council of

M.R.P. gained more seats than the Communists and Socialists oom- bined»

The Interior Ministry's count gave the M.R.P. 54 seats. the Com- munists 32. the Socialists l2, the Leftist Rally (Radical Socialists) l1, the Rightist Bloc l6 (including 6 for the P.R.L. Movement and l0 Independent ,. “ieansn vsrlous 2.

Through a complicated calucla- tion bleed on the total votes cast today, a special election commis- sion in Paris will allot '13 more leafs among the parties.

‘than. to give the Council the two-thirds membership it needs to nmctiott legally. the Lower House of Parliament — the National As- sembly — will eh B0 members of tho Council in proportion to the number of deputies belonging to each party. The- Council will not have its full ntouibership of 31B until North Africa has elected 14 and the colonies Si.

Soon after the Council first meets, Doc. M, it will Join with the Notional Assembly to elect s pres- ident of the Republic. The presid- ent will nominate a psanlei‘. and when he fonns o cabinet, post-war Isanoo will finally have you anent lecislatuu and executive ‘ cbes

the RlepubiichOnly l2’! were filled - directly by today's voting. and the '

Flight Lieutenant J. A. MacDonald, R. C. A. 1'2, of (‘in Vaughan 5t.) Ottawa, is dhuwn above displaying to his mother, Mrs. D. B. MacDon- ald of (191 Cambridge St.) Suntmerside. P. E. I., the Distinguished Flying Cross just presented to him by His Excellency the Governor- Generai. Nearly 60 decorations and swords were presented to R. C. A. F. personnel and relatives of deceased fliers at an lnveetlture held at Government House Monday, Dec. 2.—-(R.C.A.F. Photo).

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Maritime Goal Miners To Strike If Terms liot Met

(By Tho Canadian Press)

OTTAWA, Dec. 8—Tho 12.- 000 coal miners in the Marl- tlmcs will go out on strike Jan. 31 unless they have reached a ‘sstisfactor-y" ag- reement with tho operators. by than, Freeman Jenkins, president of District 28 of the United Mine Workers of Am- erica, said today.

"It's definitely ‘no _

no work?’ Mr. Jenkins told the Canadian Press in an in- (iervlew. "“We don't want to use this weapon unless we have to." president Jenkins said. “We realize that a general strike ln our mines would tie up the whole economy of ths Mari- time-s and have serious ef- fects. But we are determined to employ it unless our de- Innnds are met."

By order of the last district convention of the U. M. W. for Nnvu Scotla and New Brunswick in October, the union is di-mandlnz s gone-val ware increase averaging $2.50 a day.

Worst Smelt Scarcity in 30 Years in ii. B.

BUCTOUCHE,N B Dec. ‘l-(CP) -'I‘he worst scarcity of smelt in 30 years was reported tooay in tnis dis- trict by fishermen whose catch for the first two weeks of the season may go no higher than two or three tom, compared with 6o to 80 tons in other yours. The xisreunen get 14 and l5 cents s pouzd.

GLASGOW -(C P)— Contracts totalling t3.000.000 612.000.0011) soon will be allocated to 50 Scots tlah films for work on s now 130.-

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Eleven Lose Lives In , S8 Skat o o‘n..-Bl>nze

(By Phil wade. Canadian Irons Correspondent) SASKATOON, D . B — (C?)- Eleven persons pe.i-:hed today in an early-morning flze which swept through tLQ three-storey m-v-oom, brick-built Barry Hotel at; Avenue B and 20th 5""! l“ Saskatoons west side, ant. 18 others were taken to h-isrxtai. st i888! one in serious condiiior The identified dun‘:

William Munro. Marty Awnltl Wall. Nels Peterson. and s Mr. Larson, all from Saskatoon; B. McNeil, believed to be from Hamilton. Ont, Charles Rob- ert Lyons. Tlsdnlc. Sash. Boli- ald Proctor. Snverelnn, Sank, Stanley Currie. believed to be a resident of Yellow-Knife, N.W.T., Yes Lum Alsnsk. bask. Dong- Wing, believed to be from Belfort Snk.

One of the dead has rvrt yet been zdentifled.

Grain Elevator Firc

8'1‘. BONIFACE, Mum, Dec. 8- (CP) — Grain valued In early estlrna‘ at $500,000 was destroy. ed early today in a fire which rand the elevators of the Red River and Grands Prairie Grain Companies here. One fireman :1?" slightly injured battling the

Assail Worker Transfer From Sapc Breton

(By The Canadian Press)

GLACE BAY. N. S.. Dec. 0- Cape Breton civic and labor lead. ers today assailed the pmpgsed "M1519? 0f young island unem- Pltlyed to central and western Canadian industrial centres, claim- l"! that the move "is no solution to the long run problem of un. employment on the island."

In s statement signed by 13 officials, including the mayors of Sydney and Glace Bay, the lead. ers said that although they did n0 ivllih to place obstacles in the way of those vrisliinq to leave, they did iwetest “with the ut- most vigur’ against shy sugggg. tion that this transfer would remedy the matter of l-lfléffifplny. ment.

Terming the move a "temnor- arv arrane-ment." the officials said it would not absolve either the provincial or federal govern- merits from further responsibil- lty.

Electric Workshop At Toronto Burned

$250,000 or more following fire which gutted the Toronto Electric Commission's workshops and maintenance building today on the downtown harbor front.

No one was injured as firemen from six stations fought the blame,

Owing to the dt-striacuon of the hotel register it was hours before any of those who perished could be identified.

Some of the vict ms. untouched but the bodies of others were little more than charred heaps of bones.

From Explosion?

The fire. which bTOkt» during a mild spell, was one 0s ll e worst in ‘Vestern Canada's Historv l‘. is re- worted io have started from the ~xr~losion of a ga-edne stove in a “estauruni on the urounw floor

It spread throuqh the 18-year- old landmark-favorite hostalry o many central Saskatchewan farm- ers-in what seemed but seconds.

Although firemen from a station only two blocks swag.’ were on the scene a minute after the first alarm was turned in 4i 2:41 urn. 0.8T. (1:41 a.m. AS?!) flames

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By JAMES MoCOOK

ION%N, Dec. S-(OP (ls-blob- The Labor Government now ll making cleai" to British farmers that they must increase produc- tion sfter they have been given a system of assured markets and guaranteed prices based on estab- lished production costs. Government tactics will be:

1. 'I‘o have government ag- encies and advisers seek to change fuming methods for the better ~by example and demonstration rather than by compulsion.

S. ‘lb appeal to farmers’ pride and pstiioiian- s re- course which was considered as efloctivs as higher prices in nlalng wheat, barley and oat production nearly three times during the war.

by flames, had dl=d of suffocation

believed caused by defective wiring, in answer to two alarms.

The 50-year-old building stood just south of the intersection of Scott Street and the Waterfront Esplanade.

The blaze was believed to have originated in defective wiring in machine shops in the rear of the ‘building. It was brought und:r control after s. hard fight lasting t-wo hours.

South African (iov-’t0cnsurcd

(By Tho Associated Press)

NEW YORK, Dec. 8—'l‘ls United Nations Assembly to- night censured the South African Government for dis-

' ' ' ' “Indian cit- izens of South Africa.

British Farmers Told To Boost Production

fimcbequer. as custodian of the national moneybags, said in a week-end address that increased home food production would less- en Britain's dependence on doi- lars for her requirements froth dollar countries such as Canada and the United States.

"Half our import costs and a large part of our dollar expendit- ure is for food," said Mr. Dalton.

Farmers can "only hope to re- tain the sympathy of the indus- trial population if it is generally realized that they are maintain- ing the highest standards of ef- ficiency and using agricultural land to the but advantage."

This flnal warning probably re- minded many farmers that under I. s b o r_ Government legislation, carried over from emergency war- time regulations, inefficient farm- ers may be removed from tbs

Hugh Dalton, Cbsncello of the

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stoiit STRIKE ENDS

2 Canadians Escape By“Miracile” In Hotel Fire

$500,000 Loss in

Lewis (ifdcrs Miners To Work immediately

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8- (~AP)—- John L, Lewis gave in iu tho Unittd States Go/i-rnment satur- Jay ..nd ended the loft coal strike.

Wifh it, ilkc ‘.16 finish 0f I highnare. went virtually all the rest: (lions it had nrought and the CCOfluffliC peril it had pol-std over this -nd other coluiitries.

President Truman cancelled thl broadcast he had planned for to- night and went .o at. anfshow, smiling but silent 1H the outcome.

Lewis ordered the 400,000 miners to end the 17-day walkout and go vack to work immediately. Re- ports from (he mim; fields indicat- ed ready compliance and full-scale resumption of mnlng tomorrow morning appeared certain.