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40 WOMEN BURNED T0 DEATH IN IOWA MENTAL HOSPITA

Chinese Gunboat Sets U. S. Freighter On Firei

Cold Wave Brings Four Below Zero VVEEIIIICI‘ To. P. E. 12-Inch Snowfall

A lflllT-K lure during . .-in.'l . v .orm u'li.ch four b.lu‘.v z.ro last n.gi'.

.r.cc Edward Island il$ rrcordlng in zii-,

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. - was registoreci at 27 deg is above Saturday night. Ycsterdav rnurirng it had fallen to ill ab -..- at, 230 in

the afternoon the mercury said two above.

lileatbcrman Warren Burris re- corded l IZ-inch snow fail during the storm. A steady northwest wind yesterday with a velocity of 25 milcs-per-hour caused heavy drifting. The wind velocity in- creased to 30 m.p.b. last night.

Inow Plows Busy

Snow plows were busy on all main roads from Souris to Tignish yesterday. Traffic though light was carried out with little diffi- culty excepting the pc-or visibility caused by drifting. The plows ceased operation at dark last night due to the poor visibility but Mr. Clifford Sherren stated they would be back on the highway: early this morning.

Visibility also prevented an M. C. A. plane from landing at the airport yesterday plane was returning from Monc- ion on a regular flight but the pilot wuss unable to see the run- wsy lights. The plane returned to Moncton.

Heaviest snowfall was on Satur- day when seven inches fell. A fall of one inch was recorded on Fri- day night and approximately four inches yesterday. Total snowfall for January 1949 was 17 inches.

There was one accident during the storm when s car and truck collided vicar thi- City limits at Si. Avaids yesterday afternoon. Both vehicles were considerably damaged but none of the occu- pants were injured. The vehicles were driven by out of town resi- dents.

Maritime Eicctric and Telephone Company officials reported no disruptions.

Last night's low temperature was at variance with tempera- tures recorded lsst week when the Island experienced the highest January temperatures in years.

25 Below In N. B.

HALIFAX, Jnn. 3—(CP)-Win- fer finally arrived in the Marl- tirnes during the week-end, in some places with record low tem- peratures. Just. four days ago, the

seaside provinces were experien- cing n record mild spell, Snow Saturday was followed

Sunday by sub-zero tempernturesl

throughout the Mnrltimes, ranging down to 25 below tonight at

Coming Events

"Mail your Films to Gsrnhum Photo studio. Charlottetown.

"C. W. L. DflllCe at Tiacsdie to- night. Melody Bus Orchestra.

"Wanted — 1.000 bushels mixed Grains. Notify G. C. Green Emerald.

"Come to the dance in Kinkorli Hall, Monday, January 9. G000 music, drawing of lottery.

"Dance in 8t. Petér Legion Hail. Monday night, January 9th. Cliff Peters Orchestra.

"Greemnls W. I. D111"-

Hunter River l-fsll. Tuesday, Jan- “Irv 10th. Door prize. "loading Hogs at, St. Peter's Monday, January 9th, for Swift Canadian Co. us. Reich B0"- dcrson.

"Monthly meeting of m. stew- lrt Branch Canadian bvfllvll- "l" be held in Legion Room, 8.00 PM- ldonday, January 9th.

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"Gnptud District Lodge. meet! ‘Neatly, January 10th. at 2.30 P, u. in Argyle Lodge. Arsylt Shore.

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, “Annual meeting of New Wilt- Ihirc District Lodge will bu held It Hunter River, Jsn. 11. 3° sharp.

"Cope Trnvorse tonight at 830 [40 Mcfisrey‘; production "G00 51'0" starring "Gary Cooper mrl Al"! Sheridan." A wonderful ll" comedy feature. Don't. fall to ll! It Oipe ‘Traverse tonight. A180 "M: by Jim Austin tn person-

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‘ll/IOIICIOH and Fredericton.

The Weather Bureau here salrii ltho cold snap will brcriic tomor-‘ {WW but moderating temperatures ,will bring another belt of snou; It ivris 10 below at Halifax. flolder tit/m ii had hccn afnnytlme illllll‘? 1937. The mvv-vuigv hadn't il'lllf‘fl below zcrn in January in {Halifax since 1916,

In Prince Edward Island, heavy drifting snow hnd continued for 2-4 hours and it was hard going for traffic. It was four below at Charlottetown.

At Saint John, it W35 l5 below, in marked contrast to Thursday's record high of 53 for Jan. 5.

Winds hit 40 miles an hour to- day and storm warnings were up

in marine nrcas. A severe storm off Newfoundland was moving eastward, however, and light

winds were forecast for llionduy.

Husband 0f

Gracie Fields g Dies in lialy

MIL-AN. Italy. Jan. a -(AP) _ Monty Banks. 50. actor. film dir- cctor and. husband of British ctrrmedienne Gracie Fields. died yesterday of a heart gblnnk aboard the crack Orient litxipress.

Dr. Gino Onestu. who was ac- CCtTtpImylllg him, SH-id death oc- curred while, Banks was being carried from the railroad station in the nearby town of Aronn to a hospital. He was on his way with Miss Fields to their h0me on the Isle of Capri.

Miss Fields was at her husband's side.

The statlonmaster at Arena said he received word shortly before the train was due to be ready to rush n sick passenger to hospital. When the train pulled into the station a doctor boarded it, and irrmediiitely rushed to Banks.

The doctor said there was no hope 0f saving Banks‘ l-lfe but he gave him injections before he was placed on a stretcher and the Journey to the ‘hospital began Banks died en route. A certificate 0f death by heart failure was is- sued.

Dr. Onestu, administrator of Banks‘ estate, said funeral ser- vices will be held Tuesday st Cessna. near the Adriatic coast southeast of Bologna.

Baby Abandoned In West-ville, N. S.

WESTVILLE, N.S.. Jan. 8 —- (CP) _ Police here today said they were investigating the aban- donment of a SlX-WEOKS-Olfl girl on a doorstep of a house in this Pic- toii County mining town during n lloavy snowstorm Saturday.

Th1- bnby, scantily clad niid wrapped in a, blanket, was found early Saturday morning shortly after she had been deserted. Now in a temporary foster home, she suffered no ill offcctS from expos- tire during the heaviest snowfall of tho winter.

Pnljpg smrl a women's footprints: were traced for some fliatnnce from the house but were obliter- ated by sno\v flurries and car

tracks.

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OTTAWA, Jan. s - (OP) — Canada's farmers did o near-ree- ord business in 1949. earning $2.- 400,000,000 040,000,000 below 1948's all-time high.

This preliminary estimate of gash income from farm Pflldllcl sales was issued Bswrday by the Bureau of Statistics. A more com- plete picture is expected to be ls- sued March l.

The estimate showed that 1040 income was about 8500000000 "l0" than the 1047 total, when Canad- tan wheat-board pirllcleellvfl nar- ments were comparatively low.

It also showed that, Prairie farmers got about 83.000000 1°55 in federal farm assistance in 1049 mm the $20,000,000 distributed to the drought areas in 1948.

Alberta and Saskatchewan were the only two Provinces in which farmers made more money l“ 1949 than in the previous _vcar. A" other Provinces _ with the exception of Newfoundland for

whim figures were not. available

Nationalists Aiiempi To Enforce bbickade

By IVAYNE RICHARDSON

ABOARD FLYING ARROW, Jan. 9 —- (Monday) — Chinese Nationalist gunboat shells today

hit this American freighter in its run through the blockade 0f the Chinese Communist coast to Shanghai.

It was not lmmcdiatclv known if there were nny casualties.

One of the shells starter! a firc on the afterdeck of the Flying Ar- row, which is carrying n $10,000,000 cargo from Hang Kong.

At least 3R shells were fired by the Nationalists before any direct hits were scored.

The attack occurred in interna- tional waters -- outside Chinese territorial limits.

Capt. David Jones. skipper of the Isbriindtsen Line freighter. immediately ordered a radio call to all United States and British warships. It said:

"Fire on afterdeck by Chinese warship."

Chief engineer Martin L. Gross said he liiid "big holes in my steering room but they missed the steering gears."

Jones left the bridge to direct llfe-llllhting operations. Fire also was reported in the ship's No. 5 hold.

One machine-gun bullet pierced the American flag flying from the stcrn.

Presumably the shelling ma; by two Nationalist destroyer-escorts which began trailing the Flying Arrow yesterday.

COLD IN WINNIPEG WINNIPEG, Juli. 8 - (CP) It was (l5 degrees below zero in Winnipeg iii: 8:30 A.M. CST Sut- urdiiy, but the weatherman pruni-

lsed slightly warmer weather for the week-end. '

__native of Cherry Valley.

Awarded Scholarship To Study In England

An all Canadian scholarship for‘ study at the International Co-Op- erative College at Loughborougli near London, England, has been awnrdcd to Mr. Leo Mclsaac, Sec- retary of the P. E. I. Federation of Agriculture. The award was made , as the result of a recommendation ' ' from Canadian Association for Adult Education in view of the outstanding work which Mr. Mc- lsa-ac has been performing.

Mr. Mclsaacs selection entitles him to one year's free study at the international College. His course. ' ' will deal with problems of agri- culture production and marketing and a phase of junior orgamza- I lions. lie will study culturt, colt.- cation, history and will participate ill tours of the Netherlands. Scan- dinavian countries and Eastern Germany.

The course begins Oct. l, i950 and ends in May 195i. Each year one Canadian is selected to attend. The selection of Mr. Mclsaac marks the first time that anyone east of Ontario and probably Alberta has won the award. Last year a Professor at the University of British Columbia represented Can- ada. , - y,‘

Mr. Mclsaac, who received word of his selection only a few days

Mr. Leo

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Uses Tattooing To Hide Birthmarks

MONTREAL. Jan. 8 ~— (C?) — A New York doctor told a group of plastic surgeons here Saturday how he has brought anuent tattoo- ing up to date and used it for hid- ing unsightly birthmarks,

Dr. Herbert Conway, chictf of the plastic surgery section at New York Hospital. told the group meeting that he injects pigments under the skin to match birth- marks-—known as 'port-\viiie stains’ with the patients complexion.

“Those birthmarks, which often disfigure a large part of the face or other prominent part of the body, are purely phenomena of

ago, has not definitely decided. whether or not he will bake the COUTSG.

Mr. Mcfsaac tvas selected as per- manent secretary of the Federa- tion of Agriculture nn May 8, i949. Previously h: had worked on the staff of the Provincial Department of Agriculture, directing extension activities, Farm Forum and the work of the Junior Farmers.

He attended St, Dunstarfs Uni- versity for a time and took it spe- cial course in agriculture econ- omics and extension work at To- ronto and the Ontario Agricul- tural College at Guelph. Ont. He is an R. C. A. F. veteran and a

Four Children Die In, Fire In. Quebec Village

P. E. l. Man Dies In Boston

BOSTON, Jan. 8-——(CP)-—J. \Vcs- ley A. Gordon, 62, president of the Metropolitan Federal Savings and Lniin Association and the Gordon-Dawson Company died Sat-

urday at his winter home at Longwood Towers in suburban Brooklinc.

Born In Brurlcncll, P. E. L, Gor- don was associated Willi the Batik of Nova Scotin before coming to this country.

Ho wns n veteran of the First World War, a 32 degree Mason. a Shrincr, u member of the Boston Rotary Club, tho Iliimiltoii Assoc- intioii, uml ii memhcr of the hoard of directors of tho Boston Flour and Grain Exchange.

Services will be hcld at the l-Iarvrird Church in Brookline Wcd- nestlny nt 2:30 p.m_ Private cre- mation serviccs will be held at tho Newton cemetery’.

Ho, ls survivor] by his widow, Frances lilinzhaml Gordon. n son, Hnlmcs of West Philadelphia. Pa" and two sisters, Inez M. Gordon of Boston and Mrs. Norman Mac- Donal},

Farmers Did Near-Record Business During Last Year

_ showed slight declines in farm income.

Ontario, victim of drought. took the biggest loss - down $71,000,000 from 1948's $668,000,000. but still up $100,000,000 from the previous year,

Quebec's fsrm income was down sooortooo from 1948's $963,000,000. but up $60,000,000 from 1947.

Smaller declines were noted in British Columbia and ln the Mar- itimes.

Declines of about 012,000,000 each were estimated for Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick. The Island's income was 820000.000. an increase of $3,000,000 over 1047 and Now Briinswtclcs income was $40,000,000, ah increase over 1947 0f about 84.000010.

More stabilized was Nova 5co- tlzi's i049 income of 338500.000 — down only $100,000 from i048 and up $4000.00) from i947.

Prairie farm assistance pay- ments in i949 totalled $17,600,000. ii drop of $3,000,000 from i948 pay- ments but up $0,000,000 from 1947'

color,“ be said. "Tests have shown that they never change from birth and that they never become malignant. But in the past they have been tackled solely by graft- ing, which may leave a scar.

“Tattooing has been used from time immemorial, first for the pur- pose of tribal identification and more recently just for decoration. But there is no evidence in litera- ture that anyone ever thought of using it for permanent camouflage of port-wine stains."

Dr. Conway uses the same pig- ments as the artists in waterfront tattoo shops and has devised an instrument he calls a "derma- jecior" to inject them under the skin.

DUHAMEL. Que, Jan. 8 — (C?) - Four children were burned to death, Saturday night. when fire destroyed their hOme in this Pain- eaai County village.

Dead are the four children of Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Faubert: Jean-Guy, 1o; Michel, 4; Remi, 2; and Simonnc, nine months.

Their father suffered serious burns to his head and hands while attempting to enter the blazing home in a vain rescue attempt.

Origin of the fire is not known.

Mrs. Faiibert put the children to beil in the upstairs of the two. storey friime home and a short. time later went across the road. where her husband was visiting with neighbors. She remained at. the neighbors only a few minutes before returning with her husb- and.

As Mr. and Mrs. Fnubert left their friends, they noticed their own home in flames. Mr. Fauberta ra-Ccd to the burning building, climbed up on a rear shed and entered an upstairs lwlllClOiV, only to be driven back by the flames.

Smoke and flames also forced back his wife, when she attempt/- ed to enter the fmnt door.

Other residents of the village, some 75 miles northeast of Ot- tawa, gathered around the burn- ing building and formed a buck- et-brlgnde ln so-bclow zero woo- iher to prevent tho flames from spreading to adjoining buildings.

The fire was finally extinguished today and the four charred bodies were recovered from the ruins.

Coroner Dr. LP, Bourgault of Duhamel said no inquest would be necessary.

The loss, estimated at $4,500, was partly covered by insurance.

Milk Rationing To ‘End In U. K. Jon. ‘I5

OTTAWA. Jan. 3 ~rc1>)__\b<mt 261,000 Canadians population of 5.200.000 were look- ing for work late 1n December. the Labor Department estimated silt- urday.

The Department iSsued the fig- urcs in apparent miswcr to a joint ictto!‘ from Canada's two big Isab- or Coiiii~cs<cs to tho Fsricra‘. Cab- inet earlier in the week.

The Iilm- nrganimiions estimat- ed iim-mpicymeni, at more than 307.003 and demanded Government action to meet the "national em- ergcncy."

The Department's survey said current unemployment was the result of seasonal declines in in- dustries such 8.8 construction and reduced operations in the logging industry which in other year: had taken up the usual winter slack in employment.

"A considerable portion of the current unemployment results from the continuing growthcvf the 0on- adiim labor force rather than from any decline in otniployment." the Bureau said.

"Over the past year, the growth of the botal lsibor force has amounted to around 120.000 while the number actually at vmr‘; has increased by close to 100,000."

The figure of 261,000 did not represent the number of unem- ployed.

it was the Jlillflbfl‘ of persons who hsid nmllcd to the National Employment. service for jobs and for whom no jobs had been found by last D00. 22.

SOme of them probably were working but, wanted to change jobs. On the other hand, some of the jobless might not have regist- ered with NBS.

The most serious problem ap- peared to be in the hlfiflilillPS~r Wllflfo employment had been cut

_1AONDON_ Jan. 8 —-(Reuters) - Mlik rationing will end in Britain Jan. l5 “until further notice, "the Ministry of Food announced Sat- urday. Rationing, first imposed during the war. has fluctuated with milk production and supplies and now is 2 1-2 pints a week for non-priority adult.

MEANEST TIIIJFI

DQNDON. —-(OP)- A stocking which was hung up in a Kilburn eonfcctiom-rs counter to receive doiiatiom for the blind, wiu: cut down. The manageress said it, was the meanest thing ‘she had known. The stocking contained about, ‘I shillings ($1.05). _ ' '

by 35.000 by reduced logs-vi; op- erations -— snd on coast.

The Pacific coast had nine per

the FEClIlC

24 one? Saved From inferno

DAVENPORT‘, 1a,, Jan. B-(AP) —Coroner C. H. Wildman said t0- nlgiit that 40 women died in the fire yesterday in which screaming patients perished behind barred i\ln(l0\\'5 of a hospital mental ‘.‘,','li'fl

Wildmiin boosted the total to 40 .iicr checking morgue-s and hospi- lfll records.

He said thirty-eight patients ..nd one nurse who was on duty fllCd in the fire. Another patient dicrl later in a hospital.

TvvcnLv-four persons were saved. Of these seven had been removed to their homes today.

Wildmiin said 10 of the bodies had been identified and 14 tenta- llVCl)! identified. It was impossible in identify the other seven bodies, he said.

Meanwhile, Fire Chief Lester Schick told of the difficulties of learning the cause of the lire.

Screams of women patients in ‘it, Elizabeth's mental-ward build- niit of tho GOO-bed mercy hospital mitinded tho alarm as they awak- ened to find themselves trapped in "a flaming hell."

Within two hours only the char- red shell of the building remain- ed.

Spread Up Shaft

Fire Chief Lester Schick said: "1 doubt if We ever find out what caused the fire." He said it stay-t. ed in n room on the east side of "l" bllllfllfli.’ and spread into the hrill. up .1 dumb-whiter shaft. and then snread-eagled ovcr the. top of the building.

Barred window's prevgntgfl fire. men from reaching many of the victims, and they perished in their roams,

Sister Superior Mnry Annun- ciata, head of the hospital, sold 31 patients were treated for burns or injuries.

All of the dead were women, All (‘K090i Mrs. Anna Neal, 52-year- old nurscs's aide, were patients, ‘Three men escaped, two by 199p. m?! from windows.

Si. Elizabeth's “far-j is one of five hospital buildings operated by the Roman Catholic order. Sisters 0f llll-‘Fvi’. in the northwest sector nf this itfississippl River city of 70.000.

MllFTfiY Francis, an orderly in the main hospital building, said he could hear screams of terror n5 he T"?! fOWfIrd the burning ward.

While other hospital attaches "mm llTQYYlEYI. Francis broke open the ward building's from door. Two nursosh aides joined; him in leading the first group of patients to safety.

Patients Imprisoned

Firemen used axes bars in

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Unemployment Figures Released By Labor Dept.

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cent of its litbor force—39,000 per- sons-Acokiiig for work. The Mari- timcs had SoVPll pr-r cciit-Itl-lmfl.

Iii Quebec EH00 persons. 5.8 per cent of the Provinces labor force, uw-re looking for work. There were 63.800 iii Ontario and 35400 in flic Privrics. in each cass- about . 3 p~r c"-it of the labor force in

uvcnl said about 71 per cent r~f a1! ih» unuliiced 0G1.- erp rnceixini: uiiiir-plo\'inciii~ we or else zi-l filo/l m ms . uncmipioiancni insurance.

It said it had found general sat- isfaction wlih the way unemploy-

COLOLIBO. fCPi~~A ‘op B‘

ficial declared 10GB)‘ standing problem for the Com- monwealth féreign relations con-

ference opening hcre tomorrow is hcw to stop ,4 third ivorlrl war.

Philip NurI-iizikcz". Srcritaiy‘ for‘, Ccnii.iviiii.-.'r:illh Relrvions. trial ii press conference that great ‘ l- piflllllfii) will bl,- fltiflllltffi m bund- ing up resistance nqa t author- itarianism by adjusting the ECOIPLIIILV of the Commcnwealih~ to mm‘ the situation.

(Jtic, iielcgriics saw the spread of Communism throughout Assn and a pMlCi" treaty with Japan as vital subjects

Noel-Halter said