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NO. 282
Department.
PROBLEM IN MAPS
Lance Boxnbadier Lawrence Vil-
lard of Morel}, answers queries on military map characteristics put
to him by Brig. Cameron B. Ware, commander 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade Group, who was visit- lng units of his formation in Win-
nipeg. L-Bdr. Villa-rd is stationed in that city with the 2nd Regi- ment, Royal Horse Ar- tillery, and was part of a class renewing instruction on making the best use of military maps. (Canadian Army Photo)
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“ ' Sir Hubert Wilkins, T‘Polar Explorer Dies
FRAIMIIINGI-IIAM, Mass. (AP)— Wil‘kins, bearded,
fame by polar ‘emloirt-s, was found dead Monday iltishotel room. Hewas up.
Medical examiner Dr. Irving Weisenfeld said a coronary art- taok apparently caused death.
Sir Robert had been cleaning his automobile Sunday. When
he was wearing an over- W. and his hands were dirty— he had collapsed on renaming to his room.
The explorer had a farm in Pemsylvrania and an apartment ‘11 New York but lived here to be near his work as a geographer 0nd Arctic consultant for the quarlennnasterr corps. His office
-f 'Was in adjacent Natick.
Informed in New York of his death. Lady Wilkins burst into
. tears. She left by train immed-
iately for Framingham.
Sir Hubert spent five sum- mens and portions of 29 winters in polar regions. ,
He made the first wider-lice ex-
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Gov.-General In Hospital
OTTAWA (GP) Governor- General Massey rested- qruietly in a Montreal hospital Monday night after undergoing a minor opera- tion.
Government Hlouse said Mr. Massey. 71,; will returnto Ottawa Friday where he will take things easy, 10 days before re- suming his round of business here and elsewhere in the wintry.
Spitnbergen after recurring breakdowns and s. ’
His pioneering was not in vain. This year another Nautilus, an atomic-powered U.S. sumaiine, made an underwater polar cros- sing. Another atomic submarine, the Skate, also crossed the North Pole under water this' year. Its Ico‘erw, mindful of Wilkins’ ex- ploits, radioed him it was “deeply aware of the accuracy of your insight and vision.”
Born on a sheep ranch, young- est of 13 children, Wilkins was knighted in 1923.
GREAT FLIGHT
His famous plane flight in that year—a 2,100<mile journey from Alaska to Europe across the polar ice cap—was hailed by others who previously reached the Pole by air as the greatest of all Arctic flights.
rSir Hubert acted as Arc-tic con- sultant for the qu-artemnaster corps. On his last trip to the Antarctic, he brought back 5am. pics of volcanic rock and was concerned with developing shoes, tires, vehicles, clothimg and other materials which would withstand wear.
Lady Wilkins, also Australian born, came to the US. at 17. She met Sir Hubert after studying opera in Italy. They flew the Atlantic in the dirig-i'ble Hinden- lburg of their honeymoon.
Burt she never attempted to share the harsh life of explora~ tion which her husband followed.
U.S., Reports
Nuclear Aircraft Program al I 9
WASHENGTON ( Aps_.1)elfencea military prototype and not just
Seeretary Neil McElroy conceded Monday that Russia has a “slight lead” in the development of a “"‘clearoowered aircraft.
. .Al the same time he said there Will be no change in the US. ap- pmaCh to harnessing nuclear 90“” to an airplane that can serve a definite military purpose.
The nuclear aircraft issue was rOught to the fore by publication during the weekend of a report thal Russia completed an atomic mane sax month- n'm nnd have hm“ “Flirt: it met \lr),:l"~\ for 3!. lea“. lWO months. The report. ap- “faring in Aviation Week maga- uue. said the Russian craft was
a flying test craft using a more conventional fra m e to carry atomic engines.
Monday a Moscow dispatch, de. layed almost 18 hours in clearing through Soviet censorship, re- ported rriyrsterious vapor trails have been sighted over the Rus- sian capital recently. It men- tioned speculation that they might be caused by a nuclear- powered airplane.’
McElroy told reporters he was highly sceptical of the magazme report but, he conceded the prob— ability that. the B.U1;Slaflb may well beat the Unrth States Into the air with a nuclear - powered
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OHilCAGO (-AP)-—A fire alarm rang 18 minutes before the sched- uled dismissal bell Monday and sounded the death knell for 89 persons in Our Lady of the Angels grade school.
At least three of the dead were Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary who perished lead- ing their charges through smoke- rhlled halls or calming them from panic.
. Some 35 children were reported mhrred and in hospitals.
The suddenness with which the flames spread .rrmnpted Clu- cago’s fine commissioner to sus- pect an arrsonist in my halve bulkhead off the the third worst U.S. school disaster in the last 100 years.
SEEK CLUES
\‘K A picked team of arson special- ists from the detective bureau joined firemen in poking through the ruins for clues as to what turned thefioman Catholic grade school In a low-income neighbor- hoodofthenorthrwest sidelntoa screaming inferno withm minutes after the fire broke out at 2:42 pm.
Seventy-one of the dead were lald out at the county morgue, many of them awaiting identifi- cation. Another 17 were distrib- uted among seven hospitals.
‘fWhere are our children? Where are our children?” pleaded weeping parents as bodies wrapped in blankets were laid on the concrete playrcourt awaiting removal to the morgue.
. Rev. McManus, super- intendent of schools for the Arch- diocese of Chicago, said the school’s enrollment is 1,700 and that 1,300 students were in the
,portiro' n that binned.
Relatives and neighbors pushed against tight police lines for a glimpse of the little corpses, fear- ful they might recognize one as that of a'loved one.
Priests who at first helped evacuate as many -- the children as possible late; stood at the doors of the doomed structure, administering extreme unrction. last rite, of the Catholic church, as grim-faced firemen carried out bodies. ‘ '
The bodies were removed to the morgue and to hospitals.
“This could have been a touch- off.’,’ said Fire Commissioner Robert Quinn. Touch-off is the fireman’s word for arson.
BODIES IN PLAYCOURT
In the .playcourt where the bodies lay were. piles of smoul- dering clothing and shoes torn off by children who jumped from the windows to escape death. Many were hurt in the jumps.
The fire virtually wiped out the eight-grade class housed in the northeast corner of the old wing of the building.
The school is Uash-aped with a paved court between arms of the U. Rev. Joseph F. Cussen, pastor of the parish, said the building is 40 years old and that fifth, sixth and eighth grade children occu~ pied the wing attacked by fire.
Most classrooms were on the upper two floors of the building: only a few were on the ground level.
BOY HEARS ‘BOOM’
Quinn said there was no explo- sion and Father Cussen said the boiler room was undamaged but 11 - year - old Joseph Brocato claimed there was “a boom in the furnace room." s
“We heard it,” he said. “An- other boy and I were emptying the wastebasket in the basement.
"It was a boom in the furnace room and the janitor ran out. He shouted to us to get upstairs.”
He and his companion obeyed. They were herded out of school to safety. But Joseph shook con- stantly and violently in fear of what might have happened to him.
He saw it happen to others. SCENE 0F HORROR
Mrs. Mary J alowietki who lives across the street from the school subbed in gratitude that her boy escaped and in horror at what happened to the others,
“The kids Were leaping our the windows." she cried, “And there they were—five or six sitting or laying on the ground. They were full of blood. It, was awful."
Quinn. Illf‘ fire Commissioner. said there definitely was no boiler explosion and “it could have been a touchofh"
He added:
“it spread too damn rapidly. That building is in good condition in every other respect.” HEARD N0 EXPLOSION
Mrs. Barbara Glowac‘ki, 29, who runs a candy store adjacent to the school on the north, told investigators she heard no explo- sion preceding the fire.
She said she saw smoke and
ran and got her daughter, Helena, .6, out of a smoke-filled first-floor classroom.
Fire investigators expressed in- terest in Mrs. Glowachi's story that just before she learned about the fire a man ran into her store and asked permission to use a telephone.
The man; according to Mrs. Glowacki, ran out quickly, calling out “the school is on fire,” after
CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1958
she said she had no public tele- phone.
Chicago schools ha-ve been tar. gets of anonymous phone callers reporting bomlbs planted in build- ings. Schools have been evarcu~ ated for hours and classes have been cancelled while firemen searched the premises.
Whetherany such call had been made to Our Lady of the Angels could not be established.
CHIDC'AIGO shaking."
Joseph Brocato, 11, said this to a doctor who stopped this after- noon to look at him in busy St. Anne’s Hospital where victims of the fire at Our Lady of the Angels parochial school were brought.
“We heard it. We were empty- ing the wastelbasket in the base- ment.
"It was a- boom in the fur race room. And the janitor ran out. “‘He shouted to usto get up- stairs.”
HEARTBEEIAMNG SIGHT Joseph and his companion—he didn’t name the other boy—ran upstairs. They were herded out of the school. ' Later, his father brought him into the hospital be- cause the shaking wouldn’t stool
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have to jump. He only saw the horror.
lit was a heartbreaking sight as firemen carried victims down into the milling throng of youngsters and older people. Clothes were burned off of some of the charred bodies of boys and girls.
The trapped children were mostly seventh and eighth grad- ers whose classrooms were on the second floor.
While ambulances and fire trucks jammed the street, and frantic mothers sought their chil- dren, Mrs. Mary Jalowietld stood weeping outside her house across the street from the school?
“I saw the kids come out of thei schoo she told a reporter. “My son, Ronald, was one of the first out.” The boy was unhurt.
Again she subbed.
Joseph wasn’t burned. He didn't
“The kids on the second floor
‘I Can't Stop Shaking' Little Boy Tells Doctor
were leaping out the windows. At least 10 jumped. This was after I went into the sc 1. It was full of smoke. The smo e hit me and I came right back.
“And there they werHive or six sitting or lying on the ground. They were full of blood. It was awful.
RESCUED BY LADDER
Thomas Raymond, 12, who was trapped briefly in an eighth-grade classroom on the second floor, said he and several classmates were rescued by firemen who lifted a ladder to the
“we thought at first th ” the yells came from some kids play; 'ing in the corridor,” he said. “Then, we heard someone Shout, ‘Fire! fire!’ ”
He said the fire bell and his teacher said, “get up and get out fast.”
MENTAL CASE OR IMPOSTER
QUEBEC (0P) Charles Edouard Cantin, deputy attorney- genaral for Quebec. said Monday a Canadian Mohawk Indian who claimed he killed three American hunters in the Gasrpe wilderness in 1953 is either "a fraud, a men- tal case or an imposter.
The Indian, Francis Gilbert Thompson, 35,‘ has told Miami police that he and a companion— and not the late Wilbert Coffin— were responsible for the murders. Coffin, a Byear-old prospector, was hanged two years ago after protesting his innocence.
Mr. Cantin described Thomp- son’s statements as “pure inven- tion.”
He said he had studied a sum- mary of the answers made by the Indian to a list of questions hi 5 department airmailed to Miami police last week.
BLAMINIG COMRANION
Mr. Cantin reviewed the ques- tions and answers and said Thompson now appears to be placing the blame on a compan- ion the Indian identified ‘ as Johnny Greene. Thompson's com. panion escaped when Thompson was picked up last week by Miami police.
But a Miami police officer was quoted by the Montreal Star as saying that he and an associate questioned Thompson three times and tha‘ the Indian repeated ex- actly the same story each time.
“If he learned of the case in a penitentiary then he rehearsed well,” Det. James Minix of the Miami force told the Star in a long distance telephone interview.
"inix said Miami police had asked for more information about the case from Quebec authorities so that Thompson could be given a lie detector test.
MANY DISCREPANCIES
Mr. Cantin said there were a good number of discrepancies be tween Thompson’s account of the slayings and facts revealed in later investigations.
The deputy attorney - general said Thompson told Miami police he met Greene in Montreal after the Indian had served a three- month jail sentence for trespass- mg.
Thompson told Miami police the slayings took place 10 to 20 miles from the village of Gaspe while they occurred 60 to '70 miles auay said Cantin
Mr. Cantin said Thompson de- scribed the murder weapon as a calibre rifle but experts
Calls Confession ‘Fake'
said the fatal wounds were caused by bullets fired from a .303-‘calibre rifle.
Mr. Cantin said Thompson de- clared Greene got the money—- about $300. V
Mr. Cantin said $600 was be lieved stolen.
Three hunters were killed and the body of the eldest was found 10 miles from the bodies of the two younger men, Mr. Cantin said.
NONE TOUCHED BY KNIFE
In addition, medical testimony at the trial was that none of the
knife. Thompson said Greene cut up the bodies with the victims‘ hunting knifes and then split the money they took from the bodies.
Thompson told Miami Lha' Greene drove the jeep to the out- skirts of Gaspe village and while they were at a gas station they
police
bodies had been touched by a, he and:
alter the slayings he and
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heard a radio report of the ac count of the slayings.
Mr. Cantin said the bodies were not found for several months after the killings.
ASK FOR PRINTS. PHOTO
Mr. Cantin said his department asked Miami police three days ago for a picture of Thompson and his fingerprints but that these have not yet been received. These are essential, he said, if
Thompson, and possibly his movements, are to be checked further.
Commenting on reports that Thompson has consented to take a lie detector [est in Miami. Mr. Cantin said the “best lie detector we can have is a question by a police officer or a lawyer.”
Mr. Cantin says he doesn’t feel Miami police can properly judge Thompson‘s statements because they have little or" no knowledge of the crime or its setting.
5 lieved
15 Acres ,
Harvested Yesterday
Four fields of oats, containing
fiber was fine but the high tem- perature for the day was 20.
It took the cold wave to permit harvesting on fields, which had been too wet earlier to hold up equipment.
Howard Coles of operat- ed the combine for farmer Jamel
Harvesting began during the day and continued into the night in a race with a threatened'snow- fall. The yield was said to be good The grain was not broken down too much, the 'combine operator reported, although It was ‘bent over'.
Lobsterme-n Get Started
YARMOUTH, N.S. (GP l—rLob-
\‘ovra Scotia Monday.
. Most fishermen were unable to -l‘fi,_take_ advantage of an trap-
setrton‘ g period allowed them dur- ing the weekend because of high
winds and story seas. The season opened on a 250-
of the province to Digby County on the Bay of Fundy. -
Youths’ Trial Set For Dec. I7
aged youths charged with the steak-knife slaying of 20-year-old Robert O’rLeary were remanded Monday when they appeared be- fore Magistrate Glenn Strike.
the start” of their prelimian hearing.
17; John Drain, 19; William Post, 19; his brother James, 16; and Henri Dupuis, 19.
Some 50 teen-aged boys and girls crowded the courtroom but
for police and witnesses. O’Leary was found lying in 3
Nov. 23 touched off by a girl’s taunt. v
Woman Dies In Collision
srnrNaanL, N.S. (CPl _ A
here today. Oxford, N.S.
Mills’ condition was not
serious.
The brother of a prospector hanged for a 1953 murder in he Gaspe peninsula bush said Mon— day the name “Thompson” was familiar to him in connection
Donald Coffin said the name Thompson was on a list of names shown him by his brother“ ‘aw- yer, Francois Gravel of Quebec City. Wilbert Coffin. 43, was con- vicled of the murder of one of three slain Pennsylvania bear hunters and hanged two years ago.
Francis Gilbert Thompson, 35, a Canadian Mohawk Indian, told Miami police Friday that he and a companion. Johnny Greene, had
killed two of the Americans.
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some 15 acres, were harvested yesterday at Winsloe. The wea-
stermen began setmng'» traps at:
mile belt of coastal waters ex- tending from Cole Harbor near Halifax around the smnharn trip
OTTAWA (0P) — Five teen-
WEATHER '
Snowflurries; milder in the morning: west winds 15 increasing in the afternoon to northwest 20. Lowahigh 12 and 28.
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Hospital Insurance Poss Soon As Details Ironerl ‘ Out
Death Toll Reaches 89 In Chicago School Fire
Facilities Are
able to proceed with a hospital insurance program just as soon as the details of organization can
set up, as far as the avail- ability of hospital facilities is con- cerned, was the general gist of the hospital report released yesterday by Health Minister M.L. Bonnell.
The report, prepared by the hos- pital consultant firm of Agnew. Peckham and Associates of Toron- to, indicates slight shortages of accommodation can be anticipat- ed and the cooperation of the medical profession and the public will be essential to limit admis- sions at such times to the more urgent cases.
The most serious difficulty will probably be the shortage of qual- -fied hospital employees to pro- «Me a high standard of care.
N0 NEW HOSPITALS
The report states that no new general hospitals for care of acutely ill patients are required at this time, but recommends the expansion of the Western Hospi- tal at Alberton to meet the needs of that area.
Additional facilities for the treatment of chronic patients ap- pear to be urgently required, and it is considered that provision shouldbemadeforslwhcarern close proximity to the general hos- pitals in Charlottetown.
The need is particularly marked in this province where such a large proportion of the population is in the older age groups.
EXPAND CENTRE
Lnbllltation services, the report reconnnends that the Rehabilita- tionCentrebeexpandedtoSObeds this to be supplemented by the establishment of departments of physical medicine in the larger
It also nukes various recom- mendations concerning the need for more qualified instructors in the schools of nursing,’ more teaching of students of the wards. more in-service educational pro- grams for graduate nurses and
NOT MORE
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Report 0t Survey Indicates
Prince Edward Island should beschool for the training of nursing
assistants.
COMPREHENSIVE
Dr. Bonnell stated “The report is quite comprehensive and will provide an excellent reference for the future in the field of hos- pital came.
"The suggestions for alterna- tions in various departments of general hospitals should result In, improved services to the patient and more effective utilization of the available facilities.”
The survey was carried out by theTorontofirmasaprojectof the department of health on the recommendation of a citizens committee on hospital insurance. This committee was made up or! epresentatives from the medical and nursing professions, hospitals, agriculture, labor, women’s insti- tutes, and government depart- ments.
During the survey, a detailed investigation of the facilities avail- able at all hospitals in the pro- vince, including the Provincial Sanatorrium and the mental hos- pitals, was carried out. Consider- ation was also given to the educa- tional program for hospital per- sonnel as well as accommodation for the aged.
'lhis study was carried out with a view to ascertaining the ade- quacy of existing facilities, not only for present needs, but for the provincial plan of hospital insur- ance which is about to be under- taken. .
SUMMARY OF . RECOMMENDATIONS 1. The Province should be able to proceed with a hospital insur- anoeprogramassoonastheor- ganizati-onal details can be set up.
modatw' n can be anticipated and the cooperation of the medical profession and the public will be essential” to limit admissions at such times to the more urgent cases.
The modest expansion program in these reconnnendations should he proceeded with to offset the
the estnbhshm' out of I central
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Search For Children Was Terrible Ordeal For Many
The magistrate set Dec. 17- for
Charged are James McDenmott
were ordered out to make room
gutter after a gang fight here
35-year-old woman was killed and two persons injured in a car- truck collision at a highway in- tersection three miles west of
Dead is Mrs. Douglas Mills of
In hospital are Mrs. Mills“ hus. band, operator of the car, and the driver of the truck, identified only as the son of Willard Smith of Springhill.
' be- Smith was re- " ported suffering from shock.
Hanged Man’s Brother Makes Comment on ’ConfessiOn'
YORK CENTRE, Que. (arm~
OHIIIOAIGO (Arm-To wait. to search and to hope.
For some frantic parents that was all there wasto do. Then- children were “the unaccounted for" in the aftemmath of the rag- ing fire that sped through the Roman Catholic Our Lady of the A n g e 1 s parochial elementary school Monday, taldng 88 lives.
Some mothers waited in the chilling winds outside the black- ened hulk of the school.
Others hurried to the hospitals on the northwest side where the dying and the injured were taken.
Dozens of anxious relatives raced to the police station.
Still others made the dread trip to the morgue.
QUESTIONS CLASSMATE
At one hospital Mrs. Howard Anglim tried to question little Frances Panno, 10, a classmate of her son, Bobby, 10.
Where was Bobby? Did he get out?‘
Frances, her face s hinged and slightly burned, could not help.
“I don't know what to do," subbed Mrs. Aruglim. “I don’t want to go to the morgue. I’m so afrai .”
In front of the sobOol Mrs. Pauline Baroni clutched a small quilted red jacket, brought from home to warm her daughter,
Thompson “on a list that was
with the case. if
Donald Coffin said there was a
shown to me by the lawyer. He asked me if I knew any of the people on it."
Coffin said he thought the name Greene was also on the list.
In Quebec City Mr. Gravel said he had the name T .lbert Thomp- son‘on a list which he remembers showing to Donald Coffin. He said the name Greene was not on the list.
Mir. Gravel said the list was drafted while he Was preparing the defence case, but he did not elaborate.
The lawyer said he has two in— vestigators working in Miami. He had received only a preliminary report from them and had no statement to make on the situ-
maren, 10, a fifth grader.
“But I can‘t find her, I can't find her,” she moaned.
GRIM WORK CONTINUES Outside the yellow brick Cook County morgue, and in its mall walled courtyard, ambulances still brought their deliveries of dead children.
Inside, crowding the low- ceilinged ” office foyer and comi- dor, were the anodous living.
In the basement catacombs— the nuanble-illoored receiving and work rooms—lay mal‘ l sheeted «forms everywhere.
Trade Minister Denies Rumors
OTTAWA (CPl—Trade Minis- ter Churchill said Monday he made no threats to resign during cabinet discussion of the 17—pe - cent freight rate boost.
Rumors have been flying that ~the Winnipeg lawyer threatened to quit if the cabinet approved the increase. The increase went through and Mr. Churchill is still in harness.
“I made no threats," he told a reporter.
Asked whether he approved of the cabinet’s handling of the in- crease. he replied:
“I can’t really make any com- ment on that."
.Two Mayors Re-elected
OTTAWA (Om—George Nelms Monday was re-‘elec-te‘d mayor of Ottawa for a second two—year term.
He led from the start in the threeway mayoralty race and steadily piled up a growing mar- gin over his two opponents, for- mer controller Roy Donaldson and newcomer W. J. LeClair. an engineer.
WINDSOR, Ont. lCPV—Michael Patrick Monday night rolled up an overwhelming victory for his third two-year term as mayor. Unofficial figures for 247 of 251 polls gave him more than a 14,030-vote margin over his near-
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