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B ILLE. Ont, Nov. 29 -- (CD-A twin engined yellow bomb- ing plane of the Royal Canadian Air Fcroe went into a spin about five hula; from the Trenton air we tpday and crashed, killing its four occupants.

Three of the four dead were pilot

officers who only last Thursday stood stiffiy at attention on the concrete apron at the airbase and received their wings. The fourth was an air-craftsman.

The three pilot officers:—

Cr. T. Medici", 24. son of W. R.

Maher of North Bay;

J. t}. Lee, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. James J. L198 of l-lighgaie, Ont.;

1,, A. Clements, 22, son of Mrs. F. W. N. Clements of North Devon, N.

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The fourth was leading alircrafts- maii L. S. Stcminel 22, son of Wil- fred sample Sasha n chartered accountant and president of the Saskatoon flying club.

Manchester Ketcheson, a farmer who saw the crash, the worst in Cbétildu since the start of the war, ta :

“The ship wasn't very high when I saw lt (int. It kept coming down. It chopped off the tops of three trees .and plunged into the bush.

was a mus of splintered two feet of the wuig surface was left intact. The machine buried its nose deep in the ground." . The plane was one of the fleet of modern Oxford training bombers, made in Portsmouth, En land, in which Canadian flying of cers com- plete the third stage of their train-

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Plane to Spin;

Occupants Dead

Board Of Inquiry To Investigate Crash Near Trenton Airport.

111g. 'I'lie craft have an air speed oi more than 200 miles an hour. They are not used in active service.

1n Otiawfl». 1i was announced t a board of inquiry would investigate the cause oi the accident.

The plane left the Trenton air station at 10:30 a. m. for air firing practice on the bombing and g ery range and was returning to th¢ base shortly after noon when it crashed.

David Post. Ki farmer on the first concesiori north of the Trenton air- Port. said he sa/w the big yellow Plane go into an almost vertical spin, straighten out and crash into some trees. Post said he believed the plane must have been travelling about 150 miles an hour when the spin started.

All four occupants or the bomber did their ellmlnary training at. fllylrla clu in Western Canada.

Pilot officer Mitlier, a. native of Norlh Bay, was posted ni flying club last June on a - gem ment and was moved to e

C. A. F. station at ‘Irenton last month. He obtained his Bachelor 0f 5019MB degree at the University of Toronto last. spring.

kirofficer Lee

P110 was born at Muir k, Kent County, Ontario. Ha was pointed to the Reghia f club ant June and he also wen to Trenton last month w train for a permane oimmlsslon. H4 was gmdua the arts course at he lgyréawei-sity of Western Ontario Pilot officer Clements, a native of North Devon, was posted to Calgnry Aero club last June and went to n at the same time as the others. He was graduated in elec- trical engineering from the Univer- sity of New Brunswick at Freder- icton this year. Leading aircraftsman Lawrence Stempel a. few years ago won the distinction of being the youngest licensed air engineer in Cxziada, He received most of his air training with the Saskatoon club his father heads. He is survived by his parents and two sisters.

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"Tulldes-Murray River Monday. L-llbli-ll-llfl-(L. “Zion Church turkey supper Ind bazaar Thursday. L-1017-11-21-4i. "Borden dance tonight-O. K. Prcsbvs Orchestra. L-41l

"Klukora Hall, Fridays bingo llld dance is cancelled. _

L-i135-l1-29-2i. "Collie tc the dance _in St. Andrews l-lall Thursday, November 30th. D001" prize. L-lO23-i1-28-3l.

"Vllliat? School Concert. Where? West Royalty. When? December 1W1- L-l171-11-30-1i.

"Auction and dance, Vernon 11811, Dec. 1st, Auspices library. L-1005-1l-Z7-3i

"Seeliclle River play, Belfast Hall Friday, Dec. 1st at ll, If not line Saturday. L-il26-l1-29-2.

“B11180 and Dance in Pcwnal Gflrllge H1111, Friday, December 1st. L-1151-1l-30-ll.

"The annual meeting of the 001% Traverse l-iall Co, wlil be held

iwlwlew Zealanii i l, Pilots Star >ln Air Epic _‘

l LONDON, Nov. 29—An Air, B1110 was revealed tonight in

the story of two New Zealand

pilots who brought a crippled . R0181 Air Force plane home‘ from a flight over Germany. ‘

Half of one wing wu shot

o". and only the framework of

the other remained The dam-

age was caused during a flight

last Monday but it was not

known whether by gntl-almnfl

fire or lightning. 4

There was a blinding yellow

flash and a "big bang.’ one of< the pilots said. It sent the

plane Into u spin that seemed

< at first uncontrollable. But he managed to pull it out and the nlnne limped home through the

skies to safety.

"What a nltwlt I should have

been ll I had lei. her fall into [the sen after pulling her all of lhlt fall through space." the pilot said.

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Navy Blimp Goes Through Paces At Sea

IAKEHURST. N. J.. Nov. 29- Four tests in raising and lowerinl individuals were conducted bv the United States navy blimp J-l rive miles at sea tOdLV. Lieutenant Commander George l". Watson said the tests proved airship: B5 vel- uable over water as over land.

The test ship anchored 100 feet in the air by droppin: a hum can" vas bag "anchor" in the Atlantic Ocean. A rubber lifeboat was low- ered and then raised, ca a man from a coast guard pic et boat which assisted in the exocri- merits.

A men next jumped from the picket boat, swam to the rubber craft and was lifted to the bluntl- When Lieutenant Commander Anton Helnen clanibercd up a rope ladder dropped into the vic- ket boat. in the final loot. the

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Japanese Liner Sinki ng After Striking Mine

rescued.

Struck by a mine off Harwlob, England, the Jap bottom of the North Sea. At right. rescue trawler stands by as life boats

anese passenger liner Terukunl Mnru turns on her beam-ends before plunging to-thc pulls away from stricken ship. All 20W people on board were

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Finns Aware Of Pre- carious Position In Developments.

my Lynn Helnzerllng

Associated Press Staff Writer HEKSINGFORS. Nov. 29—(AP)—- Government officials assembled hastily ton‘ght as news of Soviet Russia's actrn in break‘ng off diplomatic relic-ions with Finland fell like a thundrrcap on this 62p- ital.

Grave citizens discussed the new turn in the situation and the f-:r- eign office said there would be a statement shortly.

While Finns had been preparing for the worst and awaiting devel- opments calmly, Moscow's action was not expected, and Finlmd was without official lnformatirn of it ‘until after Vycheslaff Molotolf, Russian Premier-Foreign Commis- sar. announced it in a. broadcast.

One official exclaimed: "Hull's offer came too late." ‘

This was in reference to Stat" Secretary Cnrdel‘ Hull's announce ment of the United S“i'e’~. wllllng< nese to lend her g-ccl o'f'ces in th= border dispute with Bursa

Prior to the move in Mfscow the Finnish Gcverrment had sent a carefully worded and deliberate re- ply m the Soviet note of yesterday denouncing the i931 Russian-Him- ish non-aggression pact.

Aware Of Danger

Finns were fully aware of danger

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Nazi Warplane Lands After Fight At Sea

, Nov. Ill-MP) —Forced landing of a. German we lane near Farsund on the sou hem coast of Norway tonight was be- lievedtc be asequelto an en- counter between warships and air- planes witnessed earlier today by the coast guard station at Btadt. A No inn boat re- turning t report-

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to Bergen toni ed aha saw a foreign em 1:1 this area. About the some time a Nor-y vcelan cargo boat sent a wireien

IDNDON. Nov. 29—Rea.1ization that Great Britain would fight must have proved a disilluson" to Adolf Hitler, sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer. said todav in a speech in which he lauded the spirit with which Britons have joined in the war effort.

“It cannot be doubted that the German strategy has been beset. by divider! counsels." Sir John said at a luncheon tendered by the national defence Dubllc interest committee.

“If Hitler relied on the Von Rlbbentrm claim to be able to give expert. advice about the British people and even swal- lowed an assurance that Bri- tain would not fight, well, the truth must have come to the German Chancellor u n shat- tering dlslllusion."

In a gesture made significant by the Finnish-Soviet crisis, Sir John at the end of his address drew at- tention to the presence of Fin- nish Minlstei- G_ A. Gripenberg nt the luncheon With the following statement:-

"It is a satisfaction to me, and it am sure to you. at this dread _hour in the history of his coun- 'try, to find present Our friend the Finnish minister."

Colonel Harry Nathan, Labor member of Parliament. proposed an unscheduled toast to the Polish Ambassador and the Finnish en- voy, remarking “it ls a symbol."

“This country ha: the rep- utation of always balng rather unprepared and blundcrlng ultimately through to arrange- ments which experience sug- gesta, but this time the plans prepared to advance in case we should ever be involved in n struggle where we had lo defend ourlelveg have far ex- ceeded In all sorts of direc- tlons anything we had ever achieved In our previous his- tor-y." Slr John sold.

The Chancellor added that if the "full blast of the hurricane“ had fallen immediately upon Great Britain its people would haveiai. 11°01 "Mon to awn;

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melsage that it had rescued four

German fliers in the North Sea. “ The plane which landed at Far- sund was confiscated and its crew

interned. From the shore ll. could not be

4dmppcdmthesuioaooottiie water-abdicated.

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Lands Spirit Of TU All] IN British At War SETTLEMENT

“shattering .

ciate the value of all these pre- parations."

“As it has turned out. some of them appear to be almost too com- plete and too elaborate, and true to our national character there is plenty of criticism and plenty of doubt as to the need for these agangements." Sir John contin-

u .

The Chancellor said it was “wonderful proof of the courage and determination of the British people" that an instrument like his budglet-"surelv one of the most horrible inventions that ever entered the mind of mam-should have been accepted so calmly and readily , "our practical and hard-headed countrymen."

British See Dispute llot War Cause

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The foreign office, in a communi- que issued shortly after word reach- ed Liondon today that Soviet ‘Russ a had broken off diplomatic re ltlfrli‘ with Finland. said that “the dis- pute is not such as to ill-mil! 91th- er party resorting to warlike meas rues."

Many diplomatic sources re- fused to believe the Soviets would precipitate a war in n- land, despite the ominous news from Moscow.

They admitted the enigmatic character of Runs-he's foreign policy and the imnowbility of predlctlnt! gzhtat ‘this: Kremlai would dagger,‘

l.l 3 6881118 me 8V GXDTP. . the conviction that Russia would atm short of war.

‘There sources suggested that the flwnish lake-i were still not froren and this would hamper Russian

military operations, More import-

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Senator Charges Rus-

expected statement. offered today

lution of their dispute.

Russia

night that Soviet Russia keep her security invlolate. He gave no intimation as

tions often is a forerunner of ing his broadcast, which took

sia With Total A- bandonment O f Peace Policy.

WASHINGTON. NW. 29—-State Secretary Cordell Hull, in an un-

the “gflod offices" of the United States in enabling Finland and Russia to reach a peaceful s0-

The statement was issued short- lv before news was received that Russia had broken off diplomatic relations with Finland. It said that if both parties wished it. the United States would “gladly ex- tend its good offices."

Meanwhile Senator Key Pitt- man, chairman o! the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, charged Russia with “total ab- anilonment of every sincere policy locking to a. just peace." The Nevada Democrat told re- porters Russia had created fictitious incidents,“ 5nd that war sentiment had been stir- red up among the Russian people “as a. prelude to and an excuse for conquest."

Pittman expressed approval oi Hull's move for peace but said he was not optimistic over its success Senator William Borah, Idaho Republican. called the Hull state- ment a “wise step."

The statement was transnitted to the United States Elmibassy in Moscow and the American Leg- atlon in Helsingfors after it was made public here. The United States representatives were in- structed to transmit the declar- ation to the Russian and Finnish

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Police Shudder

AtInteriorOfStiII

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29—(AP)— shuddering members of Q police, raiding squad accused a Chinese laundryman of violating the liquor laws todny alter turning up a batch of whisky distilled from the stuff D. '1‘.’s are made of.

Captain Richard Mansfield said

‘ithe 50 gallons of whiskey they 1 found yesterday in the laundry of

Quong Sing, 28, locked all right un- til they dismantled a still in the back room and saw inside:

A collection of desiccated horses; dried rattlesnakes, turtles, fish marine life.

Police said they were informed that the introduction of such ob-

sea lizard ., and other defunct

been engaging in exercises in the Gulf of Finland, in close proximity to Finnish islands which Russia has asked for

relations was handed by

Yrjo-Koskinen, the Finnish Minister, at 10:30 o’clock

clared that tlations" suited only in an ‘irreconcilable attitude" on the part of Finland whose leaders acted “in the inter- est of imperiallstic warmongers."

to safeguard

Soviet Union and in particular Leningrad with its population of

l

to be prepared for action.

.. (By Witt Hancock, Associated

MOSCOW, Nov. 30—(Thursday)-(AP)—An hour and a half after breaking off diplomatic relations with Fin- land, Russia’s Premier and Foreign Commlssar, Vyaches- laff Molotoff, announced in a broadcast at is taking “immediate steps” to

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Troops To Stand‘ Ready ForAction

Severs DiplomdTi-c- Relations Witli Finland — Declares Only Aim Is Safeguarding Of Soviet Union.-

Press Staff Writer) ..

midnight last

to what the steps would be. While severance of diplomatic relations between na-

war, Molotoff asserted dur- place against a background

of martial music and Red Army marching songs, that Russia has no intention of annexing Finnish territory or of compromising Finnish independence.

He called on Russia’s millions of troops and her navy Observers estimated 1,000,000

Russians were massed on Finland’s frontiers. The Finns

can muster, at best, 400,000 m

1llew York Press Hits At Soviets

The Russian navy has

naval bases. l The official note severing

Molotoff to Baron Aarno

last night (3I30 p. m. AST). (The news was received with consternation in Hel- slngfors, the Finnish cap- ital.) In his broadcastmMolotnff de-

long patient nego- with Finland had re-

"The only aim of our nation is the security of the

3,500,000," Molotoff declared. "In View of the present inter-

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Death 0f Dr. M. Martin Yesterday

Dr. Martin Martin 90-year-old retired medical practitioner died at, his home at Grand View yesterdayl He had been in poor health 81MB his. retirement seven years BBQ .

Dr. Martin was born at Grand; View in 1848, the sOri of the late Alex and Margaret (McLeod) Mar-l tin. l-lis grandfather Martin Martin came to this province from the isle of Skye in Scotland and was one of the p on

8H5 in the Belfast district.

He came out in the shiip Polly

which landed hundreds of hill!!- ianders at. Orwell Cove in 1803.

Dr. Martin received his early ed-

ucation at the one-roamed school

here. He began his secondary ed- ucation at the Normal School, Charlottetown later to become

Prince of Wales College. His med- ical training was received at Trinity Medical College and Toronto Uni- versity, Torontc, where he graduat- ed in 1879. He took the silver med- al for the four year course.

From 1880 until his retirement in 1932 Dr. Martin practiced at Grand View and was personally acquaint- ed with many of the residents 0f both Queens and Kings Counties. He was the typical country doctor and thought nothing of turning out in a blizzard to drive miles to the bedside of a tlent.

In ad-dition his medical practice in later years Dr. Martin was a. silent partner in a large general mercantile business here, conducted by his eldest son, Alexander Martin.

Dr. Martin is survived by his wife. formerly Mm Margaret Bruce of Grand View. and three sons and one daughter The sons are: --Dr.

AHBu-s Martin. Mt. Stewart and Alexander Martin here, and John Martin. a former resident at Grand View but who last week left

to take up residence at Brocton, Mass. H18 do him‘ is Miss Florence Mar- tin. teac er in a college in the pro- vince of Quebec. Two sisterl, Mn. John Matheson of Vancouver and Mrs. Annie Mac- Leod of Salmon Run. British C01-

lecta lnin the distilling process was “mhh 943° ""1 9

an old Chinese custom designed to

cure ailments

The funeral will be held Friday

afternoon it was announced last ma. '

Ell.

NEW YORK, Nov, Zf-l-Two of New &ork’| ‘EvVOIllanRr ‘newn- papcn- o oi- -' eegram mud the Poet-today assailed Soviet Rllllll fill‘ "I attitude toward Finland.

The World-Telegram on its fronhpage has a. cartoon of an , enormous Stalin jamming a. l tiny Finland into the corner of a. bench. Stalin in feelinx his muscle and Iayinm "l warned you to ti: crowding me!" The head is "Our hearts bleed for you. Joe!"

On its editorial page the paper luggests "J 0 s e p h (Butch) Stalin" as recipient for the Nobel Pence Prize as he lg “serving the cause of pgnce m valiantly against the bully Finland.”

Th, in its editorial compares Russia's treatment of Finland with that meted out

by Germany to Czvchu- Slovakia and Poland and con- eludes:-

“Czecho-Slovakla. Poland» 1

Finland-the propaganda tech- nique is the same. It illumin- ates the alliance betwcrfi the two dictators, an express-on .0! harmony between minds M! alike as lf encased in the same skull."