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.MERE MAN

"EROMINENT EcoNomsT KILLED |N FALL

Canadian Oil Company

Warehouse

Destroyed In

Early Morning Blaze

iiity Firemen Prevent Fire Spreading Id Nearby illi Tanks; Cause iii Outbreak is Being investigated.

May Store A-Betnbs In Great Britain

LONDON. Sept. I - (AP) - The Evening News said Saturday that United States atom bombs soon may be stored in England. "The news that Russia now has an atomic weapon is expected to result in a closer sharing of atomic secrets between the United States, Britain srfd Canada," the paper sclds.

Coming Events

"Dime. Grand View Hall, sep- tember 26th. Good music.

"Lot 65 Hall tonight show at 5-30. "Miracle o! the Bells."

"lillfl your runs, to csraaum Photo Studio. Charlottpto...»

"Dance, New Iona East School. ‘Ilieedly. September 27th.

"Dance Long River Hall every Wfdnesdsy. Good music. Door pr ze.

"Show "The Sullivans" at Clyde ‘River tonight at 8:30. Don't miss i.

"Come to the dance Kinkora Halli Monday night, Oct. 10. Good mus c.

"Chicken Supper and Dance in Grand River Hall. Wednesday. Sep- tember 28th.

"Dance in St. Peter's Legion Hall every Tuesday night. cuff Peters Orchestrer

"Now buying ilmithy seed. Reg- istered, cleaned or uncleaned. Mc- Gulsan d: Boyle.

"Regular Dance at the "Sea Breeze", Victoria, each Wednes- day. Dancing 9 till 1.

"Come to the United Church Supper. Chicken. Ham, salads and September 28th. Cherry Valley

"Reserve Tuesgy. “ Jemlber 27th for l-lam and riot Scallop Sup- Mr. Mi. Albion Hall. Supper served M 5 o'clock.

"Lot 65 Hall, Monday, Oct, 10. rlvi time fiddling and step dancing contest. Send entries to Linus ‘irninor.

"Come to the annual chicken WPPPr, New Glasgow Hail, Wed- "Pid"! evening, Sept. 28th. Serv- iiii.’ from 5.30.

"Due to arrive this week, car of Bran and Shorts. Please place orricrs and take delivery from car. llnzclbrook Dairying Co.

"Dance in New Glasgow Hall; Tumidiiy night Sept. 27. Dancing f‘ 12.30, good music, canteen ser- Yivc. in nid of rink. .

"Unloading cu of Iiasiu. All —hs.clsr mules in stock. Get our prices before "iii/Ins. P. J. Noy a. Co.

_"R¢itular dance, East Royalty gink Hail. Tuesday, September l ih. Eastern Rhythm Boys. Danc- Tfiiflg-a) to 12.30. Bus leaving I. M.

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t"Don't miss ‘the fiddling and lep-dsncinl contest in Cardigan ‘l Thunder. 90m. 2e. Send en-

t i éatalxn-Lemuel Alisn, Secretary

"Come to the Bee Supper and %¢@ in Mount stswut Legion u; Bianca“ , Septcmher ma. In [mm s P. u Lights. Stipper served

"We! m: friends st st. Mary's t'“"“'“""* "Whine: s o'clock until 101

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Fire completely destroyed the warehouse of the Canadian Oil Co. Ltd., at the end of Grafton street near the Hillsboro Bridge and about two thirds of the buildings con- tents in an outbreak which oc- lcurred about 4.20 yesterday morn- ng.

Flames from the burning build- ing were leaping at least, 40 feet in the air as drums of oil exploded and grease and other lubricants burned in the conflagration.

Only the courageous work of City

ion. Two sets of gas tanks, one be- longing tot the Canadian Oil 00., the other to the McCall-Frontenac 011 Co. were approximately l0 feet sway but were so effectively kept cool by streams of water that neither exploded.

Alert work by the railroad also helped alleviate the danger as less than 25 minutes after word was sent out engineer Fenton Higgins assisted by one of the yardmen ar- rived with an engine and moved a railroad tank of gasoline and sev- eral cars of coal to safety.

Three lines of hose were employ- ed by the firemen in battling the blaze. Two lines were laid from the water near the railroad cross- ing at Canada Packers, and the other from the only hydrant in the area.

The firemen battled the blaze for over two hours. and kept streams of water on the gasoline tanks un- til 10 o'clock.

ilnirétnconcern ng the ,o gin of the e.

WALK OUT‘ 0F MEETING

PARIS, Sept. 2$—(Reuters)—-De- legates from Hungary, Czechoslo- vakia and Poland Saturday walked out of a meeting of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization after they were defeated in a move to stop UNESCO activities in Germany.

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N. also? Man Was Professor Ai Princeton

PRINCETON. N.J.. Sept. B (A-P) -- Professor Frank D. Gra- ham, internationally-known econ- omist, saw Princeton University win a football game Saturday and then plunged to his death from the top of Palmer Stadium.

Graham, 59, was professor of in- ternational finance at Princeton. A native of Halifax, he was a grad- uate of Daihousie University and later taught there.

Police said he plummeted ’l0 feet from the parapet of the stadium.

A minute before, in company with his wife, he had seen Prince- ton defeat Lafayette College 26-14.

He was apparently killed in- stantly. Mercer Country authorities ascribed death to skull and rib fractures, and listed it as accident.

The author of several books on economics, Graham was formerly a consultant to the United States Treasury and served on a number of Government commissions,

In 1945 the Government sent him to Germany to study the Nazis’ economic methods in war.

Mrs. Mary bouisa Graham told police she became separated from her husband when the crowd of 22,000 football fans began to leave the stadium.

Witnesses told police they had seen a man run toward the top of the stadium on the east side of the stadium. and at least two said they saw a. hand disappear over the parapet. Police said they loc- ated no one who saw how Gra- ham reached the top of the 5%- foot wall which stands behind the last row of seats.

Besides his widow, survivors in- clude three sons: Frank Jr. of Buf. of Princeton: Ind John, an undergraduate at Swarthmore University; and one sisaer, Mrs. Walter Pengelly of Tor- on .

Formal Order For Freight Rates Boost

, OTTAWA, Sept. 25 -- (C?) Board of Transportation Commis- sioners Saturday issued the formal order permitting the railways to increase their freight rates by eight per cent. The new rates be- come effective 10 days after the railways file their new tariffs \vith

the board,

Three Death

By ENDRE MARTON

BUDAPEST, sopt. 2s __ (AP) _ Laszlo Rajk, a Foreign Minister, and two former communist Party officials were sentenced Saturday to death on the gallows for a pur- ported plot to overthrow Hungary's Communist Government. v They themselves had testified they workéd with Americans and Yugoslavs to toss Hungary under the influence of Yugoslav Premier Tito. (In s note he personally handed Saturday to the Hungarian Min- ister‘ in Belgrade, Tito charged that the trial of Raik and seven others is part of a plot organized by Russia to overthrow the Yugo- slav __ government and replacing it

By Robert Goldlein

CHICAGO. sept. Q5 firs?) - A group of top scientists contended Saturday that Russia's development of atomic energy means the Uniicd States no longer can prevent West- ern Europe from being attacked.

"Western Europe from here on ls st the mercy of Russia." said Dr. Harold C. Urey, Nobel prize win- ner.

The scientists also sgreed that if the United States and Russia ultim- ately engaged in atomic warfare it will be at lesst s 10-year military struggle which will require oc- cupstion sl thl final step. All setive in atomic freon the sisrt. the scientists ex- yrelbld their views st s prcis con-

ersnceon Russia's reported de- velopment. of atomic energy.

The scientists st the press eon- ferencq-besides Urey, were Dr. Leo

l professor of ‘ logy st the ity o! Chicago.- Dr. ‘Itrerfin R. Hogness, director of the _Uni- malty lef Chicago Institute of and Biophysics; and

research

ltsdlobioiogy lsqn Census K. Allison. director of

liltfvfllltyfi Institute oi

Sentences In

Hungarian Treason Trials

with a regime "servile to the 1i- 3.51m"),

TWO other men wcreaentenced to life imprisonment and one to nine years. Appeals were entered f0!‘ all. though R-ajk protested that "I consider the verdict justified."

A technicality delayed a decision in the case of the other defend- ants, Lt-Gen. Gyorgy Phlffy and C01. Bela Korondy. The five-judge people's court ruled it was not, competent to deal with them and zilrtllered them held for court-mar-

a .

The case attracted the most in. ternstional attention to Hungary since the treason trial of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty last Febru- ary. The Roman Catholic Primate now is serving a fife term,

Contenld U.S. Unable To Defend Western Europe

Nuclear Studies. Théy gareed on the points:

1. Russia. because of her vast territory and concealed war in. dustries will not need as many atomic bombs as the United States to reach an atomic weap- ons psr with America.

2. Atomic weapons alone would not be decisive in any such wsr. snd such s. military struggle would last at least 10 years.

3. Russia is at least abreast of the United States in devel-

,ment of long-range rockets- potential carriers of atomic war- heads.

_4. Bacteriological warfare is ‘not in the same class" with atomic wsrfsre. A country needs sir superiority to start bscteriologicsi warfare. the msterisls are difficult to s e. and there is s danger the ds- esse will spread beck to the et- tscker. _

5. Russifs hand is now vastly strengthened in any future dis- cussions en international con-

following

To Gradge

which will be held in the auditor- this afternoon. Dr. duates. two-year course are: MoAusland, Charlottetown; Gertrude Bagnali, Dorothy London.

First year course: couche.

Col. G. Elliot Full, chairman of the

elude l-lon. A.W. Mathesou, Minis- ter of Health and Welfare and members of the Sanatorium Com- mission.

Oysier Growers Annual Meeting

‘Beaten

sociation and much

took place and much active inter- est in the affairs of the Associa- tion was evidenced.

The meeting was attended by lVfr. RR. Logic in charge of the Bio- logical Station at was accompanied by his co-work- ers, Messrs Skinner and Wilson.

Matters under discussion were Government inspection liming of beds for starfish, grading

tank, new ideas in rearing spat,

trol of atomic energy.

regulations regarding Bedeque Bay. The three retiring directors, Wil- iiam Burleigh, Ellerslie, Foster Sharpe. Bldeford, William Mac- Neill, Summcrside, were reelected and the officers of the Association will be elected at a meetlng of the board of directors, which will be held in the near future, -_ s .

U. S. lias Boom In Home-building

NEW YORK, Sept. 24 -(AP) —- The United States is in the midst of a house-building boom. Only a few months ago there was a serious slump in home construction.

Thcrc are several reasons for the splurge in building. said David Ford/president of the Council of Insured Savings Associations.

Strong resistor-ice to the high cost of building cr buying s. house has broken down to some extent. Ford said. Many persons ivalted for a drastic break in prices. When they realized finally there would be no king-size drop, they ussped isle the market,

There has been a. modern-ts eas- ing of prices and costs all year re- sulting from lower price tags on some materials and shorter delays in obtaining some critical mater- ia.ls.

Another factor, Ford said. is that the house of today is a better-built iob than’ its counterpart of last year.

Some authorities maintain the continuation of rent control has

rolonged the space shortage and s. in part. responsible for the up- swing in building.

Another faction holds the dsys of rent control are numbered and that fear of its end hss influenced many renters to build. Various authorities have estimated rents might rise on average ss much as 25 to 50 per cent if controls were abolished.

BIQUEST ANNOUNCED

FREDERICTON, Sept. Z5 —(CP) — A bequest of $16,633 to the Unl- verslty of New Brunswick was an- nounced Ssturdsy by Dr. A. W. Trueman, U. N. B. president. The bequest was made by Ml Gert- rude Winnlfred Smith. St. Stephen. N_ 8., who died in 104d, and the income will provide an snnusl $52.5 scholarship for s Charlotte County girl needing financial help in unl- varsity

Four graduates will receive their certificates and pins at the grad-u- ation exercises of the Nursing-aides

ium of the Provincial Sanatorium W.B. Howatt, Summerside. will address the gra-

Thosc who have completed the Jew Ruby Irma Hunter River; Euelah MacRac, New

Gertrude Harriet Leckie, Mis- Chairman of the exercises will be

Sanatorium Commission. Mrs. Wil- liam Mutch will present the certif- icates and those present will in-

The annual meeting of the Oy- ster Growers Association of Prince Edward Island was held Saturday evening in mo. Sungmerside Town Hall with the presfdentj m. Lorne of St. Eleanors presiding. The meeting drew a, large attend- ance of the members of the As- constructive discussion on matters of interest

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stamps, regulations, storage. both cold nnd~

Larger Exhibition Grant

F 01' Ch’t0wn Discussed Nursing Aides

OTTAWA, Sept. 25—(Special)— Prospects of a larger Federal grant for the annual Charlottetown Exhibition were hL-ld out by Agri- culture Minister Gardiner shortly prior to the adjournment of the House of Commons last week-end.

The issue was brought before the chamber by J. Watson MacNaught. M.P., for Prince and parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Fish- eries. Mr. McNaught who was fol- lowing discussion of agriculture es- timates, interposed with the ques- tlon:

“In details of the estimates there are grants for exhibitions or fairs in every Province of Canada with the exception of Prince Edward Island. At Charlottetown we have one of the best fairs in Canada. I understand that they are contem- plating some additional construc- tion, and I would ask the minister to take under "consideration ihc possibility of making a grant to that fair next year."

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Mr, Gardiner replied that the Charlottetown exhibition is a class A fair which now gets a regular Federal grant of $2,500 a year but that this amount can be capitalized over a ten-year period in order to build up a larger fund. He. added:

“Depending on how large n building they (the directors of the Charlottetown exhibition) want to put up, as a class A fair they arc in a position whore it would be possible for them to come to Ottawa and discuss n grant of a larger amount. I cannot say they would obtain it. It would depend on the circumstances."

To Chester S. McLure, Progres- sive Conservative member for Queen's, Mr. Gardiner said there are no class A fairs in Nova Scotla or New Brunswick, Char- lottetown being the only one to fall in this category in the Mari- times. The amount allocated to Charlottetown for 1948-49 the min- ister said, was $3.500.

Statement

Bovine ‘LB. Incidence

further question inci-

In reply to a by Mr, MacNaught on the dance of bovine tuberculosis in Princejidward Island Mr. Gar- diner emphasized the extremely low prevalence of the disease in lhnt Province, Giving statistics, he said:

"I believe there are about 100,- 000 cattle in Prince Edward Island and only about n dozen reactors in the whole group. In other words. the Island is pretty well cleared up." As to the bovine tuberculosis situation in Nova Scotin, the Min- ister told Frnnk T. Stanfield, Pro- gressive Conservative membcr for Colchester-Hanfs:

"All the counties of Nova Scotin are restricted areas. I should not like to say they are nil fully test- ed and clenr to the extent that obtains in Prince Edward Island."

In. regard to experimental farm stations , the Minister assured Mr. McLure ihnt there is no intention on the pnrt of the Government to reduce the number of the experi- mental stations in Prince Edward Island. 1f it should happen that n certain invcstigntlonnl project was concluded nt one station, ihc work may be taken up nt another stn- iion some distance away, he said.

Mr. McLurc raised the point that a very fine illustration farm at South Rusiico run by John C. Cldrk was being closed. The Fed- eral grant for this sintlon, the Queen's member said, was too lo\v to continue its operation on Q present scale,

Old Cur Ferry In Dry Dock At Saint John

SAINT JOHN. N.B.. Sept. 25 — (OH-The Canadian Government ship Dollard will enter dry dock here soon for repairs under a $30-- 000 contract. The Dollnrd is used for buoy and other navigational work in ihe Bay of Pisndy area.

Three other vessels are being re- paired or overhauled st the dry dock. Work on the aircraft carrier Magnificent is expected to be com- pleted by Oct. 20. The car ferry Prince Edward Island and Canada's weather ship H.M.O.S. St. Stephen are being overhauled.

’ WINS SCHOLARSHIP

FREDERICTON. Sept. 25 —(CP) -- David Gordon Mott, Dalhousie. N. 8., was named Saturday as first winner of the Tom Hickey me- morial scholarship at University of New Brunswick. Tenable for two years, it is valued st $000.

0P INDIAN ORIGIN More states in the United States

have names originating from 1nd- isn worth than from any other

language.

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of

the steel industry and steelworkers lis- ten as Federal Mediation Director Cyrus Ching, a Prince Edward Is- lander, (seated, center) reads Pre- sident Truman's letter asking for

TRUCE CALL-Leaders

another six-day extension of the

Police Widen Probe In Plane Crash Murder

Modern Farming Hazardous lob. Survey Shows

REGINA. Sept. 25 —(C P) — Ever feel like trading that city lob for a little farm home in the peaceful prairie west?

Ir so, consider this: Modern farming is one of the most hazard- ous occupations on the continent. A farmer is liable to be knlcked by a startled horse, or to be gored by his bull, or injured in s fall from a stairway, through a trapdoor or from a hayloft.

But the widespread use of mach- inery-a. development particularly marked in the prairie west-has added mechanical to animal and natural dangers.

Saskatchewan, Canada's greatest wheat-growing province, offers an example. It has 120,000 farmers. They own approximately 85,000 tractors and 40,000 combines.

Tractor accidents malke up- s

large part of farm machinery mis- haps. It's common for owners to sprain or break their wrists or arms while cranking tractors.

Up-to-date figures are difficult to obtain. But during the harvesting season. such accidents in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. are reported almost daily.

The Dominion Bureau of statist- ics. at the request of the Federal Department of Agriculture, pre- pared a. summary which showed that in the sample period June 1946-47, fires and accidents had Cost farmers more than 1,000,000 man-days.

In the period under review, about 37,200 persons suffered accidents, more than one third of them sev- ere enough to cause lay-offs of from iwo to three weeks and $5 per cent necessitating absences of frcm three to 10 weeks.

The bureau found that accidents had permanently incapacitated 400 farm operators and disabled 2,100 persons for life.

(By Richard OTWIMI)

FRANKFURT, Germany, Sept, 25 —(AP)—Germnn brains. equipment and uranium ore helped Russia break open the secret of the atomic bomb.

"Without the help of German scientists," a high American of- ficer said today. "Russia could never have developed an atomic weapon so soon."

More than 200 German experts are reported here to have worked in the Soviet Union since 1945.

ln Germany, tens of thousands of unwilling German workers have been and are being forced to work pitchblende mines in the Soviet zone. Pitchblende isa source of uranium, a producer of atomic en- ergy. Every ounce is flown to Russia.

German scientists started work on an atomic pile before the war ended. The Russians were not slow in picking up German atomic rc-

lied victory brought it to an end. In Eastern Germany, some Ger- man scientists were waiting for the Russians. According to reports. they had already packed German

equipment used in nuclear re-

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search at the point where the Al- Sta

steel strike truce. Seated with him are Philip Murray (left), CIO pre- sident, and Adm, Ben Moreell, of Jones and Lauglilin Steci Co. Standing are Charles M. Hook (left), of Armco Steel, and Clar- ence Randall, of Inland Steel.

By William stewsrt

QUEBEC, Sept. 25 —(_CP) —<Pol- ice during the week-end extended from s. shoddy downtown district in Quebec to remote St. Lawrence north shore points their investigat- lon into a "love-plot" bomb explos- ion that wrecked an airliner Sept. 9 killing 23 persons.