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By THE CANADIAN PRESS A rash of fires in the Maritimes Wednesday and Thursday claimed man lives, left about 200 persons homeless and destroyed the dwell- ings of 33 families. Burned to death in a fire in a Mestorey frame house on Lac Unique Road in St. Francois par- 1-51, 351miles west of Edmundston in northwestern New Brunswick were: Mrs, Willie P. Pcll’etier, 52. and three children; Jeanette. 15, Ger. rd, 10 and Joel, 8. Another child, “year-old Lorette, survived be» cause she went to get help. med Thursday in a blaze in
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30 miles west of Charlottetown were four-yearold Darlene Rog- ers and her three - year - old brother, Barry, children of Mr. and Mrs. Leighen Rogens.
SIX FAMILIES HOMELESS
At Beresford, N.B.. near Bath- urst. fire destroyed the homes of six families including 42 children, “a a general store. No one was injured. \
A fireman at Saint‘ John, NB. Capt, Lloyd J. Hayward. was killed Wednesday when a $100,000 blaze destroyed seven old build- jugs on Main Street in that city. About 148 persons in 26 families lost their homes.
Mr. Pelletier, owner of the St. Francois home, is a woods worker and was absent at a Maine lum- ber camp when the fire occurred. It was” first noticed by Lorette
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Help To Scene
iAi least one carload of person- nel of the Prince Edward Island Red Cross disaster committee Will be leaving this morning at the earliest possible time bound for Spilnghill where 146 miners in eimtombed in a mine as a result of a tremendous “bump”. 'Ihe announcement was made last night by J. Gordon Mac- Donald, chairman of the Red (buss Disaster Committee.
flit. MacDonald said that most of the personnel that be tak- ing part will be the same as
that of two years ago that added
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Disappointed missile scientists were at a loss Thursday to ex- vlain what happened to the army’s latest space venture—an attempt to blast a balloon satel- lite into orbit.
“The thing did not work pro— Derly and we don’t know just yet What caused the trouble,” said Dr. Jack Fmehlich, one of the chief scientists in the project. Hope was abandoned that the 12-foot plastic and aluminum foil balloon would ever be spotted. Hundreds of volunteer “moon watch” observers and 41 track. 111% cameras throughout the world were advised to call off the searchthree hours after the J up iter-C launching rocket roared aloft.
Froehlich, who heads the satel- lite program for the California Institute of Technology‘s jet pro- pulsion laboratory. said no con- clusions could be made until data available on the flight had been analyzed.
Froehlich said the balloon rock- et’s course was tracked for seven
‘ or eight minutes, but then only
silence followed. The army lost Contact with its huge five-stage missile at an altitude of about 150 miles.
The failure was the third in six “my satellite attempts. ' fie Beacon sphere was aimed
By DAVE MCINTOSH Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (OP) u The govern- Inent has decided to go ahead With construction of several new destroyers for the navy, it was 1eaI‘rled Thursday.
This decision stems from the 0“? taken a month ago to sub- Slltute missiles for jet intercep- lcrs in the air defence system. is move has freed funds for nee‘dEd new' equipment in the law and army.
Contract negotiations for con- lilruction of the new destroyers “Cw are in progrcw. The number to be built is not yet definite but n"Val plans harp l'illlf‘ll for six 10 bring the program for new de- S‘I‘Iwors to 2:) silly: lam
A contract for the lend ship of he new batch has already been FlN‘n to Canadian Vickers le‘ HM. \llilill'l‘ui \, its: - .ill ‘15! ill? following an in, In; mun llCltl‘Up pending the iiiisslleczllci'ccplloll decision.
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The mother told her get help and then wentulorfl'oau: the three sleeping children. When help arrived, the building was de strayed and the‘four bodies were regpyered from the debris.
e area is s arsel ' I ' and the nearestphousg dggllfi feet away. Fireoflficials said the blaze apparently started in the basement. Fort Kent, Me., and
St. Francois firemen f‘ ‘ out the blaze. many put
FIND CHILDREN’S BODIES
Bodies of the Rogens’ childre were found in a "rear corner oll' the barn where straw had been piled. There was no indication how the fire started.
The Beresford blaze drove into the street the families of Cyprien Boudreau; Ligourgi D e g r a c 9, Lawrence Auibe, Moise Pitre, Wal. lace Pitre and Mrs. Edward grant, a widow with four chil-
ren.
Also destroyed was a general store operated by Wallace Pitre. There was no estimate of dam- age but most of the families lost all their possessions.
The blaze started in the home of Moise Bitre jumped to the store and gutted the building. Sparks then set fire to the De grace and Wallace Pitre homes -Two New Brunswick forestry service tankers fought the blaze until the arrival of the Bathurst fore department when the fire was brought under control. The Beresford district has no fire do partment of its own.
P.E.l. Red Cross Will Rush
Of Disaster
the injured when a gas explosion killed 39 miners and entombed over 100 others in the mine for four days at Springhill.
He said that the Island group would be carrying a supply of resuscitators to the scene. He said no blood plasma would be taken from here.
The group will include: Mrs. Evelyn Oudmm'e, director of First Aid program for the Bed Omss here, Ooun. TEE: Hyndman, Char- lottetown district committee chairman, Les Gillespie, Art Bal- lem and Gordon MacDonald.
Scientists Are Disappointed Big Balloon Fails To Orbit
at an orbit some 1,500 miles in outer space.
“Obviously whatever happened was directly concerned with the upper high speed stages of the Jupiter‘Cfl Froehlich explained. “We have no indication that these high speed stages ever fired."
Ilf that was so, the rocket and its precious cargo probalbly tumb- led and either burned up in the earth’s atmosphere or plunged into the ocean depths.
In Pldne Crash
TORONTO (OP) — A Toronto man and a Belleville, Ont, woman were among the 31 per- sons killed in the mid-air crash over Italy of a British airliner and an Italian jet fighter.
British European Airways iden- tified one of the victims as R. Allen of Toronto, but gave no fur- ther details.
In Belleville, Dr. Lily B. Math- ieson was advised by cable of the death of her daughter, Miss Mary Mathieson.
Miss Mathieson’s brother. Ron— ald, is a public relations officer in Toronto with the Ontario hydro—
MOR‘E MONEY AVAILABLE
‘Boos’r Destroyer Program
will be called the Mackenzie after the river. She will be an improved version of the Restl- gouche class now nearing com- pletion.
The first post-war :ypwseven ships‘is known as the St. Laurent class. There are also seven de« stroyers of the Restigouche class. This 14-ship program is scheduled for completion late next year.
The navy now is studying the possibility of construction'of nu- clearapowered submarines in Can- ada but initial reports on this study will not be completed until next spring. The navy has said it could put 12 submarinc to good USP Ilf‘.‘\\'.
In recent months, the defence department has been placing 1n- crcasing emphasis on the poten- tial threat to North American
CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24.1958
A “BUMP” that
Railway Bridge Damaged By Fire
STEIWIAOKIE, N.S. (CiPl—Traf- tie on the Canadian National Railways, HalifaxMouc-ton main 'ine was delayed briefly Thurs- day afternoon when a Nova- Sco- tia highways department over- head bridge caught fire. Flames raged out of control for an hour.
The ONR’s crack Ocean Lim- ited passenger train, bound for Halifax from Montreal, was de— layed 30 minutes.
The blaze was believed to have started from a welder’s torch while workmen were raising one end 'of the 19-year-old wooden structure.
RCMP here said the fire did not hinder road traffic which was detoured through here two days ago while repairs were made to the bridge.
Both the Stewiacke and lands and forests department firefight— ing units fought the flames which broke out about 430 pm. ADT.
Canadians Among 31 Lost
_In Italy -
electric power commission. Miss Mathieson was an employee of the Vickers Metropolitan Company in London, England. and was en route to Baghdad, Iraq.
She was home in Belleville dur- ing the Thanksgiving weekend.
BODY FOUND ,
SAINT JOHN, N.B. (CP)—the body of Almond Ross, 34, a Saint John hunter, was found Thurs- day near the spot where his boat overturned Wednesday night off Darling Island in the Kennebec- asis River, A companion, Merrill E. Nearing, was rescued by other duck hunters.
One authority said Thursday there is no doubt this threat was a factor in the government’s de- cision not to proceed with produc— tion of the supersonic Arrow in- terceptor at this time and, in— stead, to procure the cheaper Bo- marc Anti-aircraft missiles.
ON TARGET BASIS
Contracts for the new destroy- ers will be on a targettincentive basis. The shipyards will be al~ lowed a certain profit and given altarget of a certain number of man-hours of labor in which to complete construction. If the yards beat the target, they will receive onethird of the conse- quent saving. the remaining two- thirds going to the government.
All destroyers of the 14—ship pro- gram have been built on a cost- plus basis—that is, cost plus five
from missile-launching submar- per cent of cost for profit. g inc,» Subs equipped with even The uovcrnmcnt docs not can conwzll'alIvcly short-range 11115- for slowing. for (ltislltlym' um. siles‘ could lob atomic wnr' :ulsl .1”. at "t annexe; Ithe wqu into inland Canadian citics as' . :he >.x Canadian ship» veil as ports. )fllur.
MIN‘ERS TRAPPED
of the 1956 explosion that claim ‘
Pope Might
By FRANK BRUT’I‘O
VATICAN CITY (AP)——A wisp of white smoke from the roof of the Sistine Palace will be the first sign that the Roman Catholic Church has a new pope.
The sign may come a few hours after the cardinals meet in con- clave Saturday. Or it may come days or weeks later.
When it does come, a tremen- dous roar will rise from the throats of thousands of people gathered in St. Peter’s Square, tense and excited by their vigil.
The portals will open behind the balcony of the Basilica looking out on the square. Eugene Car- dinal ’I‘isserant, white - bearded dean of the College of Cardinals, will appear — unless he himself should be elected pope.
FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Then this will take place:
The cardinal dean announces what by now is already known and sweeping through the throng and the world.
Shouts of “Viva i1 Papa” (Long live the Pope) ring through the piazza. The cardinal dean raises his arms for silence. the roar sub- sides slowly. The silence becomes profound.
“I announce to you great joy,” he says in Latin.
Again a roar. Again a pause for silence.
"Haibemu‘s papam,” “We have a pope.”
Now the silence is deep, the people waiting for the name of the man who has become head of the Roman Catholic Church.
ment was made, March 2, 1939, it was: “The Most Eminent and Most Reverend Lord. Lord Car- dinal Eugenio Pacelli."
FIRST BENEDICTION
Then the newly elected pontiff, seeming like a white dot against the red-draped background of the balcony, appears and gives first benediction “Urbi et onbi"— to the city and the world.
The Roman Catholic Church will have its new pope. the 262nd.
Before that scene occurs, a meticulous voting process must take place in the Sistine Chapel.
Each cardinal takes his ap— pointed place in two long rows of canopied tronetti, or little thrones, on either side of the chapel.
Michelangelo’s famous fresco of the Last Judgment looks down upon them, and the procedure is one of extreme solemnity.
Before each throne are paper and a candle.
Upon a candle before Miche- langelo's Last Judgment is a chalice covered with a patcn. Each elector. one by one. fills his ballot, folds it, then approaches the table and kneels in prayer.
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The last time such a pronounce- -
AT SPRINGHILI.
‘ . shook the Wives and families rushed quick- ‘ ies. When it was learned for the ground for a mile in all directions 1y to the scene with the horror trapped 166 miners in the Nul 2 mine at Springhill last nightled 39 lives fresh in their memor- were believed badly
first time that 159 of the miners trapped,
Be Elected
In VotingOn Saturday
I believe should be chosen before God."
He then places his ballot on the paten and tilts it so that the ballot falls into the chalice. The election continues until a candidate ob- tains at least two-thirds-plus-one of the cardinals’ votes.
When that happens, the cardinal dean approaches the cardinal who has received the vote and asks in Latin:
"Do you accept your election by canon law as supreme pon- tiff?”
If he does, the chosen cardinal replies “Accepto” I accept. From that moment, according to the constitution, he is immedi- ater the true pope.
MARK UN DAY V
OTTAWA (CP) — United Na- tions Day today, marking the UN’s 13th anniversary, will be observed on Parliament Hill with a display of 32 flags and a car- illon concert of 22 foreign na- tional anthems. The display of flags—the blue UN flag and those of the 81 UN members—Jincludes one not flown on the hill before, that of the United Arab Republic which was admitted to the UN this year. Robert Donnell. Domin- ion carilloneur, will play the na- tional anthems.
many of the women broke into hysteria. This is a scene from the 1956 disaster.
35 Fined For Near Riot I. 7
OTTAWA (cm-Fines totalling nearly $850 were assessed Thurs- day against 35 of 36 girls and y tth who staged a near riot wi sticks, stones, bicycle chains and clubs Wednesday night out- side Arnprior, Ont. One youth pleaded not guilty to the general charge of unlawful assembly.
The culprits aged 16 to 21 years of age lined up five deep in county court to plead guilty.
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“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”
WEATHER
Overcast with occasional rain in the afternoon and evening; southerly winds 15.’Low-high 45 and 55. ‘
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Men Caught Underground
n. Springhill “Colliery
70 Reach Surface; One Miner Brought Out Dead
By Barry Calneck and Ian Donaldson Canadian Press Staff Writers SPRINGHILL. N. S. -— (OP) —Dosco spokesman Arnie Pat- erson announced early today that 96 miners were missing and 70 rescued from a mine shaken Thursday night by an earth- quakeelike upheaval of a coal mine floor here.
Mr. Pattreson said that of the 70 rescued 16 were injured and one unidentified miner was dead. It was earlier believed 167 men reported for work on the night shift Thursday but Mr. Patterson said only 166 men went into the deeps. .
The bump, an earthquake - like movement of the earth so violent it threw one man into the air, shook this town of 7,000 which two years ago trembled from an explosion which killed 39 men in an adjoining~ mine.
The 167 miners were working at various levels on a slanting, three-mile slope which leads u-n- derground from the mine en- trance. .
Fiveaman crews of respirator- equipped dnaegermen were working on one to 11/2 hour shifts while hundreds of numbed toWns- people waited in the October cold for word ofhbrotlhers, sons and husbands mapped in the deeps.
A number of miners were re- ported trapped in gas-filled poc- kets at levels 13,200 and 13,400 feet down the slope.
The No. 2 mine adjoins a closed colliery where 39 men died in a 1956 explosion. The draegermcn specially trained for the volun- tary rescue work, lost two of their number in operations that event— ually brought out 88 men safely.
Layton Amon, one of the surviv-
The girls drew $10 fines and .ors of the Thursday night up-
$3.50 costs each. The youths drew $25 fines and $3.50 costs.
Youngsters from Arnprior, 25 miles west of Ottawa, and Ren— frew, 10 miles farther west, were involved.
Fire Damages Radio Station
MONTREAL (CPL—Fire Thurs- day swept through the building of radio station CFCF and caused evacuation of about ’70 persons.
With the fire still burning two hours after [the outbreak but un- der control,’ it was believed the broadcast portion of the building, including the master control sec- tion, had been gutted.
There was no immediate esti- mate of the damage.
The station shifted broadcast- ing to its transmitter site in a suburban south shore area and kept recorded music programs going from there.
heaval, suffered shoulder and leg injuries and facial cuts.
With blood streaming down his face, he said in an interview that his legs were buried by the sudden shifting of rock whica gives the bump its name.
“I’m not hurt awful much,” he said. “It’s hard to say the chances of the others. The place is full of
as."
Frank Tibbetts, who was work- ing with Armon 13,800 feet down said the bump was so severe
Reporter Dies En Route To
Disaster Site
TRURO (CPl— John Thomp- son, 28-year-old reporter with the Weekly Dartmouth, N. S. Free Press, rushing to Springhill. N.S. to cover mine bump was fatally injured early Friday when his car crashed within the town lim- its. Thompson died before he was
moved to Hospital.
Twelve year-old Roy Regrets;
Rising. he says: “The Lord Christ who :‘1311 be my judge is,
witness that 1 choose the one uhol
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George Calder, manager of the Cumberland Railway and Coal Company, headed a 20-man d-raeger team into the mine where 146 miners were en-tomb— ed last night at Spring‘h'ill. At
HEADS DRAEGER TEAM
midnight 20 miners had been rescued. Deadly coal gas was reported at the 3,400-foot level. The situation was described by one of the rescued miners as ‘ ‘terrible‘ ' .
“it drove me in the air.”
“There are some dead," said.
Maurice Herrett, working at the 12,600 foot level, was uninjur- ed. “It was awful dusty. This is a different thing from ‘56 . . .all we can do is hope for the best." An explosion brought hundreds to the mine entrance in November, 1956. That like the bump, also happened on a Thursday.
A 20-man team of dregermen headed by mine manager George Calder entered the mine at 9 pm. ADT. They worked shifts with other draegermen, spending one to 1% hours in the deeps in search of fellow miners.
SITUATION TERRIBLE
Bert MacCarthur one of those who escaped the fury of the shift- ing strata, said rockfalls knocked out the ventilation system in some
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STOCK'HOLM (APJ—Borls Pas-
ternak, Russian poet and author of the antivCommunist novel Doc- tor Zhivago. T h u r s d a y was
awarded the 1958 Nobel ‘prize in
literature.
The award was the most dra-
‘ matic in years. The 68-year-old
author still lives just outside dos- cow. The Soviet government has not permitted‘pubh'cation in Rus- sia of his novel about what com- munism has done to freedom and tried to prevent its publication abroad.
There was speculation that the Soviet authorities would not allow Pasternak to receive the $41,420 prize, or would take reprisals against him.
Known as the greatest living poet writing in the Russian lan- guage. Pasternak despaired of publishing creative writing of his own under Stalin and for years devoted himself to translations of
and Shakespeare.
COMPLETED IN 1956
Doctor Zhivago—upon which he had been working quietly for 10 years — was completed in 1956 during the destalinzation period of comparative freedom for writ- ers. But to make certain it was
‘ , published, he sent it abroad with
KEEPS SORROWFUI. WATCH
ing. Fire fighters managed to save the nearby home of the large
a friend.
The novel first appeared in Italy in Italian last year and was pub- lished in North America last month.
The 700'page book has for its hero Yuri Audreyevich Zhivago,
such foreign classics as Goethe
areas of the mine. There was gal around the 3,400 foot level.
“The situation’s terrible," In said.
The grim days of November, ‘ 1956, were being relived by most of the hundreds of townsfolk who flocked to the mine entranco when the .bump' shook the com- munity like an earthquake.
Many of those waiting at the pithead had lost fathers, sons and brothers, among the 39 who died two years ago.
RESCUERS READY
Even as people ran down the long main street to the pit, mine- rescue crews specially-trained the famed “draegenmen” of the Nova Scotia pits were donning breath- ing apparatus to go into the deeps.
The rescue teams, of five men (Continued on page 13 C01. 3)
Russian Poet, Author Given Nobel Prize For Literature
tells. through literary bits he left behind, of his life after the Com- munist revolution.
Critics have hailed its sweep- ing breadth and placed it in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace.
IN EPIC TRADITION
The award was made by the 18 . membens of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters from funds proyided in the will of the late Alfred Nobel, inventor of dyna- mite. The citation said it was given for Pasternak‘s “important achievement both in contempor. ary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Pussian epic tradi- tion.”
Members of the academy said' they view Doctor Zhivago as one of the great philosophical novels of our time.
In the book, Doctor Zhivago says such things as these about life in Communist Russia:
“The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected it", day after day you say the opposite of what you feel. if you grovel be fore what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune."
Tracing the breakdown of per- sonal integrity in Russia. the her- oine, Lara, says that with the re- volution “falsehood came into our Russian land."
“The great misfortune. thc root of all the evil to come, was the loss of faith in the value of per-
la wealthy doctor and writer who] sonal opinion."