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STORMS CAUSE HEAVY DAMAGE T0 CROPS IN MIDWEST -U. s.

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Hunting Party Believed Killecl In Quebec Plane Crash

U. S. lG0v’t Conciliator Will Attempt To Break

Steel Strike

100 Flee Fire In Chicago Hotel

crncaco, Oct. to —(OP) 4pm Garfield Hotel was reduced tn riitrzle by roaring flames early m. (lily, sending more than 100 pep. sons stumbling eleepily into the street to escape the fire.

Fire licked 100 feet upward es the three-storey brick structure became an inferno.

Six firefighter: and a few fesid. cnts were overcome by smoke. but no other injuries were reported.

The roof caved in and large sect- ions of the walls collapsed.

The hotel is located in the Negro district on tlic South Side.

Presbyterian Y. P. S. Maritime Conventipii

(By The Canadian Press)

SAINT JOHN, N. B., Oct. 10-- Officers elected at the 10th an- nual convention of the Young People's Society of the Maritime Synod, Presbyterian Church, held at Weslvillc. N. S., during the week-end, were announced here tonight by VlCB-PPESlClEDi Lyman F. D. Purnell.

Miss Jean MacDonald, Sydney, N. S,, is president. Vice-presid- ents, in addition to Mr. Purnell, are George Chldwell. Sydney Min- es. N. 5.; Hunter Olie, St. John's, Nfld; Miss Dorothy Russell, Chat- ham, N. B.; Miss Mabel Auld, Charlottetown. and Miss Muriel MscLellan. Halifax.

The secretary Iid treasurer, re- spectively, are Miss Thelma Lar- ter, Montague, P. E. 1., and Robert Murray. New Glasgow, N.S. Ralph Kane, Halifax, was named editor of the Society Bulletin.

LIFEB UNCERTAINTY

LUM, Mich, Oct. iii - (A?) ._ In a. prayer Sunday at a Durst Methodist Church, Rev, Elmer Drake. 72, commented on life's un- certainty, and told his congrega- tion: "Some of you may not be able to return to see God next week." A moment later he drop- DM dead.

Coming Events’

"Show "Sis Hopkins" at. Clyde River Monday night at 8.30.

"Mail your Films to Gsrnhum Photo Studio. Charlottetown.

"Dance in New Glasgow hall, Tuesday, Oct. 11 iii aid of rink. .-

“Dance in New Glasgow hall. Tuesday, Oct. 11 in aid of rink.

"Buying live and dressed poultry daily. Parker Canflcid. Cropaud.

"Show. "Bis Hopkins" st Brad- Blllbane tonight at 8.30. Dance after s cw.

"Dance every Frid st lie Gordon Lodge.

Dancing from 9 till 1.

"Masquerade Dance, Stella Mai-is Hall. North Rustico, Wednesday night, October 12th.

"Now buying Timbthy Seed, Reil- istered, Cleaned or U ' ned. Mc- Guigsn and Boyle.

"Regular Dance st the "so: Breeze ’. Victoria. each Wednes- on. Dlnciq 9 till 1.

'.“Bean supper, MscMlllaNs Restaurant, Wood Islands, Oct- ober 12, Sponsored by Women's Institute in aid of school. “Regular Dance ha! Royalty link mil. “nissssy. October not. Eastern thm Boys. Dancing 9.30 us leaving I. M. T. It

"Dates to remember. Oct. 2i- . for the Charlottetown Trade end Industries Isis at. the Arm- ouries, featuring Don Mess '- Rood t! as entertainment. Sponsored by Y's Men.

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Deadlock

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 10—-(AP)— The United States Government is 30in: to try to break up [he steel strike deadlock,

Concliiator director Cyrus Chlng "id "d" he is, arranging infor- msl meetings with leading steel companies and the striking United Steelworkers (C.I.O.)

It is the first peace move since the country~wide steel shutdown u?!" 1° 1185's I10 in s war over free pensions. The Government made thres futile efforts to settle ‘h! disbute before the walkout.

Chinibhlrssdy has moved into the four-week coul strike. He got the United Mines Workers (Ind) chief, John L. Lewis, and mine filwrflifll‘! l0 Bgree on talking con- tract again this wcek,

The steel action had been ex- pcctcd as strike effects spread.

But industry-loading United States Steel Corporation, spear- heading the labor fight with Phil- llll Murray, steel union president. said it has not. yet been notified of the Government move, Com- ment wss declined.

There also was no immediate re- action from union sources.

Both sides have held doggedly to their pro-strike positions-the _\lnl0n for free insurance and pen- sions recommended by a presiden- tial hoard; the industry for wel- fare benefits with workers help- ing to foot the bill.

Ching's brief statement in Washington said he is arranging a schedule of "spérate and infor- mal conferences with represents- tives of some of the leading steel companies and with represents- tives of the United Steelworkers of America."

Ching‘s move came as the steel union announced two more firms have signed on union terms.

They are Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Company near Pittsburgh, and the Massey-Harris Company of Buf- falo, N. Y. Massey-Harris is a steel fabricating firm employing 2,000. ~Kelsey Hayes has 650 workers.

Both companies agreed to psy workers a IO-cent pension and insurance package without em- ployee contributions. This con- forms with the presidential board recommendations.

A total of 10 firms have signed. none of them among the top pro- ducers.

The big steel and cosl strikes have endangered hundreds of thousands of jobs.

Breadwinners tn scores of indus- tries are working on borrowed time—-with unemplo met-t s sure thing if the walkouts last another week or 10 days.

So far, only about 50.000 have

by the coal walkout now 22 days old and the steel strike which started 10 days ago. Those work stoppages have made nearly 850,- 000 workers idle. -

86.9 Above Zero Ar N. Y. Monday

NEW YORK, Oct. 10- (AP)- The World Series fever is over but New Yorkers got no chance to cool off today. The temperature soared to 86.9 degrees, an ail-time record for the date. The previous record was 86.4 on Oct. 10, 1939.

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During the rule of England's Ed- ward I. death by burning st the

been laid off in allied ‘industries,

Fire Prevention Week Opens . In Canada ‘

OTTAWA, Oct. m _ 4gp) Canada's No, l. enemy _- in‘ peace- time at least - is coming in for a. thorough going-over this week. The enemy is fire,

Fire, which takes a deadly toll 0! 11W! and dollars each year, comes under close public scrutiny all this week. The Ottawa Fire De- partment, which has copped the national fire prevention award the last three years in a row, is in the market for its fourth straight. Eye-catching, fire-red motifs on store windows throughout the town are marking the drive com- manded by Fire Chief Gray Burn- ett. They heralded dozens of similar campaigns by other fire departments across the country. Ottawa's smooth-functioning de- partment will give residents of this area. little opportunity to forget the consequences of smouldering

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' Czech Purge Extends

Into Army OfficersRanks

_ New Endurance Flight Record »

YUMA. Arlz.. ‘lot. 10—(AP) —The record-breaking Yuma endurance fliers came down at. 3=33 o-m. MST (1:35 p.rn. ADT) today after 1,124 hours, 1B minutes in the air.

Pilot Bob Woodhousg and Woody Jongeward and their light Aeroncs plane, "City of Yuma" were escorted to the landing by eight navy 511-. croft.

Deputy Sheriff K, T. Splawn estimated 7,000 to 8,000 por- sons jammed tlie airport to welcome the fliers who had spent 46 clays cooped up in the cabin of tho little plane.

Woodhousc anti Jongeward, Yuma business men and navy nvintion veterans, cracked the old endurance record of 1,008 hours last. Wednesday,

To Receive Honorary Doctorate At Laval

QUEBEC. Oct. 10—-(CP) -— An honorary doctorate from Laval University will be conferred on J. Henri Blanchard of Charlottetown at the annual convention here Oct. 14-1‘! of Le Comite de Survlvance Francoise (Committee for Survival of French Culture).

Mr. Blanchard has represented French-speaking Canadians in Prince Edward Island on the committee SlnCe 1937, -

The committee's order nf fidelity established two years ago will be conferred on sevcral other Cano- dians for their efforts to maintain the position of French culture in Canada.

lleavy Seas Delay long Towing lob ,

HALIFAX, Oct. 10—(CP)-—One of the longest towln! 30b! 1H Canadian shipping history bogged down temporarily foclny in the Strait of Belle Isle between Lab- rador and Newfoundland.

The R, C. M. P, Marine Divis- ion reported here that the R. C. M. P. cutter MacBrien and the R. C. A. F. supply vessel Malahat had been forced to put into Chateau Bay, on the Labrador side of the strait, when heavy sens parted the tow-line.

The Malahat, with 11 men aboard, broke down in mid-Sep- tember south of Nottingham Is- land near the entrance to Hudson Bay, The Canadian frigate Swen- sea towed her 1,100 miles to Goose Bay, Labrador. The Swansea re- turned to Halifax and the Mac- Brlen took over.

The cutter will resume the 1,- OOO-mile tow to Halifax as soon as

stake was the punishment for arson.

the weather abzites.

MOSCOW. Oct. i0 — (AP) - Russia is exhibiting an increasing interest in family solidarity.

This is seen in the tightening of the divorce law and in the em- phnlis being pieced on parents’ responsibility to children. Immor- silty is described es a vestige of capitalism which has no place in s socialist state.

A recent. ruling by the Soviet. supreme court put more teeth in the five-yesr-olt‘. divorce law. The court ssid that divorces will be granted now only when grounds sre serious and well-founded, when conciliation has felled of when the continuance of the marriage would contradict "the principles of Communist morality."

The present divorce law went into effect in 1H4 after the Oom- mmis booavrie alarmed at the number of broken marriages in Russia. Before the iew was adopt- ed s husband and wife could sod their marriage imply by sQister- l lmlll f”

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Communists Place New Emphasis On Family Life

In sn article by V. Kolbanovskii, the magazine said the chief lune. tion of the soviet family is to bring up children in the spirit of Soviet pstrioti- ".1 as "active and conscious builders of Common. ism."

Love must be the fundamental motive for marriage, the utters sold. It contended love ie freed from the distorting influence of private property only in the con. ditions of Socialism and that only in a Socialist society does love be- come a "genuine human feeling."

Bolshevik condemned immorality which it referred 00 l5. e ghgg-gg. tcristic of bourgeois family iifs, Decisring that. "vestiges of capit- alism" in family life are still found occasionally in Russia, the mag". me said:

"Vile attitudes n! men to wqmgn have not. yet. been uprooug; 9gp. tein ‘types’ shamelessly deceive worsen. thus dealing mom shook to women-mothers, to children. ‘mm are encountered also eases of light-minded conduct of wom- en In their personal life which

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Record Attendance At

A. A. Conference Here Over Week - End

A local business men, member of the Charlottetown group of A.A., Sunday was named president of the Maritime inter-group Asso- ciation of Alcoholics Anonymous at the second annual conference held here on Saturday and Sun- day. It. was the biggest conference of its kind ever held in the Mari- times and during the various meetings held, guest speakers who addressed. the gatherings paid splendid tribute to the work that the Alcoholics Anonymous has al- ready accomplished throughout the Maritlmes in the three years that it has been in existence.

So great has been its growth that from a very small start about three years sgo the Maritime in- fer-group now boasts 1200 mem- bers in the 42 groups that are act- ive with a steady increase being noted in members making efforts to combat the scourge of alcohol- ism.

Members comprising the group include doctors. lawyers. salesmen. bankers. college professors. to name a few, while all the vat-ions other occupations are also “Il-‘ll represented. Groups havini! del- egates present at the conference included Moncton, Halifax. Yar- mcuth. Saint John. Amherst. Sus- sex. Camobeliton, Slit-disc, Antig- onish, Sydnev. Sydney Mines. Glace Bay, Trenton, Stellarton.

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News In Brief

OSLO, Oct. 10—-(Reuters)-—l‘irst lndicstions from today's polling in the Norwegian general elections showed tonight that the Labor (Social Democrat) Party was maintaining its majority in Par- liament. It held 76 of the 150 seats in the old House.

MONTREAL, Oct. l0-(CP)— Vanguard of the Young Liberal Federation of Canada, headed by its national secretary William J. Mulock of Ottawa, arrived here this week-end to attend the third biennial convention since its foun- dation in Winnipeg in 1944.

TORONTO. Oct. l0—(CP)-—

Richard Reginald Railton, reputed

to be the first man to photograph the Dionne quintuplets. died Sun-

day in suburban Weston. Ifs was representing the North Bay Nug- get when he photographed the Quint! four hours after their birth

in Msy1l984. 1W0 MINER! KILLED

BELL ISLAND. Nfid- Oct. 10 — were No. 6 mine here yesterday when they were hit. ore trucks. Randall Sim-see left a wife and two child- ren. Bell Island is in Conception Bay, about 20 miles from St. John's.

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‘PRAGUE. Oct. 1o -—(AP) -—Tl1€ long arm of Czcchoslovskiirs purge- busy security police has reached once more into the ‘anrny, reliable informants said tonight, snd m“ jailed numerous officers on charges o_f high treason.

Other informants said 40 more Roman Catholic priests and nuns have been arrested on the coun- try's blistering church-state front. More than 300 now are said to be in Czech jails for opposing s, p.-o- posed bill placing local Commun- ist Government control over all churches.

And on the “class warfare" front, the roundup of thousandg 0t "bourgeois." made up mostly of small business men and profession- als, was reported continuing, but on s diminishing scale.

(The British Foreign Office said in London it has reports that 100 to 200 Czech Government employ- ees also have been arrested in the last nine days.)

None of these waves of arrest.- the months-long seizures of Roman Catholic clergy. the army's treason purges and the sweeping up of the middle closer-has been officially reported in the Czech Government- controllecl press. But diplomats predict that when the purge has been completed the Government will announce it has liquidated a huge underground movement.

The new army purge was report» ed despite assertions by high army spkoesmen in recent speeches that the officer ranks of the army had been completely purged of "react- lonaries" and that it. was only necessary now to tighten the political discipline of the ranks.

The wave of arrests of civilians and small Government job-holders is sold to have two purposes:

1. To get rid of political undesirables -- both of the right wing and those influenced by Premier Tim's independent Yugoslav Communism.

2. To snatch up the "capitol- ist." properties of small business men and to send their owners off to labor camps and coal and uranium mines.

Some Czechs in Prague report that efforts to trace arrested relatives have proved fruitless. Meanwhile. s. special committee of the National Assembly approved

the Government bill placing Czechoslovakian chiirches under state control.

More arrests of priests were ex- pected ss the closely-guarded Arch- bishop Joseph Beran issued new orders to fight. the bill to the bitter end.

(By l. M. Roberts, Jr., Associated Prose News Analyst)

United Nations interest centres intensely but not hopefully today on the atomic statement which Russia is expected to make in the Security Council.

Jakob Malik aroused much spec- ulation when he arrived from Russia lost week with the prom- ise of something new.

Had Russia, now possessing bomb production facilities of her own, decided to seek a compromise in the long deadlock over proposed controls?

With further consideration, that speculation has died down. Even if Russia comes up today with anything more than the generali- ties to which other delegations have become accustomed, it is not expected to be an agreement with the United States demand for iron-clad inspection and non-veto- eble controls. And lacking that, no settlement is possible.

That's probably what President Truman meant when he said he wasn't interested in anythlfls the Russians might have to say 011 the subject. He knew they weren't going to say the required words.

Russia wants a mere nitrfemtnt not to produce atomic weapons, with the Western Powers accept-

oing so. If that were possible it would represent a condition of mutual trust under which there would be no cold war. It would mark the mlllenlusn, when peace would be so secure that no atomic agreement would he necessary be- cause there would be no inter- national fsar.

The United States is having great difficulty working out an atomic partnership with Canada and Britain, her best friends. War between them ts inconceiv- able, But the men responsible know that they will be held sc- countsble in their country's his- tor-y for any failure to perceive even the imperceptible.

In their sdvsnce appraisal of today's situation observers recall. also, that. the only concrete con- cession made by Russia in the

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Three Brides. Recovered From Small lalt_e

New Protest In NJ. 3"‘ Intermediate Series

ST. MICHEL DES SAINTS, Que. Oct. 10—(CP)—-A. Comtois, ‘hotel keeper st this Laurentian village, said tonight that. the bodies of three men, believed to have been klllcdiin a plane crash, had been

recovered from Lake Toro, 1O miles from here.

He identified the victims as three Montreal physicians. They

are Rene Dandurand, owner of a hunting lodge near here; Emile l-Qgfflnd BN1 Gebraes Cousineau.

Comtois said the plane crashed into the lake Sunday night about 7 p.m. EDT. He seid the plane struck the water about 40 feet from the shore,

Two other persons, a guide and the plane's pilot were believed also to have died in the crash.

They were identified as Russell Holmes, the pilot of the plane and former R.A.F. Ferry Commend flycr, and guide Conrad Delorme of Si. Michel Des Saints.

First word of the crash came from Provincial Police at Montreal who announced earlier tonight that four persons had died in a plane crash at’. St. Michel des Saints. They were unable to iden- tify those killed.

Owners of the plane, World Wide Aviation Company at St. Johns, Que., were vague about de- tails of the crash, admitting only that one of their planes was miss- ing somewhere in the Leurentisin mountains.

Jules Longpre, chief fire warden in this district, said that he had gone to Lake Toro where the plane crashed and the aircraft ap- peared to be only “slightly dam- aged". He said there was no sign of the occupants of the plane.

The fire warden said he could release no further details until an announcement had been made by officials of the World Wide Avia- tion Company.

The hotel keeper said that a party of men employed by him had recovered the three bodies from the water.

Ho said that the men were con- tlnuirig dragging operations to- night for the two missing rnen.

The doctors. all staff membersof the Hotel Dieu Hospital st Mont- real, were members of a party that. had been moose hunting in the district for the last week. Three other memibers of the party, also doctors, returned to Montreal to-

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Await Russia's Promised Atomic Statement This Week

Reward Offered In Saint John Murder

SAINT JOHN, N.B.. Oct. 1i - (CP) _ The city of Saint John is offering a reward of $500 for information in the case of mur- der victlm William Puddington.

The body of the 72-year-old taxi driver, his head‘ crushed by blows apparently inflicted with a bump- er Jack, was found near the city outskirts early last. Friday after he had answered an unidentified man's telephone call for a car to pick u-p two passengers. The slain driver was robbed of $26.

Police Chief J.J. Oakes an- nounced the reward “for informa- tion which will lead to the arrest. and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the mur- der of William Puddingtori."

LONDON, Oct. 10—(CP)—Em- ergency conferences on security at Buckingham Palace Were held to- day at Scotland Yard and the Works Ministry following discov- opy of a man hiding in a room near the King's quarters Saturday night.