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New York Faces Grim Food, Fuel Shortage

Barracks Fire Takes 2 Lives

I 'l'hs Canadian Press)

Men. Feb. l- ‘rwo men died in a barracks but Ire early today at the base ramp of Exercise Moskox, iii miles north of ere.

names will be made known later by Army authorities. The fire is believed to have started from an overheated all stove, sweeping through éhe plywood and tea-paper

ullding

Dsmaguwes sstlesetell at more 01.000, including ‘llllflliflu and supplies in the ll s

For fighters cl‘ Iixerche Isis: battled thgk flames in ZI-below

west wind spreading the flamu.

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...___ HALIFAX, Feb 8 -—- (OP) -_ Jamcs Robert I-lutt. 88-year-old lightkeeper st Nichol Island, a- long the Nova Scotia coast off Sheet llarbOi’. died Saturday fol- lowing injuries received when he tripped Saturday and a shotgun he was carrying discharged. Roy- af Canadian Mounted Police offic- gills‘! said an inquest would not be e .

Coming Events

"Brackleyvs. Milton at Milton tonight. Game at Mo. Skate ‘all:

" okinole Party, Pownal Gar- age all, Monday, February 11th. Auspices ‘Y. P, U. 24-11.

"Gerda-l Seeds. All the latest and best varieties. Send for free 1946 Catalogue. Arthur Vessey, York.

"Loading Hog»! at Vernon for Davis k Fraser. Thiesdfi’ after- noon, February 5th. Ed clson.

"Hockey, at New Glasgow Rink tonight. Brookfield vs. New Glas- gow. Game starts at 8.15. skate after. 24-11

"Receiving at Crapau for gglvis & Fraser B ., every ues-

Olirn. R. N. Dawson. 12-15-tf.

“Swifls Baby Chicks estimate your chick requirements for the com season. I am now booking orders. Signed Joseph Trainer. St. Teresa's. 2-1-4-6-31.

"Buying pigs Monday at Fred- ericton, Tuesday l1 am. Charlotte- town Market Square; 1 pm. York. (Ii roads open tor trucks.) Knud Joraenaen. 2-4-11

"Ho: Social and Dulce, Cove- head Community Hell, edneads . February 0th, fin aid oi new Rin . Good music witl Charlie Glam- berlaln entertaining, . 2-4-21.

"Loading l-iogs for Davis and lh-aaer, Albany and vicinity; also Emerald, Friday, February 9th. Phone collect. A. C. Green, Albany. or G. C. Green. Emerald.

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stock to our local agents. 24-11

"Livestock Marketing Board dllkhOgd at summeraide Tues- 1‘. . th, until one o'clock p. It. Kensington until 2.80. Markets strong, returns in line, so bri us Nur hogs and cash in on w t'a lOing. I-d-li

"Livestock Marketing Scard 10a hogs at Hunter River

"fly on afternoon end ‘lues- mm

lily until tra time. ser-

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‘ll-ion to high market price. Oome

I one of us. Livestock lcerd.

"Rog breeders adlecnt Ober- mhwhm %e:te: We have no ‘-="*"‘:'."'~,....ul"?

‘seams out. ass slnsvolll‘ can't heir it Livestock

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NIWYO.RK,rbb.I-(AP)_ NevwYorkflityhelpectediobe

without the indie of

m its aunt is l will" mfi

at . AM.

w metropolis face the grim ospeet of fuel and load shortagesmcrl an

un lleled .

bout 8.500 workers who the 1 local ssc, United

. which is in dug‘? wlul t hinge. and

l c Withtmmolcrbargea tugs

e boatinacoestelarr

extending (flail Sandy H

N to New Haven, Conn. cease to move because o! lock of low

pager Willi

am ODWYII est t tary District N d, aied that l0 per oent of the egg‘; M“ coo u? m’ b’ Hill Comma of 11kt; ftood would be out off by the

and other fuel and near

we u. Only troopships —

, eerviccd by army tugs — railroad-owned tugs

by tzw oil lee are ecied to useo the llityl; main

A 40-hour instead of a 48-hour weekhasbeerlesksdbytilellnicn Ius an increase in hourly rates of ‘L5H i0 $1.5 from $1.10 to $1.40 i:

icensed pemonnel and a rise

h 1 l th t U7 to 7:111!’ ygay, rem e curreu _

a flat e130 for unlic nnel

d perso . mgr offer of IO-Oefifiill-hbllghi-

. mo. e — quickly rejected by the Union. . l. S. Prcmlar Comments 0a Dttaws Conference

(ll The Canadian Press) AX, Feb. 3—Premier An- gus L. Macdorlald oi Nova Scotia returned to the Provincial 0a ital

tonight from the Dominlom. ov-

incliiall flier-once in Otte

we. e mler said there still were points that had not been ironed

out satisfactorily. These matters

will be studied during the next two months and Premier Macdon- G aid stated that should satisfactory arrangements be reached, there

would be a good possibility of an agreement at the next Donlinion- Provincial meeting in April.

Feud May Ba Cause Df Double Slaying

PELLBROKE. Onto Feb. 3 -— (c?) -- Dazed and downcast, Th0- mas Gibbons, towering, 03-year-old bachelor farmer of Renfrew, Ont., tonight was held 1n jail here on a murder charge arising from the double slaying of two brothers in s lung-standing feud over the use of a rural laneivay.

The brothers were John Iidwerd FitzMaurice. S5. and Joseph 83. shot and killed Friday with a Win- chester repeating rifle on the lone- ly roadway in dispute when they halted their team oi horses and of- fered to help Gibbons get his car out of deep snow.

Gibbons who telephoned police and reported the crime. was ar- rested and held on a charge oi murder at Ranfrew until Saturday afternoon. l-le was arraigned be- fore JPA. Devine. justice of the peace, and remanded a week. Later he was transferred to the County Jail ~at Pembroke where he will appear next Saturday before Judge PM. Galligah.

chattin will a reporter in his Renfrew ail cell before he was ar- raigned, Gibbons referred in a nlrnbll conversation to some "trouble he had with the bro- thcri, but did not amplify the re- mer .

Nigbbors, however, said there had been a long-standing feud be- tween Gibbons and the brothers over the use oi the lanewey vnlich ran through Gibbons to a woooiot owned bv the yI. The tanner ‘ibjeoted to the brothers using the roadway while they. in

. inisted it was the only way iheycould reach their property.

Irate Wednesday" com- mned to police at the brothers pmybeen respalsiug on his pro-

I3 Aged Persons Burn To Death In Cl

tel hen

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marl Oghtilliwllcgem t e aged in suburban d Ba rose to 1| today ea ohn etere in 86-year-old occupant, ed of

' till alli- F""l.'.:.'t.r"",l,,."' that". ..

powerfu. stubby boats mhedulew wet off their Jobs tor lnidn t in a strike celled by Marine Division. International Longlhcrenlenk As- the

cial Premiers back in their ca -

Quebec Command. G00 M or- General ling. Rcenaud. QB. O E.

offices from tandem, and Agricui

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E. P. Cppenheim, Famous Writer 0i Spy Stories Dies

_fore any healt insurance measure

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81'. PIPER. PORT, Channel Islands, Feb. 8 - (OP) - 3.‘. Phillips Oppenheim, popular fiction writer for move than half a century, died in his sleep today at his home here. l-le was 79. Tlhe famous author of spy thrill- ers, mystery and society adventure books had been ill for- Wbeks ago be suffered a stroke and he had several oiiilcrs

put slackcned ‘d

homes on the Riviera and the Channel islands, he had been turning out books at the rate oi three or four a year from the beginning of the century.

Mr. Oppenheim attributed his career as a writer to a custom his Inaugurated oi requiring each child lc write a story to be read on Christmas Eve in prize going to the author of the one voted tile best by the family. At the age oi 13 Mr. broke his father's winning streak. Born in London, Oct. 22. 1066. Mr. Oppenheim received only

Leicester where his father had a leather business. Though he sold his first short story when he was la and h's first novel two years Oppenheim managed the family business until he was 4o while writing scores of novels "on the side‘ before he started his full-time literary career.

Mr, Oppenneim had written more than 150 novels of dctecticn and intrigue in addition to many short

l! suchnbeat-sgiiers as "

charge of the Dominion Pubic Saturday.

times daily, will be prepared for a number of areas of the Bay 0i Fundy. the Gulf of St. Lawrence a and the Atlartic adjacent to Nova

Scotia. In this way. it was el- pained, fishermen and mariners in each locality would have avail- able a forecast for their own pair- ticular area. The forecasts will be ‘broadcast and distrbuted to Mar- itime newspapers.

ermen will be provided through a system of storm warnings when winds of lid-miles per-hour or high- Cl‘ were expected.

"Murder at Monte Carlo" (1932) and "The Lost Train (1941). 5,000 quuris of nltro-glycerine to

iinnic wcll No. 2 in Turner Valley

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Three Children Are Asphyxiatsd

sivc-onc of the most powerful known —was completed Saturday, but other details, including the loading oi‘ the firing gun, hrid to be worked out. ~ .

After 24 hours of delay, it was announced tonight the blast would be set of! between 11 am. and noon, E.S.T. tomorrow.

‘IOHDNTO. Feb. I - Three children were asphyxiated Ln their East Toronto home last ni ht when fire burnt a cheater-

livi De d

n! are Morris McGratn. 4 1- tilree and Patricia. two.

‘AITIONOMICAL TOWN”

"rejuvenate" the well and perhaps the Turner Valley oil fields, the largest producer in Canada.

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An "astronomical town," consist- ing of ler e observatories and oth- ar ectablie merits for astronomical research, is among settlements on whlcglnccnstruction

n ut the odoviet Unio tilts reported today.

Canadian Zoldisrslwers charged in court here Saturday with stealing a“ large quantity of merchandise

bert Military Camp, near here, Jan, 5. A Truro merchant, Casein I-Iarb, was char d with receiving stolen goods. l cases were l\- mended until Feb. I.

M ky, Sgt. Murray nldugte. John A. Lund, were mem- bers of the Debert Camp Fire De-

eveland ‘Fire

roglirlvivora agreed that the fire d quickly within a few min- after the 133d of en exp s-

hoes was eatlma ‘e

‘iRallllway Wharf Repairs Tender Is Awarded To

Original Contractors

Preparing For Next Session *

Journlment until April and provin-

ltals, Prime Minister King and is cabinet will begin this week their task oi drafting legislation fcri the next session

Justice Minister St. Laurent and oi

Trade and Commerce Minister MacKinnon have returned to their

ture Minister Gardiner and Secre- tany of Sta'e Paul Martin are ex- pected shortly.

‘llhe conference with its indetc - minute ending makes it unlikely that the Government will ask Par- liament to pass a health insurance measure next session. Provincial agreement is a first essential to a bll of this kind, and as yet the provinces are far from unanimous on matters o! public health. More- over, the Canadian Medical Assoc- iation has asked ihat it be kept fully lnlform and consulted be-

is put, before the commom.

One of the early measures of the next session of Parliament will be the Canadian Citizenship Bill which is i0 be iniroduced b Sec- retary of State Martin. So a.r all groups have given approval of thb principle of the bill which creates a new Canadian citizenship with- out prejudice to the righa of a Canadian as a British subject. An~ ticipating the bill, organizations in many ports of the Dominion. notably those where ‘here are large proportions of "new Canadians" are

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Plan Weather Forecast Service Fcr__Fl_shsrmell

HALIFAX. Feb. S -—- (OP) -—'Ik1e Dom nion Public Weather Office at Halifax will inaugurate c new weather forecast service for fish- ermen and other marine industries

operating in the coastal waters of ,

the Maritime Provinces Feb. ll. RA I-Tornstcin, meteorologist in

lvelltilel- Oiuce, announced here Forecasts to be ‘issued three

Additional safeminrds lo fish-

Turner-ila-Il-ayklmi eiayed llnill Today

CADGARY, Feb. 3—Exploslorl of

be set-off at the bottom of Weill has been postponed until tomor- Loadlng of the dangerous explo-

The explosion is designed to

Soldiers Charged Wltll Theft At Dabort Camp

n Th c ill r rshilo ° émfi-ti‘. snflillm

m the Salvation Army at De-

The three soldiers, aatggley . on-

council has been passed granting authority cept the tender of J. P. Porter and B Montreal, for repairs mprovernenta to the railway

This will entail, at unit prices of the tender, an expenditure of

the above sfiecc was received on Saturday by M. J Lester Douglas, M.P., from the Alnhonae Fournlsr, Minister

inlsterk letter was in ac- h previous announcements that money for this been revoted at the and that tenders had been cal ed with a view to having the work started at the

following strong representations the Queen's County members

The contract was given to the same Montreal firm whlcn held the original contract. awarded on Jan. 5, 1940 at a total estimated 000. The sum of $150,- sly been votr-d in the Estimates, but on June 25, 194.0, the work was discontinued on the plea cf wartime economy.

Six Island Airmen Land AtNew York

NEW YORK. Feb. 3 - (OP) — A score of troop trains, their win~ dows ablaze with peacetime lights, high-bJalled out of New York and

home 12,000 Canadian fighting men and women who arriv n aboard the liner Queen Elisabe

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for a glimpse of New York's busy and Manhattalws stately

to board waiting trains Prince Edward Ts the troopship incl d Sgt J FM. Gsndet, Mlscouche. Hobbs, Georgetown. NfI‘. MacLeod, Cardigan. Lac. Al. McCarville, 63 Victoria

Op , L, Monaghan, Kelly's Cross. Sgt. 11.11.. Whitten, Coleman.

News Briefs

BOSTON. Eingland, Blob. I — Sir Gordon MacDonald, 91-year-old govemor-desigrlate said Saturday one c-f his biggest jobs will be to pre- pare for the restoration of popular government in the ancient colony. Si! Gordon is leaving his post as {Britain's regional fuel controller and will proceed lo Newfoundland at the end of March.

WASHINGTON, Feb 3 —- (Cl?) —Oonadian and United States tourists in greater

as motoring. t ain and air facilities

the two countries are try g to make the border formalities more than they have been in

VATICAN CITY, Feb. 8 — (Al?) -1-Iundreds of trained workmen. are busy giving the Vatican a thor g ough cleaning and preparation for

beginning Feb 18.

Creamery Butter Stocks Are Down

OTTAWA. Feb. 3 - (OP creamenv butter held l

ipel cities in Canada on to lied 18,002.56‘! pounds. 39,507,910 gounde

.25 m. 1 106, the Dominon Bureau tatistics Nlwrted Saturday. Oheeee stocks Fm.

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Vlzili Q " CASH FUR BREAD ' CAKCH-

PIES ‘COOKIES

P. E. I. Premier Speaks At Guelph

QUE-PH. ont, Feb. s - (GP)- Premier J Walter Jones of Prince Edward Island tonight told mam. bers of the faculty and students of the Ontario Agriculture College here that the Dominion-Provincial conference was concerned princl. pally with who should have con.

ol of corporation and personal

income taxes.

, "I "link 1i is rumble," he said. ‘that when the conference has concluded corporation taxes will . be Blwnt all over l3anada." Prince Ekivward Island, he said, spent $15

ill tho rest of Canada, principal]

Ontario and Quebec, for every lio- lar that P111. received from the other Provinces. The Island had to get the rest of its income from ex-

port trade

Addressing the annual banquet of the Husbandry Club of the co]. loge, Premier Jones devoted much of his speech to the youth start- ing in agriculture. He sold a mort- nflke on the fann isn't such a bad

idea for such a youth.

" very 1m you've been iliwllfih COW-Kc will lay you open to suspicion You must make your way in the community If you start with a mortgage and pay it off

that will raise the other farmers’ estimation of you. But you'll have

to show more modesty than you are showing around O.A.C."

A master breeder of holsteln cattle which won $4,800 in prizes

at the Canadian National Exhib-

ition and Rcvsl Winter Fair in one year, the Premier said that the inbreeding of cattle was not a. dan- gerous practice. as was generally believed. He declared he started 30 years ago with three animals and had carried on his PEI. farm s'nce with only two and a half out-crosses.

New California, N-Y-Ccumerilicl Air Record Set

NEW YORK, Feb. 3 —- AP) - A coast-io-coast commercial flight re- cord of seven hours, 27 minutes and

48 seconds was set today by

a

Transcontinental and Western Air

Lines Constellation plane on a

non-etc flight from lBurbank, e

Caliifl, o La. Guardia Fl d

me giant airliner, piloted by Jack Frye, president of Transcon- tinental and Western Air, Inc., carried 45 passengers and a crew of seven-a record number of per- sons for a cross-country commer-

cial flight

The previous coast-to-coast com- mercial flight record was 11 hours and 55 minutes. also set by T-WA.

with a stratolinar in July, 1940.

We flew at an avers. e s ed oi

g He Frye said. "We made it at a maximum of 17,000 feet but our average was between 15,000 to 16,000 feet. The

345 to 350 miles an hour,

distance was 2,490 miles."

The same plane set an eaabwert commercial record of 10 hours and 40 minutes Friday. On this flight

it made a stop at Kansas City. set t flight 26 seconds.

Royal Winter Fair To Be liesumed This Year

By The Canadian Preset

TO ONTO, Feb. 3-'I‘he Royal Winter Fair, suspended during the war, will be resumed in 1046, a] meeting of the fair’: board ol dlr-‘_ ectors decided yesterday. The board set tentative date for the.

194s fall- at Nov. l2 it Nov. 30-

Elderiflltlrsons Durll To Death In Log Cabin

O'I'I‘AWA I'd). 8 — (W) -—-

Tbrec elderly persons, two broth

errs

and a sister were burned to death last. night in a fire'in their log some i5

cabin near North Gower. milau south of here.

Bodies of James Tobin, ‘i0; his bloiiher, Patrick, ‘l8; and a skier. Miss Winnifred, 80, were

FIIIY DAMAGE) HALIFAX Nb. S -- (C?) —.A.n

ice jam in the Strait of Oanso damaged the Department of High- ways car ferry, it was announced here Seturda" and some repairs will be necessary before the ser- vice between Mulg-reve and Port llawlresbury can be resumed.

ughout many other districts

of the Province. icv highways have seriously impeded tral ic.

'I'I.U IN BRITAIN

LONDON Feb. l-(Ari-The Ilirliltry of 1mm. seld today in- Hruns l fluenaa la more widespread than it has been since i The Min- ie reported I'll in iienne deaths- ln ndon and surroundivl towns is the week ended m. i

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A t- r lied P-80 army fighter

jeihbp oggtOfd transcontinental time for all types of planes Jan. 26. making the coast-to-coast rim in four hours, 13 minutes and

town. Councillor Morrison, chair- mittee, has Issued the explanation west circuit to prevent the steeple

end early

Canosoctgafs 1945 hm1l2ey the 194 level of 34, 0,000 the Dominion Bureau of S tistice reported Saturday. Crops in On- tario and Quebec were unusually small, accounting for most of ifhe

price per pound was cents. com ed with 15 cents in 1944. but he total value of the crop was $4,946,000, six per cent be low 19-14, Average yield per colony

was 59 than the vious y

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llbeoripilon osuvssss lass. usu. use; other mslssss e mas. use.

BURN ED

Loss ls Estimated

More Than $100,000

Firemen Defeated In long Battle To Save Seventy-

Year-Did

Only the charred hulk remains today of St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church 1n Summersldc. The 70- year-old brick structure was des- troyed yesterday by a fire which broke out about eight o'clock in the morning. Firemen fought a see-saw battle with the flames for about two hours before it aecame evident that tho building was doomed. By eleven o'clock the whole church was s mass of flames and at about 11.40 the l55-fo0t steeple with its large cross top- pled and fell into the body of the church. Only the brick walla now remain standing.