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FATALLY INJURED AT SACKVILII

Report PlotTo Kill Qthcrlndian Leaders

Fab";- Isilteseue d From Burning House

Delegates Leave For Fisheries Conference

‘rise second iannusl rnepting of ma East Coast Fisheries Confer- ence will be held at Quebec Oity mum-y 2, 8, 4. The Prince Dd- wsrd Island Fisheries Federation will be represented by Mr. S. B. mrlioe, president, Charlottetown. m. John 'a. Myrick. Alberton. put president, and directors Mr. 1, L, Noonsn, Charlottetown, and Mr. Paul Gallant. Soul-is. The Prince Edward Island Government will be represented by Mr. l-f. H. Cox, M.L.A.. and Mr. William Ag- new. Newfoundland trade com- lnissloner; also attending will be m. Peter A. Mcleilan. Fisheries mgaecior of Souris.

Papers will be delivered at the conference, on export marketing by Mr. Burl-roe. and on domestic marketing by Mir. Noonan.

Sight Wreckage-- Cl Crashed Plane

HAMILTON, Bermuda, Feb. l- (CPl - First trace of a British South American Airways plane missing over the Atlantic since Friday with 29 persons aboard was believed sighted by searching air- craft. 350 miles nortl-l‘ west of here today.

'l‘wo United States Coast Guard cutters have been sent to comb the area where the object, ro- ported as "a rylfiidriccl orange ob- ject about eight feet long" was seen. The object was described cl serial wreckage.

Italy, u. s. win Sign Friendship Treaty g

ROME. Feb. 1—(A.P)—Italy snd the United States yvlll sign s treaty of friendship, commerce and navi- gation Monday. The signing in Rome will mark formal re-estab- iishment of friendly trade relation- ships between the United States and the former enemy power.

Comping Events

“Dance at Walter Conrniclra, Kickers. February 3rd. .

"Store closed Monday. Feb. 2nd. Stock taking. MoGruigan 8s Boyle.

"Souris Hospital visiting hours 2301c 3.30 P. M_. and ‘l to 8.30 P. M.

"Store closed Monday, Feb. 2nd. stock taking. McGuigan dz Boyle.

"Bfidilc party K» of C. Hall, Mo. Wednesday. Feb. s.

I tonight at filter "I. Husker River Roysh yum Charlottetown Bombers.

‘tiiocksv at New Glasgow Rdnk Wiioht. n 1 sgow cwmum ca: a Ilrla versus

"lwthooi-t ‘Ramblers vs. Milton Hornets st Milton Rink tonight. Pobrusry l.

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A four-snonths-cid baby boy was rescued about. 10.10 last night from a blaming house located opposite the Clover Cliub on. Grafton St. The hotlse is owned and occupied by Mr. and. Mrs. Roy MacKinnon.

The parents were absent from the house and the baby was up- stairs in a cot when the alarm was sent 1n.

Fire Ohied’ H. H. Jewell ssldiast night that the baby probsblyowea its life to the quick action of Fireman "Inn" Connolly who, de- spite the thick, billowing clouds of heavy smoke rushed upstairs upon hearing s. baby crying and snatched the infant from its cot.

Other firemen. Chief Jewell said,-

who were quickly on the scene were Firemen vlrllllsrin Campbell and Gerald Maddigan. All these firemen, he said, live near there.

The. fire originated upstairs. Chief Jewell said, but it did not appear as 1f it had caught from a stove. A Chesterfield and a chair belonging to the suite were badly damaged but the house itself sus- tained little damage as the fire- men quickly extinguished the blaze.

The baiby- was taken to the City Hospital for observation. Appar- ently the child was not harmed.

"BETTER- THAN GRABLE"

ST. HELENE. Lancashlre. .1131:- land - (C?) - A coal tub came to the surface at a local mine bear- ing the chalked words: "Latest. on output: with better driilcrs- and better cable, we'd have better fig- ures than Betty Gablo."

Police Move To Crush Conspiracy

B! G. MILTON SILLY

NIWDUlaHI.I\b.l- (AP)— Prime Minister Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru of India, and two other key Government leaders have been marked for murder in a deeply laid conspiracy which police are moving to crush. ’ ~ Sardar Vallebhal Patel, "iron man" of the Congress Party and Indian Home Minister, said he was a target in a plot, along with Nehru and Education Minister Maulana Abul Zalam Azad.

Patel declined to say specifically whether the conspiracy had in- eluded Gandhi's azsasslnatlon. Another high government official said that was what Patel meant, and predicted political reverbera- tions.

‘Today the sorrowlng Nehru laid roses and jasmine beside Gandhi's funeral pyre. where the slain pat- riot's ashes lay in state.

Gunfire from police and Indian troops crackledhere and in other provinces to .qucll shcufid blame for Gandhi's mur- der upon the rnilltsnt Hindu Ma- hasabha Party. Mahasabha leaders were beaten.

A news dispatch from Cawnpore. big industrial town in the United Provinces. aaicl troops were called out and curfew imposed there af- ter attacks upon a Hindu group opposed to Gandhi's preachihgs, (Reuters said 150 persons were arrested there.) l

Police in Bombay made a series cl arrests Saturday ln. connection

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Air Training Courses;

At ‘Qside Outlined

Plans for the training courses to be given at the R..C.A.F. Station. Summerslcle, have been pretty well mapped out. it was learned yester- day. The first small class will commence on March 22nd. This trill be the first training t0 b8 8W6" at Summer-side station since the war with the exception cl the Air Cadet camp held last summer.

in the peacetime airforce there are only two air crew trades: pilot navigator and navigator wireless and thg training given at Slim- mcrslde will be in navigation but will be taken by both pilots and navigators. All trainees will be officer personnel.

Eight navigators will take the first course which will last fifteen weeks. At the conclusion of that course fifteen pilots will come in for the same course and when they are through eight more nav- igators ‘will arrlva and this pro- cedure will continue at fifteen week intervals.

In September a specialist navig- ation course lasting six months will commence and will be in op- eration in addition to thg courses outlined above. There will be eight navigators ln this course. ,'1‘here

Liberty Ship lias Rough Crossing

HALIFAX, Feb. l-(CP) —- The ‘LUIS-ton United States Liberty Ship Enoch ‘Train limped into Halifax today showing scars of s deadly struggle with the sea.

"Lucky to be alive" were the words of three injured crew mem- bcrs. The proof was their ship. she was taking water in one hold, her superstructure was. damaged and her lifebosta splintered.

Laden with iron ore from Nar- vik, the Enoch Train had been mauled by heavy weather since leaving Antwerp Christmas Day.

DOUGHTY BOY FRIEND

5011133511., Nattinghamshlre. England -‘(CP) -— Brandishing a rusty sword, Derek Ilcarn. 1'1, cle- manded from a police station ser- geant thé release of his 16 year old girl friend. detained -for a breach of recognizance. l-le was bound

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Crisis May Develop Between U. 8., Russia

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WlASi-LINGIDN. Feb. l-(APL-

A complex struggle between Rus-

sia and the Western Powers over the destiny of

rich strategic Middle Dost IIOW likely to_

develop s major crisis in Ameri- can-Scvlet relations within the next three months.

Two Russian protests lleinat American warships in Italian ports and American use of an airbase near Tripoli are at hand. They are considered here to inerk the opening of Soviet counter- action against the eiwansion of American power in the Eastern Mediterranean.

These protests are dtie to be

looted by Bt-ste Secretory ‘Mar- shsll, probably. tomorrow. State

tell the ltuseisn oovernment: .1. £1130 the warships are legally

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Russia has been unable to do much recently about the exten- sion of American power.

In the next. three months, how- ever. the conflict seems certain to reach crucial proportions on sev- eral fronts:

l. Britain will have to find some wsy to revive the projected Anglo- Iraq mutual assistance treaty. It was designed as the keystone of a system of British-Arab tnstlea to bulwark the position, of the Western powers throughout the Arab world. _

2. United States efforts to"put the Greek Government back on its cwn~ feet are presently going into preparations for s Illrltie oi- fenaivo against the guerrillas.

S. Italy is scheduled to hold national elections in April. The expectation in Washington la that the Communists will salsa upon the opportunity for- another utoior attempt to weabvn and discredit forces friendly to the Western

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President OE Bank 0S Montreal Dies

The Late Mr, Spinney

Russia Files Protest With ll. S.

LONDON. Feb. b-(Mondsy) . -—ltusoia has filed s protest with the United States against

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in the Yellow Sea. and the Sea. of Japan in making observat- ions of Soviet shipping,” the Moscow radio said today. The Russian broadcast, heard _ in London. said the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs had ‘ -‘ ’ the protest note to the United Sta/ice Ambas- sador, Walter Bedell Smith, in Moscow on Jan. 30.

This in the third Bllllills protest note to tho U. S. in less than two weeks.

The first was a. formal not: handed to State Secretary Marshall in Washington. It charged that the United Stat- es reopening of Mellahn Al! Held in Tripolltania. violated the Italian peace treaty.

The second Russian ‘protest contended that the presence of United States warships in Italian ports violated s. clause in the Italian peace treaty providing that Allied armed forces be evacuated from Italy by Dec. l5, 1947.

Fires Leave Scores Homeless In ii. S.

HALIIFAX, Feb. l-tcPi-Leav- lng nearly a score of persona homeless and causing losses run- ning into several thousand dollars, fires took a heavy toll in Nova. Scotia during the week-end.

Two business establishments were levelled at Caledonia Satur- day night and four farm houses in various parts of the Province were razed. '

A garage and store were de- stroyed at Caledonia and loss was estimated st 040.000. At Afton in Antigoriish County. six persons fled in night attire in below-zero weather whan the farm home of Isaac McKeen was burned to the ground.

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LONDON -—(OP) — The Rolls Royce company announced that its new Nene turbo-jet engines will be made under licence in the United States. It is being used in the 1.1.8. nsvy'a newest fighter, the Panther. which has a top speed of 050

m.p.h. and a ceiling above 5.000

MONTREAL, Feb. 1 — (Cl?)- George Wilbur Spinney, 59. Nova Scctisn-born president. of the Bank of Montreal. died in hos- pital today. He entered the bsnlr service st Yarmouth. N. 5., his birthplace, in 1906. “ <

Mr. Spinney became president in 194d. moving up from his gen- eral manager's post. During the lest wsr, from 1042 to 1946, hp wss chairman of the War Finance Committee and directed the war bond drives.

After joining the bank 1n Yar- mouth, he was later transferred to the Edmundston, N.B.. Quebec City, Hamilton and Montreal branches, respectively.

Mr. Spinney was appointed sec- retary to the general manager at Lhe head office in Montreal in 1915. He successively became as- sistant to the general manager. assistant general manager, and general manager in 1936.

ln 1916. Mr. Spinney married Martha Maud Ramsay. daughter of James C. Ramsay of “Montreal. A son Wilbur R. from injuries received on ‘ active

service ss a. sub-lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Navy in June, 1945.

Besides his widow, he is surviv- ed by txwo daughters, Mrs. Doug- las Lindsay (of 4B Arlington St.. Westmount) and Miss Martha Spinney, Westmount. Mrs. Spinney and Martha Spinney live at home (at 1 Braeslda Place. Westmount.)

Mineral service will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at St. An- drew's Church in Wcstmcunt with

burial in lidount Royal Cemetery. ~ , .‘_._.._'_-._~.__-

All Island M. P.’s, In Their Places

OTTAWA, Feb. l-(Speclali- While many members from On- tario and Quebec constituencies are being looked at askanca by their constituent for falling to show up for the vote on the Foreign Ear-change Conservation AcaPrince Edward Island had a perfect re- cord on the division here on Fri- day night when a total of 91 members failed to show up.

The Island members stood up and were counted on straight party lines, Dr. T. V. Grant of King's, J. Lester Douglas of Queen's and. J. Watson MacNought of Prince voting for the Govern- ment bill. On the left of the Speaker, W. Chester S. lvicLure of Queen's voted with the Oppo- sition against the measure as it now stands.

Discussion of clauses of the bill designed to rectify Canada's bal-. ance of payments with the United States will continue in the Com- mon! tomorrow after Prime Min- later King has set up the special

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Expect Cold Wave Tolitt In Ontario

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‘TORONTO. Feb. 1—Moderatlng temperatures gave hope Sunday that the paralyzing cold that has gripped Ontario for a week was lifting and that some 20.000‘ Western Ontario workers, tempor- arily idle because of factory shut- downs, might soon return to work.

The below-zero weather brought on an acute shortage of natural Ill. used for industrial purposes

' and heating in Western Ontario.

Diversion of the lessening gsaficw to domestic use forced factory shutdowns and later the closing of all gas-heated schools and

theatres in Southwest. Ontario. The most persistently cold Jan- in Southwestern

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SACKVILLE. N3. Feb. 1 — (Special) -Margaret Laird, only. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lyman} B. Laird of Aibertorl, P.E.I., died! this morning in the Slckvlllel Memorial Hospital from injuriesj received in a collision between a} horse-drawn sleigh and an army, truck on an icy section of high-way] near Mount Whatley five miles from Sackvllle last might. Mas, Laird. aged 3C1 years and a formeri nursing sister with overseas serv-i ice. was a first year student at. the Mount Allison Conservatory of’ Music. She was phaperoning a sleigh drive organized by the Prince Edward Island Club of Mount Allison Urfveraity when the accident occurred. Three other girls and one boy were slightly in- jured in the accident.

RCMP. Constable Maurice _ l-Iorsley of Port Elzln investigated‘ the accident and warden GK. Dobscm of Dorchester, as coroneni reviewed the evidence and decided] that no one was to blame for the accident and that an inquest was not necessary.

Others Injured

Other members o1 theparty who received superficial injuries were Myrtle wigmore of Blncrald, P.E.I., Priscilla Gavin nf Charlottetown, Donald Nauss of Kensington, P1},- I. and Mary Gass of Sackville, N3,

Roy Newcombe. of Port Hill, P.E.I. and president o! the PILL Club was sittlns next to Miss Laird when the collision occurred but escaped injury.

The sleigh, one of two engaged for the party, was ownedignd drly- W1 by Harry Johnuonatr .iie aridwas proceeding along e main highway leading from Aulac to Cape Tormentlne. Because of the grade of the highway at the curve approaching the Mount Whatley Hill, the rear of the sleigh was slowed near the centre of the road. The 15 cwt. converted Army truck was proceeding in the opposite direction tcivard Aulac when the driver, John Robinson saw the sleigh ahead of him, In order in avoid directly hitting the rear of the sleigh he turned his truck toward the far snow bank. The truck skidded down towardr the sleigh and the upper part. of the truck cab struck Miss Laird and the others.

Miss Laird. Miss Wigmore and Nauss, accompanied two of their flmlDanions. were ta en to Sack- v'llc by car. 1t was thought at the time that no one was seriously iri- jured and the rest o1 the party proceeded to the Point De Bute Hail for refreshments.

When Miss Laird reached the hospital it was found that her chest had been badly crushed, an arm and leg had been fractured. Dr. n.3, Eaton performed an op- oration and several student volun- tears gave blood transfusions dur- ing the night but her injuries were too severe and she died shortly before eight o'clock this morning. , Dr, W.T.R. Flemlngton, Univer- sit president. telephoned Miss Lard's parents and kept in com- munication with them during the night and this morning.

The remains were taken to the Jones Funeral I-lomesnd a stud- ents’ service will be held at Mount Allison prior to the depart- ure o1 the body to Prince Ed-ward Island for burial.

The body is expected to arrivI ln Alberton Monday evening.

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Distinguished Island Bishop Dies In U.S.A.

Moat Rev. Francis Clement Kelly. TI, Catholic Bishop of the Okla- homa. City and Tulsa Diocese and a. native of Vernon River. P. E. I. died at his home in Oklahoma City last night. News of his pass- ing was contained in a. telegram received iii Charlottetown by his nephew, Mr. Bernard H. Hughes, from Bishop McGulnness. Bishop Kelly had been in ill health for the last three years. It was learned that he suffered a heart

Bishop Kelly celebrated the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood in August. 194a. The same year he announced he was presenting his library 0.1 5.000 vol- umes to st. Dunstans University here. Recalling lils preliminary studies for the priesthood at St. Dunstanb he said, "how I wished for books in those _days!" He also announced he was contributing some $20,000 to help build a lib- rury to house the books.

He was a graduate of Laval University, Quebec, and Louvaln University. Belgium and had I. most distinguished career.

He was described as an “ideal platform orator, handsome, easily moving others by the emotions of pathos or high enthusiasm. Voice. figure and expression were well matched to his masterful com- mand of language."

Bishop Kelly was the founder of the Catholic Church Extension Society of the United States, and served as chaplain with the Michigan Infantry in the Spanish- American war. In 1910 he st- tended the Eucharistic, Congress in Montreal with his car “St. An- thony", the first "Catholic Church’ on Wheels.” He was also the author of several books.

lfegret that he could. not return to the Island of his birth as frequently as he would like, Bishop Kelly wrote:

"I am sad because the changes in my life always seem to lead me farther and farther away. I have a dream cottage on Prince Ecl- ward Island. and, believe ir ornot. when it's one hundred ‘degrees in Oklahoma I turn the air condit- ioner in my room to eighty and imagine that I am looking out towards St. Peter's Island from Keppoch or watching the breakers roll over one of the finest beaches in the world at Tracadie.”

Mattawa Town llall Destroyed By Fire

MAITAWA. Ont. Feb. l-(CP) »-—Fire early today destroyed the Mattawa Town Hall and Fire De- partment building, a. combination restaurant and apartment, a Can- adian Pacific Railvvray waiting room and a taxi-stand. No one was injured. Damage was estimated at approximately $100,000.

A fire truck from North Bay, 40 miles west of here, was sent to lieilp fight the fire which raged in the heart of the Business section of this Nipissing district town of 2,000 population. a

AID HOMELESS FAMILY

NORTH BAY, On-t.. Feb. l-(CP) -F‘ood, clothing, bedding and fur- niture have been sent by North Bay residents to nearby Corbeil where Mr. and Mrs. John Glroux and their l2 children were left homeless Friday when fire destroy- ed their frame house. One men provided a. rent-free house and local merchants made cash dons- tions.