RE AE SWEEPS ,THR OU MARITIMES

V, , Edward 1mm Likethe Dew cameos, rumour, FEBRUARY 21, 1934

ermuda Potato

a. 0 are Hopeful Of

Disarmament

GEJNEV

. ions officbls tonight ap-

, ed more hopeful of a re- ptlon of the Disarmament erenog gfter the receipt of

w. cellor Adolf Hitler many had adoﬁed a new tiiude inward the French tcfviemusresultcf s- lain lidsrs visits to Paris d Berlin.

n was believed here that ancellof‘ Hitler is making {ms to meet some ad’ the l- at issue between Ger- - y. and HD1100.

ees. Benefit rom Waterway reaty Project

mm w Y o; H. Wright, past president lbs Halifax Board of ‘lrade and

mqy, .helid.ﬂ trafficwosrld flowto and

mustbscsrriedsrcheaplysl letcsoahoardtobscomplt- Hlhswesiernpleinsofflass- sndthsnorthenllnitsdlht-

uiscturedgoodsthatmustbe htaround to the Atlantic rdeithar inAmariosn or bostltoreschtheirmar-

OUNCEMENTS, COMING EVENTS, MEETINGS, ETC

"Announcements are Inserted ls rolnnsl i l Ill per ward l! payable in venue.

"Csmivsl at Mt. Herbert Rink - t. Admilion 1| cents. L-‘IU.

"Coins to the Beket B0051 in le Shore Elli Pridli. March ' Admission I cents. b-mo.

"lea a Wri t ‘trophy, Carleton

‘if iiiii a.

Bar_1_ned

Destructive

i MothDisoover- edInShipment To Victoria B. C.

(C. P. By Guardian's Special WIN)

WOIORLA, lnb. id-Discovery of the active larvae of the potato tuber

lvofuln HAVE WBIICKESTIFY

Defence Counsel In Sedition Case Would Question F o r m e r Communist.

(0- P. Q Gill/Ibis Special Will) ‘IOXNTO, Hi7. Nv-A move t0

broughtirom Kingston Peniten- tisrytoappearasswitneninthe

='- Arohdukoqtto. ~Austrisnthrcumsndeaccrt himtri-

t suits. o1 this manber 4,600,!!!) had

WIJLIIRESTBRE iillliilliilii Ii All S l R Ii

Monsrehlsts Meeting Foreshadows Prpb- able RestoratiOn of the Hapsburgs.

burg family,

Hsimwehr Oorrlaandsr, at a mul- mseting tonight of Monerchists who ‘muses the nun restoration of the Austrian lhrme. _ , _ _

While they met rumors circulated that troops of the hsdst Reim- wehr, or hastens-rd. were ermine to the Qwiss border to met the dsimont to tho

umphlnfy into Vlenne. _ speakers

‘Lngitfmist spelkua tonight paid

tribute-to Dolfuss’ and Prnoe Wn

summons! recent victory in a

gans a prelude to the re-installa-I tion a omens-rah. _

Assn immedlstoand preliminary stepihthatdmotioti‘ ‘ ddii- anded the revooationot laws bani- shing the Hansinrns and confis- cavng their property.

Chancellor Dclfuss did not st- tand thossesdﬁl. but IBM I mil- geo of t.

‘nus applause the mention o! his

theseveralthou- mndlnooarenista was in strklnl cnotrutietlunrlanallmwoflli- enosstreet crowdsths artemccn.

11,000,000 Unemployed In S ta tea

WA@INO'ION. Ieb. 76—( A90- claocd Prom-Industrial mum- plcyment increased again in Janu- sry in the United Btntel. William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor. said in a state- ment today. but not quite as much as ‘n other depression years.

Green estimated there were i1,- 000,000 , unable to ﬂad em- ployment in normal industrial pur-

ernargency wort in Janu- ary, while nearly 7.100.000 were

without any naeans or earning a livelihood.

Ex - Minister Of Nfld. Freed On Theft‘ Charge

a... ii; all

§ 2 sliii iii‘

1 ll Ell;

French Government‘. Takes ,, Action In StqvQhywg-Alfair

and Prince Von Sterhemlnrg, l

Bwiallstuprisingandoalsdthest

I.O.D.E. “Meeting

of thsNstionsl Chapter. Following were the officers el- sated:

Rescue Bellies From Various Parts Of Russia 0n Move.

(Al. By Gnrdisn’: bailiff!)

MOSCOW. Rh ﬁ-Besoue pert- II tmight were trying to save a

danger-om ice flees in two widely separated ports of the soviet Un- ion.

Ap aeroplane was sent from Moscow to sid M6 fishermen who. with 330 horlﬂ. were reported adrift on two flees in the Caspian Sea.

Dog teams and planes were held ready for mother attempt w res- cue 101 persons, including women l-Ild Childrﬂ. who have been help- lessly marooned in the Bering Sea since their ship, the Cheliuskin,

by Dr. Otto Behmide, was enroute back from an expedition to Wran- gel Island.

The fishermen in the Caspian lea hood death before rescuers could reach them because of s lack of supplies and the fact that the ice was soft and in danger of

breekingup. Raced operations will be con-

totel of M6 persons marooned oni

sank no. 13 as the party, beaded

Annual Is Held

Compreh e naive Reports Were Presented On The Work Done

IhurhmE:I2ns‘Year.

a r, Mrs. G. H. Hooper; Acting i-r-vlneial. Biucation Bec- retnry, Mrs. J. A. Macmillan; ‘ lmntsry. Mrs. ; lehoes Secretary,

retI-ry, Mrs. H. B. Henderson; Standard Bearer, Miss Rose Long-

Ocmhnlttees:

flower and Card Committee.

.Mrs. '1‘, W. L. Prowse, Mrs W. S.

Grunt

Committee representing Canad- ian. National Institute for Blind. Mira. W, A. Miller, Mrs. W. S. Stewart.

League of Nations Committee, Mira. R. H. Balers. Miss Mary Irv-

m8. Work in India, Miss Ethel

' Stewart.

Study Program Committee, Mrs.

r W. I. Bmtley, Mrs. H. J. Gordon,

mi. R. M’. Ilegste.

(r " ‘onnﬂsebl

Efforts‘ Made To Rescue Hundreds Maiigned‘ 0n Ice

N.S. Government Refuses Aid‘

' nasslilumwlsl nw ousoow; n. s, no.

20-h notice of general wage reductions was posted today st Acadia Coal Germany's mines, word was received that the No- va Scotia Gcvmimant would not continue in assist the oom- pany in meeting the payroll for its 1,300 comers.

The province no longer could lfford to make up the differ-

mayors of Pietou towns. conference yesterday with Unit- ed 1% workers officers, they had ed for continuance of this temporary aid.

Blunt Spoken In D e i a l

UNDCII. PH). ﬁ-"To say thsbt we have mastered unempleymtnl is too damn silly even lor me,” J. H. ‘rhomes, blunt-spoken Minister for Dominican, sold tonight in ex- planation oi a week-end speech yum, mg aroused biting comment from many quarters.

The Minister declared that what hs ind meant was that Bruin bad m, last arruted the tendency or unemployment figures to move upwards. Ho emphasild he had

l Imp

saver declared the probem was

mastered, saying such a renrsrk

had merely torn from the content

of his speech, giving the wmnl pression.

rovement. In

C.N.R. Revenues

llRiliiN RESTS BASE IN EASPE MURDER TRIAL

N e w E v i d e n c e Brought In By De- fence on Seventh

I D a y of Phillips’

I ‘Trial.

|(O-P. I1 Guardian's ipoolsi WIN) QUEER} Feb. 26—‘I‘es lmtny she

had hnM two screams from the

top of a cliff near which she was ﬁetching late on the afternoon of

' Sept. 1, i933, by Miss Kethlten

Shackleton, landscape artist, tmcughttoacloseintheoourtof King's Bench today the seventh day of the trial of Nelson Phillips, l8, before a yury under Chief Jus- tice RAE. Greenshi " , Montreal.

Trisillorlrlfe

Phillips is on trial (or his life on a charge of murdering Maud As— cell, i4, at Gaspe last summer. Maud and her cousirLMarg-llerite As-sh dis- appeared from their homes during the night of Aug. 8i, last. Maude body was found floating in the waters of Gaspe Bey about two months after her disappearance while that of Marguerite was nev- er recovered. A

Tending to show he had commit- ed the murder o! the girl. on a-l- leged confession supposedly mtein- ed (mo; accused by former Detec- tive Arthur Msloney of Montreal. who introduced himself to Phil- lips as “lliddy Bker" was admit- ted into the record by His Lord- ship. Phillips was arrested inflow- ing the report he had been the last person seen with the two girls.

Hoerdlcrssm

(he or the Omwn Ills declared closed Saturday and Mas Shackle- ton testified as a defence witness. Bhe was pointing near Cap des

, die related, between five and six o'clock on the afternoon of Sept. l when "I heard W0 hum"! screams from the wn 0f the ﬁlm" At that time, she added, she had no knowledge of the disappearance of the Ascsh girls.

An alleged attempted assault try two men the night before the dia- appearanco cf the girls was re- counted by Mrs. Charles Carrel oi For Rivers. s, place 21 miles distant from the Gosps Peninsula.

She was questioned by Dominique Levesque, one of defence counsel: “On the nithi; 0f Aug. 30, 1938 were you in Gaspe district?"

"Yes."

(Continued on Page 3)

Canadian And‘ U. S. Tennis Stars On Trip

(C. l‘. Cable By Guardian's Special Wire)

HAMILTON, Bermuda, Feb. 26- mm!!! United States and Canad- ian stars advanced easily at the opening of the annual Bermuda ‘Dennis Tournament here today,

Insfer R. Btoeffm. third ranking American. and Laird Watt. third making Canadian, tr unced local players in the weliminary men's

siilles.

in the ladies‘ singles. Miss Chirp cl Celifornia defeated Mrs. Oollidge of Bermuda and Miss Florence lalooutilllsr defeated Mix Pagenstechcr.

Clifford M. Butter. holder of tho

‘trophy, Will bl iihlblb to defend

thisylarhutthomizry iistprom- iaea keen oompstlt . Wilmer Al- lison and other United states Utars are in great farm.

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that had left transportation

the three provinces.

cyphar.

Ships Held

At sea, ice still held shipping in its grip. Harbors along Novs Sco- us: coast were froocn solidly; our. er-s were blocked by drifting floea. On the south shore of New Bruns- wick, Passamsq "y Bay ‘ saw more ice than s-t any time h 11 years All the way from Robin- son to Eastporrt, Me, n-rdine weir: were destroyed, and shipping along that coast was tied up almost com-

the United Btahs climhsd to G) today as a hlialsrd swirled through the Eastern States, adding at least si! names to the list of victims written by a week-end of snow, hail, rain, tornadoes and cold. hstcm cities battled to prevent another tieup such ss was about last week as more snow

shipping.

The south reported 17 deed in the tornadoes which twisted through Alaberns, Georgia, Louisi- ana and Mississippi; eight homes lweretskenrrcmamissing-airliner n81!‘ Belt Lake City; six were dead in the eastern storms and Ohio. 1i- linois and Pennsylvania added more than 20 fatalities.

The forecasters promised all sec- tions relief tomorrow. They said the East's mow-eight inches in New York-would let up, and said warmer weather was moving in to the midwest, west and south.

Fires and a train wreck added to the disaster Six died in a hotel blaze in Utlcs, N. Y., and five were killed and one seriously injured when a Pennsylvania flyer, the Fort Dearborn. crashed into a truck in Delphos, O. In freezing cold, firemen battled two fires in Chicago which did damage estim- shed at $500000.

"Dirty weather," sleet and snow, grounded United States army fly- em in the eastern bases and kept the sir mail from movement there. Planes went through on schedule west out of Chicago, and alr tref- ilc was opening at Denver.

“Kiri: rmﬁi;

(CI. By Guardian's special Wire)

MONTREAL. Feb. me of the really bright spots ln the general- ly good situation that has existed in the matter of cargoes out of Eastern Canadian ports this win- ter is the way ln whi"h the heavy Mhritime apppls crop has found an excellent market shroud. with the result that ships have continued to go out with big consignments of

Would Build Naval To- Protect Falkland Isles

apple; since the commencement of the fruit export season.

Base

l; soo miles of! cape Horn.

The Argon. nian development. mlssaid tobebard onthe the recent British Naval 00n-

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threatened to block traffic and u

MVCI‘.: ~IsllhIulasllI.l.A.ll.

Blizzard“ Sweeps Down Through

Eastern States

Death Toll In United States From Week-end Storms Placed At Sixty. nsmrgizieprgl. will: the north»

#518132 raging blirzard rushed over Canada's Maritime . rovmces tonight 1n the wake oi‘ days of cold and storm

services crippled and strewn

wrecked ships against the coast.

_ _ After a week-end of intense cold, temperatures were rising slightly, but the snowstorm brought with it fresh dlscomforis. Communication lines were disrupted and roads were becoming blocked with drifting snow through

rmwnva WIND

In Nova Sculls. the mercury hovered close to the luv mark la many centres, and the cold was accentuated by tho piercing wind whist- iingdown fromtheAretid8nlwhsdbeeafallihgsteadllysinoeearb morning. Three Inches of snow were reported in New IWiIlIWQlIWl-wweretarodowntoaseansaevadegseaashovoths

Mind

ISLAND SllEPl BY i! INTEIFS WRST STllRli

Roads and Railway Cuttings Filled in by Howling Blizzard.

The wow blllard of the wintm with heavy snow and drift driven by 11181 wind, swept the provinm last night. Railway cuttings and roads were quktly filled in and it that transport-at! will be temporarily tied up today.

Light snow (ell early yesterday and the storm y increased in proporticm till ll o'clock lei night. Many automobiles were stal- led on the City streets in the drifts

The G's-tn from Borden which an rived these at I26 did not reaol Charlottetown un about o o'clock, so quickly had the drift filled in the cuttings.

Extra trains with plouzhs leave 9N1! this morning m the western line and on the mirray Harbour branch

The Weather, Etc’

Attokolno ﬁts»: A MAM as lmoczuf UNfi Panes (MKY: m lies usuntw menus!

strong shifting winds and gala

with snow, cleared towards night. (Condos Press)

MITEORULOUHWL OFIICI, T01‘- ooto_ Feb w-lllaimnm and ximum rdlperaiuretl~

Toronto Montreal Quebec . . Saint John Balms . . Charlottetown IOIIOAII

Maritime Provillsalr-Jtrolg shift winds and galea with new, cloned

towards night

Blgl tide this mooning at 10W sea tonight at 0 I.

sun sets this afternoon at ii B no risen tomorrow morning at 41.

Iali noon Tuesday, llarel l, LI

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